National Anti-Corruption Commissioner (NACC) Paul Brereton has resigned amid ongoing scrutiny over alleged conflicts of interest. The NACC’s inaugural Commissioner has notified the Governor-General he will leave the role on July 6, just three years into his five-year term.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s performance since its inception has been widely condemned. The leadership of Commissioner Paul Brereton, in particular, has drawn heavy criticism. Indeed, the NACC’s three current deputy commissioners as a group represent the least qualified combination of deputies permitted under the NACC Act.
Hundreds of diplomats from almost every country just met for four weeks at United Nations headquarters in New York to review the most comprehensive nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the world. And they agreed to absolutely nothing.
This morning, at Senate estimates, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) were asked about the drop in emissions since 2005. Almost all of the drop cited was due to the inclusion of land clearing.
It is kind of amazing how, after Jim Chalmers announced his reforms to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing, there was a conga line of wannabe influencer economists suddenly keen to demonstrate their Nobel Prize aspirations — telling everyone that the CGT discount introduced by John Howard in 1999, and negative gearing, really had nothing to do with the rise in house prices or the collapse in housing affordability over the past two decades.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has decided that 'ramping up' is his go-to phrase to use about the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). The problem is that only one fossil fuel item is actually going up, and it’s not the PRRT. It’s the Fuel Tax Credit, a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry.
New South Wales was the first state to tighten its gun laws after the Bondi Massacre, limiting the type and number of guns someone can own in the state. While there has been predictable outrage from the gun lobby, they’re already working.
The best available evidence supports President Ramos-Horta’s claim that Australia nets the lion’s share of the benefits of the PALM scheme
A damning audit report has revealed major government departments -including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - are routinely rejecting Freedom of Information requests (FOI) and failing to meet their own transparency standards.
It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. “Shorter America” is a series where Dr Emma Shortis loops you in on what’s going on in America and shares news and analysis that you can trust.
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Major investors, unions, businesses, survivor advocates and human rights groups are calling on the Albanese government to urgently strengthen Australia's Modern Slavery Act.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing backlash after quoting inaccurate statistics from the gas lobby, while defending his decision not to impose a 25% tax on gas exports in the federal budget. Mr Albanese was interviewed on radio during a post-budget trip to Perth, during which he claimed that “gas companies paid $22 billion of tax last year”. The $22 billion figure is not an official estimate by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), but a figure produced by a gas lobby group.
From NDIS reform and housing policy to fossil fuel subsidies and Angus Taylor’s budget reply, speakers at the Antipoverty Centre’s post-budget webinar criticised policies they say would worsen inequality for vulnerable Australians.
The first calls for a boycott came in 1964. A young Danish left-wing activist stormed the stage holding a banner reading “Boycott Franco and Salazar”. Though, the most controversial part of the competition has long been the inclusion of Israel.
