Sunday, August 09, 2026

Food Fraud

 Laura Saunders, Why a Couple Lost a $200,000 Tax Battle Over Their Horses (Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2026)


Trevor Sikes, “DOJ Seeks More Tax Attorneys as Caseload Increases” (Tax Notes, June 29, 2026):

The Justice Department’s Tax Litigation Branch of the Civil Division is looking to bolster its workforce following a significant exodus of attorneys and an increased caseload, according to a government official.

 

Abigail Selina Boyd is an Australian politician living on the Central Coast in New South Wales. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2019, representing the Greens.


Secret files show mouse fur and metal shavings detected in Australian food



25 "Illegal" Off-Grid Gardening Tricks Our Grandparents Used That Still Work Today


Can Australians trust the labels on the food they buy?

In a major two-part Four Corners investigation, Adele Ferguson and the award-winning team behind the investigation into Australia's childcare sector team up with forensic food scientists to examine the integrity of Australia's food supply.

The result of an eight-month investigation, the program commissions extensive laboratory testing of everyday supermarket products and interrogates the global supply chains and regulatory systems that shape what ends up on our supermarket shelves.

The shocking results raise serious questions about food authenticity, misleading origin claims and undeclared ingredients in common pantry items. Food fraud is easy to commit, hard to detect, and worth billions. And the people paying the price are consumers.

Across two programs, Ferguson follows the food trail from Australian supermarkets to international supply chains, revealing how products can be adulterated long before they reach the shopping trolley or are linked to deeply unethical labour practices.

Using exclusive forensic testing, undercover reporting and insider accounts, Duped unmasks a lucrative form of organised fraud.

Duped: Food Exposed — Part 1


Duped: Food Exposed — Part 2


15 Easy Gardening Hacks


Further concerns over the accuracy of reporting by sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal have been raised on Media Watch, including that a hire car was used to mislead viewers in the profile of a purported cocaine dealer.

Fazal's employment was terminated after an ABC investigation into his appearance on a podcast with a former underworld figure last year, ABC managing director Hugh Marks confirmed at a Senate estimates hearing in May.

Since then, two episodes of Four Corners, Cocaine Nation and Meth Highway, have been removed by the ABC due to accuracy concerns.

On Friday, a Background Briefing audio program titled "Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer" was also removed.

'Cocaine dealer' on Mahmood Fazal's Four Corners episode says she did it as 'an acting role'


Zugunruhe is a German term describing the restless, twitching urge migratory birds feel when caged — and the same primal restlessness humans feel when trapped.”