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[CaptainJackson]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359440671560527874

Tony Burke's reaction lol

 

[wendog33]

Kristina Keneally asks auditor general to investigate Peter Dutton over grants

The home affairs minister denies any wrongdoing after documents show he fast-tracked a grant to an industry body that donated to the LNP

www.theguardian.com

 

[wendog33]

Analyses of Liberal Party Govt grants during their 7 years in power...over 70% of all grants given to LNP seats. Labor 22%. Independents 6%

https://www.facebook.com/515565008801343/posts/1361728880851614

 

[KambahOne]

More systemic rorting.

Dutton diverted grant money to handpicked safety upgrades in marginal seats

Labor has referred Peter Dutton’s Safer Communities Fund to the auditor-general after nine in 10 grants were given in Coalition seats or marginal electorates.

www.smh.com.au

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton handpicked 53 projects to share in $8.5 million for security cameras and safety lighting ahead of the last federal election, only five of which were in safe Labor seats.

The opposition has asked the Auditor-General to examine the Safer Communities Fund after departmental documents revealed Mr Dutton diverted almost half the total pool of funding away from recommended projects to his handpicked ones in January 2019.

A Home Affairs department briefing to Mr Dutton, released under freedom of information to the ABC, listed the top 70 projects able to be funded with the $17.5 million available.

It also gave him a ranked list of another 211 projects that had passed the selection criteria and recommended he pick 15 as reserves should money become available.

The minister chose 53 projects from this list – including the bottom-ranked one: improvements to a scout hall in Umina on the NSW Central Coast.

Handwritten adjustments for 19 of the recommended projects and six of the reserves freed up the money needed to cover them all.

The program’s rules allowed Mr Dutton to ignore the department’s rankings and approve any grant applications he wanted. However, his department warned “should you decide to make funding decisions that do not reflect the order of merit, you may be criticised either in the media, or by the Australian National Audit Office”.


I was going to post the pic of him as part of this story but I'm not that cruel.

 

[wendog33]

Dutton diverted grant money to handpicked safety upgrades in marginal seats

Labor has referred Peter Dutton’s Safer Communities Fund to the auditor-general after nine in 10 grants were given in Coalition seats or marginal electorates.

www.smh.com.au

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton handpicked 53 projects to share in $8.5 million for security cameras and safety lighting ahead of the last federal election, only five of which were in safe Labor seats.

The opposition has asked the Auditor-General to examine the Safer Communities Fund after departmental documents revealed Mr Dutton diverted almost half the total pool of funding away from recommended projects to his handpicked ones in January 2019.

A Home Affairs department briefing to Mr Dutton, released under freedom of information to the ABC, listed the top 70 projects able to be funded with the $17.5 million available.

It also gave him a ranked list of another 211 projects that had passed the selection criteria and recommended he pick 15 as reserves should money become available.

The minister chose 53 projects from this list – including the bottom-ranked one: improvements to a scout hall in Umina on the NSW Central Coast.

Handwritten adjustments for 19 of the recommended projects and six of the reserves freed up the money needed to cover them all.

The program’s rules allowed Mr Dutton to ignore the department’s rankings and approve any grant applications he wanted. However, his department warned “should you decide to make funding decisions that do not reflect the order of merit, you may be criticised either in the media, or by the Australian National Audit Office”.


I was going to post the pic of him as part of this story but I'm not that cruel.

No pic...thank you for small blessings

His feigned outraged blusterings about the expose` and criticism of his culpability on this is laughable.

At least we know what he's been doing while missing from public sight I guess.

 

[Natboy]

Analyses of Liberal Party Govt grants during their 7 years in power...over 70% of all grants given to LNP seats. Labor 22%. Independents 6%

https://www.facebook.com/515565008801343/posts/1361728880851614

Can we see charts when other federal & state governments have been in power to have comparison for balance?

 

[wendog33]

Can we see charts when other federal & state governments have been in power to have comparison for balance?

Yes you can.

"For those wanting a comparison to ALP. he did a chart from 2007-2013, before then there were no rules or guidelines for federal grants. The four rounds of Regional Development funding grants under the ALP were split fairly evenly between ALP and LNP (see chart). The Community Development grants scheme started in 2013 at I believe something like $3.4 million and is now around $2.5 billion, and the Sports Infrastructure grants scheme started in 2018. Seems that the LNP have found taxpayer funded vote buying slush funds very beneficial to them."

 

[wendog33]

We'll be seeing a bit more of Bridget McKenzie at the Senate to answer some questions today.


As Bridget McKenzie fronts the so-called sports rorts inquiry, get back up to speed quickly

As Bridget McKenzie fronts the so-called sports rorts inquiry, get back up to speed quickly

Senator Bridget McKenzie will front the "sports rorts" inquiry for the first time today. Here's everything you need to know to get yourself back up to speed.

www.abc.net.au

 

[wendog33]

From the above article ...
From 3:00-4:00pm, she'll be grilled about what she knew and, more significantly, whether the Prime Minister or his office were involved in the delivery of sports grants.

The inquiry will also hear from two clubs which were denied funding under the scheme.

A woman sits with a soccer ball on her lap in front of a wall
Emma Miles wanted better change rooms for her soccer club in Coledale, New South Wales, but it missed out on a grant from the program.(ABC News: Sarah Moss)
One of the clubs, Olympia Football Club, which is based in the safe Tasmanian Labor seat of Franklin, was given an eligibility score of 79.5/100 by Sport Australia but still missed out on a grant.

79.5/100 but still missed out!

 

[Natboy]

Yes you can.

"For those wanting a comparison to ALP. he did a chart from 2007-2013, before then there were no rules or guidelines for federal grants. The four rounds of Regional Development funding grants under the ALP were split fairly evenly between ALP and LNP (see chart). The Community Development grants scheme started in 2013 at I believe something like $3.4 million and is now around $2.5 billion, and the Sports Infrastructure grants scheme started in 2018. Seems that the LNP have found taxpayer funded vote buying slush funds very beneficial to them."

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@wendog33 Thank you. Is that comparing the same thing (seven major Government grant programs) and not cherry picked? If it’s comparing seven major government grants it’s a very bad look. I’d prefer to see a graph of ALL government grants over set time periods.

Pork barreling is still pork barreling and both sides have always done it. It should be banned but I can also see why it never will be

 

[CaptainJackson]

Yes you can.

"For those wanting a comparison to ALP. he did a chart from 2007-2013, before then there were no rules or guidelines for federal grants. The four rounds of Regional Development funding grants under the ALP were split fairly evenly between ALP and LNP (see chart). The Community Development grants scheme started in 2013 at I believe something like $3.4 million and is now around $2.5 billion, and the Sports Infrastructure grants scheme started in 2018. Seems that the LNP have found taxpayer funded vote buying slush funds very beneficial to them."

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That's not a proper analysis of it either.

The grant system is based on a rating schedule of what areas need it the most, hence a more fair analysis would be to have that rating schedule alongside this graph to determine if funding was distributed in the manner it was intended to be

 

[wendog33]

That's not a proper analysis of it either.

The grant system is based on a rating schedule of what areas need it the most, hence a more fair analysis would be to have that rating schedule alongside this graph to determine if funding was distributed in the manner it was intended to be

Yes and you can further break it down to how many people in the seat, etc etc.

Very few people could/would break it down to the enth degree.

Suffice to say it does appear to cause one to reflect on the uneven dispersion of funding.

Don't forget the coloured graphs revealed in the Sports Rorts funding.

But then again, it's much easier to say "nothing to see here" and carry on with this problem forever.

The graph is being widely publicized so if it is not a fair representation of allocated funds to LNP seats by comparison to the rest, I'm sure the Govt, Murdoch publications, Bolt, Jones or Credlin will point that out

 

[CroydonDog]

Ol' Spud Dutton still up to his eyeballs.

The Betoota Advocate is sadly no longer satire...


Ahhhh… That’s Why This Dodgy ****’s Been Laying Low

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
While two little Tamil girls have their childhoods stripped from them in the Christmas Island offshore detention centre for the crime of having a dad that missed out on getting his bridging visa approved by 24 hours – The Minister For Home Affairs continues to give Australians a reason to thank God that he never became Prime Minister.
Although he still has the political clout to abuse vulnerable asylum seekers and cancel the visas for Saudi women fleeing honour killings – Dutton’s ability to destroy the Liberal Party and the Australian way of life through his dodgy-cop style of political incompetence was neutralised when Scott Morrison beat him for the Prime Minister job in the 2018 LibSpill.
However, that doesn’t mean he isn’t able to misappropriate tax payer dollars through his politically corrupt cronyism.
As was unearthed by the ABC earlier this week, Peter Dutton’s office fast-tracked a one-off $880,000 Federal grant proposal to a retail association eight days after it made a political donation to the Queensland Liberal National Party in the dying days of their fruitless 2020 election campaign.
This newest scandal joins the countless private security contracts that have been given to his mates – as well as all the government money his wife’s childcare centres receives, as well as all of those pretty little French Au Pairs who had their visas fast tracked for Liberal party donors in South Australia.
However, Dutton’s corruption appears to be getting more brazen, according to this ABC report, which he has already written off as left-wing bias – which seems to be the Government’s strategy for dismissing any form of criticism over their severe misconduct.
The National Retail Association (NRA) made a $1,500 donation to the Queensland LNP – and indicated that Peter Dutton was the reason they were so keen to support the party.
One week later Mr Dutton asked that an application by the NRA for a funding grant “be considered sooner”.
Mr Dutton said any suggestion he would be influenced “by a lawful donation to the LNP” was “false and highly defamatory”
Scott Morrison has refused to comment on this scandal, stating that it’s already been dealt with, and instead wanted to plug his new vaccine that doesn’t exist yet.
MORE TO COME.

 

[wendog33]

 

[Flanagun]

Dan Andrews: We have the best and most robust lockdown procedures in the whole country.

Well, practice makes perfect.

 

[wendog33]

Friday Fun Time.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=257427609285053

 

[Cook]

Dan Andrews: We have the best and most robust lockdown procedures in the whole country.

Well, practice makes perfect.

Loved hearing his announcements on lockdown. its because the vaccine is taking so long, but there’s obvious reasons there, just a quick throw off. Not we suck at managing hotel quarantine lol. Fancy telling NSW we take less returned travellers because we have a stricter, safer quarantine system. It’s a big disaster for the state we’ll lock down all of Victoria from midnight. But the tennis will continue tonight with a capacity crowd.....

 

[wendog33]

The Morrison Government has the commentary. But what about the answers?

How the PM and his ministers dodge questions with chutzpah

It's hard not to think it's not journalists who occupy the "Canberra Bubble" as much as politicians with smarty-pants lines but no sense of accountability, or even reality, writes Laura Tingle.

www.abc.net.au

 

[wendog33]

Dutton spent $36,000 on VIP chartered flights for grants announcement

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton charged taxpayers more than $36,000 to charter a Royal Australian Air Force jet to Tasmania to make a grants announcement for two councils during a 2018 byelection campaign.

www.smh.com.au

 

[CroydonDog]

Satirical websites are rightly going to town on Morrison at the moment, who seems to need to have his wife tell him to be a decent person...

From the shovel:


Scott Morrison Denounces Rape After Jen Tells Him To Imagine He’s Human


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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has condemned a rape that took place in Parliament House two years ago, after his wife suggested he try to put himself in the shoes of a human being.

“Try to think of this as if you’re a person that has feelings,” she told her husband. “Or if you can’t do that, just mimic what a human being might say if they’ve just been told a woman was raped”



The Prime Minister took the advice on board, trying his best to imitate a human being during a media conference yesterday.

“Rape bad. Not raping good,” Mr Morrison told the media conference, checking his notes to make sure he had got the words around the right way.

Jenny Morrison also suggested he imagine he was the father of the woman who had been raped.

“That poor, poor father,” Mr Morrison told the media conference.