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Scott Morrison should resign

POLITICS
The weak explanations and defences offered by Morrison and his ministers have raised the general expectation that they should be pursued further. Morrison should hang his head in shame and do the right thing by resigning from parliament. The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has identified appalling dishonesty and...
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Behavioural ‘experts’ quietly shaped robodebt’s most devilish details– and their work in government continues

ECONOMY
Behavioural ‘experts’ quietly shaped robodebt’s most devilish details – and their work in government continues Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University One of the things still worrying me about robodebt was the attention to detail. By that, I am not referring to the crude system by which hundreds...
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Big four gouged $10b over a decade and kept taxpayers in the dark

BUSINESS
The numbers are staggering. In the past decade Australia's state and federal governments have forked out more than $10 billion on the big four accounting firms — money that could have paid for 200 schools, 10 or more prisons, four world-class hospitals or a third of the annual Medicare...
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John Hewson asserts that Scott Morrison should resign

POLITICS
The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has identified appalling dishonesty and lapses in government processes that had serious consequences for the innocent, and their families, who were hounded for non-payment of fictitious “debts”. The final report clearly documented the poor performance of several government ministers and senior public...
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Our political swamp will not be cleansed by the disgracing of Morrison

POLITICS
There is a danger in the ongoing humiliation of Scott Morrison that he becomes a convenient fall guy for a wider system failure. Morrison’s conduct in office, and his subsequent refusal to accept the conclusions of a library shelf of damning reports into his misuse of power, is an extreme...
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Buckle up: The federal Jan. 6 indictment might be around the corner

POLITICS
Special counsel Jack Smith in Washington on June 9. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Special counsel Jack Smith has been toiling away for months, calling witnesses before grand juries and litigating against claims of privilege in his investigation of twice-indicted former president Donald Trump. Given the accelerated pace of...
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How to make sure RoboDebt could never happen again: ditch Westminster, embrace the republic

POLITICS
In RoboDebt’s wake, our very system of government needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt. Rex Patrick argues it is time for a republican model, for separation of powers. Our system of Federal government has three arms; the legislature (the House and the Senate), the executive (the Prime Minister, ministers and...
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The ‘dole-bludger’ myth can die now — the real cheats were highly paid public servants

POLITICS
Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, a book drummed into a generation of sociology students, begins with a long description of a public execution in Paris in 1757. Such public celebrations of torture were fading, he thought, replaced by the cold, clipped hand of bureaucracy. Instead of public executions, the...
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Robodebt royal commission has handed down 57 recommendations to improve the government and public service.

POLITICS
Robodebt royal commission recommends prosecutions, reform and an end to arbitrary cabinet secrecy The robodebt royal commission has suggested individuals be referred for prosecution, alongside dozens of recommendations for the public service and federal government to clean up its act. “I am confident that the commission has served the purpose of...
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Seven public servants criticised in robodebt report as agencies consider response

POLITICS
Seven public servants criticised in robodebt report as agencies consider response. Robodebt royal commissioner Catherine Holmes found that public servants had misled cabinet, and misled the commonwealth ombudsman. At least seven public servants (Mark Withnell,former general manager of business integrity at the DHS,Malisa Golightly, the former deputy secretary of DHS,Annette...
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