Christopher Knaus
Reporter at The Guardian Australia
Reporter. Guardian Australia. Previously with The Canberra Times. [email protected].
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus
Lawyers for an abuse survivor say a high court ruling on Wednesday will pave the way for more survivors to challenge past settlements that “served only to protect the Church institutions” from paying out genuine compensation. The survivor, known as DZY, was confronted with insurmountable legal barriers to his planned civil action against the Christian Brothers in 2012 over abuse at the hands of two Catholic brothers, brothers Robert Best and Gerald Fitzgerald, in the 1960s.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Henry Belot
Peter Dutton, like all political leaders, is defined to some extent by his former positions in government and opposition, experts say. Illustration: Guardian DesignIn the last weeks of winter 2001, Cheryl Kernot was standing in a pavilion shed, preparing to fight for her political life. Kernot was the Labor incumbent in Dickson, an electorate of sprawling suburbia north of Brisbane, dotted with pockets of semi-rural and industrial land.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Henry Belot
The expenses watchdog launched an investigation into then-home affairs minister Peter Dutton’s use of a taxpayer-funded flight to attend a “long lunch” on a luxury island on the Noosa River in 2019, internal documents reveal.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Henry Belot
Peter Dutton billed taxpayers for flights to Sydney on the days of three NRL grand finals, a rugby tournament and a Matildas World Cup game, records show. Integrity campaigners and crossbenchers, including the former rugby international David Pocock, have repeatedly criticised the use of publicly funded travel to attend major sporting events, saying it fails to reflect community expectations.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Henry Belot |Christopher Knaus
Peter Dutton has repeatedly charged taxpayers for flights coinciding with intimate and exclusive fundraising events behind closed doors, including at a men-only club in Melbourne and a private home on Sydney’s north shore. These events, organised by party fundraising vehicles rather than politicians, have increased in frequency across the political spectrum as Labor and Liberal executives drum up cash for an expensive federal election campaign.
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