Drawing on CICTAR’s recent report on financing of water and sanitation in Brazil, The Ecologist explains how Britain’s water privatisation concept is exported to Brazil, leading to the same stories of polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift: cictar.org/news/ecologi...
Sometimes economists say the dumbest things. Yes, house prices have to rise for capital gains to be a thing. But then, people have to have jobs for PAYE to be a thing, and that’s also looking pretty bloody tenuous these days
#nzpol
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...
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
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.
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
hey wait are you in dorkland too
this slaps, you deserve it
📣 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
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
nothing like an engrossing spreadsheet tho that’s the real thing
The countries with a bigger state ended up having lower covid spending, imagine that
All sectors of just business loans here?
snap.
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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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...
Woke wayne strikes again
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
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...
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...
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👇🏽
Respect bro
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...
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
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...
#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...
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...
In this week's podcast, getting ready for tax year end - what needs to be done by 31st March; lessons from the largest known GST fraudster; corporate tax cuts what does the public think while @clrenney.bsky.social & @labourcartel.bsky.social look at who benefits
soundcloud.com/user-2622281...
Maybe he means that the FSU encouraged a billionaire to roll the NZME Board, whose chair is also deputy chair of NZI
The US is pressuring Australia to pay $500M to NuCoal Resources over a canceled mining license. Joe Hockey, now lobbying for NuCoal, is pushing this claim amid ongoing tariff wars. aftinet.org.au/joe-hockey-l...
