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Commonwealth Ombudsman investigating @AFPmedia’s handling of #Choppergate affair: @Jansant reports

Posted by Wayne Jansson | 24 August 2015

The Commonwealth Ombudsman is investigating the Australian Federal Police (AFP) (@AFPmedia) over...

#choppergate ‘investigation’ Fact Check by @margokingston1

Posted by Margo Kingston | 25 July 2015

The AFP and the Department of Finance are playing pass-the-parcel on investigating the legality of...

The fruitless push for a Parliamentarians’ code of conduct

Posted by Tony Yegles | 16 October 2013

By Rose Iser 16 October 2013 The latest spate of entitlements scandals is unlikely to bring about a code of conduct for federal parliamentarians given that, for the past 40 years, multiple attempts to enact a code have failed....

How will Media, Finance and AFP handle the evidence that the PM is a cheat?

Posted by Margo Kingston | 8 October 2013

By Margo Kingston, 8 October, 2013 It looks like the Prime Minister is a serial cheat. It’s hard to imagine a bigger test of the integrity and fairness of our democratic institutions than that. Will the press gallery get...

Is @TonyAbbottMHR really ‘volunteering’?

Posted by Tony Yegles | 15 July 2013

By Margo Kingston 15 July 2013 For as long as I’ve been on Twitter tweeps have questioned the correctness of Mr Abbott’s claiming travel allowance from taxpayers for his ‘volunteer’ activities. Just...