AUKUS Gravy Plane: $633K a month in flights with the taxpayer picking up the tabBy Rex Patrick | October 5, 2023The AUKUS nuclear submarine program team has racked up a travel bill of $15.2m over the past 12 months. By ...
Defence alliance with Indonesia. Is Marles cuddling up to the wrong man?By Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling | October 4, 2023Defence Minister Marles’ has “high ambitions” for defence cooperation with Indonesia to reinforce a regional ...
Sacred Cow: are politicians’ many houses an impediment to property, rental reform?By Michael West and Kim Wingerei | October 3, 2023Our elected representatives own a lot of property. Not counting their homes, 126 of Canberra's 232 MPs and ...
New documents: EPA and Forestry Corporation at loggerheads over forests, koala protectionBy Suzanne Arnold | October 3, 2023Documents reveal NSW Environmental Protection Agency and the state Forestry Corporation are at war over the ...
No time to waste – the Disability Royal Commission calls for action nowBy Di Winkler | October 2, 2023The disability royal commission’s final report was released last week, containing 222 recommendations, some of ...
Exceptional Circumstances: Mark Dreyfus, Richard Boyle, Gina Rinehart and Oracle CorporationBy Wally The Chartered Accountant | October 1, 2023Why is the rule of law applied in ways which reward a bad corporation, Oracle, with regulatory munificence, while ...
Airbnb tax rort: why is the government subsidising holiday landlords?By Tim Evans | September 30, 2023Airbnb rort: despite the housing crisis, despite the rentals crisis, holiday house landlords claim year-round tax ...
Gas giants finally comply as Penny Wong confronted in New York on climate actionBy Callum Foote | September 29, 2023When Foreign Minister Penny Wong was confronted by CNN over Australia's shoddy climate action at a UN Summit last ...
Ziggy plays for time: PwC’s dual ‘independent reports’ a dual whitewashBy Michael West | September 28, 2023Waffle, fastidious yet unadulterated waffle. This is the day of the PwC whitewash. Michael West reports on two ...
Dan Andrews: a Labor titan and Victoria’s leader of consequence departsBy Paul Strangio | September 26, 2023Dan Andrews, Labor hero and enemy of the right, has announced his resignation as Victoria's longest serving ...
Nazis, what? Wagga independent jettisons alt-right stafferBy Steph Preston | September 25, 2023A man at the centre of an infamous alt-right push to take over the NSW Young Nationals in 2018 has been ...
Appeal for Transparency: Rex Patrick takes secrecy fight to the Full Federal CourtBy Rex Patrick | September 25, 2023It can’t be correct that a government-of-the-day can, by defunding its FOI apparatus, steals away a right given to ...
Mark Dreyfus, whistleblowers and the non-existent circumstancesBy Rex Patrick | September 23, 2023he Attorney-General keeps repeating that the powers he’s being asked to use to drop the prosecutions of David ...
Smoke ‘n mirrors budget: forests and koalas are great but logging and money are better!By Suzanne Arnold | September 21, 2023NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey ignored pleas for further funding for the Natural Resources Commission, putting at ...
Santos suitor Rayo Withanage gets sustainable, but do his vivid array of corporate ventures stack up?By Callum Foote | September 20, 2023Rayo Withanage, the colourful entrepreneur behind a mysterious takeover bid for Santos, purports to command an ...