Of course Watson is going to defend the ICAC, how many innocents has he helped ruin while working for it.
ICAC is as corrupt as the parliament.
So then ICAC becomes a political organisation, picking and choosing the timing of its announcements to favor certain politicians depending on circumstances?
This is what top silk and former counsel assisting ICAC Geoffrey Watson SC had to say about the timing:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-...lian/100510076"I think it's actually a great moment for ICAC because it's shown, yet again, it doesn't care how powerful the person is, it doesn't care how popular the person is, it does the right thing," he said.
"I saw that the Premier criticised the timing of it, I couldn't disagree more.
"The timing is perfect, this is exactly the point in our history when we want our politicians placed under close scrutiny."
Of course Watson is going to defend the ICAC, how many innocents has he helped ruin while working for it.
ICAC is as corrupt as the parliament.
My level of sarcasm depends on your level of stupidity.
Perrottet as Premier, Ayres as Deputy and Kean as Treasurer
He's let the cat out of the bag a bit, hasn't he? That statement all but admits that there was an element of timing in it. That was the wrong statement to make. It doesn't help make the ICAC look any better, instead it has made it worse by implying that they did not simply act immediately upon knowing a new piece of information.
Would you pick her in a line-up?
It might be easy to think that, but a decision to conduct a public enquiry has to be made by 2 of the 3 commissioners. There's also an Inspector of the ICAC who is independent from them and is supposed to ensure that they don't become politicised. To top it all off the current 3 commissioners of the ICAC were appointed by the current government. So if anything they'd owe Gladys.
My question is. If everyone feels both major parties are full of corrupt leaders. Why do ppl continue to vote for both of them ? Why not some other party ?
Exactly this. However, it is certainly not unique to NSW. Almost every "democratic" election invariably becomes a 2 horse race. Go figure. I'm no expert in the matter, but if you look at it purely from a voter's perspective, say a "strong" third party were to emerge out of nowhere. Would you use your one and only vote on that 3rd party? Remember, you wouldn't know if there would be millions more people like you who would vote for the new party, but you do know that there would be millions others who would vote for either of the 2 existing major parties. If very few people voted for that 3rd party, then you would've wasted your vote.
There are other intricacies like majority seats, balance of power, king makers, etc... The system makes it feel like, if you voted for a small party, you might end up getting something you didn't bargain for. Say your guy ends up being king maker and then favours the exact party you hated. You have no control over that outcome.
Well. I rather vote for the right team, if they don't win, I'm happy for my vote to be wasted.
I don't see why ppl should be forced to pick existing parties that are obvious corrupt as.
I mean, I dun want them to spend my tax money on submarines, I want them to spend Billions on education and bring in tons of "foreign students". I can't get a BJ or get a cowboy style with a submarine.
Good riddance. Amazed at how many supporters she had.
Gladys resigned.
Then Constance resigned.
Now Barilaro has resigned.
All the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
If it's true what Gladys said, that now is the worst possible time to resign, then why is Pork Barilaro now also resigning? 🤔
Constance and Barilaro were going to resign last time and go in into the Feds however they were going to nominate for the same seat so they called a truce not to nominate. This is no surprise as they had always signaled their intention to leave and go into Federal politics.