No, but I welcome more transparency and so should you. If Crikey are simply presenting to the public what the employees of the people should but won’t, or FOI and its deliberately under resourced, stymied and inefficient by design apparatus can’t, then bring it on and see who doth protest too much. If it’s stuff about where they get their back, sack and crack then you’ve got a point.
Not every expression of a desire to know more about how we’re being governed needs your scorn. You like to say we get who we deserve, but that doesn’t extend to paper bags from the Federal Group or some such. Journalists aren’t all carnts either, they’re vital to a healthy ecosystem. See what’s happening across the pond.
I, for one, would love to know exactly what the gambling industry has given to the ALP which made them avoid implementing recommendations from their own senator.
I actually hold no interest in who a Minister talks with. As long as they do their job and govern for all then I have no issue. I currently have a dispute with my local Council, over a funding application that they submitted to the Feds which was rejected as non-compliant on audit. Didn’t even get to the Minister for final approval.
Question is whether the application was non-compliant because of incompetence or a deliberate act to be able to bucket the Local Federal Member and Labor.
Shire CEO will not talk to me, and refuses to supply a copy of the funding application. Have done FOI, but I will be dead before I get it. Very poor governance on part of CEO, and I can sometimes level this at Federal & State Ministers, nothing at all to do with lobbying.
bacchus would have the filthy bourgeoisie sit down, shut up and be grateful for the filthy policy slop the ‘elected’ officials so graciously feed down to them
I guess outside of the political world you actually have to prove your point rather than just declare you have, and possess an actual curiosity about people rather than faking it. I’m seeing one of three close friends who are journos next weekend. She’ll be pleased with the description of carnt. I suspect when she was under a tank in Kosovo a few years back a bit of carnt got her through. She’s fascinating, beautiful and a very good person.
This coming weekend is a huge moment for Labor for the election. It’s make or break.
You hate to look at natural disasters as a political tool, but we’ve seen opinion polling significantly effected after a disaster.
I imagine Labor is geared up, and have the cheque book ready this weekend. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Albanese and Chalmers sandbagging community centres over the next few days.
These disasters also have an impact on public ‘most important issues’, elevating climate change…… and potentially elevating the Greens and Teals.
Speculation Labor will call the election on Monday - so as to avoid delivering a budget. I don’t think they will or should because it wouldn’t be a good look calling an election as people in NSW and QLD are trying to save their homes or clean up.
I don’t mind or really care. Take people on their merits. I know two policemen who have been utter carnts since primary school, and went duck to water in their chosen field, and one who is one of the most selfless and contributing members of society I’ve ever met. Accordingly I have a wariness of a certain type that goes in for authority but I don’t tar them all with the same brush. Whatevs. A world without checks and balances is probably not one any of us want to live in.
