Jack Waterford
Jack Waterford is the former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times and writes a regular column
Opinion
Tearing up the political rulebook
Those who trash conventions can't complain when their successors follow their example.
- by Jack Waterford
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Public service
Can Thodey, or Shorten, stop bleeding in the public service?
Without reforms, public servants are doomed to be handmaidens to dumber policy, more cronyism, less probity and more waste.
- by Jack Waterford
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Scott Morrison
Prime Minister's ever-diminishing credibility
Years of evasions, lies and obfuscations weigh down the sinking Coalition ship.
- by Jack Waterford
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Can Shorten stop the blame game?
Accountability is a black hole in Commonwealth-state relations.
- by Jack Waterford
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Corruption
Liberals dig in to their last man and taxpayers' last dollar
Partisan use of public money before elections is corrupt, not ‘strategic’.
- by Jack Waterford
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Political leadership
Murdoch becomes a paper tiger
People overestimate the influence of the media on voters. But ranting and plainly biased advocacy is even less successful.
- by Jack Waterford
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Border security
Soft cops are soft-soaping us
It is time for a searching inquiry into a force that believes its own publicity.
- by Jack Waterford
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National security
The silence of public service lambs used by a panicking government
Officials are being used and abused by a panicking government. Some could complain, but don’t.
- by Jack Waterford
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Banking royal commission
Best volume of Hayne report is the one that he didn’t bother to write
It’s the one that seriously invites the question of whether the modern Coalition can seriously pretend to be the better economic managers.
- by Jack Waterford
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National security
Managers who would be spooks fighting for places at the big boys' table
Coordination is choking intelligence gathering in Australia.
- by Jack Waterford
Opinion
Bill Shorten
Shorten could own Australia Day
Australia Day could become the national day – based on federation, Aboriginal reconciliation, a republic, and inclusive citizenship.
- by Jack Waterford
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