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The day the international tax authorities came knocking – 18 October 2020
Operation Atlantis is examining the financial transactions of Euro Pacific’s customers where hundreds of account holders are now suspects in a tax evasion probe. Australian account holders include Sydney businessman Simon Anquetil and Darby Angel, a Hollywood film financier with a drug-trafficking conviction.
Townsville police fear reputational damage after person loses $10k to scammer impersonating officers – 17 October 2020
Townsville police are warning residents about scammers impersonating the ATO and local officers. People are threatened with being arrested if they don’t hand over money, for what are ‘fake’ debts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-16/scammers-impersonate-townsville-police/12776286
Being monitored by your boss while working from home – necessary trade-off or ‘stupid’ surveillance? – 16 October 2020
With many people working from home, some companies are using time tracking software or surveillance technology to check in on what workers are doing. This runs the risks that other personal information is gathered and this type of surveillance does not show the entire picture of work completed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-16/work-from-home-tracking-software-monitoring/12766020
WA Labor accused of cover-up over botched Huawei contract, but reveals details of ‘closed tender’ – 16 October 2020
WA Labor has been accused of a cover-up after budget papers revealed it would go to a “closed tender” to fix a failed $206 million contract with controversial Chinese telco Huawei, to build a mobile data network for Perth’s public train system.
