I was under the assumption that all political
parties valued donations. The Liberals track
record is not squeaky clean either. Ask
Mr Sinodinos, or Philip Ruddock.

Hopefully the Royal Commission will sort things
out. Corruption is not good for any political
party - and there's enough of it around to chase
after - without finger pointing at just one or two.

Beach, nothing to say about the grit and determination of your fellow Australians both old and new. All you can do is have a shot by attacking their unions. Given the chance you would reward the hard work of Australian with coolie wages and conditions (not to apply to yourself of course!).

Another attack from Mr Moderate to attack The Greens and Labor, using the findings of Abbott's man and his kangaroo court. Where justified I agree union corruption has to be dealt with through the courts to the full extent of the law. For years (you can check my history on this forum) I have derided the grubs in the HSU for what they done to lowly paid, hard working members. What motivates the crocodile tears from those of the rabid right, is not a genuine concern for workers, just the opposite in fact, they see this as an opportunity to strip works of their rights and weaken them in the work place.

Beach, maybe you would like to comment on Clive Palmer and the $60m gone from Queensland Nickel, now claiming it can't pay worker entitlements and the taxpayer should foot the bill. $21m went directly into Big Clive's Palmer United Party! I do believe you have previously expressed support for Palmer and his political party. Are you still singing the same song?

Foxy,

Your opinion is at odds with pretty much every political commentator.

Paul,

The car industry was an exercise in socialist indulgence. Building an industry that cannot compete without huge trade barriers and protections and huge direct or indirect taxpayer subsidies was an economic cock up of monumental proportions. It meant that for decades Australians paid a huge premium for cars driving up the cost of living and production, and needing vast subsidies. As trade tariffs dropped it became unpalatable to pump $bns of tax dollars into this dinosaur, and under Dudd/Juliar the car sales dropped by 75% and by 2013 was all but dead.

As for donations, both the greens and labor parties get the vast majority of donations from the laundered dirty money from corrupt unions that represent a tiny fraction of workers. The greens have abandoned any semblance of independence to wallow in the trough of dirty money from union racketeering.

The price for this is for the Labor/green alliance to act as the union's mouthpiece in parliament. The union bosses hands are so far up the backsides of Shorten and Dinner Tally that their performance in parliament is directly controlled by the CFMEU, like ventriloquists' dummies.

Dear Shadow Minister.

You would say that Sir.

And Mr Abbott is still our Prime Minister
loved by all.
Yeah, right!

Shadow, we have had this out before, the huge amount of illegal corrupt money flowing into the NSW Liberal Party from developers. what was it, the gang of 12. No wonder under the state Liberal Government of Bugsy Baird NSW has become a (over) developers paradise.
For illegal deals the NSW Liberals are up there with one of your past heroes Queensland's Joh Bjelke Petersen!