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    Australia could impose the broadest country-by-country tax reporting rules for multinationals anywhere in the world.

    Labor urged to include tax havens in profit shifting crackdown

    About 50 per cent of large US companies and multinationals from China, Japan, and Germany will be covered by the rules.

    • 31 mins ago
    • Tom McIlroy

    David Rowe cartoons for July 2024

    David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.

    • 45 mins ago
    • David Rowe
    China has not yet lifted its import ban on Australian lobsters.

    New swipe at China over trade as lobster exports remain on ice

    China should give up the favourable treatment it receives as a developing nation in the global trading system, the Albanese government says.

    • 1 hr ago
    • Andrew Tillett

    ACTU staff sent home due to safety concerns

    Fair Work moves to suspend WA CFMEU permit; Vance gives his first speech as Trump’s VP candidate; COVID-19 infected Biden says he feels good as he flies home. How the day unfolded.

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    • Lucy Slade
    Businessman David Gonski advised federal governments on education policy.

    On school funding, all governments get a fail

    Letters from readers on the Gonski funding challenge; Telstra’s price increases; the NSW review of road tolls; action on climate change; and the health of the River Seine.

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    Trust in government is declining, and it’s a global trend.

    Why competent government is the answer to political extremism

    The US has its unique national blind spot for guns, but as two reports on social cohesion and democracy point out, the ingredients of division and extremism have been rising everywhere.

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    • Tom Burton
    Energy Minister Chris Bowen, left, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

    Don’t restart energy wars, business and green groups warn

    A coalition of business and environment groups has urged governments to provide credible and consistent energy policy.

    • Tom McIlroy

    Trust in government is the newest gender divide

    Only 38 per cent of Australian women trust the federal government, compared with 54 per cent of men, an OECD study has found.

    • Tom Burton

    This firm is on police’s radar, but still thriving thanks to CFMEU

    A company run by brothers known to the authorities and championed by the union has ballooned into one of NSW’s biggest labour hire operations.

    • David Marin-Guzman, Nick McKenzie, Eryk Bagshaw and Kate McClymont

    Yesterday

    WA Premier Roger Cook.

    Construction industry ‘much more respectful’ in WA

    The Western Australian Labor government is unlikely to follow moves by eastern states to impose compulsory requirements for union agreements.

    • Tom Rabe
    A US-made Patriot missile is test fired at Queensland’s Shoalwater Bay military training area.

    Air force officials rebuff concerns over slow pace of missile defence

    Military experts have warned Australia is not moving quickly enough to be able to defend itself against missile strikes amid lessons from Ukraine and Israel.

    • Andrew Tillett
    The CFMEU branch in Victoria, epicentre  of a crisis that has engulfed Australia’s most militant union.

    Only a full judicial inquiry can lift the lid on the CFMEU

    The scandals at the construction union leave a host of unanswered questions that will shape the future of industrial relations in Australia.

    • Graeme Watson
    Chris Bowen says Australia can achieve 82 per cent renewables by 2030.

    ‘Alltoohardism’ supplants climate denial as obstacle to renewables

    Chris Bowen remains upbeat about achieving 82 per cent renewable energy generation by the end of the decade.

    • Phillip Coorey
    There is a vast and growing difference in how much students contribute to their degree based on what they study.

    The $50,000 arts degree arrives, as student debt climbs

    The cost of a degree is at historical highs, with no relief in sight for at least another two years.

    • Julie Hare
    Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones.

    ‘Another bombshell on tax practitioners’: new rules anger accountants

    Labor is being urged to delay implementing the new standards and obligations for accountants and tax agents, who accuse the government of significant overreach.

    • Tom McIlroy
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    CFMEU investigation exposes dark side of political relationships

    Letters from readers on the Financial Review’s investigation; the possible motive behind the assassination attempt on Donald Trump; and what the vice presidential candidate says about US politics.

    AFR Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus at a press conference.

    McManus says ACTU will suspend CFMEU amid scandal

    ACTU suspends construction union; Trump attends RNC before speeches from former rivals; Albanese, Minns and Burke all back independent administrator decision. Follow for updates.

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    • Lucy Slade
    Workplace Minister Tony Burke addressing the media on Wednesday.

    ‘Not a threat, it’s very real’: CFMEU retaliation tactics in focus

    Victorian firms strong-armed into signing enterprise bargaining agreements say they are too afraid of speaking out against the CFMEU for fear of reprisals.

    • Ronald Mizen
    Tony Abbott speaking at the Kyiv Security Forum in Ukraine last year.

    Trump could be ‘a loser’ if he abandons Ukraine, says Tony Abbott

    The former prime minister reckons that Vladimir Putin owes the families of MH17 victims an apology and compensation for the “atrocity”.

    • Andrew Tillett
    ACTU boss Sally McManus arrives at the ACTU House in Melbourne.

    CFMEU crackdown doesn’t go far enough

    Business groups are demanding an inquiry into the CFMEU’s alleged criminal activities and the return of a permanent independent regulator.

    • Phillip Coorey and David Marin-Guzman