At the beginning of this week news broke that the doyen of Australian investigative journalists, Chris Masters, had a new gig at the Daily Telegraph newspaper. It’s a significant move in Australian journalism, so how did it happen and what will follow? Masters, for those who have spent the last few decades under a rock, [...]

Some weird moral conundrums in the MP-photos affair, in which Labor backbencher James Bidgood flogged the photos he took of a man threatening to set himself alight on the lawns of Parliament House. Michelle Grattan opined on the Radio National’s Breakfast show this morning that common human decency should have told Bidgood that what he [...]