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Pay the (colonial) rent?

BIASED HISTORY
Internationally-acclaimed Indigenous artist Richard Bell’s latest ‘Pay the rent!’ installation at the Tate Modern in London goes to the heart of some of the intractable problems of Australian white settlement.The notion that rent is owed challenges the legitimacy of the claim by the British crown to own Australia, since...
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The Sixth Estate: The shadow government plundering the public purse

FUA AWARDS
What is the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th estate? The first estate was the clergy, the second estate was the nobility, the third estate was the commoners and bourgeois, and the fourth estate was the press. The first three estates were established in the French Revolution, while the fourth estate...
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Sofronoff endorses the status quo on rape cases

LOBBYIST
Recently we have heard the alleged victim in the Bruce Lehrmann case discuss how she felt herself, in effect, defiled again by her treatment by the justice system. Nothing Walter Sofronoff has written in his inquiry into the case could cheer her. Nor would it engender any confidence in...
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Breaking up the Big Four is the only solution

POLITICS
The Big Four’s behaviour is a global issue of concern. They cannot be relied upon to regulate themselves, so the only way to solve it is to break them apart. The Australian government has so far failed to deliver on legislation that would bring the most significant breakthrough to date...
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Private profit vs Government for the people

LOBBYIST
The Big Four auditing firms work with nearly every single major company on the planet. At the same time, they work extensively with our governments advising them on how to develop laws and policies.The 1980s, which led to previously unthinkable wealth, had a counterweight. Much of the work to...
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The chaos of the Lehrmann trial demolishes another reputation

POLITICS
It’s no profound insight that for several months the bête noire of The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen has been outgoing ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC. In recent days alone, she’s vaulted to the Churchillian, warning of the gathering of a “dark cloud” should the ACT government turn a “blind eye” to what, in her view, constitutes...
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Oligarchs of the Treasure Islands: Pwc,KPMG, Deloitte,EY

FUA AWARDS
Newly compiled data reveals Defence has spent nearly $4 billion on large consulting firms over the past decade, more than all other Australian government departments combined. Although presenting as “the guardians of commerce” they are unregulated and unaccountable; they have infiltrated governments at every level and should be broken up. This...
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Bentleys, brown paper bags and bundles: Newcastle again. Politics 101

FUA AWARDS
While Crakanthorp has said the (landholdings and property declarations) “omissions” were discovered as a result of his “self-reporting”, the premier seemed to refute that. On Thursday news media reported that Crakanthorp’s chief of staff, Elliott Stein, reported the issue to the premier after raising repeated concerns with the MP. Bentleys,...
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Morrison is a symptom, not the cause, of the decline in Australian politics

FUA AWARDS
In focusing on Scott Morrison’s shocking record in government, and/or on his pathetic and self-pitying response to Commissioner Holmes’ Robodebt report, we must not lose sight of the fact that Morrison is symptomatic of a great deal of what is so terribly wrong in contemporary Australian politics. He is...
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The gospel of Scott Morrison is his most poisonous legacy

FUA AWARDS
Maeve McGregor asserts that even with the long march of time, Scott Morrison’s compulsion for lying and utter shamelessness remains both unmoved and spectacularly obvious; there’s simply no escaping the poverty of the man’s essence. And so it was unsurprising to watch the former prime minister emerge, embittered and self-consumed, from the...
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