Liberal Federal Member for Bennelong John Alexander declined to comment when asked whether he believed Parliament should be consulted before Australian troops are sent into armed conflict abroad.[dpdfg_filtergrid include_categories="7859" remove_current_post="on"...
When asked whether Peter Dutton believed Parliament should be consulted before Australian troops are sent into armed conflict abroad, the Minister for Defence's office replied "there are no amendments to the current process." [dpdfg_filtergrid...
Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie declined to comment when asked if Parliament should be consulted before Australian troops are sent into armed conflict abroad. Minister Hastie served in the Australian Defence Force from 2003 to 2015, including five years...
Liberal Senator Jim Molan AO DSC does not believe Parliament should be consulted before Australian troops are sent into armed conflict abroad. Senator Molan told Michael West Media this was because of "reasons of practicality. The ability of parliament to make such a...
January 2021Sonic Health, which has been awarded $312 million worth of contracts since the Coalition came to office in 2013, was the fourth biggest donor from the health industry before the 2016 election.Sonic Healthcare, which the Morrison government...
November 2018 - ongoing Michael West Media revealed more than a year ago the pork barrelling of the commuter car park fund, as confirmed by the national auditor general. Projects worth $660 million were handpicked by the government on advice of its MPs and...
2019-2020 The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has no power to investigate a complaint about the way a government minister handles FoI responsibilities, with the only accountability measure to ‘name and shame’. Prime Minister Scott...
2015-2016 Success fee was dependent on Austal delivering eight problem-free patrol boats; the Cape class boats were plagued with problems; success fee still paid.The Australian Border Force allegedly improperly funnelled $39 million to defence company...
2018 ongoing Criminal investigations launched; the auditor general reportedly misled by the Infrastructure Department; departmental staff had numerous conflicts of interest. Taxpayers spent $30 million in 2018 on land valued at just $3 million for the new...
2017 ongoingIn the past four years three times as many contracts worth between $78,000 and $80,000 — the threshold for a tender process — have been doled out than there were between $80,000 and $82,000. As Senator Jacquie Lambie wrote in Crikey, $1.5...
Tony Abbott used an RAAF jet to attend the birthday party of a Liberal Party donor Paul Marks. His office said the PM had work-related engagements the following day but would not say what they were.
Julie Bishop stayed an extra day in Perth after completing her official public commitments so an empty jet flew from Canberra to Perth to pick up her and her partner David Panton to return them to the nation’s capital at a cost to taxpayers of $30,000.
April 2015As environment minster, Greg Hunt claimed that Labor’s carbon tax was more than 93 times more expensive than the Coalition's Emissions Reduction Fund at reducing emissions.Hunt claimed that the carbon tax “reduced emissions at over $1,300 per...
As Speaker, Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop claimed $600 for flights to attend the wedding of parliamentary colleague Sophie Mirabella.
Three Coalition MPs claimed more than $12,000 in “overseas study” allowances to pay for flights home after attending the wedding in Hyderabad of the granddaughter of Gina Rinehart’s business partner.
The Pynes enjoyed a $30,000 lavish trip to London and Rome in April 2013.
Family members of Coalition MPs flew to the idyllic Cocos islands for a weekend jaunt on the taxpayers’ dime. Despite claiming travel on ‘family reunion’ grounds, it appears both MPs were in their electorate the previous week.
Peter Dutton, Eric Abetz and Kevin Andrews billed taxpayers more than $6000 on flights, cars and hotels for their overnight stay. Neither Dutton nor Abetz responded to multiple requests for comment about the purpose of their trips.
Foxtel given $30m in taxpayers’ money over four years to boost “under represented sports” on pay TV, yet the Seven Network did not receive any government support to broadcast the inaugural season of the AFL Women’s League.
Mathias Cormann had ‘no idea’ his family holiday flights to Singapore were paid for by Hello World, a travel company controlled by Liberal Party Treasurer Andrew Burnes.
Tim Wilson solicited preselection endorsements while at the Human Rights Commission, a move that ‘threatened’ the commission’s independence.
Former Coalition MPs treated to rich pickings at taxpayers’ expense, with more than 40% of Abbott-era MPs appointed to government jobs.
Tony Abbott’s office reportedly helped Chinese billionaire and “agent of foreign influence” to donate to the Liberal Party in 2016.
“The Witness K and Bernard Collaery cases will send a chill through anyone who might contemplate exposing the immoral and illegal actions of their government.”
Former trade minister and Liberal MP Andrew Robb accepted an $880,000-a-year salary with Chinese billionaire Ye Cheng’s Landbridge Group upon quitting parliament. He resigned shortly before the deadline for overseas state interests to sign up to Australia’s new foreign influence register.
The Coalition awarded a $444 million grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation without a tender process, the “due diligence” was based on information provided for another purpose, and the foundation had to submit a retrospective application after it had been awarded the money.
