Vic Daniel Andrews and the Statue of Limitations
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No adverse findings against Dan? Now you're either being disingenuous or naïve.
This is what Robert Redlich said about Operation Daintree, the inquiry which found the Andrews government improperly awarded a Labor-affiliated union a $1.2 million contract on the eve of the 2018 election:
“Operation Daintree is the most glaring example of (a decision that did not serves the public interest). We found no crime was committed. But we found serious misconduct at every level. That’s corruption.”
And that's not adverse?
Former IBAC boss vows to continue speaking out on integrity
“I am not going to abandon this subject,” Robert Redlich said a day after his extraordinary appearance at a parliamentary integrity hearing.www.theage.com.au
Yeah.
Nah.
IBAC cleared Andrews, former health ministers Jill Hennessy and Jenny Mikakos, staff in the ministers’ and premier’s office and public servants of corrupt conduct, but issued a damning assessment of the centralisation of power under the premier’s watch and a “significant erosion” of ministerial accountability.
‘Tentacles everywhere’: Andrews denies power centralised in premier’s office
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Keep telling yourself that! LOL. Two obvious take aways here. You've been listening to Dan too much. And you clearly don't frequent pubs coz Dan's behaviour does not pas the pub test
Redlich could not have been any more equivocal or damning of Dan. He has publicly accused the Andrews government of corruption. If it wasn't true then Dan should sue because Redlich isn't easing off with his accusations of corruption.
“The most dangerous forms of integrity breaches are breaches of codes of conduct, or not following the prescribed process, because political gain overrides doing the right thing. It’s not money in a bag, but it’s just as dangerous – the endpoint is the public interest not being served"
“We’ve got to stop talking about this notion, as the premier does, that if there’s no crime, there’s nothing to be seen here. Operation Daintree is the most glaring example of that – we found no crime, but we found serious misconduct at every level of executive government which led to the granting of a contract which should never have been made, and which didn’t serve the public interest. That’s corruption"
Victoria’s definition of ‘corruption’ fails the pub test: ex watchdog
Former IBAC head Robert Redlich says misconduct uncovered by an inquiry he ran should amount to corruption, and the rise of political advisers in Victoria is not serving the public interest.
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Keep telling yourself that! LOL. Two obvious take aways here. You've been listening to Dan too much. And you clearly don't frequent pubs coz Dan's behaviour does not pas the pub test
Redlich could not have been any more equivocal or damning of Dan. He has publicly accused the Andrews government of corruption. If it wasn't true then Dan should sue because Redlich isn't easing off with his accusations of corruption.
“The most dangerous forms of integrity breaches are breaches of codes of conduct, or not following the prescribed process, because political gain overrides doing the right thing. It’s not money in a bag, but it’s just as dangerous – the endpoint is the public interest not being served"
“We’ve got to stop talking about this notion, as the premier does, that if there’s no crime, there’s nothing to be seen here. Operation Daintree is the most glaring example of that – we found no crime, but we found serious misconduct at every level of executive government which led to the granting of a contract which should never have been made, and which didn’t serve the public interest. That’s corruption"
Victoria’s definition of ‘corruption’ fails the pub test: ex watchdog
Former IBAC head Robert Redlich says misconduct uncovered by an inquiry he ran should amount to corruption, and the rise of political advisers in Victoria is not serving the public interest.www.afr.com
From the actual Operation Daintree report.
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I'm not suggesting anything.
I am stating that there was no adverse findings against Dan Andrews in the Operation Daintree report.
The OD report says that people from the Health Ministers office and people from the Premiers office pushed for the union to get the contract.
That's it.
Under the IBAC legislation, there was no corruption.
What Redlich is saying is that there was corruption if corruption had a different definition to what is in the IBAC Act.
But let's not let facts get in the way.
Dictator Dan.
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There were "no adverse findings" against a bunch of people in investigations and enquiries around political corruption.
It usually means "there wasn't enough evidence" more than it means "they didn't do anything wrong".
I thought Andrews did very well during COVID. But other than that, he's gone too far with infrastructure, centralised control, not done enough with health after COVID and he's starting to drink his own bathwater a bit too much. For me, SRL is the biggest emblem of that, but that's because it's in a field i know well.
The problem is that he was attacked so much by reactionary fools during COVID that it forced people like me to have to defend a politician a lot in places like this and seemed like we were "Team Dan". Meanwhile the LNP has sunken to irrelevance for listening to, and becoming, reactionary fools.
That reactionism resulted in the boost to polling and election wins for Labor. But Andrews seems to have read too much into the defence of his COVID performance and thinks it's an endorsement of his performance across the board and appeared to be doubling down. Now Interest Rates are too high for the infrastructure spend so that's gone on the backburner except for Level Crossing Removals around the place. When NEL and WGTP and MetroTunnel open over the next couple of years (longer for NEL), they'll bathe in that last glory, but the rest will be downhill from there.
Problems caused by population growth to health and education and a lack of ability to increase funding in those areas will lead to big problems.
It usually means "there wasn't enough evidence" more than it means "they didn't do anything wrong".
I thought Andrews did very well during COVID. But other than that, he's gone too far with infrastructure, centralised control, not done enough with health after COVID and he's starting to drink his own bathwater a bit too much. For me, SRL is the biggest emblem of that, but that's because it's in a field i know well.
The problem is that he was attacked so much by reactionary fools during COVID that it forced people like me to have to defend a politician a lot in places like this and seemed like we were "Team Dan". Meanwhile the LNP has sunken to irrelevance for listening to, and becoming, reactionary fools.
That reactionism resulted in the boost to polling and election wins for Labor. But Andrews seems to have read too much into the defence of his COVID performance and thinks it's an endorsement of his performance across the board and appeared to be doubling down. Now Interest Rates are too high for the infrastructure spend so that's gone on the backburner except for Level Crossing Removals around the place. When NEL and WGTP and MetroTunnel open over the next couple of years (longer for NEL), they'll bathe in that last glory, but the rest will be downhill from there.
Problems caused by population growth to health and education and a lack of ability to increase funding in those areas will lead to big problems.
Entire suburbs to be bulldozed. Millions displaced. Will people be given sufficient notice to evacuate? How many will perish under the bulldozer's blade? How has this Opposition been unable to win an election?
Some big questions.
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You are 100% saying a significant erosion of ministerial accountability is not a problem. If you can't accept or recognise there is more to corruption than committing a crime, then that's on you.
Redlich has highlighted the fact that Victoria's IBAC legislation is the weakest in the country, notwithstanding promises by Dan to rectify that deficiency. The fact that IBAC still has no replacement for Redlich after 8 months tells you what Dan thinks of upholding public interest.
Dan claims the IBAC report "is an educational report, not a report delivered because wrongdoing was found."
Griffith University professor A.J. Brown, an integrity expert and board member of Transparency International Australia, backed what former IBAC Commissioner has said, i.e., this was a “serious mischaracterisation” of the report. “It is beyond the limits of acceptable spin,” he told The Age. “That is a very incorrect interpretation of this report. Plenty of wrongdoing is found."
The ONLY people dismissing the IBAC findings as irrelevant are Dan and you.
Let me repeat what Robert Redlich said:
“Operation Daintree is the most glaring example of (failing to serve public interest). We found no crime was committed. But we found serious misconduct at every level. That’s corruption.”
‘Beyond the realms of acceptable spin’: Integrity experts slam Andrews for downplaying IBAC report
The premier’s claim that Operation Daintree uncovered no wrongdoing is simply wrong, leading integrity experts say.
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Sounds like where Surry park would be massively decimated being used as storage for union station. They used a small part of it so minor impact. Not according to the above though
Look, we need a lot of housing construction as well as a way of ensuring it is affordable and gets to people who need it rather than hoarders.
But the added benefit for Andrews is this the sort of wedge he is fantastic at. Libs in well-established suburbs (like Newbury as quoted above) will instinctively react against the proposal while others leading the YIMBY charge will think any political move needs to be the other way.
But the added benefit for Andrews is this the sort of wedge he is fantastic at. Libs in well-established suburbs (like Newbury as quoted above) will instinctively react against the proposal while others leading the YIMBY charge will think any political move needs to be the other way.
The SRL might be decades ...
Most of us remember Governments that did nothing & they have been rejected at the polls because Dan was 'doing things'.
Just as Kennett did things when he inherited the 'rust bucket State' & is vilified by the other mob, Dans legacy may be the completed infrastructure unless the pain of the cost being repaid sees him go the way of John Cain.
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Avoid this show sheeple of Victoria, you might stop blindly believing in Leader Dan and his BS.
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AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
i hope they start with LNP-supporting suburbs, as well as blights like brighton and toorak
Will they bother to build infrastructure, relocate jobs away from the city to where people live or is this just another attempt by Dan to use stamp duty to cover his economic mismanagement.
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The problem is that we'll never know until it happens, because James Newbury has cried wolf so many times that you can't take what he's saying seriously.
The centralisation of all this control to essentially the Premier's office is now getting ridiculous, but we need somebody with credibility to oppose it.
Thankfully the Greens are actually huge NIMBY-ers and won't rubber stamp this in the upper-house.
mr newburys campaign against public housing in the brighton area says all you need to know about james attitude to housing (a campaign that received strong vocal support from the likes of mrs judd and her hangers-on it should be noted)
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Newbury's anti-public housing campaign was snobbery, but the problem with Brighton is the high cost of land and competition from cashed up buyers.
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Outgoing watchdog chief Deborah Glass tells parliamentary hearing its funding should not be ‘at the mercy of the government of the day’
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Yet another example of the Andrews government's utter contempt for the people of VictoriaSecrecy over cabinet documents hampering investigations, Victorian ombudsman says
Outgoing watchdog chief Deborah Glass tells parliamentary hearing its funding should not be ‘at the mercy of the government of the day’www.theguardian.com
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Stamp duty largely funding infrastructure? Not much wrong with that if there has to be stamp duty
Trouble is the infrastructure turns up too late and there is never enough of it in the right spots. Always lots of money for senior bureaucrats, pollies junkets and more media advisors though
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Fixed it for you
The rules in Vic Parliament and cabinet have been bi-partisan for decades, mostly aimed at keeping minor parties in their place.
Kennett abused it as much as Andrews is, it's just that Andrews has a team doing it, Kennett just had a couple of people barking orders (mostly himself).
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You are 100% saying a significant erosion of ministerial accountability is not a problem. If you can't accept or recognise there is more to corruption than committing a crime, then that's on you.
Redlich has highlighted the fact that Victoria's IBAC legislation is the weakest in the country, notwithstanding promises by Dan to rectify that deficiency. The fact that IBAC still has no replacement for Redlich after 8 months tells you what Dan thinks of upholding public interest.
Dan claims the IBAC report "is an educational report, not a report delivered because wrongdoing was found."
Griffith University professor A.J. Brown, an integrity expert and board member of Transparency International Australia, backed what former IBAC Commissioner has said, i.e., this was a “serious mischaracterisation” of the report. “It is beyond the limits of acceptable spin,” he told The Age. “That is a very incorrect interpretation of this report. Plenty of wrongdoing is found."
The ONLY people dismissing the IBAC findings as irrelevant are Dan and you.
Let me repeat what Robert Redlich said:
“Operation Daintree is the most glaring example of (failing to serve public interest). We found no crime was committed. But we found serious misconduct at every level. That’s corruption.”
‘Beyond the realms of acceptable spin’: Integrity experts slam Andrews for downplaying IBAC report
The premier’s claim that Operation Daintree uncovered no wrongdoing is simply wrong, leading integrity experts say.
You're just making it up Stew.
There has been no adverse findings against Dan.
Even if we apply Redlich's suggested changes to the definition of corruption, it wouldn't be Dan being found to be corrupt, it would be the Ministerial advisor.
You can keep moving the goal posts, but no matter where you move them, it won't change the fact that there were no adverse findings against Dan.
I never dismissed IBAC's findings, you are the one who has completely ignored the IBAC findings and instead gone on a yet another wild unsubstantiated rant about Dan.
Let's stick to the facts eh?
The facts are there for all to see in the Operation Daintree Report.
Sttew
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Whatever. LOL. I will put my money on what the man who ran the inquiry says and not some anonymous blowhard who can’t see the wood for the trees. Everyday
It’s a real pity and sad that you don’t know what corruption is.
Retired Supreme Court judge Stephen Charles — who sits on the board of the Centre for Public Integrity — said the reason IBAC stopped short of a finding of corruption was because it was limited by Victorian legislation. Nowhere else in Australia will you find such a narrow definition.
"The definition of corruption in the IBAC legislation requires that the conduct in question also constitute a relevant offence, so it has to involve criminal conduct as well as conduct which is objectionable," he said.
He said the government needed to urgently overhaul the laws governing the IBAC, to bring its definition of corruption in line with that used by Transparency International, which is "the abuse of entrusted power for private gain".
This is a very serious finding … it reflects very seriously on this government and its attitude to matters of integrity," he said.
Integrity experts urge swift action to rein in 'grey corruption' in Victoria
Integrity experts urge the Andrews government to act swiftly to tackle the risk of "grey corruption" by political staffers, after a damning report by the state's anti-corruption watchdog.
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