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Deaths inside

BIASED HISTORY
The staggering omission that led to Deaths Inside, the tally tracking Indigenous deaths in custody As usual I had been following links and just generally researching by digging through published articles .  These facts emerged. Just as previously there was no actual database for indigenous genocide there has never been a...
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Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with the PM’s help

FUA AWARDS
Rex Patrick writes in Michael West mediaKathryn Campbell AO CSC was not liked by Labor senators. The Senate inquired into Centrelink’s Compliance Program (“RoboDebt”) from September 2019 to May 2022, and whilst senators didn’t penetrate Minister Stuart Robert’s improper public interest immunity shield preventing fulsome evidence being available to...
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Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll, must pay her $5 million, jury says

BUSINESS
NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday. "Today, the world finally knows the truth," Carroll said in a...
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Federal budget 2023: The winners and losers in Treasurer’s cost-of-living budget

ECONOMY
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pledged billions in new spending to help lower income families navigate the cost-of-living crisis as he handed down his second budget on Tuesday night. Long-awaited healthcare reforms were also unveiled as Dr Chalmers sought to begin fixing Australia’s struggling public healthcare system. Winners included the public broadcasters,...
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Robodebt Cancer – has our public service become the secret service?

ECONOMY
When ‘self-ambition’ cells in a senior public servant’s body grow and multiply, outflanking the ‘do public good’ cells, the diagnosis may be referred to as ‘Robodebt Cancer’; named after the malignant public service cancer discovered by the Robodebt Royal Commissioner. The recent release of National Cabinet minutes has further...
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Fake Reform: Jim Chalmers’ itsy-bitsy tax “hit” is a gift for foreign fossil fuel giants

ELECTIONS
Jim Chalmers’ long-awaited tweaks to the PRRT are the itsy-bitsyest “reforms” about, the equivalent of recycling old Christmas presents with a fancy new bow. Michael West reports on how the Treasurer is merely returning a couple of billion in gas sector subsidies, and only for a while. “Chalmers slaps $2.4bn...
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Scott Morrison’s dodgy grants

ECONOMY
“The democratic process is not using public money for party political purposes. That’s not democracy,” Anne Twomey, professor emerita of constitutional law at the University of Sydney, shot back Nationals Senator Canavan: “That’s a different issue.” The congestion fund was only one of a number of programs under which the previous...
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget – our take

FUA AWARDS
Energy price relief plan Labor promised during the election campaign that energy bills would be reduced by $275 each year for each home by 2025. So far that hasn’t happened, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has brought up the “broken promise” as often as he can. When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
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The ‘No’ campaign bid to ‘create confusion’

BIASED HISTORY
A moment of confusion disrupted the final day of the parliamentary inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum this week. Former prime minister Tony Abbott, who once held the shadow Indigenous Affairs portfolio, and then incorporated it into his own department as prime minister, had requested...
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Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule?

ECONOMY
Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An expert on the energy crisis engulfing Australia Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University Australia’s east coast has been plunged into an energy crisis just as winter takes hold, which will see many people struggle to heat their homes due to...
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