Thread by @andrewjgiles

The Morrison government has taken commuters for a ride.

Using public money as if it were Liberal Party funds.

What we’ve learned about #CarParkRorts this week.

A THREAD

Desperate to buy votes, the Morrison government ripped up the rule book in 2019.

They made promises no one could keep - and they must have known this at the time.

So, the commuter car parks program is a disaster, with only 2 completed out of 47.

But that’s not the real story.

The Auditor-General found that they never bothered to speak with councils or state governments, so they had no idea what was happening on the ground.

That’s probably why NONE of the 47 projects were proposed by the Department.

Every single decision, purely based on politics.

At least one project was funded, when it wasn’t eligible.

The funding of others has been doubted by legal experts.

Promised projects keep getting abandoned- because they never could have been built.

There’s too much we still don’t know.

Minister Tudge and Mr McCormack must come clean.

And the PM must explain his involvement.

Australians need to see the mysterious spreadsheet that went to his office.

The smoking gun.

Just like in #sportrorts

Minister Fletcher says, disgracefully, that’s its all ok.

That this doesn’t matter because they won the election.

This is contemptuous, contemptible - and wrong.

Australians deserve a government that plays by the rules, and spends public money for public benefit.

Hard working people who have to rush early and drive to a train station every morning to start their day have been cheated by Mr Morrison.

And they deserve to know the ugly truth behind #carparkrorts

We won’t rest until we uncover it.

Australians deserve nothing less.