Journalism isn't about how smart you are. It's not about where you're from. It's not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It's about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It's about being fearless personally and professionally.
It's like your mum promising you an iPhone 14 for Christmas, but she gets you an iPhone 15 instead (becasue it just came out). Technically its a broken promise but there ain't too many people complaining.
The press gallery refuses to recognise its own complicity in so-called “broken promises”. Journalists demand politicians “rule out” changes, entrenching a status quo that supports vested interests. It’s bad for policy and bad for democracy. The gallery is part of the problem.
Time for a fair tax system. Time to stop collecting more from HECS debt than from PRRT. Time to tax big national resources corporations and spend it on the public interest.
Whopping $1bn haul from Victoria’s illegal tobacco trade revealed
Organised crime bosses have snared a $1bn-plus Victorian windfall in three years from illicit tobacco rackets.
Epping man Majid Alibadi, 25, has been charged with four counts of arson and extortion.
Australia to get better access to social media accounts to fight crime under US deal
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Breaking down the complicated dispute over Sports Illustrated and what could happen next
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EU commission chief hopes for ‘consensus’ with protesting farmers RT
Study: Record sickness rates are pushing Germany into recession Business Panorama via machine translatio. Micael T: “Oh, of course, the employees being sick is the reason. Nothing to do with gaspipelines, companies moving production abroad, greedflation and everything else.”
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Frank Zumbo, the chief of staff to former Liberal MP Craig Kelly, has been found guilty of indecently assaulting four women – including exposing his penis to one while sitting on a park bench – over a number of years while working together in the politician’s electorate office.
On Friday, magistrate Gareth Christofi handed down his decision in the trial that began in June 2022 over 20 charges of sexual touching and indecent assault, as well as charges of common assault, that occurred between 2014 and 2020.
Ex-Liberal staffer Frank Zumbo found guilty of indecently assaulting four women
Joshua Schulte, who prosecutors said was responsible for agency’s largest data breach, also guilty of possessing child abuse images