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Oct 31, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
And here are the AEC donations of Burnewang (Andrew Burnes' "pastoral" company) to the Liberal party 2015-18. Burnewang is registered to the very same office that Joe Hockey opened in 2013!

periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/Returns/68/YJM…
periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/Returns/64/XJT…
periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/Donor.aspx?Sub…
Andrew Burnes, April '17, setting up a meeting between his execs for govt travel contracts: "Hockey owes me."
So when did Hockey increase his shareholding in Helloworld? Some time in FY2016-2017? By 2018-19 Hockey's own Helloworld shares were worth well over $1m. Handy that.
But sure, investigate the person who revealed Cormann had got free flights in the same period the govt had given Helloworld a massive contract. Thanks #vicpolice

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Nov 4
Nothing like #estimates to reveal the true nature of bipartisan govt.
Last night Home Affairs revealed that contracts with Serco for detention services have blown out by $2.7bn to total $4.6 billion over ten yrs, for decreasing no.s of detainees.
No one seemed to give a shit.
The diligent senator Shoebridge was trying to understand how the contracts could blow out so badly (by $2.7bn!), and a parade of snr bureaucrats led by Stephanie Foster acted like their job was to conceal, obfuscate and condescend instead of explaining. We are poorly served.
Across estimates, senior mandarins of our Canberra bureaucracy now just bat away any qus they don’t like (“I’ll take that on notice”), and obvs see their job not as serving the public but covering for their political bosses. Obviously they’re rewarded for it. Truly pathetic.
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Oct 3
It's been a year since the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Tas Govt's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings was released.
The report revealed thousands of child abuse cases, the worst being at Ashley detention centre over decades. #politas
Not a single staff member from Ashley has been fired, not a single one charged, and dozens of alleged perps are on full paid leave. Kids have been abused in this time. It's still not safe to report. Mandatory reporting isn't happening. What is minister Jaensch doing?
I'll tell you what he's not doing: closing Ashley as promised, or opening a new facility: planning for the theoretical new centre is nowhere.
They first announced closing Ashley in 2021! Within three years lol. There's no way it'll be closed by 2026 as recently promised either.
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Feb 10
Here’s a funny Tasmanian story:
In 2015-16 the Tasmanian govt commissioned a group of eminent constitutional lawyers to conduct a review of the notorious Tasmanian constitution, with a view to fixing it and adding a section on Indigenous recognition…
The working group operated in partnership with the Law Foundation of Tas , UTAS Faculty of Law, and Tas Law Reform Institute and contained eminences such as George Williams. (More here: ). Their consensus statement abt the TAS constitution was astonishingclassic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UT…
They found the constitution:
-provides “no express power for the Parliament to legislate for the people of Tasmania or the basis upon which it should make such laws;
-contains a large number of blank, repealed, redundant or irrelevant provisions;
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Aug 31, 2023
It’s been largely missed on the mainland, but the series of (linked) cases of child abuse in Tasmania exposed by the recent Commission of Inquiry is the worst I’ve ever encountered. #politas
abc.net.au/news/2023-08-3…
The Commission made over 100 (!) criminal referrals of state public servants. It will make 160 recommendations to the govt. It also recommended closing down Ashley Youth Detention Centre altogether, as a matter of urgency.
The accounts of abuse and the sheer scale of the cover-ups and bastardry by the Tas government and its various organs is on a scale unimaginable. Decades. Thousands of victims. Across health, education and human services. Entire arms of govt re-arranged to dodge accountability.
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Jul 29, 2023
Mike Pezzullo has a lot to answer for. Here's a thread, just from the past few years, of bad deals by Home Affairs under his leadership. (There's a longer thread tbc of human rights abuses during this period.)
In 2017, Home Affairs awarded $423 million in contracts to a little-known company named Paladin whose Australian arm was registered to a beach shack on Kangaroo Island, and had just $50,000 in capital.
https://t.co/7LvlwYxetythemonthly.com.au/issue/2021/feb…
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2019: A Papua New Guinea company paid $82 million by Australian taxpayers to feed and house asylum seekers on Manus Island is suspected by its own bank of inflating invoices, while making millions of dollars in profits.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…
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Mar 27, 2023
The hard cap on emissions in the Safeguard is a good thing, without doubt. But there's serious devil in the detail.
1. Who decides which facilities can offset and which need to cut (to meet the overall cap)?
Remember: gas facilities only count scope1 emissions (10%), so...
2. Given many gas companies have already acquired many of their offsets out to 2030, it may well be the non-fossil industries that need to bear the load of actual cuts. IMO the effect on new gas and coal likely very small. Maybe need to buy a few more offsets?
3. The language around new gas facilities is so loaded. Why is Beetaloo separated from the other new LNG facilities? Maybe this?
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