In an elaborate homage to failing up, Covid-era Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been awarded Australia’s highest honour for “eminent service” to the country, despite a laundry list of scandals and scant achievements to show for it.

The Queensland Government is facing strong pushback over its plans to destroy a globally significant biobank which could prove invaluable to research into diagnosing and treating long Covid and Covid vaccine injuries. 

Australians are routinely assured that deaths arising from Covid vaccination are vanishingly rare, based on the drug safety regulator’s claim that it has identified only 14 deaths linked to vaccination out of more than 70 million doses given.

A ‘globally significant’ bank of biosamples from a study into the immune effects of Covid vaccines is set to be destroyed, two years after the award-winning research project was defunded by the Queensland Government.  

The eSafety Commissioner’s covert censorship of social media via an informal, unaccountable process is facing scrutiny after a significant legal win for free speech activists.

Victorians could go to prison for up to five years for hate speech under new anti-vilification laws proposed by the Victorian Government.

The Australian Government’s Covid vaccine injury compensation scheme ended on Monday, leaving anyone injured by the ongoing administration of the Covid vaccines without a safety net.

A reworked version of the misinformation bill tabled by the Labor Government this week is an improvement on an earlier version of the bill, but fundamental flaws make the laws unworkable, experts say.

A medical doctor, whose submission to the Senate’s excess mortality inquiry was omitted from the public record, has questioned the transparency of the inquiry process, after the committee’s report revealed that a majority of submissions it received had been suppressed.

The Australian Government has voted down a bill to establish a Covid Commission of Inquiry, which would have essentially the same powers and independence as a Royal Commission.

A serious constitutional complaint brought against a Federal Court judge has sparked concerns over the impartiality of the Australian judicial system.

Australia’s online harms regulator eSafety receives daily reports from private ‘social listening’ firm Meltwater to monitor community sentiment about its Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, newly released documents show.