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MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:40 pm on May 10, 2021 | 9 comments French company Naval Group is trying to keep secret the original price it quoted for Australia’s future submarine project, which is purported to cost around $90 billion. The Defence Department has confirmed it is paying Naval Group’s legal bills to help conceal its original price, a move that South Australian Senator Rex Patrick has described as “outrageous”. The Australian Information Commissioner, Angelene Falk, also last year directed the Defence Department to release Naval Group’s original bid d...

by Tyler Durden In the latest from their ongoing and increasingly nasty geopolitical row, China is accusing Australia  giving a "free pass" to terror-sympathizers over accusations that Aussie politicians are backing Uighur activists and providing external support to Muslim fundamentalists in Xinjiang.  This latest diplomatic fight started when as news.au.com describes Chinese state media "seized on an article, published by fringe political group the Australian Citizens Party, criticizing local politicians’ support for the East Turkistan Australian Association (ETAA), a Uyghur advocacy g...

Do new independence disclosures go far enough? Do new independence disclosures go far enough? An industry body is calling for asset-based fees to be recognised as conflicted remuneration and disclosed to clients, but concedes the government has shown little recent interest in addressing the issue. A A PIFA president Daniel Brammall said the industry association had been unsuccessful in its bid to amend royal commission legislation around annual renewals and independence disclosures to include asset-based fees, despite “a great deal of interest from all sides of politics”. “The interest ...

Crossbenchers will continue to rule the Senate, whoever wins: poll Share Regardless of whoever wins the next federal election, it remains likely that Jacqui Lambie and Pauline Hanson will have the balance of power in the Senate. And, under worst-case scenarios for both major parties, the Greens would be needed as well. Jacqui Lambie will continue to influence the Senate beyond the next election along with Pauline Hanson and maybe the Greens.  Alex Ellinghausen Under all scenarios, independent senator Rex Patrick and his former Centre Alliance colleague, Stirling Griff, would not be a factor ...

With Cameras Rolling, an Uneasy and Isolated Capitol Receives Biden Under the cloud of a pandemic and an insurrection, a locked-down Capitol provided an unusual backdrop for President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress. National Guard members outside the Capitol on Wednesday. With the building on lockdown for the first joint session of Congress since Jan. 6, those without tickets were urged to stay far away.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Published April 28, 2021Updated April 29, 2021, 12:18 a.m. ET WASHINGTON — If this were a normal year, Representative Steve Co...