I just want a Ferrari, sorry, a nuclear submarine, no matter the costBy Rex Patrick | March 14, 2023Australia has just committed to spending $368 billion on second hand US Virginia Class submarines, and eight next ...
“Let’s drop this now”: calls rise for Albo to ask Joe Biden for release of Assange in tonight’s AUKUS talksBy Michael West | March 13, 2023There will be no better opportunity than now for Anthony Albanese to ask US President Joe Biden for the release of ...
Academy of Science, ANU compromised by government secrecy over damning emissions reportBy Rex Patrick | March 13, 2023Science and secrecy are two words that rarely go well together. Yet remarkably, our peak scientific institution, ...
How PR and the fog of corporate disinformation has governments paying to burn the planetBy Grant Ennis | March 10, 2023Public relations is at the core of coal and gas industry influence which has governments actually incentivising ...
TPG vulture capitalists descend on InvoCare to pick the meaty bones of Sydney’s cemeteries, funerals bodiesBy Callum Foote and Michael West | March 9, 2023Wall Street asset strippers TPG have seized almost 20% of Australia's largest funeral and cemetery stock InvoCare ...
Farmers betrayed by government, Shell, PetroChina “fairytales” as prime land damaged by gas frackingBy Callum Foote | March 9, 2023As the Palaszczuk Government rolls out thousands of coal seam gas permits on the Darling Down farmers report ...
Rex Patrick on Labor’s Safeguard Bill: bigger holes than the Ozone but not beyond repairBy Rex Patrick | March 7, 2023The Government’s key emissions policy has been dealt a blow with a Senate Committee report showing the Greens are ...
Ending jobs for mates – Sophie Scamps’ bill for integrity, transparency in public appointmentsBy Callum Foote | March 6, 2023Sophie Scamps is introducing the ‘Ending Jobs for Mates Bill’ which intends to legislate a transparent and ...
Who will keep our submarine reactors safe?By Rex Patrick | March 3, 2023The decision to acquire nuclear submarines has been made. The important question is who will be responsible for ...
The Big Mac of avoidance: how intellectual property payments eat our tax revenueBy Callum Foote | March 2, 2023The most expensive thing in a McDonald’s Big Mac® is not the patty or the labour cost, but the intellectual ...
Safeguard Mechanism is great … for big polluters and landowners, not so much for the planetBy Callum Foote | March 1, 2023The Senate inquiry into the government’s key emission reduction policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, revealed broad ...
Robodebt and transparency failures: is the rule of law optional for the PM’s office?By Rex Patrick | February 28, 2023The Robodebt Commission lays bare a lack of regard for the rule of law among both ministers and public servants. ...
New Report: coal and gas emissions “set to soar” under Safeguard MechanismBy Callum Foote | February 27, 2023The government has "significantly underestimated" coal and gas emissions in its Safeguard Mechanism to curb big ...
Secret government Roundtable with media mates less love-fest than nat-secBy Michael West | February 26, 2023Documents reveal national security people involved in this week's Media Roundtable in Parliament House along with ...
AUKUS and B-52’s stand in the way of a treaty with IndonesiaBy Duncan Graham | February 26, 2023A recent meeting gives hope for a treaty with Indonesia. But there are obstacles on both sides of the Timor Sea, ...