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Well as has been discovered how can you refer it to the NACC when those same people are members of the chairman’s lounge
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Notice the contrast between the articulate, reasonable post:
And the emotionally-charged, unintelligent post from the unintelligent poster:
And the emotionally-charged, unintelligent post from the unintelligent poster:
Albanese is facing pressure to explain his ties to ex-Qantas boss Alan Joyce, and it's revived an old decision
The government's decision to block a Qantas competitor's bid to expand in Australia was never fully explained. It's back in the spotlight after new claims of Anthony Albanese's close relationship with former airline boss Alan Joyce.
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Albanese will be hoping rates have come down by early next year. The benefits of lower inflation will not be felt by the public until rates come down.
Even though inflation is below 3%, it's still been over 3% for most of the year and wage rises have slowed just as much, or more. Unemployment is creeping back up in places. So the cost of living has not been alleviated at all yet.
If there isn't a rate reduction by March and the budget doesn't include drastic cost of living measures for those with, or seeking highly leveraged mortgages (i.e. middle and lower income earners), Albanese and the ALP are toast.
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Geez.. I wonder how that happened...
Oh yeah... Government subsidised discounts in the industry that is one of the core drivers of inflation...
Albo could take a shit on their dinner table and they’d compliment him on the amount of fibre in his diet
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Albanese simply has to resign. He is the perfect example of why the left (at least in the form it is embodied practically in Australia) cannot be allowed to govern. Everyone of them is inherently corrupt and a thief - it is in their values. They value taking wealth and power from others. None of them have ever worked a real day in their life, bumping around Labor sponsored organisation to Labor sponsored organisation. They don't know the value of work, they only know how to steal, how to exploit others. They will all eventually fall to the basement of their principles - theft. Albanese will go down as one of the worst Prime Ministers in history and all Labor supporters should be ashamed of what their vote supports.
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The juvenile binary 'cheerleading' comments is to be expected in these threads, but means absolutely nothing - especially coming from those who are team supporters themselves and seemingly unable to focus on the principles at issue.
I've made my position on this issue pretty clear. That accepting free membership of an elite club from a private company is unacceptable for politicians or public servants. The same can be said of free tickets or upgrades. It is especially true for Prime Ministers, Ministers and MPs/Senators whose role is to vote on legislation and make decisions in the public interest. Simply declaring such gifts and transactions after the event is nowhere near good enough.
As the Centre for Public Integrity chairman Anthony Whealy, KC, a former judge, said the close relationships between government and corporate leaders was a significantly flawed part of Australia’s democracy.
“It runs both ways. You have big money seeking to associate with the prime minister and senior ministers and then in return you see the prime minister and senior ministers looking for favours with big money,” Whealy said.
“It represents a significant failure of our democratic systems, and we need to fix it fast.”
"It's not corrupt but its corrupt-ing", he says, adding that all such favours will eventually be "called in". "Why else do they do it?"
Centre for Public Integrity senior counsel Geoffrey Watson said Albanese’s relationship with the former Qantas CEO was worse than a bad look: “This is the kind of thing which in some circumstances can be interpreted as corruption.”
But the sentiments are not just targeted at Albanese and the Government but for ALL politicians and bureaucrats at the Federal, State and Local levels. So while I've been highly critical of the revelations and subsequent comments of the PM in trying to wave this issue away as being a non-issue, I laugh at the hypocrisy of Dutton and other LNP members in using it as a partisan political attack when his own acceptance of corporate largesse has been so well documented. If Dutton et al are serious then they should stand with Independent Senator David Pocock in introducing legislation/regulations eliminating these rorts for ALL public representatives. But that won't happen.
By the way, I can proudly say I am not a hypocrite on this matter. While working as a young bureaucrat on a major public tender project I was offered return flights , accommodation and corporate hospitality to an AFL Grand Final one year by a large corporate organisation that was one of the bidders for that project. Amazingly my Chief Executive at the time said he had no objections with me accepting that offer, saying that because the tender process had closed the hospitality offer could not be construed as being inappropriate. I begged to differ and turned down the invitation, which was subsequently offered to an accepted (in secrecy) by a senior executive of the Crown Law Department - that fact revealed to me by the Chief Executive of the organisation that had made the offer.
It's what happens when boundaries on the issue of public integrity become blurred.
I've made my position on this issue pretty clear. That accepting free membership of an elite club from a private company is unacceptable for politicians or public servants. The same can be said of free tickets or upgrades. It is especially true for Prime Ministers, Ministers and MPs/Senators whose role is to vote on legislation and make decisions in the public interest. Simply declaring such gifts and transactions after the event is nowhere near good enough.
As the Centre for Public Integrity chairman Anthony Whealy, KC, a former judge, said the close relationships between government and corporate leaders was a significantly flawed part of Australia’s democracy.
“It runs both ways. You have big money seeking to associate with the prime minister and senior ministers and then in return you see the prime minister and senior ministers looking for favours with big money,” Whealy said.
“It represents a significant failure of our democratic systems, and we need to fix it fast.”
"It's not corrupt but its corrupt-ing", he says, adding that all such favours will eventually be "called in". "Why else do they do it?"
Centre for Public Integrity senior counsel Geoffrey Watson said Albanese’s relationship with the former Qantas CEO was worse than a bad look: “This is the kind of thing which in some circumstances can be interpreted as corruption.”
But the sentiments are not just targeted at Albanese and the Government but for ALL politicians and bureaucrats at the Federal, State and Local levels. So while I've been highly critical of the revelations and subsequent comments of the PM in trying to wave this issue away as being a non-issue, I laugh at the hypocrisy of Dutton and other LNP members in using it as a partisan political attack when his own acceptance of corporate largesse has been so well documented. If Dutton et al are serious then they should stand with Independent Senator David Pocock in introducing legislation/regulations eliminating these rorts for ALL public representatives. But that won't happen.
By the way, I can proudly say I am not a hypocrite on this matter. While working as a young bureaucrat on a major public tender project I was offered return flights , accommodation and corporate hospitality to an AFL Grand Final one year by a large corporate organisation that was one of the bidders for that project. Amazingly my Chief Executive at the time said he had no objections with me accepting that offer, saying that because the tender process had closed the hospitality offer could not be construed as being inappropriate. I begged to differ and turned down the invitation, which was subsequently offered to an accepted (in secrecy) by a senior executive of the Crown Law Department - that fact revealed to me by the Chief Executive of the organisation that had made the offer.
It's what happens when boundaries on the issue of public integrity become blurred.
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