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Bernard Keane

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Political Editor at Crikey

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  • Lobbyists and consultants dictated a government health scheme. It ended in disaster

    1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

    A staggering auditor-general report has unveiled further unethical conduct by federal public servants, detailing the many and systematic failings of the Commonwealth Department of Health and its relationships with an insolvent consulting firm and sections of the Meals on Wheels network across Australia.

  • Trump's toxic stupidity can be exploited — if Australia stops assuming migration is bad

    1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

    For a country notionally obsessed with how to lift productivity and growth, Australia seems oddly uninterested in the easiest way of all to improve both: import them. Donald Trump’s systematic destruction of the US economy and its global appeal is presenting enormous opportunities for policymakers to exploit Australia’s growing comparative attraction compared to the United States.

  • Labor read the room on Gaza. What does that say about our indifference to Palestinians?

    1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

    Labor’s dual strategies on Gaza — a little more pro-Palestinian and critical of Israel in international fora, and generally indifferent to the issue domestically — served it well in the recent election. It’s clearly deliberate, one such example being Albanese’s failure to mention Australia’s formal opposition to ethnic cleansing despite DFAT prepping lines for his team in February.

  • Victoria's bad budget shows need for a Reserve Bank of Infrastructure

    1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Bernard Keane

    Life is good for civil engineering firms and infrastructure construction companies in Victoria. Not merely does the state’s government love spending big on its “Big Build” public infrastructure, but the government has a serial habit of spending far more on infrastructure than it ever forecasts in its budgets. Take the Victorian government’s 2022-23 budget: it forecast infrastructure investment of $21.4 billion for the budget year of 2022-23.

  • There's a much worse Trump threat to Australia's economy than a trade war

    2 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Bernard Keane

    Mad King Donald is exercising the minds of the staff at the Reserve Bank — and with good reason.

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Bernard Keane
Bernard Keane @BernardKeane
13 May 25

Finally a female leader of the Liberals despite the continuing resistance to women in the party. And Sussan Ley is the best person to lead the Liberals right now. But I expect she'll be relentlessly attacked by the angry losers of the right. https://t.co/Pzdyy425IP

Bernard Keane
Bernard Keane @BernardKeane
12 May 25

RT @RamAbdu: Breaking| Netanyahu: “We are continuing to destroy more homes in the Gaza Strip, and they have nowhere to return to. The only…

Bernard Keane
Bernard Keane @BernardKeane
12 May 25

Albanese to appoint an envoy for all the envoys he's appointed. Smart move.