If you have to pay $500,000 compensation for a minister’s behaviour, that minister should not be a minister.
Malcolm Farr
34K posts
- ICAC has operated in NSW for 33 years and well-known NSW politician Scott Morrison STILL doesn’t now how it functions. It investigates. It doesn’t convict. There is oversight. But it might make people accountable, which would explain Morrison’s hostility towards it.
- ICAC, obliged by law to root out ‘possible corrupt conduct’ is attacked for inquiry into politician’s ‘possible corrupt conduct’.
- The disconnect between News Corp papers and voters is the huge media story of the election. The screwed coverage and impotence of the brace of tabs and the national daily is going to be difficult for News to overcome.
- I presume arsonists caused the hail storm.Parliament House at 12.59pm, captured by our Auspic photographer David Foote.
- Morrison is the shallowest, most demonstrably deceitful, self important and ill-equiped PM of at least the past 30 years.
- Not sure how children taking one day off school take being berated by ministers who will have sat in Parliament for just 10 days in five months.
- Morrison wants applause for fixing a problem he created.
- So many photos of Morrison on front pages. You would be excused for thinking he had actually done something.
- Dined in Melbourne Friday night despite threat of Sudanese gangs.Sure enough was approached by tall young figure of African descent who said, “Would you like to order?” Before I could react she turned on my wife: “Perhaps you’d like a drink first?” We finally escaped 2 hrs later.
- Scott Morrison’s most significant contribution to Australian politics was in preventing Peter Dutton becoming PM. That contribution might now be fading.
- I wish our prime minister was the can-do, dynamic leader portrayed in The Australian rather than the Scott-the-Unready, responsibility dodger we have.
- By my calculation the Sue Gray inquiry into lockdown-breaching by Boris Johnson staff took 17 days. Again by my calculation the inquiry into who on Scott Morrison’s staff knew what and when of the Brittany Higgins allegations has been underway for 252 days.
