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Kerr's curs
City Desk, Polly Peck • Monday, August 17, 2020 Leading hacks at The Australian have waged war on Professor Jenny Hocking and her research into the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government by governor general Kerr ... The archived letters clearly confirm the Palace's involvement ... It is The Australian's version that is in need of repair ... Michael White dismantles the claims about Hocking's "conspiracy theory"
Litigations in Queanbeyan
Polly Peck • Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Kerr's correspondence with the Palace on the Loans Affair prosecution ... Shifting claims of Crown privilege ... Resignation of attorney general Ellicott ... The GG away at the opera when the executive council agreed to raise $4 billion in petrodollars ... The Queen didn't much like Alan Reid's unbalanced opinions ... Send me another book, please ... Kerr's views on Neville Wran ... Stephen Murray delves into remote corners of the Palace Letters
Lawn Order
Polly Peck • Friday, July 3, 2020 Bulletin from the Bear-Pit ... Recasting the top job at LECC ... Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons ... Crime and insanity ... Tendency evidence gets tweaked ... Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission ... Answers on notice ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street
Trouble on Grub Street
Polly Peck • Friday, June 5, 2020 Latest spying update ... Legislation for International Production Orders ... Spooks picking through your data held on foreign servers ... Bad news for public interest and human rights organisations, not to mention reptiles of the media and their sources ... Coalition cronies on the AAT can sign off IPOs ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on the wider scope for Washington's regime of global spying
Money for jam
Polly Peck • Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Anomalies, inconsistencies and unfairness in the JobKeeper scheme ... How come full-time workers will be worse off than casuals and part-timers? ... Treasurer Frydenberg won't explain ... What's not to like when subsidies for some are higher than the usual paypacket? ... No justification for a flat-rate payment structure ... Alternate schemes in NZ and Canada ... Nathan Twibill analyses the government's perverse distortion of pay and work
Social graphing of plague proportions
Polly Peck • Thursday, April 23, 2020 The new COVID-19 tracker is under the auspices of Minister Stuart Robert ... What could go wrong? ... Problems with the proposed app ... Prying police forbidden ... How it works ... Hacking is inevitable ... A decentralised model would be less of a threat to privacy ... Centralised server would be a vehicle for mass surveillance ... The key issues clarified by Janek Drevikovsky
What's on Porter's plate?
Polly Peck • Thursday, February 13, 2020 Where are we with Christian Porter's legislative agenda? ... The multi-hatted attorney general is a busy boy ... Rejigging Bills to squeeze them through the senate ... Not much movement on the Integrity Commission front ... Religious discrimination bill is a sinkhole of misery ... Family law is stuck ... Union bashing and other tricks upfront ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Lifting the lid on Kerr's coup
Polly Peck • Friday, January 31, 2020 Sir John Kerr's correspondence in the High Court ... Submissions in the Archives case ... Commonwealth property or personal property ... What is being hidden? ... Accessing governor general's letters about the sacking of the Whitlam government ... Bret Walker v Stephen Donaghue ... Alan Zheng sifts through the paperwork