1. Remember Ros Kelly’s sports rort? ANAO report showed she trashed merit grants to favour marginal seats. Libs under Hewson went in for the kill, as did I. Sacked.
Now @senbmckenzie copies, AND got Coalition candidates, not thr MPS, to announce grants.
ANAO REPORT thread:
Now @senbmckenzie copies, AND got Coalition candidates, not thr MPS, to announce grants.
ANAO REPORT thread:
2. A reminder of the Sports Rorts scandal. I was working for @michellegrattan, Canberra Times editor, reported this political corruption solo for a while - senior press gallery journo told me to stop wasting my time ‘cause Kelly was a Keating ‘mate’.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_ro…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_ro…
3. A Gurdian sports rorts wrap with no mention of the eerie parallels to Ros Kelly - Hewson and Costello led the charge to end her career, which it did.
4. Labor got the guts to acknowledge fault on Ros Kelly sports rorts, quote back Hewson & Costello to force Morrison’s hand? (he won’t lead, of course, and he’s complicit, of course):
6. Anyone still unconvinced we need a strong #federalicac? At a time of existential crisis we need an honest Govt willing to serve the people in the national interest, not manipulate them for power and treasure.
To think Coalition learned ZERO from 1993 sports rorts scandal.
To think Coalition learned ZERO from 1993 sports rorts scandal.
7. Is there a connection between Morrison’s sports rorts and #AustraliaBurns?
Yep. The collapse of public duty, its replacement with short term SELF interest.
It’s #ScottyfromMarketing politics and it’s killing politics as an arena for public service.
Yep. The collapse of public duty, its replacement with short term SELF interest.
It’s #ScottyfromMarketing politics and it’s killing politics as an arena for public service.
8. Jesus, it’s WORSE than Ros Kelly sports rorts. @senbmckenzie broke the law to boost Coalition candidates!
9. We need a Govt we trust to act in the public interest. We have a #ScottyfromMarketing ‘Govt’ that acts only in its narrow, short term political interest.
It cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Ever.
So we’re stuffed, for now. What next?
It cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Ever.
So we’re stuffed, for now. What next?
10. ... not if media does its job, including talking to worthy project applicants on the ground, reporting Parliamentary oversight, digging deep for more truth, asking questions till they’re answered. Ros Kelly nearly got away with it, till she didn’t.
11. What I like - blunt truth with passion. @michaelpascoe is a veteran biz journo once at Nine, now at @TheNewDailyAu with @samanthamaiden, veteran Press Gallery journo doing her best work since she started working from home :)
13. Here’s where I freak out at PG. Even @david_speers wrote they all do it, lucky you if you’re in a marginal seat. Where’s the outrage at political corruption fucking over worthy community projects?
The job is to get angry & BUSY on behalf of the people, FFS. Stay on the story!
The job is to get angry & BUSY on behalf of the people, FFS. Stay on the story!
