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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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The territory ahead of the states: ACT streaks to the fore on progressive policy

ECONOMY
To those who equate the ACT and federal governments as one and the same, it will come as a shock that, short of location-location, the two could not be further apart. The ACT government achieved two national firsts this week with the opening of a fixed pill-testing site and an...
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‘Wellbeing’. It’s why Labor’s first budget will have more rigour than any before it

ECONOMY
‘Wellbeing’. It’s why Labor’s first budget will have more rigour than any before it Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What if the most important thing in Jim Chalmers’ first budget is the thing his critics are writing off as a gimmick? Australia’s new treasurer has a lot...
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Jobs for mates is corruption. Dangerous corruption

ELECTIONS
Bernard Keane reports in CrikeyFor generations, jobs for mates — or what used to be labelled jobs for the boys — were treated as an unfortunate but inevitable tendency by political parties to look after their own, with both sides disinclined to criticise the other for the practice given...
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Labor aims for $1.9b from multinational tax crackdown

ECONOMY
The federal government lost an estimated $6bn in revenue in 2014 as a consequence of tax avoidance by multinational corporations with Australian operations, according to a new Oxfam report. Cracking down on use of debt to avoid taxes Labor plans to raise $1.9 billion from multinational businesses by cracking down on...
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