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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Q. » Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:58 am

More grant rorting from the corrupt LNP:

For example, spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady has consolidated 2020’s $158.5 million in Building Better Regions Fund grants from the GrantsConnect site – the LNP with 15.2 per cent of the 171 seats in the House of Representatives but scored 23.5 per cent of the moola.

The 10 National Party electorates in the southern states did even better – 5.8 per cent of the seats but 33.9 per cent of the cash.

And there’s Bob Katter’s seat of Kennedy, doing by far the best of the independents – representing 0.7 per cent of the House but collecting 4.9 per cent of the grant money.

The Liberal Party was closer to being proportionate – 29.1 per cent of the seats, 26.9 per cent of the money.

Labor holds 45 per cent of the seats, but its electorates received just 5 per cent of the money.


and

Meanwhile, the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program (yes, they keep coming) similarly keeps the government members’ media releases of Coalition beneficence coming.

On Mr O’Grady’s GrantsConnect consolidation, the $499 million LRCI spending last year was divvied up 32 per cent to Liberal seats, 19 per cent National (remember, just 10 seats out of 151), 16 per cent LNP, 27 per cent Labor (45 per cent of the seats), nearly 3 per cent for Bob Katter’s Kennedy and 3 per cent for the other independents.

Overall, the LRCI breaks 67 per cent for Coalition seats, 27 per cent Labor, and 6 per cent the remainder.

Mr O’Grady did a consolidation exercise of #sportsrorts, CDG and regional grants posted on GrantsConnect from 2013 up to the 2019 election – the better part of $2 billion. It broke down 24 per cent to Labor electorates, 70 per cent to Coalition seats.


https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/01/18/michael-pascoe-grant-rorts/
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:43 am

Albo wants a federal ICAC.

Really not sure if why we havent had one previously.
Perhaps, there will be noone left in the canberra bubble, all parties wiped out

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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby stan » Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:05 am

Scmo, probably not scoring well at the moment. Didn't have a great day yesterday.
Read my reply. It is directed at you because you have double standards
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby stan » Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:07 am

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Albo wants a federal ICAC.

Really not sure if why we havent had one previously.
Perhaps, there will be noone left in the canberra bubble, all parties wiped out

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A proper independent federal ICAC with actual authority would nuke Canberra. Not much left of the Libs, Nats or Labor.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Dinglinga75 » Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:48 am

stan wrote:Scmo, probably not scoring well at the moment. Didn't have a great day yesterday.


Guessing the Fox Sports work experience kid wrote that speech for ScoMO ... surely no-one could be that stupid to say that
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Bum Crack » Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:06 am

Dinglinga75 wrote:
stan wrote:Scmo, probably not scoring well at the moment. Didn't have a great day yesterday.


Guessing the Fox Sports work experience kid wrote that speech for ScoMO ... surely no-one could be that stupid to say that

Where he said Cricket Australia should focus on cricket? I thought that was well said. I guess that wasn't what you're referring to though.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Q. » Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:54 pm

Bum Crack wrote:
Dinglinga75 wrote:
stan wrote:Scmo, probably not scoring well at the moment. Didn't have a great day yesterday.


Guessing the Fox Sports work experience kid wrote that speech for ScoMO ... surely no-one could be that stupid to say that

Where he said Cricket Australia should focus on cricket? I thought that was well said. I guess that wasn't what you're referring to though.


Yes, no politics in sports, coming from the mastermind of an entire sports grant program rort that helped win an election :roll:
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Q. » Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:55 pm

stan wrote:
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Albo wants a federal ICAC.

Really not sure if why we havent had one previously.
Perhaps, there will be noone left in the canberra bubble, all parties wiped out

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A proper independent federal ICAC with actual authority would nuke Canberra. Not much left of the Libs, Nats or Labor.


That is a bleak and pessimistic outlook! There are plenty of by-the-book politicians in all those parties.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Bum Crack » Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:58 pm

Q. wrote:
Bum Crack wrote:
Dinglinga75 wrote:
stan wrote:Scmo, probably not scoring well at the moment. Didn't have a great day yesterday.


Guessing the Fox Sports work experience kid wrote that speech for ScoMO ... surely no-one could be that stupid to say that

Where he said Cricket Australia should focus on cricket? I thought that was well said. I guess that wasn't what you're referring to though.


Yes, no politics in sports, coming from the mastermind of an entire sports grant program rort that helped win an election :roll:

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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Jim05 » Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:08 pm

Q. wrote:
Bum Crack wrote:
Dinglinga75 wrote:
stan wrote:Scmo, probably not scoring well at the moment. Didn't have a great day yesterday.


Guessing the Fox Sports work experience kid wrote that speech for ScoMO ... surely no-one could be that stupid to say that

Where he said Cricket Australia should focus on cricket? I thought that was well said. I guess that wasn't what you're referring to though.


Yes, no politics in sports, coming from the mastermind of an entire sports grant program rort that helped win an election :roll:
More like Labor lost the election because Billy was so unelectable
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:08 pm

Q. wrote:
stan wrote:
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Albo wants a federal ICAC.

Really not sure if why we havent had one previously.
Perhaps, there will be noone left in the canberra bubble, all parties wiped out

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A proper independent federal ICAC with actual authority would nuke Canberra. Not much left of the Libs, Nats or Labor.


That is a bleak and pessimistic outlook! There are plenty of by-the-book politicians in all those parties.
Just being realistic

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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby heater31 » Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:58 am

Liberal right winger Kevin Andrews lost his pre-selection battle over the weekend.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Q. » Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:35 pm

This is a long read because, well, so is the Morrison govt's list of corruption. Some nuggets in there though.

In Morrison’s government, a lack of accountability has become systemic

The most infamous was the government’s $80 million purchase of water entitlements in 2017 from Eastern Australia Agriculture (EAA), a company co-founded by government MP Angus Taylor. This matter is worth revisiting because new documents recently came to light courtesy of a freedom of information request, details of which were published by Michael West Media.

The purchase involved overland flows, water that was available only in floods estimated to occur perhaps twice every 10 years. These entitlements are notoriously difficult to price, and for good reason. There is no true market for floodwater and it can’t be properly forecast. But in June 2016, the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources commissioned independent company Opteon to provide valuations. Opteon valued the Condamine Balonne overland flow water – the region that includes the entitlements held by EAA – at $50 per megalitre, a valuation that was swiftly set aside by the department. This figure would have valued EAA’s overland flow water entitlements at $1.4 million.

The Commonwealth had recently purchased overland flow licences from a nearby property for $800 per megalitre, while other valuations commissioned by the department priced such rights at between $1100 and $2300 per megalitre. EAA had self-valued its entire water holdings at $79.5 million in 2016. Yet the following year the Coalition government paid $80 million for less than half of that holding, and it was for the least reliable part – the overland flow water.

The eventual price paid to EAA by the Commonwealth – $2745 per megalitre – was nearly double the mid-range price recommended by the department’s valuations, and almost 20 per cent higher than the highest valuation. EAA took the money and immediately booked at least a $52 million profit on the transaction. There is no way of knowing the ultimate beneficiaries, because EAA’s parent company is headquartered in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. How could the government give $80 million of public money to a company whose structure was expressly designed to avoid scrutiny and tax liabilities?
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Psyber » Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:24 pm

Q. wrote:More grant rorting from the corrupt LNP: ....................... etc.

From my observations both major parties do it and they should both be stopped!
Forget the Queen, and the idea of an elected President. Elect an Ombudsman to keep and eye on them all.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Q. » Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:04 am

Psyber wrote:
Q. wrote:More grant rorting from the corrupt LNP: ....................... etc.

From my observations both major parties do it and they should both be stopped!
Forget the Queen, and the idea of an elected President. Elect an Ombudsman to keep and eye on them all.


Why wait for someone else to do the work? Voters have the power to stop electing officials that have been exposed.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby stan » Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:00 pm

Well just dropping on the news now is the alleged sexual assult of a female staffer in the office of the defence minister.

Some really disturbing information coming out at the moment.

I know it's not a government or political specific thing, but bloody hell what a shit farm at the moment.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Jimmy_041 » Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:13 am

stan wrote:Well just dropping on the news now is the alleged sexual assult of a female staffer in the office of the defence minister.

Some really disturbing information coming out at the moment.

I know it's not a government or political specific thing, but bloody hell what a shit farm at the moment.


The entire place is a cesspool
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby stan » Tue Feb 16, 2021 3:23 pm

Jimmy_041 wrote:
stan wrote:Well just dropping on the news now is the alleged sexual assult of a female staffer in the office of the defence minister.

Some really disturbing information coming out at the moment.

I know it's not a government or political specific thing, but bloody hell what a shit farm at the moment.


The entire place is a cesspool
The more details come out the worse it gets. Bloody hell, the sports rorts saga was one thing with all the smoke and mirrors and ass coverings but bloody hell this really takes the cake.

So much ass covering here is not funny.

An ceasepool is a good description of that place.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby Psyber » Tue Feb 16, 2021 4:06 pm

Q. wrote:
Psyber wrote:
Q. wrote:More grant rorting from the corrupt LNP: ....................... etc.

From my observations both major parties do it and they should both be stopped!
Forget the Queen, and the idea of an elected President. Elect an Ombudsman to keep and eye on them all.


Why wait for someone else to do the work? Voters have the power to stop electing officials that have been exposed.

Agreed - but will they? I would!

I didn't vote for Jamie Briggs, but backed Sharkey despite being a Liberal Party member in Mayo.
(And backed her again over Ms Downer.)

But I like the idea of having an ongoing watchdog keeping an eye on them.
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Re: Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

Postby daysofourlives » Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:04 pm

Q. wrote:
Psyber wrote:
Q. wrote:More grant rorting from the corrupt LNP: ....................... etc.

From my observations both major parties do it and they should both be stopped!
Forget the Queen, and the idea of an elected President. Elect an Ombudsman to keep and eye on them all.


Why wait for someone else to do the work? Voters have the power to stop electing officials that have been exposed.


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