[Link] Government blocks bid to investigate Christian Porter over legal fee donation

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The Coalition has blocked a bid to have former attorney-general Christian Porter investigated over his financial disclosures, despite the Speaker of the House having argued there was a case for further scrutiny.

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[Link] How South Dakota became a global tax haven

Read: 12/10/2021 www.axios.com

South Dakota has become the world's foremost tax haven — right up there with the Cayman Islands, and ahead of old-fashioned locations like Switzerland. That's one of the clear messages from the Pandora Papers leak of confidential financial information about the world's richest individuals.

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