Hello Bronwyn, so much for your post. I have been watching Australia slide down the Corruption ladder from 8th to 18th, all within the 'leadership' of the LNP. When I think of the sports rorts, the regional grants and North Sydney Pool, the parking station rorts and the overnight appointment of 85 LNP politicians and fellow travellers to cushy government jobs on, amongst others, The Administrative Appeals Tribunal, I think we could be further down the ladder. My wallet goes hiding when I think of the rorts that will come if, I repeat if, the LNP manages to get re-elected.

How many are sure that Transparency International is any less corrupt than those they chose to judge? Just saying.

Agree, Private Eye did a great investigative report (no longer done by Oz media) on 'Londongrad' and enablers in the UK for Russian and other oligarchs, titled 'Looting With Putin'

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/looting-with-putin

Further, many outlets including ByLine Times, The New European etc. are highlighting not just Londongrad and Russian influence, but Brexit and 55 Tufton St. think tanks plus the role of US fossil fueled climate science denying Koch Network think tanks (IEA, Net Zero Watch etc. linked to IPA, CIS etc.) and a Tanton white nativist & anti-immigrant NGO.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/06/10/brexit-and-climate-science-denial-johnson-gove-and-raab-all-part-of-the-tufton-street-network/

Then even more interesting is a similarly linked think tank in Budapest, Danubius Institute, called out by conservative Anne Applebaum for being too close to 'mini Putin', Hungarian PM Orban, which has had some Australians 'conservatives' presenting (plus acting for the UK):

'Why Australia's conservatives are finding friends in Hungary'

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-australia-s-conservatives-are-finding-friends-in-hungary-20190924-p52uim.html

One, a former Ambassador, Spectator contributor and Visiting Fellow, has, if not fled, done a 'reverse ferret' as his profile was disappeared with 102 days after Applebaum's Tweet, how embarrassing?

ttbn,

Russia is considered more corrupt than Ukraine. The abysmal performance of their army is proof of it.