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George Floyd’s killing capped years of violence, discrimination by Minneapolis police, DOJ says

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday issued a withering critique of Minneapolis police, alleging that they systematically discriminated against racial minorities, violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed. The report was the result of a sweeping two-year...
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Integrity watchdog unleashed

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In less than two weeks the new National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will be officially in operation – the long-awaited answer to a defining issue of the last federal election. The need for an integrity watchdog became pressing given the failure of the Morrison government to legislate such a body as...
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PwC and the Adani mine triple dip. A conflict of interest? Surely not

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A  humble footnote on page 30 of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility’s 2016-17 annual report reads: “PwC supported NAIF in the development of its Risk Management Framework.” NAIF was in the news in late 2016 because it had given “conditional approval” of a $1 billion loan to Adani for...
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Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story

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Grattan on Friday: Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Two women ended up in tears in the Senate this week, as the Higgins imbroglio exploded yet again and in the process claimed a scalp. But the scalp wasn’t that...
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Who needs PwC when consultancy work could be done more efficiently in-house?

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Who needs PwC when consultancy work could be done more efficiently in-house? Emmanuel Josserand, University of Technology Sydney The Senate inquiry into the PwC scandal has prompted the New South Wales Legislative Council to launch an inquiry into the NSW government’s use of management consulting services. While the PwC case highlights confidentiality...
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Political games and the exemplary punishment of Brittany Higgins

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I am message box. Click edit button to change this text. Even by the standards of Coalition-News Corp campaigns against Labor, the conspiracy theory about Brittany Higgins and her partner David Sharaz working with Labor to “weaponise” Higgins’ allegations of sexual assault in the office of then-defence minister Linda Reynolds...
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The Esther Foundation scandal: a stain that makes the Liberals unelectable

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A $4 million grant might be a mere blip in the scheme of things, but that tiny sum, pledged by Scott Morrison to a religious rehab centre, tells us all we need to know about the degradation of government under his leadership. It also tells us why the Liberal Party...
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Three ADF failures built the culture that enabled war crimes

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Last week Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his decision in the defamation case brought by retired Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith against several Australian media organisations. The judgement has reopened the wounds of a shameful period of Australian military history. Beginning with the Brereton report of 2020, and through to the BRS judgement last...
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Ben Roberts-Smith Australian War Memorial display

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It was Ben Roberts-Smith’s own roll of the dice that has labelled Australia’s most decorated living soldier a murderer and a bully.Go to Ben Roberts-Smith Questionnaire at bottom of this pageMadonna King asserts that Roberts-Smith wanted to refute those claims, published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and...
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Tax office accused of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ culture on PwC breach

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The agencies most involved in responding to professional services giant PwC’s misuse of government information are facing growing concerns about their handling of the breach, including the Australian Taxation Office’s insistence that it could not legally alert government. In senate budget estimates hearings this week, ATO commissioner Chris Jordan said...
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