edward miller
@labourcartel.bsky.social
Researcher at @cictar.bsky.social.
Sometimes tracking corporate power at https://labourcartel.substack.com/
For the many, not the few.
Sometimes tracking corporate power at https://labourcartel.substack.com/
For the many, not the few.
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Sometimes economists say the dumbest things. Yes, house prices have to rise for capital gains to be a thing. But then, people have to have jobs for PAYE to be a thing, and that’s also looking pretty bloody tenuous these days
#nzpol
#nzpol
Labour's capital gains tax relies on house price rises - economist
Labour's capital gains tax relies on house price rises - economist
Meanwhile, property investors want Labour to promise to keep existing tax breaks for landlords alongside its capital gains tax plan.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sometimes economists say the dumbest things. Yes, house prices have to rise for capital gains to be a thing. But then, people have to have jobs for PAYE to be a thing, and that’s also looking pretty bloody tenuous these days
#nzpol
#nzpol
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New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social. #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-gov...
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New government data confirms what everyone already knew...multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax.
"People are getting increasingly sick of it."
🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"People are getting increasingly sick of it."
🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
New government data confirms what everyone already knew...multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax.
"People are getting increasingly sick of it."
🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"People are getting increasingly sick of it."
🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Great to hear Corin Dann putting my dividends vs investment data in front of Meridian CEO Mike Roan who confirms they have faced no access to capital issues in the last decade. Here is the updated 2025 data - $14b in gentailer dividends since privatisation, $6b in investment.
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Great to hear Corin Dann putting my dividends vs investment data in front of Meridian CEO Mike Roan who confirms they have faced no access to capital issues in the last decade. Here is the updated 2025 data - $14b in gentailer dividends since privatisation, $6b in investment.
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📣 Justice For Myanmar named 2025 Right Livelihood laureate
Award shines a light on Myanmar people’s struggle to dismantle the military cartel.
Press Release 👉🏽 buff.ly/glncPoQ
Right Livelihood Award announcement 👉🏽 buff.ly/0W9ftKU
#changemakers #RightLivelihood #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Award shines a light on Myanmar people’s struggle to dismantle the military cartel.
Press Release 👉🏽 buff.ly/glncPoQ
Right Livelihood Award announcement 👉🏽 buff.ly/0W9ftKU
#changemakers #RightLivelihood #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
October 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
📣 Justice For Myanmar named 2025 Right Livelihood laureate
Award shines a light on Myanmar people’s struggle to dismantle the military cartel.
Press Release 👉🏽 buff.ly/glncPoQ
Right Livelihood Award announcement 👉🏽 buff.ly/0W9ftKU
#changemakers #RightLivelihood #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Award shines a light on Myanmar people’s struggle to dismantle the military cartel.
Press Release 👉🏽 buff.ly/glncPoQ
Right Livelihood Award announcement 👉🏽 buff.ly/0W9ftKU
#changemakers #RightLivelihood #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Govt takes a billion in revenue each year in dividends and tax from the electricity sector. This is a regressive form of taxation that causes factories to collapse. Why cant we just tax capital gains like a grown up country
October 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Govt takes a billion in revenue each year in dividends and tax from the electricity sector. This is a regressive form of taxation that causes factories to collapse. Why cant we just tax capital gains like a grown up country
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Kicking off this weekend's event🧵with a win!
The #Airbusted campaign spearheaded by the
likes of @justiceformyanmar.org Info-Birmanie @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social & more has been a success! Airbus have divested from AVIC whose subsidiary provides planes & parts to the Junta in Myanmar.
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The #Airbusted campaign spearheaded by the
likes of @justiceformyanmar.org Info-Birmanie @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social & more has been a success! Airbus have divested from AVIC whose subsidiary provides planes & parts to the Junta in Myanmar.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Kicking off this weekend's event🧵with a win!
The #Airbusted campaign spearheaded by the
likes of @justiceformyanmar.org Info-Birmanie @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social & more has been a success! Airbus have divested from AVIC whose subsidiary provides planes & parts to the Junta in Myanmar.
1/
The #Airbusted campaign spearheaded by the
likes of @justiceformyanmar.org Info-Birmanie @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social & more has been a success! Airbus have divested from AVIC whose subsidiary provides planes & parts to the Junta in Myanmar.
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For decades, we've been told that governments must cut corporate tax to create jobs
Now the data is in: there is no evidence that lower corporate taxes lead to job creation & tax dodging suppresses wages
Read more via @psiglobalunion.bsky.social 👉 publicservices.international/resources/di...
Now the data is in: there is no evidence that lower corporate taxes lead to job creation & tax dodging suppresses wages
Read more via @psiglobalunion.bsky.social 👉 publicservices.international/resources/di...
Tax Brief – Corporate Taxes vs Jobs? Busting the myths
Public Services International is a Global Union Federation of more than 700 trade unions representing 30 million workers in 154 countries. We bring their voices to the UN, ILO, WHO and other regional ...
publicservices.international
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
For decades, we've been told that governments must cut corporate tax to create jobs
Now the data is in: there is no evidence that lower corporate taxes lead to job creation & tax dodging suppresses wages
Read more via @psiglobalunion.bsky.social 👉 publicservices.international/resources/di...
Now the data is in: there is no evidence that lower corporate taxes lead to job creation & tax dodging suppresses wages
Read more via @psiglobalunion.bsky.social 👉 publicservices.international/resources/di...
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Predatory finance is taking over Asia Pacific. CICTAR researcher Ed Miller @labourcartel.bsky.social joins our friends at @grain.org to discuss how workers, food & public services are at risk and how we fight back
📅 22 May
🕑12h30 Delhi/14h Jakarta/17h Sydney
✅Register here: grain.org/e/7270
📅 22 May
🕑12h30 Delhi/14h Jakarta/17h Sydney
✅Register here: grain.org/e/7270
May 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Predatory finance is taking over Asia Pacific. CICTAR researcher Ed Miller @labourcartel.bsky.social joins our friends at @grain.org to discuss how workers, food & public services are at risk and how we fight back
📅 22 May
🕑12h30 Delhi/14h Jakarta/17h Sydney
✅Register here: grain.org/e/7270
📅 22 May
🕑12h30 Delhi/14h Jakarta/17h Sydney
✅Register here: grain.org/e/7270
Why did the government send Sam Uffindell and Hamish two-by-twos Campbell on the ACA educational tour to Australia to see what a properly funded aged care sector looks like, knowing they were planning to pull the pin on pay equity the next week? open.substack.com/pub/labourca...
Detonating pay equity leaves workers footing the bill
Nicola Willis' state surrender from pay equity not only damages the quality of public services, but will also damage the government's future electability.
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Why did the government send Sam Uffindell and Hamish two-by-twos Campbell on the ACA educational tour to Australia to see what a properly funded aged care sector looks like, knowing they were planning to pull the pin on pay equity the next week? open.substack.com/pub/labourca...
Hooton backing in his old workmate's industrial-scale pay equity wealth transfer. A $17 billion saving would have more than funded last year's $14 billion tax relief programme, which disproportionately benefited the rich. Seymour said this "saved" the budget. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
May 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hooton backing in his old workmate's industrial-scale pay equity wealth transfer. A $17 billion saving would have more than funded last year's $14 billion tax relief programme, which disproportionately benefited the rich. Seymour said this "saved" the budget. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
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The noose continues to tighten around the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) after new sanctions. Who powered the cyber scam industry tied to the militia leader Chit Thu & the criminal Karen BGF? Discover more on the growth of border crime with satellite analysis👇🏽
Who powered the expansion of cyber scams in Myawaddy? | Justice For Myanmar
An examination of developments since Thailand's 2023 power cuts to cyber scam compounds shows that the compounds actually expanded. Thailand's current crackdown on cyber scams in Myawaddy Township…
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May 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The noose continues to tighten around the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) after new sanctions. Who powered the cyber scam industry tied to the militia leader Chit Thu & the criminal Karen BGF? Discover more on the growth of border crime with satellite analysis👇🏽
Bupa likely receives tens of millions in Health NZ per year. Our new report suggests it may have used related party transactions to reduce taxable income by $150.6m in the past decade and paid an effective tax rate of just 4 percent over that period.
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Is residential aged care giant Bupa skimping on tax?
Aged care funding is stretched, so residential aged care providers should be more transparent about their government funding, a new report says.
www.thepost.co.nz
May 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Bupa likely receives tens of millions in Health NZ per year. Our new report suggests it may have used related party transactions to reduce taxable income by $150.6m in the past decade and paid an effective tax rate of just 4 percent over that period.
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
CTUM union offices in liberated areas of Myanmar were bombed last night by junta jet fighter rocket attacks. Luckily nobody hurt but shows the madness of the regime. Farmers union (AFFM) also targeted.
Who is still selling the junta jet fuel??? @justiceformyanmar.org
Who is still selling the junta jet fuel??? @justiceformyanmar.org
April 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
CTUM union offices in liberated areas of Myanmar were bombed last night by junta jet fighter rocket attacks. Luckily nobody hurt but shows the madness of the regime. Farmers union (AFFM) also targeted.
Who is still selling the junta jet fuel??? @justiceformyanmar.org
Who is still selling the junta jet fuel??? @justiceformyanmar.org
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#nzpol The first episode of Locked Out with Craig Renney is…unlocked! I sat down with @labourcartel.bsky.social to talk about energy markets and missing data from the government www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBW9...
Ep01 Ed Miller on electricity margins and missing data
YouTube video by DOC Studios
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April 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#nzpol The first episode of Locked Out with Craig Renney is…unlocked! I sat down with @labourcartel.bsky.social to talk about energy markets and missing data from the government www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBW9...
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A National Party MP is part of a religious group embroiled in alleged child abuse being investigated in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA.
www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/08/n...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/08/n...
National MP part of secretive religious sect
The group has no official name but has been dubbed the ‘Two By Two’ or ‘The Truth’.
www.1news.co.nz
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A National Party MP is part of a religious group embroiled in alleged child abuse being investigated in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA.
www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/08/n...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/08/n...
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In this week's podcast, getting ready for tax year end - what needs to be done by 31st March; lessons from the largest known GST fraudster; corporate tax cuts what does the public think while @clrenney.bsky.social & @labourcartel.bsky.social look at who benefits
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Getting ready for tax year end, lessons from the largest known GST fraud and potential corporate tax cuts
This week, get ready for tax year end - what needs to be done by 31st March, lessons from the largest known GST fraudster – could it happen again and corporate tax cuts – who benefits and what does t
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March 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
In this week's podcast, getting ready for tax year end - what needs to be done by 31st March; lessons from the largest known GST fraudster; corporate tax cuts what does the public think while @clrenney.bsky.social & @labourcartel.bsky.social look at who benefits
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The US is pressuring Australia to pay $500M to NuCoal Resources over a canceled mining license. Joe Hockey, now lobbying for NuCoal, is pushing this claim amid ongoing tariff wars. aftinet.org.au/joe-hockey-l...
March 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The US is pressuring Australia to pay $500M to NuCoal Resources over a canceled mining license. Joe Hockey, now lobbying for NuCoal, is pushing this claim amid ongoing tariff wars. aftinet.org.au/joe-hockey-l...
13 seconds faster per km on the Parihaka hill track (up Goetzee track and down Dobbie track)!!!
March 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
13 seconds faster per km on the Parihaka hill track (up Goetzee track and down Dobbie track)!!!
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Australia's coal mines systematically and massively under-report methane dumping, resulting in wild under-statement of harms
New @ember-energy.org report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
+ new UN study that used planes to monitor Glencore's mines:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New @ember-energy.org report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
+ new UN study that used planes to monitor Glencore's mines:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Glencore Mine Spews More Methane Than It Reports, Study Finds
Glencore Plc’s Hail Creek coal mine in Australia emits between three and eight times more methane than it reports, according to a new study, calling into question the accuracy of conventional approach...
www.bloomberg.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Australia's coal mines systematically and massively under-report methane dumping, resulting in wild under-statement of harms
New @ember-energy.org report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
+ new UN study that used planes to monitor Glencore's mines:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New @ember-energy.org report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
+ new UN study that used planes to monitor Glencore's mines:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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What should NZers know about Brookfield? ✒️
New syndicated article from @labourcartel.bsky.social about the investors at the Infrastructure Investment Forum over the next two days
New syndicated article from @labourcartel.bsky.social about the investors at the Infrastructure Investment Forum over the next two days
What should NZers know about Brookfield? — 1/200
This week a coterie of Chrises (PM Luxon, Infrastructure Minister Bishop and presumably Building Minister Penk) will be welcoming some big name investors, pension funds, and construction companies to ...
www.1of200.nz
March 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What should NZers know about Brookfield? ✒️
New syndicated article from @labourcartel.bsky.social about the investors at the Infrastructure Investment Forum over the next two days
New syndicated article from @labourcartel.bsky.social about the investors at the Infrastructure Investment Forum over the next two days
This a very cute picture of a Pygmy hippo. Unfortunately this hippo is scam. You’ll have to read the article to find out why though.
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What should NZers know about Brookfield?
The biggest investor announced for this week's Infrastructure Investment Forum has a history of questionable tax practices that NZers should be aware of...
open.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This a very cute picture of a Pygmy hippo. Unfortunately this hippo is scam. You’ll have to read the article to find out why though.
open.substack.com/pub/labourca...
open.substack.com/pub/labourca...
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Our latest report finds that Starbucks seems to have used its ‘ethical sourcing’ programme for coffee beans to route $1.3bn of profits through Switzerland, likely substantially reducing its tax bill cictar.org/all-research...
Starbucks’ Swiss Scheme: ‘Fair’ Trading or Global Tax Dodge? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Report reveals $1.3 billion Starbucks profit diverted to Swiss subsidiary over the last decade. 99% of all the corporation's coffee is transferred, on paper, through Switzerland, despite most of it ne...
cictar.org
March 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Our latest report finds that Starbucks seems to have used its ‘ethical sourcing’ programme for coffee beans to route $1.3bn of profits through Switzerland, likely substantially reducing its tax bill cictar.org/all-research...
Privatisation’s profits are a tax on households and businesses. My latest here: open.substack.com/pub/labourca...
Government doesn't exist to extract a return from its people
Act have adopted the New Zealand Initiative's privatisation arguments. In doing so, they may be advocating for higher costs on households and businesses.
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Privatisation’s profits are a tax on households and businesses. My latest here: open.substack.com/pub/labourca...
When we accused gentailers of excessive dividends and underinvestment in 2022, Mike Fuge retorted. Now it’s 2025 and Fuge says underinvestment is causing price increases…
February 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
When we accused gentailers of excessive dividends and underinvestment in 2022, Mike Fuge retorted. Now it’s 2025 and Fuge says underinvestment is causing price increases…