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[Link] Australia’s Future Fund invested in weapons manufacturers that have sold arms to Myanmar military
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar military, which is accused of crimes against humanity.
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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.
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[Link] NSW premier orders grants review as it’s revealed $20m school solar program went mostly to Coalition seats
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet ordered a review of grants funding in the state at the same time it was revealed more than 90% of schools selected as part of a $20m pilot to fund solar power systems were in Coalition-held seats.
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[Link] Two-thirds of Australians think government more interested in protecting itself than women – poll
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Two in three respondents in the latest Essential poll believe the government has shown more interest in protecting its political interests than the interests of women who have made rape and sexual assault allegations.
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[Link] $25bn in Coalition grants made through closed process with no competitors, report finds
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Almost half of $60.2bn in federal government grants awarded over the past four years has not gone through a competitive open tender process, a new report on federal grant spending has found. The auditor general has published an “information report” on the $60.
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[Link] Icac documents: Mike Baird staffer questioned why Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.5m in ‘safe seat’ of Wagga Wagga
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
One of former New South Wales premier Mike Baird’s top staff members questioned why then-treasurer Gladys Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.
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[Link] ‘It needs more work’: Liberal MPs call for tougher federal integrity commission
Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A growing number of Liberal MPs are pushing for the government to toughen up its proposed federal integrity commission, amid criticism from the crossbench and experts that the draft bill is too weak.
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[Link] Latin American democracy is in poor but surprisingly stable health
Read: 14/10/2021 www.economist.com
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[Link] ‘Not above the law’: warning for Australia’s Department of Social Services over threat to ignore tribunal
Read: 7/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Department of Social Services has been warned it is “not above the law” after a tribunal heard government officials threatened to ignore an order to reinstate a man’s jobseeker payments.
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[Link] ACT accuses Scott Morrison’s office of extensive media backgrounding on national cabinet
Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Andrew Barr has questioned the need for a federal bill protecting national cabinet secrecy and accused the prime minister’s office of extensive briefing of media about its deliberations.
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[Link] Grieving family of man who died after getting COVID at Liverpool Hospital want more transparency
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The grieving family of an 80-year-old man who is among five deaths linked to a COVID-19 cluster at a hospital in south-west Sydney, say they have a right to know what's going on at the facility.
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[Link] Rex Patrick wins FoI case to release national cabinet records
Read: 5/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The parliamentary committee scrutinising the Morrison government’s handling of the pandemic will demand a trove of secret documents after an extraordinary judgment finding national cabinet records can be accessed under the freedom of information regime.
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[Link] Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data
Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and 13 other heads of state and heads of government, the Guardian can reveal.
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