Steve l🇦🇺
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BREAKING: Pauline Hanson just called a top journalist a “Nasty Bitch”. What do you call Pauline?
#Auspol #PaulineHanson

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@HaveeSnowball So which animal does she represent, the hyena, scavenger, living off others??? Would that be a fair assessment
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@FranMooMoo So which animal does she represent, the hyena, scavenger, living off others??? Would that be a fair assessment
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@realRick_AUS Every question is taken on notice. No response is ever given. When they do response, it's nonsense, a play on words, or a deflection. The speaker just sits there and calls out "order".
Just another day wasted with no answers.
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@RositaDaz48 Someone should use parliamentary privilege to call this out and accuse the government of wasting money. It will be up to the government to prove it wrong. At least then it will be out for the public to judge.
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What $600,000 of your money buys when the Commonwealth doesn’t want you to read something
Rex Patrick is a former Senator. Self-styled “Transparency Warrior.” Since April 2023, he has been pursuing Freedom of Information requests for Snowy Hydro’s Snowy 2.0 project performance reports and the Corporate Plan Update that was used to justify the cost doubling from $6 billion to $12 billion.
Snowy Hydro and the Commonwealth have spent over $600,000 of public money fighting him.
The figure was disclosed to the Senate through Senator Jacqui Lambie’s questioning. The breakdown:
The Administrative Review Tribunal proceedings alone cost $507,506. The Commonwealth’s lawyers, the Australian Government Solicitor, cost under $100,000. Snowy Hydro’s lawyers, King & Wood Mallesons, cost approximately $400,000. Same fight, same documents, very different cost.
Patrick’s FOI fight has moved through stages, each one cost money. FOI request to Minister Bowen, April 2023. Refused.
Administrative Review Tribunal hearing. Three days of contested hearing. Eight lawyers and two barristers on the agency side. Patrick lost in a decision by Deputy President Britton-Jones that ruled Snowy Hydro’s project performance reports are not within FOI reach.
Federal Court appeal. Currently live as at April 2026. Snowy Hydro was joined as a party to the proceedings in December 2025. Patrick estimates this stage may cost another $500,000 in legal fees, taking total spend toward $1 million.
What the $600,000 is buying:
Documents Patrick sought include the monthly Earned Value Project Management reports that Snowy Hydro provides to its shareholder ministers (Bowen and Gallagher), and the Corporate Plan Update used to justify the doubling of the project cost from $6 billion to $12 billion in August 2023.
In other words: the reports that would have told the public, in real time, whether Snowy 2.0 was on time and on budget and the document that argued for adding $6 billion of taxpayer exposure.
The structural point:
Snowy Hydro is a Commonwealth company. Funded by taxpayer equity. The Commonwealth is the sole shareholder. The Ministers (Chris Bowen and Katy Gallagher) have the standing under the GBE governance framework to require disclosure if they choose, Snowy Hydro is “obliged to surrender information (unfettered by any confidentiality obligations) requested by a shareholder minister.”
They have not.
Instead, the Commonwealth and SHL have spent over $600,000 of public money preventing one former Senator from showing taxpayers documents about a taxpayer-funded project.
When Patrick first lodged the request in April 2023, the project blowout stood at $3.1 billion. As his appeal now progresses through the Federal Court, the project is reportedly at risk of exceeding $39 billion.
Every dollar fighting Patrick is a dollar of your money used to keep you from seeing how your money is being spent.
The figure grows every month the litigation continues.
What’s your thoughts…?
🇦🇺 Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
- Michael West Media, “Snowy 2.0 legal cost avalanche”: michaelwest.com.au/snowy-2-0-lega…
- Michael West Media, “Snowy 2.0. A snow-job costing taxpayers twenty times its budget”:
michaelwest.com.au/snowy-2-0-a-sn…
- Michael West Media, “Snowy Hydro performance shrouded in secrecy. The three-step trick.”: michaelwest.com.au/snowy-hydro-pe…
- Michael West Media, “Dangerous Tribunal decision paves way for Dutton to keep nuclear blow-outs secret”: michaelwest.com.au/art-tribunal-s…
- Lawyerly, “Snowy Hydro joined to Rex Patrick’s Snowy 2.0 docs case” (December 2025):
lawyerly.com.au/snowy-hydro-jo…

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@news_australian I believe the title is Sir Blister Albanese. Knighted for turning up when all the hard work has been done.
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BREAKING: Sir Anthony Albanese will go down in history as the Greatest Australian Prime Minister ever, according to experts. He’s Phenomenal.
DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE? DISCUSS👇🏻
#auspol #anthonyalbanese

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@KatyKray73 And to top off this disgusting decision, he now gets compensation (over $10k). What for? Not being allowed on an App!!!. Create your own App. Nothing more than a money grab. What do the other women on the App think? Do they support this decision. He doesn't deserve a cent.
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💔 Roxanne Tickle won in court against a women-only app, all thanks to Julia Gillard’s betrayal.
In 2013 she erased the legal definition of ‘woman’ and sold out every Australian female.
Now biological women have fewer rights than men who identify as women.
Our first female PM betrayed her own sex. What is a woman, Julia?

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@BobBurn97207272 I thought his nickname was "blister", turns up when all the work is done.
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*Meet the team*
We are pleased to welcome Anthony to the team at Dolley Concreting. Nicknamed ‘Albo’, Anthony brings a wealth of knowledge to the business, so much so that he made himself a partner with an extra large stake in the business and taking nearly half the profits on his first day. The great thing is, we get to keep all the risk. One thing that got him over the line was that he swears he is a man of his word. Good times ahead.

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@Ryandally08 He has sponged off the public purse since the day he was born.
I think he had a job for about 5min when he was in uni.
He's never owned a business, never had to sack anyone, that's why well's still has a job.
He doesn't know what to do.
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#BREAKING Anthony Albanese brags in question time yesterday about owning a house & his mother living in public housing.
“I have had access to homeownership and I had it in my 20’s”
“I had it because my mother lived in public housing”
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@Ausbobsmit Mmmmm, something not right here, can't put my finger on it, but it's sounds a bit slippery.
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The attorney General, Michelle Rowland charged taxpayers $21,000 for a family holiday, and was found to have stolen $8,000
She's still in her job, no discipline. Nothing.
This is the highest law officer in the land and here she is with her hands in the till, pinching from hard working Australians.

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@Ryandally08 Their tactics are, say it more, say it often, say it all the time, then it becomes true.
Voters need to be reminded at the next election who caused this mess.
Giving people $200 or $300 is just trying to buy votes, that's like one week's shopping and are supposed to say thanks
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@kazza_bazz @littlemykonos Yeah, where is the money. What did you spend it on. Why is it that every department is asked to justify how the money is spent except you.
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@news_australian It doesn't really matter who gets the job. These people just move from position to position, my objections is to the amount of money these people are on. How can she earn more than the PM and what are we getting for this?. Is it value for money?
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Do you approve of Anthony Albanese appointment of Meghan Quinn as Defence Department Secretary when she has no Defence or national security experience?
YES or NO?
#auspol #meghanquinn

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@MiltonFriedom5 What if the men identified as a woman, what would they be charged then?🤔
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@TheGoatTax60 @littlemykonos Like always, they are never asked. Government think tanks making up stuff they think they need.
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@littlemykonos Why didn’t they appoint an indigenous person to be their ambassador? Mohamed?
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It gets worse.
Turns out he’s married to Dr Janine Mohamed who is head of NDIA ( national disability for aborigines )


V@littlemykonos
Justin Mohamed makes $8333 dollars a week to be the First Nations Ambassador and STILL charged the tax payer eight hundred thousand dollars on travel expenses.
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@KatyKray73 All they do is promise stuff, then never deliver.
It's so easy to write it into a budget, that the thing, it's a forecast, a wish list, a nice thing to have. It's not real money. You can't pay for things with money you don't have.
That's just being mean.
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Labor MPs Maree Edwards & Vicki Ward faced real questions while spruiking a $365M “boost” for firefighters.
CFA volunteer hit back: “Why wasn’t this funding delivered years earlier?”
New trucks, stations & equipment announced amid backlash over the emergency services levy.
Classic Labor: promise anything for votes, then take it away later. Same old strategy.
Don’t trust them!!
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@JimThom90458694 Cadbury's can EAD. Ripping off Aussies for too long now.
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@brisbanebroncos @maccas Why do we look like the cowboys. Did you forget to pack the maroon jerseys??
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