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This was the week the wheels really fell off Australia’s vaccine rollout — interminable delays, shortages and side effects have blown up the government’s triumphalist narrative. But as Bernard Keane pointed out, many of the problems are ones we should’ve always seen coming. Instead, the government has gone for spin, obfuscation and, as Georgia Wilkins and I reported, million-dollar handouts to management consultants. The vaccine bungle wasn’t going to distract us from the other scandal rocking the Morrison government: its failure to read the room and address rampant misogyny within Coalition ranks. On Friday we grappled with this moment in our politics and culture with a special gender-related edition, edited by reporter Amber Schultz and academic Karen O’Connell. Elsewhere in Crikey Guy Rundle took a look at utterly “cocked-up” state Liberal parties, Tory Shepherd eviscerated Cardinal George Pell’s latest Easter missive, plus we dived into Peter Dutton nastier moments. |
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Millions paid in private contracts to ‘support’ the vaccine rollout — but who, what, when, where and why?
As delays continue to plague the rollout, here are some of the things we still don’t know about the role of the consultants... |
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Why Labor gets to run the trains — or, just how cocked-up are the state Liberal parties?
Why are Liberal parties collapsing at the state level almost everywhere, despite having had a lock on federal power for a decade? |
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Vaccine? What vaccine? |
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Saints preserve us: what Pell’s Easter homily gets wrong about the holiday
George Pell wasted no time in his Oz Easter column decrying the ABC before mischaracterising the origins of the holiday. |
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In the courtroom, rape myths live on. Here are the top 3
We reform sexual assault laws to counteract damaging myths about rape, but it's lawyers — not perpetrators — who keep those myths alive. |
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Avoid pay rises if you want to help women’s economic security, government reckons
The government continues to oppose wage rises, especially for low-paid women, and relies on the claims of employer groups to do so. |
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Can you teach for leadership? Yes, and it’s high time we made a start in school
The public has consistently been let down by the appalling leadership of those running our big companies, churches, public utilities and police services. It's time to make a change. |
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A list of things Peter Dutton says we shouldn’t talk about to avoid being threatened with defamation
It seems that Dutton can dish it out, but he can't take it. |
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It’s time for the Coalition’s competition to put a woman in charge
Women at the helm could be just what the rival political parties need to stand out from the rest. |
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Christian Porter: minister for lame ducks?
Porter's new portfolio will likely keep him out of the headlines. But stakeholders in the tech sector aren't so excited to work with him... |
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What women’s ministers should ask: why decades of no progress on violence?
Quick policy measures won't address violence against women. We need to figure out why everything else has failed first. |
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Give smokers some credit: inflation would be even worse without them
The eye-watering cost of cigarettes means smokers shoulder the load to help the Reserve Bank get closer to its target range of 2% to 3% inflation. |
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The rich are different from you and me — and politicians around the world are starting to realise it
The economic shock caused by COVID-19 has caused governments to reassess their position on higher taxes for the super wealthy. |
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