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‘This is a hose you have to hold’: Turnbull accuses Morrison of failure over China-Solomons pact

ECONOMY
Malcolm Turnbull has accused his former colleagues of failures on Australia’s regional security, taking a potshot at Morrison directly – saying “this is a hose you have to hold” – as the Coalition scrambles to defend its handling of the situation. It comes as China accuses Scott Morrison of spreading...
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Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’

ECONOMY
By Katharine MurphyWith Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things If you’ve been paying attention over the past decade or so, you may have noticed that opponents of climate action in Australia spend a lot of...
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Losing interest in bank reform

ECONOMY
By Ross Gittens Despite earnest promises after the royal commission into banking, the re-elected Morrison government soon moved on. Can you remember as far back as three years ago? Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg are hoping you can’t. And fortunately for them, the media’s memory is notoriously short. The media mostly live...
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War footling

ECONOMY
By Rachel Withers The khaki election that the Coalition so dearly wanted has taken a curious turn. After Defence Minister Peter Dutton was criticised (yet again) for warmongering against China (and on Anzac Day to boot), Labor today came out with its new Pacific policy, including a pledge...
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The ‘culture war’ election

ELECTIONS
By Rachel Withers April 20, 2022 The controversy surrounding Warringah “captain’s pick” Katherine Deves is not going away. And it’s increasingly apparent that this is exactly how Scott Morrison wants it. The story is everywhere. Overnight, text messages were leaked to the media showing NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet supporting the...
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Katherine Deves preselection ‘another Hawke game’

ELECTIONS
When the prime minister hand-picked anti-transgender activist Katherine Deves as his party’s candidate in the Sydney federal seat of Warringah last month, key moderates were shocked. Not because of her views, but because Scott Morrison’s political lieutenants had persuaded them he was going to appoint someone else. The deliberate stalling...
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Scomo and the Public Service: How Bad Can It Get?

ECONOMY
The Report by the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Phil Gaetjens, into Bridget McKenzie’s handling of the Community Sport Infrastructure grants fails to address key questions and raises serious concerns about the relationship between the Government and the Public Service. For a start the Gaetjens’ report...
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How competent is Scott Morrison as a manager of government business?

BUSINESS
By Michael Keating Scott Morrison wants the election to be about competence, but an examination of his record suggests that he is not capable of delivering good government. Scott Morrison has never had a policy agenda. Rather he sees his role as reacting to and resolving problems as they arise, and...
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Russia warns of nuclear, hypersonic deployment if Sweden and Finland join NATO

ECONOMY
A seismic shift has taken place in Finland in the two months since Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops and tanks across the border into Ukraine. The small Nordic country shares a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia and has long been wary of provoking its powerful neighbour to the east. Finland, like Ukraine, is...
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Clive Palmer and how to buy the balance of power

INDEPENDENTS
Clive Palmer writes his own ads. The mining billionaire, who has spent a lifetime seeking and wielding political influence, is proud of this fact. “I write all the ads personally,” he tells The Saturday Paper. “Because I originally started in campaigning with the National Party years ago, I ended up...
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