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How much longer do we have to
wait for anyone in the media to do their job & ask anyone in the LNP to release the Gaetjens Report? Can’t the fearful journos at least pull some straws & the unlucky duck has to ask the question? What do we have to do?
#BrittanyHiggins
March 2021 Scott Morrison tells parliament “I have no doubt the opposition will be able to ask questions of him (Gaetjens) in Senate estimates next week”

That next week, Gaetjens was to update #SenateEstimates but said it had been halted & he couldn’t answer questions.
We know Gaetjens said it was coz of the AFP, despite the AFP denying it in another Senate room on the same day

The AFP later, (if u ask me it’s coz there was noise around their conflicting evidence with Gaetjens) sent a statement saying they had in fact advised it be halted but
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Here's why Aus can't get anywhere on EVs:
From my questions to the Dept of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources at #SenateEstimates

Minister Taylor's office directly told the Dept to effectively ditch the EV strategy & water it down to a ‘future fuels’ discussion paper. 1/
That's after consulting w/ 80 stakeholders & had a draft ready for an EV strategy! That wasn’t enough-looks like Taylor pushed the dept to commission dodgy figures that hugely misrepresent the benefits of shifting to EVs & cherry picked the worst figures from skewed modelling 2/
The modelling arbitrarily models over a five year timeframe, when the average car in Australia is owned for ten years - EVs really come into their own with the long term savings and emissions reductions. 3/
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