To summarise today’s Senate Inquiry hearings into the Turnbull Govt’s decision to award $444m to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) without a tender or grant application process.
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In their testimony, the GBRF took on notice questions about these term deposits, also about -how much of their funding comes from the private sector, -when several policy changes at the Foundation occurred, and -even which 4 individuals first started the organization.
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This an extraordinary situation – a private charity financially supported by mining firms, big banks and the BCA has been handed nearly half-a-billion dollars of taxpayer money in a private meeting by the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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For more details - please see my other tweets from today. More work to come for the Inquiry, no doubt. We heard today from the GBRF that their Chair and a few other Board directors are going endeavour to make themselves available for future hearings. That would be welcome.
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This is CORRUPTION. Please can people start using that word? The government is corrupt - why won't anyone just say so? Dutton is corrupt. Bishop is corrupt. Turnbull is corrupt. Joyce is REALLY corrupt. Tudge... Porter...
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Agree, definitely smells like "La Casa Nostra" scam where funds are being channeled in mysterious ways back to the
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Where is the bloody outrage over this? Imagine if Gillard had funnelled that sort of money to GetUp or a union!
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That sort of money? Julia
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Not a good look, has a wiff about it! If corruption is proven, it will support calls for a federal ICAC. The NSW model would be a good starting point. Transparency of public funding must be a given.
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That would surely be corrupt? Taxpayers money cannot be given away to politically aligned mates. Frydenberg and Turnbull should be charged
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The emphasis here should be "taxpayer money", Australians do not pay tax for any other reason than for the govt to provide infrastructure & services to benefit the Australian community, not to use it or donate for any other purpose. This is pure corruption with
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