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Developments in AI have made fraud and counterfeiting easier, raising the need for tougher fraud detection systems.
Keeping an eye out for where you can boost your savings or reduce expenses when times are tough can improve your financial wellbeing.
Understanding why people underpredict expenses could help them budget more accurately – and even encourage them to save more money.
The Electoral Commission says there are “reasonable grounds to suspect an offence or offences may have occurred”.
Malcolm Turnbull has announced major changes to the parliamentary entitlements system, modelled on the UK’s system of vetting MPs’ expenses.
Voters are fed up with political scandals consuming time and energy, especially when the country is facing several social and economic challenges.
It is unclear whether stood-aside minister Sussan Ley has breached the ministerial standards over her travel expenses. And the rules on claiming entitlements are unclear and very complex.
During the UK’s parliamentary expenses scandal, many questioned the system as – just like Bronwyn Bishop in Australia now – they felt that they had acted within the rules that existed at the time.
Multi-millionaire Adam Afriyie think he’s worth a lot more than you pay him.
The former culture secretary, Maria Miller, is the latest in a series of MPs to have been caught up in an expenses controversy. The issue of what parliamentarians do with their allowances has now embarrassed…
The news that Maria Miller decided to resign as culture secretary was not really much of a surprise. The only real surprise was the way that she had seemed to be toughing out the media feeding frenzy and…
Maria Miller has resigned as Culture secretary. Until today, she was one of the most powerful women in the Conservative Party; she has been described as “efficient and low-key”, and rapidly climbed the…
Federal politicians can rack up relatively large bills in going about their day-to-day duties. In the last six months of 2012, Julia Gillard had allowances totalling A$647,000 – that’s nearly three…












