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This small book gives a most disturbing summary of all the many things which have gone wrong in Australia over the past 20 years, at every level: Federal, State and Local, but particularly focussing on the Federal scene.
If you've been wondering about many issues which have arisen in recent years such as the way our Federal Government selected the French contract for our Submarine fleet which was recently aborted at short notice by the person we call our "Prime Minister"... well this horrible grimy little episode of national shame is exceedingly well explained by Ms. McLeod in just a few pages.
If you are concerned about how much abuse of office has been going on in so many instances, from the MacDonald and Obeid infractions in NSW which have been in the news lately (but really for the past 10 years) or Berejiklian's current enquiry by ICAC in NSW, or the Victorian shemozzle involving Adem Somyurek and Anthony Byrne and others, well this little book explains very well how these issues arose and how endemic they are in our political system.
It also explains a great deal about how perpetrators get away with their devious actions for a long time before a few of them have to face the music and end up in ICAC or IBAC, or even end up in jail as occasionally does come to pass.
But of course the Federal Govt. is not keen to let loose such scrutiny among its own pollies. Well why would they? They have a great deal to lose by doing so.
I'm not going to go further with this at the moment except to this:
thank you Fiona McLeod for your powerful expose of issues underpin and enable the problems we are hear about from day to day, week to week, month to month, some of which have been hanging around for more than 10 years. Your have done us a great service in writing this book.
I hope that any of my friends who have not yet read this book will put it on their list.
And many thanks to my friend DD (no not Donald Duck) for lending you copy to me.
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DD couldn't be Darko Duilo either, could it? Given that he's in Croatia.
ReplyDeleteDavid I can assure you this DD was not Darko Duilo. Darko may never have heard of this book given that he lives in Croatia, but as he is a man of great intelligence it's possible that he has heard of it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, my bet is that he has not heard of it until now.
I'm hoping Darko will take us up as his new home seeing Facebook have sort of excommunicated him. Or was it the other way around? When I was young I excommunicated the entire Catholic Church. And they never even wrote back!
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