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More disasters at Tourism Australia, where even the probity lacks probity

The discredited Tourism Australia ran procurements worth hundreds of millions of dollars without competition or probity, a new report finds.

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Remaining Bali Nine members return to Australia after 19 years

Australia and Indonesia struck a deal to return home the final remaining members of the Bali Nine drug trafficking group, and the mid-year fiscal update is showing bad news for Jim Chalmers.

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‘Sounds like it’s pretty damning’: Tourism Australia staff brace for audit report

Australia’s national auditor has been looking into Tourism Australia for months. Its report will be released on Monday.

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Netflix’s Territory is a Succession-like drama packed with family rivalry and betrayal, set in Australia’s outback

The Australian commissioning team at Netflix has had a pretty good run over the past 12 months. In January, the adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe proved to be the most successful Australian-made show to that point, scoring 7.6 million views globally in its first two weeks.

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Delivery of renewables vital for energy supply

The energy market operator says power shortages could occur if proposed renewable projects are delayed, and the FBI is trying to home in on a motive for Donald Trump’s would-be assassin.

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Tourism Australia execs who ‘tried to hide’ they were in Cannes spent $66k on the trip

Exclusive: The two Tourism Australia executives who tuned in to a job cuts meeting on Zoom from Cannes flew there in business class and spent more than $66,000 on the trip.

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Tourism Australia boss given new five-year term in midst of AFP investigation

Exclusive: Phillipa Harrison had her tenure extended at the same time her agency was being investigated by police. And Labor kept the reappointment quiet for nearly two months.

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Interest rates could fall by Christmas

A shocking day on the stock market has stoked fears of a US recession (though Australian rate cuts could be the silver lining), and crossbenchers are mad about the government’s proposed gambling ads policy.

Crikey

Tourism Australia scandal may involve ‘serious corrupt conduct’, NACC letter reveals

Letters from the federal corruption watchdog to Tourism Australia reveal the NACC complained the $137k travel scandal should have been reported sooner.

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Coalition’s nuclear plan to be unveiled

After months of stalling, Peter Dutton will today reveal his nuclear power policy, and the NSW budget puts aside $5.1 billion for new social housing.

Crikey

‘Susan is in Cannes’: Anger at Tourism Australia after executive joined job cuts meeting from French Riviera

Exclusive: A Tourism Australia bigwig joined a video meeting about major redundancies while using a generic background, obscuring her location. The agency’s boss then revealed she was attending a ritzy event in Cannes.

Crikey

IDF added to UN blacklist

The United Nations has added Israel’s armed and security forces to its list of offenders violating children’s rights, and the government’s efforts to slow migration are starting to work.

Crikey

Tourism Australia drops immunity claim as federal police begins investigating the agency

Exclusive: Just a day after the corruption watchdog announced it wouldn’t investigate Tourism Australia, Crikey can reveal the Australian Federal Police has now been called in.

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Pressure on trade minister to explain Tourism Australia scandal after NACC drops case

The Coalition has demanded Labor explain how the private holiday scandal was allowed to happen, as new information emerges about the NACC’s aborted investigation.

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Dutton’s $23k jet ride to News Corp event

Peter Dutton is under scrutiny for taking a taxpayer-funded private jet to a News Corp event in Tamworth at the cost of $23,000, and the Senate has released its report into large consulting firms.

Crikey

NACC confirms it’s scrapping its Tourism Australia investigation. Now the agency is out of excuses

Exclusive: The National Anti-Corruption Commission has revealed it won’t look into Tourism Australia’s private holiday scandal, just a week after the existence of such an investigation was used to prevent the Senate from asking questions.

Crikey

Costello pushes forward

Incredible footage has shown Nine chairman and former federal treasurer Peter Costello appearing to knock a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, and the Australian Border Force has apologised to its staff for failing to prevent workplace sexual discrimination and harassment.

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A detailed timeline of the private holiday scandal at Tourism Australia

Since Tourism Australia discovered a $137k travel breach last October, things have been escalating quickly. This week, it was revealed the anti-corruption commission is involved.

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Bandt cops it from all sides

Greens leader Adam Bandt has been criticised by both major parties for his support of pro-Palestine protesters, and the government is increasing its attacks on Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan.

Crikey

Tourism Australia bigwig kept empty apartment in China while getting free rent in Sydney

Top executives were grilled at estimates, where they defended the decision to pay the Sydney rent of a top employee while he kept his apartment in China.

Crikey

‘She has no choice’: NACC called in to investigate Tourism Australia after holiday expenses scandal

After Crikey revealed three staff went on private holidays using $137k of taxpayer funds, Tourism Australia has now confirmed the NACC is involved.

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Tourism Australia refuses to say how it spent your money, but politicians are curious

Exclusive: Taxpayers footed the bill for Tourism Australia’s most well-paid employee to stay rent-free in an affluent Sydney suburb during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Alleged teen stabber charged with terrorism

The alleged perpetrator of a Sydney stabbing has been charged with a terrorist offence, states and territories back Albo’s vape ban, and the WA Supreme Court is looking at barring any public housing evictions that make kids homeless.

Crikey

Three Tourism Australia employees fired for holidaying with $137k of taxpayer funds

Exclusive: The federal agency fired three staff in October, including a senior employee, but managed to keep the incident out of the headlines until now.

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Chinese tourism to Australia still in the doldrums after pandemic travel bans

Tourism industry disappointed but hopeful Chinese holidaymakers could return by year’s end – but economists predict a longer wait

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