Thursday 28th of March 2024

marginal success...

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Scott Morrison has defended his government’s controversial car park grants program, saying the minister was authorised to make the decisions.

But the Prime Minister did not deny his office had worked on a list of marginal seats to focus on for funding during the 2019 election campaign.

It comes a day after Alan Tudge, urban infrastructure minister at the time of the program, was accused of “running away” from questions on the $660 million scheme in his first press conference in months.

 

“The Auditor-General has already made his ruling on this report. And ministers were authorised to make the decisions and the minister made the decisions,” Mr Morrison said on Thursday.

A barrage of questions about the commuter car park fund – the subject of a scathing auditor-general report which found it heavily favoured Liberal seats – came at the end of a 50-minute briefing focused largely on the government’s Closing The Gap announcements.

 

Read more:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/08/05/scott-morrison-car-parks-rort/

 

If "Close the Gap" is as fantastic as the NBN debacle, the vaccine debacle and other Scomo/Liberal CONservative debacles, be prepared for another amazing failure... Here be prepared to see the government blaming the Indigenous people for not playing the "Whitey game" (moneys on whitey's terms)... 

 

See also: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/08/04/alan-tudge-questions-carpark-rorts/

 

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paddington bear...

 

Do this in the interests of political research. Google the international company, Sheridan Sheets. Then go to Our Story and click on the 1970s segment.

And there to this day you will read: "The decade began with Mrs Andrew Peacock perched decorously on a chair, endorsing Sheridan's newly introduced printed sheets."

Yes, 40 years on, the British company is still dining out on the day that an Australian Cabinet minister offered to resign because his wife had done a television advertisement endorsing their bed sheets.

The issue was trivial; the idea of resigning ridiculous. In fact the Prime Minister of the day, John Gorton, told Peacock not be "a bloody fool."

But it was one of the most memorable stories of the Gorton period.

Likewise the colour TV affair. In 1982, Michael MacKellar, a Fraser Government Minister, brought a colour TV into the country, but listed it on the customs form as black and white, therefore avoiding duty. He was sacked, along with the Minister for Customs, John Moore, who handled the issue clumsily.

And ditto the Paddington Bear affair. In 1984, when Customs officials searched a suitcase belonging to the wife of Hawke Government Cabinet Minister, Mick Young, they found a Paddington bear. Then, I'm sure to their absolute horror, they discovered that the minister hadn't declared it, therefore dodging who knows how much in duty.

Young had to resign until he was judicially cleared.

The point is that anybody who has followed politics since the 70s can instantly recall these episodes.

But who can recall the names of the 11 ministers who either resigned or were sacked during the Howard years, and the nature of their indiscretions?

Analysts constantly bring up the occasions when ministers were sacked for relatively minor offences in the days when, apparently in some sort of misty eyed way, ministerial standards meant something. They seem to think that these occurrences should be the precedents for now and into the future.

 

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-17/yes-minister-no-minister-sacked-minister/334722

 

WE ARE AWAITING FOR SCOMO'S SACKING OF HIS MINISTERS FOR PORK...

 

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not so cuddly...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison received a report into minister Alan Tudge on January 28, a committee has heard.

Mr Tudge’s former staffer Rachelle Miller last year alleged emotional and, on one occasion, physical abuse by the minister while the pair had an affair.

The Education Minister, who intends to recontest his Victorian seat of Aston at the federal election, strenuously denied the allegations and went on leave in December while the investigation was conducted.

 

Ms Miller refused to participate in the inquiry on the grounds its terms of reference and time frame guaranteed a narrative that suited the government’s agenda.

She said, on one occasion, Mr Tudge physically kicked her out of a hotel bed, naked, during a work trip because he was angry about being woken by her phone.

She said she had been drinking with the minister the previous evening, didn’t know how she’d gotten to the hotel room or what happened there and was too afraid to ask Mr Tudge.

A Senate estimates committee heard on Monday the Prime Minister’s department received the investigation report on January 27 and it was hand delivered to Mr Morrison on January 28 because it was “particularly sensitive”.

The committee heard a consultation process was under way with those who took part in the investigation, with feedback due by Wednesday.

Officials told the hearing so far $80,000 had been spent on the inquiry.

 

READ MORE:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/02/14/pm-scott-morrison-alan-tudge-report/?breaking_live_scroll=1

 

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