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Dodgy and unethical behaviour in the Australian Passport Office cost taxpayers hundreds of millions. Why did DFAT try to keep it secret? The Australian Passport Office (Image: AAP/Diego Fedele) The auditor-general has, in the face of extraordinary resistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), revealed extensive and serious misconduct within the Australian […]
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre, might we have muttered at the sinking of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), the ship that torpedoed itself. If the NACC was, as many suspect, set up to fail by the duopolists of the two major parties, the people they put in charge could not have served […]
An Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) member Kganki Mphalele has been expelled by the party following a social media spat with leader Julius Malema. The decision was made in response to allegations that Mphahlele had engaged in insulting and defamatory remarks about the party and its leadership. Mphahlele got into an online public spat […]
The foreign ministry said the unanimous election of law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said was a historical milestone that reinforced the nation’s commitment to anti-corruption efforts. PUTRAJAYA: Law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said has been elected as the president of the 13th Session of the Assembly of Parties (AoP) of the […]
The author of the book that sparked a furore over Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Qantas flight upgrades says Albanese adopted “shoot the messenger tactics” by personally attacking him. Former Australian Financial Review columnist Joe Aston published The Chairman’s Lounge this week, which included revelations that the prime minister directly contacted former Qantas chief Alan Joyce […]
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A Senior Botanical Horticulturist with the South African National Botanical Institute (SANBI), Adam Harrower, appeared in the Springbok District Court where he is facing charges of fraud and corruption related to poached plants. On Friday, Harrower joined his two co-accused including a former police officer, Captain Karel Coetzee Du Toit, and Warrant Officer Leonard William […]
Au total, 13 personnes et deux entreprises ont été jugées en mai et juin à Paris, dans un dossier à deux volets dont l’enquête avait débuté par des soupçons autour du train de vie d’Alain Gardère. Ce dernier, 68 ans aujourd’hui, a été condamné à 2 ans de prison dont un an ferme sous bracelet électronique et à […]
Kodwa and Mackay intend to plead not guilty during the trial. Former sports, arts, and culture minister Zizi Kodwa has joined his co-accused, ex-EOH executive Jehan Mackay, in calling for the charges against them to be dismissed. The two are expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Ekurhuleni on Thursday. […]
[18+] School of Youth: The Corruption of Morals (2014) ***************************************************** မို့ဝန်းနဲ့ ဟန်မွန်းတို့က အမှုထမ်းစာမေးပွဲကို အကြိမ်ကြိမ်ကျနေတဲ့သူတွေပါ ဟန်မွန်းက အမှူထမ်းစာမေးပွဲကို စိတ်မ၀င်စားဘဲမိန်းကလေးတွေရဲ့ကိုယ်လုံးတီးပုံတွေကို ဆွဲရတာ သဘောကျတဲ့သူပါ .. မို့ဝန်းကတော့ သင်္ချာဘာသာကို အလွန်စိတ်၀င်စားတဲ့ကျောင်းသားလေးပေါ့ .. ရူကတော့ ဂျပန်ဘာသာစကားကို စိတ်၀င်စားပြီးဘာသာပြန်တစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်ဖို့ ကြိုးစားနေတာပါ .. အဖေတွေကို မလွန်ဆန်နိုင်တာကြောင့် စိတ်မ၀င်စားပေမဲ့လည်းအမှုထမ်းစာမေးပွဲကို ဝင်ဖြေခဲ့ရပါတယ် တစ်နေ့သူတို့ကျောင်းကို ကျောင်းသူ ၃ယောက်ပြောင်းလာတဲ့အချိန်ကစပြီးအခြေအနေတွေပြောင်းလဲသွားပါတယ် .. တစ်ည ရူနဲ့ မို့ဝန်းဟာ ပြန်ပေးဆွဲခံရပြီး အလိုမတူဘဲ မုဒိမ်းကျင့်ခံလိုက်ရပါတယ်အဲဒီလိုနဲ့ သူတို့ကို မုဒိမ်းကျင့်တဲ့သူတွေကို လိုက်ရှာကြပါတော့တယ် .. သူတို့ကို အဲဒီလိုလုပ်တာဟာ အသစ်ပြောင်းလာတဲ့ ကျောင်းသူလေးတွေလားဒါမှ မဟုတ် တခြား ဘယ်သူများဖြစ်မလဲဆိုတာကိုဘယ်လိုအချက်နဲ့လိုက်ရှာကြမလဲဆိုတာကို စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ် […]