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Whistleblower Richard Boyle avoids conviction and jail after revealing tax office’s unethical behaviour
Whistleblower Richard Boyle avoids conviction and jail after revealing tax office’s unethical behaviour
‘Blowing the whistle can be a tough gig,’ Adelaide judge says, while Rex Patrick declares Boyle ‘a hero’ for speaking out in 2018
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Whistleblower Richard Boyle has been spared jail after exposing unethical debt-collection practices at the Australian Taxation Office.
Judge Liesl Kudelka sentenced Boyle, 49, in the South Australian district court on Thursday, seven years after the former debt collection officer went public with allegations that led to reforms within the ATO. Continue reading...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Whistleblower Richard Boyle avoids conviction and jail after revealing tax office’s unethical behaviour
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Fact file: Noah Okafor - Leeds United
Getting to know our latest signing.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Australia doesn't have a gas shortage problem.
We have a gas export problem.
And it gets worse. Australia Institute research shows gas exports have tripled gas prices and doubled electricity prices on the east coast.
Read the full report: australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exp... #auspol
We have a gas export problem.
And it gets worse. Australia Institute research shows gas exports have tripled gas prices and doubled electricity prices on the east coast.
Read the full report: australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exp... #auspol
July 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Australia doesn't have a gas shortage problem.
We have a gas export problem.
And it gets worse. Australia Institute research shows gas exports have tripled gas prices and doubled electricity prices on the east coast.
Read the full report: australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exp... #auspol
We have a gas export problem.
And it gets worse. Australia Institute research shows gas exports have tripled gas prices and doubled electricity prices on the east coast.
Read the full report: australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-exp... #auspol
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"Giving tax breaks to people who’ve got half a billion dollars in their self-managed super fund makes no economic sense and it doesn’t make a lot of political sense either.”
@richarddenniss.bsky.social in Yahoo Finance ⤵️
@richarddenniss.bsky.social in Yahoo Finance ⤵️
What Aussies really think of super tax
How Australians truly feel about Labor’s proposed “rich tax” has been revealed in a new poll, and the results may surprise you.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"Giving tax breaks to people who’ve got half a billion dollars in their self-managed super fund makes no economic sense and it doesn’t make a lot of political sense either.”
@richarddenniss.bsky.social in Yahoo Finance ⤵️
@richarddenniss.bsky.social in Yahoo Finance ⤵️
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THREAD: It’s devastating to contemplate Virginia Giuffre is the second Epstein victim to die long before her time. I’ve known & told the stories of many victims of powerful abusers who died young. We don’t talk about this enough. Suicides, drug overdoses, deaths associated with alcoholism.
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
THREAD: It’s devastating to contemplate Virginia Giuffre is the second Epstein victim to die long before her time. I’ve known & told the stories of many victims of powerful abusers who died young. We don’t talk about this enough. Suicides, drug overdoses, deaths associated with alcoholism.
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If you want to solve a real brain teaser, try to come up with one concession that the Trump administration has asked Russia to make. Can you?
April 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If you want to solve a real brain teaser, try to come up with one concession that the Trump administration has asked Russia to make. Can you?
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🤯 Rodon’s pass
😍 Bogle’s cross
🔥 Solomon’s finish
😍 Bogle’s cross
🔥 Solomon’s finish
April 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🤯 Rodon’s pass
😍 Bogle’s cross
🔥 Solomon’s finish
😍 Bogle’s cross
🔥 Solomon’s finish
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
February 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
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I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him | Peter Greste
I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him | Peter Greste
If anybody represents the very British values of democracy, respect for human rights, justice and due process, it is the Egyptian activist
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I first encountered Alaa Abd el-Fattah 11 years…
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January 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him | Peter Greste
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In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast
The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...
www.abc.net.au
January 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni
Priorities matter
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High house prices are the goal not the problem
The reason Australian governments dont ‘fix’ house prices is they don’t want people who already own houses to be sad if prices fall. Even the Productivity Commission told Howard to fix the Capital Gains Tax rort in 2004.
We know what to do
The reason Australian governments dont ‘fix’ house prices is they don’t want people who already own houses to be sad if prices fall. Even the Productivity Commission told Howard to fix the Capital Gains Tax rort in 2004.
We know what to do
December 31, 2024 at 10:35 PM
High house prices are the goal not the problem
The reason Australian governments dont ‘fix’ house prices is they don’t want people who already own houses to be sad if prices fall. Even the Productivity Commission told Howard to fix the Capital Gains Tax rort in 2004.
We know what to do
The reason Australian governments dont ‘fix’ house prices is they don’t want people who already own houses to be sad if prices fall. Even the Productivity Commission told Howard to fix the Capital Gains Tax rort in 2004.
We know what to do
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Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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US agency focused on foreign disinformation shuts down
A leading US government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department said Tuesday, after Congress failed to extend its funding following years of Repub...
www.france24.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Australians waste more than $1 billion on buying Christmas gifts for people that never get used #auspol
Thinking about surprising your loved ones with a Christmas gift?
Making one simple decision will drastically reduce your Christmas waste – Nina Gbor explains:
Thinking about surprising your loved ones with a Christmas gift?
Making one simple decision will drastically reduce your Christmas waste – Nina Gbor explains:
December 22, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Australians waste more than $1 billion on buying Christmas gifts for people that never get used #auspol
Thinking about surprising your loved ones with a Christmas gift?
Making one simple decision will drastically reduce your Christmas waste – Nina Gbor explains:
Thinking about surprising your loved ones with a Christmas gift?
Making one simple decision will drastically reduce your Christmas waste – Nina Gbor explains: