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After the relentless performance art of Morrison’s reign, Australia needs a reset

ELECTIONS
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian There will be plenty of time for postmortems of election campaigns after Saturday night. As the clock winds down to the closing of the polls, I’ve been processing the sum of the past three years. Back in the middle of 2020, at the end of...
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Government outsourcing: There’s gold in them thar hills!

ECONOMY
Robin Boyle writes in Pearls and IrritationsGovernment outsourcing in Australia occurs in many ways. It can provide the best outcome for the community. But at the other extreme, it could mean a case of outright corruption. If there is inadequate monitoring and accountability, the Australian public at large could...
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When everything else is disrupted, why not politics? Surely it needs it

ELECTIONS
Bernard Keane writes in Friday's CrikeyMuch of Australian politics is broken at the state level. Pervasive corruption and integrity problems pervade the Victorian and Queensland governments. The Berejiklian government in NSW was characterised by pork-barrelling, cover-ups and serious integrity questions about its premier. Yet all continue to effectively deliver...
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Trapped: Australia’s economy is hostage to the housing market, and neither party is willing to save us

ECONOMY
Jason Murphy writes in CrikeyScott Morrison wants to let you raid your super to buy a house. This is a naked vote ploy for frustrated first home buyers. That’s a group of young, tertiary educated people — a group containing the kind of Labor voters who might swap to...
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As Fox News legitimises race-hate theories, US lawmaker pleads for Murdochs to act

ECONOMY
Christopher Warren writes in CrikeyThis past weekend’s white supremacist terrorist killings in Buffalo in upstate New York demonstrate a worrying truth: the News/Fox outrage machine has morphed into something far more dangerous for democracy. It no longer acts to convert the curious undecideds through slanted news. Its “war on woke”...
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Journalists demand stunts from Albo as unemployment hits new low

ECONOMY
Bernard Keane laments the state of the media pack in Crikey.Australia’s unemployment rate reached 3.9% in April, delivering a good headline for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg in the dying days of the campaign. The magic number of 3.9% was actually reached in March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said,...
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Sales and Grimshaw: a tale of two interviews — but only one killer blow

ELECTIONS
Tim Moore writes in CrikeyThe last week of Scott Morrison’s campaign has been marked by two significant television interviews, one on the ABC on Monday night’s 7.30 by Leigh Sales, and the other the following night by Tracy Grimshaw on Nine’s A Current Affair. The 7.30 outing had the greater pre-event hype, partly due to...
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Roundabouts and car parks? The major parties are promising much on transport, but they should stick to their jobs

ECONOMY
Roundabouts and car parks? The major parties are promising much on transport, but they should stick to their jobs Marion Terrill, Grattan Institute In the seat-by-seat slugfest that is the federal election, transport infrastructure is once again at the forefront. Small, hyper-local projects are a favourite of both major parties this...
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A revolution in Wentworth, a study in teal

ELECTIONS
Margot Saville writesIt’s been impossible to buy a plain teal-coloured T-shirt anywhere for days. Organisers for Allegra Spender’s Wentworth bid have scoured websites for more shirts to screen-print and give to volunteers. With 1165 of them, and more signing up in the final week, the Spender campaign has soaked up...
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Independents are the shock the major parties need

ELECTIONS
By Fred ChaneyThe former British prime minister Harold Macmillan may never have said, “Events, my dear boy, events”, in response to the question of what made the job of prime minister difficult or pushed governments off course. Nonetheless, it expresses a truism. Both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese might...
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