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October 2021

It beggars belief that the Coalition has been in government for 8 years and now, absurdly, has to negotiate with itself to get a climate change policy.

BlotReport

It is a baseline responsibility of political journalists to require that politicians tell the truth to the public. If they don’t, more politicians will lie more often, and the public will be more misinformed than they already are. It’s an accountability responsibility of the fourth estate which involves seeking to uncover the truth and insisting that politicians who have not told the truth correct the record and explain the reasons for their falsehoods.

Margo Kingston

Having survived the maelstrom of a COVID outbreak in her [Gladys Berejiklian’s] state that had seen its citizens locked down for four months, but finally seeing case numbers falling and vaccination rates rocketing, the NSW Premier was undone by a system designed to uphold standards of public integrity: a system which her federal counterparts will neither countenance, and in a depressingly increasing number of cases, would be lucky to survive.

Laura Tingle