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The Facebook stoush tearing apart the swanky Sydney suburb of Rose Bay - ABC News
Alleged Chinese spy plot to install Liberal MP investigated by Asio – politics
Defections are messy and we may never know the full story - Sydney Morning Herald
In Peak Hill, praying for rain is all many have left
The Thursday-night service brings together those of all faiths in the town to pray for rain amid four years of oppressive drought.
The New York Times Magazine’s remarkable 1619
Project is being turned into a series of books published by Random House.
The project will include new essays, fiction and poetry.
In addition, Random House Children’s Books will publish four 1619 Project books for young readers—one young adult, one middle-grade, and two picture books.
In addition, Random House Children’s Books will publish four 1619 Project books for young readers—one young adult, one middle-grade, and two picture books.
The project recognized the 400th anniversary of the moment
enslaved Africans were first brought to what would become the United States and
how it forever changed the country. The books will be edited by the same
Times team that put together the original project.
This month on the Taxcast
we speak to Tax Justice Network CEO Alex Cobham
about his new book The
Uncounted on the politics of counting. Who’s missing from the stats,
from the bottom to the very top? And how can we count better?
Plus: For decades corporate tax cuts have been touted as the way
to boost the economy. This month the Tax Justice Network’s John
Christensen talks about a paradigm shift on corporate tax in the UK
general election: and we look at the results of Trump’s corporate tax cuts in
the US – what did they really deliver?
Produced and presented by Naomi Fowler.
"If the rich, if the
elites, if the big companies are obviously not meeting their fair share, not
meeting their part of the social contract, why should I? And you know, why
should I be the only mug who pays tax? And it erodes all the way down. And this
is how States and societies crumble.”
~ Alex Cobham
“Neo-liberalism is
finished, it’s a busted flush, we’re going to see a change, if not at this
election it’s certainly coming and I have the same sense from the US. And the
tax justice agenda will feature prominently in whatever comes next”
~ John Christensen
Original post with further
reading available
here, plus, don't miss the Taxcast
Extra clip of Alex Cobham speaking on the funding troubles at
the United Nations and how it might be more sustainably funded.
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