‘Democracy is dead’, MPs declare, as politicians ‘bought and sold’
Crossbenchers say there is a “virus corrupting our democracy” with the major parties weakening integrity safeguards and environmental protections on behalf of corporate donors.
Crossbenchers say there is a “virus corrupting our democracy” with the major parties weakening integrity safeguards and environmental protections on behalf of corporate donors.
The Prime Minister is blocking all attempts to establish a promised federal corruption watchdog despite hundreds of billions being spent on economic recovery. Here’s why.
Barely a week goes by without a federal corruption scandal but politicians are able to operate with near total impunity because the government continues to delay its promised federal integrity commission.
Impoverished workers excluded from the Jobkeeper wage subsidies are queuing up at food banks around the country but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg refuses to expand the program despite a major bungle leaving an extra $60 billion at his disposal.
The looting of the taxpayer by fossil fuel giants under cover of COVID-19 is on in earnest, with the Prime Minister’s hand-picked coterie of corporate executives driving the country’s economic recovery without oversight, transparency or accountability.
The Greens have rejected the government’s austerity agenda and are pushing an ambitious reshaping of the economy that includes jobs guarantees for young people and a means-tested basic income for all.
More than 200 pieces of so-called anti-terrorism legislation have been rammed through since 9/11, but the surveillance state is far from done, with “dangerous and cynical” new spy powers proposed including warrantless surveillance.
The Federal Government has succumbed to “well organised corruption and capture” by fossil fuel billionaires who are “a threat to life”, using the cover of the COVID-19 crisis to push dangerous, uneconomic projects and strip environmental protections.
From opening schools early to racing to the brink on climate change, this is a government that is willing to sacrifice lives at the altar of corporate profits.
Over a million people with disability and carers have been left out of the government’s key coronavirus stimulus, and a parliamentary committee found this may be discrimination and a breach of United Nations rights treaties.