Madeleine King’s press release is a little shorter than this editorial. For her, there is not much to explain. The announcement of a new gas field licence and the further opening of the country’s coast for marine drilling is simple enough. The logic is obvious.
Thirteen years ago, on a Thursday in early March, Adam Giles became the first Indigenous person to lead an Australian government. Then a member of the Country Liberal Party, he was sworn in as chief minister of the Northern Territory.
When Bill Shorten began his reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the agency responsible for the scheme commissioned “narrative” work to help sell the changes. The man tasked with reviewing the scheme was shown the research before he was shown any modelling on cuts.
