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He says he doesn’t hold the hose. He is the hose and nothing goes past him.  The ghost JFK past directs Morrison not to ask  “what will my country do for me” but “what can I do for my country” and it falls on deaf ears.

The degradation of Australian politics continued this week with the Prime Minister doubling down on his core campaign tactics as he raised a middle digit to the concept of integrity in the use of public funds. Confronted yet again with evidence of corrupt use of government grants, Scott Morrison stuck with the strategy he, his ministers and backbenchers have used ever since his #sportsrorts hit the Auditor-General. Mr Morrison told the National Press Club 23 months ago that there was absolutely nothing wrong with corrupting community sports grants for partisan political purposes, nothing wrong with misleading hundreds of community sporting clubs, nothing wrong with wasting the time of thousands of volunteers applying for funds that would not be granted on merit. “How good are sports rorts?” he may as well have shouted, never mind The New Daily’s collaboration with spreadsheet supersleuth Vince O’Grady to fully disclose the politically corrupt nature of those grants.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Morrison confirms election tactics of lie, deny and deflect

 

"Isn't God amazing!"

2019 ‘election miracle’ actually just shit-tons of dodgy cash

 According to their needs not your's Australia

Hours after a newspaper exposé shone another light on the Coalition government shamelessly funnelling discretionary grants to electorates it holds or wants to win, Labor leader Anthony Albanese warned of a “frenzy” of skewed spending before next year’s election. He probably didn’t expect that less than 24 hours later, his prediction would be starkly laid out in black-and-white line items on Treasury papers.

.... the Coalition government has squirrelled away $16.1 billion in public money on decisions it can’t, or doesn’t want to, tell the country about (yet).

Even if the figure is only half that, as claimed by Treasury officials, then the equivalent of nearly 15 per cent of Australia’s 2025 deficit is solely down to election promises.

 

Source: $16 billion in secret Coalition spending sets up bitter election battle

 

According to his needs not the Nations

 Labor hoped to pick up three key Liberal seats at the 2019 election. Then the money flowed under a series of grants for swimming pools, skate parks and chook sheds.

In Western Australia, money flows into key Liberal-held seats

 

 

Finally, the evidence that the investigation has unearthed demonstrates yet again a National Integrity Commission with appropriate jurisdiction and powers to deal with serious or systemic misuse of public funds is essential.

It also confirms, yet again, why the Government’s proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission is entirely unfit for purpose.

Coalition’s pork-barrelling a mockery of democracy

Behind the data reported by The Age and the Herald there are stories. Stories of local organisations in genuine need, who missed out because they happened not to be located in the right seat. Because the concept of actual merit was conflated with merit in the form of a project’s prospects of aiding a politician’s personal chances, or their party’s chances, of election.

Public funds are scarce. They belong to the public. They must be used for proper, public purposes, and improving a person or party’s chances of election are a resoundingly improper purpose.

Taxpayer money is for public benefit not for buying votes

Fighting Fake News with REAL 22/1/20; Morrison PM- Forget the underlying cause the symptoms are more important; Science has been nobbled for years and has a voice; What Money really does for the LNP;

Australia consumes 1.3 per cent of the world's carbon emissions and profits from the sale of a further 2.6 per cent of the total global emissions. The total is more than 10 times the global per capita. Scott Morrison says it is for the good of Australia's economy and by exclusion he says he doesn't care who is harmed by Australia's profiteering. (M.McCarthy) 

According to Morrison forget the cause of the problem lets adapt to its effects backburning is as important as emissions 

Leading scientists have demanded urgent action on the climate crisis as Prime Minister Scott Morrison defended his government’s policies.

“For decades, climate scientists have been warning Australian governments about the escalating threat of catastrophic bushfire conditions because of climate change,” Dr Beer said.
“I am horrified that what my study found has now occurred and the fact this means it is only going to get worse,” he said.

Leading scientists hit back at PM's soft stance on climate change

 Scientist who linked climate change with bushfires says it’s not too late

“Grants Were Allocated Fairly”, Bridget McKenzie Says From Her Personal, Custom-Built Gymnasium And Swimming Complex – The Shovel



Fake Newsman is back

 

The exactness he expects of others he certainly doesn't expect of himself. Mr Picky is back to take money from our disasters not donate any. He's certainly against "trendsetting". His silence was such an obvious breath of fresh air when the bushfires were at their extreme as were the floods and he was "away". But then that's his definition of empathy. My bet he left the country the ugly Aussie Andrew Bolt 

 BOLT'S LOGIC IS THAT OF A DENIALIST MURDOCH DECLARED "THERE ARE NO DENIALISTS IN HIS ORG". Science has shown with the increased rate of CO2 there has been a concomitant increase in the planet's temperature and that increase has had "indirect" consequences in the trends in global climate and weather extremes we've not seen in the past. Emphasis Mr Bolt on the term "trends" and "extremes" not all particular events. 

Smoking tobacco shows a concomitant trend in lung cancer but not all smokers suffer it does Bolt encourage his kids to smoke because of the lack of a proven 100% connection? If they did and a medico offered what turned out to be a false warning would he damn the medico and medicine? 

 

SAVED BY THE RAIN THE WARMISTS SAID WOULDN'T FALL

December 11: "There will be no relief for drought-ravaged regions over the summer, with Bureau of Meteorology officials [saying] there would be no significant rain until at least April." Yesterday: "Rain across firegrounds in south-eastern Australia has slowed several blazes." The dud prediction is because global warming does not explain our fires. Andrew Bolt

22/01/2020