Labor senator and Mr Bean lookalike, Sam Dastyari, has said what everyone has pretty much known forever – that the proper democratic and economic progress of Australia has been railroaded by the juggernaut of corporate greed, or as he put it, the political interests of 10 companies, namely: The Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac, and ANZ, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Coles, Woolworths, and Telstra.
Though how the man managed to overlook the gigantuan political influence of the Murdoch empire beggars belief.
Things at the state level have been no less nuanced with Premier Mike Baird and the NSW police force busily closing down major business sectors of Sydney in order to convert ordinary drinkers into round-the-clock gambling-addicted bankrupts by funneling them into the Hellmouth of Packer’s casino. In times gone by, doing the Packer family’s bidding was the sole preserve and raison d’etre of ALP stooge Graham Richardson, that is, when he wasn’t selling out the labor movement, avoiding tax, and making a killing with his Offset Alpine mates Rene Rivkin and Trevor Kennedy. Now that job has been happily institutionalised at a state government level. Straya.
Serf's Up! 