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Parliament in Australia is developing a reputation as a breeding ground for bullying, sexual misconduct and corruption.

The toxic subculture within our parliament

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Opinion

How our leaders loved the SAS to death

While some of Australia's special forces are accused of 39 murders, others regret the repurposing of the SASR in Afghanistan – from intelligence gatherers to a kill-capture, war-fighting, commando-style unit. 

Yet there still seems no consequences for those higher up whose decisions set the preconditions for criminality. Their blind admiration, which turned into dependence, changed the character of the SASR in the middle of a conflict, and resulted in the rule-breaking ingenuity of SASR thinking being twisted, in some cases, into free-thinking of a darker kind. Accountability will be borne by those who carried out the acts. When will there be accountability for those in senior leadership roles, including our elected officials, who loved the SASR to death?

• by Malcolm Knox

Australian War Memorial: from keeper of the flame to hider of shame?

By William De Maria

Bankrolled by arms manufacturers, the Australian War Memorial has morphed from being a reflective space where we could remember and honour fallen Australians into a war advertisement, w