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Outrage in Germany after it became public that a Syrian migrant with 3 wives, 32 children and 25 grandchildren, with 70% of the entire family having a criminal record, receives €100,000 a year in welfare.
Sounds like Australia
We sent a team of just 55 Aussie athletes to the Winter Olympics this year but a team of 192 government delegates to the climate change summit. Back in 2021 we sent 26, that’s an increase of 630% over 5 years. The spending and wastage never ends #auspol
This is unbelievable, @AlboMP and his clown show of an @AustralianLabor government have quite casually revealed in Senate Estimates that they have spent $2.3 billion dollars of our money on ONE undisclosed project and that the payment was totally unauthorised. They were right when they said ‘it won’t be easy under Albanese’.
#BREAKING ALBO EXPOSED AS AN OUTRIGHT LIAR
Marrickville Golf Club has just blown the lid off Anthony Albanese’s $6.05 million grant rort - and confirmed he repeatedly misled parliament.
Club management fronted a Senate committee and stated the $6.05m federal cash was never intended to fix sewerage problems.
General manager Mathew Ward told Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie it was “basically correct” that sewage was never part of the $6m grant.
The club had already applied to NSW for the sewerage works and were “very optimistic” it would be funded separately - so it was deliberately left out of the federal money.
Albanese told parliament the opposite.
He claimed the federal grant was to fix the sewerage. He was forced to walk it back last month after his own department confirmed it wasn’t.
The club’s evidence now makes that retreat look even worse.
They also confirmed the Prime Minister’s “honorary” membership, granted in 2012 with essentially no paper trail, was worth $1,100, the same as a full golfing membership.
Not the $5 “social” membership he claimed. He only relinquished it on 14 September this year after the scandal broke.
Plans for stormwater harvesting, a botanic garden and a major overhaul were shown to his electorate office in August 2024.
The sewerage issue was real and pressing at the time, but it was never what the $6m federal grant was for.
Club president Andrew Tighe says the backlash has been “unprecedented.”
Staff have been abused, the phones had to be disabled, and members of the public have been demanding “Albo’s money back.”
This isn’t a misunderstanding. The club’s own managers have now contradicted the Prime Minister’s claims in parliament on both the purpose of the grant and the value of his membership.
Taxpayers handed $6 million to a golf club where the Prime Minister held a hidden full value membership - and the justification he gave parliament doesn’t match what the club says happened.
Barry O’Farrell lost his job over an undeclared bottle of red wine.
What’s the standard for this bloke to keep his, you can now be corrupt and lie about it?
1 MINUTE AGO! Pauline Hanson has just unveiled a “$90 Billion Plan to Save Australia,” in which she proposes withdrawing from the UN, WHO, and WEF, abolishing the Department of Climate Change, and heavily cutting NDIS funding to support only those who truly need it. Within just 24 hours, One Nation’s support surged to 19% the highest level in the party’s history. The plan promises to save $90 billion each year to return money to Australians, invest in coal power to slash electricity prices by 30%, and build more dams and railways instead of “paying globalists.” Immediately after the announcement, Pauline Hanson’s nine-word message spread rapidly across the entire country
Minister for No Mates, Chris Bowen, has paid for a cheer-squad of 835 people to go to COP31
Flights, luxury hotels, fine dining dinners, security, parties and extra curricular activities - paid for by us taxpayers
Australian taxpayers gave the Pacific $147.8 million for a support fund that covers travel to COP, for another 14 countries!
The Pacific have a Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion that Australian taxpayers helped fund
Oh and Australian taxpayers may or may not have paid for Queen Mary and her entourage to jet in from Denmark
So we are paying for approximately 700 people to go to COP, including 17 Pacific Journalists, plus 835 Australians. 90,000 people go to COP to beg for money, the whole thing is a circus
Meanwhile Australians can’t afford to pay for rent or food
He’s not wrong. I’ve been saying for years that @AlboMP and his @AustralianLabor shitshow of a Government are a mob of aging Student Union activists who’ve been gifted the keys to the country.
That’s right Aussies you’re paying $36k for some foreigner buffoons at a climate scam event in Turkey so they can have free latte’s. That’s Labor for you.
So Anika Wells handed over $40.5m to Australia Post in the May budget for electric vehicles, just months after the postal giant botched the acquisition of 500 Taiwanese electric trikes at a cost of $18.2m.
In February, the entire fleet was withdrawn from service and warehoused when it was discovered they were not safe enough for posties to ride.
What a waste of millions of dollars.
While its planned upto 150 will be put back on the road, this debacle shows a failure of due diligence by Anika Wells and the Albanese government, as well as Australia Post.
Yet, in #SenateEstimates, outgoing postal boss, Paul Graham, was still trying to argue the e-trikes were fit for purpose.🤦🏻♀️
This is the NDIS . Came across a lady who works for 11 hours on a Sunday looking after a child with special needs while the parents go to work . She was paid 144 dollars an hour.