Saturday 2 October 2021

Fighting Fake news with REAL 2/10/21; Subs and the French backlash; Morrison rejects hospital funding, Berejiklian and ICAC;

 

 


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Gonzo BinChicken resigns and the Murdoch LNP Propaganda Maching cranks into action - "Curse of ICAC".
She is being investigated for corruption but yeah, it's all ICACs fault..

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"Australia terminated the contract for convenience, which means that we are not at fault," Pommellet added. "It is a case that is planned for in the contract and will require a payment of our costs that were incurred and those to come, linked to demobilization of infrastructure and IT as well as the redeployment of employees. "We will assert our rights. This decision was announced to us [France] without any prior notice, with unprecedented brutality." 

 French submarine builder to send Australia $66bn invoice for axed deal - CGTN

Doctors fear hospitals will be overwhelmed with COVID-19 admissions and a growing load of delayed elective surgeries.

 No matter the Singapore and UK experience Morrison regards money more precious than public health

The PM says the government had “showered the states” with money during the pandemic and it shouldn’t “be used as an excuse for shakedown politics”.

Scott Morrison rejects states’ pleas for more hospital funding

 Premier Gladys Berejiklian and former MP Daryl Maguire were in a secret relationship for five years.

 Is it any wonder PM Morrison has gone back on his promise of over 3 years ago to set up a Federal ICAC. Integrity we have seen has never been his strong suit?

 Independent Commission Against Corruption, has now brought down its third Liberal leader.

No-one was more astonished than her own ministers to learn last October that she’d been in a relationship with Maguire for some years, had grown close to him, and indeed – as she subsequently revealed in a somewhat saccharine newspaper interview – had hoped at one stage to marry him.

They were equally astonished that she not only survived those revelations but went on to thrive, seemingly untouched by the scandal.

The extent of Maguire’s wheeling and dealing, some of which he discussed with Berejiklian in recorded phone conversations which featured at the commission’s hearings, had colleagues privately muttering that none of them would have lasted a day more in office had they been in a similar position.

The resignation of the NSW premier is a dramatic political event, but it should not be allowed to cloud the larger issue at stake – the preservation and protection of integrity in the public sector.

 What is under investigation is whether public money $25m was taken from where it should have been allocated and reallocated as a favour to a politician. If that happened it is a disgrace. We have seen too much of this going on, and needs to be exposed for what it is.

 Once the facts were collected they would have been placed before independent persons of the highest integrity. Irrespective of how difficult it would have been to make, the decision would have been taken free of any political considerations.

It stands to ICAC’s credit that it took that difficult decision.

Many have asked whether it was necessary for Berejiklian to resign as premier. My feeling was that her decision was premature – she could have stood aside while the inquiry was conducted.

There are precedents for that. What I am unable to understand is why Berejiklian is being so quick to resign from the parliament.

Shock and cold fury: Berejiklian’s hand reluctantly forced


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