Announcing the Scam of the Year awards in Australian business and politics. What an embarrassment of rorting riches it is. Michael West with the countdown of elite scams, the creme de la creme, unvarnished, what you will not read in fossil media.
Source: Scam of the Year 2023: nine of the niftiest scams in Australian business and politics – Michael West
“Cormann was issued equity in Sayers Group in ‘December 2020’, just weeks after leaving Federal Parliament”
When some 10 Liberal MPs under Abbott were found either receiving undeclared Rolex’s or raiding their Government expense accounts they were all let off. Except for Peter Slipper, once Abbott’s bestie, wanted gone. Peter Slipper was the brutal victim of James Ashby in a political, LNP conspiracy of which he was ultimately proven innocent. Accused of claiming a $300 petty cab charge when the others even Abbott took 1000s and were let off unpunished.
KMPG tried has been caught trying it on for $100 million and nobody has been jailed or even made it to the front pages of the News Corp press like Peter Slipper did. These were the LNP’s most favored consultants, the moneymen regarded as more honest than our Public Service, our Treasury when it came to auditing budget figures. Just ask Joe Hockey. They were the perfect political party accountants who got caught with a fist full of Australia’s dollars. But has anyone been jailed? We sat and watched Stuart Robert untouched for slipping backhander contracts to his mates. He was a serial offender regularly caught but never charged.
A Defence data project involving a $100 million contract issued to KPMG is rife with serious governance failures, conflicts of interests and a “lack of accountability”, according to an external review.
Source: $100m Defence contract with KPMG rife with governance failures, review finds – ABC News
Stopping this sort of Corporate Colonisation of Australia is a definite “No” vote. Our shame those found guilty won’t be punished. Indigenous Australians didn’t steal anything but will be if “No” passes and the world will judge us all as citizens of a shameful nation.
Stolen Australian Government tax policy information was shared between two top-level groups of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia’s controversial “Transfer Pricing” tax division, documents reveal.
The NSW government’s Landcom has sold a hectare of prime bushland in Sydney for just $41k to shopping centre developers but has declined to respond to questions about the number of people at the auction. Callum Foote reports.
Last month, the NSW Government’s land and property developer Landcom sold a hectare of bushland in Sydney’s Shire for just $41k. The median house price for the area is $1.4 million, with the sale going to shopping centre developer Revelop.
Source: Did you miss the auction? Shucks. Government sells a hectare of Sydney for just $41k – Michael West
What’s the scam with the powerful and secretive lobby group APPEA? The lobbyists who tout for Santos, Shell, BP, Exxon, Origin and Woodside have been hiding their financial accounts for two years.
Requests for an interview with chief executive Samantha McCullogh have been ignored. The APPEA PR guy has told Michael West Media he would not be disclosing them.
APPEA got the South Australian government to push through the most draconian anti-peaceful-protest laws in the country in the wake of its annual conference in Adelaide this year.
Source: What’s the scam Sam? ASIC is wondering too – Michael West
A new report confirms that Big Business in Australia is totally dominated by foreign owners, particularly the fossil fuels export sector now whining, make that ‘always whining’, about modest tweaks to curb their profiteering. What’s the scam?
Source: Business Council of Australia … or Business Council of Foreign Multinationals? – Michael West
Scam
China it seems, is nowhere near as isolated or feared by the “international community” as Western mainstream media would have us believe.
Source: The West’s “international community” consists of only 10 countries – Pearls and Irritations
Consulting firm PwC pulled off a remarkable feat as Adani pushed to open its Carmichael Coal Mine — it got paid by both the miner and its government overseer. Rod Campbell reports on the maestros of conflicts of interest.
Source: PwC and the Adani mine triple dip. A conflict of interest? Surely not – Michael West
The great scientific scam promoted by the Fossil Fuel Industry
Doubts have been raised about the long-term viability of two of the world’s most-celebrated and most-studied offshore carbon capture and storage projects, raising new concerns over massive government subsidies for the controversial method of removing carbon from the atmosphere
Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent
According to analysis this week, PwC and other “big four” firms — Deloitte, EY and KPMG — have brought in about $4 billion in government contracts and paid out over $4 million in party donations over the past decade.
PwC is also the auditor for the federal police – the accountant that signs off on its finances as being legally compliant.
To rip off a bit from the Roman poet, Juvenal: Who will audit the auditors?
Source: Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire | Facebook
Wow $12 and everybody is happy while we the people get screwed and pay
Be suspicious, be very suspicious! Albo is capping off Labor’s first year in office triumphant, his deal to cap gas and coal prices even lauded by the pro-gas corporate media. What’s the scam?
Source: Be suspicious: behind Albo’s masterstroke to cap fossil prices, ease power bills – Michael West
What’s the scam? It’s the fossil fuel corporations again, the usual suspects, paying no income tax despite billions in income. For yet another year: Exxon nought, Shell nought, Ampol, BP and APLNG nought, and Chevron putting them all to shame with the $30 in income tax paid on its $9bn in revenues.
Source: The Usual Suspects: tax office dump lays bare Australia’s biggest tax dodgers – Michael West
I seem to remember Christensen, also in 2017, ranting against foreign aid, saying that “not one dollar should be spent on foreigners.”
Christensen is paid a significant salary, and very generous entitlements, to represent the people of Dawson and, further, to make the laws which govern all Australians. He is not paid to spend months overseas visiting his girlfriend.
via George Christensen is missing the point – » The Australian Independent Media Network
In fact, the real reason fascists demand “civil” and “respectful” discourse from their opponents is so they can paint them as weak and lacking in the capacity to passionately defend their principles. Hitler, for example, didn’t take Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement as a show of respect; he took it as an invitation to seize more and more territory.
While there is virtually no chance that the denial of service to a soulless person like Huckabee Sanders will cause her, or those of her ilk, to develop any empathy for people who are denied service, or unjustly targeted, because of their race or sexual orientation, at least she was treated the way she expected others to be treated.
See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/27-06-2018/141165-huckabee_sanders-0/
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