Dutton’s visa backlog a honeypot for spivs, carpetbaggers, people smugglers
Another Dutton mess. This time citizenship processing of applicants arriving by air. Former Deputy...
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The Kitchen Table: the Quest for John Howard’s Cash Offset
John: Our paymaster says we’ve got to get onto the “John Howard offset”. That’s the one that really pays out.
Peter: It’s the big one … it’s not like all the other offsets, this one is the only one you might be able to get in cash.
Errr… anyone noticed asylum seekers pouring into Australia in record numbers by air?
John Menadue cuts through the hysterical fear campaign surrounding “boat arrivals” with a few sober facts about other “arrivals”, demonstrating that refugees are simply being used for political expedience.
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Scott John Morrison: Where the bloody hell did he come from?
It’s not every Prime Minister who loses a vote on his government’s own legislation....
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Is Howard’s Kyoto con trick about to be played out again?
Are former PM John Howard’s ill-gotten Kyoto credits about to be played out again? Experts...
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The Kitchen Table: a Franking Credits Revelation
“So, the government gives you money every time the Commonwealth Bank gives you money?”
“Yes Dear”
Gross Negligence: Walker throws the book at NSW, Feds over Murray Darling
The Commissioner’s report paints a damning picture of how, for years, successive governments and administrators failed to take notice of the scientific consensus about sustainable levels of water harvesting from the Murray Darling Basin.
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NBN myths: inside the “independent” models which failed a nation
The NBN has been described as a national tragedy. Lee Ridge looks at the players and the process behind the foundering broadband project and argues politics and ideology have set Australia back years.
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East Timor’s dangerous mix of gas, revenge politics and Chinese money
With the Chinese looking to gain an infrastructure funding foothold in East Timor, here is the...
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Kremlin critic Browder: dangerous to deport Australian-based whistleblower
Australia’s tough border security and asylum-seeker regime is again under global scrutiny this week as a British whistleblower and his Russian wife face deportation after failing in their bid for refugee status
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Reduced flows reduces Darling’s ability to deal with drought
Continued reduction of flows from the Darling River will result in one of the worst environmental...
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Time to call a truce in the war on drugs
Is it time to call a truce in the war on drugs? Dr James Freeman looks at the evidence; and the evidence shows prohibition has failed.
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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