Is AnAl choking on his own bulldust and getting stage fright ?
Albanese goes cold in Labor’s lacklustre first Question Time
ALICE WORKMAN 4:42PM FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese during Question Time on Wednesday. Picture: AAP
Albo’s woes
Anthony Albanese was subtly passed some throat spray during question time on Wednesday, not that you’ll see a photograph of it.
Albanese popped the anti-inflammatory in his pocket, afraid the press gallery might pap him taking a puff.
During a division, the Labor leader flashed it at Speaker Tony Smith to explain why he wanted to quickly step out of the chamber.
His request was denied. Could that be the explanation for Labor’s lacklustre first question time of 2020? But, hang on a second — flu-like symptoms, such as coughing, sore throat and fatigue?
Could Albanese have been struck down by the beer virus?
Unlike Scott Morrison, Albanese has met many people who have been willing to shake his hand this summer.
Albanese’s team dismissed Strewth’s wild theories, explaining he’d just picked up a cold (probably due to all the time spent on the road in the past few months without a holiday).
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Re: Labor scandals back in vogue
Cunning ScoMo is many times smarter than dull plodding AnAl and so ScoMo turns the blowlamp full onto shuddering AnAl and blasts him out of the ring with GetUp's FAKE NEWS about Angus. When the going get tough the tough get going and another landslide victory to the ScoMo team is now being widely forecast by expert observers.
All Bridget was doing was following Labor tried and true pork barrelling book, the one Albo was using in 2011, what a hypocrite
Now I will show my surprise face.
"had to go back a decade" - that's the about last time they were in office.
The ALP is a home for hypocrites, the leading hypocrites being also funded by the taxpayer.
Josh Frydenberg accuses Anthony Albanese of hypocrisy over sports rorts scandal
RICHARD FERGUSON 6:12PM FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Anthony Albanese pictured in Canberra in 2011.
The Morrison government has accused Anthony Albanese of “hypocrisy” over the sport rorts scandal, pointing to an Auditor-General’s report that found the Labor leader administered a grants program that “disproportionately” gave money to Labor seats when he was infrastructure minister.
An Australian National Audit Office report in 2011 found ministers “waived” the eligibility criteria for projects funded by Labor’s Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program, and that a number of projects from Coalition seats did not get funding.
Frydenberg: "Hypocrisy, thy name is Labor". Josh Frydenberg hit back at Anthony Albanese over the sports rort scandal.
“Whilst the majority of applications received related to projects located in a Coalition-held electorate (55 per cent of all applications), the significant majority (some 82 per cent) of these were not approved for funding,” the 2011 audit office report reads.
“Whilst 40.3 per cent of all applications related to a project in an ALP-held electorate, just under 60 per cent of approved projects were in an ALP-held electorate. The approval rate for these applications was 42.1 per cent, which was more than twice that of projects located in a Coalition-held electorate.
“Projects located in electorates held by the ALP and independent members were more successful at being awarded funding than those located in electorates held by the Coalition parties.”
The report also found Mr Albanese’s office had set out the projects by electorate, in a similar way to the colour-coded spreadsheets former minister Bridget McKenzie used for the controversial sports grant scheme.
“In addition to the data originally provided by the department, two new columns were added to the worksheet to identify the electorate in which the project was located and the political party that held that electorate,” the report reads. “The individual project risk assessments provided to the minister’s office by the department on 15 April 2009 had identified the electorate in which each short-listed project was located.”
Mr Albanese has for weeks accused the Morrison government of “corruption” for handing out sport grants disproportionately to target Coalition seats ahead of last May’s federal election.
The 2011 report into the infrastructure grants does not mention the same distribution bias towards marginal seats as the most recent audit office report into the sports grants scheme.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg goes on the attack during Question Time. Picture: AAP
Mr Albanese defended his scheme on Thursday and pointed out the audit office had not found there was an “intention” to boost one party over another.
“I quote from the report: ‘In addition to providing what was considered to be a reasonable geographical spread of approved funding’ — tick — ‘stopping the proportion of total funding awarded on an electric basis was consistent with the proportion of seats in the House of Representatives — tick,” Mr Albanese said.
“Four largest grants, none of them in a Labor seat — not one.
“The fact is, the reason why Josh Frydenberg had to go back a decade and didn’t use a single example of a single project was because there isn’t one.”
The Treasurer had used the report in federal parliament to attack the Opposition Leader and accuse him of hypocrisy.
“I’m reminded that there was an ANAO report number 3, 10-11, into a $550 million infrastructure program,” the Treasurer said.
“The Auditor-General went on to say on page 48, and I quote: ‘The awarding of funding to projects disproportionately favoured ALP seats.’ In fact, the Auditor-General found when it came to funding, ALP electorates had a success rate almost three times the Coalition.”
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All Bridget was doing was following Labor tried and true pork barrelling book, the one Albo was using in 2011, what a hypocrite
Now I will show my surprise face.
"had to go back a decade" - that's the about last time they were in office.
The ALP is a home for hypocrites, the leading hypocrites being also funded by the taxpayer.
Josh Frydenberg accuses Anthony Albanese of hypocrisy over sports rorts scandal
RICHARD FERGUSON 6:12PM FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Anthony Albanese pictured in Canberra in 2011.
The Morrison government has accused Anthony Albanese of “hypocrisy” over the sport rorts scandal, pointing to an Auditor-General’s report that found the Labor leader administered a grants program that “disproportionately” gave money to Labor seats when he was infrastructure minister.
An Australian National Audit Office report in 2011 found ministers “waived” the eligibility criteria for projects funded by Labor’s Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program, and that a number of projects from Coalition seats did not get funding.
Frydenberg: "Hypocrisy, thy name is Labor". Josh Frydenberg hit back at Anthony Albanese over the sports rort scandal.
“Whilst the majority of applications received related to projects located in a Coalition-held electorate (55 per cent of all applications), the significant majority (some 82 per cent) of these were not approved for funding,” the 2011 audit office report reads.
“Whilst 40.3 per cent of all applications related to a project in an ALP-held electorate, just under 60 per cent of approved projects were in an ALP-held electorate. The approval rate for these applications was 42.1 per cent, which was more than twice that of projects located in a Coalition-held electorate.
“Projects located in electorates held by the ALP and independent members were more successful at being awarded funding than those located in electorates held by the Coalition parties.”
The report also found Mr Albanese’s office had set out the projects by electorate, in a similar way to the colour-coded spreadsheets former minister Bridget McKenzie used for the controversial sports grant scheme.
“In addition to the data originally provided by the department, two new columns were added to the worksheet to identify the electorate in which the project was located and the political party that held that electorate,” the report reads. “The individual project risk assessments provided to the minister’s office by the department on 15 April 2009 had identified the electorate in which each short-listed project was located.”
Mr Albanese has for weeks accused the Morrison government of “corruption” for handing out sport grants disproportionately to target Coalition seats ahead of last May’s federal election.
The 2011 report into the infrastructure grants does not mention the same distribution bias towards marginal seats as the most recent audit office report into the sports grants scheme.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg goes on the attack during Question Time. Picture: AAP
Mr Albanese defended his scheme on Thursday and pointed out the audit office had not found there was an “intention” to boost one party over another.
“I quote from the report: ‘In addition to providing what was considered to be a reasonable geographical spread of approved funding’ — tick — ‘stopping the proportion of total funding awarded on an electric basis was consistent with the proportion of seats in the House of Representatives — tick,” Mr Albanese said.
“Four largest grants, none of them in a Labor seat — not one.
“The fact is, the reason why Josh Frydenberg had to go back a decade and didn’t use a single example of a single project was because there isn’t one.”
The Treasurer had used the report in federal parliament to attack the Opposition Leader and accuse him of hypocrisy.
“I’m reminded that there was an ANAO report number 3, 10-11, into a $550 million infrastructure program,” the Treasurer said.
“The Auditor-General went on to say on page 48, and I quote: ‘The awarding of funding to projects disproportionately favoured ALP seats.’ In fact, the Auditor-General found when it came to funding, ALP electorates had a success rate almost three times the Coalition.”
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Re: Labor scandals back in vogue
Poor old AnAl rushes in where Angels fear to tread and gets caught in the trap laid by the vastly smarter ScoMo every time and Another GetUp! FAKE NEWS fiasco hits the dust.
ScoMo and Angus emerge unscathed and triumphant once again. The Good Lord is looking after ScoMo.
Was the fake document produced by a GetUp! spy in Angus's office ?
Angus Taylor: AFP drops investigation into doctored documents scandal
Paul Karp and Anne Davies Thu 6 Feb 2020 14.48 AEDTLast modified on Thu 6 Feb 2020 18.53 AEDT
Really what hope does the Greeny Labor Coalition have with AnAl and Adam Bushfires Bandicoot ?
VIDEO: Attorney general responds to AFP dropping Angus Taylor investigation:- https://youtu.be/GEQtnHBi9ZI
The Australian federal police has dropped its investigation into a doctored document used by energy minister Angus Taylor to attack Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore’s record on climate change.
On Thursday the AFP confirmed it had finalised the matter because it had “determined it is unlikely further investigation will result in obtaining sufficient evidence to substantiate a commonwealth offence”.
“The AFP assessment of this matter identified there is no evidence to indicate the minister for energy and emissions reduction was involved in falsifying information,” an AFP spokesman said.
“The low level of harm and the apology made by the [minister] to the Lord Mayor of Sydney, along with the significant level of resources required to investigate were also factored into the decision not to pursue this matter.”
Taylor welcomed the news and accused Labor of a “track record of using police referrals as a political tool”.
“The leader of the opposition [Anthony Albanese] and shadow attorney-general [Mark Dreyfus]’s pursuit of this matter is a shameful abuse of their office and a waste of our policing agencies’ time,” he said in a statement.
But Dreyfus and shadow climate change minister Mark Butler said that “serious questions remain unanswered” about the scandal because “two police investigations have now failed to clarify where Angus Taylor got his dodgy figures from”.
Clover Moore said: “I am shocked and disappointed the AFP will not further investigate the matter and shed light on a situation that has further eroded the community’s faith in the federal government.”
The document, which contained grossly inflated travel figures for the 10 Sydney city councillors – it claimed they had spent $15m in a year – was quoted in a letter sent by Taylor to Moore on 29 September and provided to the Daily Telegraph, which used the figures in an article published the same day.
Labor referred the issue to the New South Wales police in October, questioning whether the document constituted a forgery used to influence an official in the conduct of their duty, and whether Taylor could have committed an offence by failing to report it.
The NSW police established strike force Garrad to investigate, but Taylor did not stand down, receiving the backing of Scott Morrison to stay in his ministerial position.
Morrison personally contacted the NSW police commissioner, Mick Fuller, by phone, leading to allegations, which were strongly denied, he had influenced the investigation.
In November Fuller said he believed the matter would be wrapped up in a week. “To be honest with you, I actually don’t feel as though the allegations themselves are serious, in terms of the things that I would normally stand up and talk about the types of crimes,” he said.
On 20 December, the NSW Police referred the matter to the AFP, reportedly because if any crime were committed, it would have occurred in Canberra, not Sydney.
Taylor has “unreservedly” apologised to Moore for relying on the falsified figures but has denied consistently that either he, or anyone in his office, altered the City of Sydney document to inflate travel expenditure. Taylor has said the document with the incorrect numbers was obtained from the council website.
But the council has produced evidence showing that its publicly available annual reports has only ever contained accurate figures. Metadata and screenshots from the council’s content management system showed the annual reports on its website had not been changed since they were originally uploaded.
In a statement Dreyfus and Butler noted Taylor had assured parliament the fabricated report was “directly downloaded” from the City of Sydney Council website but public archives show “the correct version of the report was on the internet all through 2019”.
“If Angus Taylor continues to refuse to come clean, then the prime minister must order a proper, independent and transparent investigation into his minister, and commit to making the findings public.”
Moore said it was “nearly beyond belief that the minster is still, after months of intense scrutiny, yet to explain the origin of the fraudulent document he used to accuse the City of egregious spending on travel”.
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ScoMo and Angus emerge unscathed and triumphant once again. The Good Lord is looking after ScoMo.
Was the fake document produced by a GetUp! spy in Angus's office ?
Angus Taylor: AFP drops investigation into doctored documents scandal
Paul Karp and Anne Davies Thu 6 Feb 2020 14.48 AEDTLast modified on Thu 6 Feb 2020 18.53 AEDT
Really what hope does the Greeny Labor Coalition have with AnAl and Adam Bushfires Bandicoot ?
VIDEO: Attorney general responds to AFP dropping Angus Taylor investigation:- https://youtu.be/GEQtnHBi9ZI
The Australian federal police has dropped its investigation into a doctored document used by energy minister Angus Taylor to attack Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore’s record on climate change.
On Thursday the AFP confirmed it had finalised the matter because it had “determined it is unlikely further investigation will result in obtaining sufficient evidence to substantiate a commonwealth offence”.
“The AFP assessment of this matter identified there is no evidence to indicate the minister for energy and emissions reduction was involved in falsifying information,” an AFP spokesman said.
“The low level of harm and the apology made by the [minister] to the Lord Mayor of Sydney, along with the significant level of resources required to investigate were also factored into the decision not to pursue this matter.”
Taylor welcomed the news and accused Labor of a “track record of using police referrals as a political tool”.
“The leader of the opposition [Anthony Albanese] and shadow attorney-general [Mark Dreyfus]’s pursuit of this matter is a shameful abuse of their office and a waste of our policing agencies’ time,” he said in a statement.
But Dreyfus and shadow climate change minister Mark Butler said that “serious questions remain unanswered” about the scandal because “two police investigations have now failed to clarify where Angus Taylor got his dodgy figures from”.
Clover Moore said: “I am shocked and disappointed the AFP will not further investigate the matter and shed light on a situation that has further eroded the community’s faith in the federal government.”
The document, which contained grossly inflated travel figures for the 10 Sydney city councillors – it claimed they had spent $15m in a year – was quoted in a letter sent by Taylor to Moore on 29 September and provided to the Daily Telegraph, which used the figures in an article published the same day.
Labor referred the issue to the New South Wales police in October, questioning whether the document constituted a forgery used to influence an official in the conduct of their duty, and whether Taylor could have committed an offence by failing to report it.
The NSW police established strike force Garrad to investigate, but Taylor did not stand down, receiving the backing of Scott Morrison to stay in his ministerial position.
Morrison personally contacted the NSW police commissioner, Mick Fuller, by phone, leading to allegations, which were strongly denied, he had influenced the investigation.
In November Fuller said he believed the matter would be wrapped up in a week. “To be honest with you, I actually don’t feel as though the allegations themselves are serious, in terms of the things that I would normally stand up and talk about the types of crimes,” he said.
On 20 December, the NSW Police referred the matter to the AFP, reportedly because if any crime were committed, it would have occurred in Canberra, not Sydney.
Taylor has “unreservedly” apologised to Moore for relying on the falsified figures but has denied consistently that either he, or anyone in his office, altered the City of Sydney document to inflate travel expenditure. Taylor has said the document with the incorrect numbers was obtained from the council website.
But the council has produced evidence showing that its publicly available annual reports has only ever contained accurate figures. Metadata and screenshots from the council’s content management system showed the annual reports on its website had not been changed since they were originally uploaded.
In a statement Dreyfus and Butler noted Taylor had assured parliament the fabricated report was “directly downloaded” from the City of Sydney Council website but public archives show “the correct version of the report was on the internet all through 2019”.
“If Angus Taylor continues to refuse to come clean, then the prime minister must order a proper, independent and transparent investigation into his minister, and commit to making the findings public.”
Moore said it was “nearly beyond belief that the minster is still, after months of intense scrutiny, yet to explain the origin of the fraudulent document he used to accuse the City of egregious spending on travel”.
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