The major political parties’ economic policies from the 1980s onwards smashed Australian manufacturing, which shrank from 20 per cent of GDP in 1980 to barely 5 per cent now.
The final report of the dramatic Senate inquiry into the Sterling Income Trust fiasco reveals how the federal corporate regulator and WA consumer protection agency betrayed 130 elderly and vulnerable victims.
The advocate for the more than 100 elderly victims of the Sterling First scam has written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and WA Premier Mark McGowan demanding they compensate the victims immediately.
On 16 December (yesterday), the day after the third hearing of the Senate inquiry into Sterling Income Trust and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Sterling tenant Freda Stevens became the 19th victim to pass away since S