Mark Felt lied for decades about being the "Deep Throat" of the Watergate reports.
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Watergate suggests you shouldn’t believe those denying they’re “anonymous” REMEMBER DEEP THROAT
Ivanka Trump used a private email account for White House business. How is it different from Hillary Clinton?
Ivanka Trump used a private email account for White House business. How is it different from Hillary Clinton?
The ego runneth over: Delusion of celebrity brings down another CEO
Race to stop Russian becoming Interpol head
People are often surprised to learn that we have very little insight into how we actually make most of our Everyday Decisions"
NICHOLAS GRUEN: Evaluation is at the centre of several current APS reform discussions. Australia’s leading evaluator-general proponent on the design and implementation issues that will need to be addressed.
Treasury draft explains new rules to exclude tax dodgers
PROCUREMENT POLICY: Treasury has released a draft of the new procurement policy that aims to stop federal agencies buying goods and services from companies involved in the black economy.
In defence of ASIC: there’s more to regulation than prosecution
CROSSROADS: An irony of the banking royal commission is that it may end up having its greatest impact on an entity that isn’t a bank.
Michael Daley vows to kill Botany cruise plan in fiery parliament ...
Doctors pass vote of no confidence in Northern Beaches Hospital ...Outsourcing, perverse incentives and Australia's founding myth
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The tragic voyage of the second fleet, which killed 40% of the convicts on board, holds a lesson for contemporary governments.
The most influential voices outside of government on improving the APS
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The panel reviewing the APS should reinforce its identity as a distinct institution within government, and build a stronger general consensus around what federal bureaucrats and ministerial advisers are supposed to do these days, argues a group of Canberra's most experienced ex-mandarins.
Operation Infektion: Russian Disinformation: From The Cold War To Kanye - Opinion Video Series | Operation Infektion By Adam B. Ellick and Adam Westbrook The New York Times, November 12, 2018
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“Russia’s meddling in the United States’ elections is not a hoax. It’s the culmination of Moscow’s decades-long campaign to tear the West apart. “Operation InfeKtion” reveals the ways in which one of the Soviets’ central tactics — the promulgation of lies about America — continues today, from Pizzagate to George Soros conspiracies. Meet the KGB spies who conceived this virus and the American truth squads who tried — and are still trying — to fight it. Countries from Pakistan to Brazil are now debating reality, and in Vladimir Putin’s greatest triumph, Americans are using Russia’s playbook against one another without the faintest clue…”
Labor leader Michael Daley has held an exclusive press conference ...