“Massive achievement” but is the NACC anti-corruption commission missing some teeth?By Callum Foote | September 29, 2022Callum Foote garners expert legal opinion on Australia's National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) draft ...
NACC or SNACC? Labor delivers its anti-corruption body but will we get to hear about it?By Callum Foote | September 27, 2022The day has finally arrived: an Australian government today made good on its commitment to legislate an integrity ...
AUKUS was a tough sell already, and now it seems local industry will miss outBy Rex Patrick | September 26, 2022When Australia signed up to the AUKUS pact, it committed to enormously expensive nuclear-powered submarines. And ...
Pokies Thuggery: ClubsNSW lobbyists hammer critics, hide their own dirty laundryBy Michael West | September 26, 2022ClubsNSW is dragging a dying man through the courts, and media identity Friendly Jordies too, but its own house is ...
Angst over corruption watchdog, first Queen’s death, now fear of Dutton dealBy Callum Foote | September 23, 2022News that Labor is in talks with Peter Dutton over the looming Federal Integrity Commission laws have sparked ...
Telling us what we want to hear – Big Tech’s privacy liesBy Manal al-Sharif | September 23, 2022Every time an advertiser pays Big Tech for an ad in your social media feed, your data is the selling point. The ...
Zero sum game: questions surround Australia’s electricity transitionBy Zacharias Szumer | September 22, 2022The urgent task of decarbonisation is raising questions about whether Australia's energy structures are fit for purpose.
Qantas board gets priorities straight – its own pay – as Alan Joyce edges towards $8.7m packageBy Michael Sainsbury | September 21, 2022No matter what happens with customer discontent and employee unrest at Qantas, chief executive Alan Joyce can't lose.
Queen Elizabeth and King Rupert: seven decades of exercising soft power and hardBy Stephen Mayne | September 20, 2022After both lost their fathers suddenly in 1952, Rupert Murdoch and Queen Elizabeth were thrust into unexpected ...
Falk Lines: Information Commissioner fights for the right to hide information indefinitely, que?By Rex Patrick | September 19, 2022Information Commission, Angelene Falk, will argue in the Federal Court that she can take forever to handle FOI ...
“Be honest for once”: cost of secret trials rises as Government covers-up Timor spying fiascoBy Rex Patrick | September 17, 2022The Timor-Leste secret spy trials are not over, with costs already $5m and rising, Rex Patrick writes the ...
Is this the madness that comes with monarchy – or is it the disdain that’s over the top?By Mark Sawyer and Callum Foote | September 16, 2022The ABC’s has sent its big guns to London for the funeral of the Queen. Is this a wise use of taxpayer dollars - ...
Casino royal stuff-up – if the bad guys are running the show, let’s make the bad guys legitBy Mark Sawyer | September 14, 2022Forget the regulation. That's a joke. It can't happen. Every time we hear about an inquiry into a casino, we hear ...
Workers’ share of the national income pie falls to all-time lowBy Alan Austin | September 14, 2022Income tax and company tax rates combined with the various indirect taxes have enriched the top end at the expense ...
Who controls your data online? Hint: it’s not you!By Manal al-Sharif | September 13, 2022Big tech wants us to think we control our own data, but we don't. Our relationship with technology begins with ...