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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...
Robodebt inquiry is laying bare the horrific human cost of cheap and heartless politics
CEO of the Australian Council of Social Security Cassandra Goldie argues that:
Playing politics with people’s...
Jacinda Ardern’s graceful departure is the personification of modern democratic ideals
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as prime minister of New Zealand and will be leaving office...
Reframing tax policy to reset the rules of the monopoly game
Monopolists and rentseekers have been running rings round the democratic fiscal state for decades. It...
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Don’t be fooled by the ‘Gas Crisis’
In the next few weeks there will be an announcement that a large, gas-intensive Australian manufacturer is to lay off about 1000 workers. The...
Greg Hunt approves Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, again: experts respond
Greg Hunt approves Adani's Carmichael coal mine, again: experts respond
The Carmichael coal mine (not pictured) is set to be Australia’s largest.
Publishing/CSIRO, Adani’s Carmichael coal...
Tax Justice May Podcast
In this month’s Taxcast:
We discuss why we can’t afford the rich and challenge ideas about wealth, entrepreneurialism and investment.
Also: ten years ago...
The crossbench is dead. Greens and indies are a third force...
Guy Rundle writes in CrikeyWaking amid half-empty bottles, dried sick and dead roaches (figuratively and literally), and despite all efforts to remain jaded and...
We’re awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people
We're awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people
Nicholas Gruen, University of Technology Sydney
It’s almost Australia Day and hundreds of us are in...
What is and isn’t a ‘sovereign risk’
What is Sovereign Risk
Sovereign risk is the chance that a central bank will implement foreign exchange rules that will significantly reduce or negate the...
Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from state’s 2024 ballot
In a groundbreaking decision underscoring the issue of criminality, the Colorado Supreme Court declared on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to...
We need to change more than pay for executives to do...
Natalia Nikolova, University of Technology Sydney; Robyn Johns, University of Technology Sydney, and Walter Jarvis, EdD, University of Technology Sydney
The pay of executives of...