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Move to disallow $18m leadership program grant pitched by David Hurley

Greens senator David Shoebridge says grant impacts ‘independence’ of governor general’s office and Scott Morrison should have rejected requests for support

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison tells Sky News he didn’t want to be drawn into ‘political circus’ over secret ministries

Former prime minister says he does not want to engage with those ‘having a big crack at me’ in first TV interview since revelations

The Guardian - AU

Speaker rules against referring Scott Morrison to privileges committee over claims he misled parliament

The Speaker says there is no apparent case for him to send Mr Morrison's secret self-appointments to the powerful privileges committee.

ABC News

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Morrison still has case to answer: Bandt

The Greens are still considering whether to try and refer Scott Morrison to a privileges committee for misleading parliament over his secret ministries.

AAP

John Howard the centrist? Why it’s time to rebalance that view

As long as the Liberal Party keeps wheeling out the former PM — with seemingly little impact — it too will remain irrelevant.

Crikey

Plagued: book revealing Morrison’s ministries discloses national security discussions

Book also includes comments about the government’s approach to dealing with China and discussions around Australia’s defence posture

The Guardian - AU

Climate, integrity on parliament's agenda

The Federal Parliament resumes for two weeks on Monday, ahead of the Albanese government's first budget on October 25.

AAP

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Albanese claims he can’t stop them, but the stage three tax cuts threaten his political legacy

The cuts benefit the wealthy over the strugglers, ploughing fertile ground for conspiracy theorists to accuse MPs of looking after themselves

The Guardian - AU

Michael Pascoe: The Governor-General may have some questions to answer about this charity

This is a story about a story that nobody else seems to think is a story. When the story is about the Governor-General’s rather odd $18 million pet

The New Daily

View from The Hill: Summit triggers immediate action and elevates gender equality

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.

The Conversation

Chris Dawson verdict a big moment for the Australian’s podcast, but redundancies thin ranks

Swathes of national broadsheet devoted to covering guilty verdict in Teacher’s Pet case, while behind the scenes many staff packed up their desks. Plus: date night for Morrison and Murray

The Guardian - AU

‘A pretty disturbing picture’: why we need to talk about young, right-wing men

Crikey

With Scott Morrison gone, Sussan Ley has taken up the task of baseless EV bashing

The deputy Liberal leader has been taken to task over the ‘totally wrong, wholly incorrect’ claim that no one is making electric utes

The Guardian - AU

Albanese’s ahead of the game as the media fail to learn the rules

Journalists have been huffing and puffing over the inquiries set up by the Labor government — but to no avail. This prime minister isn’t for turning.

Crikey

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The Conversation

John Howard calls for 'a sense of balance', but can he help the Liberal Party find it?

When stories about former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secret ministerial roles emerged, John Howard was called on by all and sundry for comment. For some, Howard represents stability, convention and commonsense liberalism, a Menzies in our own time. (It is a parallel Howard has carefully cultivated).

Crikey

‘Monumental blunder’: opposition small business spokesperson claims electric utes don’t exist

Sussan Ley has wrongly claimed electric utility vehicles do not exist. And boy have people let her know about it.

Crikey

Debt to society: robodebt royal commission a first step to ease anguish

Some believe it’s time to look to the future instead of raking over old (but still burning) coals. Most Crikey readers don’t agree.

Crikey

Cut above the rest

Stage three tax cuts will give the richest 1% of Australians the same amount of money as the poorest 65% combined, and teal independent Kylea Tink has shares in two fossil fuel companies.

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The Conversation

Democracies are fragile. Australians must act urgently to safeguard ours

The solicitor-general’s recent finding that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s furtive accrual of ministerial portfolios “fundamentally undermined” the principles of responsible government has drawn attention to the precarity of democracy. In seeking to safeguard our democracy, we must consider the extent to which Australians’ long-standing apathy about our democratic system…

The New Daily

Delivery will determine the success of Albanese’s jobs summit

How Anthony Albanese delivers on the expectations his gesture politics have built up will be critical to the success of his two-term strategy of government.

Newcastle Herald

160 blank pages: the federal government's response to Port FOI request

The federal government has been accused of erecting a wall of secrecy around the details of a $250million Port of Newcastle container terminal funding package.

Crikey

Labor and Murdoch, a match made in silence

Labor hasn’t commented on the prime minister’s reported meeting with Lachlan Murdoch. But if it has met with the News Corp billionaire, why is the government dealing with such a company?

Crikey

Ousting ScoMo wasn’t Fran Bailey’s only good idea

Former Tourism minister Fran Bailey is back in the news, having called on Scott Morrison to resign from Parliament. We look back on some of her other contributions to public debate.

AAP

Morrison flags post-parliamentary venture

Former prime minister Scott Morrison could soon enter the private sector after registering a company on his parliamentary declaration of interests.

Crikey

Morrison revealed how fragile our conventions are — and how badly they need fixing

The former PM showed just how easy it was to dismantle responsible government.

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