10 - 11 Feb 2023

Daniel Hurst viaGu: Australian intelligence agency advised departmental discretion on using Chinese equipment 14 months ago

Gu: Angus Taylor behind decision to delay energy price rise report until after 2022 election

10-13 Dec 2022

MWM: A Royal Commission into Scott Morrison? He sold off the farm, in secret

John Hewson viaTSP: The worst government in our history

23 Aug 2022

Parliament of Au: Events Calendar

PM&C: Solicitor-General Opinion - In the matter of the validity of the appointment of Mr Morrison to administer the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources

More viaTweet

Shane Dowling: Governor-General David Hurley colludes with Scott Morrison

to steal $18 million from taxpayers

Parliament of Au: Governor-General Amendment (Salary) Bill 2019

10 Aug 2022

Gu: ‘Astonishing’: texts reveal officials’ reaction to Morrison government election day boat arrival demand

Newly released messages between border force and home affairs public servants shed light on ‘unprecedented’ haste to make asylum boat interception public

18 June 2022

John Hewson viaTSP: A matter of integrity commission

17 June 2022

Crikey/Politics: Six months on, lies and lying still need close attention

Gu: Anthony Albanese backflips on national cabinet secrecy and refuses to say why

10 June 2022

Bernard Keane viaCrikey: Nine years on, fed dpts still haven’t fulfilled cybersecurity basics

PnI/Politics/Public Policy: The whole idea of Home Affairs and its constituent parts needs revisiting

June 2018: Public Service Commissioner targeted over IPA links resigns

7 & 8 June 2022

Gu: The new attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, confirms a national integrity commission will have the power to investigate pork-barrelling

Calls for courts and tribunal reform due to stacking to cover up govt corruption

Crikey:

friendlyjordies and PRguy cases

Digital campaigning failed. The people who won big this election were those who listened to the electorate and figured out how to reach relevant voters with the right message

5 June 2022

Govt and Metadata

In 2017, the Federal Government's controversial mandatory data retention laws came into full effect

ALP Treasurer's letter to the ACCC re energy prices skyrocketing

Bernard Keane on the political appointment of Gina Cass-Gottlieb by former Liberal treasurer, Josh Fry. Gina Cass-Gottlieb is more than just a mate of the Murdochs. She's a director of the family trust. It's highly improper for her to head up the competition regulator.

AI: Australia doesn't have a Gas Supply problem. We have a Gas Export problem

March 28, 2022 Australian fossil fuel subsidies surge to $11.6 billion in 2021-22

3 June 2022

Crikey: Audit office exposes indifference to evidence in cashless debit card ‘trial’

Media Release: Abolishing the Cashless Debit Card

from the new Minister for SS after the change of the new ALP government

following the win of the federal election on the 21st of May.

Gu: Bernard Collaery and his former client, Witness K, have been the subject of criminal proceedings for their alleged role in exposing a 2004 bugging operation targeting Timor-Leste.

The outgoing senator Rex wrote to Dreyfus soon after his appointment as attorney general in the Albanese government, urging “immediate action … to end the … prosecution of Mr Bernard Collaery”.

Crossbenchers (independents and greens) back calls.

3 June 2022

The many ‘mistakes’ of Costello’s Nine

2 June 2022

Crikey: A federal ICAC has much to accomplish — where do you start? Here’s Crikey’s list

1 June 2022

AFP to be removed from HA dpt and moved back to AG's portfolio. NACC Taskforce APSjobs

HA: ABF, Criminal Intel Comm (ACIC), Transport Rpts & Analysis, and ASIO

19Apr19 Crikey/Politics: The Coalition is addicted to race-baiting. Don’t expect it to stop.

10Apr2019 Crikey/Immigration : Is Peter Dutton a risk to national security?

18Mar2019 Crikey: Security agencies warned us about right-wing terrorism. We ignored them.

14Feb2019 Crikey: HA is in crisis and only a royal commission can fix it

19Dec,2018 Crikey/Politics: Arsehat of the Year is...

11Dec,2018 Crikey: The disturbing new nat security law that no one is talking about

Dpt of Health and Aged Care

Dpt of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Develop, and Communications.

A new dpt: cc, energy, environment and water.

31 & 30 May 2022

Full List of Labor Ministry:

Fed parliament to start on last Tuesday of July 26

Albanese and Wong to visit Indonesia next week.

Gu: Labor secures majority government

plus a crossbench of Independents and Greens.

Gilmore win at 1.02pm gives Labor 77 seats.

29 May 2022

John Hewson viaTSP: How the media failed this election

MW: Kill off the AAT: it’s stacked with Morrison’s Liberal mates and is no longer credible

27 May 2022

Bernard Keane viaCrikey: Home Affairs breached caretaker conventions and there must be an inquiry

Michael Bradley viaCrikey: Morrison’s boat turnback blitz on election day was his final act of political bastardry

ABCnews/defence correspondent:

Scott Morrison instructed Border Force to reveal election day asylum boat arrival

26 May 2022

Gu: Agency’s statement, which triggered last-minute scare campaign from Liberals, prompts increasing questions about its independence

Investigation into text messages. Acting PM Richard Marles said it was unacceptable.

LiberalNSW's text message re: ABF intercepting an illegal boat trying to reach Aus.

Karen Middleton on ABCnews re: a boat been detected (by the Sri Lankan Navy) ..

TSP: Claims Coalition colluded in election day boat arrival

25 May 2022

Gu: Coalition delayed news that electricity prices are set to rise until after federal election

24 May 2022

Zoe Daniel viaAFR: Why voters turned to teals

MW: Frustrated voters deliver independent’s day

viaYouTube: Australia has spoken. Bye Scott.

Shane Dowling: Community Independents, who helped destroy the Liberal Party,

are a movement that is here to stay and how they weaponised Barnaby Joyce to win seats

Gu: Zero evidence to back Clive Palmer’s claim of staff taking ballots home, AEC says

SMH: Albanese government turns around its first asylum seeker boat

Investigation into text messages. Acting PM Richard Marles said it was unacceptable.

MW: New Treasurer Jim Chalmers to deliver economic update soon. Relevant reading

23 May 2022

Australia's new PM Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong flying off for Quad leaders Meet.

Gu: Australian election 2022 - live results updated 26 May

According to AEC Tally Room, Labor has reached 76 seats at 2.32pm.

Tweet in May 22 re: majority government of 77 seats?

Crikey: Australia’s Big Lie (from the right): Morrison went too far left

IA: Well done, Australia — now let’s fix the joint up properly

22 May 2022

Gu: Peter Dutton firms as next Liberal leader amid fight over future of the party

The beginning of the end of Sky, the greatest danger to Australian democracy

What a win! against all the biased media from News Corp, Nine Entertainment, Ch7 and

ABCnews coverage specially over the Federal election.

Gu: Australia’s government is changing after nine years of the Coalition – what happens next?

MW: The corrupt Coalition gone, PM Anthony Albanese confronts the immense challenge

of repairing Australia

Crikey: One Nation, UAP and ‘freedom movement’ parties fail to make an impact

21 May 2022 AusVotes 2022

2.44pm: LiberalNSW's text message re: ABF intercepting an illegal boat trying to reach Aus.

1.39pm: Karen Middleton on ABCnews re: a boat been detected (by the Sri Lankan Navy) ..

19 & 18 May 2022

Labor's costings thread: $7.4bn

LNP: $1.2bn (robodebt) + 60bn (jobkeeper blunder) + $5.5bn (non-existent subs)

and $1bn on advertising themselves.

Gu: Liberal Medicare ad referred to AEC after Labor complaint over health department link

TSP on campaign

TSP 28 Sep 2021: Morrrison's hidden recession

IA 26 July 2021: Morrison’s recession: Australia’s worst since records have been kept

18 May 2022

16 May 2022

friendlyjordies viaYouTube:

The Journalist Who Wants Me Arrested

Crikey: Campaign of lies & falsehoods

Scott Morrison's six weeks of deception

13 May 2022

Katharine Murphy viaGu: Even Scott Morrison is trying to distance himself from Scott Morrison now

12 & 11 May 2022

Missed leaders' debate on 7news; but, it seems that I did not miss anything.

15 May: Based on West Australian, list of debate questions were leaked to the PMO

before the debate. No wonder he was calm..

The Tudge fudge

Low attendance for Barbaby Joyce at Press Club

According to a new poll (The Australian), Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will probably lose his blue-ribbon seat to teal independent Monique Ryan. The poll also found fellow Victorian Liberal Tim Wilson would probably lose in Goldstein

The Guardian: Treasurer is facing off against a popular independent

Richard Denniss viaTSP: Why the days of safe Liberal seats are almost over

Crikey: Malcolm Turnbull, the former PM is encouraging voters to abandon the Liberal Party

and to pick independents over Liberals.

10 May 2022

Bernard Keane viaCrikey: Why aren’t Morrison’s campaign tricks working?

First Dog on the Moon: The whole wretched election campaign: The debates! The gotchas!

The raw chicken!

9 May 2022

Denis Muller viaTheConversation:

As News Corp goes ‘rogue’ on election coverage, what price will Australian democracy pay?

8 May 2022

Fed ICAC election promise broken

Sarah Martin viaGu: Clash over cost of living and integrity in messy leaders’ debate

Katharine Murphy viaGu: Awful leaders' debate hosted by Nine

7 May 2022

Richard Denniss viaTSP: Why the days of safe Liberal seats are almost over

TSP: Why is Scott Morrison dodging the ABC?

6 May 2022

Amanda Meade viaGu: Headlines go hardline on Albanese while Morrison looks to the Sky

While the prime minister was given free rein, the Labor leader faced the heat on Q+A.

The Guardian: Treasurer is facing off against a popular independent but polling shows his biggest hurdle may be Scott Morrison

Crikey: Malcolm Turnbull is encouraging voters to abandon the Liberal Party and switch their allegiance to independent challengers. The former prime minister, knifed by Scott Morrison in 2018, is urging voters to pick independents over Liberals.

5 May 2022

Ind Monique Ryan v Josh Fraudenberg on one-hour debate viaSky (non-skysubcribers unable to watch it) at Hawthorn Town Hall.

Dr Monique: Australia is already ruled by a minority govt

because of the Lib's coalition with the Nats. and

Frydenberg's govt is divided and disappointed and bad with a record in debt.

AAP viaMW: Cybersecurity risk ruling for fin services

NPC Debate:

Shadow Minister for Defence, Brendan O'Connor v Peter Dutton, Defence min.

25 April: Michael Pascoe viaTND:

Australia’s spooks go dangerously rogue – or lie. Or both

29 Mar Georgia Wilkins viaCrikey:

Taxpayers are footing the bill for a $5b French company to fight over the submarine contract

22 Sep 2021 Late Night Live with Phillip Adams

How Australia's pile of national security legislation stacks up

2 May The Juice Media: The Australien Govt has made a final ad before the 2022 federal election,

and it’s surprisingly honest and info! This is the last in these series of Au Govt ads and

summarising everything U need to remember before U decide how to vote.

26 April: MW 'The Liberal Myth' video.

It's 11 mins and covers the lies that the Liberals repeat over and over again in the hopes that some people will come to believe them It is useful that MW lists it in one watchable

4 May 2022

7.30 Report on Goldstein electorate: Independent Zoe Daniel v Tim Wilson Lib MP

Vote 1 Zoe Daniel, Independent For Goldstein

Zoe Daniel: Same Isn't Safe

Josh Butler viaGu: Debates

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his Labor shadow Jim Chalmers faced off on Wednesday at the NPC, fighting over economic management, while Peter Dutton and Brendan O’Connor have a defence debate on Thursday. Also tomorrow, Albanese will be the sole guest on a special episode of Q&A where he’ll be grilled by the audience. He then squares off against Morrison in their second debate on Sunday. Thursday also brings the hotly-anticipated Kooyong debate between Frydenberg and independent Monique Ryan, where we expect sparks will fly.

Speaking of debates…

Quote of the dayWe’ve invited the major parties to take part in debates on health, foreign policy, aged care, women and climate change. We have not been able to get the parties to agree on those debates

– NPC president and 7.30 political correspondent Laura Tingle, pointing out the Coalition and Labor couldn’t get on board with public debates on such critical issues.

It comes as the ABC and the Press Club misses out on election debates between Morrison and Albanese, with the major parties instead deciding on a debate on pay TV (Sky) and two on commercial networks Seven and Nine – sadly forgoing the public broadcaster. Amanda Meade today reported the Seven debate would happen at 9.10pm, after Big Brother aired, while Nine’s debate this Sunday will begin at 8.45pm, following Lego Masters.

2 May 2022

Bernard Keane viaCrikey: Dreyfus attacks Collaery prosecution: ‘an affront to the rule of law’