Roundup: Taxation, climate change, giving money away

Tax breaks for wealthy criticised

More than a third of superannuation tax concessions, worth more than $10 billion, go to the top 5 per cent of income earners, the Treasury says.

Al Gore: clear proof that climate change causes extreme weather

Former US vice president tells Scottish green conference that evidence from floods in Pakistan and China is compelling.

Christmas comes early at the World Communion

In these hard times of austerity, with governments and churches across the Global North cutting their budgets right, left and centre, it’s exceptional to find a church organisation anxious to give money away. The World Communion of Reformed Churches is that exception.