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How McDonald’s dodged half a billion dollars in Australian tax

Sedney : International fast-food giant McDonald’s avoided paying half a billion dollars of tax in Australia over five-year period by shifting profits through the low-tax nation of Singapore, a new report by a global coalition of trade unions says.The report, which has been funded and commissioned by a coalition of global trade unions including the […]

Prison officers at risk as prison population grows

Sedney : When a frustrated prisoner threw a billiard ball at Jason Gould it cost the prison officer the sight in his left eye.”An inmate was having a bad day,” says Mr Gould. “He threw a pool ball at me and got me in the left eye and ruptured the eye ball and the iris […]

Soft budget and rate cuts bring swinging voters back to Abbott government

Perth : Swinging voters driven to back Labor by the unfairness of the Abbott government’s first hard-cutting budget have swung back after a “softer and milder” 2015 budget giving them “less to worry about”. Exclusive focus group testing of the nation’s swinging voters commissioned by Fairfax Media shows the 2015 budget was viewed in direct […]

Radha Suami Head Meets S. Simranjit Singh Mann at PGI Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH, Punjab (May 19, 2015)—Beas (district Amritsar) based cult ‘Radha Soami’ head Gurinder Dhillon on Sunday visited PGI to meet Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann who is receiving medical treatment here. The cult head inquired about health condition of the pro-freedom Sikh politician. The meeting which lasted for around 20 minutes, was […]