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News Corp Australia has accused former prime minister Kevin Rudd of misleading a Canberra parliamentary inquiry into media diversity, after he said “the truth in this building is everyone’s frightened of Murdoch”.
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The Victorian government spent millions more on on lawyers representing it at the hotel quarantine inquiry than it did on the actual inquiry, which failed to identify who ordered private security guards, leading to coronavirus escaping and causing 800 deaths and a months-long lockdown.
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Victoria’s former health minister has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of “political deflection” over the bungled hotel quarantine program which led to the virus escaping, killing 800 and sending the state into a three-month lockdown, while the former police commissioner says whoever made the private security call was “determined to stay anonymous”.
The impact of media concentration on Australian democracy is set to be explored in a new Senate inquiry approved days after a petition by former prime minister Kevin Rudd calling for a royal commission into Rupert Murdoch’s media empire – signed by half a million people – was tabled in parliament.
A report into workplace harassment within State Parliament – due to have been delivered yesterday – has not even started despite being commissioned by Parliament itself six months ago.
Ministers used to own departmental stuff-ups, and resign. Today, an inquiry is held, with a finding somewhere down the track when hopefully the public has moved on. Morry Bailes asks: what happened to accountability?
The World Health Organisation says an independent review of the global coronavirus response will begin as soon as possible, and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China.
