January 2021Sonic Health, which has been awarded $312 million worth of contracts since the Coalition came to office in 2013, was the fourth biggest donor from the health industry before the 2016 election.Sonic Healthcare, which the Morrison government...
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Sports rorts on steroids: Coalition’s $4.8 billion Urban Congestion Fund
November 2018 - ongoing Michael West Media revealed more than a year ago the pork barrelling of the commuter car park fund, as confirmed by the national auditor general. Projects worth $660 million were handpicked by the government on advice of its MPs and...
Coalition protects wealthy retirees’ investments under cover of Covid-19 pandemic
The Coalition moved to protect the superannuation of Australia’s wealthiest retirees at the same time it was encouraging the nation’s poorest to raid their retirement accounts. And they continue to protect the wealthiest even though the Australian share market is back at record highs. Elizabeth Minter reports.
Federal bushfire recovery funds. What’s the scam?
Scott Morrison’s $2 billion bushfire recovery fund is only “notional”, the vast majority of money has gone to the Liberal states of NSW and SA, and there’s no transparency to the spending, with a key website changed to make it even more difficult to find information.
CSL and contaminated blood scandal: UK accepts ‘moral responsibility’; Australia still silent
The UK Health Secretary has just admitted his government’s “moral responsibility” for the UK’s contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and 1980s yet Australian victims are still without compensation or even an apology.
Barnaby Joyce lobbied PM Turnbull to support Rinehart
April 2017Joyce lobbied Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to support Gina Rinehart's National Agriculture Day and then wrote to her boasting about his role, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Joyce later received a $40,000 personal cheque from the...
Kalbar’s exotic minerals mine a huge risk to Victoria’s food bowl
A hearing into the Environment Effects Statement for Kalbar’s mineral sands project on rich Victorian farmland has been told about competition for billions of litres of water, high levels of uranium, untested technologies and a strange backflip by the project’s “independent experts”. Elizabeth Minter investigates.
TV networks join Netflix crusade against Australian arts and screen content
The TV networks have joined Netflix to oppose local TV content quotas. It’s too expensive, they say. Yet the local arts and screen sector says the industry which employs 200,000 Australians would be devastated. Elizabeth Minter reports on a crucial decision for Communications Minister Paul Fletcher.
Andrew Laming’s $550,000 grant to rugby club with links to staffer
2018 ongoing $550,000 grant was one of five grants awarded to the Southern Bay Cyclones rugby union club in the past three years through Andrew Laming.The Queensland Liberal National MP Andrew Laming awarded a $550,000 grant to a rugby club with links to...
PM, deputy PM ignore Freedom of Information laws
2019-2020 The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has no power to investigate a complaint about the way a government minister handles FoI responsibilities, with the only accountability measure to ‘name and shame’. Prime Minister Scott...
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