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Trump Finally Has to Pay E. Jean Carroll
After What Felt Like Several Legal Ice Ages, Trump Finally Runs Out of Road in E. Jean Carroll Case
After years of appeals, denials, courtroom...
James Comey Case Tossed
Well, who could’ve seen this coming? (Spoiler: literally everyone with a functioning frontal cortex.) Today, a federal judge flushed Donald Trump’s long-gestating revenge fantasy against James...
A Case Study in Corporate Arrogance Masquerading as Progress
It started innocently enough. Just another Tuesday, just another PDF to open.
A document I created myself.
But Adobe Acrobat had other plans.
Ransom ware disguised as...
Allianz Insurance: How to Turn Word Salad into Profit (and Your Wallet into a Bonus Scheme)
There are corporate spinners, there are Olympic-level weasellers, and then… there’s Allianz Insurance Group — a company so deft at transforming disasters into dividends, they...
🔥 WOOLWORTHS: BAIT, SWITCH & PROFIT – A Corporate Cash Grab on Aussie Families 🔥
You shop smart. You see a half-price deal and add it to your Woolworths Direct to Boot order.
But when you check your receipt? BAM!...
Politicians Cash In: Gambling Industry’s VIP Club—But Don’t Worry, They’re Not *Influenced* At All
Free tickets, luxury suites, and chocolates from the gambling industry? No biggie! Our beloved politicians *swear* it’s just a coincidence that gambling ads keep...
Maybe Australia Needs to Do a Biden
Maybe Australia Needs to Do a Biden
When the career politicians finally admit it: it's time to go, but not before one last bow to...
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Using the Pigsfly News Helper Dashboard
This guide is a simplified, user-friendly walkthrough of how to effectively use the Pigsfly News Helper Dashboard for managing projects like Project2-Ergon. It covers...
🛑🚨 When Your NBN Provider Decides to “Go Mobile” and Fails Spectacularly! 🚨🛑
Ever wondered what happens when a broadband provider decides to dabble in mobile services? Well, wonder no more! Aussie Broadband, once hailed as the...
When Cringe Meets Cash: The Queensland Government’s Big, Smiley Bailout 🤡💸
Well, well, well. If it isn’t Queensland’s very own version of a snake oil salesman, Premier Steven Miles—oops, did we say miles? We meant...
Time to Flip the Script: When Government Monopoly Plays the Corporate Greed Game
So, it turns out that the biggest player in Queensland's energy market isn’t just another faceless corporation—it’s the government itself. Yep, you heard that...
Powering Greed: How Politicians and Energy Giants Conspire to Bleed Australians Dry
Picture a giant machine labeled "Ergon Energy" with various gears and levers marked "Service Fees," "Untaxed Profits," and "Monopoly Power." The machine is churning...
Kamala Harris
Unmasking the Racist Dog Whistle: A Call to Arms Against the Trump-Led Republican Party
On Sunday, the New York Times revealed a chilling campaign orchestrated...
From Me to You
Hello, Pigsfly News readers! As we embrace the digital age, our toolkit has evolved from physical tools to digital marvels that enhance our skills...
The Political, Religious, and Self-Interest Drivers in America’s Radical Democracy Challenge
In a powerful analysis by Washington Post's Editor at Large, Robert Kagan, a profound challenge to American democracy is delineated, central to which is...
🐑🥬 **Albo the Magnificent: Style Over Substance or Genuine Engagement?**
In the world of political theater, where every move is meticulously choreographed and every statement strategically crafted, 🎉📢🔥 one might be forgiven for mistaking...
Tell MSNBC: Stop Broadcasting Trump’s Speeches
1. Pigsfly News, a dedicated follower of MSNBC's more balanced reporting, is echoing Rachel Maddow's recent call for the network to cease the live...
Political Maneuvers and the Noteworthy Consequences for Brittany Higgins
Even within the context of Coalition-News Corp campaigns against Labor, the conspiracy theory surrounding Brittany Higgins and her partner David Sharaz allegedly collaborating with...
Albo’s Secret Hose: bureaucrats block bushfire info as Australia braces for a deadly summer
Fire danger
The 2023-24 fire season is already well underway. We’ve seen extensive bushfires across Australia involving significant property loss, and sadly loss of life....
State capture 2
On Thursday, PwC's current and former CEOs appeared in front of a Senate inquiry examining the management and integrity of consulting firms in Australia,...
Pezzullo story points to serious issues in the Australian Public Service
Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service
Andrew Podger, Australian National University
The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary...
John Farnham The Voice To Parliament Campagain
The Australian music legend John Farnham has lent his iconic song You’re the Voice to the referendum’s yes campaign, backing calls to insert an...
Qantas considers paying back JobKeeper
PM Anthony Albanese gifts Chairmans Lounge access to his son. WTF. Then Anthony Albanese arranged a work placement at PwC for his son while...
Millions skimmed off government welfare contracts
Outsourced employment service providers are funnelling millions of dollars in government funding earmarked for people on welfare through their own companies, related entities and...
The Sixth Estate: The shadow government plundering the public purse
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...
Oligarchs of the Treasure Islands: Pwc,KPMG, Deloitte,EY
Newly compiled data reveals Defence has spent nearly $4 billion on large consulting firms over the past decade, more than all other Australian government...
Bentleys, brown paper bags and bundles: Newcastle again. Politics 101
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....
Morrison is a symptom, not the cause, of the decline in Australian politics
In focusing on Scott Morrison’s shocking record in government, and/or on his pathetic and self-pitying response to Commissioner Holmes’ Robodebt report, we must not...
The gospel of Scott Morrison is his most poisonous legacy
Maeve McGregor asserts that even with the long march of time, Scott Morrison’s compulsion for lying and utter shamelessness remains both unmoved and spectacularly...
Big four gouged $10b over a decade and kept taxpayers in the dark
The numbers are staggering. In the past decade Australia's state and federal governments have forked out more than $10 billion on the big four...
Final Robodebt royal commission report will be delivered on Friday, outlining who was responsible for the scheme
It was ruled a "shameful chapter" and a "massive failure" in public administration by a federal court judge, and a royal commission is about...
PwC’s sublime combination of breathtaking arrogance and dazzling ineptitude
NSW Greens MLC Abigail Boyd told the inquiry the sale was a "PR exercise" and asked Ms Stubbins if that was an admission PwC...
State capture: Tax avoidance on a mega scale
Labor has caved on its country-by-country tax reform in an embarrassing volte-face which betrays all Australians, many of whom pay more tax income tax...
Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story
Grattan on Friday: Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Two women ended up...
Three ADF failures built the culture that enabled war crimes
Last week Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his decision in the defamation case brought by retired Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith against several Australian media organisations.
The judgement...
Tax office accused of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ culture on PwC breach
The agencies most involved in responding to professional services giant PwC’s misuse of government information are facing growing concerns about their handling of the...
Voice to Parliament: the brains behind the No campaigns
Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Lidia Thorpe (Images: AAP)According to a survey conducted for the Nine papers and reported yesterday, support for the Indigenous...
Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with the PM’s help
Rex Patrick writes in Michael West mediaKathryn Campbell AO CSC was not liked by Labor senators. The Senate inquired into Centrelink’s Compliance Program (“RoboDebt”)...
Federal budget 2023: The winners and losers in Treasurer’s cost-of-living budget
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pledged billions in new spending to help lower income families navigate the cost-of-living crisis as he handed down his second...
Politics
Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve...
Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it
Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute; Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute, and...
Donald Trump’s Divide-and-Conquer Rhetoric – A Pattern with Historical Echoes
Donald Trump's rhetoric has consistently framed America in a stark “us vs. them” light, with loyalty to Trump himself standing as the ultimate patriotic...
Why the days of safe Liberal seats are almost over
By Richard DennisHere is one truth about this election: the Liberal Party is risking its future on a prime minister who likely doesn’t have...
Climate Change: The facts
Sir David Attenborough's new BBC documentary on climate change has been praised by TV critics.
Climate Change - The Facts, shown on BBC One on...
“Giuliani: The Heart-Wrenching Christmas Grinch”
As the trial concluded on a somber Monday, Giuliani, the real Christmas Grinch, callously insisted, "Everything I said about them is true," leaving behind...
Trump finally suffers KNOCKOUT BLOW in federal trial
In a remarkable revelation, one of Trump's co-defendants in the Georgie RICO case, Jenna Ellis, told prosecutors that Trump's close aid, Dan Scavino, said...
How much paid help for independent MPs?
David Solomon argues in Pearls and IrritationsThere’s a lot wrong with the system that provides MPs and Senators with advisers and other office helpers,...
Garry Linnell: Advance Australia Fair is just ‘beautiful lies’
Garry Linnell: Advance Australia Fair is just ‘beautiful lies’
Every nation tells lies about itself. It’s how history is made.
Little fibs are buffed and shined...
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