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Money And Clout
Thursday October 29, 1998
While the Commonwealth Bank's chief has been in damage-control mode for most of this week, IAN VERRENDER reports that public discontent with the industry has been bubbling under the surface for almost a decade. IN TERMS of a quick soundbite, it was right on the mark. Blanket coverage on radio, Ato Eyes 'product' Schemes
Wednesday October 14, 1998
THE recent crackdown by the Tax Office on a large tea-tree, tax-deductible investment scheme called Budplan highlights the risks faced by investors who rush into schemes to obtain a quick tax fix and find themselves in another fix later on when the rules are amended. For two years now, the ATO hImpossible M Ission F Inance
Saturday October 10, 1998
While the people who control the big money dicker about what to do, the world's poor continue to get poorer, reports JENNIFER HEWETT. THE news from the International Monetary Fund is not encouraging for anyone hoping for quick fixes to the global contagion. The most substantive outcome of the a


