Sean Johnson

Former Coalition defence minister John Moore (1936-2025) Crikey has a juicy update to our story in June about a foreign power that eavesdropped on Coalition defence minister John Moore by giving him a calendar with a covert listening device. Our source for that story, a senior person in the Howard government, told us they didn’t know who gave the calendar to Moore beyond the gift being from a “friendly” foreign government.

A One Nation candidate running for Victorian Parliament at the November state election has been charged under Victoria’s public health regulations for allegedly running an unregistered aquatic facility at one of his businesses.

A company sanctioned by the Australian Border Force for breaching sponsorship obligations for skilled foreign workers remains an approved provider of temporary IT personnel to the federal government, Crikey and Open Politics can reveal. In 2025, Delivery Centric Technology Services (DCTS) was appointed by the Digital Transformation Agency to a panel — titled “Digital Marketplace Panel 2” (DMP2) —  to provide IT labour hire and consulting services to Commonwealth government agencies.