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Tag Archives: ICAC
JOHN MENADUE. Conservatives set the rules but they keep breaking them. (Repost from 7 February 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
Posted in Defence/Security, Media, Politics
Tagged Al Gore, Howard and Iraq, ICAC, John Menadue, Nigel Farage, Royal Comissions, Simon Schama, terrorism, Trump, US Supreme Court
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QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Slack electoral regulations and the arrogance of power
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
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged electoral commissions, electoral laws, Four Corners, ICAC, Parakeelia Pty Ltd, Pauline Hanson, Quetin Dempster
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JOHN AUSTEN. How port privatisation will hobble Newcastle
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
Posted in Economy, Infrastructure, Politics
Tagged Federal State relations, ICAC, infraustructure, Operation Spicer., ports, privatisation
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John Menadue. How vested interests are subverting the public interest.
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
Posted in Economy, Health, Politics
Tagged ABC, Australia 21, ICAC, IPA, lobbyists, Media Council, Parliamentary Budget Office
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John Menadue. The scholarship is the real issue.
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
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged Francis Abbott, Freya Newman, ICAC, Magistrate O'Sullivan, The Whitehouse Institute, Tony Abbott
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Mike Steketee. Buying favours of politicians.
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
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged Chris Hartcher, Eddie Obeid, funding elections, Geoffrey Watson, ICAC, Mike Steketee
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