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Revealed: secret robodebt scandal report made public

Investigations into politicians and public servants involved in the unlawful debt collection scheme have been finalised with the release of a secret chapter.

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NACC investigation into Robodebt reveals public service corruption, but it will take much more to fix the system

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has released its much-anticipated investigation into the six people referred by the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.

The Conversation

Former PM cleared, two robodebt officials found corrupt

Two bureaucrats won't face criminal charges despite a watchdog finding they carried out corrupt conduct through the unlawful robodebt scheme.

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Two robodebt officials engaged in serious corrupt conduct, Nacc finds, but Scott Morrison cleared

Anti-corruption watchdog makes adverse findings against two former public servants but clears four other individuals

The Guardian - AU

The Liberal Party’s current woes are many. Sidelining Victoria is one of them

The recent elevation of Angus Taylor to leader of the Liberal Party generated an expected avalanche of commentary. The reactions ranged over most points of the compass. In some, Taylor was depicted as a final leadership throw of the dice to avert the slide of the Liberals towards electoral oblivion.…

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Tabled document reveals Liberal party’s secret election review of its ‘worst campaign’: from ‘grim’ Dutton to ‘weird’ nuclear policy

PM tables copy of secret review, which describes former leader Peter Dutton as ‘unattractive to women’

The Guardian - AU

Albanese’s ‘difficult’ moment with Grace Tame: in one dumb word he summoned the spectre of Scott Morrison

Forgetting the history of this term suggests alignment between past and present PMs at a desperately inopportune time

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Australian PM Albanese apologises after calling child sex abuse survivor ‘difficult’

Grace Tame describes apology as ‘a patronising cop out from a total coward’

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'Old man': Grace Tame lashes PM after difficult apology

The prime minister has found himself at loggerheads with a former Australian of the Year over an 'unfortunate' one-word remark.

AAP

View from The Hill: Chris Minns makes sense on ISIS brides’ children, while opposition adds to scaremongering

Among today’s leaders, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is notable in a couple of ways.

The Conversation

Ex-PM ensnared in legal battle over Higgins scandal

Former aide Fiona Brown will enter mediation with the Commonwealth after alleging the then-prime minister let her down after Brittany Higgins' rape claim.

AAP

The Liberal party believes Trump-style politics is the way to win back power. But it just won’t work in urban Australia

It appears the Liberals are living in an echo chamber. The young voters they need to find are not

The Guardian - AU

Nearly 20% fewer lower socioeconomic students studying law as Pocock calls to scrap Morrison-era job-ready scheme

Experts say the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme has instead had a ‘devastating impact’ on the very people higher education needs to serve

The Guardian - AU

Grattan on Friday: Can Angus Taylor get beyond slogans to craft a sound immigration policy?

This week we pressed the rewind button on the Pauline tape, back to Hanson maxing out with inflammatory statements about Muslims, attracting a blaze of publicity and widespread outrage.

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Grattan on Friday: How did the Liberals’ first female leader find herself on the mat in under a year?

Sussan Ley always seemed set to be only an interim Liberal leader. If, as is likely, Angus Taylor wins the ballot on Friday morning, he could suffer the same fate.

The Guardian - AU

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus: the story of one of Australia’s favourite political memes

Almost seven years ago, Angus Taylor gassed up his own Facebook post. What happened and why are people talking about it again?

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Who is Angus Taylor and could he cut it as opposition leader?

Angus Taylor has all the on-paper qualifications to be opposition leader. But there are big questions over how well he could do the job, when a miracle worker is needed to lift the struggling Liberal Party from its existential crisis.

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Regulating Islamic education can strengthen trust and authority, if religious scholars lead the way

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for greater regulation of Islamic preachers in Australia in the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack. His comments triggered an immediate backlash.

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Scott Morrison accused of ‘deeply ill-informed’ attack on religious freedom after Islam speech

Former PM called for national register and accreditation for imams, sparking backlash from Muslim leaders

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Anger as Liberals call for Muslim checks to stem terror

Former Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison has faced backlash after suggesting accreditation should be required for Muslim preachers after the Bondi attack.

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Scott Morrison and Dan Andrews got it wrong. Here are 7 ways to get crisis leadership right

Five years ago, as Australia burned through the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires, then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison was photographed relaxing on a Hawaiian beach.

The Guardian - AU

Nationals meet after three frontbenchers resign – as it happened

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PM caught in backlash as transparency pleas grow

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces calls to bolster transparency as Labor starts the new year ramming through complex legislation with reduced oversight.

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Albanese’s backflip on royal commission is a humiliating own goal

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prides himself with being in tune with the public mood. But in holding out for weeks against a royal commission into antisemitism he misjudged that mood, making Thursday’s backdown on his hardline opposition a humiliation for him.

The Guardian - AU

Third Labor MP breaks ranks to urge Albanese to call royal commission into Bondi attack

Michelle Ananda-Rajah ‘wholeheartedly’ calls for national inquiry as expectations grow prime minister will relent on previous position

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