Tag Archives: ICAC

JOHN MENADUE. Conservatives set the rules but they keep breaking them. (Repost from 7 February 2017)

Posted on 8 August 2017

Many people around the world are concluding that the system is rigged in favour of powerful insiders who bend the rules. The populists – Trump, Farage, Le Pen and Hanson are adept at tapping into that disempowerment and the sense … Continue reading →

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QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Slack electoral regulations and the arrogance of power

Posted on 30 May 2017

Senator Pauline Hanson denies any impropriety.  We are told there is nothing to see in the Liberal Party siphoning cash from their MPs’ taxpayer-funded electoral allowances purportedly to fund the party’s voter analysis entity Parakeelia Pty. Ltd. ALP Senator Sam Dastyari’s … Continue reading →

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JOHN AUSTEN. How port privatisation will hobble Newcastle

Posted on 5 September 2016

Commonwealth action is necessary to undo potential penalties on Newcastle Port. While the infrastructure conversation focusses on major projects like electricity grids it can ignore more significant matters. One such matter in NSW that deserves immediate attention is port privatisations. … Continue reading →

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John Menadue. How vested interests are subverting the public interest.

Posted on 27 February 2015

There are many key public issues that we must address. They include climate change, growing inequality, tax avoidance, budget repair, an ageing population, lifting our productivity and our treatment of asylum seekers. But our capacity to address these hard issues … Continue reading →

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John Menadue. The scholarship is the real issue.

Posted on 2 December 2014

Freya Newman has been placed on a two year good behaviour bond  with no conviction recorded  for  accessing the computer system of the Whitehouse Institute of Design concerning a ‘scholarship’ awarded to Francis Abbott. Overwhelmingly the media coverage has been … Continue reading →

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Mike Steketee. Buying favours of politicians.

Posted on 1 October 2014

You might be interested in this repost. John Menadue   If the staggering evidence before the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has taught us anything, then it must surely be to end the charade that democracy can function properly when … Continue reading →

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John Menadue. We were warned about lobbying.

Posted on 23 April 2014

In my blog of April 19 2014, ‘This is about more than a bottle of wine’ I referred to the need for major reforms in lobbying. Three and a half years ago the ICAC in NSW brought forward proposals to … Continue reading →

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