The morning after budget it’s always fun to look at the front pages of the newspapers. And while no one actually reads them anymore, they are good for giving an insight in to just how unhinged parts of the media are.
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There was little in the Budget for Australia’s under-resourced integrity agencies, who by the government’s own assessment are not meeting their targets.
Every Australian has a right to access government information. Requests for access are increasingly delayed, but journalists and members of the public are still using freedom of information law to keep the government on its toes.
Far from chaos or quagmire, the result of power-sharing in the ACT has been a reforming Parliament that has served as a “laboratory of democracy” for other Australian jurisdictions to learn from and take inspiration.
The United Nations has issued a rare warning to Australia over the treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the justice system, saying it held “grave concerns” about systemic racial discrimination and over-incarceration. The Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) said that the findings should serve as a wake-up call to governments.
If anything, the more generous a country is to foreigners, the more it usually provides for its own people.
