Stephen Long
Stephen Long is an investigative reporter with the ABC, covering business and finance.
Clean coal research funds used for pre-election advertising campaign
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The coal industry's multi-million-dollar advertising and lobbying campaign in the run-up to the last federal election was bankrolled by money deducted from state mining royalty payments and meant to fund research into "clean coal".
Topics: coal, environment, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, australia, qld, nsw
Climate change could threaten entire financial system: APRA
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Climate change could threaten the stability of the entire financial system, the prudential regulator warns, as it prepares to apply climate change "stress tests" to the nation's financial institutions.
Topics: climate-change, business-economics-and-finance, regulation, sydney-2000
Turnbull's turnaround from pro-carbon price to anti-renewables Analysis
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Malcolm Turnbull has made a stunning turnaround from urging zero-emissions energy to spruiking "clean coal" — seemingly in the face of climate science, Stephen Long writes.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, coal, turnbull-malcolm, australia
Why emissions reductions from 'clean coal' remain a pipe dream Analysis
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There have been massive efforts to attain the holy grail of "clean coal", but the current reality is that it remains a dirty way to produce energy.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, coal, federal-government, climate-change, alternative-energy, australia
Trump's presidency will be 'hopelessly conflicted', corporate governance expert says
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Donald Trump will be a "hopelessly conflicted president" with an unrivalled array of commercial conflicts of interest that threaten to undermine the presidency, according to a leading expert on corporate governance.
Topics: us-elections, corporate-governance, world-politics, united-states
James Packer rejoins Crown board after profit slump, China arrests
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James Packer rejoins the board of his casino giant Crown Resorts after a profit slump and the arrest of 18 Crown employees in China.
Topics: gambling, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Adani companies facing multiple corruption probes
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Indian authorities investigate Adani companies for siphoning money offshore and artificially inflating power prices at the expense of Indian consumers.
Topics: coal, business-economics-and-finance, mining-industry, multinationals, federal-government, tax, india, australia, qld, mackay-4740, bowen-4805
Adani's complex corporate web spreads to tax havens
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Adani's complex corporate web spreads from its planned Galilee Basin coal mine in North Queensland, across Asia to a Caribbean tax haven.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, multinationals, tax, federal-government, australia, qld, mackay-4740, bowen-4805, singapore, cayman-islands
India's plan to step away from coal casts doubt on Adani mine
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India releases a new power plan promoting a dramatic increase in renewable energy, raising doubts about the Indian-owned Adani Group's massive coal mine in Queensland.
Topics: coal, industry, business-economics-and-finance, environment, mining-industry, government-and-politics, alternative-energy, environmental-policy, environmental-management, australia
Stephen Long: Trump's trade policies will be easier said than done Analysis
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President-elect Donald Trump has pitched his trade policies to bring manufacturing home, but critics say they will not work and risk sparking a trade war that will cause enormous damage to the United States and world economy.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, us-elections, international-aid-and-trade, trade, united-states
Long: Trump rides working-class revolt all the way to the White House Analysis
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Donald Trump's election is a symptom of a broken economic system, with eerie parallels to the 1920s and '30s, Stephen Long writes.
Topics: economic-trends, us-elections, united-states
Should SA be storing nuclear waste above ground for 100 years? Analysis
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The South Australian Premier's plans for a nuclear waste dump could be very profitable, but the scheme is based on questionable economics and would see hazardous materials kept in "interim" storage for 109 years.
Topics: parliament, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, state-parliament, states-and-territories, nuclear-energy, nuclear-issues, sa
Nuclear fuel royal commission accused of relying too heavily on advice from dump advocates
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Claims that building a radioactive waste dump would give a massive boost to the South Australian economy rely on a report co-authored by members of an advocacy group for international nuclear storage "solutions".
Topics: nuclear-energy, nuclear-issues, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, sa, adelaide-5000
Oil and gas tax may raise no extra revenue for decades
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Australia is in the midst of an gas export boom, yet a tax meant to share the profits with the community may not raise any new revenue for more than two decades.
Topics: oil-and-gas, tax, australia
Superannuation backdown a 'cave-in to the super rich'
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Critics slam the Government's backdown on superannuation as a "cave-in to the super rich" that undermines efforts to make the retirement savings system more equitable.
Topics: superannuation, budget, federal-government, australia
Governor leaves RBA with an enviable record that debt burdens may taint Analysis
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On the face of it, Glenn Stevens leaves his last monetary policy meeting with an enviable record of economic growth and prosperity, but Australia's debt problem lurks to threaten his legacy.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Western Australia recession plain to see
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It only takes a few days in Western Australia to see evidence of its severe recession everywhere you look, as ABC economics expert Stephen Long discovered when he travelled there recently.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, unemployment, manufacturing, mining-industry, perth-6000, wa, australia
Reserve Bank's rate dilemma: WA recession v NSW boom
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The Reserve Bank is having to set a single interest rate for an economy where one state is in severe recession and another is booming.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, housing-industry, mining-industry, australia, sydney-2000, perth-6000, wa, nsw
Corporate tax minimisation costs governments $US1 trillion says insider
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The big four accounting firms are branded as aggressive, unethical, and stand accused of "perpetrating the greatest tax crimes in history" by a leading corporate tax authority.
Topics: accounting, tax, fraud-and-corporate-crime, multinationals, australia
Election victory may prove poisoned chalice as recession risks rise
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Economists warn that whoever ends up forming government may face the toughest economic conditions since the 1990s recession.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, iron-ore, federal-government, federal-elections, government-and-politics, australia
Analysis: The dumb way we measure economic management
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The question of which side of politics will best "manage the economy" may well decide the election, but it's being assessed in a bizarrely narrow way.
Topics: federal-elections, business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, government-and-politics, australia
Chevron's $7b loan aims to shift income offshore, critics say
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Chevron adds $7 billion to an "in house" loan that critics say is designed to shift billions of dollars of income offshore.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, tax, government-and-politics, australia
The strange modelling used to sell company tax cuts Opinion
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We're told that cutting the company tax rate will lead to greater economic output, higher wages and more jobs. But the modelling used to support these claims is based on assumptions that are divorced from reality.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, budget
Turnbull's tax plan will 'deliver multi-billion-dollar gift to US Treasury'
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The Turnbull Government's planned company tax cuts would slash Australian revenue, while delivering a multi-billion-dollar tax windfall to the US Treasury, new research says.
Topics: tax, foreign-affairs, agreements-and-treaties, stockmarket, federal-elections, australia, united-states
Rich benefit most from Scott Morrison's tax reforms
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The tax cuts announced by Treasurer Scott Morrison flow overwhelmingly to high-income earners, with 70 per cent of taxpayers gaining nothing from the shift in the point at which people begin paying 37 cents in the dollar tax.
Topics: budget, federal-government, tax, federal-parliament, federal-election, government-and-politics, australia
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