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The Saturday Briefing
The alleged Plutus payroll scam is already the biggest of its kind in Australian history. Some $165 million was allegedly siphoned off shelf companies set up to provide payroll tax services. The operation had continued for at least a year without intervention from labour hire companies or government bureaucracy, until senator Doug Cameron responded to a complaint from an unpaid contractor.
“If I, on the basis of some complaints to my office, can find out within a couple of days that there’s a web of companies hanging under Plutus that stink,” Cameron tells Mike Seccombe, “what due diligence was being done within government?”
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on the budget shadow boxing, and Martin McKenzie-Murray on the Lindt siege inquest.
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