Turnbull - good decisions

[Outlaw Yogi]

Shortens hands are far from clean.

Indeed, but they're all dodgey.
Gillard took union kickbacks and made payments on her house, plus set up Craig Thomson's slush fund.

Interesting that Thomson stole $400k and is in gaol/jail, but Kathy Jackson stole $1.4mil and gets to keep her house.

As for Malcolm "water privatisation" Turnbull, well his role in Oz's largest corporate failure - collapse of HIH - is about to have some potentially dirty laundry aired.

[mantra]

They're all susceptible to corruption - aside from the Greens who don't appear to have any criminals amongst them so far. The major parties believe rorting is OK - they just use different excuses to justify it. Neither party shows any restraint.

Federal politicians claimed almost $48 million in expenses over the first six months of 2015, new documents have revealed.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-03/f ... es/6999498

[Black Orchid]

I only skimmed the link above but I noticed that Nova Peris has claimed more for "family travel expenses" than Bill Shorten, Barnaby Joyce, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey or Tanya Pilbersek. Suck it dry while you can Nova?

Adam Bandt had spent $323,697 on "office fit outs". Once again I only skimmed the list but I didn't notice any other "office fit outs".

[mantra]

Joyce spent twice the amount on office fit outs than Bandt, not that it makes any difference in the scheme of things. These expenses can't be justified while most voters are struggling to keep their heads above water financially.

The latest expenditure report for MPs and senators found that Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce had the highest total, registering $1,073,991.45 in expenses during the period, followed by Justice Minister Michael Keenan and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

Mr Joyce also claimed the largest amount on office fit outs, totalling more than $670,000.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-03/f ... es/6999498

[Outlaw Yogi]

Shortens hands are far from clean.

Indeed, but they're all dodgey.
Gillard took union kickbacks and made payments on her house, plus set up Craig Thomson's slush fund.

Interesting that Thomson stole $400k and is in gaol/jail, but Kathy Jackson stole $1.4mil and gets to keep her house.

As for Malcolm "water privatisation" Turnbull, well his role in Oz's largest corporate failure - collapse of HIH - is about to have some potentially dirty laundry aired.

CORRECTION: Gillard took union kickbacks and used it for renovations on her house, plus set up Bruce Wilson's slush fund.

[mantra]

Gillard took union kickbacks and used it for renovations on her house, plus set up Bruce Wilson's slush fund.

All solicitors prepare dodgy contracts at some time or other. It's how they earn a living. As far as the $5,000 given to her for home renovations, why would she question it? No doubt her boyfriend had plenty of cash at the time and she didn't even think about it. She was cleared anyway.

[Black Orchid]

You would be hard pushed trying to find a politician from either side nowadays who didn't take kick backs or use their position for personal gain.

It's the whole reason they choose politics. None of them care about Australia or Australians anymore. They only care about what can get out of it.

[skippy]

I'm not sure today's announcements will be seen as good decisions by Malcolm.
A Minister resigning and Brough finally "stepping aside" doesn't look too good.
He also has the Nationals on the war path undermining him.
Brough should have been dumped weeks ago.
Lucky for Malcolm he has a numpty like Shorten as opposition leader.
http://www.news.com.au/national/politic ... 246c86964d

[IQS.RLOW]

Meh...plenty of ministerial resignations and reshuffles have occurred in the past due to behaviour and travel rorts etc. Howard lost heaps in his first term.

[mantra]

There are calls to restore Abbott to the front bench - and that isn't a bad idea. Turnbull has at least gotten rid of 2 unreliable ministers so there is a gap that needs to be filled. If Turnbull has got the guts to do that, then it will show that he's confident in himself and doesn't feel threatened.

Malcolm Turnbull is being urged to restore former prime minister Tony Abbott to a prominent frontbench position when the Prime Minister reshuffles his ministry - likely in February following the resignations of junior ministers Jamie Briggs and Mal Brough.

Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal ... z3vpBdyVI2