Laura Tingle becomes ABC staff-elected director – as it happened
by Henry Belot and Natasha May (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6ABH9)
The 7.30 political correspondent will sit on the broadcaster's board alongside chair Ita Buttrose. This blog is now closed
Report of new gas tax for Australia
The Australian Financial Review is this morning reporting that a new gas tax looms as the government tries to raise revenue to begin budget repair.
Major companies such as Woodside Energy, Santos and Shell and their tax advisers have signed confidentiality agreements with Treasury on the PRRT consultation.
Since Treasury resumed the stalled work for Labor late last year, it has cast the net wider to probe other PRRT areas, such as deductions, in an attempt to raise revenue sooner for the government from the profits-based tax.
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