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Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it

ECONOMY
Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute; Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute, and Iris Chan, Grattan Institute No one likes spending cuts and tax hikes, but on our estimate the government will soon need more of them if they...
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Retired US admirals charging Australian taxpayers thousands of dollars per day as defence consultants

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A cavalcade of retired senior American military officers have landed high-paying advisory contracts with Australia's Department of Defence, with one former Admiral paid $US5,000 ($7,560) a day for his expertise. The ABC reveals one of America's top spies worked for an Australian intelligence agency a year after resigning as US...
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Lachlan Murdoch’s decision to drop the Crikey defamation suit atones for the misjudgment of suing in the first place

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Discontinuation of defamation proceedings was no less remarkable than the decision to sue the minnow publisher Lachlan Murdoch’s federal court defamation action against Private Media Pty Ltd, publisher of Crikey, was never likely to end well. His decision on Friday morning to discontinue the proceedings was, nonetheless, stunning. Murdoch is the...
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AUKUS submarines “nation building” says Admiral. No they’re not, says Rex Patrick

POLITICS
I just want a Ferrari, sorry, a nuclear submarine, no matter the cost Image by Alan Moir (alanmoir.com.au) Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just committed Australia to spending $368 billion on somewhere between three and five second-hand US Virginia Class submarines, and a follow on build of eight next generation British...
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Dutton refuses to identify ‘Elders’ he met over the Voice

BIASED HISTORY
Peter Dutton won’t say what her name is. He won’t say where he spoke to her. All he will say is that she is an “Aunty” whom he met “recently at a function”. This vague description is still the most detail Dutton has given about the unnamed Indigenous figures he says have...
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The Indigenous No campaign is not Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine

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The No campaign fronted by prominent Black conservatives reeks of hypocrisy and self-interest — and drowns out other opposition. Just as we expected, the mainstream media has equated the No campaign with Indigenous conservatives like Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and former ALP national president Warren Mundine. Mundine in particular fronted an...
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Best Bullshit Thanks Jim Chalmers

COAL
As the fossil fuel spin merchants freed Jim Chalmers the crap that ensures he continues Australia's unique Tax Free Club for Coal, Gas and Oil exporters in readiness for the Budget brief. We would like you to be - maybe - just a little better prepared - to compare...
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Shorten reboot to put NDIS back ‘on the right track’

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The crap that just keeps giving. The NDIS is a  broken warped system with absolutely no transparency. This one off - dead simple - immediate fix will bring instantaneous transparency, accountability, and real time effectiveness to the entire NDIS. Make totally public to "the recipient only" the entire package amount by way of a...
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Alice Springs shows why the media struggles to fact-check moral panic

BIASED HISTORY
Bad-faith actors are going to act in bad faith. As the Alice Springs saga has shown, Australian media needs to get better at recognising this. As the breathless amplification of Dutton’s unsubstantiated claims in Alice Springs last week showed, Australian news media still has a long way to go in...
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Alice Springs sexual assault lies and distortions

BIASED HISTORY
Did anyone watch insiders and boofhead give huge time to misinformation Price and then compound the lies with a useless graph that said not much and then boofhead added his spin. WTF It took me all of 10 minutes to find the Northern Territory crime stats https://pfes.nt.gov.au/.../community.../nt-crime-statistics which emphatically...
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