*Six arrested as part of gang crime squad fraud investigation / Protego
Street gang members accused of using fake companies to steal $500k from government agencies
HM Revenue & Customs really do not want to collect tax from the wealthy
I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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Californian Fairytales: what Google, Facebook and Netflix told the Australian Tax Office
Federal election: New Labor ministry sworn in as vote counting winds down
Glyn Davis - University chief appointed to lead prime minister’s department
The return to a frank and fearless public service is a monumental task
Stephen Jones: This is an edited transcript of a talk to clients of PritchittBland Communications on 27 January 2022.
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The pandemic has exposed some of the weaknesses within Australian society, whether in our labour market, the problems with insecure work, the over reliance in some sectors on workers from other countries, short-term workers, our supply chain fragility, or the lack of depth within our manufacturing capacity. The pandemic has also shone a spotlight on some of the social and economic strengths of Australia and the resilience of the Australian people. We've grown to honour and respect our healthcare system underpinned by Medicare in the public health system, run by our states.
One of the underlying strengths within our economy is that over my lifetime, we've transformed Australia from an economy that was in significant part driven by manufacturing to one that is now overwhelmingly in the services-based economy.
Who is Stephen Jones, aspiring Minister for Financial Services?
Welcoming Whitlam-Stephen Jones joins Anthony Albanese's outer Ministry
Stephen Jones was on Illawarra radio this morning at 7:45 am indicated that one of his priorities will also be targeting cybercrime… His job is to put policies to create economic pipe … outsourced services diminished public service.
Twitter on MEdia Dragon’s radar by Stephen Jones
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the new Federal Ministry in the majority Labor Government. You can follow other ministers on this Twitter list (note not all Ministers are on Twitter).
Goat’s milk from Australia: Operation Fly Formula draws wide net WaPo
Two Women-Led Startups Look To Solve Baby-Formula Crisis With Synthetic Breast Milk Forbes
Credit Suisse Taking Another Rap on the Knuckles
David Cay Johnston. Wikipedia here, a prolific author of books and articles on the crimes of the rich, has this article on Credit Suisse, Repeat felon Swiss bank may finally lose privileged American status (RawStory, here. The article reports that the Department of Labor is acting to take away a favored U.S. status, Qualified Professional Asset Manager, as a result of its numerous crimes. Johnston reports Credit Suisse’s “rap sheet” as:
Rap Sheet
Credit Suisse has a long and thoroughly documented history of refusing to turn over money due to heirs of Holocaust victims, helping super-rich Americans cheat on their taxes and making loans using unusual terms that turned into disasters for the borrowers. One of its most recent felonies was punished with a $175.5 million fine. That’s chump change for a bank with assets of about $1.6 trillion. The fine was barely 1/10,000th of those assets.
Street gang members and their associates have been arrested as part of an investigation into$500,000 in thefts from government agencies.
Broadford raid: Border Force, police, ATO officials execute warrant
BP to review North Sea investments following windfall tax announcement Guardian
Scammers Use Elon Musk Deepfake to Steal CryptoVice
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met NYT
Tech Industry Groups Are Watering Down Attempts at Privacy Regulation, One State at a Time The Markup
Information security gets personal: How to protect yourself and your stuff ars technica
In private, vulnerable Senate Dems back off tech bill Politico
Beverly Gologorsky, Not in Our Name Tom Dispatch chuck l: “Still, our George wasn’t wrong in that slip/description of Putin and himself, was he? In fact, he helped remind us, when it comes to invasions and criminal wars, how much the U.S. has in common with Putin’s Russia.”