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Is the tide turning for the media in defamation cases?

A loud "phew!" echoed yesterday afternoon across newsrooms, broadcast studios and the lone desks of journalists who work at home. $0/ (min cost $0) ...

15.04.2024 7

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Crispin Hull

Is the tide turning for the media in defamation cases?

A loud "phew!" echoed yesterday afternoon across newsrooms, broadcast studios and the lone desks of journalists who work at home. $0/ (min cost $0) ...

15.04.2024 8

Canberra Times

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Counting dollars just one of many ways donation data is letting us down

The disclosure last week of donation details for last October's Indigenous referendum displayed again the weakness of electoral law, but also gave...

08.04.2024 9

Canberra Times

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Australia has lost control of its borders and it's making us all worse off

It was kick-a-refugee week again in Australia last week. Whether the Coalition or Labor is in power, it is the same smoke-and-mirrors game. Get...

01.04.2024 7

Canberra Times

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Governments must restore public services they helped destroy

If you watch only one TV series in the next few months, make it Mr Bates vs The Post Office. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading...

25.03.2024 30

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Governments must restore public services they helped destroy

If you watch only one TV series in the next few months, make it Mr Bates vs The Post Office. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading...

25.03.2024 40

Canberra Times

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Dutton's made-up 'facts' should see him sued for defamation

For me this is heresy, but here we go. I think the authors of the CSIRO report on the costs of electricity in Australia, GenCost, should sue...

18.03.2024 10

Canberra Times

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I'd prefer hysteria and scare campaigns to what we're seeing from the Coalition

After being clobbered the Dunkley byelection for delivering hysterical exaggerations amid an absence of policy and the non-appearance of senior...

11.03.2024 8

Canberra Times

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Labor can't take its reprieve in Dunkley for granted

There are a lot of lessons to take away from the Dunkley byelection. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading Let's take the Coalition...

04.03.2024 10

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Advance Australia regresses to new low in political advertising wild west

This weekend's Dunkley byelection is bringing misleading political advertising down to a new low. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue...

26.02.2024 6

The Examiner

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Advance Australia regresses to new low in political advertising wild west

This weekend's Dunkley byelection is bringing misleading political advertising down to a new low. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue...

26.02.2024 7

Canberra Times

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It's time to broaden the tax horizon and make Australia's richest cough up

Australia is turning into a nation of mean, bad, tax-deducting landlords, and if this month's publication of MPs' pecuniary interests is any guide,...

19.02.2024 10

The Examiner

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It's time to broaden the tax horizon and make Australia's richest cough up

Australia is turning into a nation of mean, bad, tax-deducting landlords, and if this month's publication of MPs' pecuniary interests is any guide,...

19.02.2024 8

Canberra Times

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How is China acting any better than an aircraft hijacker?

Most governments, especially western democratic ones, say they will not deal with terrorists. It only encourages further violence, they argue. There...

12.02.2024 6

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

How is China acting any better than an aircraft hijacker?

Most governments, especially western democratic ones, say they will not deal with terrorists. It only encourages further violence, they argue. There...

12.02.2024 6

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Want to buy the Australian political agenda? It's going shamefully cheap

After the Australian Electoral Commission released the 2022-23 political-donation data various think tanks and media commentators painted a picture of...

05.02.2024 8

Canberra Times

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Online gambling causes serious harm. We might finally do something about it

The week that sees Australia's biggest lottery jackpot in history on offer is perhaps the wrong time to talk about gambling. But Prime Minister...

29.01.2024 6

The Examiner

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Online gambling causes serious harm. We might finally do something about it

The week that sees Australia's biggest lottery jackpot in history on offer is perhaps the wrong time to talk about gambling. But Prime Minister...

29.01.2024 9

Canberra Times

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A few cash breadcrumbs are being disguised as action on the cost of living

If Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants a second term, he will have to fix the causes of the cost-of-living crisis, rather than throw a bit of direct...

22.01.2024 9

The Examiner

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A few cash breadcrumbs are being disguised as action on the cost of living

If Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants a second term, he will have to fix the causes of the cost-of-living crisis, rather than throw a bit of direct...

22.01.2024 7

Canberra Times

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Is it rational to believe conspiracy theories? Yes, actually

How do we know that the outer Melbourne seat of Dunkley, held for Labor by the late Peta Murphy, is very winnable by the Liberal Party in the upcoming...

15.01.2024 7

The Examiner

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Is it rational to believe conspiracy theories? Yes, actually

How do we know that the outer Melbourne seat of Dunkley, held for Labor by the late Peta Murphy, is very winnable by the Liberal Party in the upcoming...

15.01.2024 8

Canberra Times

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Why we made two of the worst government decisions in Australia's history

Never in the 40-year history of releasing cabinet documents after 20 years have we learnt so much about the value of proper cabinet government and the...

08.01.2024 9

The Examiner

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Why we made two of the worst government decisions in Australia's history

Never in the 40-year history of releasing cabinet documents after 20 years have we learnt so much about the value of proper cabinet government and the...

08.01.2024 6

Canberra Times

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Labor doesn't deserve to win the next election for one big reason

Unless things change this year, the Albanese government will not deserve to win the next election. That said, neither will the Peter Dutton-led...

01.01.2024 9

The Examiner

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Labor doesn't deserve to win the next election for one big reason

Unless things change this year, the Albanese government will not deserve to win the next election. That said, neither will the Peter Dutton-led...

01.01.2024 9

Canberra Times

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A story of selfishness, unpreparedness, ignorance and stupidity

Cyclone Jasper wasn't supposed to hover there, right next to the coastline dumping a metre of rain (two and half times Canberra's annual rainfall) in...

25.12.2023 10

The Examiner

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A story of selfishness, unpreparedness, ignorance and stupidity

Cyclone Jasper wasn't supposed to hover there, right next to the coastline dumping a metre of rain (two and half times Canberra's annual rainfall) in...

25.12.2023 7

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Misleading slogan is a 22-year con trick that voters have sucked up

In the brouhaha over immigration in the past fortnight, we must ask ourselves how did Australia allow 512,000 people to enter as immigrants in the...

18.12.2023 9

Canberra Times

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The simple, but politically difficult, solution to our big education problem

The report card is in and the results are bad, and appear to be getting steadily worse. Last week's Programme for International Student Assessment...

11.12.2023 7

The Examiner

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The simple, but politically difficult, solution to our big education problem

The report card is in and the results are bad, and appear to be getting steadily worse. Last week's Programme for International Student Assessment...

11.12.2023 8

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Why Albanese needs to go full Robin Hood to fix our healthcare system

Media has been alive with comments about the Albanese government losing steam and even the possibility of Peter Dutton becoming prime minister. Then...

04.12.2023 6

The Examiner

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Why Albanese needs to go full Robin Hood to fix our healthcare system

Media has been alive with comments about the Albanese government losing steam and even the possibility of Peter Dutton becoming prime minister. Then...

04.12.2023 8

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Four senators would be ridiculous. This is a major party stitch-up

The recommendation by the parliamentary committee on electoral matters that the ACT and the Northern Territory should get two extra Senate seats...

28.11.2023 8

Canberra Times

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Australian government allowing inaction over cyber security and defence

National security is often cited as the number-one priority of government. Without that, all else becomes meaningless. It is why we are spending...

27.11.2023 7

Canberra Times

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Law and border: what's the point if China plays by its own rules?

The dangerous sonar pulsing by a Chinese naval vessel close to HMAS Toowoomba in international waters off Japan that injured some Navy divers this...

20.11.2023 6

The Examiner

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Law and border: what's the point if China plays by its own rules?

The dangerous sonar pulsing by a Chinese naval vessel close to HMAS Toowoomba in international waters off Japan that injured some Navy divers this...

20.11.2023 7

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Baby Boomers are the RBA's biggest problem

The other day a family member showed me his "man's shed" in his new house. It has a wall with silhouettes where the tools should be: chisels, fret...

13.11.2023 10

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Baby Boomers are the RBA's biggest problem

The other day a family member showed me his "man's shed" in his new house. It has a wall with silhouettes where the tools should be: chisels, fret...

13.11.2023 10

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

The tricks and subterfuge that big companies use to rip you off

Over the past half decade or so, you must have noticed the proliferation of "zero-tolerance" signs at businesses and government services. They quite...

06.11.2023 7

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The tricks and subterfuge that big companies use to rip you off

Over the past half decade or so, you must have noticed the proliferation of "zero-tolerance" signs at businesses and government services. They quite...

06.11.2023 6

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Snowy Hydro has been a costly fiasco. Let's not make it worse

Overhead power lines are ugly, dangerous and costly. Yet here we go again. As part of Snowy Hydro 2.0, a 360km overhead powerline called Humelink is...

30.10.2023 5

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Snowy Hydro has been a costly fiasco. Let's not make it worse

Overhead power lines are ugly, dangerous and costly. Yet here we go again. As part of Snowy Hydro 2.0, a 360km overhead powerline called Humelink is...

30.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Big EV tax battle still to be fought

So, Victoria can no longer demand that owners of electric vehicles take snap shots of their odometers each year and pay a tax according to the...

23.10.2023 5

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Big EV tax battle still to be fought

So, Victoria can no longer demand that owners of electric vehicles take snap shots of their odometers each year and pay a tax according to the...

23.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Australia's virtues exposed as self-delusional claptrap

The German jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779-1861) introduced the concept of "volksgeist" into legal and political thinking. The "volksgeist"...

16.10.2023 5

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Australia's virtues exposed as self-delusional claptrap

The German jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779-1861) introduced the concept of "volksgeist" into legal and political thinking. The "volksgeist"...

16.10.2023 4

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Big corporations behaving badly: time to stop the rot

Behaving badly is literally in the DNA of large corporations, if you make the reasonable assumption that a corporation's DNA is its articles of...

09.10.2023 6

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Big corporations behaving badly: time to stop the rot

Behaving badly is literally in the DNA of large corporations, if you make the reasonable assumption that a corporation's DNA is its articles of...

09.10.2023 6

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

A return to Zed would be a step backwards for Liberals

Former ACT Liberal senator Zed Seselja's attempted comeback to politics via a NSW Senate vacancy highlights yet again the Liberal Party's identity...

06.10.2023 6

Canberra Times

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