Basil Lenzo

Views are all my own! Football, family and true friends are life.

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@DeathNsl And we wonder why our game can’t get any real funding ….. why does this have to be made public. The loser is the game.

[Roger Montgomery @rjmontgomery]

Two months in, the data suggests Labor's property changes may have made it even harder for first home buyers to enter the market.

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@DrewPavlou If this doesn’t now help people make sense of what’s going on then I simply don’t know any more ……. @DHughesy

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@PeterPerthWA Great Insight …. Keep up the great work.

[Peter Lyndon-James @PeterPerthWA]

THE DONORS WHO NEVER LOSE AN ELECTION

You’ve voted in ten federal elections since 1998. Governments have changed hands four times. Howard out. Rudd and Gillard out. Morrison out. Every time, we’re told the country changed direction.

The donation records say otherwise.

I went through every political party return lodged with the AEC since 1998-99. All of it. And I went looking for one thing: companies that wrote cheques to Labor AND the Coalition in the same year.

In every single year since 1998, there has been a group of donors paying both sides at once. It has never dropped below 24. Last financial year it hit 94, the biggest on record.

Then I ran the harder test. Which donors paid both sides under all four governments, Howard, Rudd/Gillard, Abbott through Morrison, and Albanese?

Fourteen entities pass. Banks. A hotels lobby. A pharmacy lobby. A gambling company. A gas company. A big-four consultancy.

Two of them pass the strictest cut in the book, declared donations only, ten grand or more to each side, under every government since John Howard:

Pratt Holdings. $7.9 million to Labor. $10.3 million to the Coalition. Cardboard boxes don’t care who’s Prime Minister.

Manildra Group. $799,000 to Labor. $1.27 million to the Coalition. The ethanol mandate survived every one of those governments too. Draw your own conclusions, the donations are on the public record either way.

The banks are in the fourteen as well. Westpac has been a both-sides donor across twenty separate years. NAB the same. I’m quoting their declared donations only, their other payments to parties include ordinary banking business, and I don’t inflate numbers to make a point. The pattern doesn’t need inflating.

Here’s what this means in plain English. When you change the government, these donors don’t lose. They already paid the winner. They paid the loser too, and they’ll pay them again when they’re back. That’s not a bet on a party. That’s a subscription to whoever holds power.

I checked this two ways, because that’s the rule on this page. The party returns show the money coming in. The donors’ own returns, filed separately, by them, show it going out. Westpac has lodged donor returns in 27 different years. Pratt in 24. Both sets of paperwork tell the same story.

Every government since 1998 promised change. The subscription never lapsed once.

None of this is illegal. That’s the problem.

Cold hard facts. Sourced. Corrected when wrong.

What’s your thoughts…?

Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@PeterPerthWA It’s rife in our system. It makes so mad 😠

[Bender @Bender_Aus]

If you don't follow @PeterPerthWA I want to know why?
This legend is seriously putting the light into the darkness of Australian politics and beyond, he is setting the standard of what Australia needs.

Complete unbridled truth.

Thank you Peter for the countless hours researching and presenting these vital posts that every Australian should be fully aware of.

Let's help promote Peter @TruthFairy131 @QBCCIntegrity @MickamiousG @JohnRuddick2 @RennickGBR @JoelJammal

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@Bender_Aus @DHughesy this needs a louder platform….

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@craigkellyAFEE An absolute disgrace use of tax payers money….

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@DeanRosario That looks good ….. 👍🏻

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

When are Australians going to wake up!

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@M1D3V Longest preseason in the world….. crazy tbh!

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@AmandaRishworth What inflation issue 🤡

[Adam Creighton @Adam_Creighton]

Australians suffer the sharpest decline in living standards in OECD and real wages expected to fall even further.
Almost entirely due to utterly pathetic government for the past decade.
https://t.co/cpdc6IfgmR

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@Sachk0 @BenSmith94 I have been inbox Ed in the game for a long long time and it’s the same discussion post every World Cup. 6 months later it goes away.
Thing will not change until people are willing to change.
And those who have vested interests don’t want the change.

[AussieScout @scout_aussie]

This is brilliant analysis.

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@tompanos To “fix the property prices” you must first break them ….. once they drop, the wonderful pollies can then say “we made it affordable”. Thats why they sold …. Oh and they benefited from the tax benefits before they changed it.

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@DanielGarb An absolute class act. In fact, Aussies have a few that would be comfortable in any of the top 10 countries in the WORLD!

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@AlboMP U can’t fix it without breaking something else. If u don’t understand that then you’re as cooked as Albo!

[Basil Lenzo @BasilLenzo]

@RobbieSlater17 @Socceroos Cmon @Socceroos the “whole country” is behind u…..