Australian Politics and Culture

GOOGLE has refused to explain why it paid just $74,176 in Australian tax last year, despite making an estimated $1 billion in revenue from the Australian market. The opposition communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, said yesterday the growing digital ...  

OPPOSITION communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has moved to play down suggestions a Coalition government would seek to make technology multinationals pay more tax on revenue generated in Australia. In response to queries from The Australian, late ...  

The comments come after Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull told The Australian Financial Review he was consulting with local companies on the issue of global firms like Google paying less tax by processing payments overseas. Despite some ...  

news International technology companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon may not be paying their fair share of Australian tax, Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull said this week, with local tax laws not having caught up yet with ...  

Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has flagged the possibility of raising taxes on global tech giants Google and Facebook, saying that they are eroding Australia’s tax base. Mr Turnbull has told The Australian Financial Review that a ...  

news Upgrading Telstra’s copper network to fibre to the node was the “quickest and easiest” way to get better broadband for Australians, the office of Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull said this week, with the cost of ...  

Malcolm Turnbull sharply criticises the corrupting power of money in the US and describes America as looking 'like a country that is barely governed'.  

A US woman has decided to withdraw a molestation case against Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach after an out-of-court settlement was reached.  

It was only when Jason Hodges was asked to compete at the Chelsea Flower Show that he thought deeply about what makes an Australian garden.  

WHEN the bulldozers came to knock down a sacred knowledge tree in Ski Beach, Arnhem Land, Munggurrawuy Yunupingu faced them with an axe.  

The Australian Financial Review chief knew in detail  allegations of piracy involving a News Corp subsidiary before publication.  

SOUTH Australian Liberal leader Isobel Redmond believes women should not take legal action if they are victims of discrimination.  

LAST month, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra played Carnegie Hall, one of the world's great concert venues  

STEVEN Heathcote recalls his baby daughter Mia crawling through the Australian Ballet's rehearsal studios, moving to the music  

A BRITISH jury has found Australian speedway star Darcy Ward not guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.  

LINK is the 10-year-old pre-professional dance company of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.  

OUR diplomat-in-chief is doing a fine job, so he should leave domestic politics to others.  

PARLIAMENT has focused all week on the state of Craig Thomson's financial records.  

THE Australian public broadcaster is more partisan even than the BBC.  

THE threats to the Australian economy are much greater than the Treasury forecasts.  

THE crisis gripping a powerful central Australian Aboriginal land council has deepened.