Inside the Liberal cesspit: more corruption exposed

Tannin · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:13 am

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

1061 · Joined: 06 Sep 2013

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.

Tannin · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:08 am

^ Sucker bet. No takers.

Tannin · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:55 am

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.

pietillidie · Joined: 07 Jan 2005

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.