The “Rattner papers” — a 400-odd page file of affidavits, emails and court documents — suggest alarm bells over Pauline Hanson’s legal challenge should have been ringing months ago. Matthew Knott picks over the warning signs that went unheeded.
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Rattnergate revelation: Hanson’s mole was a fraud
Michael Rattner — the man who leaked Pauline Hanson emails allegedly showing a vote-rigging cover-up at the NSW Electoral Commission — has been arrested in Sydney and exposed as a phoney.
The search for Hanson’s Rattner rolls on
Crikey’s conversation with Pauline Hanson’s lawyer Peter Lowe was cut prematurely short when he asked: “Who are you? You could be Michael Rattner. The question is: who are you?”
Antony Green: Automatic enrollment is good electoral management
Antony Green defends the NSW Electoral Commission’s move to automatically enroll 18-year-olds to vote: it’s an efficient policy, and one the AEC should adopt.
Automatic enrollment: Sneaky plot or common sense?
Crikey pundits have been duking it out over the NSW government’s plan to introduce automatic electoral enrollment. Is it really a “shameful encroachment on basic rights”, or just good bureaucratic process? William Bowe wraps the debate.
Dust off your Smiths albums, it’s 1988 and the Australia Card all over again!
Stock up on the ammo and canned food! Bernard Keane’s conspiracy theories on electoral reforms are flat out wrong, says Peter Brent.
‘Stronger democracy’ gives way to strong-arm democracy in NSW
NSW government agencies will be collating the private data of NSW citizens and providing it to the NSW Electoral Commission to automatically update the electoral roll. There’ll be no opting out; you will have no choice.
