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A Poor Knock: Colbeck carousing at the cricket amid aged care crisis just tip of incompetence iceberg
Failure to protect Federal aged care residents has left 389 elderly Australians dead this year alone, and 40% of private...
Australia hits new low on Transparency International Corruption Index
The decline of political and corporate standards in Australia over recent years is not just in the imagination of some...
Culture Wars: Morrison hides big spend on Australia Day
Scott Morrison's government has cranked up Australia Day funding tenfold in two years to promote a celebration of which we...
Slip, sliding away: is Western Australia doing a bit of conscious uncoupling from the rest of Oz?
Is a third of the Australian continent planning to stay cut off from the other two-thirds forever. Mark Sawyer ponders...
Government sabotages rule of law in Djokovic case for political advantage
The Morrison government's campaign to toss tennis star Novak Djokovic out of Australia is an attack on the rule of...
Yes, “rules are rules” Scott, you invent them, break them, subvert them and ignore them
PM Scott Morrison came out strongly against Novak Djokovic again this week, claiming "rules are rules" but his government are...
“Living with Covid” – not so easy if you’re in an aged care home!
Covid has spread like wildfire to around 500 aged care homes as the government failed to deliver RATs, booster vaccines...
Visa Gridlock: the migration surge is coming … but who is it?
The Morrison government, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke and the business lobby desperately want a surge in immigration to fire the...
Whopper Returns: Tax Office fee bonanza the latest in the privatisation of government
Around the world, governments deliver free Covid testing. So the news did not go down well that Harvey Norman and...
Future shock: the electorates of Abbott, and Howard, and Rudd, and Turnbull …
There is no doubt that Tony Abbott, as a former prime minister, will have a federal electorate named after him...
Room at the Inn: yet Australia’s asylum seekers face another Christmas in lockdown
Even those fleeing the Taliban, asylum seekers who helped our war effort in Afghanistan, face indefinite detention for another year....
Who didn’t replace the toner? How our ex-prime ministers spent a million bucks
Malcolm Turnbull may have memorably coined the term miserable ghost for Rudd and Abbott, but he and his superannuated colleagues...
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