On Thursday, @Mon4Kooyong had to leave federal parliament urgently due to the sudden death of a very close family member.
Dr Ryan told very few people because it happened very quickly and she was in shock.
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Instead of offering Dr Ryan her condolences on the death of her family member, Senator Hume decided to go straight to the @australian and berate Dr Ryan for - ahem - yes, "leaving" parliament and not being there to vote.
The Oz journalists didn't bother inquiring either.
After observing #RobodebtRC this month and the endless parade of convenient amnesiacs and dribbling liars who can't keep records, read emails, answer a memo, take notes, or remember who was in a room with them, Australians should be storming Parliament.
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Lawyers who ignore the law, ministerial advisers who don’t advise, public servants who hate the public and an Australian government at war with its own people - what a contemptible display of incompetence and inhumanity in one spectacular package of deep, shitful shame.
The fact that some of these people are still employed anywhere, let alone some still in the public service and dear God, even promoted, is an insult to every Australian who underwrites their wages and their lifestyles.
Your regular reminder that while Australia's politicians and journalists run ongoing campaigns vilifying no-name citizens on twitter, msm journos like Brad here can run their PR campaigns for fossil fuel billionaires without a peep from anyone.
And all to audiences of millions.
In fact, so enamoured is Brad with Gina Rinehart and her magnificent prowess and philanthropy and popularity with cattlemen and generosity to all humankind, that the Rinehart conglomerate regularly runs his unbiased articles in their *own* publications.
Twice the exposure.
And very luckily, Brad produced this outstanding hagiography in print to Gina Rinehart the very same day the ABC broke the news of her donations to the Liberal party via a secret channel, a Sydney based private mining club.
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.
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.