Page 280 - Week 01 - Thursday, 10 February 2022
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BIG NEWS: We’ve moved right into the heart of Braddon! After our huge success in 2020—
No-one can dispute that; they cleaned up. They made a lot of money out of it; it was a huge financial success for them—
we took stock, identified our priorities and began looking for a new home.
That is what you do when you win the lotto, isn’t it? You go out and buy a new home, don’t you? The post continues:
Getting there has been a journey …
But I am sure they were helped out by the former real estate agent. They do understand property. Let’s face it: the Greens, amongst the six of them, own nearly a dozen properties. They understand property, so they have a lot of expert advice to lean on. They found their dream home, according to the media, right across from the rainbow roundabout, and they say:
We now have more people than ever walking by (and through) our door.
What is clear is that the windfall that they made at the ACT taxpayers’ expense at the territory election they are now going to use to campaign for federal seats. They have said it. What they say in the media is:
We can’t wait for you to see our buzzing new hub, but there remains a lot of work to be done. We’ll be fitting out the space—
No doubt it will be a lovely fit-out, with all that money—
over the coming weeks to ensure it’s ready for our work, meetings, the 2022 Federal Election, and the next four years of grassroots democracy.
It is grassroots, but they will be in their new office in Braddon, sipping champagne, with multimillions of dollars and talking about their property portfolios. They claim to be the grassroots. Yes; bizarre, is it not?
Other than the Greens, who are in their new office in Braddon, sipping their champagne and talking about their property portfolios, everyone else who has commented on this thinks it is pretty rank. In its submission to the JACS committee inquiry into the 2020 election, the ACT Electoral Commission recommended, in recommendation 22, amending the Electoral Act to include provisions to limit the amount of public funding that can be received by a political party or candidate, to ensure that the amount received does not exceed the amount of electoral expenditure incurred. Hear, hear! You are not meant to profiteer out of this act.
The ACT Labor submission—the submission from that party—supported what the ACT Electoral Commission said. The Labor submission said:
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