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Tannin
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It doesn't end with O'Farrell's resignation. State Treasurer and leadership contest front runner Mike Baird is in it up to his eyeballs. Baird appointed Nick di Girolamo to the State Water Corporation in July 2012. He also rewarded another Liberal Party donor, who handed Baird $15,000, to a cushy government-funded position worth $600,000.
Money changing hands, jobs and influence for sale: corruption rules at the highest even in the Liberal Party.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/libs-give-leading-fundraiser-water-board-role-20130301-2fbpi.html _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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It's not just NSW if we ever get a serious investigation to look at Victoria this place is full of it as well.
The toll roads are a great example who are the investors in the companies who build and make profits from these roads? I'll bet our Pollies have some interest in them. |
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Tannin
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^ Sucker bet. No takers. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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Tannin
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But wait, there's more: this BRW article is compelling reading: How Australian Water Holdings morphed from public service venture to five-year extravaganza http://www.brw.com.au/p/business/extravaganza_australian_water_holdings_NMJCe3Q6B58OjnNOHgswWN
Sinodinos, Obeid, Di Girolamo, sleazy "loans", $7000 of NSW taxpayer money every month to a secret Liberal Party slush fund, and this on top of $106,000 "donations" to the Liberal and National Parties. All under the Chairmanship of Honest Arthur Sinodinos, John Howard's Chief of Staff and Abbott's right-hand man.
This is going to run and run and run. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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pietillidie
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Abbott has been running around like a chook with its head cut off trying to pre-empt this stuff with all manner of hidden-fine-print announcements to show he's man of action.
Except this is actually how "the party of doers" "gets things done" when you take a closer look lol.
Now multiply this by ten(s) and cover it up with millions of dollars of public relations, Murdoch compliance, media control and unofficial "network blackmail" (i.e., he knows her and she knows him and they know them, so no one says anything because the whole network benefits by turning a blind eye, including average Joe employees of downstream companies), and you have the true scale of the problem.
Of course, die hard Glib supporters think this is the natural order of things, and a by-product of their right to rule the world which can't be helped, explaining it away (meanwhile endlessly crapping on about union corruption while keeping a straight face).
And yes, the ALP is simply Lib light, I'm afraid, though at least you have a chance of getting a Keating and can occasionally oppose a few of the most sinister elements of Glib desire.
Kudos to the Greens and those on here who have supported them for a while now such as David. They're not quite my cup of tea yet, but at least they're relatively transparent and certainly far more consistent. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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Tannin
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Excellent article in the SMH today -
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Perhaps the most telling aspect of the now infamous thank-you note that ended Barry OFarrells premiership this week is that it was sent so soon after his bone-crushing election victory. This was a man who swept to power thanks largely to the insufferable stench of corruption that had engulfed NSW Labor. Thus was Labors position apparently unrecoverable, and OFarrell apparently invincible. All he had to do was stay clean.
And yet, there he was, personally accepting an expensive gift from compromised people, marking his gratitude in ink. Im prepared to believe he genuinely has no recollection of this. But that only underscores the fact that he saw nothing remarkable about the exchange at all; that even as he must have been hawk-eyed about anything that even remotely connected to the corruption that destroyed Labor, he saw this kind of give and take as standard practice.
And on this score, hes probably right. Its highly unlikely OFarrell has a uniquely malfunctioning radar, or that he is more corruptible than his colleagues. Au contraire, the truly remarkable fact is that the Liberals to have been so entangled in this Obeidian octopus have been those widely acknowledged as the best, the straightest, the most upright of them: OFarrell and Arthur Sinodinos.
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http://www.smh.com.au/comment/barry-ofarrells-liberal-machine-as-rotten-as-labors-20140417-zqvtz.html
The unanswered question - hell, the unasked question is this: if OFarrell - on the take from a sleazebag's sleazebag - and the odious Sinodinos with his greedy snout in a $200,000 public money trough, and both of them with ahem remarkable memory lapses about how they came to be in this company at all, never mind how they came to be getting so much dirty money (or grog, as the case may be), if these are the best, straightest and most upright Liberals, what the hell are the worst ones like? _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Where did he or shem prepared to believe he lose recollection of this ? |
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Tannin
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The bald fellow could clean his teeth but yes very funny. |
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watt price tully
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Brilliant
Brilliant
& the 3rd one was brilliant too _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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HAL
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I am not sure if I would do it that often. |
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David
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pietillidie wrote: | Kudos to the Greens and those on here who have supported them for a while now such as David. They're not quite my cup of tea yet, but at least they're relatively transparent and certainly far more consistent. |
I have to say it's been really exciting watching them develop and score increasingly significant victories. It would be terribly depressing to think that the current mediocrity in Government and opposition is terminal, so good to see a little spark of hope for the country's future. What's better is that Bandt and Ludlam are still young enough to spend another 20 years in parliament, and the party will only attract more quality as its credibility improves. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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watt price tully
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pietillidie wrote: | ..........Kudos to the Greens ...... They're not quite my cup of tea yet, but at least they're relatively transparent and certainly far more consistent. |
I don't mind green tea. Not much Tannin. Could be a good thing _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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pietillidie
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watt price tully wrote: | pietillidie wrote: | ..........Kudos to the Greens ...... They're not quite my cup of tea yet, but at least they're relatively transparent and certainly far more consistent. |
I don't mind green tea. Not much Tannin. Could be a good thing |
Haha, yes, but Tannin adds bite and color! _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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Tannin
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