Crime does pay. $30 million apparently.

Lil' bit fucking outrageous.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/eddie-obeid-to-keep-30m-from-corrupt-coal-licence-deal/105210594

#auspol #nswpol

"The cost of major contracts for a motorway to Sydney’s new international airport has surged again, this time by $152 million, piling financial pressure on the project jointly funded by the federal and state governments.

"Tender documents show the estimated cost of the western section of the M12 motorway has risen by $78 million to $659 million, and the central part by $47 million to $510 million. In addition, two contracts for design work by consultants have almost doubled to $68 million.

"Greens transport spokeswoman Cate Faehrmann said the government did not question forking out millions of dollars more when costs inevitably blew out for new motorways, yet baulked at providing reliable public transport services for south-west Sydney."

“'The public needs to be reassured that the highest level of scrutiny is being applied to these massive contracts by the government, particularly when costs are regularly revised upwards at a tune of millions of dollars at a time,' she said."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/construction-of-motorway-to-sydney-s-new-airport-hits-financial-bumps-again-20250324-p5lm2s.html

A couple of thoughts on this one.

First, this is yet another example of how the neoliberal infrastructure procurement policies that Australia has imported from America and Britain have led to more expensive infrastructure.

You don't save money by cutting back on public servants, and outsourcing the design and management of big infrastructure projects to the private sector.

Secondly, the Minns government's decision to cut back on the proposed additional metro links to the Western Sydney Airport, yet keep the motorways, us looking particularly foolish.

#nswpol #auspol #sydney #nsw #fuckcars

‘Clinical marshmallows’:

An epic Freudian slip by NSW Health administrator.
Wonder how it’s been ‘addressed appropriately’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/31/accidental-email-calling-doctors-in-nsw-a-workforce-of-clinical-marshmellows-sparks-furore-ntwnfb
#NSWPol #NSWGov

Irony of any Landlords complaining about this, … is that we wouldn’t be in this situation had they protested against Climate negligence and denialism that was practiced by Red-Blue politics the last three decades

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-05/sydney-heatwaves-plan-rental-minimum-standards-air-conditioning/104685906
#AusPol #NSWPol #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #RentalManagement

"... since Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinian identity, if publicly expressed, is being treated as a threat by the NSW Education Department."
...
"It should be unthinkable to ask a Jewish student to remove their kippah at a graduation, so why is anti-Palestinian discrimination acceptable?"
...
"The Education Department document on “conflict in the Middle East” has been quietly updated recently to remove the word “neutral” ..."

"It is possible that the keffiyeh makes supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza uncomfortable, but schools shouldn’t pander to that. Schools displaying the Aboriginal flag, or giving an acknowledgement of country may make some racists uncomfortable, but schools don’t buckle to racism in those cases."
https://johnmenadue.com/anti-palestinian-discrimination-in-nsw-public-schools/
@palestine
@israel

#AusPol
#NSWpol
#repression
#Palestine
#Israel
#Zionism
#WarCrimes
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#genocide

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