The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions
How Trump is destroying the civil service and bending the government to his will
LAURIE PATTON. Public administration accountability is not what it used to be!
Blame shifting between state and federal government agencies over how a cruise ship carrying people suspected to have the Coronavirus was allowed into the port of Sydney has shown up, yet again, the lack of public administration accountability in this country.Continue reading
GARY MOORHEAD. CSL- It Could Have Been Worse; Can It Be Better?
Back in 2010, Australia’s privatised Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (now CSL) was being tempted to move its vaccine research facilities to Switzerland, where it had been promised a better tax deal. Continue reading
The service of new legal proceedings and pre-action letters on HMRC should be
via email during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues April 12, 2020 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Discarded Gloves, Masks an Odd New Danger in Fight Against Coronavirus; Instacart Workers Getting Scammed Out of Tips by Customers; Zoom Videoconferencing App Hid Security Flaws, Says Shareholder in Class-Action Lawsuit; and Government secrecy is growing during the coronavirus pandemic
New York Times: Virus Relief Efforts Give Rise to New Tax Strategies, by Paul Sullivan:
A bomb, a business breakup and an ATO battle: Dyldam's headache
A bomb, an acrimonious business breakup and a battle with the Tax Office - just some of the troubles besetting one of the country's largest privately-owned apartment builders.
COBOL NEVER DIES: Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims. Yeah, I had a post on this a few days ago, but I just love this. COBOL was my third (and basically last) programming language, which I learned in high school after Basic and Fortran
Aussies dipping into their super could miss out on more than $200,000
Conflicting accounts by federal and state authorities, and the company’s opaque corporate structure, stand in way of claims by passengers on the ship
Ruby Princess: battle begins to holdsomeone accountable for cruise ship coronavirus debacle
Covid-19 Now the Leading Cause of Death in America
This week, Covid-19 passed heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death per day in the United States. In this graph made by Dr. Maria Danilychev using data from Worldometer and the CDC, you can see that Covid-19 overtook heart disease sometime on Monday or Tuesday.
If the data in NYC is any indication, the number of nationwide Covid-19 deaths may be undercounted, so this transition probably happened sooner.