David Hardaker

David Hardaker

David Hardaker has an extensive career as a journalist and broadcaster, primarily at the ABC where he worked on flagship programs such as Four Corners, 7.30, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM. He spent eight years reporting in the Middle East and can speak Arabic.

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Haylen affair: NSW Labor’s doing what it does best — jobs for mates on the public dime

August 31, 2023
By David Hardaker

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Labor keeps it all in the family again despite spending $100,000+ of taxpayers’ money on a recruitment process it completely ignored.
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‘Freedom has never been cheap’: The Washington neocon driving Australia’s defence moves

August 18, 2023
By David Hardaker

Defence

US Republican Mike Gallagher is a man on a mission, and he has Australia directly in his sights.
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Morrison was not alone: robodebt was aided and abetted by the AAT being gutted

July 13, 2023
By David Hardaker

Community & Social

The hollowing-out of the AAT — and the Abbott government’s disbanding of the ARC — rendered impotent the guards for welfare participants.
Rank hypocrisy: Seymour takes the fall as PwC enters reputation rehab mode

May 10, 2023
By David Hardaker

Economy & Industry

PwC touts itself as a ‘community of solvers’ with the aim of building trust and creating positive outcomes. Now the ugly truth is emerging.
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Joe Hockey has no right to call himself ‘ambassador’

March 29, 2023
By David Hardaker

Defence

Joe Hockey uses the ‘ambassador’ title at his advisory firm Bondi Partners, which is well set up to take advantage of the AUKUS deal.
The blurred lines and accountability-free zone of defence spending

October 21, 2022
By David Hardaker

Defence

Australian defence procurement has been a honeypot of billions of dollars, a major lure for international defence contractors. But accountability and transparency are thin on the ground.
Ayres out: a sunken minister in what now appears to be a sinking government

August 3, 2022
By David Hardaker

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Stuart Ayres is the latest casualty of a party at war with itself, but can his departure close the book on the Barilaro saga? Probably not.
Jenny West’s story is one that needs to be told, and its lessons heeded by politicians and those who serve them

July 15, 2022
By David Hardaker

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It has been reported that the NSW ICAC is now looking into the Barilaro saga. Is it a case of corruption? Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t.
Simon Holmes à Court, the man behind Climate 200

May 25, 2022
By David Hardaker

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Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court speaks about the teal independents, the Murdoch machine, and the state of Australian democracy.
The kinship question: Bruce Pascoe and the long search for his mob

July 15, 2021
By David Hardaker

Culture

Many Aboriginal elders and experts have called Bruce Pascoe’s claims of Indigenous heritage into question — if not rejected them outright.
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Confessions of a whistleblower: ‘Sometimes you just have to be able to live with yourself, not just for yourself’

December 16, 2019
By David Hardaker

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Two former ACCC executives who became whistleblowers against the ACCC two years ago talked to Crikey Inq journalist David Hardaker about why they did it and what goes on inside the mind of a government whistleblower