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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-01/abc-politics-live-blog-march-1/7209628 Live: Cory Bernardi seconded to the United Nations MAP: Australia The Federal Government is sending controversial senator Cory Bernardi to the United Nations for a three-month secondment, starting September. Here is a little more detail on Senator Bernardi's trip to the Big Apple. The Federal Government is sending Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi to the United Nations on a three month secondment. The ABC understands Senator Bernardi will start his post in September. The Government sends one Coalition and one Labor MP each year as parliamentary observers of the UN General Assembly. Senator Bernadi has been critical of the United Nations in the past, describing it as an "unelected and unaccountable body" and a "fiscal black hole of bureaucracy" during debate in the Senate. Here's a reminder of what Senator Bernardi told the ABC last month, trying to dissuade his government from endorsing former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a potential replacement for current secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon. Unless of course ... the plan is to destroy the United Nations from within, then that's what I think he would do. Cory Bernardi, February 4
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The dominant narrative will be whatever tack journalists find easiest to broadcast, ie "sinister politicians manipulated the unwashed hordes into supporting Holocaust 2 despite the courageous efforts of the media intelligentsia" and it won't matter that it's blatantly untrue and can be immediately disproven because Nobody Cares
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I knew the donuts/water bullshit but not this one from way back, goddamn:quote:But just a month earlier, Sheehan had been caught perpetrating a major fabrication. In September 1986, the paper sent him to Punta Del Este in Uruguay, to report on major 92-nation trade talks. He duly began filing reports, describing the negotiations in detail. But Sheehan wasn’t in Punta Del Este at all. He was in fact elsewhere, having a tryst with the woman who would become his wife. Other correspondents were asked why they were missing the colour Sheehan was getting. It was because they were actually present.
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I will continue using this thread to post idle death threats against prominent politicians and if I ever happen upon any of these people I promise to threaten them in person. Namaste
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I thought that was self-evident.
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Micallef does not have a "comedic barrier" he has jokes.
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The NSW Liberal party has been slammed by election funding authorities for "concealing" the identities of illegal major donors before the 2011 election that brought it to power, including via the secretive Free Enterprise Foundation. In an extraordinary finding, the NSW electoral commission has concluded that, based on evidence given to the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2014, the foundation was used by senior Liberal party officials to "channel and disguise donations by major political donors some of whom were prohibited donors". The commission says it has relied on evidence given to the ICAC by senior party officials including about the "involvement" of current cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos, who was finance director and treasurer of the NSW Liberals at the time. In a statement released late on Wednesday, commission chairman and former NSW court of appeal president Keith Mason, QC, says the NSW Liberals have repeatedly failed to hand over details of donors to the foundation, which in turn helped bankroll the party's election victory five years ago. The donations in question total $693,000. As a consequence the commission is refusing to hand over $4.4million in public funding the NSW Liberals have claimed from last year's state election – a decision the party says puts "pressure" on its financial situation given the looming federal election. In a potentially enormous financial blow, the commission says it will not pay likely millions of dollars in future administrative funding to the party until the donors are disclosed. It finds by not disclosing details of the donors Liberal party has breached NSW electoral law. "Integrity and public confidence in the electoral system are vital," Mr Mason said. "The election funding and disclosure scheme promotes campaign finance transparency. "This party declaration concealed rather than disclosed the statutory information. Parties seeking public funding must play by the rules". A party spokeswoman said it was currently reviewing the finding. In correspondence released by the commission, lawyers for the Liberal party said if they were not paid the money "our client has no choice but to apply to the Supreme Court of NSW for urgent relief". A spokesman for Mr Sinodinos declined to comment and referred queries to the Liberal party. Fairfax Media revealed on Wednesday that the commission was threatening to withhold the money due to questions over the identity of donors to the Free Enterprise Foundation. The operations of the Foundation – a federal fundraising body linked to the Liberal party – were closely examined by the ICAC during its Operation Spicer investigation in 2014. The commission heard senior Liberal officials used fundraising bodies the Millennium Forum and the Free Enterprise Foundation to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in prohibited donations into the Liberal party's 2011 NSW election campaign. It was alleged donations prohibited under NSW law, including from property developers, were instead made to the Free Enterprise Foundation, which is not bound by state donations law. The foundation would then donate to the NSW Liberals' state campaign. ICAC has yet to hand down its report into Operation Spicer, but the electoral commission has made its own conclusions based on the available evidence. "In truth the Foundation had been used by senior officials of the Party and an employed party fund-raiser to channel and disguise donations by major political donors some of whom were prohibited donors," its summary of facts states. "No disclosure of the requisite details for those major donors has been made despite the party having been requested to remedy the deficiency". The commission says the NSW Liberals were legally bound to disclose the identities of the donors to the foundation because it was "never a validly constituted charitable trust". Despite the Millennium Forum handing over money to the foundation to use at its discretion, "the true legal position meant that the money remained under the control of the 'donors"'. "When the Foundation purported to pay the money to the Liberal Party … it was in truth acting as agent for the donors," the commission found. "At all time they were the true donors and their details should have been disclosed by themselves and the party if the sums involved made them 'major political donors'."
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