Reason #1,672 why we need a Federal ICAC. This thread is by the Saturday Paper:
 
Leaked emails reveal Coalition MP Stuart Robert has been secretly providing advice to a lobbying firm that helps companies win lucrative government contracts and obtain access to politicians (1) Robert used his status as a federal MP in 2017 and 2018 to help Synergy 360 sign up corporate clients with the promise of helping them navigate the federal public service and political system and meet key decision-makers. (2) campaigns.schwartzmedia.com.au/t/i-l-qiigud-t…

(1) The fact is that the LNP are guilty of the inappropriate use of government funds. Christine Holgate has been attacked, bullied and humiliated because she chose to spend $20k on a personal and thoughtful gift, rather than spend $150k on cash bonuses. (2) Christine Holgate chose to save $130k of taxpayer dollars and give the executives a gift rather than cash bonuses, but she is now being treated like a dirty criminal, when the LNP has misappropriated, stolen and wasted hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars.

I'm incredibly angry about the interview that @mjrowland68 did with Greg Hunt this morning. I'm angry at how the Liberal Party has politicised the APS, so I have looked into the advertising guidelines to show that @GregHuntMP has breached the AusGov advertising guidelines -THREAD

https://twitter.com/BreakfastNews/status/1359257406618824704

According to the AusGov Guidelines on Advertising Campaigns, gov’t advertising campaigns are designed to support the effective delivery & implementation of gov’t policies, programs, assistance, initiatives & services.
finance.gov.au/sites/default/…

I’m HORRIFIED & GOBSMACKED with @GregHuntMP’s behaviour on @BreakfastNews just now. It’s disgusting. @mjrowland68 asked a very legitimate question about WHY Greg Hunt has put LIBERAL PARTY BRANDING in the announcements for the vaccine, when it is an AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT thing (2) I was in the public service for YEARS, including working in government advertising. While the rules around advertising during a campaign preclude using political party promotion in government ads, I have never actually seen such blatant political opportunism from a government

Friends, I need your advice. So many of you have so generously donated to my campaign costs (thank you from the bottom of my heart), but I’m still well below what I would need to mount a campaign that would give me some traction. So I need to decide how to spend the money (1).... (2) ...where I will get the best value for money. What are your thoughts on letterbox drops? I’ve been advised I might need to deliver around 50k leaflets, which is a massive ask for my friends to help me deliver them. But an even bigger issue I have with them is the wastage.....

A very close friend of mine has just alerted me to a really serious issue related to our health system that will have serious consequences if CMO Brendan Murphy and the Aus Gov don’t act now. This is a thread... (2) Aust is currently experiencing a shortage of solvents critical to COVID-19 response, due to Australian manufacturers selling overseas. WilmarBioEthanol and Recochem are the only two Aus companies that make the solvents needed in Australia's hospitals and pathology clinics...

Oh wow. @4corners. I’m actually feeling incredibly nauseous after watching tonight’s program. Nauseous, angry, frightened and intimidated. Here’s my take on tonight’s episode.... China are teaching their youth a narrative that the West has humiliated China over the last 100 Years, and now China are flexing their muscles, ready to fill the void when the US collapses as a super power.

If anyone is interested in a breakdown of the history af the Family Court and why the gov is so hell bent on destroying it, here is a thread (not written by me), explaining it.

The Family Court was set up in 1976 by the Labor party.... In the early to mid 90’s, things worked really well - the court processes were simplified, it was funded with Registrars, Judicial Registrars and Judges - all dealing with different levels of complexity of cases.