A Federal Corruption Watchdog Is Not A Bad Shout, And I’m All For It, And Yes, If Any Of These Bastards Are Lining Their Own Pockets Then I Have No Problem Seeing Them Swing, But Before We Go And Grab Our Pitchforks, We Really Should Come To A General Consensus On What That Word ‘Corruption’ Actually Means, Particularly In Queensland, Ya Know My Mentor Sir Joh Was Always Written Off As Corrupt, But Really At The End Of The Day, Without Those Completely Unregulated Post-War Investments Flowing In From Japan, And All Those Comically Crooked Tender Processes, We Wouldn’t Have The Gold Coast, Now Would We? Let’s Not Forget The 1982 Commonwealth Games, A Real Coming Of Age For Brisbane… Mind You, I Do Find It Completely Pointless To Host A Gymnastics Event Without Any Chinese Or Russians Athletes Flying Around The Mat. But Nevertheless, It Was A Real Highlight For Brisbane. With No Help From Down South Either. I’ve Always Said That Those Lilypad Lefties At The ABC Cannot Tell The Difference Between Full Blown White Collar Crime And Something As Innocent As Immigrant Ambition. So A Couple Of Old Krauts Got Paid Out The Arse For A Job That Coulda Been Done For Half The Price? Who Cares? The Job Got Done Didn’t It? Who Do You Think Built These Bloody Railroads That Carried Us Through Multiple Mining Booms? Overpaid Ethnic Men, That’s Who. Proud Lutheran And Orthodox Men With Surnames Like Hinze, Thiess, Cilento. Or Those Mad Deen Brothers. My Goodness They Used To Make Me Laugh. Good Muslim Lads Who Could Weave A Demolition Wrecking Ball Through Even The Most Precious Heritage Listings. This Country Was Built On The Back Of People Like That. Innovative And Aspirational Queenslanders. Unflinching Patriots. Titans Of Industry That Prefer To Ask For Forgiveness Rather Than Permission — The Betoota Advocate

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After a long election campaign of promising to lock up crooked politicians, The Australian government is set to introduce its long-awaited Federal Corruption Watchdog legislation after briefing caucus on Tuesday, with crossbench members from both the lower house and the senate calling to be consulted on the proposed model.

Of all the deliverables on Prime Minister Albanese’s to-do list, the passing of a Federal ICAC should be the easist to get over the line.

Not just because political corruption is absolutely rampant at both a state and federal level in this country, and not because it’s almost impossible to argue against stopping corruption – but because the last government lost twenty seats for not doing anything about it.

With a new crop of Indepedent MPs absolutely committed to keeping the bastards honest, and a new Labor government that has spent so long in opposition that most of their dodgy ministers got bored and decided to ply their trade in the banks and mining sector, it looks like a pretty scary time to be anyone responsible some of those hundred million dollar pork-barrelling grants that were being handed out like smarties under Morrison’s spectacularly corrupt Christian dictatorship.

However, not all Independents will be blindly voting for this new plan.

The Honourable Robert Katter III MP, the maverick crossbencher from the Gulf Country has told the Betoota Advocate he wants assurances that this watchdog isn’t going to turn into a witch hunt that punishes proud Queenslanders for getting stuff done.

Speaking over the landline earlier today, Katter says there needs to be some cultural massaging in this new legislation, and these southerners need to realise that we do things differently up North.

[Read Bob Katter’s short but concise comments in the headline of this story]