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Prime Minister & COVID
Our hands-off prime minister (Aug ‘20) Thanks to coronavirus, Scott Morrison will become a significant prime minister (Apr ‘20) The PM risks over-egging the response to coronavirus (Mar ’20) Stay positive, Scott Morrison: when you berate people for bad behaviour, they do it more (Mar '20) Morrison tells big business to show ‘patriotism’ as COVID-19 threatens to hit harder than GFC (Mar '20)
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Political Leadership
- Commonwealth of Australia Numbered Acts
- The government does not need to import divisive leadership strategies from overseas (Jun '20)
- Why good leaders need to hold the hose: how history might read Morrison’s coronavirus leadership (may '20)
- How the coronavirus pandemic is (finally) resulting in leadership for the greater good (Apr '20)
- Morrison's 'good habits' of cooperation in crisis may die hard in recovery (Apr ’20)
- What Morrison did wrong on coronavirus (Mar '20)
- Stay positive, Scott Morrison: when you berate people for bad behaviour, they do it more (Mar '20)
- Looking for Scott Morrison (Mar '20)
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Government Corruption / Secrecy / Cover Up / Incompetence / Accountability / Conflict of Interest
- Shine Energy gets 'first milestone payment' of $3.6m grant for Collinsville coal plant (Aug '20)
- Unredacted Documents Prove Commonwealth Paid Too Much for ‘Watergate’ (Aug '20)
- Morrison’s muppet show — a galaxy of grubs, duds and also-rans (Aug '20)
- Gutless Wonders: when will politicians demonstrate the accountability they foist on the rest of us? (Aug '20)
- Witness K is in the dock but institutions vital to Australia’s democracy are on trial (Aug '20)
- Federal officials shielded from Ruby Princess inquiry (Aug '20)
- Federal officials shielded from Ruby Princess inquiry (Aug '20)
- Ruby Princess: Gladys Berejiklian refuses calls to extend inquiry to hear from official who refused to appear (Aug '20)
- Small business ombudsman awards contracts to Liberal-linked firm without tender (Aug '20)
- Covid-19 commission grants communications contract to firm headed by ex-Liberal staffers (Aug '20)
- National cabinet deliberations may not be exempt from FoI, legal advice says (Jul '20)
- Shine Energy invited to apply for Collinsville power station grant two days after securing it (Jul '20)
- Australian PM's department refuses to release Covid-19 commission documents (Jul '20)
- Morrison broadens membership of Covid-19 commission but says advice to remain off-limits to public (Jul '20)
- Mysterious Mr Power, architect of our recovery (Jul '20)
- Tim Wilson helped IPA and solicited Liberal party endorsement while in human rights position (Jul '20)
- Coalition trying to stop auditor general giving evidence on report critical of arms deal (Jul '20)
- Centrelink debts have been collected based on income-averaging for '20 to 30 years', minister reveals (Jul '20)
- The secrecy in the Witness K case is an attempt by the government to avoid scrutiny (Jul '20)
- Morrison ditched Turnbull-era plans for greater transparency in political lobbying (Jul '20)
- Why Bernard Collaery’s case is one of the gravest threats to freedom of expression (Jul '20)
- From robodebt to racism: what can go wrong when governments let algorithms make the decisions (Jun '20)
- Coalition spends $2m on prosecution of Bernard Collaery and Witness K, even before trial (Jun '20)
- Q+A: Australia likened to North Korea in its secret trial of Bernard Collaery (Jun '20)
- 'I am unable to say much': anger simmers as Timor bugging hearing goes ahead in secret (Jun '20)
- Cabinet ministers charge taxpayers for trip involving party fundraiser (Jun '20)
- View from The Hill: Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account (Jun '20)
- Transparency around government decision-making is another casualty of Covid-19 (Jun '20)
- Government refuses to release conflict-of-interest disclosures from Covid commission members (Jun '20)
- Federal integrity commission delayed again amid warnings of coronavirus response corruption risk (may '20)
- Coalition's proposed anti-corruption body flawed and weak, police veteran warns (Apr '20)
- Company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally poisoned endangered grasslands, investigation finds (Apr '20)
- Matt Canavan billed taxpayers $5,390 for charter flight to attend coalmine opening (Mar ‘20)
- Mining giant given millions in grant by Coalition from fund for Indigenous disadvantage (Mar ’20)
- A government of lies, damned lies and gymnastics (Mar ’20)
- Prime minister's department broke the law delaying FOI request, watchdog finds (Feb '20)
- Government to spend millions buying water from company it already paid $80m (Feb '20)
- The ties that bind: just how much does the deputy PM know about a $2.4m grant? (Feb '20)
- It's time we clipped the ministerial wing of its protected species - the advisers (Feb '20)
- More than $100m donated to political parties from hidden sources in election year (Feb '20)
- Everything you need to know about the water buyback scandal (May '19)
- Taylor made: Deeper into the floodwater scandal (May '19)
- The 'watergate scandal' is still as clear as mud in a drought (Apr '19)
- Coalition's plan for anti-corruption body a 'sham' set up to protect MPs, former judge says (Jan '19)
- Matt Canavan leaves two properties worth more than $1m off 2019 declaration of interests (Feb '20)
- Canavan delayed releasing documents about coal lobby interactions before resigning (Feb '20)
- A government report has been locked away — but it wasn't the only thing kept from voters this week (Feb '20)
- Ex-director of controversial security company Paladin willing to tell all (Feb '20)
- AFP’s failure to investigate Angus Taylor has corrosive consequences for our democracy (Feb '20)
- Liberal party claims declaration of a $165k donation by Morrison ally was a mistake (Feb '20)
- Government rejected several offers on water rights before reaching $80m deal (Jan '20)
- Why we need strong ethical standards for ministers – and better ways of enforcing them (Jan '20)
- Morrison Ends Own Press Conference After Climate Q’s And Pressure On Fire Response (Jan '20)
- George Christensen pays back $2,100 after audit finds he misused travel expenses (Jan '20)
- Cotton, water and Angus Taylor: how the minister's firm struggled to make farms pay (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison's Hawaii horror show: how a PR disaster unfolded (Dec '19)
- ‘Where’s the Prime Minister?’: Mystery surrounds Scott Morrison as he takes a holiday (Dec '19)
- #WHERETHEBLOODYHELLAREYOU: SCOTT MORRISON IS ON HOLIDAY AND AUSTRALIA IS NOT IMPRESSED (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison facing online criticism for pre-Christmas family overseas holiday (Dec '19)
- PM’s office refuses to release drought reports Barnaby Joyce says he sent via text (Dec '19)
- NSW Police refuse to deny PM Scott Morrison has interfered in the investigation into paedophile protector Brian Houston (Nov '19)
- Government blocks access to emails about Angus Taylor's attack on Clover Moore (Nov '19)
- The PM’s problem with keeping secrets (Oct '19)
- Scott Morrison refuses to say if he wanted Hillsong's Brian Houston invited to White House (Oct '19)
- Barnaby Joyce spent $675,000 in expenses but less than three weeks on ground while drought envoy (Sep '19)
- Fresh documents in Morrison’s sacking (Jun '19)
- Josh Frydenberg's office asked if environmental rule changes could be kept secret (Jun '19)
- Warren Mundine approved for Sky News government grant before applying (Jun '19)
- Fresh documents in Morrison’s sacking (Jun '19)
- Angus Taylor met with environment department even as it investigated company he part-owns (Jun '19)
- Liberal Party figure admits Chinese-language federal election signs were meant to look like AEC material (May '19)
- Angus Taylor says he did not set up Caymans structure on $80m water buyback (May '19)
- Angus Taylor's Oxford rowing mate's company was a beneficiary of $80m water deal (May '19)
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison's election campaign (May '19)
- Federal election 2019: Fraudulent how-to-vote cards told Greens voters to preference Peter Dutton (May '19)
- The 5 most uncomfortable moments from Scott Morrison's The Project interview with Waleed Aly. (Mar '19)
- Australia's offshore contracts: how millions were spent for dubious outcomes (Feb'19)
- Morrison ‘hijacked’ NZ tourism review (Nov '18)
- Peter Dutton's au pair decisions 'anything but routine', Labor says (Sep '18)
- Suspicious minds are circling Helloworld boss (Feb '19)
- Stuart Robert repays nearly $38,000 for home internet bills (Oct '18)
- Barnaby Joyce’s decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics (May ‘18)
- News Corp yet to reveal spend details over Foxtel's $30 million government handout (Feb '18)
- PM's office says Vikki Campion jobs did not breach rules because she was not Barnaby Joyce's 'partner' (Feb '18)
- Stuart Robert had multiple notifications about excess internet data costs he charged to taxpayers (may '20)
- Angus Taylor and Scott Morrison won't be able to brush off uncomfortable questions much longer (Apr '20)
- No evidence doctored documents Angus Taylor used to attack council existed on website, NSW police say (Apr '20)
- The court case Australians are not allowed to know about: how national security is being used to bully citizens (Apr '20)
- Government increases spend on Covid-19 data analytics as it declines to release modelling (Mar ‘20)
- NSW police chief denies advising PM on whether Angus Taylor should step down over doctored document (Mar ’20)>
- Scott Morrison wants the nation to trust him – but how can we after sports rorts? (Mar '20)
- Scott Morrison confirms he sought White House invite for Hillsong pastor Brian Houston (Mar '20)
- Scott Morrison’s one-man cabinet committee an ‘abuse of process’, Labor says (Mar '20)
- Clover Moore demands PM explain Angus Taylor's use of false document to attack her (Feb ’20)
- AFP did not interview Angus Taylor over false document before dropping investigation (Feb '20)
- Coalition ministers ‘kept no records’ of meeting overturning advice and awarding $5m to party donor (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison refuses to release notes of call with NSW police chief over doctored document (Nov '19)
- Who's in the Room? Access and influence inAustralian politics (Sep '18)
- Liberal Andrew Robb took $880k China job as soon as he left Parliament (Jun '17)
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Foreign Affairs
- Asylum or economic opportunity? The mixed messages in Australia’s new Hong Kong visa options (Jul '20)
- ‘The rot goes right up to Beijing’: Why detained professor Xu Zhangrun is such a threat to China’s leadership (Jul '20)
- China has a new way to exert political pressure: weaponising its courts against foreigners (Jun '20)
- Fast moves in India-Australia relations risk pushing millions more into modern slavery (May '20)
- Morrison could muzzle his China hawks – but he wants to be all things to all people (May '20)
- Behind China’s newly aggressive diplomacy: ‘wolf warriors’ ready to fight back (May '20)
- Australia has dug itself into a hole in its relationship with China. It’s time to find a way out (May '20)
- Australian government tells ICC it should not investigate alleged war crimes in Palestine (May '20)
- China's coercive behaviour a 'wake-up call', Australia's former top public servant says (May '20)
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Funding Cuts
- ABC managing director rejects Scott Morrison's claim broadcaster's funding 'increasing every year' (Jul '20)
- Exclusive: New govt report targets ABC (Jun '20)
- ABC cuts to factual programming a blow to Australian TV industry, say independent producers (Jun '20)
- Ita Buttrose rebukes Scott Morrison's claims the ABC's budget has not been cut (Jun '20)
- ABC to cut national head of emergency broadcasting position despite bushfires success (Jun '20)
- Closing ABC Life is more about politics and appeasement than good outcomes (Jun '20)
- Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and our democracy (Jun '20)
- ABC to cut 250 jobs, dump 7.45am radio news bulletin and axe ABC Life brand (Jun '20)
- Cutting the ABC cuts public trust, a cost no democracy can afford (Jun '20)
- ABC to slash programming and services as it grapples with Coalition funding cuts (Jun '20)
- How Australia's 'panic and neglect' funding cycle has left us vulnerable to pandemics like coronavirus (Jun '20)
- ABC must freeze wages, government warns (may '20)
- ABC loses $793m funding since 2014 when Coalition made its first cuts – report (Apr '20)
- We are witnessing a cultural bloodbath in Australia that has been years in the making (Apr '20)
- Morrison government to stop funding international collaboration on shift to zero emissions (Mar '20)
- 'Our big, dirty secret': Funding runs out for top cancer researcher (Mar '20)
- Children's access to disability funding depending on where they live dubbed 'developmental apartheid' (Feb '20)
- CapTel text-captioned telephones will not work as of February in blow for Australia's deaf community (Jan '20)
- Coalition's axing of funding to climate change adaptation body condemned (Jan '20)
- National Parks left to burn after jobs and funding cuts (Nov '19)
- Federal funding cut a threat to hearing impaired phone transcriptions, providers say (Apr '19)
- 'Unfunded empathy': Scott Morrison pushes back on growing calls to lift Newstart rate (Jul '19)
- Australian Medical Association warns hospital 'funding crisis' jeopardises patient safety (Feb '19)
- CSIRO cuts: as redundancies are announced, the real cost is revealed (May '16)
- Hospital funding cuts strain Fed-state relations (May '15)
- CSIRO cuts researchers CSIRO has 'cut into the bone' to implement successive government cuts, chairman says (Dec ’14)
- ABC cuts not an ‘efficiency dividend’, says Malcolm Turnbull, contradicting Abbott (Nov ’14)
- CSIRO cuts researchers at high containment laboratory (Aug ’14)
- Federal Budget 2014: Tony Abbott breaks election promise with cuts to ABC and SBS funding (May ’14)
- Budget 2014: $534 million cut to Indigenous programs (May '14)
- $140 million government funding cuts to the CSIRO will have huge impacts on scientific research in Australia (May ’14)
- CSIRO braces for budget cut of up to $150 million (Apr ’14)
- Tony Abbott: some elderly Covid patients could be left to die naturally (Sep '20)
- The spread of coronavirus in Australia is not the fault of individuals but a result of neoliberalism (Aug '20)
- The Morrison government is using the COVID-19 crisis to devastate the public service, the ABC, the arts and tertiary education (Aug '20)
- Australian War Memorial volunteers told they could lose role if they speak publicly about controversial expansion (Jul '20)
- HomeBuilder only makes sense as a nod to Morrison’s home-owning voter base (Jul '20)
- The Morrison government's hypocrisy on debt and deficit is galling (Jul '20)
- Coalition gives another $10m to Foxtel to boost women's sport on TV (Jul '20)
- Josh Frydenberg watered down company disclosure laws despite Asic warning against it (Jul '20)
- ABC managing director rejects Scott Morrison's claim broadcaster's funding 'increasing every year' (Jul '20)
- This pandemic has exposed the uselessness of orthodox economics (Jul '20)
- Defunding arts degrees is the latest battle in a 40-year culture war (Jul '20)
- Exclusive: New govt report targets ABC (Jun '20)
- If the government listened to business leaders, they would encourage humanities education, not pull funds from it (Jun '20)
- For Scott Morrison, one protester's free expression is another's dangerous activity (Jun '20)
- ‘Tick-a-box approach’: fears Australia’s efforts to tackle modern slavery risk being derailed (Jun '20)
- Winding back JobKeeper won't just be economically difficult for the Coalition — it'll be politically diabolical (Jun '20)
- She won’t be right, mate: how the government shaped a blokey lockdown followed by a blokey recovery (Jun '20)
- Cutting the ABC cuts public trust, a cost no democracy can afford (Jun '20)
- The Coalition dishes out jobs for the boys while women carry coronavirus' economic burden (Jun '20)
- Free childcare doesn’t suit the Coalition’s ideology – we get what we voted for (Jun '20)
- The homebuilder scheme is simply pork-barrelling to the Coalition's electoral base (Jun '20)
- Scott Morrison's call for Australia to renovate won't rebuild a broken economy (Jun '20)
- Scott Morrison: Black Lives Matter protesters should be charged if they defy advice and march (Jun '20)
- Archaic ideas of market liberalism continue to wreak havoc (Jun '20)
- Austerity and victim blaming: Scott Morrison goes back to the old politics (May '20)
- Why is the Australian government letting universities suffer? (may '20)
- Time to come clean, Scott Morrison, on the hidden agenda (May '20)
- Australia's coronavirus recovery has many competing values on the table (May '20)
- Hundreds facing the sack with ABC cuts (May '20)
- Trickle-down theory continues to feed the rich (May '20)
- ABC loses $793m funding since 2014 when Coalition made its first cuts – report (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus no excuse to push 'ideological' changes such as company tax cuts, Labor says (Apr '20)
- Morrison's 'good habits' of cooperation in crisis may die hard in recovery (Apr '20)
- Has coronavirus killed ideology? No, it’s just cycled it around again (Apr '20)
- How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism (Apr '20)
- ‘Where no counsel is, the people fall’: why parliaments should keep functioning during the coronavirus crisis (Mar '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: No change in Australia's stance on out of work Kiwis (Mar '20)
- Labor says Australia must take rightwing extremist threat ‘seriously’ and review terror list (Mar '20)
- Domestic violence: women's safety advocates say Coalition is ignoring experts (Mar ’20)
- Australia's jack-booted deportation policy
- Not much love actually: Jacinda Ardern was right to call out Australia's 'corrosive' policies (Feb '20)
- Josh Frydenberg urged to 'do the right thing' after 'offensive' Hindu comments (Feb '20)
- If Australia's resources were taxed the way Norway's are, we could secure the future of our schools (Feb '20)
- Peter Dutton’s response to a far-right threat shows how little has changed since Christchurch (Feb '20)
- Dutton says 'leftwing lunatics' must be dealt with as Asio warns of far-right threat (Feb '20)
- The Coalition wants to turn scientists into lapdogs – and muzzle climate research in the process (Feb '20)
- Blinded by the right - The Morrison government is failing to crack down on far-right extremism (Feb '20)
- The religious freedom bill has nothing to do with religion – it excludes and it traumatises (Feb '20)
- High court rules Aboriginal Australians are not 'aliens' under the constitution and cannot be deported (Feb '20)
- Coalition seeks to sidestep high court ruling that Aboriginal non-citizens can't be deported (Feb '20)
- Barnaby Joyce is right that the Nationals should speak up. But not to serve his ambition (Feb '20)
- Religious discrimination bill will harm patients and discriminate against doctors, AMA warns (Jan '20)
- 'These children are in limbo': the New Zealanders locked out of Australia's NDIS (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison cuts government departments in major public service changes (Dec '19)
- An end to Morrison’s mean-spiritedness is the Christmas gift Australia needs (Dec '19)
- What happened? The policies Scott Morrison's government appears to have abandoned (Dec '19)
- Vital Signs: Australia’s nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison criticised after saying transgender teens pressured by 'identity politics' (Oct '19)
- Why are we still pretending 'trickle-down' economics work? (Jun '19)
- The brutal truth on housing. Someone has to lose in order for first homebuyers to win (May '19)
- Election 2019: Another dose of fear (May '19)
- Win or lose the next election, it may be time for the Liberals to rethink their economic narrative (May '19)
- Bullying in politics is not just a Liberal problem: it's a political ideology (Sep '18)
- Warren Buffett on the US economy: ‘The tsunami of wealth didn’t trickle down. It surged upward’ (Jan '18)
- Porter's new job needs more than locking up offenders and throwing away the key (Jan '18)
- ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson (Aug '17)
- Michael McCormack’s homophobic slurs re-emerge amid postal plebiscite controversy (Aug '17)
- CSIRO cuts researchers at high containment laboratory (Aug '14)
- Abbott’s faceless men of the IPA (Jun '14)
Political Ideology
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Government Rorts
- Sports rorts: Coalition approved at least six grants without an application form, documents reveal (Jul '20)
- Failing the pub test: how can Australian voters call time on MPs' expense claims? (Jun '20)
- Michael McCormack and wife billed taxpayers for Melbourne Cup flights (Jun '20)
- Bridget McKenzie was told to seek Scott Morrison's 'authority' for sports grants program (may '20)
- Sport Australia warned Bridget McKenzie over sports grants decisions, emails reveal (Mar '20)
- Sports rorts: football body in marginal seat awarded $500k on top of $800k from state (Mar '20)
- Bridget McKenzie warned by legal expert 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' (Mar ’20)
- Covid-19 is pushing sports rorts from the news. But at least one potential crime must be investigated – Tony Harris (Mar '20)
- Sports rorts: Scott Morrison sidesteps question about late changes to spreadsheet (Mar ’20)
- Bridget McKenzie could be personally liable over sports grants, expert tells Senate hearing (Mar ’20)
- Sport Australia defies Senate on questions over sports rorts grants (Mar ’20)
- Sports rorts changes everything. It's time for a federal Icac (Mar '20)
- Nigel Scullion approved $560m in grants in lead-up to election (Mar '20)
- This Rorting Life … the Prime Minister is up to his neck in it (Mar '20)
- Bridget McKenzie reignites sports rorts affair by denying late changes to grants (Mar '20)
- NSW Nationals deputy Bronwyn Taylor notified instantly of $8m grant to husband's organisation (Mar '20)
- Sports rorts: agency admits failing to tell Senate about second McKenzie email (Mar '20)
- Scott Morrison has been caught out over sports rorts (Mar '20)
- Senior public servant tells inquiry she destroyed sports grants meeting notes (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison maintains sports grants were decided before final emails to his office (Feb '20)
- Bridget McKenzie gave Sport Australia final list of grant projects in caretaker period (Feb '20)
- The PM is squarely in the frame over the sports rorts affair (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison and Bridget McKenzie's offices exchanged 136 emails about sports grants program (Feb '20)
- The sports rorts remind us politics is a 'game of mates'. We need an independent umpire (Feb '20)
- The sports grants saga isn't going away, and it means Scott Morrison will need to change tack – David Speers (Feb '20)
- ‘Unprecedented’ $400k grant given to aged-care home operator in Nationals electorate (Feb '20)
- Bridget McKenzie gave 'spare' $150,000 to shooting study rather than major games for intellectually impaired (Feb '20)
- Audit Office says Scott Morrison and Bridget McKenzie's offices shared partisan colour-coded spreadsheets (Feb '20)
- Coalition dished out $636m in grants in six months before 2019 election (Feb '20)
- Coalition pledged $4.5m for tidal pool despite opposition from local council (Feb '20)
- Liberal MP linked $500,000 sports grant to 'great strategising' that led to victory (Feb '20)
- If we move on from the sports grants now as the Coalition wants, we tolerate corruption – Tony Harris (Feb '20)
- View from The Hill: We need to see Gaetjens’ report on McKenzie – not least for Gaetjens’ sake (Feb '20)
- Coalition quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund during election campaign (Feb '20)
- Hard evidence that Scott Morrison’s office was up to its collective neck in the rorting (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison wants the sports rorts mess to be over with McKenzie's exit. It won't be (Feb '20)
- Ministers like Bridget McKenzie have no discretion to break the rules – Prof. Anne Twomey (Feb '20)
- Don't hold your breath waiting for the truth on Bridget McKenzie's sports rort – Anne Davies (Feb '20)
- Morrison's twisted logic on the sports rort is perfectly Trumpian – and no surprise (Feb '20)
- Sports rorts: almost half the projects funded were ineligible, audit office says (Feb '20)
- The sports rorts saga has become a political vulnerability that can't be explained away (Feb '20)
- Government's sport grants leaked spreadsheet reveals more secrets about the scheme (Feb '20)
- Bridget McKenzie's sport grant cash splash is a particularly brazen example of pork-barrelling – David Speers (Jan '20)
- Bridget McKenzie's sports grants program may be unconstitutional, expert warns – Prof. Anne Twomey (Jan '20)
- The ‘sports rorts’ affair shows the government misunderstands the role of the public service (Jan '20)
- Sports rorts: attorney general defends ministers' powers while awaiting McKenzie review (Jan '20)
- Sports grants: Coalition rejected 12 grant applications for female change rooms at local sport grounds (Jan '20)
- Bridget McKenzie granted $500,000 to Coalition colleague's Northern Territory gun club (Jan '20)
- Shameless – Scott Morrison defends the indefensible (Jan '20)
- Sport Australia complained about political interference in the Government's sports grants program (Jan '20)
- Sport Australia warned Bridget McKenzie's grants program compromised its independence (Jan '20)
- Whistleblower in Bridget McKenzie’s office reveals grant fears were silenced Jan '20)
- The PM’s upset election win looks very different now (Jan '20)
- Bridget McKenzie’s office told ‘not appropriate’ to approve sports grants after applications closed (Jan '20)
- We missed out on a sports grant for our club – now we know how unethical the process has been (Jan '20)
- Grattan on Friday: Bridget McKenzie has made herself a sitting duck (Jan '20)
- Mosman Rowing Club donates paddle to assist Bridget McKenzie escape shit creek (Jan '20) – The Chaser
- Federal ICAC would investigate sports grants affair, former NSW auditor-general says (Jan '20)
- 'Sports rorts' grants explained: how we got here and why it all matters (Jan '20)
- Sports grants: rugby club gets funding for female change rooms but has no women's team (Jan '20)
- Audit office blasts roll-out of Coalition’s $200m regional jobs and investment program (Nov '19)
- Deputy Nationals leader rejected more than 600 grants recommended by Sport Australia (Oct '19)
- Election cash splash coming from government grants (May '19)
- Will heads roll? Ministerial standards and Stuart Robert (Feb '16)
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Totalitarianism/Propaganda/Control
- Asio boss denies expanded powers could be used to target Black Lives Matter protesters (Jul '20)
- Morrison ruling by ‘Henry VIII’ clauses (Jul '20)
- Why Bernard Collaery’s case is one of the gravest threats to freedom of expression (Jul '20)
- Dutton's bid to ban mobile phones in immigration detention centres could be unconstitutional (Jun '20)
- For Scott Morrison, one protester's free expression is another's dangerous activity (Jun '20)
- What makes pepper spray so intense? And is it a tear gas? A chemical engineer explains (Jun '20)
- Australians’ personal freedoms could be under serious threat with the new Asio bill (may '20)
- Asio could question children and more easily use more tracking devices under new powers (May '20)
- Peter Dutton pushes for overseas police to tap Australians’ phones (Mar '20)
- Tasmanian anti-logging protesters banned from forests over 'unsafe behaviour' (Feb '20)
- Aurora Australis officer asked to remove post criticising Scott Morrison's climate policy (Feb '20)
- AFP warrants used to raid ABC valid, Federal Court rules (Feb '20)
- Coalition may use government contracts to crack down on environment protests (Feb '20)
- Eureka flag ban shows government’s distaste for democracy (Feb '20)
- Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology (Jan '20)
- Cult that defines Trump's power is just a few scratches away from the surface in Australia (Nov '19)
- Scott Morrison threatens crackdown on protesters who would 'deny liberty' (Nov '19)
- Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy (Nov '19)
- I live-tweeted the AFP's every move as they raided the ABC's Sydney headquarters (Jun '19)
- As the press gallery ate up Shearer Scotty, down the road taxpayers were being fleeced (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison's political ad is a bizarre act of self-love as firefighters battle to save Australia (Jan '20)
- Protesting and boycotting the Morrison Government way (Nov '19)
- Morrison government paid empathy consultant $190,000 (Oct '19)
- 'Shorten wants to end the weekend': Morrison attacks Labor's electric vehicle policy (Apr '19)
- Coalition trying to stop auditor general giving evidence on report critical of arms deal (Jul '20)
- Australia to spend $270b building larger military to prepare for 'poorer, more dangerous' world (Jun '20)
- Australia to acquire long-range missiles as PM warns of dangerous post-Covid-19 world (Jun '20)
- ‘Deeply offensive’: Australian War Memorial urged not to renew BAE sponsorship (Jun '20)
Miltary Weapons/Defence/Arms Sales