Author: ckr

development rorts

The last koala?

The last Koala? Do our Koalas stand a chance when faced with profiteering developers and cynical local or other governments colluding in common deceptions? What does a (scamming) Developer really mean when they use the term ‘biodiversity offsetting’? What does this mean when applied to one of the few remaining…
Posted on by ckr
Health rorts

The Australian opioid epidemic rort

What is Australia’s ‘opioid epidemic’ ? How is it a rort for the treatment of pain that also involved many local doctors and pharmacists (as well as ‘big pharma’)? Will Australia repeat the full-blown US opioid crisis? And what you should know and why you should be concerned about this?…
Posted on by ckr
e-commerce gouging

The deception of online travel booking

If you combine foreign companies who avoid tax in Australia and those that use online technologies to massively gouge customers and destroy local industries, what do you have? As Dick Smith has warned us, you have the e-commerce gougers epitomised by the online booking agencies who are having destructive effects…
Posted on by ckr
bank rorts

Australian banks come undone by greed

Newsflash: The land of ‘the fair go’ achieves world-class corruption levels in its financial systems because of ‘greed’. No doubt it has confirmed our worst fears about crooked banks, insurance companies and related financial institutions, but will the Australian banking royal commission really change anything? It has recognised that the…
Posted on by ckr