If Barilaro’s tumbling verbiage weren’t indicator enough
Peter Dutton’s scrambling for coherence yesterday must show that the clock has – finally
– struck the witching hour. As the Guardian reported:
Labor’s immigration spokesperson,
Kristina Keneally, has attacked the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton over a
fast-tracked grant to the National Retailers Association, which he denies was
influenced by a donation.
Here’s Kenneally on ABC News at just a few minutes after 8am yesterday answering reporters’ questions.
The Liberals have form. We shouldn’t forget the water buybacks scandal that animated Twitter in April 2019. In that case, government looked guilty but nothing was proven. There was also the Paladin case, centred on a company that had provided services to the government on Manus Island, where Australia used to operate a refugee camp and where a number of refugees the country has so far refused to accommodate are still living (in the general community).
Given all this - and given the NSW Coalition trumpery of recent days – isn’t it time for the Liberals and Nationals to, maybe, take a turn on the bench for the good of the country?
A change is needed federally and in NSW. Federally the Coalition has been in power since 2013. In NSW since 2011. Time to stand down, sit down, and let someone else take the reins.
“For decades, too powerful to be challenged,” wrote @mister_wynn about James Packer and Eddie McGuire. Both men had seen their fortunes depleted – McGuire stepping down as boss of Collingwood Football Club, and Packer’s Crown Casino being criticised and its new Sydney license threatened by regulators – to such an extent that they looked like exiting the public sphere entirely.
The Coalition is heading for the bench as well.
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