Paul Bongiorno
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323 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Well I think you got it in one.
It's been up to pork barreling and um caught out in the act by the um Center for Public Integrity.
They had a look at the promises that the Albanese government had made in the election campaign, put a dollar sign to it, and they found out, surprise, surprise, that an overwhelming majority of the funds went to targeted Labour City.
Seats and a smaller amount, you know, went to non-labour seats.
Uh now this is a you know a time dishonored practice.
Incumbent governments are in the box seat to do it.
They all have done it over the years, and they all get caught out in various ways, depending on how clumsily they do it.
The problem, I think, for Albanese is not so much that they've been caught out pork barreling.
I mean, in one situation,
Sense that's the way our our system uh works.
You try to win an election by promising voters if you vote for me, uh you'll get something in return, something for the electorate.
This isn't considered in itself to to be corrupt after all.
Politicians are supposed to represent the interests of their electorate.
Well I'd have to say, uh Daniel, he's responded poorly.
Basically he uh stubbornly refused that uh that he'd done anything that he had to you know be accountable for.
And initially he actually attacked the ABC for reporting uh what the Centre for Public Integrity had found.
Whereas the simple explanation was that he had forgotten, basically, that he was a member, a social member, it was conferred on him fourteen years ago.
He doesn't have a card, he doesn't play golf, uh and well, frankly, he forgot about it.
Now why I didn't say that from the word go, I don't know, but that's uh that's the way he defended it.
Albanese also by Thursday had got his act together in the parliament, and he was able to point out that Labour's pork barrelie program, uh it was an invitation program.
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