#rickmorton — Public Fediverse posts
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While I had expected #ScottyFromMarketing to be exonorated in line with keeping the wealthy and ex-PMs imune from the full force of the law, I didn’t expect #Campbell to be as well. To say that I am dissapointed is the least of it. #RickMorton in his analysis of the final report is more scathing (he has a right to given his extensive reporting on #Robodebt) in his Crickey pice of 13Mar26:
“In her 445-page report dismissing corruption allegations against four of the six referred robodebt individuals, including the two most senior, former minister Scott Morrison and Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell, Kilgour flatly rejects the considered reasons of former Queensland Supreme Court chief justice Catherine Holmes, the royal commissioner who referred the names for further investigation.
Other institutions are, of course, entitled to disagree with the findings made by other inquiries, but the reasons given by Kilgour in many of these scenarios are risible and, to borrow one of her phrases, tax credulity. “
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Michelle de Kretser, Rick Morton, among 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners
de Kretser, who's novel Theory & Practice (which I'm currently reading), and Morton's book, Mean Streak, about the previous Australian government's controversial Robobot debt recovery scheme, are respective winners of the fiction and non-fiction categories. Others recipients, who were announced last Monday, 29 September 2025, include The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems, by David Brooks in poetry, and The Invocations, by Krystal Sutherland in young adult. See the full list of […]https://disassociated.com/michelle-de-kretser-rick-morton-2025-prime-ministers-literary-award/
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Mean streak : a moral vacuum & a multi-billion government shake down
Should be compulsory reading for public servants and critical reading for engaged citizens.
#goodGovernance #Canberra #publicService #RickMorton #robodebtRick Morton in his own words:
https://www.rickmorton.com.au