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Toxic Media: Branch stacking is common to both political parties and has been as far back as we can remember. And yes, it has all the characteristics of unethical behaviour attributed to it. There is no good and bad branch stacking but it has gone on and isn't in itself illegal. 

However, Costello's The Age's headline makes out it's exclusive and unique to Labor and Labor alone when that's far from the truth. The same activities go on in the Liberal Party. Rest assured the Murdoch media will beat this anti-Andrews drum even harder and will carry it through to the November elections.

 Luckily the Victorian Public actually do know the current state of the Liberal Party which  isn't even a choice to consider as an alternative government.

A joint IBAC, Victorian Ombudsman probe into branch stacking within the Victorian Labor Party has catalogued a long list of unethical and inappropriate behaviour.

‘Catalogue of unethical behaviour’: Watchdogs’ report flays state Labor

 

 

The Auspol Bulletin

THIS WOMAN IS NOW DEPUTY LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY.

SHE WITHHELD THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT 2021!

She was the responsible Minister and all this environmental damage happened on her watch and her predecessors.

Why can't we get rid of massively incompetent Ministers for good?

This says as much about the state of the Liberal party as the environment! One is fucked and the other is teetering on the brink!

Surely withholding national reports of importance should be a criminal offence? If not, why not?

GB / AB

(The faces of a dying party....both despicable.....)

“Lying around all day eating grass is lovely. But it’s not exactly contributing to GDP is it"

Nation’s endangered wildlife told to take more personal responsibility for their situation

 

 

 If it were just "jobs for mates" maybe the noise wouldn't be as loud because the drive wouldn't be there to change our Democratic sysyem. However Trump and the GOP took it to another level in America. They parachuted in die-hard Trumpsters to positions in order to alter the structure of the 450 year experiment in Democracy and cement in place an ongoing Autocratic Democracy as witnessed in Hungary.

 Reduce the voting system to a ritual, control the courts and the bureaucracy and have the media onside and you just might achieve a life time of power. The Trumpsters in the LNP  approved of the scheme and promoted the ideas behind closed doors and Morrison began the process. It was to be more than just jobs for mates.

Education, the ABC, the Public Service  Local Councils, all became significant and just as Steve Bannon  had advocated smashing the old bureaucracy and privatise it. Create a new one headed by allies not experts or persons elected on merit but rather chosen for their politics and we saw that happening regularly.

The Fiberal Party of Australia - Lies & Misdemeanours

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"For generations, jobs for mates — or what used to be labelled jobs for the boys — were treated as an unfortunate but inevitable tendency by political parties to look after their own, with both sides disinclined to criticise the other for the practice given both saw it as one of the perks of power.

As Crikey has noted recently, in relation to the appalling award of a $500,000-a-year New York posting to former NSW Nats leader John Barilaro by the NSW government, public tolera…

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The Fiberal Party of Australia - Lies & Misdemeanours

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The Grattan Institute has released a report revealing a shocking level of politicisation in government appointments to public boards, tribunals, advisory councils and agencies.

Painstaking research showed about 7% of those appointed by the federal government to 3,600 public roles have a direct political connection.

The problem was particularly acute for plum board positions – those considered well-paid, prestigious and/or powerful – handed out by the commonwealth. A staggeri… 

“If there’s a perception that the public office is being used for political interests, we see this erosion of trust in government and that impacts the ability of governments to do things … that impacts the ability of Australians to have confidence in democracy, that’s something that’s been falling over time. And ultimately it impacts our future decision-making and institutional capacity in Australia.”

The report also undermined the argument that political appointees were selected for such roles simply because of the value of their experience in politics. It found that political appointments closely align with the individual’s affiliation with the party in power.

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