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A matter of integrity commission

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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

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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

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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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Public servants judge and jury over next-up political bosses

POLITICS
By Jack Waterford, Australian journalist and commentator.Spare a thought for Michael Coutts-Trotter, the Secretary of the NSW Premiers Department. He has been asked, in effect, to decide which of several versions of how John Barilaro was appointed “on merit” to a cushy $500,000 trade commissioner job in New York...
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Unfair? Unethical? or Corrupt? ‘Personal’ donations to the Liberal Party came from vaping lobby during debate over policy

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A national vaping lobby group donated a total of $44,000 to the Liberal Party but the money was declared as personal gifts from its director on electoral returns. Four Corners has discovered the donations were made as part of a series of "roundtable events" with Coalition MPs and came amid...
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The right is coming apart — and Labor needs to step up and help it self-destruct

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Guy Rundle writes in CrikeyYou’d have to be impressed with the way the right is stuffing up the post-election transition into opposition. It had the wobbles from the start, electing Peter Dutton as its leader and promptly trying to soften his image. The intent appeared to be to make...
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The Peter Dutton principle

ELECTIONS
John Hewson writes in The Saturday PaperWhile it is still early days, it is becoming clear that the Coalition and their media sycophants didn’t believe they would lose the election. They seem unprepared to move on.Beyond the immediate disappointment – both individually, for those who lost seats, and collectively,...
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Energy crisis: The truth behind the price surge

ECONOMY
Mike Seccombe writes in The Saturday Paper As Australia grapples with the near collapse of its east coast energy market, there are a few names worth remembering. These are markers of an unhealthy symbiosis that has been little mentioned among the contributing factors to the crisis, although they are at the...
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Fox and Murdochs lose another round in US$1.6b court case over channel’s Trump-inspired ‘rigged’ election reports

ELECTIONS
Glenn Dyer writes in Crikey Fox News, Fox Corporation and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch continue to lose badly in the continuing US$1.6 billion defamation action brought against them by the voting machine company pilloried on the right-wing news channel for being party to the “rigged” 2020 presidential election. After losing part...
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