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A History of Misconduct: the Case for a Federal Icac
MISCONDUCT IN POLITICS A HISTORY OF MISCONDUCT: THE CASE FOR A FEDERAL ICAC INDEPENDENT JO URNALISTS MICH AEL WES T A ND CALLUM F OOTE, COMMISSIONED B Y G ETUP 1 MISCONDUCT IN POLITICS MISCONDUCT IN RESOURCES, WATER AND LAND MANAGEMENT Page 5 MISCONDUCT RELATED TO UNDISCLOSED CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Page 8 POTENTIAL MISCONDUCT IN LOBBYING MISCONDUCT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO Page 11 INAPPROPRIATE USE OF TRANSPORT Page 13 POLITICAL DONATION SCANDALS Page 14 FOREIGN INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL PROCESS Page 16 ALLEGEDLY FRAUDULENT PRACTICES Page 17 CURRENT CORRUPTION WATCHDOG PROPOSALS Page 20 2 MISCONDUCT IN POLITICS FOREWORD: Trust in government has never been so low. This crisis in public confidence is driven by the widespread perception that politics is corrupt and politicians and public servants have failed to be held accountable. This report identifies the political scandals of the and other misuse of public money involving last six years and the failure of our elected leaders government grants. At the direction of a minister, to properly investigate this misconduct. public money was targeted at voters in marginal electorates just before a Federal Election, In 1984, customs officers discovered a teddy bear potentially affecting the course of government in in the luggage of Federal Government minister Australia. Mick Young and his wife. It had not been declared on the Minister’s customs declaration. Young This cheating on an industrial scale reflects a stepped aside as a minister while an investigation political culture which is evolving dangerously. into the “Paddington Bear Affair” took place. The weapons of the state are deployed against journalists reporting on politics, and whistleblowers That was during the prime ministership of Bob in the public service - while at the same time we Hawke. -
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27 March 2014 Rebecca Maddern joins Sunrise News presenter Rebecca Maddern is joining the Sunrise team as the show’s Melbourne correspondent. She will replace Nick Etchells who is returning to Seven News Melbourne. Rebecca will be no stranger to Sunrise viewers. She has long been a member of the extended Sunrise family, with presenting and reporting stints on Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. Rebecca said she was thrilled by the opportunity to join Kochie, Sam and the team. “I've always felt like the "aunty" that just pays a visit every now and then, so it’s great now to be a full-time family member. “I've been reporting news in Melbourne for almost 15 years now. I live here, I know this city and its people well. I'm excited to bring my knowledge to Sunrise and be the first to inform Melburnians and the rest of the nation about the top news stories of the day,” she said. Rebecca has been part of the Seven News Melbourne team as a reporter and presenter for more than 10 years. In 2003 she was awarded a Quill Award for the Best TV News Report for her coverage of local bushfires. She’ll remain part of the Seven News Melbourne team, filling in on the news desk for Peter Mitchell and Jennifer Keyte. She will also fill in at the Sunrise desk from time to time. Rebecca is an avid Geelong Football Club fan and the club’s number one female ticket holder. She is involved with the Very Special Kids charity and is an ambassador for Seeing Eye Dogs Australia. -
First Century Fox Inc and Sky Plc; European Intervention Notice
Rt Hon Karen Bradley Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport July 14 2017 Dear Secretary of State Twenty-First Century Fox Inc and Sky plc; European Intervention Notice The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting is responding to your request for new submissions on the test of commitment to broadcasting standards. We are pleased to submit this short supplement to the submission we provided for Ofcom in March. As requested, the information is up-to-date, but we are adding an appeal to you to reconsider Ofcom’s recommendation to accept the 21CF bid on this ground, which we find wholly unconvincing in the light of the evidence we submitted. SKY NEWS IN AUSTRALIA In a pre-echo of the current buyout bid in the UK, Sky News Australia, previously jointly- owned with other media owners, became wholly owned by the Murdochs on December 1 last year. When the CPBF made its submission on the Commitment to Broadcasting Standards EIN to Ofcom in March there were three months of operation by which to judge the direction of the channel, but now there are three months more. A number of commentaries have been published. The Murdoch entity that controls Sky Australia is News Corporation rather than 21FC but the service is clearly following the Fox formula about which the CPBF commented to Ofcom. Indeed it is taking the model of broadcasting high-octane right-wing political commentary in peak viewing times even further. While Fox News has three continuous hours of talk shows on weekday evenings, Sky News Australia has five. -
A Feminist Analysis of Female Political Potential Within the Masculinist State
Olivia Freund* The University of Newcastle, Australia The Vanguard’s Voice: a Feminist Analysis of Female Political Potential within the Masculinist State This analysis presents two comparative examples of the first female Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and former Prime Ministerial Chief of Staff, Peta Credlin, which demonstrate twofold how women in the political environment are inherently positioned as threats to patriarchal state processes and subconsciously adopt masculine behaviours in their professional practice. This reveals the coercive nature of the patriarchal state as it fundamentally subverts female political advancement and actively shapes political spaces to reproduce patriarchal hegemony. Keywords: Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, hegemony, professionalism, Federal politics, female leadership, internalised misogyny Introduction olitical hierarchies and social conventions in modern Western history P have been fundamentally shaped by gender differences, largely centring male advancement premised on the subordination and struggles of women. The role of the state throughout modern history has been integral in centring political hierarchies and structuring social convention. Alongside this, movements for women’s change have not always emphasised challenging the patriarchal motivations in the state framework but have certainly attempted to deconstruct patriarchal oppressions manifest on a personal platform. This analysis presents two contrasting examples which illustrate the power of the patriarchal state and its diverse manifestations – Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was positioned as a political ‘vanguard’ who challenged the structural gender hierarchy in politics but was also coerced into reinforcing patriarchal standards in her policies, and former Prime Ministerial chief of staff, Peta Credlin, who observably embodied masculine leadership traits in demonstrating how internalised misogyny perpetuates patriarchal norms. -
Non-Mainstream Media Coverage Peter Chen
20 Non-Mainstream Media Coverage Peter Chen From a media diversity perspective, Australia’s standing as an established democracy is not strong. When compared with peer democracies, Australia has the most concentrated media system in the world (Australian Collaboration 2015). The causes of this are various, but include comparatively small market size, ‘dumping’ of English-language content into the Australian market and lacklustre media policy that has facilitated media conglomerates to consolidate their market share (Winseck 2008). As part of this story, the popularisation of the internet over the last two decades has been an exacerbating factor and corrective: undermining the economic basis of established commercial media and eroding domestic regulatory capacity, while at the same time providing the capacity for the establishment of ‘new presses’. This chapter focuses on the conduct and performance of these ‘new presses’ in the 2016 federal election campaign. While the majority of these new media groups happens to be an internet-based press, the emphasis of this chapter is not on the technological basis of supply per se, but on their relative newness into the Australia marketplace. This breaks with a traditional tendency to see ‘new media’ as internet-based media, an increasingly meaningless classification tool given the increasing incorporation of new technology into the established media, as discussed by Andrea Carson and Brian McNair (Chapter 19, this volume). 453 DOUBLE DISILLUSION Method The primary research method employed for this chapter is the content analysis of articles published in 10 ‘new’ Australian-based1 publications— each less than seven years old2—that published material during the formal election period from 8 May to 1 July 2016 inclusive. -
22. Gender and the 2013 Election: the Abbott 'Mandate'
22. Gender and the 2013 Election: The Abbott ‘mandate’ Kirsty McLaren and Marian Sawer In the 2013 federal election, Tony Abbott was again wooing women voters with his relatively generous paid parental leave scheme and the constant sight of his wife and daughters on the campaign trail. Like Julia Gillard in 2010, Kevin Rudd was assuring voters that he was not someone to make an issue of gender and he failed to produce a women’s policy. Despite these attempts to neutralise gender it continued to be an undercurrent in the election, in part because of the preceding replacement of Australia’s first woman prime minister and in part because of campaigning around the gender implications of an Abbott victory. To evaluate the role of gender in the 2013 election, we draw together evidence on the campaign, campaign policies, the participation of women, the discursive positioning of male leaders and unofficial gender-based campaigning. We also apply a new international model of the dimensions of male dominance in the old democracies and the stages through which such dominance is overcome. We argue that, though feminist campaigning was a feature of the campaign, traditional views on gender remain powerful. Raising issues of gender equality, as Julia Gillard did in the latter part of her prime ministership, is perceived as electorally damaging, particularly among blue-collar voters. The prelude to the election Gender received most attention in the run-up to the election in 2012–13 rather than during the campaign itself. Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s famous misogyny speech of 2012 was prompted in immediate terms by the Leader of the Opposition drawing attention to sexism in what she perceived as a hypocritical way. -
BERNIE CREDLIN MEMORIAL EDITION Vale Bernie Credlin (23 March 1927 - 24 July 2003)
BERNIE CREDLIN MEMORIAL EDITION Vale Bernie Credlin (23 March 1927 - 24 July 2003) Bernie’s eulogy was delivered by Col Hazel Bernie first worked in the construction area both in Head Office I am Bernie’s friend. I knew him for 38 years and worked closely and in the country. He was involved in the construction of many with him for the first 22 of those. Bernie never refused any of my small weirs around the State and if we were ever driving near any of requests to open any Departmental, Inter-State and International them he would detour and proudly show me some of his earlier conferences that I was convening. I feel privileged then to be asked work. to say a few words on this occasion to open In 1953 he was sent to St George where for what is in effect the last gathering to be Under new management 11 years he distinguished himself as an convened by him. This edition of the Newsletter is excellent District Engineer and respected We have come here today to celebrate the dedicated to the memory of Bernie member of the local community. life of Bernard Luen Credlin; to bid him Credlin. Whilst Bernie was formerly a While at St George he met and married a farewell; to recall some of the things that valuable and valued officer of the Water young nurse called Rosina Sherrin, made him special to us and to thank God Resources Commission, we are affectionately known by all as Sherry. that he was a part of our lives. -
Timbuckleyieefa DIRTY POWER BIG COAL's NETWORK of INFLUENCE OVER the COALITION GOVERNMENT CONTENTS
ICAC investigation: Lobbying, Access and Influence (Op Eclipse) Submission 2 From: Tim Buckley To: Lobbying Subject: THE REGULATION OF LOBBYING, ACCESS AND INFLUENCE IN NSW: A CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR SAY Date: Thursday, 16 May 2019 2:01:39 PM Attachments: Mav2019-GPAP-Dirtv-Power-Report.Ddf Good afternoon I am delighted that the NSW ICAC is looking again into the issue of lobbying and undue access by lobbyists representing self-serving, private special interest groups, and the associated lack of transparency. This is most needed when it relates to the private (often private, foreign tax haven based entities with zero transparency or accountability), use of public assets. IEEFA works in the public interest analysis relating to the energy-fmance-climate space, and so we regularly see the impact of the fossil fuel sector in particular as one that thrives on the ability to privatise the gains for utilising one-time use public assets and in doing so, externalising the costs onto the NSW community. This process is constantly repeated. The community costs, be they in relation to air, particulate and carbon pollution, plus the use of public water, and failure to rehabilitate sites post mining, brings a lasting community cost, particularly in the area of public health costs. The cost-benefit analysis presented to the IPC is prepared by the proponent, who has an ability to present biased self-serving analysis that understates the costs and overstates the benefits. To my understanding, the revolving door of regulators, politicians, fossil fuel companies and their lobbyists is corrosive to our democracy, undermining integrity and fairness. -
The Implications of the 2016 Federal Election Anika Gauja, Peter Chen, Jennifer Curtin and Juliet Pietsch
30 Conclusion: The Implications of the 2016 Federal Election Anika Gauja, Peter Chen, Jennifer Curtin and Juliet Pietsch In the year that the pollsters were stumped by unanticipated outcomes in both the Brexit vote and the United States (US) presidential election, the Australian polls got it close to right. Although Malcolm Turnbull had not campaigned particularly well and the party’s relentless mantras of ‘jobs and growth’ and ‘innovation’ were perceived as out of touch with the concerns of everyday Australians, the poll trends almost consistently put the Coalition one to two percentage points ahead of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). They predicted a close result in terms of the vote, which, in 2016, also translated into a close result in the number of seats won.1 With the parties within a few percentage points of one another, and the Liberal–National Coalition suffering a period of leadership and policy turmoil prior to the 2016 federal election, the circumstances going into the campaign did not present a reassuring scenario for stability. Would the federal election follow the 2014 Victorian and the 2015 Queensland State elections where questions of leadership (transition and style) were seen as definitive in the electoral losses for the incumbent Coalition governments? Or was the 2015 New South Wales (NSW) contest—where a new, young leader who consolidated the Coalition’s hold on government with an 1 This is not always the case. In 1998, the Coalition won 49 per cent of the vote and 80 seats out of 148. 681 DOUBLE DISILLUSION agenda for major infrastructure expenditure leveraged against economic rationalisation (asset sales, administrative reform)—a better indicator of what might occur? In other words, would the elevation of Turnbull, with his contrasting style and policy standpoints compared to Tony Abbott, result in an agenda for change and increased support within the electorate? In the end, neither scenario was borne out. -
TLA Media Talent List
Media MEDIA TALENT MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA JONATHAN BROWN MATTHEW LLOYD LUKE DARCY Fox Sports, Nova FM, Former Nine Network, 3AW, afl.com.au, Seven Network & Triple M Brisbane Lions Premiership Captain Herald Sun, Crocmedia, Assistant Former Western Bulldogs Captain coach of AIS/AFL Academy, Former Essendon Captain & premiership player HAMISH McLACHLAN MATTHEW PAVLICH KANE CORNES Seven Network – sports presenter/ Fox Sports, Nova FM, Nine Network & FIVEaa, Nine Network, The Advertiser & commentator, Herald Sun Former Fremantle Football Club Captain Crocmedia, Port Adelaide games record holder, SEN Friday Morning REBECCA MADDERN DWAYNE RUSSELL SARAH JONES Channel 9 AFL Footy Show Fox Sports, 3AW, Crocmedia, Former Fox Sports presenter, AFL and Cricket Geelong Player SHANE CRAWFORD ANTHONY HUDSON MARK BICKLEY Nine Network & Crawf TV Fox Sports, SEN - sports presenter/ FIVEaa, The Advertiser, Former Hawthorn Captain commentator Former Adelaide Premiership player & Premiership Player BILLY BROWNLESS MARK RICCIUTO MARK BERETTA Nine Network, Triple M & Crocmedia Triple M, Fox Sports, Former Adelaide Seven Network - sports Former Geelong player Crows Captain presenter/commentator GARRY LYON MARK HOWARD CAM MOONEY SEN (breakfast and football), Former Network Ten Sports Presenter & Fox Sports, SEN, Crocmedia, Former Melbourne, Football Club Captain, Commentator, Triple M/PodcastOne North Melbourne and 3 time Geelong Fox Sports Premiership Player MEDIA TALENT MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA ADAM PEACOCK ANDREW WELSH BREE LAUGHLIN Fox Sports Football and Tennis -
Media Talent List LR
Media Personalities OUR TALENT TALENT MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA TALENT MANAGEMENT TLA’s Talent Management team is one of Australia’s leading athlete and personality management groups and has earned the respect of sporting bodies, media outlets, clubs and sponsors alike. We guide the careers of athletes and personalities in major domestic and international sports, and across all forms of media. A full list of our managed talent can be found at tlaworldwide.com MEDIA TALENT MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA GARRY LYON DANNY FRAWLEY MARK RICCIUTO Media Personality Media Personality Media Personality Nine Network, Triple M, The Age & Fox Sports & Triple M. Triple M & Fox Sports. afl.com.au Former Melbourne Captain Former St Kilda Captain & Richmond Former Adelaide Crows Captain Coach LEIGH MATTHEWS JONATHAN BROWN BEN DIXON Media Personality Media Personality Media Personality Seven Network, 3AW. Fox Sports, Nova FM & Herald Sun Fox Sports, & AFL Live. AFL Hall of Fame Legend Former Brisbane Lions Captain Former Hawthorn Player SHANE CRAWFORD CAMPBELL BROWN MATTHEW LLOYD Media Personality Media Personality Media Personality Nine Network & Herald Sun Former Seven Network & Triple M. Nine Network and 3AW. Assistant coach Hawthorn Captain Former Hawthorn & Gold Coast player of AIS/AFL Academy. Former Essendon Captain BILLY BROWNLESS ANTHONY HUDSON MARK BERETTA Media Personality Media Personality Media Personality Nine Network, Triple M & Croc Media. Fox Sports & SEN1116 – sports Seven Network - sports presenter/ Former Geelong player presenter/commentator commentator LUKE DARCY HAMISH MCLACHLAN Media Personality Media Personality Seven Network & Triple M Seven Network – sports presenter/ Former Western Bulldogs Captain commentator MEDIA TALENT MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA TONY SHAW ANDREW WELSH Media Personality Media Personality 3AW & Fox Sports. -
AUSTRALIAN PODCAST RANKER TOP 100 PODCASTS Reporting Period: 28 October - 24 November 2019
AUSTRALIAN PODCAST RANKER TOP 100 PODCASTS Reporting Period: 28 October - 24 November 2019 RANK PODCAST PUBLISHER SALES REPRESENTATION RANK CHANGE 1 Hamish & Andy SCA-PodcastOne Australia PodcastOne Australia h1 2 The Kyle & Jackie O Show Australian Radio Network Australian Radio Network h2 3 Kate, Tim & Marty Nova Nova Entertainment 0 4 Whateley SEN / Crocmedia SEN / Crocmedia h14 5 SEN Breakfast SEN / Crocmedia SEN / Crocmedia 0 6 Money News with Ross Greenwood Macquarie Media Macquarie Media 0 7 The Lighthouse News Corp Australia News Corp / Nova Ent New 8 Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule News Corp Australia News Corp / Nova Ent 61 9 Kennedy Molloy SCA-Triple M SCA h1 10 The Alan Jones Breakfast Show Macquarie Media Macquarie Media 61 11 The Howie Games SCA-PodcastOne Australia PodcastOne Australia 63 12 Moonman In The Morning - 104.9 SCA-Triple M SCA 0 Triple M Sydney 13 Who the Hell is Hamish? News Corp Australia News Corp / Nova Ent h11 14 Sky News - News Bulletin News Corp Australia News Corp / Nova Ent 61 15 Hughesy and Kate SCA-Hit SCA 61 16 Chrissie, Sam & Browny Nova Nova Entertainment h1 17 The Rush Hour with MG SCA-Triple M SCA h4 18 Fitzy & Wippa Nova Nova Entertainment h1 19 The Hot Breakfast SCA-Triple M SCA 68 20 Jase & PJ Australian Radio Network Australian Radio Network h2 21 The Ray Hadley Morning Show Macquarie Media Macquarie Media h2 22 Jonesy & Amanda's JAMcast! Australian Radio Network Australian Radio Network h52 23 Fifi, Fev & Byron - 101.9 The Fox SCA-Hit SCA h24 Melbourne 24 AFL Trade Radio SEN / Crocmedia