Inspired by my Reddit post about the last parliament and with the election now called I thought I would ask the general public on whether this last 3 years saw the most dishonest, shifty and scandalous parliament ever? Much like last parliament, I noticed that there were multiple scandals every week sometimes even multiple scandals in a day. Surely the amount of stuff occurring in this parliament would have been enough to get fired (or even jailed) in the past? I mean I heard that someone got sacked for accepting a bottle of alcohol but I dont think Ive seen a blatant abuse of taxpayer’s money certainly in my short time of observing politics in this country. This parliament has ruined Australia’s reputation in the eyes of the world, lurching from one scandal to the next. I just dont know how this stuff is allowed to happen in modern day Australia and why people arent marching in the streets about all the shifty stuff happening right in front of their eyes! Get this list out to every LNP voter to show them how freaking dodgy their government was during the past 3 years.
Points to note:
- This is a LONG list!
- The Guardian was pretty much my sole source of information purely because they had a chronological archive of all the headlines
- List is in chronological order from earliest to latest
- Ive probably missed a heap of stuff so happy to add anything from others.
Without further ado:
- AFP media raids
- Nuclear power inquiry
- Barnaby Joyce approved $80m water buyback
- Fraser Anning candidate who is robot sex expert given Queen’s birthday honour
- Capricornia MP compares Carmichael mine environmental impact to that of a Sydney apartment block
- Australian defence department gave contract to US business blacklisted for bribery
- Taxpayers paid for Fraser Anning’s $3,000 flights on day after Christchurch shooting
- Home affairs minister claimed that pregnant rape victims were ‘trying it on’ by seeking abortions in Australia
- Christopher Pyne takes defence contractor job
- Angus Taylor Jamland ties
- True identity of Liberal Senator’s No. 1 fan Mandy Jane
- Labor expel John Setka
- Pauline Hanson likens banning climbing Uluru to closing Bondi Beach
- Barnaby Joyce ‘apologises’ for calling Indigenous voice a third chamber of parliament
- Greens senator Nick McKim deported from Manus Island
- Michael Danby charged taxpayers to pay staffer ‘after-hours’ consultancy fees
- Plagiarism complaint: Liberal senator James Paterson’s IPA report breached integrity standards
- AEC investigation into election material
- “Struggling” Barnaby Joyce advocates for Newstart increase
- LNP sexual assault allegations
- Former Labor frontbencher questions why ALP backs legislation the party opposes
- George Christensen expenses trip to meet alt-right figure Lauren Southern
- Anthony Albanese sees no evidence of corruption in Federal politics
- Peter Dutton and Mathias Cormann charged taxpayers $50,000 for RAAF flights after Liberal spill
- Nine Entertainment hosts $10,000 a head fundraiser for Liberal party
- Labor defends $1.2bn private school package it previously called a ‘slush fund’
- Pauline Hanson claims credit for inquiry into family law system
- Attacks on Gladys Liu regarding CCP ties
- Scott Morrison denies “Shanghai Sam” comments
- Liberal MP Jason Wood accused of misusing office to raise funds for party
- $4.6billion underspend on NDIS
- Brian Houston invited to the white house
- Barnaby Joyce drought envoy report sent via text
- Scott Morrison says Australia’s record on climate change misrepresented by media
- Barnaby Joyce took $2,600 charter flight to stand alongside Nationals candidate at regional show
- Fraser Anning’s taxpayer-funded travel to far right rallies deemed ‘value for money’
- Peter Dutton urging welfare cuts for protesters
- Job snobs’ claim that companies struggle to hire based on 29 firms, not 14,000 as reported
- Michaelia Cash cleared but AWU raids invalid
- Prime Minister’s office accidentally leaks talking points
- Labor backflips to support big stick energy laws
- Angus Taylor’s doctored document attacking Clover Moore
- Sports rorts
- Scott Morrison spends $200,000 on an ’empathy consultant’ to advise his government
- $200m regional jobs and investment program
- Regional jobs and investment program rorts Pt 2
- Michael McCormack calls people linking climate change with bushfires “inner city raving lunatics”
- Sarah Hanson Young wins $120k in defamation case
- Government admits robodebt was unlawful as it settles legal challenge
- Coalition giving former Liberal staffer $500,000 job through limited tender
- Christian Porter did not seek advice on PM’s controversial call to NSW police chief
- Ken Wyatt defends awarding of $2.2m contract to organisation linked to Liberal candidate
- Medevac repeal bill passes after Jacqui Lambie makes ‘secret deal’ with Coalition
- Angus Taylor demands Naomi Wolf apologise for accusing him of antisemitism
- Emergency chiefs hold bushfire summit with or without PM
- PM apologises for taking Hawaii holiday during bushfires
- Barnaby Joyce sick of of government interference in his life
- Scomo’s cricket analogy for bushfires
- Forceful handshakes during bushfires
- ADF video ad during bushfires
- Craig Kelly interview on UK TV denying climate change
- NDIS minister claims no one has died waiting for the scheme, despite agency revealing 1,279 deaths
- George Christensen pays back $2,100 after audit finds he misused travel expenses
- Nationals leadership spill motion
- Liberal party claims declaration of a $165k donation by Morrison ally was a mistake
- Rebel MP Llew O’Brien is elected deputy Speaker
- Matt Canavan leaves two properties worth more than $1m off 2019 declaration of interests
- $400k grant awarded to aged care centre only to be closed months later
- Liberal MP denies conflict of interest over grant to church that called her a ‘dear friend’
- Government’s $311 million spend revealed by rebel committee, including $345k for News Corp spelling bee
- Coalition ministers ‘kept no records’ of meeting overturning advice and awarding $5m to party donor
- Jacinda Ardern lashes Scott Morrison for ‘testing’ friendship over deportations to New Zealand
- Josh Frydenberg mocks Hindu practices in Question Time
- Scott Morrison’s one man committee
- $2bil bushfire fund is “notional”
- Stuart Robert corrects interests register over $10,000 bowls club grant
- Mining giant given millions in grant by Coalition from fund for Indigenous disadvantage
- Gun club and church with Liberal links awarded $40,000 in federal grants
- Scott Cam given $345,000 salary as national careers ambassador
- Australia sold weapons to Mali
- Josh Frydenberg eligible to sit in parliament after court dismisses citizenship challenge
- Stuart Robert claims MyGov crashed due to cyber attack
- Matt Canavan billed taxpayers $5,390 for private charter flight to attend coalmine opening
- Sharma’s bullish buys amid a bear market
- Parliamentary sittings cancelled due to COVID
- Government officials distribute illegal copies of Malcolm Turnbull’s book
- Peter Dutton: Family’s million-dollar property left off declaration
- Dan Tehan criticises Victoria for not opening up schools earlier
- Eden-Monaro LNP candidate shenanigans
- Covid commission filled with fossil fuel executives
- Coronavirus tests brought to Australia by Andrew Forrest at $200m cost to taxpayers not being used
- Stuart Robert had multiple notifications about excess internet data costs he charged to taxpayers
- Just $9m of Coalition’s $150m fund for female sport and swimming pools delivered
- Jobkeeper $60 billion reporting error
- Auditor general criticises home affairs over $745m Manus Island contracts
- Robodebt program found to be illegal
- Australia enters recession
- Renovation grants: Morrison government to offer $25,000 in home builder stimulus
- COVID inquiry: ex Liberal Party pollster won $500,000 contract without tender, Nev Power addresses conflicts of interest
- Senators unite to block Pauline Hanson’s ‘all lives matter’ motion
- Coalition MP Andrew Laming sacks staffer after questions over offensive social media posts
- Scott Morrison sorry for ‘no slavery in Australia’ claim and acknowledges ‘hideous practices’
- Cabinet ministers charge taxpayers for trip involving Liberal party fundraiser
- Liberal senator’s ‘knee on the throat’ comment about Queensland premier
- Federal ALP makes extraordinary intervention into Victorian branch-stacking scandal
- Chris Bowen billed taxpayers for whirlwind trip to Labor fundraiser
- Bob Katter’s “grim reaper” stunt for the car industry
- Federal ALP leaked text messages
- Government changes university fees for selected courses
- Eric Abetz billed taxpayers to attend gala mining industry event
- New $4.3m education website announced by Dan Tehan duplicates existing service
- Morrison government has failed in its duty to protect environment, auditor general finds
- Dutton tried to ban mobile phones for people in detention
- Peter Dutton avoids contempt of court charge after making visa decision
- Pauline Hanson’s ‘divisive’ remarks about Melbourne public housing residents
- Covidlive app tender given to company with LNP links
- Tim Wilson helped IPA and solicited Liberal party endorsement while in human rights position
- Foxtel further grants
- Covid 19 state border challenges by Hanson, Palmer and Fed Govt
- Shine Energy invited to apply for Collinsville power station grant two days after securing it
- Coalition denies covering up border force role in letting Ruby Princess passengers go
- Government argues Centrelink robodebt letter did not ‘compel’ recipients to provide documents
- Not correct’ that robodebt caused suicides, former head of Human Services says
- Covid-19 commission grants communications contract to firm headed by ex-Liberal staffers
- Craig Kelly’s suggestion Daniel Andrews could ‘face 25 years in jail’ for hydroxychloroquine ban
- Destruction of Aboriginal sites by Rio Tinto
- Peter Dutton confirms Australia could spy on its own citizens under cybersecurity plan
- Small business ombudsman awards contracts to Liberal-linked firm without tender
- 10,000 people died while on home care waiting list
- Liberal party plans three $2,500-a-head fundraising events in Canberra amid Covid risk
- Australian government spends almost $3m waging ‘war’ on whistleblowers in court
- Coalition’s homebuilder scheme attracts fewer than 250 applicants and ‘no payments have been made’
- Emboldened Liberal MPs increase pressure to kill super guarantee rise to 12%
- Firm advised by Christopher Pyne wins federal government grants worth almost $7m
- Morrison walks back comments on potential Covid vaccine, saying ‘it is not going to be compulsory’
- Wong and Plibersek round on Joel Fitzgibbon for suggesting Labor party could split in two
- Pauline Hanson staffer James Ashby sues commonwealth for $3.67m
- Colbeck cant remember number of aged care residents who have died from pandemic
- Foxtel get fastracked grants Part 2
- Michael Sukkar alleged involvement in branch stacking
- Royal commission blasts Morrison government for inaction on aged care
- Government finalises $3.6m Collinsville coal power plant grant despite disallowance motion
- Coalition shields firebrand MP Craig Kelly from censure for spreading Covid misinformation
- Australian government gags debate to ram environmental law changes through lower house
- The unconventional charity run by Scott Morrison’s ‘dear friend’ Leigh Coleman
- Dividendkeeper’: 17 leading companies receiving jobkeeper paid investors $250m in dividends
- Coalition began writing landmark environment bill before receiving review it had ordered
- Pauline Hanson takes credit for $23 million grant
- NBN backflip to FTTP for FTTN customers
- Alan Tudge engaged in ‘criminal’ conduct over detention of Afghan asylum seeker
- Liberal Party AGM allowed 300 members
- Michael McCormack calls Western Sydney airport land payment a “bargain”
- Digital Transformation Agency spends 250k on stationery
- DFAT leaks emails of vulnerable Australians stranded overseas
- Coalition hides conflict of interest in 30m land sell
- Labor says community grants scheme that received $103m in budget is a Coalition ‘slush fund’
- Australian federal budget found to be the most secretive ever produced
- Scomo takes credit for WA surplus
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison says people who earn $180,000 aren’t ‘rich’
- Inquiry that cleared Liberal MPs did not hear from key witnesses
- Rich private schools given charity concessions
- Centrelink call centre workers sacked
- Business leaders on Covid commission given access to confidential material
- Coal plant grant funded before key report finalised
- Minister Sukkar’s former employer handled review into his office
- Border Force subject to corruption investigation after millions paid to ship builder
- Australia Post spent $12,000 on Cartier watches to reward executives
- Thinly disguised political research’ paid for by taxpayers shared with Morrison’s office
- PM defends Liberal-linked economist job
- ASIC Chair stands aside over payment investigation
- Coalition’s $100m scheme to fund recycled products has spent no money
- $1.1m of public money used to fund Liberal-linked market research sent to PM’s office
- Jobmaker will create just 10% ‘genuinely additional’ jobs of Coalition’s total pledge, treasury says
- Australian PM’s office omits net zero emissions from account of Morrison’s talk with Johnson
- Michaelia Cash grilled about grant scheme where funds flowed overwhelmingly to Coalition seats
- $1m in government contracts given to controversial aged care executive without open tender
- Warren Mundine was not recommended for the SBS board, but the Coalition chose him anyway
- Hanson runs secret trust fund, hidden from parliament
- Home Affairs corruption notifications on the rise
- Labor accuses Coalition of ‘stacking’ tribunal as member revealed to be working as lobbyist
- ABC Four Corners report sexual misconduct within Liberal MPs
- Scomo interrupts female minister when discussing bonk ban
- Scott Morrison won’t take action over Christian Porter and Alan Tudge inappropriate conduct allegations
- Police union condemns federal corruption commission as a ‘protection racket’ for government MPs
- Australia’s wealthy to benefit most from next round of Coalition tax cuts
- Albos chief of staff resigned
- Barnaby Joyce says office rules should not prevent a boss sleeping with an employee
- Scott Morrison’s office met freedom of information deadlines in just 7.5% of cases
- Coalition flouts Senate order by refusing to release Leppington triangle documents
- Flights for Mathias Cormann’s European campaign for OECD job could cost taxpayers $4,300 an hour
- Coalition plans to merge Family Court
- Sports rorts inquiry accuses government of obstructing its investigation
- Communications minister Paul Fletcher complains to ABC about Four Corners program
- High court rejects Peter Dutton’s attempt to stop asylum seekers suing government for neglect
- PM and treasurer bill taxpayers for private jet to Lachlan Murdoch’s Christmas party
- Coalition proposes retrospectively stripping misclassified casuals of up to $39bn in claims
- PM apologises for erroneously stating Kevin Rudd had left and re-entered Australia during Covid
- Real estate agencies in Australia accused of ‘double dipping’ millions of dollars in jobkeeper
- Nationals investigated by watchdog over party room meeting held just before Melbourne Cup
- Budget blowouts: offshore processing costs $1.2bn for fewer than 300 people
- Josh Frydenberg appoints Liberal party staffer Peter Crone to ACCC
- Some of Australia’s biggest companies paid more in political donations than tax in 2018-19
- ABC chair Ita Buttrose accuses government of ‘political interference’ in draft letter to Paul Fletcher
- Prime minister’s department says granting FOI request on taxpayer-funded research would ‘prejudice’ government
- Visy wins $10mil from Australia’s Bushfire Recovery Fund
- PM’s department inflates survey results
- Coalition appoints former Liberal MP to tribunal tasked with reviewing government decisions
- Australia Post report into Cartier watches to remain secret
- Morrison government spent $128m on advertising in 2019-20, figures reveal
- Former Coalition adviser wins $190,000 bushfire agency contract without full tender
- Australian Liberal MP Craig Kelly stands by US Capitol ‘antifa’ claim, despite discredited evidence
- Suppressed auditor general’s report warned $1.3bn Australian defence deal not value for money
- Doctors demand government call out medical misinformation after acting PM says ‘facts are contentious’
- Federal Labor attacks government for awarding PR contracts to firm with Liberal links
- Australian government bungle means visa applicants told to travel overseas during pandemic
- Scott Morrison criticised for saying 26 January ‘wasn’t a flash day for those on first fleet vessels either’
- Coalition quietly adds fossil fuel industry leaders to emissions reduction panel
- George Brandis flies home from UK for holiday while thousands of Australians remain stuck overseas
- Bushfire Rorts: Coalition targets bushfire recovery funds for Coalition seats
- Christopher Pyne’s firm hired by defence contractor awarded $98m in government work while he was minister
- One Nation staffer James Ashby loses court fight to have commonwealth pay $4.5m legal fees
- Liberals handed back $33,800 from Lebanon-based firm, political donation disclosures show
- Nick Scali CEO to get $4.4m dividend after company received jobkeeper payments
- Liberal Party advertising on Government announcement
- Liberal Party MP David Coleman possibly ineligible to sit in parliament
- Greg Hunt accuses ABC’s Michael Rowland of ‘identifying with left’ over Liberal logo questions
- Peter Dutton slashed funding for highly regarded community safety projects. Then he selected his own list to fund
- Peter Dutton’s office fast-tracked one-off grant proposal days after donation given to support him
- Foreign minister Marise Payne cancels press conference after Labor MP turns up
- Alan Tudge tells court judge mistook him for Peter Dutton in ‘criminal’ conduct finding
- Public funding for dam projects with no business case is private sector subsidy, report says
- Morrison deflected parliamentary questions to other ministers almost 200 times since becoming PM
- Dutton spent $36,000 on VIP chartered flights for grants announcement
- In the dark: almost 40% of Coalition funds in past 20 years came from unknown donors
- Brittany Higgins sexual assault allegations
- Craig Kelly banned from Facebook for a week for posting Covid misinformation
- Defence renews storage deal with Global Switch, years after Government vowed to ditch Chinese-owned firm
- Billionaires receive tens of millions in dividends from companies on jobkeeper
- Josh Frydenberg’s plan to water down company disclosure laws condemned
- NBN Co paid staff and executives $77m in bonuses in last six months of 2020
- One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts calls for law making it easier to sack workers
- Craig Kelly’s senior aide faces multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour made by young women
- Warning Coalition’s $6.4m cuts could mean agencies not audited for 20 years
- Peter Dutton’s push to use ‘secret evidence’ to revoke citizenship condemned
- Craig Kelly quits Liberal party to move to the crossbench
- One Nation employed convicted rapist Sean Black just months after release from prison
- Car dealer AP Eagers to give shareholders $64m in dividends after receiving $130m in jobkeeper subsidies
- PM dodges question over Peter Dutton describing Brittany Higgins rape allegation as ‘she said, he said’
- Liberal senator refers rape allegation against unnamed Labor politician to AFP
- Nicolle Flint: Liberal MP who spoke out about sexist abuse will not recontest election
- Ex-staffer Rachelle Miller to bring workplace lawsuit against ministers Tudge and Cash
- John Barilaro thanked for $107,000 grant to agricultural group associated with Angus Taylor’s family
- Christian Porter rape allegations
- Scott Morrison didn’t seek solicitor general’s advice before ruling out Christian Porter inquiry
- Minister described $30m western Sydney airport land purchase as ‘perfectly sensible’
- Labor questions price tag of more than $400,000 for air force centenary events
- Company responsible for Australian vaccine bookings previously fined for sharing patient data
- Government walks away from promise to ‘fully vaccinate’ all Australians by October
- NZ politicians attack Australian minister Peter Dutton for comparing deportees to ‘trash’
- Linda Reynolds pays compensation after calling alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins ‘a lying cow’
- McCormack too busy to front March4Justice crowd but PM open to ‘private’ meeting
- Scott Morrison declares it a ‘triumph’ that March 4 Justice rallies not ‘met with bullets’
- Anthony Albanese says Labor women alleging sexual abuse should come forward and name names
- Christian Porter commences defamation case against ABC
- Key Nationals female leadership post remains unfilled for six months
- $13m mistake: valuer says $80m water buyback price was not in line with its advice
- Coalition grant to help people move for work used by just 3,000 people in seven years
- Australia’s biggest companies pocketed hundreds of millions in jobkeeper despite positive earnings
- Grant of $3.3m for Shine Energy approved despite not being entirely appropriate, auditor general finds
- Peter Dutton charged taxpayers $465 for flight on day he was special guest at private event
- Head of PM’s department pauses inquiry into Brittany Higgins rape allegations over AFP concerns
- Coalition adviser sacked over allegations staffers performed solo sex acts on desks of female MPs
- Parliament House sex scandal
- Insensitive response’: Scott Morrison apologises over News Corp harassment claim
- Former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella appointed to plum Fair Work job
- Senator Eric Abetz denies claim he made highly offensive comments about Brittany Higgins
- Superannuation boss demands scrutiny of Tim Wilson’s use of economics committee
- Leaked laws reveal plan to kick Australians off the $22 billion NDIS
- Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming accused of online harassment by state Labor MP Kim Richards
- Secret recordings reveal a former One Nation candidate tried to join a global neo-Nazi group
- Nationals MP Anne Webster lodges sexual harassment complaint against Coalition colleague
- Former Liberal staffer on appeals tribunal quits consultancy role after potential conflict of interest
- Australia’s Covid vaccine rollout in aged care labelled a ‘shemozzle’
- Barnaby Joyce says you can’t ‘redesign people’s brains’ with empathy training
- Liberal MP Andrew Laming created dozens of Facebook pages to promote LNP and attack opponents
- Peter Dutton starts issuing defamation threats to Twitter users
- ‘An utter disgrace’: Christine Holgate accuses Scott Morrison of ‘worst bullying I’ve ever witnessed’
- Liberal-appointed tribunal members’ pay claims ‘fishy’, says Labor senator
- Kristina Keneally accuses Peter Dutton of cancelling her trip to meet Biloela family
- Jobkeeper doubled return for investors compared with companies that did not have subsidy
- ‘Confusing’ milkshake consent video pulled from campaign that cost Australian government $3.8m
- MP Craig Kelly ‘absolutely outraged’ after Facebook removes his page for misinformation
- Leppington triangle: Coalition’s $30m purchase of airport land ‘incompetent or corrupt’
- Coalition condemned for ‘outrageous’ decision to fine or imprison Australians returning from India
- Coalition vetoes funding for wind and battery farm in northern Queensland
- Scott Morrison defends Andrew Laming over decision not to give up lucrative parliamentary role
- Scott Morrison says investigation by department head has resumed into Brittany Higgins matter
- Christian Porter ABC defamation case
- Battle to unlock secret of Scott Morrison’s national cabinet faces tribunal
- Peter Dutton ridiculed for ordering end to morning teas celebrating diversity
- Grace Tame says Scott Morrison told her ‘I bet it felt good to get that out’ after powerful speech
- AFP receives 19 allegations of misconduct involving MPs, their staff or ‘official establishments’
- Defence spends $37m on private helicopter hire after troubles with its own $15bn chopper program
- Covid vaccine rollout delays
- Richard Colbeck admits not knowing how many aged care workers have been vaccinated
- ‘Protocol creep’ blamed for Scott Morrison’s red-carpet treatment by air force
- Greg Hunt corrects record after saying just six aged care homes still to be vaccinated
- Craig Kelly adviser Frank Zumbo charged over alleged historical sexual offences
- Gas and coal companies among recipients of $50m in Coalition grants from carbon capture fund
- ‘This does not sit well’: public servant raises questions over John Barilaro funding request
- Robodebt: court approves $1.8bn settlement for victims of government’s ‘shameful’ failure
- Coalition ignored warnings it needed vaccination tracking system for aged care staff
- Michael McCormack says mouse plague from regional Australia should be ‘rehomed into inner city’
- Pauline Hanson gets own birthday wrong in bizarre superannuation debate
- Barnaby Joyce returns as Nationals leader after leadership spill
- Joel Fitzgibbon blames ‘ideological craziness’ after Labor blocks carbon capture investment
- Water war: rejuvenated Nationals spring Murray-Darling Basin demands on Liberals
- Coalition accused of using charity crackdown to silence dissent
- Barnaby Joyce urged to apologise over ‘burning flesh’ comments about Melbourne’s Covid impact
- Barnaby Joyce fined for not wearing mask in breach of Covid rules after tipoff to police
- Car park rorts
- Australia ‘at back of the queue’ for Pfizer Covid vaccines, minister admits
- Australia’s export credit agency gave 80 times more to fossil fuel projects than renewables
- Coalition granted $21m to Liberal party donor to frack Beetaloo Basin
- Anthony Albanese mocks Coalition’s new Covid vaccine ad as revamped campaign falls flat
- Scott Morrison blames Atagi doctors for Australia’s slow Covid vaccine rollout
- ‘Beg for every scrap’: Victoria fumes after Morrison and NSW unveil $500m a week Covid lockdown package
- One-hour, optional sexual harassment training for Australian MPs a ‘tick and flick exercise’, union says
- Sports rorts: Coalition blocking release of Phil Gaetjens’ secret report, citing cabinet exemption
- Car park scandal: same staffer from prime minister’s office was involved in sports rorts
- Mathias Cormann’s flights to win OECD job cost Australia $11,000 a day
- Liberal party donor’s revenue from uncontested contracts for offshore processing rises to $1.5bn
- Businesses that had no downturn from Covid crisis received $12.5bn jobkeeper windfall
- Morrison held press conferences at the Lodge despite health advice visitors should be vaccinated
- Beetaloo Basin fracking plan: gas companies linked to tax secrecy havens and Liberal party, inquiry told
- “Its not a race” timeline and context
- Coalition criticised after Great Barrier Reef Foundation receives $351,000 in jobkeeper payments
- Coalition to spend $19,000 to send Tony Abbott on trade mission to India
- Australia ‘lagging at the back of the pack’ of OECD countries on climate action, analysis finds
- ‘Multibillion-dollar scheme to buy votes’: Senate inquiry to examine Coalition’s urban congestion fund
- Scott Morrison walks back ‘end the weekend’ rhetoric on electric vehicles
- More than $500k in jobkeeper given to Margaret Court’s Pentecostal church
- Centrelink orders jobkeeper recipients to pay back $32m, while profitable businesses allowed to keep funds
- George Christensen accused of using parliament to spread misinformation about Covid-19
- Scott Morrison contradicts Barnaby Joyce on Coalition plan to reach net zero
- Australian government accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan
- Christian Porter tries to prevent publication of unredacted ABC defamation defence
- Energy company that won $21m in grants paid for Liberal party fundraiser’s trip to Beetaloo fracking site
- Morrison government is paying PR firm $2.9m to promote Covid vaccine rollout
- Head of PM’s department halts inquiry around Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation
- Harvey Norman repays $6m of the $22m it claimed in jobkeeper after record profits
- Labor questions whether Coalition let Pauline Hanson take credit for $8m grant to Rockhampton hospice
- Scott Morrison granted Covid lockdown travel exemption to visit Sydney for Father’s Day weekend
- Alan Tudge says he doesn’t want students to be taught ‘hatred’ of Australia in fiery Triple J interview
- ATO won’t pursue $180m in jobkeeper paid to ineligible businesses due to ‘honest mistakes’
- Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon to quit politics, taking parting swipe at ‘idealist’ progressives
- Christian Porter reveals part of legal fees paid by blind trust with funds from unknown source
- ‘No satisfactory explanation’: court blasts Keith Pitt over grant agreement with gas company
- Drugs allegedly offered to managers of NBN delivery partners as kickbacks for work, inquiry told
- Pentecostal church given $660,000 in jobkeeper, then returns 3,620% increase in profit
- Labor rank and file angry at ‘captain’s pick’ for preselection of Joel Fitzgibbon’s key Hunter seat
- Australia nuclear submarine deal: Aukus defence pact with US and UK means $90bn contract with France will be scrapped
- Coalition proposes to scrap recovery plans for 200 endangered species and habitats
- ACT accuses Scott Morrison’s office of extensive media backgrounding on national cabinet
- Paul Fletcher says car park scheme ‘very transparent’ while refusing to release documents
- Australia government forced to ‘clarify’ domestic violence funding plan
- ‘I don’t care’: Barnaby Joyce rejects ‘pork-barrelling’ label over regional grants program
- Anthony Albanese stands by branch stacking MP Anthony Byrne amid Ibac revelations
- Taxpayers pay for one more billion-dollar Home Affairs disaster
- $25bn in Coalition grants made through closed process with no competitors, report finds
- PM’s office failed to meet deadlines for majority of freedom of information requests in past year
- Corruption complaints within Australia’s law enforcement agencies soar
- Superannuation minister denies AMP lobbying behind benchmark change
- French president accuses Scott Morrisson of lying over French submarine contract
- Liberal senator Hollie Hughes doing paid consulting work for a for-profit biofuels company
- Morrison accused of worsening rift with French government after leak of Macron text
- Company running cashless debit card scheme in Australia claimed $2m in jobkeeper before rise in revenue
- Cost of Australia holding each refugee on Nauru balloons to $4.3m a year
- Secret figures reveal Coalition’s cut-down NBN tech three times more expensive than forecast
- Car parks scheme would ‘amount to corruption’ if federal watchdog existed, ex-NSW auditor general says
- Scott Morrison says he ‘believes’ he has never told a lie in public life
- ‘Pure spin’: experts pan Coalition net-zero modelling that allows gas sector to grow
- Australian taxpayers funding $59m in government ads in run-up to 2022 election
- Barnaby Joyce says Nationals did not sign Cop26 pact and Australia is ‘happy with targets’
- Prime minister’s department breached FOI laws over release of Brittany Higgins documents
- Former federal Labor MP Craig Thomson charged over alleged migration fraud
- Morrison under fire for falsely claiming he told Albanese he was travelling to Hawaii in 2019
- Liberal MP Gerard Rennick floods Facebook with vaccine posts he admits may not be ‘100% accurate’
- Scott Morrison ‘did a jig’ following approval of $16bn gas project labelled a ‘disaster’ by green groups
- Liberal MP crosses the floor to support independent bill for federal integrity commission
- Brisbane company worth just $8 when awarded $385m Nauru offshore processing contract
- Coalition-held seats awarded billions in federal government grant money, analysis finds
- Coalition’s proposed parliamentary calendar has just 10 sitting days in first half of 2022
- High-profile Liberal woman quits party to run as independent after alleging ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
- Sex discrimination commissioner finds gender inequality key driver of toxic culture in federal parliament
- Russell Broadbent quits privileges committee after leak of Christian Porter donation report
- Liberal senator denies making ‘dog noise’ at Lambie after culture review handed down
- Quarantine contract given to PM’s friend without tender
- Alan Tudge stands aside after Rachelle Miller alleges their affair was at times ‘abusive’
- Coalition shelves bills on religious discrimination and federal Icac
- Natalie Baini claims Liberal party ignored complaint about conduct of married Coalition minister
- Craig Kelly: MP banned from Facebook appointed to parliament’s social media inquiry
- Scott Morrison attacked over ‘secrecy’ after documents reveal cyclones and floods set to pummel Australia
- Scott Morrison backs Gladys Berejiklian to run for federal seat of Warringah despite Icac cloud
- Legal experts condemn Scott Morrison’s continuing attacks on Icac as ‘disgraceful’ and ‘stupid’
- Coalition members George Christensen and Alex Antic appear on far-right US chat shows
- Less than 6% of $4.2bn received in jobkeeper repaid by ASX-listed companies, Asic reveals
- Andrew Laming staffer dresses as Kyle Rittenhouse for delayed Halloween party
- Scott Morrison moves to rein in Gerard Rennick after senator says Pfizer for children is ‘completely irresponsible’
- Information watchdog demands change after two government departments break FoI laws within a month
- Company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally poisoned grasslands, ministerial review finds
- Coalition’s response to grants pork-barrelling claims
- Myefo budget update reveals huge election war chest but warns of economic uncertainty
- Liberal MP Andrew Laming to be taken to court by electoral commission over Facebook page
- Court rules Morrison government grant to develop gas field in Beetaloo Basin invalid
- Morrison government tells tribunal robodebt documents must stay secret to protect cabinet process
- Federal government’s Christmas Eve veto of research projects labelled ‘McCarthyism’
- Tamil-Australians ‘outraged’ over taxpayer-funded anti-migration film competition
- Doctors reveal they warned Australia’s governments to secure rapid antigen tests
- RAT procurement/costs debacle
- Australian government was warned about Covid testing overburden almost a year ago
- Novak Djokovich deportation saga
- PM accused of ‘outright lie’ after claiming detainees in Melbourne hotel are not refugees
- Scott Morrison proposal to allow under-18s to drive forklifts
- Fury at backroom deal to usher former Young Liberal into federal seat of Hughes
- Barnaby Joyce apologises for claiming ‘people aren’t dying’ of Covid in Australia
- Scott Morrison claims his WeChat account was hacked
- Grace Tame appears stony faced next to Scott Morrison during Australian of the Year photo op
- Aged care minister Richard Colbeck went to Ashes Test on same day he declined to appear at Covid committee
- Company that retains exclusive rights to make Aboriginal flags says Coalition has ‘misled’ community
- Coalition agrees to importation of unapproved rapid antigen tests
- Gladys Berejiklian called Scott Morrison a ‘horrible’ and untrustworthy person in leaked texts
- Morrison fails to answer question about price of everyday items (amongst other questions)
- Greg Hunt accused of being disrespectful and playing down Covid deaths in aged care
- Scientists dispute Morrison government claim to UN its Great Barrier Reef approach ‘second to none’
- Barnaby Joyce called Scott Morrison ‘a hypocrite and a liar’ in leaked text message
- PM shuts down Peter Dutton after defence minister flags sending troops into nursing homes
- Dungowan dam doubles in projected costs, has no business case, no environmental approval yet is ‘moving ahead’
- George Christensen claims $10,000 a month for ‘e-material’ as he ramps up anti-vaccine mandate Facebook ads
- Scott Morrison’s office refuses to release full text exchanges with Macron
- Coalition ‘hiding negligence’ by refusing to release findings of 2021 study into care workforce
- Grace Tame claims she received a ‘threatening’ phone call warning her not to criticise PM
- Coalition shelves religious discrimination bill
- Senate dumps Josh Frydenberg’s superannuation changes
- Coalition spends $31m on ads spruiking efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions
- Auditor general finds no ‘clear basis’ for half of Safer Communities Fund grants
- Home affairs department paid $16,000 to rent senior official’s ACT home through Airbnb
- Michaelia Cash confirms no action on national integrity commission before election
- ‘Unsuitable’ projects approved for community safety grants after ministerial visits, auditor general says
- Private school funding in Australia has increased at five times rate of public schools
- Public servants accused in Senate estimates of misleading parliament over $1.7m contract for welfare research
- Scott Morrison calls Labor MP a ‘Manchurian candidate’
- AEC finds errors in donation records across the political spectrum
- Coalition’s taxpayer-funded ads overplayed role in state infrastructure projects
- Former Asio boss accuses Liberal senator of ‘grubby’ attack over Huawei comments
- United Australia party candidate told rally she wanted to chant ‘hang Dan Andrews’
- Alex Hawke fails to appear in supreme court for NSW Liberal party preselection case
- Liberal MP asks constituents to dob in people displaying Zoe Daniel material
- Coalition announces new $19m Beetaloo Basin gas support after previous grants ruled invalid
- Coalition awards $520k for NBN upgrade to single business in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate
- Morrison government awarded multimillion-dollar contract to minister’s close friend
- Peter Dutton panned for setting up fundraiser for flood victims
- Coalition scraps $65m spend on four car parks in Josh Frydenberg’s electorate
- Coalition shortlist for nuclear submarines base were not in Defence’s top five in 2011 review
- Scott Morrison says defence force ‘not available on a moment’s notice’ to respond to floods disaster
- Australian PM’s department drops widely mocked ‘phallic’ women’s network logo
- Sussan Ley does not have duty of care to protect young from climate crisis, appeal court rules
- Environment groups say Coalition plan to bypass federal approvals a ‘step towards industry free-for-all’
- Albanese hits back after Labor senators dubbed ‘mean girls’
- Stuart Robert says ‘dud teachers’ not an issue in Australia’s independent schools
- Most of Australia’s threatened species not monitored by government, audit finds
- Urannah Dam funding would direct $500m to company run by LNP-linked figures
- Defence personnel not allowed to speak about climate ‘unless they go through Peter Dutton’s office’
- Barnaby dismisses youth climate activists with comparisons to Ukraine
- Urban congestion funding for Coalition and marginal seats far outstrips safe Labor seats, report finds
- Liberal Democrats staffer hijacks party email to send scathing message
- Bullying claims by female Liberal MPs routinely dismissed by colleagues, new research finds
- Michael McCormack’s movie nights cost taxpayers $2,500 a ticket – and his scene was cut
- Morrison government committed $5.9bn for dams without advice from water infrastructure board
- ‘Disappointed and shocked’: Scott Morrison distances himself from Hillsong pastor Brian Houston
- Coalition went ‘directly’ to Whitehaven to purchase coal for Ukraine
- Survey finds 97% of Australia’s aged care workers have not received $800 bonus
- Liberal federal executive intervenes to halt NSW preselections and take over state division
- Liberal senator calls Australian PM Scott Morrison a ‘bully’, with ‘no moral compass’
- Liberal MP Andrew Laming will refuse to repay travel expenses after audit finds $8,000 in invalid claims
- Scott Morrison says best way to help renters is to ‘help them buy a house’
- Barnaby Joyce abolishes body set up to advise on major water projects after dam announcements
- Scott Morrison, Michaelia Cash facing questions about using Solicitor-General in Liberal matter
- Alan Tudge remains as education minister after saying he would not return to the frontbench
- Barnaby Joyce disagrees housing is unaffordable as he bought first home for $67k
- Scott Morrison denies falsely claiming 2007 preselection rival Michael Towke was a Muslim
- Liberal Amanda Stoker repays taxpayers $2,600 for travel with family through Whitsunday region
- Morrison government’s advertising spend tops Coles and McDonald’s
- Women struggle to get federal government’s $5,000 payment to escape domestic violence
- NSW MP Catherine Cusack’s extraordinary spray against Scott Morrison
- Mystery solved over Hansard change to hide budget’s missing $10 drug price cut
- Pru Goward among six Liberal-linked appointments by Coalition to Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Questions raised over millions in federal budget funding for charity with no office or staff
- George Christensen spent $20,000 promoting personal website and email list before quitting politics
- Scott Morrison refuses Queensland’s request to split $741m flood resilience funding
- Section 44 strikes again: Labor candidate for Hughes quits race due to Greek citizenship concerns
- Furious pensioner confronts Scott Morrison as Newcastle pub photo op backfires
- Scott Morrison caves in to co-funding Queensland flood resilience package after fierce criticism
- Scott Morrison in damage control in South Australia over submarine comments
- Craig Kelly billed taxpayers to fly to Melbourne anti-lockdown rallies
- Governor-General personally lobbied Scott Morrison about leadership program given $18m in funding
More to come with election campaign headlines like below:
- Anthony Albanese cant remember unemployment or RBA cash rate
- Scott Morrison refuses to comment on $500k payout to Rachelle Miller
- George Christensen to run for One Nation in the Senate
- NSW Liberal senator billed taxpayers for travel allowance on day of Melbourne Cup marquee event
- Liberal candidate Allison Bluck apologises over false claim involving woman with similar name
- Liberal senator Ben Small resigned because of dual citizenship
- One Nation dumped Brisbane candidate Rebecca Lloyd
- Morrison’s captain’s pick for NSW seat accused Indian PM of causing ‘hatred and fear’
- Urannah dam business case assumes massive growth in Queensland coalmining
- Labor accuses Angus Taylor of ‘desperate’ climate scare campaign over energy claims
- Scott Morrison faces Liberal mutiny over Warringah candidate Katherine Deves’ trans views
- Morrison government’s $7.4bn in dam commitments could be ‘biggest pork barrel in history’
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