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‘Back door’ for CFMEU interests: Yvette Berry quits Cabinet after serious corruption under her watch
The Deputy Chief Minister has resigned after the ACT Integrity Commission found her former chief of staff and the former head of the Education Directorate engaged in serious corrupt conduct. Although Yvette Berry was cleared of personal involvement, the findings expose an extraordinary failure of ministerial supervision and deepen the Barr Government’s wider crisis of…
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Labor’s Adelaide conference reveals the perils of governing by accumulation
The ALP’s sprawling draft platform combines social objectives with an ever-expanding role for government, unions and regulators. Its accompanying fringe program travels further still, exposing the risk that Labor’s governing discipline will be overwhelmed by the ambitions of its activist constituency. When delegates assemble at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Thursday for the 50th Australian…
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Taylor distils Coalition agenda into four-part challenge to Labor and One Nation
The Opposition Leader has consolidated the Coalition’s emerging election platform around lower taxes, cheaper energy, reduced migration and an “Australians first” doctrine, while insisting political discontent need not culminate in institutional demolition. The federal Coalition has recast its developing election platform into four headline commitments, intensifying its attempt to convert economic discontent into support for…