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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
UK snout stories interesting, but...
The Australian media are finding plenty to say, as in "MPs on nose for snouts in trough" by Paola Totaro in Fairfax papers today, about rorts revealed in the UK. Few if any seem to be making the point that in many respects we just don't know how Australian counterparts spend much of the taxpayers' money that comes their way.
That’s because all they’re doing is regurgitating news from the UK – who would have thought that copy and paste would be so useful.
ReplyDeleteWe live in hope-maybe a politician or two might see the connection with public trust and confidence in the institutions of government.
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