The longer this farce plays out the sillier it gets and now Peta Credlin swings the spotlight back onto scandal ridden Greeny controlled Labor.
'You gotta love Labor's political hypocrisy'
24/01/2020|5min
VIDEO: Peta Credlin explains “you gotta love Labor’s political hypocrisy when it comes to the sports rorts scandal” https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6126125845001
Sky News host Peta Credlin says “you gotta love Labor’s political hypocrisy when it comes to the sports rorts scandal”.
This comes after a number of Facebook posts from Labor MPs emerged showing certain electorates benefitting from the grants.
“But old mate [Anthony Albanese] wasn’t Robinson Crusoe amongst Labor frontbenchers . All of them happy to take these cheques then and now cry rort after the May election loss,” Ms Credlin said.
“This is what voters hate - the hypocrisy, the gameplaying”.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6126125845001
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The Greeny BRossy is excited by all this anti Govt stuff. But it is all a storm in a tea cup as Labor has done exactly the same sort of thing.
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Labor will be getting nervous about their many scandals being exposed.
The answer thus far is pretty simple: because he believes the fallout will be manageable and this issue will pass.
If or when he believes otherwise she is gone.
Sadly politics has little resemblance to moral issues of right or wrong, merely about the cost of losing or in this case for SCOMO supporting the incumbent.
I seem to remember during the Gillard days - misogyny was terrible when cited about TA.... but the turncoat speaker was a protected species when the numbers were required.
If Peter Slipper was not vital for a vote count he too would have been gone, but no..... the speaker had the full support of the PM.
And what about Gillard's support of Thommo!!!!
Had she followed the recommendations even less labor seats would have gotten funding. No laws broken. Seems like a pile on.
Sports rorts: Why PM Scott Morrison hasn’t sacked Bridget McKenzie
PETER VAN ONSELEN 10:58AM JANUARY 28, 2020
Bridget McKenzie continues to feel the heat over the sports rorts affair. Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP
Plenty of Australians must be wondering why the Prime Minister won’t just sack Bridget McKenzie over the sports rorts affair and be done with it. The Auditor General found that the guidelines for allocating $100m in taxpayers funds were breached. Sport Australia recommendations were ignored. Coalition marginal seats were favoured.
Surely all of that should result in instant dismissal right?
Wrong. Not when you consider all the ancillary issues in the mix. That is, the political calculations going on behind the scenes.
Don’t get me wrong, I have been calling for Scott Morrison to sack McKenzie from the get go. He has the authority and he should use it. It is high time politics and pork barrelling in this country was cleaned up.
But that isn’t the way political operatives like Morrison think.
He would be worried about what she might do after being sacked: possibly spilling the beans on the involvement of others in the grants process. As this newspaper reported on the weekend, the PM’s office had a hand in the allocation of grants, and I bet the tentacles of this sorry saga don’t end there.
The PM wants a clean and crisp excuse for getting rid of her which won’t feed back into who else might have been involved in the sports rorts scandal. The pathway to that is the investigation his head of department (and Morrison’s former chief of staff) is doing. That is, looking into if she breached the ministerial code of conduct in one narrow respect: not declaring a membership of an organisation a grant went to.
If she can be dumped on that grounds alone, everyone else is protected and can carry on. So the PM will wait for that investigation to conclude, and if he does act he will act on that and that alone.
It’s inspiring stuff.
Then you have to consider the many other pork barrelling opportunities that the government may have taken up which are yet to be exposed. Which haven’t yet undergone the scrutiny of an Auditor General’s report. Nationals leader Michael McCormack is no doubt concerned about exactly that, which partly explains why he is lobbying against McKenzie getting the boot.
The other reason McCormack doesn’t want to lose his deputy is because doing so opens the door for a Barnaby Joyce comeback — onto the front bench and perhaps into the deputy leadership. And the return of Joyce wouldn’t end there: the former leader would no doubt eye off another step up, stealing McCormack’s job at some point down the track.
Morrison like all good Liberal leaders wants to try and maintain a healthy relationship with the Nationals. Sacking McKenzie against their wishes makes that harder.
And Joyce returning to the front bench fold would mean that the Nationals are less likely to be as subservient in the Coalition relationship as they currently are.
A weak Nationals leader suits Morrison, who isn’t well known for his collaborative skills.
Then you have to consider the hypocrisy of easing McKenzie out but not having acted against Angus Taylor, for example, whose office is currently under police investigation, no less, for allegedly using a forged document to vexatiously attack the Sydney City Lord Mayor.
Finally, there is the conventional wisdom that sacking ministers is a bad look, can harm morale internally and it is better to ride out a crisis and hope that other issues take attention off elsewhere. This was the cynical lesson John Howard learned after sacking a bunch of ministers in his first term for electoral entitlements abuses before battening down the hatches and not doing the same for a decade.
Morrison no doubt has that precedent on his mind too.
These are all complicated political calculations, when doing the right thing is rather obvious and simple. McKenzie should be sacked, and not for the narrow reason she perhaps will be.
But unfortunately politics is rarely about doing the right thing these days.
Peter van Onselen is the Political Editor at Network 10 and a professor of politics and public policy and the University of Western Australia and Griffith University.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commen ... 4bab609aa2
The answer thus far is pretty simple: because he believes the fallout will be manageable and this issue will pass.
If or when he believes otherwise she is gone.
Sadly politics has little resemblance to moral issues of right or wrong, merely about the cost of losing or in this case for SCOMO supporting the incumbent.
I seem to remember during the Gillard days - misogyny was terrible when cited about TA.... but the turncoat speaker was a protected species when the numbers were required.
If Peter Slipper was not vital for a vote count he too would have been gone, but no..... the speaker had the full support of the PM.
And what about Gillard's support of Thommo!!!!
Had she followed the recommendations even less labor seats would have gotten funding. No laws broken. Seems like a pile on.
Sports rorts: Why PM Scott Morrison hasn’t sacked Bridget McKenzie
PETER VAN ONSELEN 10:58AM JANUARY 28, 2020
Bridget McKenzie continues to feel the heat over the sports rorts affair. Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP
Plenty of Australians must be wondering why the Prime Minister won’t just sack Bridget McKenzie over the sports rorts affair and be done with it. The Auditor General found that the guidelines for allocating $100m in taxpayers funds were breached. Sport Australia recommendations were ignored. Coalition marginal seats were favoured.
Surely all of that should result in instant dismissal right?
Wrong. Not when you consider all the ancillary issues in the mix. That is, the political calculations going on behind the scenes.
Don’t get me wrong, I have been calling for Scott Morrison to sack McKenzie from the get go. He has the authority and he should use it. It is high time politics and pork barrelling in this country was cleaned up.
But that isn’t the way political operatives like Morrison think.
He would be worried about what she might do after being sacked: possibly spilling the beans on the involvement of others in the grants process. As this newspaper reported on the weekend, the PM’s office had a hand in the allocation of grants, and I bet the tentacles of this sorry saga don’t end there.
The PM wants a clean and crisp excuse for getting rid of her which won’t feed back into who else might have been involved in the sports rorts scandal. The pathway to that is the investigation his head of department (and Morrison’s former chief of staff) is doing. That is, looking into if she breached the ministerial code of conduct in one narrow respect: not declaring a membership of an organisation a grant went to.
If she can be dumped on that grounds alone, everyone else is protected and can carry on. So the PM will wait for that investigation to conclude, and if he does act he will act on that and that alone.
It’s inspiring stuff.
Then you have to consider the many other pork barrelling opportunities that the government may have taken up which are yet to be exposed. Which haven’t yet undergone the scrutiny of an Auditor General’s report. Nationals leader Michael McCormack is no doubt concerned about exactly that, which partly explains why he is lobbying against McKenzie getting the boot.
The other reason McCormack doesn’t want to lose his deputy is because doing so opens the door for a Barnaby Joyce comeback — onto the front bench and perhaps into the deputy leadership. And the return of Joyce wouldn’t end there: the former leader would no doubt eye off another step up, stealing McCormack’s job at some point down the track.
Morrison like all good Liberal leaders wants to try and maintain a healthy relationship with the Nationals. Sacking McKenzie against their wishes makes that harder.
And Joyce returning to the front bench fold would mean that the Nationals are less likely to be as subservient in the Coalition relationship as they currently are.
A weak Nationals leader suits Morrison, who isn’t well known for his collaborative skills.
Then you have to consider the hypocrisy of easing McKenzie out but not having acted against Angus Taylor, for example, whose office is currently under police investigation, no less, for allegedly using a forged document to vexatiously attack the Sydney City Lord Mayor.
Finally, there is the conventional wisdom that sacking ministers is a bad look, can harm morale internally and it is better to ride out a crisis and hope that other issues take attention off elsewhere. This was the cynical lesson John Howard learned after sacking a bunch of ministers in his first term for electoral entitlements abuses before battening down the hatches and not doing the same for a decade.
Morrison no doubt has that precedent on his mind too.
These are all complicated political calculations, when doing the right thing is rather obvious and simple. McKenzie should be sacked, and not for the narrow reason she perhaps will be.
But unfortunately politics is rarely about doing the right thing these days.
Peter van Onselen is the Political Editor at Network 10 and a professor of politics and public policy and the University of Western Australia and Griffith University.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commen ... 4bab609aa2
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Is cunning ScoMo about to pull the rug out from under the Greeny controlled Labor Party and their clumsy amateurish Political Propaganda Arm GetUp! in one fell swoop ?
Sport grants not about political wins: PM
Matt Coughlan AAP Wednesday, 29 January 2020 3:20PM
Scott Morrison says the grants scheme engulfing Bridget McKenzie and the government broke no rules.
Scott Morrison has left the door open to expanding a controversial sports grants scheme to clubs that missed out.
The prime minister insisted the scandal-plagued grants scheme engulfing his government broke no rules, but said guidelines were another matter.
Mr Morrison denied the $100 million scheme was used for political benefit despite a damning auditor-general's report finding marginal and targeted seats were favoured before last year's election.
He didn't rule out funding rejected projects, many of which ranked well above Sport Australia's threshold in the agency's assessments.
"I will work with the treasurer to see how we can better support even more projects in the future," the prime minister told the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday.
Former sports minister Bridget McKenzie is under pressure to resign over the scandal, with the head of the prime minister's department investigating if ministerial rules were broken.
"As the auditor-general found, the rules were followed. Guidelines are separate issues," Mr Morrison said.
The prime minister was asked if it was wrong to use public money for political benefit.
"That's not why I did it and that's not why the government did it," he said.
Hundreds of applications met the agency's threshold but were denied funding after ministerial intervention.
Senator McKenzie, who is the Nationals' deputy leader, has refused to resign but party room colleagues and the prime minister aren't guaranteeing her future.
Mr Morrison defended politicians' right to overrule advice from government agencies like Sport Australia.
"We're part of our community. We know what's happening in our community. We're in touch with our community," he said.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said it was a scandal of massive proportions.
"Every day that Bridget McKenzie stays as a cabinet minister, it undermines faith in our democracy," he told reporters in Melbourne.
"Anyone who looks at this knows that this is just a complete rort."
Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles said leaving the door open to funding more clubs was the prime minister's attempt to avoid responsibility for the issue.
Nationals frontbencher Darren Chester - a potential cabinet replacement for Senator McKenzie if she is axed - refused to publicly defend his fellow Victorian.
A roller derby club in Mr Chester's Gippsland electorate did not receive government funding, despite being ranked 98 out of 100 on the scale of most worthy recipients.
"The greatest deficit we face right now in Australian politics has nothing to do with the budget, it's a deficit in the trust between us and the public we represent," he told ABC radio.
Nationals leader Michael McCormack is waiting to see the outcome of Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Philip Gaetjens' investigation.
Sport Australia warned Senator McKenzie's office about politicising the grants scheme in March last year, just ahead of the May election.
Mr Gaetjens is also scrutinising a $36,000 grant Senator McKenzie awarded to a Victorian shooting club to which she belonged.
https://thewest.com.au/politics/mckenzi ... -s-1991928
Sport grants not about political wins: PM
Matt Coughlan AAP Wednesday, 29 January 2020 3:20PM
Scott Morrison says the grants scheme engulfing Bridget McKenzie and the government broke no rules.
Scott Morrison has left the door open to expanding a controversial sports grants scheme to clubs that missed out.
The prime minister insisted the scandal-plagued grants scheme engulfing his government broke no rules, but said guidelines were another matter.
Mr Morrison denied the $100 million scheme was used for political benefit despite a damning auditor-general's report finding marginal and targeted seats were favoured before last year's election.
He didn't rule out funding rejected projects, many of which ranked well above Sport Australia's threshold in the agency's assessments.
"I will work with the treasurer to see how we can better support even more projects in the future," the prime minister told the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday.
Former sports minister Bridget McKenzie is under pressure to resign over the scandal, with the head of the prime minister's department investigating if ministerial rules were broken.
"As the auditor-general found, the rules were followed. Guidelines are separate issues," Mr Morrison said.
The prime minister was asked if it was wrong to use public money for political benefit.
"That's not why I did it and that's not why the government did it," he said.
Hundreds of applications met the agency's threshold but were denied funding after ministerial intervention.
Senator McKenzie, who is the Nationals' deputy leader, has refused to resign but party room colleagues and the prime minister aren't guaranteeing her future.
Mr Morrison defended politicians' right to overrule advice from government agencies like Sport Australia.
"We're part of our community. We know what's happening in our community. We're in touch with our community," he said.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said it was a scandal of massive proportions.
"Every day that Bridget McKenzie stays as a cabinet minister, it undermines faith in our democracy," he told reporters in Melbourne.
"Anyone who looks at this knows that this is just a complete rort."
Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles said leaving the door open to funding more clubs was the prime minister's attempt to avoid responsibility for the issue.
Nationals frontbencher Darren Chester - a potential cabinet replacement for Senator McKenzie if she is axed - refused to publicly defend his fellow Victorian.
A roller derby club in Mr Chester's Gippsland electorate did not receive government funding, despite being ranked 98 out of 100 on the scale of most worthy recipients.
"The greatest deficit we face right now in Australian politics has nothing to do with the budget, it's a deficit in the trust between us and the public we represent," he told ABC radio.
Nationals leader Michael McCormack is waiting to see the outcome of Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Philip Gaetjens' investigation.
Sport Australia warned Senator McKenzie's office about politicising the grants scheme in March last year, just ahead of the May election.
Mr Gaetjens is also scrutinising a $36,000 grant Senator McKenzie awarded to a Victorian shooting club to which she belonged.
https://thewest.com.au/politics/mckenzi ... -s-1991928
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Oh, dear, another patch of pooh for Bridget to step in... 
I hounded Ros Kelly until she resigned, but Bridget McKenzie's sports rorts are worse
I hounded Ros Kelly until she resigned, but Bridget McKenzie's sports rorts are worse
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Frothing at the mouth GetUp! is furiously digging up whatever they can find whether it is valid or not as they pursue the fruitless chase of Bridget.
The trouble is cunning ScoMo is always 10 steps ahead of the clumsy amateurish GetUp! which is the Political Propaganda Arm of the Labor Party.
ScoMo has outflanked, outwitted and outsmarted the bumbling fumbling GetUp! who must be the dregs of the political scene.
The trouble is cunning ScoMo is always 10 steps ahead of the clumsy amateurish GetUp! which is the Political Propaganda Arm of the Labor Party.
ScoMo has outflanked, outwitted and outsmarted the bumbling fumbling GetUp! who must be the dregs of the political scene.
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The credibility of BRossy's Socialist AIM site is dubious indeed.
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Unable to tackle the message - as per usual, hey, Juliar? You've chosen to instead attack the messenger. Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Such a poor, poor debater you've turned out to be. Tsk, tsk. 
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