[XorNot]

This is all the long tail of the corrupt-as-hell Scott Morrison government which was just evicted pretty soundly (after too bloody long though, and somehow Dutton is still in). NSW in particular once ICAC took a look had Gladys Berejiklian suddenly resign (as all these state level criminals do the second they get called before it), and the notable events surrounding why the Australian Federal Police Fixated Persons Unit arrested the producer of FriendlyJordies (political YouTuber) who was being sued by her Deputy Premier John Barilaro for defamation, who also is being investigated for corruption right now when a job was invented and given to him when he decided to exit politics (on account of "definitely going down for corruption as well").

Which is a long way to say that if the current Labor government has any sense, Federal ICAC will be done, and strong, soon (they say October) because switching the lights on in Parliament House is going to send a lot of cockroaches scurrying. Just need to make sure we get them with the boot.

[BLKNSLVR]

The years-long delay, attempts to water-down the powers, and eventual failure to implement Federal ICAC by the Liberal government is both an oddly silent but screamingly obvious indicator that there's a significant "cockroach" problem. The mainstream media barely mentions it, which is also an indicator of the scale of the problem.

I hope Labour implement it, with appropriate strength and enforcement powers, but they're still politicians at heart, so who knows. Can't be more corrupt than Morrison's selected cabinet of philanderers though.

[justatdotin]

similar new draconian anti-protest laws were introduced by the victorian state labor government and applied against citizen-science forest action. - this cannot be pinned on sQumo or the libs.

this is not about the bad man who used to be in charge.

the mistreatment of civic minded protestors in ausfailure is an enactment of bipartisan determination to squeeze more wealth out of the planet as long as they can.