Outsourced employment service providers are funnelling millions of dollars in government funding earmarked for people on welfare through their own companies, related entities and labour-hire outfits, creating paper empires out of their impoverished clients.
Under the $6.3 billion, five-year Workforce Australia model, private and not-for-profit job service providers are able...
Led on by crusading Reserve Bank governors, the nation’s economists are determined to protect us from the scourge of inflation, no matter the cost in jobs lost.
But there’s a black hole in their thinking about the causes of inflation, only some of which must be stamped on. Others can...
Internationally-acclaimed Indigenous artist Richard Bell’s latest ‘Pay the rent!’ installation at the Tate Modern in London goes to the heart of some of the intractable problems of Australian white settlement.The notion that rent is owed challenges the legitimacy of the claim by the British crown to own Australia, since...
What is the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th estate?
The first estate was the clergy, the second estate was the nobility, the third estate was the commoners and bourgeois, and the fourth estate was the press. The first three estates were established in the French Revolution, while the fourth estate...
Recently we have heard the alleged victim in the Bruce Lehrmann case discuss how she felt herself, in effect, defiled again by her treatment by the justice system. Nothing Walter Sofronoff has written in his inquiry into the case could cheer her. Nor would it engender any confidence in...
The Big Four’s behaviour is a global issue of concern. They cannot be relied upon to regulate themselves, so the only way to solve it is to break them apart.
The Australian government has so far failed to deliver on legislation that would bring the most significant breakthrough to date...
The Big Four auditing firms work with nearly every single major company on the planet. At the same time, they work extensively with our governments advising them on how to develop laws and policies.The 1980s, which led to previously unthinkable wealth, had a counterweight. Much of the work to...
It’s no profound insight that for several months the bête noire of The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen has been outgoing ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC.
In recent days alone, she’s vaulted to the Churchillian, warning of the gathering of a “dark cloud” should the ACT government turn a “blind eye” to what, in her view, constitutes...
Newly compiled data reveals Defence has spent nearly $4 billion on large consulting firms over the past decade, more than all other Australian government departments combined.
Although presenting as “the guardians of commerce” they are unregulated and unaccountable; they have infiltrated governments at every level and should be broken up.
This...
While Crakanthorp has said the (landholdings and property declarations) “omissions” were discovered as a result of his “self-reporting”, the premier seemed to refute that. On Thursday news media reported that Crakanthorp’s chief of staff, Elliott Stein, reported the issue to the premier after raising repeated concerns with the MP.
Bentleys,...