Aleks Vickovich - Australian Financial Review - Friday 25 September 2020 The major banks have won the argument that responsible lending has squeezed access to credit, with the Morrison government set to change the rules 18 months after Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne implored the financial services...
James Paterson - The Australian - Tuesday September 22 2020 The anti-discrimination complaint against Tasmanian Liberal senator Claire Chandler is the latest example of the threat to free speech posed by Australia’s state and federal anti-discrimination laws, and the bodies tasked with enforcing them. Ironically, the complaint...
Tom Minear and Shannon Deery - The Herald Sun - Wednesday 16 September 2020 DANIEL Andrews has been accused of lying after damning documents directly contradicted his repeated claim that Australian Defence Force support was not offered for Victoria's hotel quarantine system. Emails released on Tuesday show...
Hannah Wootton - The Australian Financial Review - Wednesday 16 September The Australian Defence Force offered Victoria's most senior public servant help to guard quarantine hotels as early as April, contradicting claims repeated by Premier Daniel Andrews. A federal government statement tendered to the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry...
Josh Bavas and Conor Duffy - ABC - Friday 11 September 2020 One of the country's biggest universities was so concerned about the risk of Chinese influence it commissioned an internal investigation into the threat last year. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) presented the "China...
Ben Packham - The Australian - Friday 11 September 2020 Four Chinese “journalists” raided by ASIO were part of a Communist Party propaganda operation in Australia, influencing local Chinese-language media and reporting to Beijing on members of the Australian-Chinese community. China’s harassment and attempted detention of Australian journalists Bill...
KATERINA ANG - ASIAN REVIEW - September 4 2020 SINGAPORE -- When the clampdown on Hong Kong's anti-Beijing protesters intensified in June, the chairs of the foreign affairs committees of the Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and U.K. legislatures wrote to the United Nations secretary general asking...
Ronald Mizen - Australian Financial Review - Sunday 06 September 2020 A growing group of Liberal MPs want home ownership to be a cornerstone principle of the retirement system, overturning a three decade focus on building high superannuation balances. The Australian Financial Review has spoken to more...
Chris Merritt - The Australian - Friday 04 September 2020 James Paterson’s inquiry into class actions and litigation funding has been presented with details of a financial scandal that will make it extremely difficult for the litigation industry to resist the case for reform. The joint parliamentary...
Frank Chung - The Herald Sun - Wednesday 2 September 2020 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ secretive deal with China has been roundly rejected by voters. A new poll released by the conservative think tank the Institute of Public affairs shows the majority of Victorians want the state government...