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Journalists have rejected Christian Porter’s claim that no one from the media had ever contacted him about the specific allegations of historic rape before publishing details. At his press conference in Perth the attorney general said he had been subjected to a “public trial by media”, saying he had not been presented with the specific allegations that were made against him. “Something that I am just personally struggling to even wrap my head...

Crikey anonymously. The Prime Minister’s Office hasn’t had a good fortnight for public relations, but at least it’s handling it with tact and grace — just kidding, of course: as Kishor Napier-Raman wrote this week, the prime minister’s team has been relentlessly hassling and attempting to bully journalists out of reporting stories. Speaking of an absolute lack of tact, Georgia Wilkins took a look at big bonuses for the businesses raking in JobKeeper (while JobSeeker payments are set to plunge people below the poverty line), while Madonna King gave Scott Morrison some notes on how to...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas may have paid $600 million worth of bogus claims for...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas may have paid $600 million worth of bogus claims for...

The Kansas Department of Labor and the Legislature's auditing division are at odds over how much money has been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims, with a new estimate released Wednesday saying that as much as $600 million in bogus payments were made last year. Initial findings from a report issued by the Division of Post Audit used KDOL figures that showed 157,000 claims had been flagged as potentially fraudulent, roughly 24% of the total claims filed in 2020. The analysis showed roughly $200 million for fraudulent claims came out of the state's regular unemployment program, with t...