Friday 21st of February 2025

scomo's finest hours....

The federal corruption watchdog will investigate six people responsible for the former government’s illegal debt collection scheme, backflipping on a previous decision.

Following a review process, the National Anti-Corruption Commission revealed on Tuesday it will probe whether any of the six officials referred in the robodebt royal commission’s final report engaged in corrupt conduct.

This overturns the commission’s controversial June decision not to investigate the referrals.

From 2016 to 2019, the robodebt scheme recovered more than $750 million from almost 400,000 people. 

The watchdog did not reveal reasons for starting an investigation, noting that could prejudice the process.

But in October, the National Anti-Corruption Commission Inspector Gail Furness found the commission’s head Paul Brereton engaged in misconduct as he had ties with one of the six in question but did not adequately recuse himself from the watchdog’s decision.

Mr Brereton and the other deputy commissioners involved in the original decision will not participate in the investigation.

Between 2016 and 2019, the former coalition government’s robodebt scheme recovered more than $750 million from almost 400,000 people.

Many welfare recipients were falsely accused of owing the government money and the program was linked to several suicides.

https://michaelwest.com.au/corruption-watchdog-to-probe-robodebt-referrals/

 

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we threw him out....

The Honorable Scott Morrison served as Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022,  As Prime Minister, Mr. Morrison successfully led Australia through the global COVID 19 pandemic, achieving one of the world’s most effective public health and economic responses. Under Mr. Morrison’s leadership Australia had the third lowest COVID fatality rate in the OECD while Australia’s economy outperformed all G7 and almost all OECD economies.

As Prime Minister, Mr. Morrison was the architect and founder of the AUKUS trilateral defense agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. He was a  founding member of the Quad leaders dialogue with India, Japan, and the United States and completed numerous other diplomatic, trade and defense agreements, especially in the Indo-Pacific, including Japan’s first ever bilateral defense forces reciprocal access agreement.

Domestically, Mr. Morrison stewarded the Australian economy to its lowest unemployment rate in almost 50 years, balancing the federal budget before the pandemic hit and returning it to a structural surplus. He ensured Australia remained one of only nine countries in the world to maintain a AAA credit rating from all major international credit rating agencies.

Prior to becoming Prime Minister, Mr. Morrison served as a Cabinet Minister for five years, including three years as Federal Treasurer (2015-2018) where he focused on tax reform, foreign investment, banking regulation and governance and development of Australia’s FinTech sector. Mr. Morrison also served as a Cabinet Minister for Social Security and Immigration and Border Protection.

Throughout his nine years in Cabinet, Mr. Morrison served for eight years respectively on the Australian Government’s National Security Committee and Expenditure Review Committee.

Mr. Morrison served in the House of Representatives of Australia Commonwealth Parliament from 2007 to 2024.

Prior to entering politics Mr. Morrison worked in the tourism, hospitality, major events and commercial property sector as a senior executive. Mr. Morrison holds a Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours in Economic Geography from the University of New South Wales, where he graduated in 1990.

As Prime Minister, Mr. Morrison was awarded the honour of Chief Commander of the United States Legion of Merit and the inaugural Grotius Prize for International Relations from UK Policy Exchange.

Mr. Morrison now serves as Vice Chairman of American Global Strategies and is a member of several Strategic Advisory Boards in the private equity sector as well as at the International Democratic Union, the Center for a New American Security and the Hudson Institute China Center.

Mr. Morrison is married to Jenny, they have two teenage daughters and live in Sydney, Australia.

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Today, President Donald J. Trump is pleased to announce a distinguished and trusted group of Patriots to serve on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB). These individuals will advise the President on our nation’s most important security challenges and ensure that the Intelligence Community is working to advance the President’s America First agenda. The President’s PIAB appointees represent a broad range of experience and intellect that will help restore integrity to our Intelligence Community. The following individuals have been appointed to the PIAB:
 
Devin Gerald Nunes, Chair
Scott Glabe
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy
Brad Robert Wenstrup
Wayne Berman
Reince Priebus
Robert O’Brien
Joshua Lobel
Sander R. Gerber
Katie Miller
Jeremy Katz
Thomas Ollis Hicks, Jr.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/president-trump-announces-the-presidents-intelligence-advisory-board

 

 

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stars for scomo.....

We spent most of the last three years laughing at Scott Morrison. Now the joke’s on us. With Donald Trump back in the White House, ScoMo’s close relationship with the president – and his succession of miscellaneous think-tank jobs with the MAGA set – make him vital to the kind of “bootlicker diplomacy” needed to deal with the current leader of the free world.

Should Dutton knock off Albanese, our money is on Morrison to replace Kevin Rudd in Washington. After all, Dutts has promised to “reassess” the Kevin 07’s posting if he wins.

Anyway. Along with the New Year’s Eve appearance at Mar-a-Lago and guest spots on random kiwi podcasts, Morrison is busy juggling seven different board/advisory-type roles. That includes his job as chair of Space Centre Australia, the company that is totally going to build a spaceport on the Cape York Peninsula. One day.

As CBD reported last year, SCA chief executive James Palmer has a slightly bumpy past business record, with one of his previous companies going into liquidation owing creditors around $800,000. None of this deterred ScoMo from jumping into the cockpit with him, and a few months on, he hasn’t lost sight of the stars.

The former PM is now set to headline the Australian Space Summit at the ICC Sydney in May. If the Liberals prevail, he could be headed to DC soon after.

https://www.smh.com.au/cbd/scott-morrison-still-headed-for-outer-space-20250218-p5ld4m.html

 

MAY SCOMO TAKE OFF IN A ROCKET AND TRAVEL FOREVER TO THE STARS....

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.