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Here’s a good use for a Magnitsky Act—sanction Andrew Hastie’s cronies in the Henry Jackson Society

27 May 2020

Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade is conducting an inquiry into whether Australia should legislate a Magnitsky Act, by which the Australian government would be able to sanction foreign officials accused of

Parliament must demand answers from liar Bill Browder

15 May 2020

Almost lost in all the coronavirus drama is the Parliament’s inquiry into “targeted sanctions to address human rights abuses” a.k.a. a Magnitsky Act.

Tell politicians: Support the plan to turn the CEFC into an emergency national investment bank

24 April 2020

Australia is in a dire economic emergency, which must be tackled with the same urgency as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Banking / Finance
National Banking

Don’t wait—use CEFC to invest now in economic mobilisation and recovery

8 April 2020

Australia is borrowing and spending more than $300 billion to put the economy on life support for six months or more.

Banking / Finance

Stimulus won’t stop pandemics or panics—we need an urgent economic mobilisation

17 March 2020

The next global financial crisis is well and truly under way, but don’t let the culprits get away with just blaming the coronavirus!

Health
Banking / Finance

A just tax solution: corporate withholding tax and financial speculation tax

6 March 2020

After then-Treasurer Scott Morrison announced the $10,000 cash ban in the 2018 budget, his successor Josh Frydenberg estimated to Parliament that the government’s “black economy” interventions, of which the cash ban is one, would bring in an addit

Banking / Finance

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