Dutton’s Dirty Business As Home Affairs Minister
Nearly 10 years of Coalition government in Australia is being revealed as a decade of corruption and incompetence. Now, Dutton’s dirty business as Home Affairs Minister is coming to the fore following further investigations into billions paid to dodgy companies involved in offshore detention. A company called Paladin with no track record in this type of work was awarded huge contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars by Dutton. Other companies awarded contracts have been shown to be involved in drug running and arms sales. All of these companies and their directors are in the spotlight for bribing foreign officials, according to allegations made.
Peter Dutton The Then Home Affair’s Minister Has Much To Answer
The LNP federal governments led by Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull, and Tony Abbott slashed the public service and awarded billions of dollars of contracts to the private sector. This allowed them to avoid public scrutiny and opened them to allegations about funnelling money to friends in the private sector. Jobs for the boys and nepotism claims were never far away from this mob in government. Robodebt was their most high profile betrayal of the Australian people . This claimed the lives of vulnerable Aussies and ended up costing taxpayers $1.8 billion in a settled class action against the government. The ramifications from Robodebt continue, as we await who will be charged for this gross misuse of power by ministers and senior public servants during the Coalition’s time in federal office
Photo by Donald Tong on Pexels.com National Security Let Down By Dutton Big Time Peter Dutton, who is now the Leader of the Opposition, makes a lot of noise about national security but has been exposed as an incompetent Home Affair’s Minister. When an investigation into Paladin was undertaken prior to their being awarded the lucrative contract – the wrong company was investigated. The AFP was investigating one director of a company contracted to do offshore detention for the government and failed to pass this information on to Home Affairs – which strikes me as highly suspicious. Are there, perhaps, grounds for investigations into possible corrupt behaviour in this sordid mess? The Coalition was willing to pay big dollars for whoever would handle this dirty business with no questions asked. What kind of responsible governing is that? It all stinks, as do Dutton’s and Morrison’s part in it. The LNP likes to portray itself as the responsible financial managers but have been shown to be dirty and dodgy repeatedly.
Photo by NEOSiAM 2021 on Pexels.com More Coalition Sleazy Business Exposed By Report Smug and sleazy are two words I would use to describe the previous Morrison government. Scott was revealed to be a compulsive liar. Dutton is on the same grimy page with his erstwhile former leader, it is now coming to light. Dutton doing dirty deals over the offshore detention of refugees. Bribery of foreign officials by those companies was rife, according to the allegations by Dennis Richardson, the Foreign Defence Secretary. Richardson has been investigating this mess for some time now. “Contractors suspected of drug smuggling and weapons trafficking were handed multimillion dollar contracts due to a lack of due diligence in the administration of Australia’s offshore detention regime, a scathing report has found. The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, has seized on the findings of the inquiry to claim that the now opposition leader, Peter Dutton, oversaw “an offshore processing regime being used as a slush fund by suspected criminals” when he was the responsible minister.” - (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/12/australia-paid-companies-linked-to-suspected-drug-and-weapons-smuggling-to-run-offshore-detention-review-finds) It is time for Peter Dutton to face the music and to pay the price for his incompetent behaviour in government. There are now, also, questions about possible corruption to be answered. Dutton is worth some $300 million apparently. That is a lot of money. Australia is in the midst of a cost of living crisis with rents unaffordable and families living in tents on the fringes of cities. A decade of the Coalition set us up for where we find ourselves now. ©HouseTherapy Read the full article