The Guardian • corruption
Issue #2026
China: party steps up fight against corruption
Twenty-four senior officials have been placed under investigation in first half of the year. Former vice-minister of public security Sun Lijun became on Friday the...
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Issue #2031
Why America is alarmed
Every five years, the delegates of the Communist Party of China (CPC) – 96 million members – meet to elect its top leaders and set...
Read moreScandals INC. – LNP Coalition
It must be something to do with our convict past: a country built upon shonky dealings, dog-eat-dog values, and capitalist ethics (that’s an oxymoron)! So, by 2021, our political representatives have made non-accountability into a fine art.
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Issue #2035
DINGO
The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...
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Issue #2067
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SPAIN: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s candidate for the speaker of the Congress of Deputies won the vote for the position in Sanchez’s first trial in...
Read moreBetting the house: the Crown Casino scandal
Royal Commissions in two states, Victoria and Western Australia, into the Crown Casino empire have revealed the enormous amount of corruption.
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Issue #2047
Queensland police corruption report
In 1987 the Fitzgerald Inquiry, The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, began investigations into the corruption by the Queensland...
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Issue #2026
Federal ICAC introduced to parliament
Last week, the long-awaited federal Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was introduced to parliament by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus. According to Dreyfus this federal ICAC will:...
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Issue #2022
CPA lunch at the Village Pickle
After many weeks of planning, organising, and discussion, the Brisbane branch gathered at the Village Pickle, a café in the country town of Nambour, north...
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Issue #2057
Half million march against Poland’s far-right PiS
On 5th June half a million people waving Polish and European Union flags marched through central Warsaw. It was the largest political rally in Poland...
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