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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🔥🤫 “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 😇****“...
**Revisit** 🗳️ Election special 🗳️ Caretaker conventions, IGBs and some 🥳 vox pops 🥳
In honour of forthcoming Victorian and NSW elections, we are republishing this episode during our late winter hiatus. Enjoy!!****The starter's gun has gone on Australia's national elections for 2025 and Parliament has been prorogu...