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From Me to You
"Turns out, my original blueprint for 'From Me to You' was more of a brain...
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...
🐑🥬 **Albo the Magnificent: Style Over Substance or Genuine Engagement?**
In the world of political theater, where every move is meticulously choreographed and every statement...
Tell MSNBC: Stop Broadcasting Trump’s Speeches
1. Pigsfly News, a dedicated follower of MSNBC's more balanced reporting, is echoing Rachel Maddow's...
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...
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...
State capture 2
On Thursday, PwC's current and former CEOs appeared in front of a Senate inquiry examining...
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...
John Farnham The Voice To Parliament Campagain
The Australian music legend John Farnham has lent his iconic song You’re the Voice to...
Qantas considers paying back JobKeeper
PM Anthony Albanese gifts Chairmans Lounge access to his son. WTF. Then Anthony Albanese arranged...
Millions skimmed off government welfare contracts
Outsourced employment service providers are funnelling millions of dollars in government funding earmarked for people...
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...
Oligarchs of the Treasure Islands: Pwc,KPMG, Deloitte,EY
Newly compiled data reveals Defence has spent nearly $4 billion on large consulting firms over...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Robodebt Cancer – has our public service become the secret service?
When ‘self-ambition’ cells in a senior public servant’s body grow and multiply, outflanking the ‘do...
Fake Reform: Jim Chalmers’ itsy-bitsy tax “hit” is a gift for foreign fossil fuel giants
Jim Chalmers’ long-awaited tweaks to the PRRT are the itsy-bitsyest “reforms” about, the equivalent of...
Scott Morrison’s dodgy grants
“The democratic process is not using public money for party political purposes. That’s not democracy,”...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget – our take
Energy price relief plan
Labor promised during the election campaign that energy bills would be reduced...
The ‘No’ campaign bid to ‘create confusion’
A moment of confusion disrupted the final day of the parliamentary inquiry into the Aboriginal...
Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it
Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to...
Retired US admirals charging Australian taxpayers thousands of dollars per day as defence consultants
A cavalcade of retired senior American military officers have landed high-paying advisory contracts with Australia's...
Lachlan Murdoch could well have won his Crikey lawsuit, so why did he drop it?
Late last week, Lachlan Murdoch dropped his defamation claim against key figures behind online publication...
Lachlan Murdoch’s decision to drop the Crikey defamation suit atones for the misjudgment of suing in the first place
Discontinuation of defamation proceedings was no less remarkable than the decision to sue the minnow...
Shorten reboot to put NDIS back ‘on the right track’
The crap that just keeps giving.
The NDIS is a broken warped system with absolutely no...
The Albanese government’s emissions reduction scheme under fire
The Greens have been signalling for months they want the Albanese government to stop new...
Has the CSIRO Sold its soul
Australia’s new Labor government is committed to a transition to clean energy and a cut...
Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality
Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality
Correspondence published by inquiry...
Politics
Politicians make their own rules on funding
by Rosie WilliamsWhat lessons have been learnt in the wake of the funding rorts that have embroiled the Morrison government? Rosie Williams finds that the...
The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a...
The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility
Michaelia Cash has refused to resign over misleading parliament, claiming...
Back to the centre
The electorate is not as volatile as we might imagine
By George Megalogenis
For the third election in a row, Australians are being offered a choice...
Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent –...
Eva Cox, University of Technology Sydney
As we enter the business end of the election campaign, with pre-polling underway, there is a profound lack of...
Cycling and walking are short-changed when it comes to transport funding...
Cycling and walking are short-changed when it comes to transport funding in Australia
The “Bicycle Snake” in Copenhagen separates pedestrians and cyclists, allowing both to...
The Morrison government’s biggest economic problem? Climate change denia
The Morrison government's biggest economic problem? Climate change denial
The government’s stubborn commitment to coal is alienating it from its natural supporters in the business...
Queenslands Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro
Australia's largest pumped hydro storage project has taken a step forward, increasing its storage potential to 2000 megawatts hours.
Genex Power has completed a technical...
Superannuation for houses is a bad policy
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian
If the 2022 contest is between a bulldozer and a builder, it makes sense that the final act of...
Times have changed
Veteran economist and one-time Bob Hawke adviser Ross Garnaut put forward some Very Big Ideas in last night’s Jobs and Skills Summit keynote address,...
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