The only two female chief executives of Australia’s 50 biggest companies aren’t just outnumbered by men but usually find themselves looking up at their male peers. Kerrie Mather, who is chief executive of Sydney Airport, is 160 centimetres (just shy of 5 feet 3 inches) tall, while Westpac Banking Corporation…
Infographic | Australians who don’t pay tax: what would Romney say?
The debate over the “47 per cent” of American adults who Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says don’t pay income tax caused a firestorm across the US this week. An analysis by The Weekend Financial Review has found that the proportion of Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high,…
Yes please minister: Labor spends billions on advice
By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim Get the data The federal government has spent half a billion dollars a year on consultants since Labor won office 4½ years ago, an analysis of its contracts shows. Yet while Finance Minister Penny Wong has warned agencies to slash this spending, few public…
Defence losing out in asylum camp fight
By Bianca Hall and Edmund Tadros Senior Defence brass opposed the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s bid to use the remote Scherger RAAF base as a detention centre, documents released under freedom of information show. Defence refused to release more than half the pages in the heavily redacted package of…
Border security’s real cost
By Edmund Tadros and Bianca Hall Detention centre operators, an international training company, a NSW Government department and a multinational IT firm are the big winners from the Federal Government’s immigration policies. An analysis of tender data by The Canberra Times has identified, for the first time, the companies that…