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February 5 — 11, 2022  |  No. 385

February 5 — 11, 2022  |  No. 385


Mehdi Ali: ‘I cannot wait for another election believing that it will mean the
end of my detention. We must be released now.’

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February 5 — 11, 2022  |  No. 385

News

Exclusive: Robo-debt call centres take over Covid hotline

Rick Morton The hotline at the centre of the government’s new Covid-19 strategy
is staffed by casual workers with almost no training, employed by the company
behind robo-debt.

News

News

Inside the Liberal Party’s open warfare

“While few dispute games are afoot, views diverge on exactly who is playing
them.”

Karen Middleton As a deal over Liberal preselections falls apart, there is a
suggestion Alex Hawke is trying to engineer a crisis and force a federal
takeover of the NSW division.

News

How political parties hide the source of their donations

Hannah Ryan The final disclosures of political donations to be published before
the election show the source of more than half of the money is hidden by
loopholes.



News

Class action planned over ‘character’ test for deportations

Santilla Chingaipe Under sections 501 and 116 of the Migration Act, visas can be
cancelled or refused under a broad ‘character test’. This legislation is being
used to detain and deport immigrants, and is the subject of a proposed class
action against the Australian government for alleged human rights breaches.

News

The Joe Biden adviser living in Wollongong

Mike Seccombe Saul Griffith, a former climate adviser to Joe Biden, has moved
home to Australia. He argues policy changes made here could accelerate the
world’s transition to renewables by 10 years.

World

Kremlin accuses US of inciting Ukraine ‘hysteria’

Jonathan Pearlman Pregnant New Zealand journalist allowed emergency quarantine.
Myanmar stages ‘silent strike’ to mark coup anniversary. Gray report on Downing
Street parties identifies leadership and judgement failures.

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Opinion

Opinion

Stephen Charles
The case for a national integrity commission

“We know that before the last election nearly a billion dollars of taxpayers’
money was used for pork-barrelling, to improve the government’s electoral
prospects rather than in the community’s interests. That is political corruption
as Transparency International defines it, and the remaining question is: How
much more money was actually spent in the same dishonest way in other grant
schemes? Without a national integrity commission, we simply cannot tell.”

Opinion

Paul Bongiorno
Scott Morrison faces the tumbrel

“Make no mistake: the tumbrel is rolling for the Morrison government and the
political guillotine is looming as its inescapable fate. Responding to a
devastating Newspoll at the beginning of the week, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg
reminded us that ‘many political obituaries were written ahead of the 2019
election and many false prophecies were made by those in the media’. He also
said Scott Morrison was the best person to lead the Coalition to the election.”

Opinion

John Hewson
Why federation reform should be an urgent priority

“Before the pandemic, at most of my speeches to business and civil society
groups, a question or comment was almost always made about why we don’t abolish
state governments. The reasons were many and varied but all around a theme: a
basic concern was that Australia is overgoverned; concern about the
counterproductive consequences of the governance structures, in terms of blame
and competition, or competitive federalism; that there are too many politicians;
and that government is too expensive.”



Letters, Cartoon & Editorial

Cartoon

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Editorial
Two jobs

The criticism of the federal government over the past two years has condensed
into a single phrase: You had two jobs. Oddly, this was also the basis of
Richard Colbeck’s defence in a senate hearing this week: I had two jobs. “I did
make a specific decision about the balance of my portfolios,” he said, when
asked why he attended the Ashes instead of a hearing into the coronavirus
outbreak in aged care.

Letters

Pandemic mistakes

Rick Morton’s analysis of hospital and medical services is brilliantly
summarised by the portmanteau “clusterfuck” (“Hospital plan: ‘Try very hard to
avoid getting Covid until March’ ”, …

Health workers afraid to speak up

While reading The Saturday Paper I notice so many quotes attributed to people
who speak out only on the condition of anonymity, with Rick Morton’s excellent
and revealing piece being a prime …

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Culture

Profile

Director Paul Verhoeven

Annabel Brady-Brown Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta shows that the
83-year-old director remains as outrageous as ever.

Television

Sort Of

Jinghua Qian The mess and tenderness of care work drives this thoughtful and
underappreciated Canadian sitcom.

Architecture

Lust for Lifestyle

Naomi Stead The SA State Library’s exhibition Lust for Lifestyle explores how
mid-century Modernist architecture aestheticised the everyday.

Visual Art

UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA

Melissa Bianca Amore A fascinating exhibition of Australian artists in Seoul
challenges viewers to change the ways we experience our worlds.

The Influence

Stephen Page

Maddee Clark For Bangarra’s former artistic director Stephen Page, his brother’s
song ‘Young Man’, written in Yugambeh language, is a gift to the future.

Fiction

Iceberg

“My first job in the new country is in a restaurant in the rich suburb. The
customers sit outside under white shade sails. Down the tree-lined streets the
hill dips into crystal waters. In the mornings, I wheel a trolley to the
basement car park and collect dusty bottles of organic juice or cola from a
cage. Before I go I check the trolley, but somehow a wheel always breaks on the
steep driveway back. Either that or I forget the key to the cage, or I have to
go back for my notebook. When I return, one boss yells, ‘What’s taking so
long?’ and ‘Where’s the cart?’”

Tina Cartwright

Books

Drew Rooke
A Witness of Fact

Hannah Arendt
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman

Andrew Leigh
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

Life

Food

Crumpets with hot-smoked trout

Annie Smithers

Science

What neutrinos mean for our knowledge of the universe

Lauren Fuge To learn more about the Milky Way, scientists are using underwater
telescopes to search for very rare, high-energy neutrinos that travel across the
universe.

Life

‘The worst torture destroys a person’s character’

Mehdi Ali In immigration detention, sleep becomes impossible. There is hope an
election might see some men released – but that hope is not shared by all.

Sport

A fairytale finish for the Australian Open

Martin McKenzie-Murray This year’s Australian Open got off to a shaky start amid
controversy and accusations. By day 14 it was a tournament for the ages.



Puzzles

The Cryptic

Crossword No. 385

The Quiz

1. Ladakh is a region administered by which nation?
2. A number that uniquely identifies each computer on the internet is called its
what address?
3. Who had a 1978 hit album titled Blondes Have More Fun: (a) Blondie; (b) Dolly
Parton; (c) Rod Stewart; or (d) David Bowie?
4. The 2022 Lunar New Year began the year of the what?
5. Which two Australians have starring roles in Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare
Alley?
6. Which country has hosted the Winter Olympic Games the most number of times?
7. Add the next two words to this quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Whether ’tis
nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of …”?
8. The 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring was written by scientist
Rachel …?
9. Martin Cash, Frederick Ward, Daniel Morgan and Ben Hall all shared what
“profession”? (Bonus point for naming Frederick Ward’s nickname.)
10. Name the character played by Betty White in The Golden Girls.

Click through for answers.

Quotes

Radio

“It was wet so the whole car was going sideways … and I didn’t care if I died.”

Kyle SandilandsThe shock jock says he was so angry he almost crashed his car
after storming out of the radio studio because he didn’t think his show should
cover the Scott Morrison text messages. One thing you can say about “horrible,
horrible” men: they stick together.

Faith

“The college, through the freedoms afforded to it by law, has outlined our
common beliefs and practices.”

Brian MulheranThe principal pastor at Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College
explains a legally binding enrolment contract sent out to students that has
since been withdrawn after a backlash. Those common beliefs are that trans
people don’t exist and “homosexual acts” are an offence to God.

Commentary

“I can just think it.”

Peter van Onselen The commentator says he stands by his view of Grace Tame but
possibly didn’t need to publish it in The Australian. Strange how he makes
humility sound like The Secret.

Groceries

“My eldest son likes almond milk. I don’t know how you get milk from almonds.”

Stuart RobertThe Employment minister explains why Scott Morrison doesn’t
understand the cost of living: there are just too many types of milk. Robert
himself is still working out the human cost of robo-debt.

Politics

“The things we’re doing before don’t work the same way under the Omicron virus.”

Scott MorrisonThe prime minister tells Perth radio that the Western Australian
premier, Mark McGowan, was right to delay opening the state’s border.
Unfortunately for Morrison, popularity and its variants are not contagious.

Defamation

“You’re just making this up, aren’t you? You’re lying.”

Arthur MosesThe lawyer for Ben Roberts-Smith rejects evidence from a serving SAS
member that his client killed one prisoner and ordered a junior soldier to kill
another. The trial continues.

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