If Labor had won the election, as a quid-pro-quo for Liberal’s Shorten-targeting Royal Commission, we would have had a much needed Royal Commission into the Australian banks.
The banks and our Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull poured large sums of money into the Liberals’ campaign to ensure a Liberal win and to protect themselves from the knife.
How much did Westpac punt on a Liberal win?
How much did the NAB punt on a Liberal win?
How much did the ANZ punt on a Liberal win?
How much did the Commonwealth Bank punt on a Liberal win?
Did they cover themselves with equal donations to Labor?
How much did Turnbull personally tip into Liberal Party coffers to keep his position as our Prime Minister?
When I stood for Parliament I was restricted in the amount I could spend and I had to account for every dollar.
These are important questions which cannot wait more than a year for an answer.
Senator Lambie, will you please demand answers in the Senate?
The NSW Liberal Party has cut funds to that state’s Independent Commission Against Corruption in what I see as a blatant attempt to spike the ICAC guns about to be brought to bear on the Liberals’ Arthur Sinodinos.
From a Tasmanian point of view a new federal Independent Commission Against Corruption would play havoc with Liberal and Labor over corruption in the Forestry Industry – as per my detailed submission tabled by Independent Denison MP Andrew Wilkie in the Federal Parliament: TT HERE: Forestry Tasmania, Andrew Wilkie MP and the tabled document …
Mr Wilkie, will you ask again for a Royal Commission into Ta Ann and the Peeler Billet contracts that are bankrupting Forestry Tasmania and costing the taxpayers in this state – what I believe – is a million dollars a week?
We now have enough Independents in the Senate, and a virtually hung parliament in the Lower House, to allow all those lovely Independents to pressure the federal Liberal government into a Royal Commission into the banks … and a Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption.
This will straighten the backs of some of those in government here in Tasmania and stop the banks and a small number of their employees from screwing the system to secure enormous bonuses.
Now that would be a real result!
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• … You cannot bully a Prime Minister when you – as the most senior Liberal in Tasmania – was personally responsible for the loss of all three Tasmanian Liberal seats in Parliament thereby giving the Prime Minister a one-seat majority. An extra six-seat majority was lost when Labor beat your personally-approved and championed three amigo’s. Abetz you are the problem and all Tasmanians know it. Resign.
