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Michael Pascoe: Morrison heeded the Tooth Fairy when Treasury warned against tax cuts

In 2018, when Scott Morrison announced his tax-cut package, Treasury laid out in black and white the grounds for scrapping Stage Three

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Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers plays the tease as he pushes to change Stage 3 tax cuts

When Scott Morrison was treasurer he flew the kite for an increase in the GST. The debate ran a while, before then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull shut it down. It was all too hard.

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Liberal moderate Bridget Archer says Labor right to be questioning stage-three tax cuts

Archer tells Albanese government ‘it’s OK to change your mind’ as debate continues within ALP about future of Coalition tax package

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Brittany Higgins says she felt ‘trapped, not human’ during Australian parliament rape

Alleged victim is first witness to testify in high-profile rape case in Canberra

The Independent UK

Trial begins of man accused of raping government worker in Australia’s parliament

Brittany Higgins says she was ‘as drunk as she’d ever been in her life’, something her lawyer says is proof she couldn’t consent

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View from The Hill: Without those 'lefties' the Liberals can't regain government

A key issue for the Liberals’ election post-mortem that reports later this year – conveniently after the Victorian election – is how the party deals in future with the “teal” phenomenon.

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Man stands trial for rape in Australian Parliament House

A judge reminded potential jurors of the importance of impartiality at the rape trial of a former Australian government staffer

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Bruce Lehrmann accused in court of lying about why he went to Parliament House on night of alleged assault

Trial of Lehrmann, who denies allegations he sexually assaulted Brittany Higgins in 2019, begins in ACT supreme court

The Guardian - AU

Australians’ confidence in government integrity has increased since election, study finds

Australian Leadership Index also shows boost in public perceptions of leadership and competence since Labor took power

The Guardian - AU

Alan Kohler: Past budgets and tax cuts are a foreign country

When LP Hartley wrote “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, as the first line of his novel The Go-Between, he was on about

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Anti-corruption body could examine Scott Morrison over Coalition’s ‘sports rorts’, Labor suggests

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus insists new commission ‘is not an exercise in political payback’ and says it could tap phones of federal politicians

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton 3.0: can the Coalition hard man change voters’ minds by pasting on a smile?

After two decades in politics, rebranding might not be as easy as putting on a friendly face and presenting as someone new

The Guardian - AU

The idea that MPs only look after themselves lingers, as pressure builds over closed anti-corruption hearings

For the integrity watchdog to rebuild voter trust in politicians, it must be transparent and earn that trust

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Dreyfus puts a fork into pork rorts, for all time, with a few choice words in NACC legislation

Mark Dreyfus has slipped a bazooka into the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s tool kit: the NACC can come after politicians’ ethics.

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Grattan on Friday: National Anti-Corruption Commission set for easy birth thanks to Albanese-Dutton accord

Though they’d be the last to admit it, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have more in common than you might expect. They’re both unapologetic pragmatists.

The Guardian - AU

Australian taxpayers paid $110,000 for federal ministers’ legal bills in last financial year

Documents reveal legal assistance was approved for former PM Scott Morrison in relation to a defamation claim made against him on 9 June 2020

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison and Alan Tudge could be called before robodebt royal commission

Royal commissioner says inquiry’s focus will be on those who had or should have had oversight over the automated debt recovery scheme

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Did the Morrison government change the relationship between religion and politics in Australia?

The ABC recently reported on the “infiltration” of Liberal Party branches in regional Victoria by Pentecostals, on a mission to influence Liberal Party positions on so-called morality issues such as abortion and LGBTIQ+ rights.

The Independent UK

Australia told to compensate Torres Strait over failure to act on climate crisis, in landmark UN ruling

Decision labelled ‘a historic victory for climate justice’ sparks hope in low-lying islands

The Guardian - AU

Albanese can no longer blame policy delays on the Queen’s death. Next week will be a scramble to deliver on promises

The PM will face strong challenges from the opposition on election pledges – how he performs could determine momentum heading into 2023

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Australia remembers ‘timeless’ Queen

The Queen has been honoured as embodying “timeless” virtues such as devotion to duty and community service at a national service in Canberra.

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: leaders condemn Putin’s nuclear threat, basin plan in peril, mass whale stranding

Thursday: Joe Biden and allied leaders have reacted angrily to Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons. Plus: Brad Pitt’s side career as a sculptor

The Guardian - AU

Joyce and McCormack unsure which meetings were of Scott Morrison’s secretive cabinet committee

Michael McCormack ‘can’t recall’ if people outside of executive attended while Barnaby Joyce ‘never knew it was called the policy committee’

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Top spook refuses to answer questions about his role in Scott Morrison’s moves on cabinet

New details are emerging about the role played by advisers in Scott Morrison's office and the public service when the former PM moved to bypass cabinet

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