by PAUL COLLITS – POLITICIANS are flushing taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the toilet without blinking an eye – all to get their friends and themselves filthy rich. In the US, they have recently spent $8m to study the effect of flavored cigarettes…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE’S a whiff of a dying government in Macquarie Street. While seeking to sell an election budget delivered by a treasurer who, in a rare moment of public service, was seen doing his job rather than white-anting his…
PORK-barrelling leads not only to corrupt behaviour but it also inflicts systemic damage on the body politic. NSW’s recent ICAC public forum on this form of vote buying has been well reported, at least in some areas of the legacy media. This…
