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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6d

New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax

“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6d

New government data confirms what everyone already knew...multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax.

"People are getting increasingly sick of it."

🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · 7d

Great to hear Corin Dann putting my dividends vs investment data in front of Meridian CEO Mike Roan who confirms they have faced no access to capital issues in the last decade. Here is the updated 2025 data - $14b in gentailer dividends since privatisation, $6b in investment.

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · 7d

Well that’s great but I don’t have any time for that cos every six weeks somebody in North Queensland gets eaten by a croc or something

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · 7d

hey wait are you in dorkland too

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · 7d

this slaps, you deserve it

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Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · 7d

📣 Justice For Myanmar named 2025 Right Livelihood laureate

Award shines a light on Myanmar people’s struggle to dismantle the military cartel.

Press Release 👉🏽 buff.ly/glncPoQ

Right Livelihood Award announcement 👉🏽 buff.ly/0W9ftKU

#changemakers #RightLivelihood #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · 7d

Govt takes a billion in revenue each year in dividends and tax from the electricity sector. This is a regressive form of taxation that causes factories to collapse. Why cant we just tax capital gains like a grown up country

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · Sep 3

nothing like an engrossing spreadsheet tho that’s the real thing

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · Aug 8

The countries with a bigger state ended up having lower covid spending, imagine that

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · Jul 9

All sectors of just business loans here?

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · Jul 9

snap.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Jun 20

Kicking off this weekend's event🧵with a win!
The #Airbusted campaign spearheaded by the
likes of @justiceformyanmar.org Info-Birmanie @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social & more has been a success! Airbus have divested from AVIC whose subsidiary provides planes & parts to the Junta in Myanmar.
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Image showing a crowd of activists punching through a line of the words saying investments over and over coming from a airbus plane to AVIC.

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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · Jun 9

For decades, we've been told that governments must cut corporate tax to create jobs

Now the data is in: there is no evidence that lower corporate taxes lead to job creation & tax dodging suppresses wages

Read more via @psiglobalunion.bsky.social 👉 publicservices.international/resources/di...

Tax Brief – Corporate Taxes vs Jobs? Busting the myths

Public Services International is a Global Union Federation of more than 700 trade unions representing 30 million workers in 154 countries. We bring their voices to the UN, ILO, WHO and other regional ...

publicservices.international

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · May 30

Woke wayne strikes again

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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · May 15

Predatory finance is taking over Asia Pacific. CICTAR researcher Ed Miller @labourcartel.bsky.social joins our friends at @grain.org to discuss how workers, food & public services are at risk and how we fight back

📅 22 May
🕑12h30 Delhi/14h Jakarta/17h Sydney
✅Register here: grain.org/e/7270

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · May 12

Why did the government send Sam Uffindell and Hamish two-by-twos Campbell on the ACA educational tour to Australia to see what a properly funded aged care sector looks like, knowing they were planning to pull the pin on pay equity the next week? open.substack.com/pub/labourca...

Detonating pay equity leaves workers footing the bill

Nicola Willis' state surrender from pay equity not only damages the quality of public services, but will also damage the government's future electability.

open.substack.com

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · May 8

Hooton backing in his old workmate's industrial-scale pay equity wealth transfer. A $17 billion saving would have more than funded last year's $14 billion tax relief programme, which disproportionately benefited the rich. Seymour said this "saved" the budget. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...

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Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · May 7

The noose continues to tighten around the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) after new sanctions. Who powered the cyber scam industry tied to the militia leader Chit Thu & the criminal Karen BGF? Discover more on the growth of border crime with satellite analysis👇🏽

Who powered the expansion of cyber scams in Myawaddy? | Justice For Myanmar

An examination of developments since Thailand's 2023 power cuts to cyber scam compounds shows that the compounds actually expanded. Thailand's current crackdown on cyber scams in Myawaddy Township…

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · May 4

Respect bro

edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · May 2

Bupa likely receives tens of millions in Health NZ per year. Our new report suggests it may have used related party transactions to reduce taxable income by $150.6m in the past decade and paid an effective tax rate of just 4 percent over that period.
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Is residential aged care giant Bupa skimping on tax?

Aged care funding is stretched, so residential aged care providers should be more transparent about their government funding, a new report says.

www.thepost.co.nz

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · Apr 29

CTUM union offices in liberated areas of Myanmar were bombed last night by junta jet fighter rocket attacks. Luckily nobody hurt but shows the madness of the regime. Farmers union (AFFM) also targeted.
Who is still selling the junta jet fuel??? @justiceformyanmar.org

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edward miller @labourcartel.bsky.social · Apr 17

I’m very grateful for that mahi you guys are doing! We also did a report with Common Grace and 350 at the end of last year that looks at the gas side of this discussion too: cictar.org/s/Methanexit...

cictar.org

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · Apr 16

#nzpol The first episode of Locked Out with Craig Renney is…unlocked! I sat down with @labourcartel.bsky.social to talk about energy markets and missing data from the government www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBW9...

Ep01 Ed Miller on electricity margins and missing data

YouTube video by DOC Studios

www.youtube.com

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · Apr 8

A National Party MP is part of a religious group embroiled in alleged child abuse being investigated in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA.
www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/08/n...

National MP part of secretive religious sect

The group has no official name but has been dubbed the ‘Two By Two’ or ‘The Truth’.

www.1news.co.nz

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