2022 Election

andy-mac wrote:

indo-dreaming wrote:

Optimist wrote:

The Libs tried to bring in an ICAC but wouldn’t allow it to be a kangaroo court media circus. The senate and Labor disagreed. The libs wanted it handled independently and properly then the outcome published and any bad guys charged without a boring and inaccurate nightly update on the news for months or years on end. Sounded OK to me but it wasn’t going to pass that way so they ditched it. Labor can do what they like if they get in but I have a feeling they will have a few twists as well. It will happen eventually but I’d prefer not to hear every detail every night every channel seasoned with the different media biases….just get on with it and then give us the results when ya done. That’ll do.

I get why LNP are avoiding bringing in an ICAC and why Labor voters keep banging on about it.

LNP have been in power for 9 years obviously it would hurt them most, if Labor had been in power for the last 9 years they would be avoiding it too and LNP voters calling for an ICAC.

It is what it is, its important to Labor voters because they just dont have much else to bang on about, its pretty hard to write off a government that has managed the economy so well especially through a once in one hundred year pandemic, especially when you leader just had a train wreck of a week and clearly not up to standard to be PM.

A lot of what people class as corruption is pretty petty though, pork barrelling for instance isn't corruption, both sides do it, it's just common sense management of funds, you look after and reward those that vote for you and you spend in areas where its possible win voters over, while an area you have no chance you spend the minimum possible, id be pissed if a LNP government didnt do this, because there is only so much $$$ to go around..

You do realise that it should be a permanent body ICAC, so in future any political party will be held to account???
Would that not be a good thing? Is it LNP corruption good, Labor corruption bad? Did not hear LNP pollies complaining when Obeid and MacDonald got done, which they deserved.
You cannot see the problem that entrenched corruption could do to our democracy. Actually what is happening with white anting of institutions and normalisation of blatantly corrupt behaviour avoiding any public oversight.
You do not address any of the points put to you but in Scomo style run off about how good the economy is (it isn't) and then Labor baaad ok, Greens woke woke woke... Mr Speaka!!
Then trying to tie on pork barrelling to corruption. It has been highlighted many times in this forum many cases of corrupt behaviour, so you are just deflecting.

Let's be real here yours' and Supa's obsession with the issue has nothing to do with good will, its purely about trying to bring LNP down because yes seeing they have been in power for the last nine years it would hurt them more than Labor, if Labor had been in for the last nine years, you wouldn't even mention it.

If good will had been shown in nine years there wouldn't be an opposition or far less from the voting public. I can't say it any clearer. Let them reap what they sow. Ignoring public opinion would in most cases bring opposition from those promised a representation. Or of the expectation of a higher standard of leadership. No matter which party. Good will isn't what has been shown.

I agree with all this commentary about Anne Ruston getting the health portfolio, Fuck she leaves me cold but lets be real here who could Morrison have selected instead of her?

Serious question. With most of his ministers in witness protection and stopped from appearing in public because of their sheer incompetence who else was even remotely capable?

I didn't rate Hunt either - failed Health Minister failed ex Environment Minister,

Cockee wrote:

'The first major survey of the campaign revealed a reversal of fortune for the two leaders, with Morrison leading Albanese as preferred prime minister by 38 to 30 per cent after the Labor leader held the advantage two weeks ago with a lead of 37 to 36 per cent.' Source : The Age 18/4/22.
It seems that despite the best efforts of the Labor stooges here to convince us otherwise, the preferred PM is Scomo (and rising) with Albosleazy way behind (and falling). Best that the stooges STFU as per advice given to their beloved leader lest support amongst normal people ie. non-stooges, evaporates completely before the election.

Yep people are starting to wake up, they might not like Scomo as a person but they still understand he is experienced and proven and gets the job done, Albo on the other hand in just one week has shown how inexperienced he is and you can bet even moderate Labor voters would have concerns.

Like SD said though Labor are still ahead in the polls, it's still not going to be easy for LNP to hold government, not after being in power for nine years, many people over a period that long seek change for changes sake. (not just my view i watched a vid/.interview yesterday with Howard who pointed out the same thing.

Indo said “
Let's be real here yours' and Supa's obsession with the issue has nothing to do with good will, its purely about trying to bring LNP down because yes seeing they have been in power for the last nine years it would hurt them more than Labor, if Labor had been in for the last nine years, you wouldn't even mention it. “…….indo , if labor had done what the LNP are guilty of over the last decade I would be totally ashamed of them and could not possibly vote for such a government , l welcome an ICAC . An ICAC is needed to be permanently introduced to keep everyone that’s a politician in line and accountable. Your dismissal of corruption because you believe the Scott Morrison Party is responsible for a stong economy ( forget the trillion plus debt, we don’t have to pay it back …. do we ? ) Do you really believe the majority of Australians aren’t concerned with the degree of rorts, corruption and shitfuckery and that it shouldn’t be one of the election issues, well then as I’ve said before, you’re delusional.

Signs of a limited cabinet? All other options somehow have been exhausted or deemed unsuitable. We know how we got here.

indo-dreaming wrote:

andy-mac wrote:

indo-dreaming wrote:

Optimist wrote:

The Libs tried to bring in an ICAC but wouldn’t allow it to be a kangaroo court media circus. The senate and Labor disagreed. The libs wanted it handled independently and properly then the outcome published and any bad guys charged without a boring and inaccurate nightly update on the news for months or years on end. Sounded OK to me but it wasn’t going to pass that way so they ditched it. Labor can do what they like if they get in but I have a feeling they will have a few twists as well. It will happen eventually but I’d prefer not to hear every detail every night every channel seasoned with the different media biases….just get on with it and then give us the results when ya done. That’ll do.

I get why LNP are avoiding bringing in an ICAC and why Labor voters keep banging on about it.

LNP have been in power for 9 years obviously it would hurt them most, if Labor had been in power for the last 9 years they would be avoiding it too and LNP voters calling for an ICAC.

It is what it is, its important to Labor voters because they just dont have much else to bang on about, its pretty hard to write off a government that has managed the economy so well especially through a once in one hundred year pandemic, especially when you leader just had a train wreck of a week and clearly not up to standard to be PM.

A lot of what people class as corruption is pretty petty though, pork barrelling for instance isn't corruption, both sides do it, it's just common sense management of funds, you look after and reward those that vote for you and you spend in areas where its possible win voters over, while an area you have no chance you spend the minimum possible, id be pissed if a LNP government didnt do this, because there is only so much $$$ to go around..

You do realise that it should be a permanent body ICAC, so in future any political party will be held to account???
Would that not be a good thing? Is it LNP corruption good, Labor corruption bad? Did not hear LNP pollies complaining when Obeid and MacDonald got done, which they deserved.
You cannot see the problem that entrenched corruption could do to our democracy. Actually what is happening with white anting of institutions and normalisation of blatantly corrupt behaviour avoiding any public oversight.
You do not address any of the points put to you but in Scomo style run off about how good the economy is (it isn't) and then Labor baaad ok, Greens woke woke woke... Mr Speaka!!
Then trying to tie on pork barrelling to corruption. It has been highlighted many times in this forum many cases of corrupt behaviour, so you are just deflecting.

Let's be real here yours' and Supa's obsession with the issue has nothing to do with good will, its purely about trying to bring LNP down because yes seeing they have been in power for the last nine years it would hurt them more than Labor, if Labor had been in for the last nine years, you wouldn't even mention it.

Wrong!
I don't care who is being corrupt or engaging in criminal behaviour. All should be held to account.
This federal govt just happens to be most secretive and corrupt in our history....

Ha ha....sure we both know thats BS.

Scomo wouldn't keep his job were I work to many fuck ups. His excuses and so called solutions wouldn't bounce. He wouldn't be seen as an asset either.

Sportsbet odds are swinging
ALP 1.71
Libs 2.05

ABC election calculator with latest newspoll:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2022/guide/calculator

ALP 79
Coal 66

numbers getting closer. Edit: seeing overall swing of 4.5 to ALP, down from the 9-10% in some previous polls. As I don't follow the MSM news cycle, no idea why. Has someone done a climate change caravan to QLD coal country again?

Indo, even though I disagree with the content your word output is most impressive. Are you getting paid for it? I trust you still find time to surf and work.

Liberals Bizarre Nazi comments unearthed.

https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/liberal-candidate-kath...

& in that calculator Corangamite (down here on SC) goes 5.6% to ALP which is a boost from it's marginal status.

I don’t really understand the workings of it all, but as long as real judges and courts are involved in corruption proceedings and everyone is innocent until proven guilty I’m happy. I couldn’t care less about watching a third rate nightly media TV Circus though, with morning and evening show presenters grilling people who haven’t been proven guilty yet…often most of which ends up wrong.. Watched a bit of what Gladys was going through and found it about as interesting as pulling teeth. Just appoint the right people, bust the bad guys, then tell us about it later.

Robwilliams wrote:

Scomo wouldn't keep his job were I work to many fuck ups. His excuses and so called solutions wouldn't bounce. He wouldn't be seen as an asset either. Hard realities of small business.

If Scomo wouldn't keep his job, then imagine how Albo would go, the election campaign is basically like a long Job interview after the last week, they would have just said NO NO NO dont even bother ringing us.

optimist what's real in the Australian political landscape these days?

The election campains are a farce. Just look at the outcomes of effective policy and refine, renew or delete. Why make a meal of it? Progress is stagnant under current approach.

arcadia wrote:

Indo, even though I disagree with the content your word output is most impressive. Are you getting paid for it? I trust you still find time to surf and work.

Ha ha yeah not working today and had a few hour's surf this morning a spot i rarely surf but decided to give it a paddle to escape the crowds, was actually okay although pushing bit wide and a lot of work paddle wise and i hate paddling..

If i don't get in on this conversation it will be a complete one sided echo chamber, thats my motivation, id love to be paid though.

The echo chamber is a repeat of past indiscretions not future improvement. They are comfortably happy with that. so called high values that they spew for the benefit of Australians. What a joke. it's only becoming more and more visible the more they fail. Corruption and fuckery they ain't friends of mine.

indo-dreaming wrote:

Ha ha this is what you call a mistake, when you say something accidentally that isn't correct even though you obviously know the correct answer, this is what it's called to be human.

It quite different to not actually knowing something like say the unemployment rate or cash rate important basic stats related to the job, not knowing these things isn't a mistake its just ignorance.

But i doubt you would get why these two things are different.

You’re a one eyed cunt FreeMoney Dreaming.

Your entitled to your view Soggydog but surely you can come up with a better insult than this whole "free money" thing.

indo-dreaming wrote:

Your entitled to your view Soggydog but surely you can come up with a better insult than this whole "free money" thing.

Nope works perfectly.

I was going to try a put a sensible conversation forward to you. Then I remembered it was you.

See how hard was that, that's a much better insult.

Indo said “ If i don't get in on this conversation it will be a complete one sided echo chamber, thats my motivation, id love to be paid though” ……..maybe the the malben could flick you a free subscription .

If i was spruiking positive Labor views maybe id be in with a chance, but spruiking LNP views zero chance of that.

Lnp or labour views shouldn't need spruiking if they are serving Australia adequately. Where are they failing and why is this? Are they continuing to not deliver? Judging by the walk and not the talk. They have had four years. And a few before that. Surely their results should align with a little more substance than what surfaces at election time . Reshuffles or not.

Taxpayers fund $55.6 billion in federal grants over less than four years

“This is public money being spent, at times, without any criteria or reporting,” said Michael Barker, QC, a barrister who was a Federal Court judge for a decade after serving on the Western Australian Supreme Court.

The new findings follow years of concern about the growing use of grants after criticism by the Productivity Commission and scathing reports by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) into spending on sports facilities, commuter car parks and other projects Morrison promised at the last election.

“The audit office has revealed, repeatedly, problems with the current system and particularly the way that ministers are making grant decisions,” said Gabrielle Appleby, a law professor at the University of New South Wales.

“These decisions are uninformed by expert analysis, reasons for decisions are not recorded, and there is very little transparency and therefore accountability

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/taxpayers-fund-55-6-billion-in-f...

Labor stooges like soggy (we all know how his dog got that way) can't accept that there are alternative viewpoints so instead of rational argument he and his other stooges demand that stooges only be allowed to post on this thread. Way to go circle jerkers. BTW I have a disturbing mental picture of soggy, rob, freakie, Guy, Vic and andy standing in a circle with Head Stooge CBG servicing them all).

I dare Indo and Cockee to give Scotty a thorough performance review. All the highs and lows, be honest and reflect.

Tell us the truth. Not the same tired already refuted talking points and cockee try holding the mindless dribble.

There is already a pretty comprehensive list on here somewhere.

Cockee. The disturbing mental picture you describe above is a reflection of yourself.
Disturbing indeed.

Scomo and a fair few spend more energy on getting re elected than actually taking us forward in the way parliament could be serving us with much more benefit. Train wreck at the moment. Or have i missed something. Got your hard hat? cockee iv'e been waiting for you to jerk me any time, circle or not.

Thanks to all for contributions. I’m not reading them just now. At the moment I’m leaning towards staying out of the discussion, but that’s just today. I’d like to read back in 5 weeks after we know the result.

If I get involved I’m likely to say something I won’t be proud of. Also, I’m interested in what everyone else thinks.

At this stage, for what it’s worth (nothing), it is entirely within the realms of possibility that Albo could do as poorly as Shorten. I think that any more fundamental campaigning errors and he is in bother. I can’t believe he didn’t know those figures, nor do I believe it matters, really, but most vote on perceptions, and in that sense it matters.

Let’s see how the next 5 weeks play out. If you need to bet on a certainty, bet that I will be getting drunk on election night, Don’s Party style.

Always enjoy your posts Batfink, no matter the thread topic. Keep them coming…

batfink wrote:

but most vote on perceptions, and in that sense it matters.

A very good point, and imho speaks to the need for serious media reform in this country. After last election, my door will this time be inscribed with 'abandon all hope, ye who enter here'.

Even after Albos gaffe, latest newspoll held over 14-17 april has 2 party preferred exactly the same as week before, at 53/47 in favour of Labor https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/04/18/newspoll-labor-coalition-pref...

And again -

The federal government has:

Cut $14 million from the national audit office, after that office discovered substantial improprieties and wasteful spending (such as the sports rorts, and paying 10 times too much for land for the new Sydney airport). source
Voted against a binding code of conduct designed to ensure politicians act with integrity. source
Blocked a research-backed design change to increase the effectiveness of beverage warnings about drinking during pregnancy (recommended by an independent body) after meeting with lobbyists from alcohol companies who have donated over $300,000 to the Coalition. source
Gave $345,000 to News Corp to build a spelling bee website, discarding any pretense of propriety or fairness by skipping the usual parliamentary checks and tender process, instead just choosing to hand the excessive amount of cash to a company whose industry is neither website building nor education. source
Hid a record-breaking number of expenses from the public in an annual budget, including cash handed to a private rail project, maintaining an abandoned oil rig, and legal action relating to military bases which leaked toxic chemicals. source
Loosened political donation laws. source source
Committed a crime by ignoring a ruling of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. source source
Appointed a failed Liberal candidate to the SBS board instead of any of the ones recommended by the independent nominations panel. source
Prevented parliament from debating whether to set up a National Integrity Commission. source
Set up the COVID-19 National Coordination Committee with no terms of reference, no register of conflicts of interest, and then stacked it with gas company executives who unsurprisingly ended up recommending irrationally pro-gas policies. 690 documents about potential conflicts of interests were deliberately kept hidden. source source source
Blocked parliament from debating significant environmental protection repeals, rushing through the legislation without allowing anyone to discuss it first. source
Lied by claiming they appointed a Liberal party staffer to a job paying half a million dollars per year through an “open merit-driven, competitive process”. It was actually a limited tender not open to all, exempt from procurement rules which guarantee fairness and impartiality. source
Tried to get parliament to vote on new legislation without giving copies of the bill to the people voting on it, and used unprecedented methods to prevent any politician to speak against it. source source source
Paid tens of thousands of dollars to a company which was known to be corrupt, through a tender that was not opened up to all competitors. source
Illegally forged a document to publicly criticise a political opponent. source
Cancelled The Rule of Law and then preventing journalists from reporting on the case against a whistleblower who leaked truthful information in the public interest about senior politicians and law enforcement officials who flagrantly violated serious international laws. The court case is held in secret. The whistleblower’s name is illegal to publish. The witness and lawyers’ residences were raided, and the evidence against the government was confiscated. source source
Extended exemptions for political donation transparency, which are 25 years old and were only supposed to be temporary. source
Paid $39 million to a naval boat manufacturer when not required to because the company failed to fulfill the relevant contract clauses, and they coincidentally donated to the Liberal party. source
Illegally failed to respond to freedom of information (FOI) requests within the statutory 30 day deadline in 92.5% of cases. source
Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller’s valuation. source
Lied by claiming that Kevin Rudd had travelled overseas and back during COVID while many Australians are still stranded overseas, when Mr Rudd had actually never left Queensland. source source
Refused to release a report into COVID policy communication strategies, which cost over $500,000. source
Introduced a mandatory code of conduct to force companies like Google to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to large private news companies (but not ABC news nor independent news, nor the Chaser). Google currently drives over 3 billion clicks per year to Australian news companies. Therefore this is like a local plumber demanding that the Yellow Pages pay the plumber for the act of directing plumber-seeking customers to the plumber. This will also undermine the fundamental principles of the web itself, according to its inventor. The laws are written based on the incorrect assumption that news makes up 10% of Google searches when it’s only 1%. source source source source source source
Introduced red tape and distorted the free market by forcing Google to give special insider knowledge of proprietary search algorithm changes to large news companies but not small, independent journalists. It includes ambiguously written clauses about giving news companies access to Google users’ private data. source source
Introduced protections for company executives who trade while insolvent during the pandemic. This is only for cases where the debts are incurred “the ordinary course of business”. Those who try to adapt to the challenging circumstances will not be exempt. In this way the government is incentivising executives to not adapt to the unique circumstances. source
Refused to release the minutes from an important meeting of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee giving COVID advice to the Prime Minister. source source
Created the ABCC ostensibly for reducing corruption, but the ABCC boss himself violated rules and endangered people by ignoring COVID flight restrictions, travelling across the country to interview workers about a rally that happened 8 months prior. source
Refused to release a multilateral trade agreement with China, which involves spending government money on infrastructure in other countries. The lack of transparency exacerbates existing concerns about burdening these other developing nations with unsustainable debt. source source
Deleted records of a $165,000 political donation from a political consultancy with stakeholders who stand to benefit from the government’s $1 billion visa privatization plan, and refused requests for further explanation. source
Kept secret a government-funded report that showed that less than 1 in 3 Australians trust our public service sector. The justification was that the government believed that the report which they wrote would mislead and confuse people. source
Lied by claiming that all grants issued under the controversial $100M sports grant program were eligible for funding, when only 57% were. source
Failed to declare a property worth $1M in a minister’s declaration of interests. source
Failed to declare 2 properties worth more than $1M in another minister’s declaration of interests. source
Approved a $36,000 grant to a shooting club without declaring that the approving minister was a member of that club. source
Allocated sports grant funding based on which candidate projects were in marginal seats, rather than which were the most worthy. Then refused to release legal advice about whether such pork barrelling is illegal, and destroyed evidence about the funding choices. source source source source source
Merged the Australian Federal Police into the Home Affairs department, allowing the minister to exert political influence on investigations. source
Ignored a Royal Commission report which found the government’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan is illegal, whilst refusing to publish their own report which they claim provides a valid rebuttal. source
Abandoned standard tender processes when awarding a $423 million contract to a company with $50k in funds, little experience, no phone number, no mail address, housed in a shack. source source
Refused to publish a report used to justify a $53 million contract to outsource Centrelink call handling. source source
Declared that they will violate a new law, because they don’t like it. source source
Spent $87,000 fighting against a Freedom of Information request about back-room deals, and then lied about the cost. source
Drastically increased the amount of government money spent without a proper tender process, up to $34 billion per month. source
Handed out $17.1M to private TV stations for a grant they didn’t ask for, without offering the money to the public broadcaster. source
Refused a Senate Order to release details about expensive contracts for security, health and infrastructure in their detention camps in PNG. source
Excused the conflict of interest arising when the head of the My Health Record (appointed by the government) privately received money for consultations about the My Health Record. source
Spent 2 years trying to hide documents from Freedom of Information requests, about a serious breach of top secret documents, and mishandling of those documents by a minister. source
Hid a report by the Governor General showing that the government paid twice as much as necessary for new combat vehicles, because such publicity would be bad for the private manufacturer’s future profitability. The company is not even Australian. source source
Lied about the Immigration Minister having no personal connection to someone who benefited from the direct intervention by the Immigration Minister in a visa case. source source source
Spent an undisclosed amount of public money on legal defence for a minister who broken the law for political gain. source
Broke an election promise by cutting $84 million from the ABC (again). source
Exempted a facial recognition system storing data of innocent citizens from standard procurement policy disclosure rules. The excuse is a reliance on security through obscurity rather than actual security. Accuracy figures are also not published. source source source
Increased the jail time for journalists who report on whistleblower’s truthful allegations by a factor of 10. source source
Refused to publish the percentage of calls to the veterans’ suicide help line which go unanswered, because that want negatively impact the brand of the private call centre operator. source
Prohibited public servants from liking social media posts critical of the government, even if anonymous. source
Failed to declare multiple $1600 Foxtel subscriptions gifted to ministers by a lobby group. source
Gave $30 million to Foxtel to boost “under represented sports”, and was unable to explain why free-to-air channels didn’t get the money, because the decision was made without any emails, letter, or supporting documentation. source source
Paid a minister $273 per night to stay in his own home. source
Prevented university newspapers from attending the release of multiple annual budgets like all other newspapers. These particular budgets contained multiple changes which negatively impact university students. source source
Refused to release the results for the trial of a national health register. source
Spent over $3,500 to send a minister to watch the AFL with his wife. source
Spent over $2,700 on a trip to watch polo. source
Spent $10,000 per day to send a single minister to the USA. source
Broke a promise to scrap free lifetime travel for former ministers. The excuse is that the government is to busy to pass legislation through parliament, despite that being the job of the government and of parliament. source
Falsely advertised the closure of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, despite Parliament rejecting the closure attempt. source
Refused to publish the cost benefit analysis on the agriculture minister’s decision to move a federal agency from Canberra to his own electorate. source
Personally appointed George Brandis’ son’s lawyer to a $370,000 job, without making a conflict of interest declaration. source source
Tried to privatise the database of ASIC (the corporate watchdog). Under private hands the cost journalists must pay to obtain information about potentially corrupt companies would increase. source
Spent over $140,000 for 5 ministers to travel to a country we have no trade or diplomatic ties with, visiting tourist sites and dining in 5 star restaurants. source
Refused to release 5 year old taxi receipts to assist in a fraud case, on the grounds that terrorists could use travel information from 5 years ago to help plan an attack against the minister in question. source
Spent $10,000 to fly the family of 2 ministers to a tropical island for a weekend holiday. source
Voted against a motion asking the Housing Affordability Inquiry to update the senate on how they are progressing with the recommendations the government supported. source
Rejected an inquiry which recommended that citizens accused of tax fraud be treated as innocent until proven guilty. source
Spent $30,000 on a private jet to fly one minister and their partner from Perth to Canberra (instead of catching a normal plane) because a non-business event ran overtime. This is despite the alleged budget emergency. source
Voted against increasing transparency about how much tax large corporations pay. source
Violated parliamentary anti-corruption rules by not declaring a substantial loan for almost 2 years. source
Broke an election promise to conduct and publish a cost benefit analysis for all infrastructure projects over $100 million. source
Spent over $20,000 in a legal fight in order to hide modelling for the impact of university fee deregulation. source source
Spent thousands of government dollars on taxi rides to the Opera in just 8 days. The government claims that the expenditure is reasonable because the minister didn’t pay for the tickets either. source
Spent thousands of government dollars on limousine rides, and fudged the declaration paperwork to say they were taxi rides. source
Spent $10,000 trying to chase down someone who leaked information to the media about how the Prime Minister deliberately and knowingly used false information to justify opposition to a defence force pay rise. source
Spent $27,000 on travel expenses for politicians to attend free sports events. source
Voted against a royal commission into corruption and misconduct in the financial service industry, following a series of scandals. source
Reaped $1000 per month of government money to pay for Joe Hockey to stay in his wife’s house. source
Proposed an exemption so that Australia’s richest companies no longer have to publish basic information about how much tax they are paying. source
Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though. source
Breached the criminal code of conduct by offering the independently appointed Human Rights Commissioner a new job if she resigned. source
Flew across the country on a taxpayer funded private jet to attend the private birthday party of a millionaire who has made large donations to the Liberal party. source
Refused to publish cost estimates for the data-retention policy which were provided by the industry. source
Voted to keep the text of the China Free Trade deal secret from the public. source
Abolished the $10,000 limit on political donations. source
Broke the law by missing the deadline for publishing the Intergenerational Report, as stipulated by the Charter of Budget Honesty Act. source
Spent $10,000 trying to identify a whistleblower who told the media that the Prime Minister knowingly mislead the public using information he knew was incorrect. source
Started an online petition to stop job losses at the ABC, just 36 hours after cutting ABC funding by 5% (which broke an election promise). source
Contracted out the managing of the Do Not Call Register to a marketing company. source
Secretly and retrospectively changed the official record of what was said in parliament. source
Broke an election promise by cutting ABC funding again ($120 million this time). source source
Spent $900,000 in just 2 months on private jet flights for ministers. source
Forced all community TV stations off the air, claiming that moving online will be better for stations and viewers. Meanwhile they continue to fervently defend foreign corporate stations like HBO, who stubbornly refuse to make content accessible online. source
Introduced new laws which mean Edward Snowden type leaks are punishable by up to 10 years of prison. No exemptions are made for anti-corruption leaks. If journalists report on anyone (including innocent bystanders) being killed accidentally or deliberately by security personnel, they will be jailed for up to 10 years. source source source source
Spent $50,000 on upgrades of curtains and upholstery for the Prime Minister’s office. source
Moved to abolish the role of freedom of information commissioner, abolish the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and charge $800 for reviews of Freedom of Information Request denials. source
Refused to publish any submissions it received for or against the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, even though the government says the changes are to protect free speech. They refused to state what proportion of submissions supported the changes. The government defended this secrecy by claiming that all submissions were made with the expectation of confidentiality. This is false. The Senate Inquiry Submission Guidelines state that to make a Senate Inquiry Submission confidential, you must explicitly justify a request for confidentiality, and that such requests are generally denied. source source
Lied about the Australian Federal Police advising Tony Abbott not to visit Deakin University for safety reasons. source
Gave the Minister for Infrastructure the power to silence Infrastructure Australia (an independent body) without justification. (See section 5A.2 of the link.) source
Deliberately hid the cost of the $4.45 million renovations on The Lodge. source
Spent $50,000 on one dinner for 60 G20 guests, including food specially flown to Washington from all over Australia. source
Voted against the creation of a federal anti-corruption watchdog. source
Cut $38 million from Australian television and film funding. source
Broke an election promise by cutting $40 million from the SBS and ABC. source source source
Broke an election promise to not cut ABC funding, by cutting all funding to the Australia Network (part of the ABC). source source source
Claimed a 2.5% reduction in funding every year for the ABC is not a funding cut. source
Increased the fee for lodging Freedom of Information requests. source
Paid a public relations company $97,000 for 3 weeks of work to help improve the Education Department’s image, then refused to release the report that came of it. source
Proposed the scrapping of regulation which prevents media monopolies and duopolies. source
Spent over $15,000 on a custom made bookcase to replace a $7,000 custom bookcase which holds $13,000 worth of taxpayer funded books and magazines in senator Brandis’ office. source
Spent $22,000 taxpayer dollars buying new cutlery and crockery for the ministerial wing of parliament. source
Chose not to mention a $882 million payout to News Corp. when outlining a $16.8 billion budget black hole. The payout was the single biggest item in the black hole. source source
Denied any wrongdoing after a government aid married to the head of a junk food lobby pulled down a government website providing simplified nutritional information within hours of its launch. source
Violated Youtube’s policies regarding deceptive content, resulting in the suspension of Abbott’s whole channel. source
Criticised the ABC because they aren’t biased towards the Government. source
Spent over $120,000 on Kirribilli House, including $13,000 on an imported luxury rug, paid for by the taxpayer. source
Tried to silence the media to stop them criticising the upcoming private jet deal for politicians. source
Changed the ministerial code of conduct so ministers no longer have to sell shares which create a conflict of interest. source
Made Orwellian threats about cutting ABC funding because the government didn’t like one of their stories, and because their quality of journalism is too high, thereby creating competition which threatens the corporate newspaper duopoly (who are now floundering because they didn’t see the internet coming).

https://chaser.com.au/national/an-exhaustive-list-of-the-liberal-partys-...

It’s nuts isn’t it. Nothing to see hear round these parts though hombre.
I find this one particularly disturbing

Cancelled The Rule of Law and then preventing journalists from reporting on the case against a whistleblower who leaked truthful information in the public interest about senior politicians and law enforcement officials who flagrantly violated serious international laws. The court case is held in secret. The whistleblower’s name is illegal to publish. The witness and lawyers’ residences were raided, and the evidence against the government was confiscated. source source

Not true some cocky stooges may cry.
Well let’s see what a fully empowered and truly independent ICAC thinks. Let’s hold all sides to account in future.
Let’s make it retrospective when it happens.
Not allowing retrospectivity will be the only thing that will get it over the line unfortunately but it will be a great nonetheless

Something else to consider -

"The combined popular support for the Coalition and Labor is the lowest on record for an election campaign, reflecting the “pox on both houses” sentiment in the community.

Nearly three in ten (29%) voters are currently saying they would support a minor party or independent. The Greens vote rose 2 points to 12%."

When I ask why people would vote for either of the two majors, seems like a lot of other people think the same way.

https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-labor-holds-53-47-lead-bu...

Thanx for bringing that up Andy M...recall 15% sicko vote about 4 months back.
Seems insane what yer putting forward but (3 weeks back) tbb passed thru a mobile Pub Test.
Ok! It was a busy roundabout...tbb heard heaps of cars (Lots) as you said about 1/3 were tooting.

Tooting at Wot? As tbb got closer...soon saw it was a goofball Pizza Guy as usual...but wait! Nope!
Was in fact a goofball sleazy One Nation Candidate excitedly waving the first 2022 election placard.

Just as Andy M shares...a deadset solid 1/3 Tooted...( Hooterville it was! )
Not sure wot the crew can make of that...One could clearly make out the One Nation Sign pre Toot!
tbb saw just that & held back on the toot...guessing at least 80% were real & 20% shit-stirrers.
So yeah! Could be on...bloody good wake up call Andy M.

Avatar Cartoon Teacher Pauline is brainwashin' Daggy Dad's dumb arse gromz
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-as-a-superher...
Ballad of Clive is melting hearts...

Can't discount these sicko parties fluking cultural gigs to bag a few extra votes!
Reckon if they exploited these gigs by saluting their their legends nearer the day...Polls 'd Skyrocket!
So yeah! If only they were half as clever to be as considerate as that...huge untapped local voter base!

I’ve noticed politicians of all persuasions scurry off like frightened cockroaches when the light comes on when asked “ define what is a woman”…. I’ll answer that for them just so they know…..a woman is a man with a womb or “womb man”…. If you don’t have one, your a man and if you do have one , your a woman….there you go …simple eh.

AndyM wrote:

And again -

The federal government has:

Cut $14 million from the national audit office, after that office discovered substantial improprieties and wasteful spending (such as the sports rorts, and paying 10 times too much for land for the new Sydney airport). source
Voted against a binding code of conduct designed to ensure politicians act with integrity. source
Blocked a research-backed design change to increase the effectiveness of beverage warnings about drinking during pregnancy (recommended by an independent body) after meeting with lobbyists from alcohol companies who have donated over $300,000 to the Coalition. source
Gave $345,000 to News Corp to build a spelling bee website, discarding any pretense of propriety or fairness by skipping the usual parliamentary checks and tender process, instead just choosing to hand the excessive amount of cash to a company whose industry is neither website building nor education. source
Hid a record-breaking number of expenses from the public in an annual budget, including cash handed to a private rail project, maintaining an abandoned oil rig, and legal action relating to military bases which leaked toxic chemicals. source
Loosened political donation laws. source source
Committed a crime by ignoring a ruling of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. source source
Appointed a failed Liberal candidate to the SBS board instead of any of the ones recommended by the independent nominations panel. source
Prevented parliament from debating whether to set up a National Integrity Commission. source
Set up the COVID-19 National Coordination Committee with no terms of reference, no register of conflicts of interest, and then stacked it with gas company executives who unsurprisingly ended up recommending irrationally pro-gas policies. 690 documents about potential conflicts of interests were deliberately kept hidden. source source source
Blocked parliament from debating significant environmental protection repeals, rushing through the legislation without allowing anyone to discuss it first. source
Lied by claiming they appointed a Liberal party staffer to a job paying half a million dollars per year through an “open merit-driven, competitive process”. It was actually a limited tender not open to all, exempt from procurement rules which guarantee fairness and impartiality. source
Tried to get parliament to vote on new legislation without giving copies of the bill to the people voting on it, and used unprecedented methods to prevent any politician to speak against it. source source source
Paid tens of thousands of dollars to a company which was known to be corrupt, through a tender that was not opened up to all competitors. source
Illegally forged a document to publicly criticise a political opponent. source
Cancelled The Rule of Law and then preventing journalists from reporting on the case against a whistleblower who leaked truthful information in the public interest about senior politicians and law enforcement officials who flagrantly violated serious international laws. The court case is held in secret. The whistleblower’s name is illegal to publish. The witness and lawyers’ residences were raided, and the evidence against the government was confiscated. source source
Extended exemptions for political donation transparency, which are 25 years old and were only supposed to be temporary. source
Paid $39 million to a naval boat manufacturer when not required to because the company failed to fulfill the relevant contract clauses, and they coincidentally donated to the Liberal party. source
Illegally failed to respond to freedom of information (FOI) requests within the statutory 30 day deadline in 92.5% of cases. source
Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller’s valuation. source
Lied by claiming that Kevin Rudd had travelled overseas and back during COVID while many Australians are still stranded overseas, when Mr Rudd had actually never left Queensland. source source
Refused to release a report into COVID policy communication strategies, which cost over $500,000. source
Introduced a mandatory code of conduct to force companies like Google to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to large private news companies (but not ABC news nor independent news, nor the Chaser). Google currently drives over 3 billion clicks per year to Australian news companies. Therefore this is like a local plumber demanding that the Yellow Pages pay the plumber for the act of directing plumber-seeking customers to the plumber. This will also undermine the fundamental principles of the web itself, according to its inventor. The laws are written based on the incorrect assumption that news makes up 10% of Google searches when it’s only 1%. source source source source source source
Introduced red tape and distorted the free market by forcing Google to give special insider knowledge of proprietary search algorithm changes to large news companies but not small, independent journalists. It includes ambiguously written clauses about giving news companies access to Google users’ private data. source source
Introduced protections for company executives who trade while insolvent during the pandemic. This is only for cases where the debts are incurred “the ordinary course of business”. Those who try to adapt to the challenging circumstances will not be exempt. In this way the government is incentivising executives to not adapt to the unique circumstances. source
Refused to release the minutes from an important meeting of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee giving COVID advice to the Prime Minister. source source
Created the ABCC ostensibly for reducing corruption, but the ABCC boss himself violated rules and endangered people by ignoring COVID flight restrictions, travelling across the country to interview workers about a rally that happened 8 months prior. source
Refused to release a multilateral trade agreement with China, which involves spending government money on infrastructure in other countries. The lack of transparency exacerbates existing concerns about burdening these other developing nations with unsustainable debt. source source
Deleted records of a $165,000 political donation from a political consultancy with stakeholders who stand to benefit from the government’s $1 billion visa privatization plan, and refused requests for further explanation. source
Kept secret a government-funded report that showed that less than 1 in 3 Australians trust our public service sector. The justification was that the government believed that the report which they wrote would mislead and confuse people. source
Lied by claiming that all grants issued under the controversial $100M sports grant program were eligible for funding, when only 57% were. source
Failed to declare a property worth $1M in a minister’s declaration of interests. source
Failed to declare 2 properties worth more than $1M in another minister’s declaration of interests. source
Approved a $36,000 grant to a shooting club without declaring that the approving minister was a member of that club. source
Allocated sports grant funding based on which candidate projects were in marginal seats, rather than which were the most worthy. Then refused to release legal advice about whether such pork barrelling is illegal, and destroyed evidence about the funding choices. source source source source source
Merged the Australian Federal Police into the Home Affairs department, allowing the minister to exert political influence on investigations. source
Ignored a Royal Commission report which found the government’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan is illegal, whilst refusing to publish their own report which they claim provides a valid rebuttal. source
Abandoned standard tender processes when awarding a $423 million contract to a company with $50k in funds, little experience, no phone number, no mail address, housed in a shack. source source
Refused to publish a report used to justify a $53 million contract to outsource Centrelink call handling. source source
Declared that they will violate a new law, because they don’t like it. source source
Spent $87,000 fighting against a Freedom of Information request about back-room deals, and then lied about the cost. source
Drastically increased the amount of government money spent without a proper tender process, up to $34 billion per month. source
Handed out $17.1M to private TV stations for a grant they didn’t ask for, without offering the money to the public broadcaster. source
Refused a Senate Order to release details about expensive contracts for security, health and infrastructure in their detention camps in PNG. source
Excused the conflict of interest arising when the head of the My Health Record (appointed by the government) privately received money for consultations about the My Health Record. source
Spent 2 years trying to hide documents from Freedom of Information requests, about a serious breach of top secret documents, and mishandling of those documents by a minister. source
Hid a report by the Governor General showing that the government paid twice as much as necessary for new combat vehicles, because such publicity would be bad for the private manufacturer’s future profitability. The company is not even Australian. source source
Lied about the Immigration Minister having no personal connection to someone who benefited from the direct intervention by the Immigration Minister in a visa case. source source source
Spent an undisclosed amount of public money on legal defence for a minister who broken the law for political gain. source
Broke an election promise by cutting $84 million from the ABC (again). source
Exempted a facial recognition system storing data of innocent citizens from standard procurement policy disclosure rules. The excuse is a reliance on security through obscurity rather than actual security. Accuracy figures are also not published. source source source
Increased the jail time for journalists who report on whistleblower’s truthful allegations by a factor of 10. source source
Refused to publish the percentage of calls to the veterans’ suicide help line which go unanswered, because that want negatively impact the brand of the private call centre operator. source
Prohibited public servants from liking social media posts critical of the government, even if anonymous. source
Failed to declare multiple $1600 Foxtel subscriptions gifted to ministers by a lobby group. source
Gave $30 million to Foxtel to boost “under represented sports”, and was unable to explain why free-to-air channels didn’t get the money, because the decision was made without any emails, letter, or supporting documentation. source source
Paid a minister $273 per night to stay in his own home. source
Prevented university newspapers from attending the release of multiple annual budgets like all other newspapers. These particular budgets contained multiple changes which negatively impact university students. source source
Refused to release the results for the trial of a national health register. source
Spent over $3,500 to send a minister to watch the AFL with his wife. source
Spent over $2,700 on a trip to watch polo. source
Spent $10,000 per day to send a single minister to the USA. source
Broke a promise to scrap free lifetime travel for former ministers. The excuse is that the government is to busy to pass legislation through parliament, despite that being the job of the government and of parliament. source
Falsely advertised the closure of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, despite Parliament rejecting the closure attempt. source
Refused to publish the cost benefit analysis on the agriculture minister’s decision to move a federal agency from Canberra to his own electorate. source
Personally appointed George Brandis’ son’s lawyer to a $370,000 job, without making a conflict of interest declaration. source source
Tried to privatise the database of ASIC (the corporate watchdog). Under private hands the cost journalists must pay to obtain information about potentially corrupt companies would increase. source
Spent over $140,000 for 5 ministers to travel to a country we have no trade or diplomatic ties with, visiting tourist sites and dining in 5 star restaurants. source
Refused to release 5 year old taxi receipts to assist in a fraud case, on the grounds that terrorists could use travel information from 5 years ago to help plan an attack against the minister in question. source
Spent $10,000 to fly the family of 2 ministers to a tropical island for a weekend holiday. source
Voted against a motion asking the Housing Affordability Inquiry to update the senate on how they are progressing with the recommendations the government supported. source
Rejected an inquiry which recommended that citizens accused of tax fraud be treated as innocent until proven guilty. source
Spent $30,000 on a private jet to fly one minister and their partner from Perth to Canberra (instead of catching a normal plane) because a non-business event ran overtime. This is despite the alleged budget emergency. source
Voted against increasing transparency about how much tax large corporations pay. source
Violated parliamentary anti-corruption rules by not declaring a substantial loan for almost 2 years. source
Broke an election promise to conduct and publish a cost benefit analysis for all infrastructure projects over $100 million. source
Spent over $20,000 in a legal fight in order to hide modelling for the impact of university fee deregulation. source source
Spent thousands of government dollars on taxi rides to the Opera in just 8 days. The government claims that the expenditure is reasonable because the minister didn’t pay for the tickets either. source
Spent thousands of government dollars on limousine rides, and fudged the declaration paperwork to say they were taxi rides. source
Spent $10,000 trying to chase down someone who leaked information to the media about how the Prime Minister deliberately and knowingly used false information to justify opposition to a defence force pay rise. source
Spent $27,000 on travel expenses for politicians to attend free sports events. source
Voted against a royal commission into corruption and misconduct in the financial service industry, following a series of scandals. source
Reaped $1000 per month of government money to pay for Joe Hockey to stay in his wife’s house. source
Proposed an exemption so that Australia’s richest companies no longer have to publish basic information about how much tax they are paying. source
Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though. source
Breached the criminal code of conduct by offering the independently appointed Human Rights Commissioner a new job if she resigned. source
Flew across the country on a taxpayer funded private jet to attend the private birthday party of a millionaire who has made large donations to the Liberal party. source
Refused to publish cost estimates for the data-retention policy which were provided by the industry. source
Voted to keep the text of the China Free Trade deal secret from the public. source
Abolished the $10,000 limit on political donations. source
Broke the law by missing the deadline for publishing the Intergenerational Report, as stipulated by the Charter of Budget Honesty Act. source
Spent $10,000 trying to identify a whistleblower who told the media that the Prime Minister knowingly mislead the public using information he knew was incorrect. source
Started an online petition to stop job losses at the ABC, just 36 hours after cutting ABC funding by 5% (which broke an election promise). source
Contracted out the managing of the Do Not Call Register to a marketing company. source
Secretly and retrospectively changed the official record of what was said in parliament. source
Broke an election promise by cutting ABC funding again ($120 million this time). source source
Spent $900,000 in just 2 months on private jet flights for ministers. source
Forced all community TV stations off the air, claiming that moving online will be better for stations and viewers. Meanwhile they continue to fervently defend foreign corporate stations like HBO, who stubbornly refuse to make content accessible online. source
Introduced new laws which mean Edward Snowden type leaks are punishable by up to 10 years of prison. No exemptions are made for anti-corruption leaks. If journalists report on anyone (including innocent bystanders) being killed accidentally or deliberately by security personnel, they will be jailed for up to 10 years. source source source source
Spent $50,000 on upgrades of curtains and upholstery for the Prime Minister’s office. source
Moved to abolish the role of freedom of information commissioner, abolish the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and charge $800 for reviews of Freedom of Information Request denials. source
Refused to publish any submissions it received for or against the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, even though the government says the changes are to protect free speech. They refused to state what proportion of submissions supported the changes. The government defended this secrecy by claiming that all submissions were made with the expectation of confidentiality. This is false. The Senate Inquiry Submission Guidelines state that to make a Senate Inquiry Submission confidential, you must explicitly justify a request for confidentiality, and that such requests are generally denied. source source
Lied about the Australian Federal Police advising Tony Abbott not to visit Deakin University for safety reasons. source
Gave the Minister for Infrastructure the power to silence Infrastructure Australia (an independent body) without justification. (See section 5A.2 of the link.) source
Deliberately hid the cost of the $4.45 million renovations on The Lodge. source
Spent $50,000 on one dinner for 60 G20 guests, including food specially flown to Washington from all over Australia. source
Voted against the creation of a federal anti-corruption watchdog. source
Cut $38 million from Australian television and film funding. source
Broke an election promise by cutting $40 million from the SBS and ABC. source source source
Broke an election promise to not cut ABC funding, by cutting all funding to the Australia Network (part of the ABC). source source source
Claimed a 2.5% reduction in funding every year for the ABC is not a funding cut. source
Increased the fee for lodging Freedom of Information requests. source
Paid a public relations company $97,000 for 3 weeks of work to help improve the Education Department’s image, then refused to release the report that came of it. source
Proposed the scrapping of regulation which prevents media monopolies and duopolies. source
Spent over $15,000 on a custom made bookcase to replace a $7,000 custom bookcase which holds $13,000 worth of taxpayer funded books and magazines in senator Brandis’ office. source
Spent $22,000 taxpayer dollars buying new cutlery and crockery for the ministerial wing of parliament. source
Chose not to mention a $882 million payout to News Corp. when outlining a $16.8 billion budget black hole. The payout was the single biggest item in the black hole. source source
Denied any wrongdoing after a government aid married to the head of a junk food lobby pulled down a government website providing simplified nutritional information within hours of its launch. source
Violated Youtube’s policies regarding deceptive content, resulting in the suspension of Abbott’s whole channel. source
Criticised the ABC because they aren’t biased towards the Government. source
Spent over $120,000 on Kirribilli House, including $13,000 on an imported luxury rug, paid for by the taxpayer. source
Tried to silence the media to stop them criticising the upcoming private jet deal for politicians. source
Changed the ministerial code of conduct so ministers no longer have to sell shares which create a conflict of interest. source
Made Orwellian threats about cutting ABC funding because the government didn’t like one of their stories, and because their quality of journalism is too high, thereby creating competition which threatens the corporate newspaper duopoly (who are now floundering because they didn’t see the internet coming).

https://chaser.com.au/national/an-exhaustive-list-of-the-liberal-partys-...

It's crazy isn't it?
And they will probably get away with it....
Geez where would an ICAC even start with this list...
And sure there had been shitfuckery happening not published...

I'm not voting for someone who outright lies during the first week of an election campaign.

Not sure how similar the Chasers list is to this one (no doubt there will be overlap) but will add link for further weight of evidence

https://www.mdavis.xyz/govlist/

A miserable read.

...and so the circle jerking continues unabated.

Cockee wrote:

...and so the circle jerking continues unabated.

If you don’t like the list of the shit things they’ve done while in government then give us one with all the positive things that the Morrison lnp have done.

AndyM wrote:

And again -

The federal government has:

Cut $14 million from the national audit office, after that office discovered substantial improprieties and wasteful spending (such as the sports rorts, and paying 10 times too much for land for the new Sydney airport). source
Voted against a binding code of conduct designed to ensure politicians act with integrity. source
Blocked a research-backed design change to increase the effectiveness of beverage warnings about drinking during pregnancy (recommended by an independent body) after meeting with lobbyists from alcohol companies who have donated over $300,000 to the Coalition. source
Gave $345,000 to News Corp to build a spelling bee website, discarding any pretense of propriety or fairness by skipping the usual parliamentary checks and tender process, instead just choosing to hand the excessive amount of cash to a company whose industry is neither website building nor education. source
Hid a record-breaking number of expenses from the public in an annual budget, including cash handed to a private rail project, maintaining an abandoned oil rig, and legal action relating to military bases which leaked toxic chemicals. source
Loosened political donation laws. source source
Committed a crime by ignoring a ruling of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. source source
Appointed a failed Liberal candidate to the SBS board instead of any of the ones recommended by the independent nominations panel. source
Prevented parliament from debating whether to set up a National Integrity Commission. source
Set up the COVID-19 National Coordination Committee with no terms of reference, no register of conflicts of interest, and then stacked it with gas company executives who unsurprisingly ended up recommending irrationally pro-gas policies. 690 documents about potential conflicts of interests were deliberately kept hidden. source source source
Blocked parliament from debating significant environmental protection repeals, rushing through the legislation without allowing anyone to discuss it first. source
Lied by claiming they appointed a Liberal party staffer to a job paying half a million dollars per year through an “open merit-driven, competitive process”. It was actually a limited tender not open to all, exempt from procurement rules which guarantee fairness and impartiality. source
Tried to get parliament to vote on new legislation without giving copies of the bill to the people voting on it, and used unprecedented methods to prevent any politician to speak against it. source source source
Paid tens of thousands of dollars to a company which was known to be corrupt, through a tender that was not opened up to all competitors. source
Illegally forged a document to publicly criticise a political opponent. source
Cancelled The Rule of Law and then preventing journalists from reporting on the case against a whistleblower who leaked truthful information in the public interest about senior politicians and law enforcement officials who flagrantly violated serious international laws. The court case is held in secret. The whistleblower’s name is illegal to publish. The witness and lawyers’ residences were raided, and the evidence against the government was confiscated. source source
Extended exemptions for political donation transparency, which are 25 years old and were only supposed to be temporary. source
Paid $39 million to a naval boat manufacturer when not required to because the company failed to fulfill the relevant contract clauses, and they coincidentally donated to the Liberal party. source
Illegally failed to respond to freedom of information (FOI) requests within the statutory 30 day deadline in 92.5% of cases. source
Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller’s valuation. source
Lied by claiming that Kevin Rudd had travelled overseas and back during COVID while many Australians are still stranded overseas, when Mr Rudd had actually never left Queensland. source source
Refused to release a report into COVID policy communication strategies, which cost over $500,000. source
Introduced a mandatory code of conduct to force companies like Google to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to large private news companies (but not ABC news nor independent news, nor the Chaser). Google currently drives over 3 billion clicks per year to Australian news companies. Therefore this is like a local plumber demanding that the Yellow Pages pay the plumber for the act of directing plumber-seeking customers to the plumber. This will also undermine the fundamental principles of the web itself, according to its inventor. The laws are written based on the incorrect assumption that news makes up 10% of Google searches when it’s only 1%. source source source source source source
Introduced red tape and distorted the free market by forcing Google to give special insider knowledge of proprietary search algorithm changes to large news companies but not small, independent journalists. It includes ambiguously written clauses about giving news companies access to Google users’ private data. source source
Introduced protections for company executives who trade while insolvent during the pandemic. This is only for cases where the debts are incurred “the ordinary course of business”. Those who try to adapt to the challenging circumstances will not be exempt. In this way the government is incentivising executives to not adapt to the unique circumstances. source
Refused to release the minutes from an important meeting of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee giving COVID advice to the Prime Minister. source source
Created the ABCC ostensibly for reducing corruption, but the ABCC boss himself violated rules and endangered people by ignoring COVID flight restrictions, travelling across the country to interview workers about a rally that happened 8 months prior. source
Refused to release a multilateral trade agreement with China, which involves spending government money on infrastructure in other countries. The lack of transparency exacerbates existing concerns about burdening these other developing nations with unsustainable debt. source source
Deleted records of a $165,000 political donation from a political consultancy with stakeholders who stand to benefit from the government’s $1 billion visa privatization plan, and refused requests for further explanation. source
Kept secret a government-funded report that showed that less than 1 in 3 Australians trust our public service sector. The justification was that the government believed that the report which they wrote would mislead and confuse people. source
Lied by claiming that all grants issued under the controversial $100M sports grant program were eligible for funding, when only 57% were. source
Failed to declare a property worth $1M in a minister’s declaration of interests. source
Failed to declare 2 properties worth more than $1M in another minister’s declaration of interests. source
Approved a $36,000 grant to a shooting club without declaring that the approving minister was a member of that club. source
Allocated sports grant funding based on which candidate projects were in marginal seats, rather than which were the most worthy. Then refused to release legal advice about whether such pork barrelling is illegal, and destroyed evidence about the funding choices. source source source source source
Merged the Australian Federal Police into the Home Affairs department, allowing the minister to exert political influence on investigations. source
Ignored a Royal Commission report which found the government’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan is illegal, whilst refusing to publish their own report which they claim provides a valid rebuttal. source
Abandoned standard tender processes when awarding a $423 million contract to a company with $50k in funds, little experience, no phone number, no mail address, housed in a shack. source source
Refused to publish a report used to justify a $53 million contract to outsource Centrelink call handling. source source
Declared that they will violate a new law, because they don’t like it. source source
Spent $87,000 fighting against a Freedom of Information request about back-room deals, and then lied about the cost. source
Drastically increased the amount of government money spent without a proper tender process, up to $34 billion per month. source
Handed out $17.1M to private TV stations for a grant they didn’t ask for, without offering the money to the public broadcaster. source
Refused a Senate Order to release details about expensive contracts for security, health and infrastructure in their detention camps in PNG. source
Excused the conflict of interest arising when the head of the My Health Record (appointed by the government) privately received money for consultations about the My Health Record. source
Spent 2 years trying to hide documents from Freedom of Information requests, about a serious breach of top secret documents, and mishandling of those documents by a minister. source
Hid a report by the Governor General showing that the government paid twice as much as necessary for new combat vehicles, because such publicity would be bad for the private manufacturer’s future profitability. The company is not even Australian. source source
Lied about the Immigration Minister having no personal connection to someone who benefited from the direct intervention by the Immigration Minister in a visa case. source source source
Spent an undisclosed amount of public money on legal defence for a minister who broken the law for political gain. source
Broke an election promise by cutting $84 million from the ABC (again). source
Exempted a facial recognition system storing data of innocent citizens from standard procurement policy disclosure rules. The excuse is a reliance on security through obscurity rather than actual security. Accuracy figures are also not published. source source source
Increased the jail time for journalists who report on whistleblower’s truthful allegations by a factor of 10. source source
Refused to publish the percentage of calls to the veterans’ suicide help line which go unanswered, because that want negatively impact the brand of the private call centre operator. source
Prohibited public servants from liking social media posts critical of the government, even if anonymous. source
Failed to declare multiple $1600 Foxtel subscriptions gifted to ministers by a lobby group. source
Gave $30 million to Foxtel to boost “under represented sports”, and was unable to explain why free-to-air channels didn’t get the money, because the decision was made without any emails, letter, or supporting documentation. source source
Paid a minister $273 per night to stay in his own home. source
Prevented university newspapers from attending the release of multiple annual budgets like all other newspapers. These particular budgets contained multiple changes which negatively impact university students. source source
Refused to release the results for the trial of a national health register. source
Spent over $3,500 to send a minister to watch the AFL with his wife. source
Spent over $2,700 on a trip to watch polo. source
Spent $10,000 per day to send a single minister to the USA. source
Broke a promise to scrap free lifetime travel for former ministers. The excuse is that the government is to busy to pass legislation through parliament, despite that being the job of the government and of parliament. source
Falsely advertised the closure of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, despite Parliament rejecting the closure attempt. source
Refused to publish the cost benefit analysis on the agriculture minister’s decision to move a federal agency from Canberra to his own electorate. source
Personally appointed George Brandis’ son’s lawyer to a $370,000 job, without making a conflict of interest declaration. source source
Tried to privatise the database of ASIC (the corporate watchdog). Under private hands the cost journalists must pay to obtain information about potentially corrupt companies would increase. source
Spent over $140,000 for 5 ministers to travel to a country we have no trade or diplomatic ties with, visiting tourist sites and dining in 5 star restaurants. source
Refused to release 5 year old taxi receipts to assist in a fraud case, on the grounds that terrorists could use travel information from 5 years ago to help plan an attack against the minister in question. source
Spent $10,000 to fly the family of 2 ministers to a tropical island for a weekend holiday. source
Voted against a motion asking the Housing Affordability Inquiry to update the senate on how they are progressing with the recommendations the government supported. source
Rejected an inquiry which recommended that citizens accused of tax fraud be treated as innocent until proven guilty. source
Spent $30,000 on a private jet to fly one minister and their partner from Perth to Canberra (instead of catching a normal plane) because a non-business event ran overtime. This is despite the alleged budget emergency. source
Voted against increasing transparency about how much tax large corporations pay. source
Violated parliamentary anti-corruption rules by not declaring a substantial loan for almost 2 years. source
Broke an election promise to conduct and publish a cost benefit analysis for all infrastructure projects over $100 million. source
Spent over $20,000 in a legal fight in order to hide modelling for the impact of university fee deregulation. source source
Spent thousands of government dollars on taxi rides to the Opera in just 8 days. The government claims that the expenditure is reasonable because the minister didn’t pay for the tickets either. source
Spent thousands of government dollars on limousine rides, and fudged the declaration paperwork to say they were taxi rides. source
Spent $10,000 trying to chase down someone who leaked information to the media about how the Prime Minister deliberately and knowingly used false information to justify opposition to a defence force pay rise. source
Spent $27,000 on travel expenses for politicians to attend free sports events. source
Voted against a royal commission into corruption and misconduct in the financial service industry, following a series of scandals. source
Reaped $1000 per month of government money to pay for Joe Hockey to stay in his wife’s house. source
Proposed an exemption so that Australia’s richest companies no longer have to publish basic information about how much tax they are paying. source
Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though. source
Breached the criminal code of conduct by offering the independently appointed Human Rights Commissioner a new job if she resigned. source
Flew across the country on a taxpayer funded private jet to attend the private birthday party of a millionaire who has made large donations to the Liberal party. source
Refused to publish cost estimates for the data-retention policy which were provided by the industry. source
Voted to keep the text of the China Free Trade deal secret from the public. source
Abolished the $10,000 limit on political donations. source
Broke the law by missing the deadline for publishing the Intergenerational Report, as stipulated by the Charter of Budget Honesty Act. source
Spent $10,000 trying to identify a whistleblower who told the media that the Prime Minister knowingly mislead the public using information he knew was incorrect. source
Started an online petition to stop job losses at the ABC, just 36 hours after cutting ABC funding by 5% (which broke an election promise). source
Contracted out the managing of the Do Not Call Register to a marketing company. source
Secretly and retrospectively changed the official record of what was said in parliament. source
Broke an election promise by cutting ABC funding again ($120 million this time). source source
Spent $900,000 in just 2 months on private jet flights for ministers. source
Forced all community TV stations off the air, claiming that moving online will be better for stations and viewers. Meanwhile they continue to fervently defend foreign corporate stations like HBO, who stubbornly refuse to make content accessible online. source
Introduced new laws which mean Edward Snowden type leaks are punishable by up to 10 years of prison. No exemptions are made for anti-corruption leaks. If journalists report on anyone (including innocent bystanders) being killed accidentally or deliberately by security personnel, they will be jailed for up to 10 years. source source source source
Spent $50,000 on upgrades of curtains and upholstery for the Prime Minister’s office. source
Moved to abolish the role of freedom of information commissioner, abolish the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and charge $800 for reviews of Freedom of Information Request denials. source
Refused to publish any submissions it received for or against the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, even though the government says the changes are to protect free speech. They refused to state what proportion of submissions supported the changes. The government defended this secrecy by claiming that all submissions were made with the expectation of confidentiality. This is false. The Senate Inquiry Submission Guidelines state that to make a Senate Inquiry Submission confidential, you must explicitly justify a request for confidentiality, and that such requests are generally denied. source source
Lied about the Australian Federal Police advising Tony Abbott not to visit Deakin University for safety reasons. source
Gave the Minister for Infrastructure the power to silence Infrastructure Australia (an independent body) without justification. (See section 5A.2 of the link.) source
Deliberately hid the cost of the $4.45 million renovations on The Lodge. source
Spent $50,000 on one dinner for 60 G20 guests, including food specially flown to Washington from all over Australia. source
Voted against the creation of a federal anti-corruption watchdog. source
Cut $38 million from Australian television and film funding. source
Broke an election promise by cutting $40 million from the SBS and ABC. source source source
Broke an election promise to not cut ABC funding, by cutting all funding to the Australia Network (part of the ABC). source source source
Claimed a 2.5% reduction in funding every year for the ABC is not a funding cut. source
Increased the fee for lodging Freedom of Information requests. source
Paid a public relations company $97,000 for 3 weeks of work to help improve the Education Department’s image, then refused to release the report that came of it. source
Proposed the scrapping of regulation which prevents media monopolies and duopolies. source
Spent over $15,000 on a custom made bookcase to replace a $7,000 custom bookcase which holds $13,000 worth of taxpayer funded books and magazines in senator Brandis’ office. source
Spent $22,000 taxpayer dollars buying new cutlery and crockery for the ministerial wing of parliament. source
Chose not to mention a $882 million payout to News Corp. when outlining a $16.8 billion budget black hole. The payout was the single biggest item in the black hole. source source
Denied any wrongdoing after a government aid married to the head of a junk food lobby pulled down a government website providing simplified nutritional information within hours of its launch. source
Violated Youtube’s policies regarding deceptive content, resulting in the suspension of Abbott’s whole channel. source
Criticised the ABC because they aren’t biased towards the Government. source
Spent over $120,000 on Kirribilli House, including $13,000 on an imported luxury rug, paid for by the taxpayer. source
Tried to silence the media to stop them criticising the upcoming private jet deal for politicians. source
Changed the ministerial code of conduct so ministers no longer have to sell shares which create a conflict of interest. source
Made Orwellian threats about cutting ABC funding because the government didn’t like one of their stories, and because their quality of journalism is too high, thereby creating competition which threatens the corporate newspaper duopoly (who are now floundering because they didn’t see the internet coming).

https://chaser.com.au/national/an-exhaustive-list-of-the-liberal-partys-...

And this is why people are questioning government as they should.

seeds wrote:

It’s nuts isn’t it. Nothing to see hear round these parts though hombre.
I find this one particularly disturbing

Cancelled The Rule of Law and then preventing journalists from reporting on the case against a whistleblower who leaked truthful information in the public interest about senior politicians and law enforcement officials who flagrantly violated serious international laws. The court case is held in secret. The whistleblower’s name is illegal to publish. The witness and lawyers’ residences were raided, and the evidence against the government was confiscated. source source

Not true some cocky stooges may cry.
Well let’s see what a fully empowered and truly independent ICAC thinks. Let’s hold all sides to account in future.
Let’s make it retrospective when it happens.
Not allowing retrospectivity will be the only thing that will get it over the line unfortunately but it will be a great nonetheless

Shady government? Or are you happy with that?

soggydog wrote:

I dare Indo and Cockee to give Scotty a thorough performance review. All the highs and lows, be honest and reflect.

Tell us the truth. Not the same tired already refuted talking points and cockee try holding the mindless dribble.

There is already a pretty comprehensive list on here somewhere.

The things that are important to most people and the country is the economy, jobs, health, security, more recently Covid.

Covid= A once in 100 year type event, predicted to see us in a deep dark recession, real estate and building market collapse and obviously the health aspect, instead we have got through Covid towards the top of the list both from a health perspective and economical perspective and building and real estate market boomed. (pretty much the opposite of a true recession)

Compared to the major developed countries ,USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, France we have the highest Covid Vax rate and lowest deaths per million rate. (yes NZ lower death rate)

Yeah sure there was hiccups and ups and downs during Covid as there was in every country, even countries like Singapore had these issues, an event like Covid is never going to be smooth sailing the whole time, to expect it to be is just not realistic and no it wasn't all to do with states, the major policy and things like Job Keeper and doubling of dole etc etc was government run, states are more just like departments in a department store while the Government is the management, all paly their part.

Economy= Related to above, first technical recession happen during Covid first in over 27 years as we know barely noticed and more due to lockdowns, the run was the longest for any developing country for over 50 years, compared to most USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy, France(and expect more) we are now number 1(GDP growth compared to pre Covid levels)

BTW. related to the 27+ years we should note LNP have been in power for almost 20 of about 26+ years.

Jobs= As we know the unemployment rate is the lowest its been in 48 years (youth unemployment at lowest since 2018), yeah the extreme drop is due to restrictions on immigration, but the trend was already on a steady downward curve and fairly low anyway, the Aust minimum wage is currently the highest in the world and almost $1USD higher than the second highest country Luxemberg.

Again compared to major developed countries USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, France we have highest employment rate (compared to pre Covid levels)

Debt= Along with Climate change its the only area where you could critize, we had debt from Rudd and financial crisis (which was fair to do), then yes we aded to that during a period of very low interest rates, and then added much more during Covid, people are kidding themselves if they think it would be any different under Labor, as we know the way we view debt has been changing and interest rates low so the time to borrow, as ive mentioned before what is important is debt to GDP again comparing us to those relevant developed countries USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, France we have the lowest deb to GDP ratio and there is about 120 countries ahead of us in higher debt to GDP ratio.

We are at 41% for perspective
Japan=247%
Singapore=109%
USA= 106%
Canada=88%
UK=85%

Security= Borders have been controlled better than in the past, and is now not an issue, military spending really dont know much about it to be honest, and yeah the subs deal is the only area labor voters can critique, in reality i expect without real knowledge in that area and behind the scenes knowledge its an area very hard to have a proper view on.

Climate change=This is really the only area where Labor would have done more or better although it could have come at economical cost, but the idea we are doing bad or nothing is complete garbage, much of this area is market and tech driven as we know the main source of emissions is energy, i will keep pointing out that per captia we lead the world in solar and 4th for wind generated energy, this uptake will continue as is economics and market driven.

The real issue here is our population growth through immigration, its two steps forward to back, we add a huge amount of demand every year to our energy needs (i wish i could find the figures, ive posted the meme style figures before)

Other areas= You could look at other areas like housing/real estate, you can look at higher real estate prices as either a positive or negative, but really its an effect of an extended period of prosperity combined with low interest rates, prices only go up when people and the economy are doing good.

It's another area where people are kidding themselves if they think realestate is going to get more affordable both to purchase or rent under Labor, its not going to make much difference ether way, and there is no real answers to suddenly change things other to the flood market with supply, all other measures related to OS buyers or negative gearing etc would only just readjust things slightly and even see less rentals in the market.

Anyway if you aren't happy after all this, the reality is it wouldn't matter what a LNP government did or does you will never be happy and you have blinkers on and more worried about more trivial issues.

PS. sorry a few spelling, fk ups cant be bothered fixing imgoing to go see if i can find a wave.