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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

LOBBYIST
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

FUA AWARDS
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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Collapse of the modern Liberal Party and Part two: The Howard battlers joined the party

POLITICS
Mike Seccombe writes in The Saturday PaperThe devolution of the federal Liberal Party has been a gradual process. Yet if one vignette sums it up, it was the scene on the streets of Manly, in the affluent, socially progressive seat of Warringah on Sydney’s northern beaches, three days before...
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The cow and milk for free

ECONOMY
Angus Taylor knew what he was doing. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he is a bright man. He understands accounting tricks. He knew there was a crisis and he preferred to wait for it. When Taylor delayed release of the country’s electricity pricing update, pushing it out past the...
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Energy A market not worthy of the name: state capture to blame for energy crisis

ENERGY
Bernard Keane arguesWe’ve seen it with the big banks, we’ve seen it with the Crown and Star gambling empires, and now we need to see it with fossil fuel companies — the moment the corporate abuse of power achieved through state capture becomes so egregious that a reckoning is...
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Albanese’s note to self – Don’t get blamed for the Morrison crises

ECONOMY
Alan Kohler writes in The NewDailyGovernments usually change after recessions, not before them, so the job is a nice one – to manage the recovery. But not only is the new Labor government facing a sharp economic slowdown, and possibly a Whitlam-style recession, it’s dealing with multiple crises from the...
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