Today New Matilda begins a series unravelling the deal that allowed a property developer with a controversial history to take over a lease for Crown land in inner-city Sydney. Wendy Bacon reports

The Federal Government can't afford to help SPC modernise? That's nonsense. They pay plenty of industry assistance already - just not to companies with unionised workforces, writes Ian McAuley

The failure of the European 'austerity' solution is plain to see - millions are unemployed and living in poverty. But toxic ideas are hard to kill, especially when they benefit the rich, writes Guy Beres