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In 2019, the New York Times declared that “Australia may well be the world’s most secretive democracy”.

Under changes to federal secrecy laws, journalists cannot be prosecuted for some secrecy offences unless the attorney-general says so, and former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian’s name has been thrown up as a possible new CEO for Optus after the departure of Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.

Mike Pezzullo’s role in Bernard Collaery’s trial should be under scrutiny in light of revelations about his ties with Liberal figure Scott Briggs.

News Corp is, above all else, a political organisation. And there is always the risk that it will place its own imperatives above the interests of a vulnerable person with whose story it has been entrusted.

Ita Buttrose has announced she will not seek a second term as ABC chair, which means her term will expire in March 2024.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ ‘Measuring What Matters’ report broke new ground in approaches to Australians’ happiness. But it must go further.

If we look at the charred landscape in full we can see our progress in Australia has been remarkable

As home affairs minister, Peter Dutton blocked high-priority grant requests to prevent crime in some Indigenous communities in favour of projects in Coalition seats, and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis makes big news by admitting Donald Trump didn’t win the 2020 election: ‘Of course he lost.’

But the total costs are likely to far exceed those reported to the Senate last week, given the limited scope of the question being answered.