ADANI
PwC and the Adani mine triple dip. A conflict of interest?...
A humble footnote on page 30 of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility’s 2016-17 annual report reads: “PwC supported NAIF in the development of its...
You pay millions for these imbeciles to encourage conspiracy theories and...
We get so used to the bonkers shit that goes on in the Australian Senate that it starts to seem unremarkable. Frustrating, exasperating, eye-rolling,...
Barangaroo is rubbish and now its wretched offspring are spawning across...
Philip Thalis asserts thatBarangaroo is a symbol of squandered opportunities to make a better Sydney. I was part of the winning team – Hill...
Australia’s biggest gambling operators be warned – media pack is baying...
Often enough, a single news organisation will crack an important story or begin a worthy crusade and the rest of the media ignore it...
A troubling environment
Our environment is in deep trouble. We are all suffering as a result. Elected officials at all levels behave as if tackling the problem...
The professional classes make billion-dollar tax rorts possible
“The key lesson from WA Inc was that the shonks, crooks, spivs and conmen only really thrive with the assistance of the professional classes –...
Ministers’ diaries: taxpayers deserve transparency on what MPs are doing
The states that already allow their citizens to have some idea of what their highly paid ministers are doing are extending that transparency, yet...
When is a secret meeting for lobbying not a secret meeting?
Ed Straw and Ray Ison write in Pearls and Irritations ICAC urges ban on secret meetings with lobbyists. In other words, ICAC practitioners imagine a...
Energy prices leave few winners — while the rest of us...
Bernard Keane writes in The GuardianSeveral long-term trends are now intersecting in a way that is going to deepen economic divisions in Australia, as...
How Nationals and lobbyists play the new climate wars
By The SaturdayPaper's
Marian Wilkinson
Young and with a ready smile, James Thomson appears an unlikely foot soldier in the new climate wars. But the Maitland...
Annabell Crab mussings
Western democracy was so much easier 300 years ago, when it was illegal for journalists to report the goings-on in Parliament.
In those days, politicians...
The Trickle-up Conspiracy
“Try as I might, I cannot pinpoint the exact moment or instance, when the world’s conservative parties shifted from extolling tradition and practising good...
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