Albo’s Diary revealed: who’s influencing the PM?By Rex Patrick | December 30, 2023After an epic 12 month battle against improper secrecy in the Prime Minister’s office, Anthony Albanese’s 2022 ...
Scam of the Year 2023: nine of the niftiest scams in Australian business and politicsBy Michael West | December 29, 2023Here is the Scam of the Year in Australian business and politics. What an embarrassment of rorting riches it is. ...
Murphy Report on gambling reform delayed by sports bet lobbyBy Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling | December 28, 2023Six months after the late Peta Murphy’s parliamentary committee report on online gambling was released, the ...
Nuclear dreams rudely awoken by blast of CSIRO realityBy Rosco Jones | December 27, 2023CSIRO, Australia's top science agency, has relegated nuclear reactors and hydrogen to the energy bench. They ...
Beetaloo Madness: protestors, farmers, First Nations unite to fight US gas frackersBy Dominic Geiger | December 27, 2023"A carbon bomb" which can blow out Australia's emissions by 20%, is how plans to fracking the Northern Territory's ...
Maaate! Sportsbet pulls off the trifecta – duds politicians, punters, and the taxman tooBy Wally The Chartered Accountant and Michael West | December 24, 2023"Bet with mates, start a multi-together!" cries Sportsbet. Meanwhile, Australia's biggest bookie has pulled off a ...
Boat boy shame. Juvenile people smugglers wrongly imprisoned, finally compensatedBy Duncan Graham | December 23, 2023The Federal Court in Canberra today approved a settlement of $27.5 million to be paid to 220 Indonesian men who ...
Energy revolution on track: electricity bills to fall, transition to renewables acceleratesBy Michael West and Tim Buckley | December 21, 2023The good news is electricity prices are falling, decarbonisation is accelerating, and there should be little need ...
CaddyShack, CEO of the year antics and turkey sandwiches: Lakeba back in the revenue bunkerBy Michael West | December 19, 2023Lakeba Group managed a meteoric 25-fold rise in revenues, then went revenue negative. Michael West reports on the ...
Marles is wrong – Australia is taking US and UK nuclear waste!By Rex Patrick | December 17, 2023As Defence Minister, Richard Marles is uninspiring. He’s not across his brief. His recent statement saying ...
Fossil Cry. Give us hand-outs or you might get black-outs, says EnergyAustraliaBy Michael West | December 16, 2023Australia’s fossil fuel juggernauts are calling on the government to give them more subsidies to keep their old ...
Nuclear waste. Fifty years of searching, still nowhere to dump it.By Rex Patrick | December 15, 2023The Department of Defence has engaged a former Defence Deputy Secretary as a highly paid consultant to find a ...
Cop28 finished with a whimper, while 2023 will be the hottest year on record. What gives?By James Goldie and Chris Bartlett | December 15, 2023As politicians, activists and UN emissaries haggle with fossil fuel chiefs at the Cop28 climate conference in ...
The Palaszczuk ultimatum and the Miles ahead for Queensland, the “odd dichotomy” of Australian politicsBy Paul Syvret | December 13, 2023When Queensland voters go to the polls next October, Labor will have been in power for 30 of the past 35 years, ...
Nowhere to go. Refugees stranded in Indonesia while the world looks away.By Duncan Graham | December 12, 2023The Bali Process was supposed to sort out the tragedy of boat people. Since then, hundreds of asylum seekers have ...