barnaby joyce interview

It was two stories in particular that received the biggest response yesterday: Barnaby Joyce’s $150,000 interview on the “private matter” of his home life, and the Productivity Commission’s scathing report on default super funding arrangements. On the first, it’s a case of “twas ever thus”. On the second, our readers concluded the Turnbull government would be worrisome if it wasn’t so inept. 

 

On Barnaby Joyce, Vikki Campion and chequebook journalism

Jack Robertson writes: Let’s not forget — what with all the noise just now about the outrageous notion that a politician “still on the public payroll” might flog himself about the commercial Meeja — that Hawkey was then (and still is now) very much at the taxpayer teat, in the form of his stupendous, totally unfunded Super sinecure. The sound of Richo – arguably the biggest commercial media whore of the vast lot of ex-pollies who are still quietly pulling down their six figures annually of my tax dollar year in year out – sticking it to Joyce, as a “hypocrite” besmirching the holy sanctity of a taxpayer salary (on Slimeback Radio), was particularly amusing.

All the hysterical shrieking at Joyce is, of course, just the usual distracting projected guilt, to deflect our attention away from just how incestuous, morally corrupted and untenably dysfunctional the supposedly “respectable” main branches of the dying pollie/press family tree have become. Great, acute piece EW. Joining the dots, Crikey, joining the dots…

Judy Bamberger writes: Disgusted that an on the job MP is receiving $150,000 (reportedly) for his story?  Stop complaining; take action!  Refuse to watch; refuse to read; refuse to buy. Since money obviously speaks volumes, make your money talk louder than his.

 

On super and the productivity report

Marcus Hickswrites: As long as Turnbull stacks his ministry with no talents who just happen to be his supporter base then this government will stumble from one disaster after another, until it’s  finally put out of its misery by the voters and put down. Never in Australia’s history has a government — or governments if you include Abbott’s disaster — been as politically inept and corrupt as these collection of ideological and economic incompetents. That there is still a section of the public too blind or stupid to see what their votes are doing to this country, and still willing support these clowns is hard to understand.

Marcus Hicks writes: Funny how, even after spending five years stacking organisations like Fair Work Australia and the Productivity Commission, the Libs still cannot get outcomes that are 100% in line with their ideological positions.

Robert Smith writes It will be a challenge but the Liberals will find a way to favour the retail super funds even after this report. Maybe they’ll just ignore it.

 

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