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Fiji silenced part 2: Controlling the message
First-hand accounts and leaked documents reveal the extent of the Fijian government’s control over the media and public service.
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Fiji silenced part 1: China's secret mission exposed
Why did Chinese police enter Fiji and deport seventy-seven of their own citizens? Hagar Cohen investigates.
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WestConnex: good debt or bad debt?
As the government talks up its commitment to infrastructure, some experts are querying whether the nation’s biggest transport project will solve the problem it was designed to fix. Paddy Manning investigates.
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Turnbull's faster, cheaper NBN
Overview In 2013, then opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull pledged to ditch Labor's fibre-to-the-premises national broadband network and replace it with a mix of technologies including upgraded copper wires and pay TV cables. Now, despite a blowout in the cost of his version of the NBN from $29.5 billion to $56 billion, he insists it...
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The welfare-to-work trap
Thousands of single parent families have been pushed into poverty after having their payments reduced under the welfare-to-work policies of successive governments. After 10 years the workforce participation rate for sole parents has barely improved and a former senior minister admits the policy is too harsh. A new analysis of the government's 'welfare-to-work' reforms has...