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The uncivil Mr Jones

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View from The Hill: The uncivil Mr Jones Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The row over shock jock Alan Jones and what will be displayed on the Sydney Opera House sails about The Everest horse race involves two sets of issues. One is around whether it is appropriate to use this Sydney...
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‘Honeygate’ deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated

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'Honeygate' deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated The new discovery significantly deepens the ‘fake honey’ scandal. Subbotina Anna/Shutterstock.com Mark Patrick Taylor, Macquarie University and Xiaoteng Zhou, Macquarie University More than a quarter of commercial honey brands have potentially been watered down with sugar cane, corn syrup or other products,...
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Coalition’s changes to finance laws could be a ‘dreadful step backwards’

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“What is actually the point of undoing it? One actually asks, why do you want to do this?” he said. “Why is it in the benefit of the country to actually make it easier for lobbyists to pay large sums of money so that decisions are made in their favour? Shouldn’t...
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Labor to hold its own ‘hearings’ for bank victims

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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Labor will flush out more victims of the banks and other financial institutions by holding a series of roundtables in cities and towns that have not been visited by the royal commission. Opposition leader Bill Shorten has announced that shadow minister for financial services Clare O'Neil...
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Banking Royal Commission’s damning report: ‘Things are so bad that new laws might not help’

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Banking Royal Commission's damning report: 'Things are so bad that new laws might not help' Peter Martin, The Conversation Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has identified “greed” as the key reason banks and other financial institutions repeatedly broke the law, along with an inability to manage, and repeated decisions by the Securities...
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With Justin Milne gone, how does the ABC go about restoring its crucial independence?

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Andrew Dodd, University of Melbourne The ABC’s former chairman, Justin Milne, has propelled himself from obscurity to infamy in just four days. Along the way, he has ended the tenure of the ABC’s first female managing director, prompted two federal inquiries, revealed the dysfunctional relationship between the national broadcaster’s board...
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Government sets up inquiry into embattled ABC chairman’s email

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Government sets up inquiry into embattled ABC chairman's email Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The government has ordered an investigation into ABC chairman Justin Milne’s reported email that urged then managing director Michelle Guthrie to “get rid of” a senior journalist who had angered the Turnbull government. With the ABC in crisis...
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A Parliamentary Democracy for Everybody

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Forget what politicians say. What truly matters is what they do. And what they do is vote, to write our laws which affect us all. A Parliamentary Democracy for Everybody In Australia, every 3 years or so, we all head to polling places across the country to elect individuals to represent us in...
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Malcolm Fraser’s political manifesto would make good reading for the Morrison government

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Members of the Liberal Party’s latter-day “broad church” could do worse than secure copies of these Malcolm Fraser’s manifesto for a new political party. AAP/ Luis Enrique Ascui Tony Walker, La Trobe University Malcolm Fraser died on March 20, 2015, just a little more than three years ago. One can only speculate...
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Scott Morrison is the new Prime Minister after Peter Dutton’s giant miscalculation

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Scott Morrison is the new Prime Minister after Peter Dutton’s giant miscalculation Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Scott Morrison is Australia’s new prime minister, beating Peter Dutton by 45-40 votes after a week in which the government imploded and the Liberal party tore itself apart. The third contender, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop,...
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