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Hawthorn president says club’s cultural review ‘unfair’ to senior staff named by Indigenous players

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Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus is speaking to ABC Insiders host David Speers this morning with the first subject on the proposed anti-corruption commission.

First question: why not make them public?

What you heard me saying is that there is good reasons to hold public hearings and there are. Equally, there are good reasons sometimes for holding your hearings in private.

We think that is getting the balance right and the experience of anti-corruption commissions over the last 30 year less – bear in mind we have three decades of experience to look at – where the Commonwealth is the last jurisdiction to get a commission – that experience for those jurisdictions with public hearings is very few hearings are held in public, mostly held in private.

You don’t build a nuclear powered submarine quickly.

We are on track to making an announcement around the optimal pathway that Australia will pursue in relation to acquiring nuclear powered submarines, to make that announcement in the first part of next year.

We watch China seek to shape the world around us in a way that we have not seen before.

We talked about enhancing our interoperability and expanding our operations and advancing our ongoing posture, force posture initiatives and deepening our defence industrial cooperation.

Continue reading…Hawthorn president says club’s cultural review ‘unfair’ to senior staff named by Indigenous playersGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastAttorney-general Mark Dreyfus is speaking to ABC Insiders host David Speers this morning with the first subject on the proposed anti-corruption commission.First question: why not make them public?What you heard me saying is that there is good reasons to hold public hearings and there are. Equally, there are good reasons sometimes for holding your hearings in private.We think that is getting the balance right and the experience of anti-corruption commissions over the last 30 year less – bear in mind we have three decades of experience to look at – where the Commonwealth is the last jurisdiction to get a commission – that experience for those jurisdictions with public hearings is very few hearings are held in public, mostly held in private.You don’t build a nuclear powered submarine quickly.We are on track to making an announcement around the optimal pathway that Australia will pursue in relation to acquiring nuclear powered submarines, to make that announcement in the first part of next year.We watch China seek to shape the world around us in a way that we have not seen before.We talked about enhancing our interoperability and expanding our operations and advancing our ongoing posture, force posture initiatives and deepening our defence industrial cooperation. Continue reading…