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How the Coalition collaborated with ‘friendly media’ to silence robodebt victims

Alan Tudge’s office planned to use sympathetic outlets such as News Corp to counter reporting on scheme, royal commission report reveals

The Guardian - AU

Former senator accuses Van of misconduct

Former Liberal senator Amanda Stoker alleges her then-Liberal colleague Senator David Van ‘inappropriately touched me … it was not accidental’, and a senior barrister says it could be impossible to find an impartial jury to try disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith with war crimes.

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In Aston, the looming federal byelection takes second place to grocery prices

Many see the 1 April vote as the first electoral judgment of how well the Albanese government has responded to the cost of living crisis

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A political obituary for Alan Tudge

In his valedictory speech, the man who presided over one of the most shameful public policy debacles in living memory made no reference to his failings as a minister.

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Gina’s money-go-round

Gina Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting gave an undeclared $144,000 to the Liberal Party via a circuitous route involving the Sydney Mining Club, and it was former Coalition energy minister Angus Taylor who decided to delay telling the public about power price rises before last year’s election.

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Alan Tudge quits parliament, prompting byelection test for Peter Dutton

Former Coalition minister Alan Tudge has announced he will quit parliament, creating a byelection in the Melbourne seat of Aston.

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Alan Tudge quits politics sparking byelection in former Liberal minister’s Victorian seat

The byelection will be an early test of the opposition leader Peter Dutton in a state where the Liberal party has under-performed

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Fighting back tears, Tudge reveals reasons for resignation

Former human services minister Alan Tudge officially resigned from Parliament on Thursday, effecting a byelection in his Melbourne electorate.

The New Daily

Alan Tudge poised to quit politics

Former senior Coalition minister Alan Tudge is reportedly poised to quit politics – less than a year after the federal election.

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Progressives need to have a hard think about victim feminism

Rachelle Miller was part of robodebt, which destroyed and ended lives. So why has she been given hero status by progressives?

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A matter of life, and death

Women living in regional Australia die on average 19 years earlier than those living in cities, and all poker machines in NSW could be cash-free in five years.

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Whose doing was it?: what we’ve learned from the robodebt royal commission

Some responsibility accepted but also excuses and deflection of blame. And the human cost laid bare of an unfair and unlawful scheme

The Guardian - AU

Rachelle Miller’s robodebt evidence is an indictment of the government’s media collaborators

The former Coalition staffer’s robodebt royal commission evidence shows how the Coalition led the media on the illegal scheme.

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Christian Porter’s robodebt evidence offers rare glimpse into how politicians use talking points

Politicians relied heavily on robodebt talking points that turned out to be untrue, it has been revealed.

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Robodebt failings not his responsibility, Alan Tudge says

Questions regarding how much Alan Tudge knew about the often wild inaccuracies in the robodebt system went unanswered.

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Alan Tudge tells Robodebt royal commission he was not responsible for department's failures to ensure scheme was lawful

Former cabinet minister Alan Tudge has told a royal commission he was not responsible for his department's failure to ensure the Robodebt scheme was lawful.

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Tudge’s office used News Corp to ‘shut down’ robodebt media crisis, royal commission hears

The media strategy saw Alan Tudge’s media adviser plant stories with sympathetic ‘right-wing’ outlets and release personal details of victims.

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Former robodebt minister denies responsibility

Former human services minister Alan Tudge has told a royal commission into robodebt he was not responsible for the scheme being illegal.

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The Guardian - AU

Alan Tudge’s adviser placed stories in ‘friendly media’ to ‘shut down’ robodebt scandal, royal commission told

Rachelle Miller tells inquiry the then human services minister was ‘very firm’ a media storm over the Centrelink debt recovery scheme needed to be shut down

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Robodebt victims' details released to media in bid to deter them from speaking out, royal commission told

Rachelle Miller told the commission that in response to growing criticism the government adopted a counter-narrative strategy in the "more friendly media" such as the tabloids.

AAP

Minister asked for files on robodebt whistleblowers

A media adviser to former minister Alan Tudge has told a royal commission he requested the Centrelink files of those who spoke out in the media on robodebt.

The Guardian - AU

Former ministers Alan Tudge and Christian Porter to appear before robodebt inquiry

As human services minister, Tudge was in charge of the scheme when the accuracy of welfare debts was first questioned

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Indigenous voice referendum plan unveiled, man charged over horror car crash, prehistoric surgery

Thursday: The minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney has set out the next steps on the road to a voice referendum. Plus: the world’s earliest surgery discovered in an Indonesian cave

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Rachelle Miller gets a payout as MPs wait for their code of conduct

Ministers are not the only ones who need to be reminded to not behave badly. Everyone who works in Parliament House does too.

Crikey

Tudge, the man who never was, thinks we’ll forget about his grubby history

According to Alan Tudge, the $650,000 settlement given to his former staffer Rachelle Miller has nothing to do with him. But then, Tudge is a man of ‘nothing to see here’.

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