Cartier watches may outrage the PM but he should clock these scandals for true shock value

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Australia Post spending thousands on watches for its executives shrinks into insignificance against other misused funds, for which the dodginess is much whiffier.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Napoleon said that men are led by baubles, and certainly, in the case of the senior executives of Australia Post, the gift of Cartier watches – suitably French and fancy – seems to have been received gladly.

The provenance of Holgate’s Bulgari watch is unknown – for all we know it could be a family heirloom – but it was a terrible styling choice. First there is the remarkable case of the Leppington Triangle, where taxpayer money seems to have disappeared in the blink of an eye, like a watch vanished from a wrist by a clever magician. This Audit Office delivered a scathing report about the baffling decision by the federal government to use $33 million of taxpayer money to buy this patch of land at Badgerys Creek. It was valued at only $3 million.

 

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The rest of the govt should be screened for dodgy spendings. I'm sure Gladys and scomo aren't exactly innocent either

Think you missed a couple more

This isn’t news. I worked for Federally funded charity. CEO & Execs engaged in fraud & diverting more tax payer funds than AusPost & ASIC combined to personal accounts. Email evidence & financial transactions reported to Board, DSS, State audit office, ACNC. No action taken.

Look forward to “on time” delivery :)

MorpheusBeing Scotty, in his “ devout “ mission to come to grips with the Cartier affair and put behind the growing list of corruption scandals, has perhaps reached new heights of showmanship and hypocrisy.....🙏

Just another case of Scotty From Marketing using his well known 'slight of hand' PR, to distract us from all his ruthless rorts he and his government have been doing since they were elected. He will throw this woman, or anyone he so chooses, under his private bus. Both need to go

Albo was wearing new Rolex in Senate when he was delivering his Budget response, although he was trying to hide it under the cuff.

Missed a whole bunch of stuff, buts it’s a start.

Corruption in the thousands v corruption in the hundreds of millions. Come on.

It’s all a diversion from the shitfuckery

The SMH actually picking up on this blatant misuse of public office. Times ticking for the LNP

This article doesn’t even scratch the surface of the Liberal and National Parties’ economic mismanagement. No mention of sportsrorts, off-shore detention blowouts, Paladin, Great Barrier Reef Foundation, etc. the list goes on, and on...

ScottMorrisonMP outrage is like a nightclub bouncer - highly selective and only one at a time.

Yeah but why are reporting this more than the sports rorts, leppington triangle etc?

It does seem that we live in times marked by a government of shonky operations which are subject to a gesture of an investigation before we move on to the next corruption scandal.

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