Thursday, September 25, 2025

The Big Gas Con – how fossil fuel giants are cheating Australia’s emissions system

by Callum Foote | May 15, 2022 | An unholy alliance of carbon farmers and Big Gas lobbyists are quietly shaping Australia’s emissions reduction framework to maximise their take of taxpayer money while increasing emissions...

Lobbyland: The scourge of powerful special interests and lobbyists

By John Menadue This article was first published on October 29, 2020.A major reason for the loss of trust in governments and parliaments is the way powerful special interests with their lobbyists have come to...

Honest Government Ad | Economic Recovery

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Three years on from Uluru, we must lift the blindfolds of liberalism to make progress

Three years on from Uluru, we must lift the blindfolds of liberalism to make progress Stan Grant, Charles Sturt University The Uluru Statement from the Heart offered a new compact with all Australians that would reset...

Newscorp runs Government

Regulators expect Google and Facebook to sue the Government over a looming “mates-deal” to protect Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Nine Entertainment from competition. Taxpayers will be on the hook. Quentin Dempster reports on...

Tax rorters 2017-2018 Groundhog Day

Alan Joyce CEO of Qantas has a take home salary of A$24,500,000 which turns out to be more than double the $10,955,067 tax Qantas begrudgingly paid to Australia. Effectively taxpayers have underwritten - kicked...

‘Bushfire brandalism’: Australian artists replace bus shelter ads with political posters

“Bushfire Brandalism” Pedestrians in some suburbs of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane would have walked straight past activist artists (vandals, some critics might call them) removing advertising from bus shelters and inserting artwork protesting the Morrison...

Lobbyists, Influencers and self interest. Welcome to Scott Morrison’s informed world

'Brutal': Marcia Langton, early backer of welfare card, savages its roll out One of the few Indigenous community leaders who backed the cashless welfare card in its infancy has changed her mind, accusing the government...

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