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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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Explainer: what are Labor and the Coalition promising on an anti-corruption commission and what is the government’s record?

ECONOMY
Explainer: what are Labor and the Coalition promising on an anti-corruption commission and what is the government’s record? Yee-Fui Ng, Monash University As the election is looming, the Labor Party has placed integrity issues prominently on its party platform. Labor leader Anthony Albanese claims the Morrison government cannot be trusted, and...
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It’s not the economy, stupid, it’s climate change

ECONOMY
Alan Kohler: Anthony Albanese would have spent the past three nights in his hotel rooms staring, red-eyed, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, memorising economic data; he will now presumably be a statistical encyclopedia, an economic savant. Not knowing the unemployment rate on Monday was a genuine shocker, from which...
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Beware the ‘mog’: If only politicians realised playing God is not their job

FUA AWARDS
Queensland’s politicians need be less god-like and more business-like when it comes to “mogging” their public servants writes Robert MacDonald. Once you start looking for lack of government accountability, you can find it everywhere – even in the very machinery of government. You’d think by now the experts would have worked out...
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The fantasy that haunts our cult of the fallen

BIASED HISTORY
By Douglas Newton According to the fantasy, there is a ‘moral obligation’ toward dead Anzacs – but not to democratise the decisions that would throw live Anzacs into war. There is no doubting the sincerity of the grief felt by the bereaved, those who will gather at the myriad sites of...
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Tony Windsor Rorters, rooters and the country’s lost decade

ECONOMY
While the major parties play the traditional, convenient, presidential-style blame games, and the media placidly comply, a growing number in the electorate are clamouring for politics to be done differently. Old stuff is not working for them. They have put up with a decade of policy inertia, ranging from...
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Independents versus a broken system

ELECTIONS
Independents versus a broken system John Hewson Despite the efforts of the media to discredit the independents’ movement, attempting to tag them as “fake independents” and otherwise minimising their coverage, there should be little doubt that many conservative members sitting in what they had thought were “safe” seats are already recognising...
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