Deception

Lake Illawarra, April, 2019.

The crooks can't even cover their own tracks, so brazen, blatant and corrupt are they. 
More calls for more Royal Commissions, as the government abandons any attempt at governance and pork barrels to their legal mates.
About time there was a Royal Commission into Royal Commissions.
As there most certainly should be for the Banking Royal Commission, which saw bank shares surge $20 billion in what on the face of it is the greatest market manipulation in Australian history.
In other words, the richest people and the most savvy investors, those who spend their days watching stock movements and whose job it is to work the stock exchange, made an absolute fortune on the back of a Royal Commission paid for by the peasants aka the public.
Crooked as. 
But they trundle on, announcing this and announcing that, pretending that they're doing what we're paid to do, representing the interests of the public. Going through the motions. One Big Lie.
An irrigation scheme in Tasmania. A tourist project in Queensland. 
This. That. And all the other bullshit of the day.
Billionaires line up to fund the conservatives and feather their own nests; whether there are enough billionaires to save Scott Morrison and him and his Big End of Town mates to continue ignoring the interests of the population remains to be seen. 
"Do you think this the most corrupt government in Australian history?" he asked, looking down to the screen of trees which hid the lakeside.
They who would not be obeyed simply rolled their eyes. 
Where else was there to go in this feeble time and place? 
Lose all faith in government. That was their edict. Would have to be. 
They roll off their luxury Queen sized mattresses each morning and think: "What can I do today to make Australian governance appear even more farcical than it did yesterday?"

AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS

Barnaby Joyce has conducted a train wreck interview in which he attacked critics of an $80 million water buyback linked to an offshore tax haven as peddling “an absolute load of horse poo”.
There are now calls for a royal commission into the 2017 purchase of the water by the Commonwealth, which critics say should never have occurred because it involved unreliable “overland flows” or floodwater and was overpriced at $80 million.
It also emerged on Monday that the company at the centre of the deal, Eastern Australian Agriculture, donated $55,000 to the Liberal Party before the 2013 election.
At the time of the subsequent sale in 2017, Mr Joyce was the agriculture minister.
Mr Joyce said that the true owners or beneficiaries of the company that sold the water and secured $80 million was “irrelevant”.
“You’re asking if they have water to sell. You are not asking them what clothes they wear or who they are married to,” he said.
“I’ve heard it’s a trust fund in the Cayman Islands. There you go. That’s what the Queensland government should have told me.”
The complete list of owners or beneficiaries of the $80 million deal are unknown.

A private company co-owned by the Liberal Party’s federal treasurer donated $200,000 two weeks into a government tender process for an accommodation contract worth nearly $1 billion that another of his companies ultimately won.

Donations experts said the 2016 gift from Helloworld Travel chief executive Andrew Burnes created a perceived conflict of interest that raised serious concerns about oversight of political fundraising.Mr Burnes' private company - Burnewang Pastoral Company - followed the $200,000 donation by paying $120,000 for tickets to a Liberal dinner held in 2017 when contract negotiations remained under way. The money was treated as an attendance payment rather than a donation.
The businessman and the party say his contributions are unremarkable for a treasurer.
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald revealed in February that Finance Minister Mathias Cormann had not paid for international travel booked through Mr Burnes’ company. Mr Cormann immediately paid the cost, saying he "genuinely thought" he had already been charged.
On December 1, 2016, the Finance Department released a request for tender for a three-year accommodation package that would serve thousands of government employees travelling for work.

The Australian Prime Minister

Remember those remarkable photos of Scott Morrison at church on Easter Sunday?
They didn’t exactly spark the reaction he was looking for.
Mr Morrison took the unusual step of inviting cameras inside his Pentecostal church in Sydney’s south.
Three rows from the front, with his wife Jenny by his side, Mr Morrison sang and clapped along with the rest of the congregation, which numbered almost 1000.
But the photos sparked a surprising backlash on social media. Some people felt the Prime Minister’s decision to allow cameras inside was inappropriate. Others were clearly uncomfortable with Mr Morrison’s faith.
Then there were those who just thought the photos looked weird.
Yesterday Mr Morrison hit back at the people who had mocked him in an extraordinary spray.

The Australian Prime Minister

“There was another one, another group, who was likening my praise in my own church on the weekend to some sort of Hitler salute,” Mr Morrison said.
“I mean, it’s disgusting. Australians are bigger than that. And I know that the great majority of Australians are bigger than that.
“These grubs are gutless and keyboard warriors in their mother’s basement, trying to make heroes of themselves.”