A thread on why @ABarrMLA has called the @canberratimes "a joke": questionable land deals, violent youth detention, failures in the health system. His tantrum only vindicates my colleagues hard work.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/i-hate-journalists-and-im-over-the-mainstream-media-act-chief-minister-andrew-barr-20180309-h0x9xk.html …
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Six years of violence at Bimberi Youth Detention with abused children, battered staff, detainees being supplied with drugs and grog and Indigenous / ethnic detainees being racially taunted http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/revealed-the-living-hell-of-life-inside-the-bimberi-youth-detention-centre-20170622-gww6al.html …
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A lack of transparency around one of
@ABarrMLA's pet projects, the Land Development Agency, with better deals for mates and manipulating documents http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/act-election-2016/auditor-launches-wider-investigation-into-land-development-agency-after-damning-findings-20160930-grs9zr.html …Show this thread -
The ACT health system's failure to look after a suicidal patient http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/losing-paul-a-canberra-times-podcast-about-the-death-of-paul-fennessy-20180106-h0eho7.html …
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Extravagant business trips overseas at taxpayer's expense. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/chief-minister-andrew-barr-on-43000-space-odyssey-to-united-states-20171010-gyxvrr.html …
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The pet light rail project delivering extra land value around the tram corridor, but little cost benefit in terms of public transport http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/government-report-says-light-rail-cant-compete-with-rapid-bus-as-a-transport-project-20160826-gr1yfk.html …
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Paying a union-owned club $3.9 million for the land its on and then selling them a car park for $3.5 million http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/cfmeu-got-38-million-from-tradies-club-in-months-after-39m-dickson-deal-20171116-gzna1d.html …
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But let's also not forget every time
@ABarrMLA and his government want something spruiked, they come to us too.pic.twitter.com/yQtNKg6iwQ
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This could go on for a long time, but there's a lot of evidence this is simply because this government doesn't like to be called out on its failures.
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If you want to show my colleagues support for the hard work they do each day on calling out this government, the opposition, the police, the leaders in the ACT then subscribe to the
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