I have wanted to express this for the last three days. here goes. I am disgusted at the lack of Integrity and dishonesty of the main Stream media in Australia. Because they have been knobbled by the Coalition generally. This week they have been discussing Labor Branch stacking
Ad infinitum in Victoria. branch Stacking is NOT an offence. It is a manipulation of the Internal labor Party rules. What might be an offence is the fools of MP's who used employees on the Public payrole to do this manipulation. I agree that that needs to be addressed. If those
MP's have committed offenses against State or federal laws, then they should rightly suffer the consequences. The press have been spending an inordinate amount of time discussing this this week. YET they have totally ignopred another outrage perpetrated by the sitting Federal
Coalition Government. The reporting of the rorting of the latest round of the BUILDING THE BETTER REGIONS FUND ROUND 5. This was reported in the Guardian and the New Daily within days of it being released. I was one of the people who analysed it. Here is a graph of the uneven
distribution of the funds.
I cannot understand how this is not Newsworthy, especially in the Light of the following NINE other analyses done and hardly reported by the press. The first was Sports Rorts. Value $100 Million
The next was Community Development grants between 2013 and 2019 Value $1.1 Billion.
The next was Regional Development Programs from 2013 to 2019 to the value of $714.5 million
The next was Community Development grants in 2020 for a value of $392.3 Million
The next was Building the Better Regions fund in 2020 for a value of $158.4 Million.
Then there was the Female facilities and Water Safety stream Grants worth $135.75 Million
followed by The Commuter car Park Fund. Worth $704.39 Million
Then there was Drought Communities fund for a Cool $188.5 Million.
And finally (of those already analysed) The Local Roads and community Infrastructure Fund worth another cool $499.1 Million.
This is the reason we need an:-
INTEGRITY COMMISSION,
CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT AND A
DECENT AND LESS DISHONEST PRESS WHICH SHOWS INTEGRITY IN THEIR BALANCE IN REPORTING. Ping That means you @InsidersABC
The last time i checked this Government had allocated $63 Billion in grants since 2018 and since 2013 had awarded tender contracts worth $374 Billion. AND THIS ISN'T NEWS? Give me a break.
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🧵🧵I am sorry I just can't be quiet about the Nationals. Their Hubris and their complete disregard for the truth. Let me explain. Twice I heard @senbmckenzie say that the nationals represented 9 million Australians. I thought I would check. Out came the spreadsheet and I Loaded
data into it. The Nationals have 6 Queensland (LNP) MP's and 9 others in NSW and Victoria. None in SA, WA or Tasmania or the territories. All of their seats are regional or rural. None Urban. I thought to test the claim by the Victorian Senator about the 9 million So I added up
the number of electors registered in their seats and it came to 1,859,931 (one point eight million) and not all of these people voted for the Nationals But they ended up representing them. To be fair to the nationals I then added up the number of total people in their seats
🧵🧵Broken Liberal/National costings news part 2. One of the policy announcements the Coalition have made is the establishment of "Build Our Regions for Future Generations" They want to establish a $20 billion fund to benefit Regional and Rural Australia. liberal.org.au/2025/04/10/coa…
Sound good? Certainly But where is the money coming from and can you trust the Authors of the Scheme, David Littleproud, Angus Taylor and Jane Hume? So lets have a bit of a look at the past. YES this scheme was developed in the Coalition's last period of Government. It was
called the Building the Better Regions fund (BBRF) and was in 5 rounds. In those 3 parliaments there were 61 Regional and Rural Seats made up as follows. Roughly the same.
Dear @abcnews I think it's time to give you a bit of a lesson in Journalism. Yesterday I listened to your presenter on News breakfast make light of @AlboMP bring out the "Little green Card" due to an announcement on an Extension to medicare. The day before another commentator
seemed to take delight in Albanese falling off a stage and then the allegation that he lied about it. What absolute dross. What bottom of the barrel political commentary coming from the infant school of journalism. Let me tell you why that "little green card" and falling over
means so much to me and my family. I happened to be born with a DNA abnormality that gave me Psoriatic arthritis. It manifested itself when I was 27 years of age in 1981. There is no cure but since 2008 I have been on a drug which relieves the symptoms and much pain. I was
🧵🧵Welcome to another Liberal/Dutton fact check. Today Peter Dutton said that the Coalition always spends more on Defence. Well this is an old claim, made by Tony Abbott in 2012, then by Simon Birmingham in 2019 and so I decided to check the claim. A claim that the @abcnews
also decided to regurgitate on Insiders some time ago. So I actually downloaded all of the Budget Paper No 4 Papers and put the figures into a spreadsheet. So the source is impeccable. Firstly What is Defence? Well in 2008 when I started the series, it consisted of Defence,
Defence Materiel, Some Defence housing and Veterans affairs. In 2016 Defence Materiel and Defence were merged. So here is the Defence table for 2008 to the last budget in 2025. As you can see in 2012 Labor took 2.3 billion out But in 2015-16 The Coalition took $9.9 Billion out
🧵🧵Liberal Regional Infrastructure News. Well well well we have a Liberal National Policy announcement. Described in this article by the ABC. abc.net.au/news/2025-04-1…
Lets have a look at it. Firstly it says. "a $1 billion dividend each year to pay for infrastructure and services that local councils cannot afford including ways to boost phone and internet connectivity." Couple of points here. Firstly Australia's telecommunications was supposed
to be upgraded by Labor's NBN plan, which included connectivity to the Internet and Phone by that system. What happened? well the Liberals changed the plan and gave us Copper instead of the Proposed High Speed broadband. They are proposing something they opposed. Secondly the
More Broken News. Today I have been talking about Policy work and here is a great example of that type of work. Let me introduce Max Chandler Mather who appeared on QandA last evening and let me introduce his Feature Stump policy. It's a bit confusing as to whether its
Housing, homelessness, Rentals or a mixture of the three. These three are really three different problems. Housing is very complex and involves different social policy ingredients than homelessness and/or rentals. As an analogy they all contain Salt and pepper and Garlic and
Ginger but the main ingredients are very different and all of them are complex. What i can assure you is that the Greens and Max will not be getting a Michelin Star for any of their ideas. Dropping the flippancy now. My point is that policy in any area is always arcane