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Albo is Taking stock

ECONOMY
Rachel Withers writes in The MonthlyIt was another big day for cleaning up the mess left behind, as the Albanese government continues to assess the inherited damage. But members of the government are not, as Liberal MP Karen Andrews tried to claim on Sky News, “running around effectively...
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Avoiding picking losers: industry policy for a more rational era

ECONOMY
Bernard Keane writes in CrikeyThe Grattan Institute isn’t normally to be found advocating for industry policy and support of manufacturing. Its latest report, on industry policy in the context of the drive to net zero, is both critical of existing industry policy — crafted by both sides in worship...
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We need an Australian Healthcare Reform Commission

ECONOMY
Jon Blackwell and Kerry Goulston write in Pearls and Irritations With a new Government it is time for Health System Reform. In fact reform is long over due. For some years now the Sydney Health Reform Group has been calling for the establishment of an Australian Healthcare Reform Commission, and...
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The Emissions Reduction Fund is a fraud

ECONOMY
A review will examine the discredited Emissions Reduction Fund. But does the government really want to take away a source of cheap carbon credits? Bernard Keane Crikey's political editor writesCritics of the Coalition’s discredited Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) have welcomed the review of the fund announced today by Energy Minister...
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A world away from Morrison

ECONOMY
Chris Wallace writes in The Saturday Paper The de-ScoMofication of Australia on the world stage took a leap forward this week as the Albanese government consolidated its international relations edge over an enfeebled opposition in a series of high-level meetings in Europe. In just over a month, the competitive advantage the...
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Why Australia should ban private schools

ECONOMY
Elizabeth Farrelly writes in The Saturday Paper. An architect’s view of Cranbrook School’s redevelopment, in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. The images are spectacular: slinky ovoid stairwells, glamorous foyers, expensive materials and exquisite detailing. The purpose-built music centre at Meriden girls school in Sydney’s inner west, opened by the New South Wales...
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A matter of integrity commission

FUA AWARDS
John Hewson asserts in The Saturday Paper In December 2018, 34 former judges wrote a letter to the prime minister expressing their support for the establishment of a national integrity commission with the power to hold public hearings. Apparently, it was not Scott Morrison’s “job” to take advice from those who...
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How much paid help for independent MPs?

ELECTIONS
David Solomon argues in Pearls and IrritationsThere’s a lot wrong with the system that provides MPs and Senators with advisers and other office helpers, not least that it is run by the government and particularly the Prime Minister. That means decisions about staffing for MPs are influenced – and...
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Killing off jobs for mates is now within reach

FUA AWARDS
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey If politicians in Canberra and all the states and territories haven’t been paying close attention to the saga of the John Barilaro appointment in NSW, they should be. The scandal is death-by-a-thousand-cuts stuff, with new information emerging every day. The evidence of senior bureaucrat Amy Brown...
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The greed undermining privatisation and demutualisation

FUA AWARDS
Michael Pascoe writes in The NewDailyThe spectacular burst of customer dissatisfaction with Qantas has focused a laser on the perceived failures of privatising government businesses – letting various investment bankers, ticket clippers and would-be robber barons make off with assets of the common wealth. But it is not just privatisations...
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