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Finally…Fair Work Australia Concludes Investigation Into Health Services Union
News yesterday that Fair Work Australia has ended its investigation into the HSU — and, by extension, its former head and now embattled ALP MP Craig Thomson — after three years is welcome. The...
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“Sleaze And Smear?” Spare Us The Propaganda, Prime Minister
The parliamentary year is over, concluding with a noxious exchange in Question Time on Thursday; it’s hard to see Julia Gillard enjoying her Christmas break — under siege as she now is — and the New...
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Weddings, Expenses, Anything: Bury The Bipartisan Hatchet
ONE OF the most reviled (and publicly misunderstood) aspects of political life is the thorny issue of government travel entitlements; perhaps at a time when incendiary allegations, smears and...
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On BoJo, Gaza, Ukraine, 18c, And Squaring The Week
WITH AN AWFUL LOT going on this week — both at home and abroad — it has been an inauspicious time to disappear for a few days; yet the Abbott government’s retreat from attempting to modify racial...
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Diversity, Inclusion, Tolerance, And Attacking Jewish Kids
ANTI-SEMITIC ABUSE and threats to kill a busload of Jewish children on Wednesday have no place in Australia; yet fresh from their win against a repeal of S18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, the...
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Possible Abbott Reshuffle, And A Not-At-All Idle Threat
WHISPERS OF A RESHUFFLE in the Abbott government raise several tantalising scenarios, but whichever way you cut it — especially after the botch made of a similar exercise late last year — a reshuffle...
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Tony Abbott And His Cohorts Dishonoured Australian Conservatism
AS 2016 takes early steps toward post-silly season normality, a ministerial reshuffle looms as the first task of the Turnbull government; far from finding a portfolio for Tony Abbott — who really...
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Reserving Judgement: Malcolm Turnbull’s Latest Reshuffle
THE LATEST reshuffle of Cabinet — necessitated, of course, by the departure of Sussan Ley — is questionable, and any judgement of the arrangement should be deferred; Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has...
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