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Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud

Pigsfly News is creating a cut through on the Donald Trump trial saga. We will help you understand what has been decided - that Trump has been found guilty of financial fraud and what is unfolding now. While part 1 is the intro it sets the stage as we unravel and simplify ...

Why is it a battle to get information from the Albanese government?

Grattan on Friday: It can be a battle to get information from the Albanese government Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Thank goodness for Senate committees. This week, they’ve proved, yet again, to be worth their weight in accountability gold. On Monday, at an inquiry into the cost of living, senators from both sides...

Trumps little piggies are coming home to roost

Judge Arthur Engoron to preside over a non-jury trial starting this Monday in Manhattan in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit. Judge Engoron, recent ruling in a phase of the case known as summary judgment, found that Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, defrauded banks, insurers...

The Mike Pezzullo scandal has damaged Australia

And a bit behind that is the extent he has played much of the press gallery. It is worth noting that the very fine Age exposure of “the Pez” came out of Melbourne, not Canberra, the work of Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie, not the journalists who were often up...

Pezzullo story points to serious issues in the Australian Public Service

Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service Andrew Podger, Australian National University The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about Robodebt from the...

Nine key lies told about the Voice to Parliament

“No” campaigners Kerrynne Liddle, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Michaelia Cash. The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and...

The astonishing lies of the no campaign burn like lurid rockets in our sky. We must not go saying no

I can’t believe this old line is running wild again. We have had land rights decisions (“They’re gonna take your house and barbecue pit, mate”); the Mabo decision (Again, “They’re gonna take, etc,”); followed by the Wik judgment of 1996 (“Mate, your swimming pool too!”); and now that crude...

Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands

Yam daisies on the left, cattle on the right. Cutting out the cattle, Kangatong/Eugene Von Guerard, 1856 , CC BY-SA Bill Gammage, Australian National University First Nations readers are advised this article contains references to colonial violence against First Nations people. In 1788 the First Fleet brought two bulls and four cows from...

Why The Voice will lead to better government decision-making

Olympic champion Cathy Freeman has called on “all Australians” to vote Yes for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament while declaring her support.The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to parliament will result in systemic and sustainable change in government decision-making and policy formulation affecting First Nations peoples. Here are...

John Farnham The Voice To Parliament Campagain

The Australian music legend John Farnham has lent his iconic song You’re the Voice to the referendum’s yes campaign, backing calls to insert an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution. You’re the Voice will soundtrack a new series of ads from the Uluru Dialogue to be released in a...