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SHAMELESS: LABOR RORTERS DODGE PUNISHMENT

Column Are any thieves more shameless than the 21 Victorian Labor MPs exposed by the Ombudsman’s report? First, they cheat taxpayers out of $388,000. Then they spend $1 million of their victims’ money trying to stop an investigation. Now, finally nailed, Premier Daniel Andrews says he’s paid back the cash and no one will face any consequences.

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 Andrew Bolt asks " Would any other citizen who rorted $388,000 get off so easily?"Bolt
Tony Abbott's Government certainly did and the only person to suffer was Peter Slipper at the behest of Abbott's revenge. When dragged before the courts he was found to be innocent. Liberal Party donors in Tasmania lost $52,000 to their financial administrator who was deviously sent to the Liberals in Victoria with good references by Eric Abetz where he continued to rifle funds from donors to the tune of $1.5million dollars the outcome is still pending. One could well ask if attention wasn't drawn to it publicly would it have been buried as it was in Tasmania?
If we draw attention to the political and Corporate elite who have been nabbed on a regular basis one might ask if the executive class has been made to refund their ill-gotten commissions and bonuses when their organizations have defrauded the public on such grand scales? Who among them was ever prosecuted? 
 Given the amounts of monies involved who and which class are the Shameless Rorters Bolt's referring to? 1) $2 Billion missing from the Federal Governments Indigenous Fund given to the NT government. 2) Hundreds of Millions of dollars lost in the fraudulent financial advice given by the banks yet bouses and commissions retained. These activities make $388,000 look like trivial petty cash. What did Tony Abbott call it a confusion in the Parliamentary rules and a fault of the law when some 12 NSW Liberals were caught taking bribes from developers.
The criminal and business class are in the main the majority at large that have the opportunity to manipulate and milk the system. Take importers as an example.

MP: ANDREWS WAS WARNED

Labor Premier Daniel Andrews claims he doesn't believe any  MPs warned him against an unlawful rort to get taxpayers to pay for party campaigners.  Now an MP calls him out: “He knew about concerns about the funding model. I and several other MPs raised it with him. We told him it was a nonsense." This could get ugly.

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Well, when it comes to money it seems Matthew Guy had no trouble wining and dining a Mafia boss in order to get money for an election. When sprung what did we hear him say "I didn't know" and wasn't warned. Well if the Liberal Party wants to get into bed with organized crime to fund their election it would deem trivial what Dan Andrews did in comparison. He returned the money as Abbott did when sprung on expenses. Did the Liberal Party return any of the money donated by the Madderferri and friends?

If Guy claims ignorance he doesn't deserve to be a politician or should sack all his minders. If he did know who he was lunching with he should have been investigated. Let's face it Guy has been involved in a number of very shady schemes and they have showered him with attention.

 Why the return of economic growth is a neoliberal illusion

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 It’s true there’s a historical correlation between security, prosperity and growth. Those were the days when “trickle-down” worked. It worked because the trickling down occurred through higher wages and better social services at the insistence of a strong labour movement when our media weren’t just corporate mouthpieces. That’s all changed.
But isn’t GDP still growing? Sure. GDP can grow along with population, even while living standards stagnate. In that case, growth doesn’t help us. In fact, right now, poverty is also increasing in Australia. Shouldn’t that cancel out the boost to GDP from population growth? Something else must be increasing too. What could that be?
Once we adjust for population growth, much of our meagre GDP growth goes with it. If this affected the entire population equally, nobody’s wealth would be increasing. But, in fact, it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt, while the rich get richer. In simple terms, existing wealth is being redistributed upwards. So poverty and inequality are rising. Mike Dowson

 The Reality of the Neoliberal illusion from Duncan the person Andrew Bolt shit kicked for speaking up on Q&A. Well Duncan's back to pop Bolt's bubble

 DUNCAN STORRAR: The insidious consequences of disability pension cuts

GREEN VULTURES FLAP OVER FIRES

Column With the fires at Tathra still burning,  Greens leader Richard di Natale accused the Turnbull government of doing “everything it can to slow this country’s transition to renewable energy”. And now "bushfires savage Tathra, Bega and South West Victoria. We’ve seen a cyclone hit Darwin.”  The falsehoods are astonishing.

 Isn't this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? When Bolt denies Climate Change he throws in examples of cold snaps, full dams etc and tells us it's evidence. Totally avoiding the nature of "global science" the math, statistical logic and the rate of change of the measurements taken leaving the real evidence behind in his wake. He calls that just another new Religion.

 Here he is claiming the Greens falsehoods are worse than his and ignoring the reality of the global sciences measurements and simply shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Follow the money Bolt and bleed your argument is lost. Banks, Fossil Fuel Corporations and Energy producers are all divesting away from your beloved fossil fuels and moving to renewables why? They believe that 1) The planet is warming 2) Renewables are clean energy 3) They are cheaper than Fossil Fuels 4) And are more ethical and better to be associated with into the future. 

All points Bolt avoids because he knows he's backing a losing horse no a horse that's lost but carrying on the good fight for money to be made in opposing Green Power. However, calling the Greens out for what he does himself is evidence of his level of low intelligence.

WIND BLEW WEATHERILL OUT

Terry McCrann says the wind on election day is why South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill had to go: "The wind was blowing strong... More than 1000MW were being pumped out. ..  As the vote counting got underway  ...  wind generation in SA dropped to just 200MW.  The price ... spiked to over $100 a MW hour.... about four times what it used to be."

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Desperation has Bolt bring in his numbers man McCrann to try to blow cheap and dirty smoke over the truth. The Liberals didn't romp home and Renewables weren't the reason Labour lost.

1)Now let me analyse the weekend based on what I know. In South Australia, Labor had been in power for 16 years. Longevity is considered to be the first enemy of any incumbent government. However, given they started with a deficit of four seats due to redistribution, they performed remarkably well and are well-placed to win the next election in four years.
2)The Liberal Party, who managed to win with a 7% swing against them, was ably assisted by a politician who believed his personal popularity was enough to break the duopoly of the major partyies. Xenophon gained almost 20% of the vote but came over as an ill-prepared hillbilly with no policies, but a huge sense of humour. However, 20% should guarantee you a seat or two. All these anomalies might even suggest the Liberals were lucky to get across the line. John Lord

" The weekend – if it has proven anything – is that minor parties are just as vulnerable as the majors. Labour has learnt, or has already realised, that good candidate and good policies, even if risky, are more to the electorates liking. I’m not sure what the Liberals have learnt. It was a Clayton's victory at best in SA." John Lord