Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with...
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”)...
Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll, must pay her $5...
NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the...
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...
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 public good’ cells, the diagnosis may be referred to...
Fake Reform: Jim Chalmers’ itsy-bitsy tax “hit” is a gift for...
Jim Chalmers’ long-awaited tweaks to the PRRT are the itsy-bitsyest “reforms” about, the equivalent of recycling old Christmas presents with a fancy new bow....
Scott Morrison’s dodgy grants
“The democratic process is not using public money for party political purposes. That’s not democracy,”
Anne Twomey, professor emerita of constitutional law at the...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget – our take
Energy price relief plan
Labor promised during the election campaign that energy bills would be reduced by $275 each year for each home by 2025....
The ‘No’ campaign bid to ‘create confusion’
A moment of confusion disrupted the final day of the parliamentary inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum this week. Former...
Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800...
Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An expert on the energy crisis engulfing Australia
Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University
Australia’s east...
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...
