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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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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

FUA AWARDS
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

FUA AWARDS
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

BIASED HISTORY
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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