Paul,

You have never been circumspect as the rest of your post clearly shows.

You are also confused as to what is corruption. Failure to declare a relationship is not a crime and thus not corruption of itself otherwise half the pollies would be in jail. As is pork barrelling which the labor-green government of Juliar did spectacularly.

Nope, I meant the 1400+ killed by the DAN Virus but left out those infected by the Dan Virus in NSW. Considering the ration of those Killed by Dan's incompetence are nearly 3x that of NSW your comparison is specious.

Finally, I left to soak in your ignorance. Basic economics and experience show that government-run organisations that directly compete with privately run companies almost always perform worse.

SM,

"experience show that government-run organisations that directly compete with privately run companies ALMOST ALWAYS perform worse."(My Capitals),

Can you give examples of both, in an Australian context. I contend that the Commonwealth Bank, QUANTAS, GIO insurance, ANL and Telstra, performed no worse, and often better than their private competitors. Today the parcel delivery business performance of Australia Post is on a par or exceeds that of its private competitors, despite being hamstrung by operating the unprofitable letter business at government insistence. I gave the example of Ansett and TAA, where government interference was designed to support the private operator and not the public.

Yes, a private love life is not corruption, nor is pork barrelling, necessarily. In Gladys case, was her lover boy Daryl MP, able to use his horizontal position with his sweetie to influence her to act corruptly. Did Gladys conceal that relationship so she could influence others for Daryl's benefit, ie $5.5 million for clay shooters in Wagga Wagga, that is corruption, and it looks highly likely.

Will you comment on the sorry state of affairs due to government incomperdence caused by the unleashing of the GLADYS VIRUS in NSW, 500 deaths with no action taken against those responsible. In Victoria the Health Minister resigned, in NSW the Un-Heathy Minister The Hazzard, has kept his job, despite his mass failures with the 'Ruby Princess' and now 'Mr Limo Driver'.

Paul,

Your comparisons are not accurate. Qantas was privatised in 1997 and created Jetstar to bypass the heavily unionised Qantas. This competition from the private Qantas along with bad management bankrupted Ansett.

Auspost's loss-making letter business and "free" government assets enable lower-cost parcel delivery. Not a fair comparison.

Similarly, CBA's performance improved significantly after privatisation and cost-cutting.

Secondly, Unless Daryl personally profited from the grant, it is still not corruption.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222962416_Intra-industry_effects_of_bank_privatization_A_clinical_analysis_of_the_privatization_of_the_Commonwealth_Bank_of_Australia

Finally,

You still haven't commented on the nearly 1500 people killed by Dan's virus.

Berejiklian fronted the ICAC today, and with the oft used criminal defence of "I can't recall, I don't remember." she tried to avoid incriminating herself, without a great deal of success. Phone taps makes one question who was Premier, was it Gladys or was it Premier Daryl. Pork Barrelling was the order of the day for the Berejiklian government. A scolding from Maguire, seen Gladys quick smart on the blower to pick up a lazy $170 million from Dom (Treasurer then, Premier now) for a Daryl project. Maybe the ICAC needs to take a long hard look at dear old Catholic Dom as well.

"It is almost 20 months since Daniel Andrews declared a state of emergency by invoking hitherto untouched powers in the Public Health and Wellbeing Act, a piece of sloppy legislation passed by the Victorian parliament in 2008.

The Premier’s Department press release on March 16, 2020 declared a state of emergency would be in place for four weeks “to assist with measures designed to ‘flatten the curve’ of Covid-19 and give our health system the best chance of managing the virus”. Twenty-four weeks later, Andrews persuaded parliament to allow him to extend the state of emergency for another 15 months.

The Victorian government’s command-and-control approach to the pandemic follows a familiar pattern of policy failure identified by economist Thomas Sowell. A crisis is declared over some harm that the government claims it can eliminate. Critics of the solution are dismissed as absurd, simplistic or downright dishonest.

They would point to factors other than government ineptitude to explain why more than half of Covid-19 infections and two-thirds of fatalities occurred in Victoria, the state that locked down hardest and longest. Yet the correlation between centralised, coercive government and incompetence is too close to ignore."

All thoughts of Gladys contesting the federal seat of Warringah for the Liberal Party at the next election have evaporated. Gladys now has about as much chance of pre-selection as Jack the Ripper. Besides it might be difficult to run an election campaign from a jail cell in Long Bay. The voters in Warringah were smart enough to turf out that reprobate Abbott, and vote in a decent independent in Zali Steggall. There are enough corrupt Coalition members in the Federal parliament, there is no need to add any more.