by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 1, 2025 | Integrity, Opinion
Big developments from Australia’s corruption busters with news of the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s first scalp: a government employee has been banged up for breaking the rules to line up a government job for a close family friend. After two years and...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 10, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
The Politics gives a big shout-out to Scott Morrison AC’s eagle. Look closely. There it is, right behind the former prime minister in photographs that commemorate his elevation to Australia’s highest honour. Observers of Morrison will remember that this soaring eagle...
by Nicole Chvastek | Feb 18, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
With the ink barely dry on the ballots that delivered the Victorian state seat of Werribee to Labor, and a federal election required no later than May 17, large billboards have begun to appear around central Victoria advertising the Nationals’ pick for the seat...
by BEN ELTHAM | Jun 11, 2024 | Integrity
In the lead up the 2022 election, the Australian Labor Party made much of its commitment to creating a new federal anti-corruption agency. The later years of the Coalition government were not noted for their commitment to probity or good governance. A string of...