Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’

Not the garden variety of police, but those charged with the responsibility of maintaining an effective legislature by preventing corrosive corrupt praxis. There is an expectation that those at the highest levels of our institutions are able to prosecute their talents to their fullest. Yet that is clearly not the case. The problem is chiefly to do with transparency of process within government. We don’t know what we need to know, and so the boundary Read the rest of this entry »

Listening to the airwaves and reading comments from the press there is a depressing view of migration that is gaining prominence. In many ways this is related to the appallingly bad leadership of Rudd and the ALP federally, but also locally. Broadly speaking, the ALP benefit from poor migrants, whereas the Greens only seem to view migration through the prism of opposing development. Read the rest of this entry »

Honesty has been a sore point in politics of late. Julia Gillard was caught out lying about what Liberal Party leader Mr Abbott had said in a magazine interview. NSW Premier and former planning minister Kenneally and former minister Sartor are being questioned by the ICAC in relation to the matter of the death of businessman McGurk and allegations of corruption. Read the rest of this entry »