
Tom Elliott fires up over new political corruption allegations
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Let's just get back to corruption. There's two examples that really pisses me off and I apologize for the the bad language there, but the first is the Labor Party here in Victoria. It's been revealed that at least two and possibly more Labor higher companies affiliated with the CFMEU donated money to the Labor Party here in Victoria ahead of the 2022 election. Now does anybody wonder why we have some of its corruption on the big bill? I'm just going to spell it out. The CFMEU says to Labor higher companies that it controls donate money to Labor politicians, apparently Lubbock or Gorgorovic, who is now a state MP, receives some of these donations. Okay, so it says donate money to Labor politicians. Labor politicians then start a gigantic infrastructure program, we know it's the big bill. And the CFMEU gets to reward money hundreds of millions of dollars out of the system and that's another subbictive or royal commission. But Labor turns a blind eye
to it. Why? Because they receive money from the very body, which is ripping us off. So where the taxpayer get ripped off by the CFMEU? And some of that money that the CFMEU rips off from us is used effectively to bribe the politicians to turn a blind eye. This has been going on in Victoria for the past decade. You know, I just, you know, if you run for the city of Melbourne, for example, as a Councillor, you're not supposed to take donations from property developers. Why? Well, it's obvious because one of the big powers that the city council has is to say, yay or nay on planning decisions. So we don't want, you know, city Councillors to be in the pay of a property developers. You know, if the Liberal Party received billions of dollars of donations from big business and then just did what big business wanted people would say, well, that's corrupt. Now, you're being paid to produce these sorts of policies. And yet when it comes to the state Labor Party and other Labor parties, I want to speak to Jeffrey Watson, SC, after nine o'clock. He's the one who's been reporting on the CFMEU when it's corrupt activities up in Queensland, but it affects us here in
Victoria too. But I mean, so the CFMEU can donate millions of dollars to the Labor Party and individual Labor politicians. Those politicians turn a blind eye to corruption. To me, that is corrupt behavior. And it is going on in front of us. It has been for years and no one says, boo, do a goose. Now, the second example involves the Prime Minister, Anthony Albert Easey. Now, he is the MP for Merrickville up in Sydney. And it turns out that he is authorized a six million dollar donation, taxpayer funded donation to the Merrickville golf club. Now, he's an honorary member of the golf club. Sisi doesn't play golf, but he's not a honorary member. And again, before the last federal election, the Merrickville golf club put up on social media posts popping for an elbow tonight. That's a beer. And then it says, it's election day. Make sure you cast your vote, vote Labor Labor Party beer. So basically, the Labor government in Canberra gives the Merrickville golf club six
million dollars of our money. Now, most of us will never ever play golf at the Merrickville golf club. And then the Merrickville golf club urges its members to vote for Anthony Albert Easey and to vote Labor in the election. It's corruption. One of the three six nine three mornings at three ow.com. I'm just sick of it. I mean, I don't know what the solution is here, but I don't understand, you know, that the left side of politics, rants and raves about big business and Gina Reinhardt donating money and you know, Gina Reinhardt's control over politicians. Meanwhile, they donate money to golf clubs. The golf club urges its members vote Labor or the CFMU year at a affiliated Labor High Company, donate money to Labor politicians. And then they're same politicians turn a blind eye to corruption. We are the ones paying for this. All right. The corruption on the big bill means that we are spending billions of dollars more than what we should have to to build tunnels and roads and all the various other things that the big builders involved in. All right. And the Merrickville golf club. I mean, six million dollars is small beer for the
federal government. But why should we pay as taxpayers for a donation to the Merrickville golf club? So he can then urges its members to vote for Anthony Albert Easey. It's corruption and it needs to stop.
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