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Mayne: what to expect at tomorrow’s Crown AGM with James Packer

What would the detached billionaire say if Mark Robley, the pokies addict featured so dramatically on 7.30 on Monday night, made a surprise appearance?

NBN farce the result of a neoliberal absurdity

Malcolm Turnbull says we shouldn't have started from where we did on the NBN -- problem is, we didn't have much choice, thanks to market economics.

Salmon giant Tassal needs to admit it's losing the war on climate change

Tasmanian salmon farming giant Tassal has been beleaguered by falling domestic prices and environmental negligence. What can the giant do to mend its ways?

Where's this media company merger frenzy we were told would happen?

With media reform dreams now a reality, the stage should be set for a merger frenzy. So where is it?

Australians’ love for local car manufacturing is misplaced

The car industry cost Australians billions of dollars based on a misguided sense that car manufacturing was more important than other industries. But in retrospect, it looks cheap.

Where is the government condemnation of Rio Tinto?

The Brits had a go at Rio Tinto and have already settled. The Americans are now having their go. But in Australia, our corporate regulator is studiously silent.

The company that called the mining tax a 'sovereign risk' has been charged with fraud

While they were lecturing Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard about tax, Rio Tinto was engaged in massive destruction of shareholder wealth. Now the US corporate regulator is gunning for them.

ACCC chair Rod Sims.

Australian neoliberalism meets its conqueror: electricity

The problems of our failed electricity market are the same problems that crop up time and again when market economics is applied to crucial services.

Fox tries to placate critics after sexual harassment scandals

It's unclear as to whether this strategy will convince anyone anywhere.

Trump-backing US Congressman in hot water over Aussie company

A Republican Congressman and early Trump supporter is under investigation amid suspicions he gave a leg-up to an Australian biotech company