Pandemic PPE: how Australia entrusted a small-time retailer with $100m and got 46m unusable masks
As the world scrambled desperately for protective equipment in 2020, Australia made a hasty deal with a virtually unknown supplier. It went disastrously wrong
February 2023
Former Liberal MPs back rival candidates Roshena Campbell and Ranjana Srivastava in Aston preselection
Josh Frydenberg and Greg Hunt make endorsements for party’s candidate in Victorian seat being vacated by Alan Tudge
September 2022
Present Tense
The safeguard mechanism: Australia’s emissions trading scheme in all but name
Adam Morton
From the time it was created, the mechanism has been subject to obfuscation. Labor is about to try and make it work, but it won’t be smooth sailing
August 2022
Scott Morrison faces probe over secret ministry claims as government seeks legal advice
Former prime minister declines to comment as Peter Dutton and other senior ministers say they were ‘not aware’ of appointments
April 2022
Morrison says he can’t make aged care nurses fall from the sky. Sounds like he’s not even trying
Sarah Holland-Batt
Why has the Coalition failed to recruit, and retain, the workforce it has long known would be needed?
March 2022
Pre-flight Covid testing for international arrivals to Australia scrapped as ‘winter jab’ announced
Greg Hunt backs Australia’s pandemic response despite spiking cases and complaints of ambulance ramping
Morrison plays down fresh Covid restrictions as experts say boosters best way to tackle subvariant
Japanese encephalitis: Australia to buy 130,000 vaccine doses as outbreak spreads
February 2022
‘I had the last hug’: palliative care workers lament the good deaths Covid took away
‘I’ll be the Jacqui Lambie of the left’: Dr Sarah Russell enters election race to replace Greg Hunt in Flinders
Fact check: is aged care coping ‘extremely well’ with Omicron as Morrison government claims?
Greg Hunt accused of being disrespectful and playing down Covid deaths in aged care
January 2022
Unboosted aged care residents dominate Covid deaths as Morrison government misses rollout deadline
Companies allegedly forged documents to bring unapproved RATs into Australia, TGA says
Western Australia races to contain Perth Covid cluster as Greg Hunt declines to condemn border decision
Coalition accuses suppliers of misleading customers over ‘missing’ rapid antigen tests
‘Outrageous’: retailers referred to AFP for price gouging rapid antigen tests
‘Devastating’ cuts to Medicare telehealth leave rural psychiatric patients in the lurch
Vulnerable Australians with Covid could miss out on lifesaving treatment due to testing delays
