The new anti-corruption commission risks becoming irrelevant and just another toothless watchdog, unable to serve the very purpose for which it was created.
So disappointed in Labor in regard to this. Government procurement and contracting practices in recent years have become shameful. Labor has let this country down severely by not addressing it.
t is incredibly frustrating that despite all the evidence to the contrary, the present leadership of the ALP is unwilling to confront the fact that corruption, inequality and greed are features, not bugs of the current system. Tinkering with it and applying a few remedial measures here and there just won’t cut it.
There was a mood for significant reform and Albanese and Co.’s timidity and aimless managerialism has deflated it. This is a dangerous outcome as the general perception of the political elites (of which the present ALP has become a willing junior partner) is death- spiralling. We only need to look to the US to see where that leads.
Either they go bold on a reform agenda or they sink into the same stinking cesspit that the coalition and its venal neoliberal worldview have inhabited for some time.
So disappointed in Labor in regard to this. Government procurement and contracting practices in recent years have become shameful. Labor has let this country down severely by not addressing it.
t is incredibly frustrating that despite all the evidence to the contrary, the present leadership of the ALP is unwilling to confront the fact that corruption, inequality and greed are features, not bugs of the current system. Tinkering with it and applying a few remedial measures here and there just won’t cut it.
There was a mood for significant reform and Albanese and Co.’s timidity and aimless managerialism has deflated it. This is a dangerous outcome as the general perception of the political elites (of which the present ALP has become a willing junior partner) is death- spiralling. We only need to look to the US to see where that leads.
Either they go bold on a reform agenda or they sink into the same stinking cesspit that the coalition and its venal neoliberal worldview have inhabited for some time.