DownUnder, the Pot Is Boiling…

Is this not enough evidence to get this nasty copper fired?

Melbournistan’s decrepit cops are being replaced by imports from the Punjab?

The government have decided not to renew her contract, in other words…

Holy shit, the refugee jihadi nurses in Sydney who boasted on video that they would kill Jewish patients are now going to the High Court of Australia to argue a free speech challenge

Last post I showed you how the legal corruption works. Now let me show you who’s doing it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Christopher Pyne — Defence Minister. Had discussions with EY about a job while still sitting in cabinet making defence decisions. Left parliament and joined EY’s defence consulting practice nine days later. Nine days. The 18-month cooling-off period? Ignored. Consequences? None.
Julie Bishop — Foreign Minister. Left parliament and joined Palladium, one of the government’s biggest private aid contractors. The company that receives millions in foreign aid contracts from the department she used to run. Cooling-off period? Ignored. Consequences? None.
Andrew Robb — Trade Minister. Personally defended the 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin to Chinese-owned Landbridge while in office. Left parliament in July 2016. Immediately took a role as “high-level consultant” to Landbridge. The same company. The same deal he approved. Consequences? None.
Martin Ferguson — Resources and Energy Minister under Labor. Left parliament. Went straight to lobbying for the resources and energy sector. The industry he regulated. Nobody blinked.
Mark Arbib — Labor Senator. Left parliament. Went to lobby for Crown Casino. The gambling industry that donates to both sides while the government delays gambling reform.
Ben Wyatt — WA Treasurer under Labor. Resigned from parliament in 2021. Joined the boards of Woodside Energy and Rio Tinto, two of the biggest mining companies operating in the state whose budget he controlled.
Mark McGowan — WA Premier under Labor. Resigned in 2023. During his time in office, WA’s mining and resources sector had a major boost. Now on the speaking and advisory circuit, why he left, swept under the carpet.
Former ASIO boss Duncan Lewis — appointed to the board of Thales Australia, a weapons manufacturer, barely making headlines. The nation’s former top spy joining an arms company.
191 of 538 registered lobbyists are former government representatives, more than a third. The people paid to influence government decisions used to be the people making them.
And the lobbying code that’s supposed to prevent this? Zero breaches recorded since 2008. Not because everyone follows the rules. Because the rules were written to be impossible to breach.
Transparency International scored Australia’s lobbying system 17 out of 100. Dead last. And our ranking on the international Corruption Perceptions Index has been declining for a decade.
This is all legal. Every bit of it. They wrote the rules to make sure it would be.
That’s not democracy. That’s an auction. And you’re not bidding.
What’s your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James

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