Big News!
The Morrison government has announced a policy on a federal corruption body. Apparently they’ve been working on it for a long time. In fact, they’ve been working on it even before we had our latest PM. They were even working on it at the time they told us that they we didn’t need one.
Now some have been unkind and suggested that far from a watchdog, it was a chihuahua. Let’s be fair, some of those little dogs can be very annoying with their barking. Let’s be fair, it’s only reasonable that they should be de-barked in case they wake up the voters!
Christian Porter was at pains to explain how the proposed Anti-corruption body would work. From what I could understand, just like the ABC, there’d need to be balance and after establishing it, there’d be a Pro-corruption body to look after donations. And it won’t listen to anyone bringing nasty, partisan accusations. In other words, anyone who voted for Labor or The Greens will be automatically excluded from making a referal. And, in order to preserve the reputation of anyone accused, it will adopt the protection of conducting all investigations in secret. If it should be found that a person or persons are likely to be guilty of corruption, the evidence will be refered to the DPP to see if there’s enough evidence to bring it to trial. I’m not sure whether or not we get to hear anything about it, if someone says, “Hey, he’s the guy who appointed me to my position in the DPP, surely the evidence must be falsified, so let’s just forget the whole thing and go after the person who leaked his name to the media…”
All right, there is always a problem with public trials. We all know that the presumption of innocence is all very well, but once one is on trial for something, one is never completely exonerated in the public eye. On the other hand, we have the glove that didn’t fit O.J. Simpson…
Mm, I’m not sure what my point was. I don’t have a legal mind so perhaps I better move on before I say something about (REMOVED FOR LEGAL REASONS) who was found guilty but we can’t mention for fear of him not getting a fair trial in the next public event where he gets tried for other crimes that he’s been accused of. So maybe I should just go on to say how pleased I am about the religious discrimination laws. I mean, it’s a slippery slope, isn’t it? You know, it starts with schools not able to use electric shock treatment to prevent gay students from being condemned to Hell, and next thing you know, schools will be prevented from teaching the virtues of female circumsion… Speaking of religion, I’m joining Pauline who’s promised me eternal life. In case you haven’t seen it.
As she said, “And we’re going to all die… It’s not the case.” Well, hallelujah and pass the money jar… Who was it that said that the difference between real life and fiction was that fiction had to be plausible?
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