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MEDICAL INDEMNITY CRISIS


Australian Consumers' Association: Choice
- HIH Failure Demands Inquiry, Say Shareholders and Consumers




PAYROLL TAX


Parliament of Australia: Senate Committee: Democrat Report Scroll down to "Reducing Payroll Tax"



ABC CUTS




Friends of the ABC - Home Page... from arbitrary funding cuts, Mr Mansfield ... down Radio Australia and keep ... Communications Senator Alston now has ... that the ABC will not ... of public broadcasting in ...



TAX EVASION BY THE HIGH INCOME EARNERS

Warning: these sites are a little depressing!


Tax tactics: Friends in High Places

Background briefing - 22/03/98: Not Shaken, Not Stirred




PETER REITH AND THE TELECARD AFFAIR


The Whistle May 1998 - ACTU conference on stress at work

Radio National The National Interest with Terry Lane Sunday 26/03/00: Sharan Burrow talks to Terry Lane


DEFENCE AND THE DEFENCE POLICY REVIEW

7:30 Report - 1/06/00: Auditor-General's report scathing of Govt expenditure With our Defence forces lobbying for a bigger slice of the Budget pie taxpayers could be forgiven for expecting our military mandarins to make sure their current shopping lists deliver the biggest ba

Australian Defence Policy under Labor and the Coalition: 1945 ... ... relative increases in expenditure and the renewed ... felt that Australia should concentrate ... by a policy review conducted by the Defence Department in ...

Australia's Post-Cold War Experience ... the Strategic Review 1993 (Canberra ... Opinion on Defence: Trends, Patterns ... New Zealand Security Policy, Peace Research ... Public Expenditure in Australia, Economic ...




RICH AND POOR

The Australian Special Series: Advance Australia Where?


Australia Dossier (2 August 2000).
... unprecendented prosperity is growing poverty and despair ... ACTU) committed Australia?s union ... of the wealth divide. "There is ... Prime Minister] Howard the rich ...


The Age: How soaring wealth divides a nation
... News Specials, ... of wealth in Australia is so heavily skewed ... in the nation's wealth in recent years ... contributed to the growing divide between the haves and ...


Green Left Weekly, Issue #410, June 28, 2000
Cover Story: Media spin the growing rich-poor divide


Class War: The Attack on Working People
... Recorded live at MIT, Class War: The Attack on Working People marks the third volume in the series of lectures bringing Noam Chomsky's words and vision to CD. ...





BANKS

Choice - Banks over-charging on credit card fees ... & VIEWS. Banks over ... tougher regulation on ... and charges. ... of Australia and ... and Consumer Commission ... interchange' fees for ... the banks have ... record profits. Meanwhile ...

Australian Retail Payments System... the substantial fees and charges levied ... to Australia"s ... of consumer concerns ... central banks, not ... seigniorage profits from a ... recently, regulation prohibited ...

Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Paper 16 1996-97... Rising fees and charges on ... and profits entailed in ... participants. Consumer financial ... inefficient regulation and ... for Australia include banks and ...

Four Corners - 10/03/97: Banks Behaving Badly. Australian ... ... Broadcast: 10/03 ... delivered healthy profits and ... to consumer bodies ... De-regulation ushered ... of Australia's most ... their banks. For ... Bank's charges and fees. Next ...



PRIVATIZATION

Have we been sold out? - smh.com.au ... , FEATURES & ARTS, ... not forget shares. GIO, Qantas, the State ... the balance of Telstra or the NSW ... along comes Privatisation: sell off or sell out? to tell ...

Privatisation - New Book Contents... 1. INTRODUCTION 1. ... NOT TO SELL: FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS ... 6. CONTRACTING OUT / OUTSOURCING 144. ... Telstra 234. CSL ... investor protections: GIO 251. ... worst privatisation 274. ...



VFT AND A NEW SYDNEY AIRPORT

CITY NEWS... Shanghai Hopes to Start Maglev Train Project As Early As Possible; Passenger Flow at Shanghai...

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY -- October 12, 2000... SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. Biting the Bullet. ... though the Transrapid is less ... to develop Maglev technology for ... adopt the German system in a ... project in Shanghai linking the ...



DRUGS AND CRIME

Heroin Trials... Heroin Trials. ... The success of the Swiss heroin trial as a treatment option for severely ... drug-free did so at about the same rate as other programs. ...

INCB... In 1997, this interception rate was about 14 ... a low chance of success imprisoning vast numbers of ... evaluation of the Swiss heroin trials by WHO and ...



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