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[Link] Anne Ruston defends past comments that Medicare ‘is not sustainable’ after PM names her as health minister if re-elected
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Labor says the appointment of Anne Ruston to the health portfolio in a re-elected Coalition government would mean cuts to Medicare, pointing to past comments by the senator that the costs of the health scheme were unsustainable.
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[Link] George Christensen announces intention to run for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party
Read: 13/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Rogue former Coalition MP George Christensen has prompted one of the early shocks of the 2022 election campaign, announcing he will run for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party at the May 21 election.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] Prime Minister Scott Morrison tests positive to COVID-19
Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has tested positive to COVID-19. Mr Morrison has released a statement confirming he took a PCR test after developing a fever late today.
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[Link] Morrison is caught on his own wedge, as some on his own side abandon controversial bill
Read: 11/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Most Australians would happily live their lives ignoring the political games that are so often played in the federal parliament.
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[Link] Michaelia Cash shelves pledge on federal Icac as Liberal MP urges debate
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
The government will abandon an election promise to establish a commonwealth integrity commission, with the attorney general, Michaelia Cash indicating there is not enough time to legislate before voters return to the polls.
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[Link] ABC welcomes ‘funding certainty’ as Morrison government responds to media reform paper
Read: 7/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Morrison government will restore ABC funding to 2018 levels, when Malcolm Turnbull imposed an $84m indexation pause, with the public broadcaster to be given $3.3bn for the next three years. The communications minister, Paul Fletcher, has also announced SBS will receive $953.
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[Link] PM disappointed government senator reportedly growled at Jacqui Lambie
Read: 1/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Labor leader in the Senate Penny Wong both raised points of order, saying a government senator was growling during Senator Lambie's question.
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[Link] Russell Broadbent quits committee after leak of Christian Porter donation report
Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has announced he will resign as chair of the privileges committee and has called for an investigation into an alleged breach of confidentiality revealing its deliberations on Christian Porter.
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[Link] High-profile Liberal woman quits party to run as independent after alleging ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A high-profile NSW Liberal woman is quitting to run as an independent at the next federal election, partly to protest the handling of an internal complaint in which she alleged “inappropriate” behaviour by some senior men within the party and government.
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[Link] ‘Keep the bastards honest’: former Australian Democrats leader joins high-profile group backing independents
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As Scott Morrison comes to the end of a ragged parliamentary week, the organisation bankrolling independents challenging Liberal incumbents in their urban heartland has amassed an election war chest of more than $4m, and bolstered its advisory body.
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[Link] 'Inheriting my father's enemies': The pros and cons of having a famous parent
Read: 21/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
When Georgina Downer walked into a pub just outside of Adelaide in 2018, she was ready for the rough and tumble of a campaign event. Ms Downer was running as the Liberal candidate in the Mayo by-election and thought she was across all the issues that mattered to her potential constituents.
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[Link] Australian taxpayers funding $59m in government ads in run-up to 2022 election
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Taxpayers are paying at least $59m for major government advertising campaigns to run in the lead-up to the 2022 election.
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[Link] Morrison considering tax cut extension that could deliver $1000 extra to millions
Read: 15/11/2021 www.9news.com.au
Millions of Australians could be $1000 better off as the Morrison Government considers extending tax cuts. The Low and Middle Income Tax Offset provides a maximum benefit of $1080 to those who earn between $48,001 and $90,000.
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[Link] ABC chair Ita Buttrose accuses Coalition of ‘political interference’ and ‘intimidation’
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The ABC chair, Ita Buttrose, has accused the Morrison government of political interference and attempting to intimidate the public broadcaster after the Senate established an inquiry into the ABC’s complaints handling process.
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[Link] Scott Morrison’s approval rating at lowest point since aftermath of black summer bushfires
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Voter approval of Scott Morrison is at its lowest level since before the outbreak of the pandemic, while the government’s handling of international relations has taken a hit over the past month, the latest Guardian Essential poll suggests.
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[Link] The plan to tighten Australia’s voter ID laws is just a clumsy uptake of US culture wars
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
It resembles many initiatives of the Morrison government, and most of the ideas which have emerged from Australian conservatism more broadly in the past decade or more, in that it is opportunistic, unoriginal, and so unnecessary as to be baffling.
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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] George Christensen says AFP letter falsely accuses him of ‘serious crime’
Read: 23/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
Nationals MP George Christensen claims a letter from the federal police to Minister Peter Dutton about a probe into the MP’s frequent travel to the Philippines contains information that “falsely accuse me of a serious crime”.
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[Link] Government blocks bid to investigate Christian Porter over legal fee donation
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Coalition has blocked a bid to have former attorney-general Christian Porter investigated over his financial disclosures, despite the Speaker of the House having argued there was a case for further scrutiny.
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[Link] Extinction Rebellion protesters glued to road in Adelaide's CBD call for climate change action
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Extinction Rebellion protesters have glued their hands and feet to the road in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, demanding immediate political action on climate change. Traffic is being disrupted by the gathering, some of whom have chained themselves to one another and to prams.
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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] Facebook says Craig Kelly’s content on United Australia Party page OK after banning MP
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook says the United Australia Party’s page does not violate the social media giant’s community standards despite carrying prominent content from Craig Kelly, whose accounts have been banned for breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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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] Treasury confirms it knew government was paying out billions in JobKeeper to firms that 'may not need support'
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Treasury says $27 billion in JobKeeper payments went to businesses whose turnover either increased or did not decline as much as required, but has dismissed calls to introduce a clawback mechanism and defended the scheme's design.
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[Link] Peter Dutton to be sole witness in defamation case against refugee activist
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The defence minister Peter Dutton intends to take the stand in his defamation trial against a refugee activist that begins next month.
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[Link] ABC journalist agrees to pay MP $79,000 in defamation settlement over tweets
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
ABC journalist Louise Milligan has agreed to pay federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming $79,000 in a defamation case over a series of tweets she sent. Dr Laming launched the case in May, alleging Milligan defamed him in four tweets sent on March 28, 2021.
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[Link] Morrison government battling to keep commuter car parks scandal documents a secret
Read: 9/8/2021 www.9news.com.au
The federal government is battling to keep documents at the centre of its commuter car parks scandal secret.
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[Link] ‘Australians are the winners’: Scott Morrison defends controversial commuter car parks fund
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison has declared Australians are the “winners” from a controversial funding program excoriated by the auditor general that has only delivered two of 47 commuter car parks the Coalition promised in the run-up to the 2019 election.
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[Link] Australia Post pays former CEO Christine Holgate $1m in settlement after Cartier watch saga
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia Post will pay its former chief executive Christine Holgate $1m to settle claims relating to her departure from the organisation during the Cartier watch controversy.
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[Link] Female Coalition MPs ‘fire up’ after party room told working women are ‘outsourcing parenting’
Read: 23/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
Labor has slammed the Coalition for holding “completely archaic” views on childcare after a fierce debate erupted among government MPs about subsidies, with one suggesting working women were “outsourcing parenting”.
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