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ICAC finding puts MPs on notice over misuse of public money

ELECTIONS
A New South Wales ICAC report finding that pork barrelling could be classed as corruption could put paid to a belief popular among some MPs that using public money for political purposes is normal practice, a leading expert says. The Independent Commission Against Corruption report finds that any minister seeking...
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Mutually assured corruption

ECONOMY
What is most curious about John Barilaro is the honesty of his politics. Not in the conventional sense of integrity or commitment to the people he represents, but in the way that the truth sometimes bubbles up out of him. Accused of pork-barrelling, he says: yes, of course, that’s...
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Footy, horses and the whiff of an affair: the Barilaro scandal is a NSW saga par excellence

ENTITLEMENTS
It’s now 40 days and counting since John Barilaro’s moment of glory turned toxic for the Perrottet government. The former NSW deputy premier’s get-the-fuck-out-of-here dream job has become a daily waking nightmare for the government and is leading — inexorably, one suspects — to the resignation of at least...
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Small government and free markets – ideology or greed?

BUSINESS
At a small event at the Productivity Commission last week, visiting Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz was talking about revolution. He said the free market and small government ideology that has had America and much of the world in its grip for 40 years is over. “This is a revolution....
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Divinely ordained neoliberalism: ex-PM’s mistrust of government is longstanding

ENTITLEMENTS
For a man who has devoted most of his life trying to get into government, Scott Morrison sure has a low opinion of them. After an unsuccessful career in tourism marketing, he moved from political party machine man to MP and, eventually, to the prime ministership. Now he says...
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Farewell to print — a billionaire plaything finally hits the wall

ECONOMY
The Australian printing and magazine business has been a plaything of various billionaires over the years, from the Murdochs to the Packers to Kerry Stokes and the lesser known Hannan family. Yesterday ASX-listed company Ovato, formerly known as PMP, threw in the towel, appointing FTI as administrators. It has been...
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Why is the government ignoring expert advice on Covid?

CORONAVIRUS
There is an old joke about the global search for a one-armed economist, because when asked for an opinion the answer is often, “on the one hand … and then on the other”. It is also said that if you laid all the economists in the world end to...
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Morrison’s Revelation: Australia has been living in a theocracy and we’re just waking up to it

ENTITLEMENTS
As the Liberal Party surveys the disaster of the 2022 election, it needs to read the sermon Scott Morrison delivered to Margaret Court’s church, Victory Life Centre, last Sunday and ensure that another Morrison can never again rise through the ranks to become parliamentary leader and prime minister. The reason?...
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This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health. The findings make grim reading

ENVIRONMENT
This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health. We present its grim findings Emma Johnston, University of Sydney; Ian Cresswell, UNSW Sydney, and Terri Janke, UNSW Sydney Climate change is exacerbating pressures on every Australian ecosystem and Australia now has more foreign plant species than native, according to...
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Ministers’ diaries: taxpayers deserve transparency on what MPs are doing

BUSINESS
The states that already allow their citizens to have some idea of what their highly paid ministers are doing are extending that transparency, yet resistance to meeting diaries continues elsewhere. Queensland and NSW have ministerial meeting diary requirements in place and have done so for some years — as has the...
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