2. The rot begins at the top.
Politicians scam their “entitlements." Julie Bishop and her bloke party at the Polo ; Abbott swans around London. Barnaby Joyce rorts a job for his girlfiend. Victorian ALP MPs crookedly gouge $500k in so-called election expenses. #rottenOz
Politicians scam their “entitlements." Julie Bishop and her bloke party at the Polo ; Abbott swans around London. Barnaby Joyce rorts a job for his girlfiend. Victorian ALP MPs crookedly gouge $500k in so-called election expenses. #rottenOz
3)The public service is under a cloud. A deputy commissioner of the ATO is charged in connection with a $130m tax fraud. The Border Force boss, Roamin’ Roman Quaedvlieg is sacked in disgrace. Centrelink is a shambles. Corruption is rife in the old customs department. #rottenOz
4) Decency is dead. Dutton treats refugees with cynical brutality. Turnbull offers tax cuts to big business on the lie that they’ll mean pay rises for workers. Billions of dollars are shovelled onto rich private schools while state schools cry out for money. #rottenOz
5) Corporate Australia is a thieves’ kitchen. The biggest companies shovel their profits overseas to pay no tax. Franchise operations – 7-Eleven, Dominos Pizza, Caltex etc – screw their workers at $9 an hour. CEO pay reaches multi-million dollar heights of greed #rottenOz
6) The banking system is nakedly corrupt. Big banks launder money for criminals, crookedly rig critical lending rates, and shamelessly rob hundreds of thousands of their most vulnerable loan customers. #rottenOz
7) Morally we’re also up shit creek.
Churches conceal a pandemic of child sexual abuse. Children are still
sexually abused in the NT. One woman a week is murdered by a partner or
ex. Suicide is the leading cause of
death for Australians between 15 and 44 years of age #rottenOz
Churches conceal a pandemic of child sexual abuse. Children are still
sexually abused in the NT. One woman a week is murdered by a partner or
ex. Suicide is the leading cause of
death for Australians between 15 and 44 years of age #rottenOz
8) Finally, there’s the Australian cricket team revealed to the world as cheats.
That’s a new, sewer-level low in a game that was once the epitome of
good sportsmanship. Steve Smith was often
mentioned in the same sentence as Bradman.
Now he is indelibly disgraced. #rottenOz
That’s a new, sewer-level low in a game that was once the epitome of
good sportsmanship. Steve Smith was often
mentioned in the same sentence as Bradman.
Now he is indelibly disgraced. #rottenOz
9) Australia is going to need real leadership to get back to being the country of the fair go for all. But it won’t come from the spineless, dithering Turnbull or the LNP. Shorten is better but uninspiring, and uncomfortably
close to the top end of Collins St. #rottenOz
close to the top end of Collins St. #rottenOz
10) The Greens are chucking their toys out of the sandpit. Hanson is a disgrace. There is no political talent visible on the horizon. Australia, the country I love, is in a horrible mess. I wish I had an answer, but I don’t. #rottenOz
To @MikeCarlton01, I've taken it upon myself to put your 10 tweets re #RottenOz into a THREAD, to ensure people can read them all easily.
Thank U, that's okay, no probs🙃
Thank U, that's okay, no probs🙃
