The push by some Australian retailers for the government to apply GST on overseas retail purchases continues in earnest, despite the cost of the proposals.
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Power Shots: Political Fixers #10 David Feeney … Devine v Phelps …
Cheerful, chubby and fresh-faced, like a well-scrubbed piglet, Paul Barry profiles David Feeney, who comes in at #10 on our list of political fixers. Also try some of our other Power Shots from the rest of the Power Index team.
McInnes is back, but is Lew’s blokey board ready for backlash?
Disgraced former David Jones boss Mark McInnes is back, this time working for Solomon Lew.
TV or not TV, that’s the question for Harvey et al. It’s not
There’s been another bit of unfortunate news for the campaign by Gerry Harvey, Myer, Solomon Lew and other retailers to levy a GST on offshore internet purchases under $1000.
The idiocy that is the retail billionaire tax champions
The recent $200,000 PR blitz by retailers has fallen as flat as their pre-Christmas sales.
Both sides of politics prefer blowing up property bubbles to popping them
Tony Abbott’s position on housing prices is little better than that of property boosting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, particularly his explicit support for high property prices. What happened to common sense?
Kohler: Crunching prime numbers
When the defaults on prime and alt-A mortgages are added to sub-prime losses, it’s clear that we’ll see a long period of financial darkness before the dawning of better times, writes Alan Kohler.
From Yannon, to meat deals – meet the Scott brothers
Way back in the late 1980s, a fiery red-head called Andrew Scott was a loyal treasury minion of then Coles Myer finance director John Barner. Scott would later rise to become the retailing giant’s property chief before leaving in 1997 for Centro Properties, whilst Barner was fired in disgrace in 1993.
