Aaron Hsieh (LL.M. (Tax) 2019, NYU; Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.), Note. The Faceless Coin: Achieving a Modern Tax Policy in the Changing Landscape of Cryptocurrency, 2019 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1079 (2019):
As technology continues to evolve at breakneck speed, the tax treatment of virtual currency has reached an inflection point. Now, given its shifting dynamics, how should we classify and tax virtual currency?
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THE MIRAGE: Labor MP Julian Hill has called for an inquiry into what he describes as ‘privatisation of Australia’s public service by stealth’. |
Neoliberalism: Journalism in an age of fractures. (Part2/2)
There is another new player which could mean another cold war; andhuman rights going out the window, liberal democracy suspended. Journalists asking difficult questions face significant risks. Continue reading
Oliphant in a political Room: An understated and yet a most influential and famous Australian.
Rupert Murdoch aside, which Australian has had the greatest impact on US political and public thinking in recent decades? He comes from Adelaide, is unfailingly modest, was once in the news all the time, despises most politicians and has both incensed and stimulated people with his work. Continue reading
The white elephants of NSW
Recent economic policy in NSW requires the nimbleness of musical chairs. One day everyone is in favour of neoliberalism and austerity, then they charge the minds and everyone adopts Keynesian big spending. As a result, billions of dollars have been wasted on projects that don’t stack up.Continue reading
GEOFF MILLER. ‘G5-Eyes’: a very strange economic grouping.
According to a report in The Australian of 8 June Treasurer Frydenberg has “led the push” and succeeded in establishing a series of “regular and formal” economic dialogue meetings among the countries that make up the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing group.Continue reading
FRANK BRENNAN SJ. ‘I can’t breathe.’
Martin Luther King said ‘in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard’. Continue reading
Foreign Minister Marise Payne has hit out at China and Russia for spreading disinformation during the coronavirus pandemic as she declared Australia would be more prepared to speak up on the world stage.
In her first major speech since the COVID-19 crisis spread around the world, Senator Payne said her government would continue to push for reform of global bodies such as the World Health Organisation so they "protect and promote our national interests".