Honestly the level of local tax dodging strategies in use are off the charts and only worsening Australia's net trade deficit. Apple: earned billions in Australia in 2023/24 and paid zero income tax here, per the latest ATO transparency data and analysis of the report. Microsoft: same story as Apple in 2023/24, billions in Australian income and zero income tax. Netflix: about A$1.2b in Australian revenue in 2023/24 and paid zero company tax. The âoebig fiveâ US tech firms (Microsoft, Google, Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon) together paid only about A$650m of tax on their Australian operations in 2022/23, despite multi-billion local revenues. Having local media quotas is the bare minimum. Updating the tax rules to exclude strategies like exorbitant charging for IP for trademark and marketing materials from company owned subsidiaries in low tax jurisdictions. It certainly doesn't go far enough.

Nice write up, sums up a lot of the issues with a major rewrite of a decades old system.

You have to remember this wasn't just a website, it was several decades of technical debt sitting on end of life onprem databases, middleware and legacy code that needed rewriting. This is also a migration to cloud enabled modern stack with a heap of backend and front end Integrations. Did Accenture charge a bomb for the BOM website?! Yes they did. Australia has a problem where government departments outsource all the decisions to consultancies and doesn't do much in-house any more in the name of "small government". In the process the tax payer pays through the nose.

Came here to say the same. Common misconception, many people don't know this important detail.

My Samsung remote has had the solar panel in the back for some green washing too. So glad I can save 100mah of power every 3 months!

Sheesh, if you need proof, it's the people willing to pay this much for a bag.

Proof we are now living in the era of the Idiocracy

The world can't manage to handle the tragedy of the commons situation. It's not me, it's them!

It's official, the bubble is bursting.

Idiots everywhere... They've also been cancelling renewable energy projects there were well down the planning pipeline because of spurious "community opposition".

On the money. But what I want to know is what about all the other countries that access tiktok outside of the US. Do they see the anti-woke regime approved version too? Or will there be a US only version and a rest of the world version?

Knock knock

It's a shame this is now of a grift to raise money for Trump than actually addressing the underlying issue.. eg mandate companies that want toimport labour have a training program in place to train new starters/graduates to fill these roles, and also have a neutral industry commission that keeps track of actual skilled labour shortages and can say no to h1b visas if the company is just trying to get cheaper non-local labour when there are local skilled people available

If this is an optional item, it's really incumbent on the importer/seller to select appropriate options. I live in Australia where most (all?) vehicles are imported, and the local importer selections the range of options and ALSO does specific tuning/modifications for the local environment/market (e.g. suspension tuning for bad roads and engine tunes for higher air intake temperatures). If the importer/reseller doesn't option correctly, of course it's not going to be so great. In Australia only very few locales need a battery heater.

This isnâ(TM)t new at all â" itâ(TM)s been well understood for decades. Cold doesnâ(TM)t permanently reduce a batteryâ(TM)s capacity, it just makes part of it temporarily inaccessible because the chemistry slows down. Thatâ(TM)s why EVs have battery heaters: they use a bit of energy to warm the pack so it can deliver higher current and more of its rated capacity. Once the pack warms up, the âoemissingâ energy is right there again. Anyone writing this up like itâ(TM)s some shocking revelation is either clueless or doing a beat-up piece on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby.