Forget Labor, Liberal, Democrat or Callathumpian, there is but one rule that applies to these maggots - the WIIFM Principal (what’s in it for me?)

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25055130-5001021,00.html

I hope Dave and Bernard are suitably righteously indignant!

There was a further failed bid in 2007 as well in the High Court

I wonder if this ANAO report has anything to do with Nicola Roxon and Greg Combet, Bernard?

Perhaps the $30 million of ACTU money spent on or behalf of the Labor Party in its electioneering could have been mentioned in yesterday’s rant as well as this one?

There are a couple of other pertinent facts on this topic.

Labor already massively outspends the Coalition on electioneering.

Furthermore most electoral abuses in the past decade have been actually committed by the Labor Party c/f the Shepherdson inquiry, cases of fraudulent enrolment and the Wollongong council sex and bribery scandal.

And we all know the ALP’s ongoing tradition of ‘jobs for the boys’ (unless your name is ‘stevo the’ numbnut).

“Howard’s IR legislation was a huge free kick to businesses of all shapes and sizes” you say.

But wouldn’t employment and the economy in Australia be better off now with a “free kick” to business instead of the expensive ‘kick in the nuts’ from the Rudd/Gillard/Combet Combo?

You’re still not addressing the issue. Two wrongs don’t make a right, we all know the standards of the ALP (paritcularly the NSW branch) seem as low - if not lower - than the Howard government when it comes to probity issues. But the point that Bernard Keane raises is valid and you haven’t addressed it - this was a serious and systemic failure by a Commonwealth government to ensure that its taxpayers received the best available value for money from its advertising expenditures, with all available evidence implicating them in rewarding their political mates.

As has been pointed out by other correspondents, what the ACTU, NFF, BCA or other individual donors do with their money is their business. But the Commonwealth Consolidated Revenue Fund is *OUR* business and we need to keep governments past and present accountable for its appropriation. If we don’t - if we simply acquiesce and say “well, they all do it, Labor are just as bad” then that is a very slippery slope indeed and before you know it there will be no other description for our government communications process than corrupt to the core.

I quoted an High Court judgement in the first post and posed a question. Nothing more.

After being personally abused, I pointed out that ‘stevo the’ half-wit is a w-nker in the second post.

If BHP give the Coalition $40 million and when in government the Coalition enact legislation the enriches BHP what do you think the reaction would be (and not just Labor voters)?

All I can say is… spew your bile elsewhere. Typical hate comments from the Labor supporters, but you guys (and gyrls) won, surely you could be a bit happy?

Think Churchill: “Resolute in defeat, magnanimous in victory”

Oh, I forgot Labors’ perpetual winge “It’s your fault. No-one told me it would be this hard! They used to call me “Kev “bringing the sunshine back into our lives”“, now they call me shit…”

but until pollies are held accountable - and i mean really accountable, as in charges, fines and/or jail time - all this is meaningless

Labor may, or may not, use this to beat the Coalition around the head a bit - but i doubt there will be any real change

there will always be one set of rules for them and another for the rest of us

The fact that the ACTU spent it’s own money on a cause you don’t agree with has no equivalence with a political party p*ssing OUR money away to the benefit of themselves and their cronies.

Who brought us into an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, didn’t know that AWB were rotten to the core and funding Saddam Hussein, children whose dreadful parents refused to throw them overboard, other children’s illegally deported to the wrong countries on false papers, Australian’s locked up for years in DIMA concentration camps or deported.

Name one area that the Howard mob were not corrupt to the core.

It will be much shorter.

How about analysing the now/present hey Bernard?
The utter failure of Rudd to introduce any legislation worth a dime is staggering given the alleged massive mandate they had.

Instead Rudd chose to grin mawkishly, hold summit after summit, make promises that he subsequently forgot (Indigenous report), create bizarre schemes like FuelWatch, GroceryWatch etc etc.
And don’t even get me started on Gillard…

Bernard, frankly you make me sick. You need to put a sticker on your stories: “Written by some-one who will never disagree with the left”

You say: “As has been pointed out by other correspondents, what the ACTU, NFF, BCA or other individual donors do with their money is their business”.

I repeat : It is our business and should be our business if the Labor party receives $40 million in lucre and as Government enriches and makes more powerful that donor.

If the shoe were on the other foot: a Liberal Government enriching a private business at taxpayers and citizens’ expense after that business ‘donated’ $40 million to the Liberal party. That Liberal PM would be lynched.

What is the bottom line for ordinary taxpayers and ordinary citizens?

Isn’t it to see that the system is both fair and transparent?

That is not what Bernard Keane and this government is endeavouring to do here. They want: ‘grossly unfair advantage for Labor and only transparent when it suits them and moreover slime the Coalition whenever possible even if it goes against the greater public interest.

I mean Bernard Keane and the Labor Party being outrageously ‘justifiably indignant’ is actually far worse than the pot calling the kettle black. it’s just more of the Left: disingenuous and dishonest.

Keane has often said that good government needs good opposition. It agree. But like so many from the Left the good words are repudiated by their ensuing actions.

Lastly, I hope you’re not suggesting that I have implied or said: “well, they all do it, Labor are just as bad” and that somehow that excuses ‘bad behaviour’ by the Coalition.

Because I haven’t.

If you were saying that this issue needs to be resolved for the greater good, I agree with you. Now if you could only convince Bernard Keane and the Labor Party to demonstrate goodwill and to act in the interests of the country as a whole.

There is as the ‘Keane-maligned’ Senator Ronaldson said in Parliament: “an unprecedented opportunity to make dramatic improvements to the system of electoral funding”

The Coalition are not the stumbling bloc.