Guess where former defence ministers are? 👀 The revolving door is a real obstacle to good governance and it should be SHUT.
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aug 26, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
We often point our fingers at Asian and developing countries for corruption. This is institutional CORRUPTION.
aug 22, 2025, 5:33 am • 4 2 • view
The deliberate long term propaganda against other nations, especially ones that are predominantly non christian, non caucasian etc, is a part of the corruption.
aug 22, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 1 • view
So why would anyone believe that the current resources minister is not preparing for his entry into the industry?
aug 22, 2025, 12:31 am • 9 3 • view
Resources and that fool who is Defence Minister.
aug 22, 2025, 1:13 am • 5 1 • view
Grrrrr. Don't mention that unmentionable. He needs to go as his foot is on the throat of Albanese and Wong in his pursuit of gaining favour with the USA.
aug 22, 2025, 1:14 am • 2 1 • view
Agreed. We deserve so much better than this.
aug 22, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
'We' keep voting the duopoly in though, so perhaps 'we' are getting what we deserve.
aug 22, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
With the rise of social media and real time reporting 'we' are learning more about the corruption of politics. Only community independents are truly representative of their electorate. Party politics is not democracy.
aug 23, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
Not necessarily. Most of are wealthy. And I imagine they like tax breaks and privatisation. That’s certainly not representative of my electorate. Whereas the Greens believe in public services including schools.
aug 23, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
Beng independent does not automatically make someone a good person. Unfortunately the vast majority of politicians are self serving scum. Social media might only be growing for zombies in the near future if dodgy politicians get their way.
aug 23, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
We aren’t all doing that. Labor won on preferences. And next time those preferences are a long way from guaranteed.
aug 23, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 1 • view
The duopoly are never in doubt of winning in Australia. So 'we' as Australian voters are to blame. 'We' as individuals may, or may not be. The last prime minister I voted in was in 1992 in my 1st election.
aug 23, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
If you're saying that you don't vote, that's a childish refusal of responsibility, not a useful protest.
aug 23, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t think he even implied that.
aug 23, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
I do not vote for the duopoly, I voted Paul Keating in when I was 19, then I grew up. Read, then write.
aug 23, 2025, 6:32 am • 1 0 • view
Also Keating, although I voted for him, is a big part of the neo con scam that saw workers diminished and the oligarchs grow. We all make mistakes.
aug 23, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 1 • view
I thought he was funny, but like Paul, I am sarcastic, and 'I was only 19'. I am not aware of a good Australian Prime Minister existing, some have suggested Gough Whitlam, who was in office when I was born. Australians suck at voting, then blame the elected officials.
aug 23, 2025, 6:39 am • 1 0 • view
Gough changed this country for the better and probably my life like all young women of that time. Pollies have been trying to batter it backwards ever since.
aug 23, 2025, 8:25 am • 5 1 • view
Yippee for you! Many if us choose not to give up trying to make things better.
aug 23, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
Surprise surprise! What if our government is just an executive branch of the extractive industry?
aug 22, 2025, 12:00 am • 4 0 • view
Executive? More like HR, I reckon.
aug 22, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe marketing? Like Scotty from marketing...
aug 22, 2025, 6:43 am • 1 0 • view
Well they do front up and try to make the executive decisions palatable with tenuous bullshit. Scotty was peak modern politician, potentially up with Trump in destructive power, and odour.
aug 22, 2025, 7:21 am • 1 1 • view
Watts next?
aug 22, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Their unreasonably generous "Super", actually a lavish pension, is supposed to avoid the need for this sort of thing. But I guess they can have both, and in modern day politics it's not even seen as corrupt.
aug 22, 2025, 6:21 am • 3 0 • view
Yes - and I'd like to give a shout-out to former NSW Premier Barry Unsworth, who - I believe - renounced his parliamentary pension (which is ridiculously generous, for ex-Premiers - & probably for many other pollies).
aug 24, 2025, 9:36 am • 1 0 • view
Climate criminals along with corrupt criminals taking bribes, I mean 'donations' 😠
aug 21, 2025, 11:07 pm • 11 2 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
Well, no, not really. I think it was very clear that they were working for them while in office too.
aug 22, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Here are a few notable examples: Christopher Pyne: After serving as Minister for Defence Industry and then Minister for Defence, Pyne established a firm, Pyne and Partners, which works with defence contractors such as Elbit Systems of Australia.
aug 21, 2025, 11:56 pm • 15 11 • view
Brendan Nelson: A former defence minister who subsequently took on a senior executive role with the aerospace company Boeing.
aug 21, 2025, 11:56 pm • 11 8 • view
Joel Fitzgibbon: Another former defence minister who works as a lobbyist, representing companies involved in the defence industry, including French weapons manufacturer Dassault and the Spanish shipbuilder Navantia.
aug 21, 2025, 11:56 pm • 12 9 • view
'Coal' Fitzgibbon, grifter
aug 22, 2025, 11:01 am • 2 0 • view
So disgusting they were never about representing us alway about their own self interest
aug 23, 2025, 3:42 am • 3 1 • view
There should be a law....
aug 21, 2025, 9:53 pm • 12 0 • view
Problem is that those benefiting from this situation are also those that make the laws. They will not even bring in a decent anticorruption watchdog to ensure the lax laws we have now are followed.
aug 21, 2025, 11:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I imagine that any movement on this would get immense support from the public. The rivers of gold are going mostly to players in established parties. It takes a decade or two to come to grips with the amount of money on the table. The newer groups will find busting this irresistible.
aug 21, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
The Greens and some Independents want this addressed. The degree of hate they get from Lib, Lab and the majority media should tell us how much money is involved. Unbelievable that PwC already have their snouts back in the trough after their epic bed-shitting demonstration.
aug 21, 2025, 11:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Two years ago Australia supported genocide in Gaza. Now our govt speaks against it. In the next two year a simple anti-revolver-door change dot org petition could get 50% of the voters to sign. It is imaginable, in fact inevitable.
aug 21, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm reminded of the lyrics to the Dead Kennedys song Dogbite. "Dog bite. On my leg. Not right. S'posed to beg." Public servants should be good dogs.
aug 21, 2025, 11:07 pm • 4 1 • view
Unfortunately our ministers, of both parties, are self interested grifters. Can someone pledge these bludgers a $500k p.a. sinecure after they retire if they act on the #ClimateEmergency? I'd swap my roughly $1k of donations a year to this. 500 people like me could buy one minister's future.
aug 22, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 2 • view
guillotines are cheaper
aug 22, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t forget the accounting / consulting firms that also lobby for large companies. Lotsa ministers there….
aug 21, 2025, 11:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Goes way back to former Howard govt defence minister John Moore. If not even before that.
aug 22, 2025, 4:26 am • 3 0 • view
Fix the tax code Any former regulator faces a 500% tax on income (including gifts, shares) from any party that they ever regulated To apply to spouses and siblings/children too
aug 21, 2025, 11:43 pm • 5 0 • view
Madeline King considering her options🤔
aug 22, 2025, 5:29 am • 1 2 • view