Banking royal commission
In December 2009, allegations were made that Kayrn Paluzzano MP, had illegally used public money to fund her re-election campaign. At first, she denied the accusation at an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearing on April 16, 2010.
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At a subsequent meeting, Paluzzano admitted to falsely signing employee pay forms and using her electoral mail allowance for political purposes.
At the completion of the enquiry in July 2010, Judge Anthony Blackmore said he accepted Paluzzano did not benefit financially from her crime, but it was vital those in power understood the need to be "scrupulously honest".
The court heard Paluzzano did not benefit from signing the false statements, which amounted to $4200 in payments.
On June 7, 2012 Paluzzano pleaded guilty to four charges relating to falsely claiming parliamentary payments between 2006 and 2007, as well as giving misleading evidence to the corruption watchdog in a 2010 inquiry. On September 6, 2012, Paluzzano was sentenced to a minimum of twelve months home detention.
The above is an example of sic political justice.
Take a step forward to the current banking royal commission, and the exposure of multiple lying under oath to the corporate watchdog. We are talking about lives ruined and the theft of hundreds of millions, if not billions over a ten year period (five under conservative governments).
The worst part is, Abbott and Turnbull have encouraged the exploitation, and l what is worse, Scott Morrison, has intimated the perpetrators of injustice will get off “Scott-free” (no pun intended).
If no one is, going to say it I will, and history will back me up: Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison— You are a bunch of crooks, instead of treating us as fellow compatriots, you have deserted us – sold your souls and pledged your allegiance to investment and high finance.
J. Macleod, Berry
MP claims Labor lying
After being caught out blatantly lying about Medicare at the last Federal election, you’d think Labor would lay off the scare tactics in the lead-up to the next poll.
While travelling around the seat of Gilmore recently, I was handed a Labor brochure making claims about funding for local hospitals.
Labor says the Turnbull Government is stripping $7.1 million from Shoalhaven Hospital and $200,000 from Milton Ulladulla Hospital. It’s just not true.
The last time Labor was in government (2012-13), Commonwealth funding for the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Hospital District was $134 million. Under the Turnbull Government, it’s increased to $264m.
The irony in Labor’s lie is that funding in state hospital districts is governed by a formula - Activity Based Funding – that was agreed to nationally when Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister.
Thanks to the new National Health Reform Agreement the Turnbull Government recently delivered, NSW’s share of this funding pie is increasing by $9 billion.
This year alone, we’re delivering nearly $2 billion more to NSW hospitals, compared to what Labor funded in their last year in government.
Our hospital system will never be perfect. Things do go wrong and mistakes happen. But it is one of the best in the world, and our health outcomes are better than almost any other developed country.
Labor also says Medicare is in danger. The facts say different. Under Labor, the percentage of visits to the GP covered by Medicare in my seat of Gilmore was 82.3 per cent. Bulk billing is now running at 85.7 per cent – an all-time high.
Labor will say and do anything to try and trick people with blatant lies. Thankfully, the real figures show the truth.
