Stuart Robert
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Robert should face anti-corruption body over scrapped $191m software deal
Former cabinet minister Stuart Robert held multiple meetings with a tech company that won lucrative contracts to build a government payment system.
- The Herald's View
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Stuart Robert met Infosys multiple times, including before $191 million deal
The new details add to a series of revelations about the former MP’s dealings over several years when he was a backbencher and a senior minister.
- by David Crowe and Nick McKenzie
Stuart Robert backer has left the country and ‘severed all ties’, inquiry learns
MP Julian Hill said John Margerison’s lawyer had informed the committee the businessman had “severed all ties with the country of Australia many weeks ago!”
- by James Massola
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Big four consultants
Ex-Deloitte partner used confidential Defence documents to win work for his new business
Controversial consultant David Milo used material he obtained as a partner at Deloitte to further his private interests after he left the firm.
- by Nick McKenzie and David Crowe
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Byelection
LNP wins Fadden byelection with swing to the opposition
The byelection was triggered by the resignation of scandal-ridden Stuart Robert, who had held the seat on a 10.6 per cent margin.
- by Anthony Galloway
Analysis
Byelection
The swing to the Coalition in Fadden is a win for Peter Dutton
Because it was always clear that the LNP’s candidate Cameron Caldwell was going to win the seat, Labor engaged in a lot of expectation management in the days leading up to the poll.
- by Anthony Galloway
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Byelection
Cost of living should trump Labor’s robo-debt campaign in Fadden byelection: Dutton
In the second of what could be three byelections this year, Peter Dutton says the cost of living should be a bigger issue than Stuart Robert’s involvement in robo-debt.
- by Angus Thompson and Lisa Visentin
Schism within CFMEU over Voice to Parliament support
While the broader union movement is backing a Yes campaign, the Victorian and Tasmanian branch of the CFMEU won’t be taking a position either way.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Former ministers can bill taxpayers to challenge robo-debt findings
Senior Liberal figures who gave evidence before the royal commission will be provided funding to challenge any findings handed down against them on Friday.
- by Angus Thompson
Opinion
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Why Stuart Robert should face the new corruption watchdog
The claims against the former federal minister are too explosive to ignore. Only the National Anti-Corruption Commission has the power to dig where others cannot.
- by David Crowe