Why has Mal Brough never been forced to respond questions about his disastrous intervention into Indigenous communities policy? What does it inform us about Australian politics in 2015 that Mal Brough might lose his job over Peter Slipper’s diary rather than from his role devising the Northern Territory intervention into Indigenous communities?Ashbygate is,you might say, the quintessential 21st century scandal: a grubby affair of near Talmudic complexity, or occasioned by tactical manoeuvring detached from any particular policy outcome and with nearly no significance to anyone other than political insiders.
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Source: theguardian.com