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It can be a battle to get information from the Albanese government

POLITICS
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...
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Peter Dutton and the right assume the majority of Australians are racist bigots

BIASED HISTORY
An ugly gambit lies at the heart of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s stance on the Voice to Parliament, and that is his assumption that most Australians are boorish, racist bigots so unmoored from reality that any conception of common humanity naturally eludes them. Dutton obviously doesn’t imply so much in...
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Millions skimmed off government welfare contracts

ECONOMY
Outsourced employment service providers are funnelling millions of dollars in government funding earmarked for people on welfare through their own companies, related entities and labour-hire outfits, creating paper empires out of their impoverished clients. Under the $6.3 billion, five-year Workforce Australia model, private and not-for-profit job service providers are able...
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We won’t fix inflation while economists stay in denial about causes

ECONOMY
Led on by crusading Reserve Bank governors, the nation’s economists are determined to protect us from the scourge of inflation, no matter the cost in jobs lost. But there’s a black hole in their thinking about the causes of inflation, only some of which must be stamped on. Others can...
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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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