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Has ACCC let Facebook and Google off the hook?
Australia’s consumer watchdog, the ACCC, has released its long-awaited final report on the market power of Facebook and Google. Long on rhetoric (all 623 pages of it) and short on recommendations, it’s unlikely to dent the massive market power of these search and social media behemoths. Kim Wingerei reports.
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Allies behaving badly
The United States likes to see itself as a benign force nurturing national aspirations and encouraging cooperation across what it calls a “free and open Indo-Pacific.” Yet it has failed so far to sooth the latest spat between two of its most important allies in Asia, Japan and South Korea.
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Shady Brothers: in pursuit of Virgin Australia’s Chinese pilot-school partners
A troubled Chinese conglomerate under pressure from Beijing and its invisible partner have teamed up with Virgin Australia to run a flight school in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate. Having exposed Virgin’s deceitful efforts to hide these parties, Anthony Klan goes door-knocking.
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Jeffrey Epstein Dies Of “Suicide”
Disappointing everyone yet surprising no one, accused sex trafficker and alleged billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has “committed” “suicide”. Details are muddled and conflicting, with CNN reporting that Epstein “was taken from New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center at 3:30 a.m. Saturday in cardiac arrest and died at an area hospital” and the
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Sleek pay, oblique performance: Angus Taylor’s first government agency, the IPFA
When Angus Taylor was first promoted to the ministry as Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation in February 2016, he drew on his wealth of knowledge of consultancies to set up the little-known IPFA, the Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency
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Asylum Seekers Allowed Entry To Australia After Telling Authorities They’re Headed To Crown Casino
A boatload of asylum seekers intercepted near Christmas Island yesterday has been allowed entry into the country after they were able to produce documentation proving they were on their way to Crown Casino.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who would usually call for the boat to be turned
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Propaganda Prescription: how Australia can get its economic mojo back
The Liberal Party, its ideological ally the IPA and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have done a remarkable job of pushing the false narrative of superior Liberal economic management. The Labor Party has invited submissions to its 2019 campaign review. Alan Austin, who offers a solution.
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Green shoots? When inflation is good news, maybe
Have things finally turned for Treasurer Josh Frydenberg? Is the latest CPI a spike in a downtrend or first signs the Australian economy is bottoming?
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