Punters Politics

This week, we lay out a series of "coincidences" involving Gina Rinehart's stock portfolio, Donald Trump's trading habits, and a war that broke out right in the middle of it all, and let you draw your own conclusions. We also break down the real numbers behind your pay rises since 2021, and why, despite what your payslip says, inflation and corporate profits have quietly canc...

This week, we break down Labor's shock loss of the safe seat of Secret Harbour to One Nation, and work out who actually deserves the blame. We crack the case on News Corp's viral "rents to rise 30%" headline and what they conveniently left out of the report it came from. We also get into the ACCC blocking Coles from opening a second Kalgoorlie supermarket, right as Coles post...

This week, we look into WA Labor's Secret Harbour candidate and her past as a Woodside lobbyist, score Angus Taylor's latest attempt to scare punters about national debt, and give a Lobbyist update on our push to get inside Parliament House.

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This week, we break down New South Wales police's push for powers to empty your entire phone, texts, photos, location data, the lot, during any random stop without a warrant, using Israeli spyware from Cellebrite that police have already used over 30,000 times since 2022 despite telling a parliamentary inquiry they've never used it for surveillance. We score this week's Polit...

This week, we break down how a Chicago-based private equity firm running Australia's JobSeeker system pocketed $3.3 billion in revenue, paid just 2.14% tax, and still found $45.9 million to hand shareholders in a year it claimed a $179 million loss, all while Labor sat on its own 2023 inquiry's findings for three years and did nothing about it. We get into how NSW's ICAC is p...