Pulling the Charity Lever
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A six-all vote by Launceston City Council on a motion expressing opposition to a proposed pulp mill has irked Gunns, the Tasmanian logging company pushing the project.
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The Great Global Sceptic Swindle
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Martin Durkin, the director of the global warming sceptic film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, concedes that a graph he used of temperatures over the last thousand years ignores data from the last twenty years. In Durkin's film the endpoint of the graph, produced by a British academic back in the 1980's, is labelled "now".
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Breaking Up (In PR) Is Hard To Do
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Mark Penn, CEO of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller and chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, is back in the news.
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Future Freedom
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An Australian government agency has refused to release the results of market research on controversial labor de-regulation laws until after the next federal election.
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Reporting from Margaritaville
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The Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority recently held its first "fam," or familiarization tour, of the year, "wooing about 35 meeting and event planners, people in the tourism business, travel journalists and their guests." Included in the junket were "pina coladas and a lobster dinner overlooking Gardner's Basin ... and tickets to see Jimmy Buffett.
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Disclosure May Derail Doctors' Gravy Train
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Medicines Australia, the drug industry's peak lobby group, has lost a legal bid to protect member companies from being required to disclose details of hospitality they provide at "educational" events for doctors.
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Spin Doctor for Gates Foundation
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Earlier this year, the investments held by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in companies which had adverse health and environmental impacts were scrutinised by the Los Angeles Times. The foundation, which aims to improve health and reduce extreme poverty, said they would review their investment policy, but then subsequently retreated.
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Inquiry Into UK Lobbying Industry
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The U.K. Parliament's Public Administration Committee is set to launch an inquiry into the lobbying industry.
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The "Family Jewels" Show: The More Things Change...
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On June 25, the Central Intelligence Agency will declassify its "full 693-page file amassed on CIA's illegal activities by order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger in 1973 -- the so-called 'family jewels.'" The non-governmental research institute National Security Archive "separately obtained ...
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Legal Lifeline For Fleishman-Hillard's Overbilling Duo
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