Billionaire Roosters chairman Nick Politis sold private car dealerships to ASX-listed Eagers last year. Now, the company's stock is done 30 per cent, and Politis is gobbling up shares. Buy low. Sell high. Simple stuff.

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Great column from Myriam Robin on the farcical situation at Australia’s largest university, where the chancellorship has gone from one Rio Tinto board director to another, both who failed in the Juukan Gorge blow up.

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How to save a loyalty tax: the quiet campaign to kill a bill that would let customers tell a telco, bank or energy company to switch their accounts for them

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Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry theguardian.com/world/article/…

Yikes

.Kate McClymont on what Wick was like to work with, and more on this week’s headlines smh.com.au/national/forme…

Today's column on the Pharmacy Guild's successful campaign to end pharmaceutical discounting afr.com/rear-window/ph…

ANALYSIS: Lendlease’s tax dispute could cost it at least $112m, but whistleblower Anthony Watson has lost his job, battled depression and is about to sell his family home. afr.com/policy/tax-and…

Elders shareholders voted against giving the CEO $1m worth of free shares so Elders' board has given him the balance in cash instead

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Melbourne's prestige Athenaeum Club opened its drawing room to 'lady guests' after overseas clubs with reciprocal arrangements got pissed their female members couldn't use the facilities.

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— Myriam Robin on the party Kevin Rudd threw for Scott Morrison’s book launch in Washington with ex Trump officials aplenty.

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amazing things are happening in the conservative boot space

As someone who spends a lot of time looking up lists of 'how many homes does your MP own', I just want to say to all the politicians with a single dwelling - I see you and I appreciate you ✊

When the bloke from Sydney arrives in Perth to buy a house for half the price

Read it and weep

The deal by which federal taxpayers provide extra funding to the nation's strongest state economy - WA - was last officially costed at $39.2 bn

Treasury just updated that estimate to $52.9 bn - higher than the $50 bn that Saul Eslake and I had each

Whose boots really rule Canberra? And other frivolities from yesterday afr.com/rear-window/ji…

Our first take on Budget day: The return of the Mike.

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And if anyone wondered: no we are not in the lockup because our job is froth and bubbles only today

The Govt's tax on super balances over $3m should apply to pensions, right? Equalising rules have been left to ministerial edict, which means Finance Minister Stephen Jones is now in charge of Anthony Albanese' pension taxes afr.com/rear-window/pm…

Here's a story about how Sportsbet used a shell company to shield its involvement in the NRL's tipping competition, which skirted regulations and bombarded users with gambling ads. Then, the jackpot was won by an excluded gambler.

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