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'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins
'You'll be shocked at how far the Mates have their hand in your pocket.' - Nicholas Gruen
Australia has become one of the most unequal societies in the Western world, when just a generation ago it was one of the most equal. This is the story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, robbing ordinary Australians.
Every hour you work, thirty minutes of it goes to line the Mates' pockets rather than your own. Mates in big corporations, industry groups, government departments, the halls of parliament and the media skew the system to suit each other. Corporations dodge taxes, so you pay more. You pay more for your house and higher interest rates on your mortgage, more for your medicines and transport, and more for your children's education and insurance, because the Mates take a cut.
Rigged uncovers the pattern of political favours, grey gifts and information-sharing that has been allowed to build up over two decades. Drawing on extensive economic research, it exposes the Game of Mates as nothing less than cronyism on a grand scale across Australia and how we have fallen behind other countries in combating it.
Contents
Preface
1 A loathsome tale
2 The Great Property Development Game
3 The Great Transportation Game
4 Grey Gifts
5 The Great Superannuation Game
6 Mates
7 The Great Mining Game
8 Burning money
9 The Great Banking Game
10 A cloak of myths
11 Other Games, other Mates
12 Consequences of the Game of Mates
13 How much does the Game bleed you?
14 Rise up, Sam
15 Covid Games
Appendix
Historical snapshot of mining industry staff rotation
References
Acknowledgements
Notes
