In the shadow of ExxonMobil’s multibillion-dollar gas venture, a business has cropped up in Papua New Guinea to kidnap and ransom foreigners. This week, a Queensland professor was released.
Young children are being sent to jail because there is no other accommodation for them. The process is compounding trauma – and adding new trauma – while they remain trapped between abandonment and prosecution.
Plans for a national ID card are progressing urgently, according to the prime minister in a closed-door meeting, as Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil warns that companies can’t escape their legal duty to protect customers.
A year after the floods, Northern Rivers residents are in limbo, with many likely to miss out on recovery funds from a program that is beset by delays and a lack of transparency.
The Greens and David Pocock seek big changes to the safeguard mechanism, and a climate trigger. In the meantime, the policy allows companies to entirely offset emissions with sham credits.
Former minister Stuart Robert says he wanted to end robo-debt but he had to support it because he was a cabinet minister. The evidence from senior public servants suggests the opposite.
