The Westminster Tradition
In 2019, after three years, Robodebt was found to be unlawful. The Royal Commission process found it was also immoral and wildly inaccurate.
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🗑️🤖 “You govern in prose”: AI slop and the end of friction 🤖🗑️
Like every conference in the land, we’re talking about AI.But this episode isn’t about public servants using it. It’s about citizens using it at you. We start from Sam Freedman’s Drowning in slop, Tom Loosemore’s reply ...
🔥🤫 “A deal is a deal is a deal”: Operation Richmond, Part 2 🤫🔥
In Part 1, a secret deal was struck in a hotel room and walked into Cabinet as a “UFU proposal”. In Part 2, the deal has to survive contact with everyone who wasn’t in the room.We start at the Fair Work Commission, where the “independent...
🔥🤝 “Handshake has occurred”: Operation Richmond, Part 1 🤝🔥
In 2016, the Andrews government settled a bitter, years-long dispute with the firefighters’ union in a hotel room, then spent the next two years pretending it hadn’t.In August, Victoria’s anti-corruption commission IBAC tabled its specia...
**Revisit** ☎️ The Hon Amanda Vanstone AO - Inside the Westminster Machine
We are reliably informed that when this episode dropped a current Cabinet minister rang The Hon Amanda Vanstone and congratulated her. That’s a good enough reason for us to republish this during our hiatus! Note there’s also a follow up episode...
**Revisit** 🏉 The Royal Commission we should have? The 2013 Essendon Football Club supplements scandal
You might like to get in the mood for AFL footy finals by revisiting this first episode of our three part series on the Essendon Footy club drug scandal! Meanwhile we will keep enjoying our late winter / early spring hiatus 😇****“...