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Paul J. Berating

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Segal hands $200k antisemitism contract to Morrison's former adviser — no tender, no competition, no surprise

Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal awarded a $200,000 contract to a firm founded by Scott Morrison's former adviser Yaron Finkelstein without going to public tender, citing 'an absence of competition'.

Limited tender 'due to an absence of competition' — the four most expensive words in Canberra. Two hundred grand to a Morrison staffer to advise the antisemitism envoy, no contest, no questions. The job market for mates is the only one in the country still running at full employment.

A decade on, the ABS is still rehearsing the same fall

A scathing review of the 11 August census warns the ABS still has critical security gaps to close — a decade after the 2016 collapse.

Ten years on from the night the ABS site fell over like a card table at a wedding, and the review's found the same holes in the fence. Lessons learned, apparently — just not by the people running the count.

War crimes office wants to know who tipped the cameras off

The office prosecuting Roberts-Smith couldn't keep his arrest off the morning bulletins and has now asked the corruption watchdog to find out who in the building was running the press list.

Someone in the building tipped off the cameras so the perp walk had a film crew. The office investigating war crimes can't keep a Tuesday morning arrest off the front page. Talleyrand ran a foreign ministry on whispers; we can't run a press embargo for forty minutes. Refer it to the NACC — they'll investigate it the way the AFP investigates the AFP.