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- State Labor MP Justin Hanson’s wife takes his paid position on board of $6.5bn Statewide Super after his election - THE wife of state Labor MP Justin Hanson took over her husband’s paid position on the board of a $6.5 billion superannuation fund after he was elected to Parliament this year. Questions have been raised about the board appointments process at Statewide Super, after it was revealed that the Australian Workers’ Union SA branch position on the board has been successively held by three members of the Hanson family. The post has been held by former AWU SA branch secretary Wayne Hanson, his son Justin Hanson and now Justin’s wife Alexandra Overley.
- The Murdochs deserve a fairer hearing on Sky ownership - The UK government has moved the goalposts on a controversial bid for the pay TV group.
- Trump administration orders purge of Kaspersky products from U.S. government - concerned the Moscow-based cyber security firm was vulnerable to Kremlin influence and that using its anti-virus software could jeopardize national security.
- Twitter founder: Trump presidency is product of short attention spans - Evan Williams, one of the co-founders of the network, said Trump’s election highlighted a wider issue about how social media platforms were helping to “dumb the entire world down” and undermining our sense of truth.
- In Conversation: John Cleese The comedy legend on Monty Python’s legacy, political correctness, and the funniest joke he ever told. But the thing about political correctness is that it starts as a good idea and then gets taken ad absurdum. And one of the reasons it gets taken ad absurdum is that a lot of the politically correct people have no sense of humor.
- Anatomy of Illiberal Capitalism - What do Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Polish Law and Justice Party Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński have in common? They all view the market economy as an instrument of state power.
- Young People Don’t Vote. Can Colleges Change That? Student voting can tip elections. Here’s how some schools are figuring out how to get students to the polls.
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