DUTTON LIES

LIES & CORRUPTION

This is by no means a complete list as we keep finding more and more evidence of how corrupt these folks are.

The Party

• Failure to address housing inequality – when 226 federal MPs own 524 properties there’s zero incentive to address the problem. The Guardian
• Billions of dollars in foreign aid to Indonesia – only for them to purchase billions of dollars worth of military helicopters and now consider bidding for the 2032 Olympic games! ABC
• The continued protection of the ‘tax free’ status of individuals with millions of dollars in tax – whilst the lowest paid people in society struggle to get any meaningful wage increases due to the way the official CPI calculation has been corruptly manipulated in order to artificially keep wages low.
• Sale of Darwin’s port to chinese company 4 days after $40k donation to LNP
• $30m to Foxtel for “womens sports”, while cutting $84m from the ABC. The Guardian
• Failure to fix large scale tax evasion – why do so many massive businesses persist with Australia if they are collectively losing trillions here?
• NBN issues multimillion FTTC contract to Netcomm, whose chairman is also a director of NBN co
• $640k to Bjorn Lomborg for a climate denying book.
• Misappropriation of water from Murray-Darling by coalition donors
• $444m to Great Barrier Reef Foundation with no tendering – straight into the pockets of directors with links to Liberal National Party.
• A $4.6 billion buy off deal was struck with Catholic and independent schools, heading off another potential election-losing issue.

The Con Artists

• Peter Dutton awards a $423m contract through a ‘limited tender’ process to Paladin to run Manus Island – a company his sister works for that has no previous experience in running such facilities.
• Barnaby Joyce misuse of travel allowance to stay with Vicki Campion.
• Barnaby Joyce receives free rent from donor.
• Barnaby Joyce property purchase with insider knowledge of rail route.
• Sussan Ley popping to gold coast on travel allowance & accidentally buying a $700k apartment.
• Sussan Ley $21k on cabs in the USA in one week
• Andrew Robb taking a $880k/yr job with donor before even leaving politics
• Christopher Pyne taking a job with E&Y straight after politics – despite the fact he was the Defence Minister and E&Y had been awarded $21 million in contracts to do consulting work for the Defence force.
• Julie Bishop appointed to the board of Palladium after exiting politics – a company that profits from foreign affairs, her previous portfolio.
• Julie Bishop and her $450k Chinese sponsored “Glorious Foundation”.
• Former Liberal President Shane Stone to be paid $500k per year to oversee flood recovery efforts in rural Queensland. This salary is nearly the same as our Prime Minister.
• George Christensen spending 300 days in the Philippines during the last few years – despite claiming to represent the Australian people.
• Fraser Anning claiming $35k for family travel expenses on 44 trips between January and December 2018.
• Joe Hockey owning millions of shares in Helloworld – who’s share price has gone up 164% in 4 years since being awarded a string of government contracts. Talk about insider trading.
• Mattias Cormann not realising that his family got a free holiday to Singapore – only weeks after Helloworld was awarded a new government contract.
• Matt Canavan failing to declare property interests
• David Feeney failing to declare $2.3m house
• Bronwyn Bishop Choppergate
• Tony Abbott - repeated expenses that have needed to be repaid eg 2016 total expense claims equivalent to 37 years of Newstart payments
• Tony Abbott - Tony’s daughter getting a $37,000 “scholarship”
• Tony Abbott - $60k unadvertised scholarship for Frances Abbott
• Arthur Sinodinos - inability to recall, well, anything under oath at NSW ICAC
• Roman Quaedvlieg - $500k 9 month paid leave
• Michaelia Cash leaking to the media before raids on AWU – and then spending nearly $1m of taxpayers dollars trying to defend her behaviour.
• Sarina Russo receives $754m of contracts in return for $20k donation to LNP in 2010
• George Brandis forcing resignation of Justin Gleeson as solicitor general, lying to senate enquiry
• Steve Irons “electorate business” in Gold Coast spending $2k for wife to attend with him
• Alexander Downer - Daughter Georgina Downer giving away big cheques for government grants despite not even being an elected member of Parliament. She also received many scholarships while her father Alexender was Foreign Minister in the Howard era. A born to rule mentality that already twice failed as a Liberal candidate (once in Melbourne, once in Adelaide).
• Stewart Robert inappropriate behaviour on trip to China
• Eric Hutchinson appointed to $160k job after losing seat in 2016 election
• George Brandis - appointing his sons lawyer to $370k/yr job
• Craig Laundy failure to declare businesses on register of interests
• Kelly O’Dwyer has told colleagues the Liberals are widely regarded as “homophobic, anti-women, climate-change deniers” during a crisis meeting of federal Victorian Liberal party.
• Scott Morrison flagged the shifting of Australia’s Israeli embassy to Jerusalem to win backing from Jewish investment bankers to keep funding Australia’s record debt.
• Mathias Cormann while Finance Minister charged taxpayers $4,400 to take his wife on a romantic beach getaway on her birthday.
• Gladys Liu - Bo ‘Nick’ Zhao, a Chinese born Australian goes to ASIO telling them he’s been offered a $1million from the Chinese Government to run as a Liberal Party candidate and then infiltrate the Australian Parliament as a Chinese Spy. He then turns up dead in a Melbourne hotel room in March. Enter Gladys Liu, the Liberal Candidate with a host of concerning connections to the Chinese Government who earns Liberal pre-selection thanks to miraculously raising a million dollars in donations. Fairfax then discovered a photo of Liu at her home with Nick Zhao in the back ground. Gladys is now the Liberal Member for Chisolm.
• Liberal Candidates Gladys Liu and Josh Frydenberg both have Mandarin signs at polling booths in the colours of the Australian Electoral Commission branding telling Chinese citizens how to vote (by putting 1 next to the Liberal Candidate). There is no Liberal Party branding on the sign. Liberal officials admit in court that the signs were designed to convey the appearance of official electoral commission material.
• Angus Taylor writes a public letter, published in the Daily Telegraph, to Sydney Mayor Clover Moore criticising her for her millions of dollars of domestic travel. The document he quotes is a forgery. Taylor refuses to disclose where he got the fake document from and refuses all Freedom of Information requests from the media that might give an insight.

… It just doesn’t end.

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