There was this guy a few years back who raided a prison, took a whole heap of the prisoners hostage and shoved them into some trucks. None of the prisoners wanted to go, but he had guns and shoved them into the trucks anyway and bashed the ones who refused.
He drove them all across country about, god knows how far, but they ended up on somebody’s property in the middle of the night. He didn’t know the property owners at all but he had his guns and his prisoners and he threatened violence, so he rammed his trucks through anyway
to get on to the place. The owners had no idea who the hell he was, they’d never seen the guy before. But, he didn't care, he dumped the prisoners out of the trucks, and when the owners objected he told them all to piss off. Then he shot them for complaining.
Thousands of people died as a result of the whole illegal prisoner dump, but the guy’s descendants thought the whole thing was so fantastic they wanted a national holiday named after it all. The politicians agreed and so they called it ... Australia Day.
Did the Governor General, David Hurley, breach his own official guidelines?
Did he breach his guidelines re; the Australian Future Leaders Foundation - the entity earmarked to run the unknown program and almost gifted $18 million by Scott Morrison?
New evidence has emerged regarding testimony given in recent Senate Estimates from the Office of the Governor General.
In Senate Estimates on April 4 this year, Paul Singer, the official secretary of the GG's office, described the Governor General as a personal patron
of the Australian Future Leaders Foundation (and an excited one at that).
In follow up questioning in Estimates on Oct 28, this was again reiterated, with the official secretary defending the GG’s involvement in lobbying Scott Morrison on behalf of the organisation because
It’s probably time for a bit of plain talking - in the public interest.
Let's talk about the $18+ million of public money Scott Morrison was planning on handing over this year for something called the Australian Future Leaders Program.
In September, our new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put the kibosh on funding the Governor General’s pet project to the tune of $18 million - with a planned $4 million ongoing every year.
$4 million every year, ongoing.
And now we can exclusively show you, via FOIs we recently submitted, some of the backroom dealings and discussions between the Governor General, the Office of GG, Prime Minister & Cabinet, Treasury & Chris Hartley of the Australian Future Leaders Foundation.