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The longer a party is in power, the more it will see public money as its own. That way lies authoritarian government, and ultimately totalitarianism.
What we call pork-barrelling is investment … you want to call that pork-barrelling, you want to call that buying votes, that’s what elections are for.
John Barilaro, deputy premier of New South Wales.
To be fair to Barilaro, he expanded the point with more explicit truth-telling: “If we fund a non-government seat, it’s only because we want to win them at the next election.”
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Crikey columnist @marquelawyers
Michael Bradley is a freelance writer and managing partner at Sydney firm Marque Lawyers, which was created in 2008 with the singular ambition of completely changing the way law is practised.
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