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The top public official responsible for penalising medical practitioners
who rip-off Medicare was paid for two Federal Government jobs for her
entire five-and-a-half-year tenure.
The Commonwealth Ombudsman has called for a review of hundreds of Prime
Minister and Cabinet appointments over concerns key officials have been
illegally appointed to multiple jobs.
Since deleted NSW Government “guidelines” for a $300 million investment
fund show the Wagga Wagga gun club grant approved by Dominic Perrottet was
expressly illegal from the outset.
The $5.5 million Dominic Perrottet illegally awarded a regional NSW gun
club escaped the scrutiny of the state’s chief auditor because it was not
“sampled” as part of the annual government inspection.
The $5.5 million Dominic Perrottet illegally awarded a regional NSW gun
club escaped the scrutiny of the state’s chief auditor because it was not
“sampled” as part of the annual government inspection.
The fund Dominic Perrottet used to make an illegal $5.5 million grant to a
regional gun club — at the request of Stuart Ayres — was set up by John
Barilaro.
Australia’s former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who covered-up a corruption
scandal at the top of the country’s corporate regulator, has been appointed
to a senior role with notorious global investment bank Goldman Sachs
The $5.5 million Dominic Perrottet illegally awarded a regional NSW gun
club escaped the scrutiny of the state’s chief auditor because it was not
“sampled” as part of the annual government inspection.
Ousted Guide Dogs Victoria CEO Karen Hayes “donated over $500,000” to the
charity over the past three years which represented her “donating a
significant portion of her wages back”, its boss of capital fundraising has
said.
The head of capital fundraising at Guide Dogs Victoria gave the Liberal
Party $87,000 in “donations” before the Federal Coalition gave the charity
millions of dollars in grants.
Guide Dogs Victoria, whose CEO resigned in disgrace last week, is charging
taxpayers four times what it was a decade ago to deliver just
three-quarters of the services.
Just over a week after then Treasurer Josh Frydenberg called her the
“nation’s best CEO” - and amid an ongoing investigation - the CEO of Guide
Dogs Victoria has “resigned” from the group.
The Chinese Government has been running war drills on its far north-eastern
border, raising expert concerns the superpower could be considering a push
into Russian territory while Moscow is focused on its invasion of Ukraine.
The boss of the nation’s monopoly infrastructure regulator - who engaged in
serious illegality that the Federal Government went to substantial lengths
to cover-up - helped dismantle accountability laws in favour of owners of
major fossil fuels infrastructure.
Australia’s charities regulator has falsely claimed legislative “secrecy
provisions” are preventing it from commenting on the legality of political
advertisements featuring charity bosses spruiking Josh Frydenberg.
A charity whose founder spruiked Josh Frydenberg in political
advertisements - almost certainly against charity laws - received record
government grants last year that were over six times more than average.
The $30 million Guide Dogs Victoria appears to have broken federal law and
could have its charity status disqualified with its CEO appearing in
election advertisements spruiking Treasurer Frydenberg.
Chinese Government entities closely connected to the Wuhan Institute of
Virology are deliberately creating Covid-style pathogens that experts say
have the potential to wipe out much of humanity, causing the world to
become "instantly unrecognisable" and the current pandemic "relatively
mino...
The Queensland lawyer who broke serious Federal laws as head of the
National Competition Council - but was just months later reappointed to
that same role - has been given a second senior Federal Government
position.
A Queensland lawyer who just four months ago was found to have broken
serious Federal laws as head of the National Competition Council has been
reappointed to that same role by Treasurer Frydenberg.
The Anglican Church Sydney booked a monster $50 million profit on a Sydney
CBD office tower - at the same time it shifted an extra $19m of its child
rape liabilities onto its vulnerable aged care residents.
The Uniting Church - like the Anglican Church - has been using its
taxpayer-funded aged care arm to pay out millions of dollars to its victims
of child sexual abuse.
The Federal Government and Labor Opposition have both called out the
Anglican Church for shifting $40 million of its child rape liabilities into
a taxpayer-funded aged care provider.
The Federal Government and Labor Opposition have both called out the
Anglican Church for shifting $40 million of its child rape liabilities into
a taxpayer-funded aged care provider.
A key architect of an Anglican Church scheme that shifted tens of millions
of dollars of church child rape liabilities onto the taxpayer was months
later handpicked by Scott Morrison to steer a regulation overhaul.
The Anglican Church is using its embattled - taxpayer-funded - aged care
arm Anglicare Sydney to pay out millions of dollars a year in church child
sex abuse claims. It can be revealed the aged care giant - operator of
notorious Newmarch House - has been secretly laden with almost $40 million...
The Federal Government knew it would be forced to reveal to the public
top-level allegations of serious corruption at the corporate regulator well
over a month before the Prime Minister publicly savaged Australia Post CEO
Christine Holgate.