C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre, might we have muttered at the sinking of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), the ship that torpedoed itself.
If the NACC was, as many suspect, set up to fail by the duopolists of the two major parties, the people they put in charge could not have served them better.
The NACC’s decision that there was nothing left worth discussing in the aftermath of the robodebt catastrophe — with a justification that read to the scandal’s victims like “too hard, can’t be bothered” —was a death blow to the agency’s standing as an instrument for restoring public faith in government.
Unless you are at the corrupt fake left Guardian which is only looking for excuses when covering the story at all:
The accrual of personal airline status credits by public servants, politicians and their staff travelling for work may influence which carrier they fly with despite rules that insist on the cheapest fare, an expert in aviation loyalty programs says.
Tin-eared Klepto flying free to his $4.3m lovenest and its $100m publicly upgraded driveway is more than the public can handle.
