Why have we imported this danger? Why won’t the ABC discuss it? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
rudi of Townsville (Reply)
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How did Phillips think she was morally entitled to spend so much
PANICKED ABC management believed star newsreader Juanita Phillips left them in a “tricky” position after blindsiding them over her controversial $72,000 taxpayer-funded European first class trip with Labor lover Greg Combet.
Emails reveal the $320,000-a-year star only told her superiors about the
10-day climate change ministerial trip with Mr Combet, who held the
portfolio at the time, through France, Germany and Belgium last year
upon her return and after it was raised with the Gillard government.
But ABC head of editorial policy Alan Sunderland instead planned to tell
the public the ABC 24 host and Sydney news anchor had “always been
upfront and clear” with the ABC about the romance…
The ABC attempted to downplay the lack of prior knowledge of the trip,
saying Ms Phillips did not have to seek permission, that it was later
found to be within ABC guidelines anyway and that the broadcaster had
always provided a “high degree of transparency” dealing with the
issue...”
Six months after ABC chiefs plotted how to handle the romance’s
conflict-of-interest concerns, it was revealed the 10-day trip racked up
$57,673 on airfares, $8914 on hotels and meals and $4634 on ground
transport for Mr Combet to attend meetings and a climate conference.
Union and opposition calls for legal processes to take their normal
course in dealing with these types of allegations appear naive. They
advocate the pursuit of “rotten apples”. This is a discredited approach
to corruption analysis…
While criminal law retains an important role in attacking corruption,
police investigation and prosecutions alone rarely dent the structures
and cultures that sustain corruption…
A royal commission is better resourced than standing agencies to
undertake a root and branch examination… A royal commission that takes a
systemic approach to the examination of the issues, rather than one
mainly driven by criminal law standards, is less likely to look like a
witch-hunt against either corporate or union interests. It is more
likely to secure co-operation from otherwise reluctant sources holding
important information about corruption and intimidation.
LABOR ministers plundered about $2 million on farewell around-the-world tours in the dying months of the Gillard and Rudd governments.
Expenses records released last night reveal swan songs for the former government’s most senior members dominated the almost $3 million overseas travel bill for all senators and MPs reported in the six months to June 30.
While now retired former foreign minister Bob Carr led the way with a $368,000 bill visiting 26 countries, the records also reveal ... the 10-day trip by former climate change minister Greg Combet and ABC newsreader girlfriend Juanita Phillips through France, Belgium and Germany in April has come in at $72,027…
The former NSW MP listed the reason as conducting a “series of high-level meetings” and attending the Towards a Global Carbon Market: Prospects for Emissions Trading Conference.
Labor members held the top 15 positions on the list…
immigration. That is to throw open the doors so to speak and change
social makeup of our society in order to ‘rub the rights noses’ into
diversity and render all future arguments out of date.
Their strategy revolves around the opinion that all these migrants will be left wing supporters.
However in the UK. this has got well and truly out of hand with the
Muslim population now reaching around 2.5 million and growing rapidly.
Islam is now the fastest growing religion over there and on track to become the dominant religion within the next decade.
One doesn’t need a crystal ball to see Englands future. A future where
there is no left or right, no England, just Islam and sharia.(No wonder
Scotland wants to become independent)
The same will eventually happen here unless we are very careful.
AS for the ABC. At the moment they still answer to Russel St. and Labors
racial vilification laws which are designed to prevent any adverse
discussion on this topic.