Tag: Rorting

Great Barrier Reef

Barrier Reef funding smells like another Morrison Government rort

Saving the Great Barrier Reef should be a priority for our Federal Government, but how can Australia be rescued from the clutches of Morrison, the L-NP, and News Corp?

This latest round of funding is to be spent over a ten-year period and is targeted at marginal seats held by the L-NP, adjacent to the Reef, and is of course conditional on the L-NP being re-elected. The current L-NP Government led by Scott Morrison has a reputation for blatant pork-barreling and rorting public money while electioneering.

Source: Barrier Reef funding smells like another Morrison Government rort

Election

Michael Pascoe: Beware the promises in next election budget

Given current polling and the vaccination schmozzle, the odds are favouring the government hanging on to the benefits of incumbency as long as possible, hoping the vaccine bungles will fade, the shots work, peace breaks out over our internal borders, and the promises of opening up start to look more credible. That would mean a repeat of the 2019 timetable – an April budget ahead of a May election. Given the government’s denial, dissembling and deflection over blatant and systemic corruption last time, fasten your seat belts for even more rorting of the public purse for political purposes.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Beware the promises in next election budget

LNP

Bob Ellis considers the vastly different and manifestly unfair treatment of former Speaker Peter Slipper compared to that of disgraced current Speaker Bronwyn

A tale of Two Speakers: Slippery Pete and Chopper Bishop

A tale of Two Speakers: Slippery Pete and Chopper Bishop