Three people jailed in NSW over $5.8 million NDIS, ATO fraud
During search warrants as part of the investigation, the AFP seized 8kg of gold bullion from a vault at a secure premises, worth about $600,000, about $600,000 in cash from multiple residential properties and $635,176 in cryptocurrency. They also seized three vehicles, including a BMW M3, Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne with a combined value of about $250,000, and a significant amount of jewellery.
Ankit Jayesh Mashru - Man denied bail, accused of six-figure fraud of Gold Coast Indian community
Andrew Brolese - Australian arrested in Milan facing US charges of fraud and money laundering
PwC accused of interfering in Australian tax leaks probe
Rinehart splashes $1.1bn on gas bet as MinRes slashes jobs
The documents MinRes directors didn’t see - MinRes defends handling of Chris Ellison tax scandal claims
More than 1,200 large companies paid no tax, ATO reveals, as it vows to fight profit shifting
Trump's startling decline: Compare his 2015 vigor to today's enfeebled appearance
- The New York Times’ Neil Bedi, Lazaro Gamio, Ishaan Jhaveri, Devon Lum, Haley Willis and Karen Yourish with “Inside Trump’s Truth Social Conspiracy Theory Machine.”
- The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and Jeremy B. Merrill with “On Elon Musk’s X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear.”
- The Wall Street Journal’s Jack Gillum, Alexa Corse and Adrienne Tong with “X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content—Whether They Want It or Not.”
The Real Monsters of Street Level SurveillanceElectronic Frontier Foundation
Why We Ghost Nautilus
“The evils of ‘lesser evilism.’” The Floutist
Michelle Obama Scolds Michigan: It’s Not FunnyMatt Taibbi, Racket News
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As Trump courts their vote, comedian at his rally makes racist jokes about Latinos and Puerto RicoNBC News
Literary Institutions Are Pressuring Authors to Remain Silent About Gaza Truthout
Demonize the Rich Hamilton Nolan
A Second Trump Administration Would Be a Carnival of Corruption and Greed
By now, the story has made the rounds. Back in June, Oklahoma’s superintendent for public instruction, Ryan Walters, ordered every classroom in the state to teach the Bible between fifth grade and high school. Three months later, when he released the guidelines for companies bidding to supply the Bibles, they included some unusually specific terms.
The Bibles had to contain not just the King James Version of the Old and New Testaments, but founding documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as the Pledge of Allegiance. And they had to be bound in leather, or some reasonable facsimile.
The only Bibles that fit these parameters happen to be endorsed by Donald Trump or his son. The $59.99 “God Bless the USA” Bibles (which are, incidentally, printed in China) cost 20 times more than a mass market paperback version of the King James Bible. It’s not clear how much Mr. Trump earns per sale — The Times has reported that he receives royalties for use of his name — but his cut is likely significant. Mr. Walters’s spokesman has confirmed that the $3 million in the state budget earmarked for Bibles came directly from “payroll savings”; that could pay salaries for 75 entry-level teachers in Oklahoma.
Battle of the billionaires: How a small number of billionaires could swing the US election
Interview: Are We Misinformed About Misinformation?
The influence of iffy and inflammatory online content so often depicted as misinformation is overblown, says researcher David Rothschild