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‘Australia is barely making the grade’: Press Club trio demands tobacco policy reset
Dr Nick Coatsworth, Liberal MP Mary Aldred and former Australian Border Force investigator Rohan Pike have called for a fundamental reconsideration of tobacco excise, enforcement and nicotine harm reduction, arguing that Australia’s celebrated public-health model has ceded much of the market to organised crime. Australia’s tobacco-control orthodoxy came under sustained assault at the National Press…
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Labor’s media paradox: subsidising newsrooms while proposing powers to police ‘bias’
The Albanese Government is directing tens of millions of dollars into private news organisations as the Labor Party considers empowering ACMA to act against undefined “media bias”. Each policy may be defensible in isolation. Together, they raise questions about competition, editorial independence and the proper distance between government and the press. The Australian Government is…
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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…