New credit card rules for Lord Mayor Robert Doyle

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Commenting on "New credit card rules for Lord Mayor Robert Doyle"
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Sack Them Now!

Once upon-a-time, Australia was young and innocent, and the word "corruption" was rarely heard of. Many Australian were pointing fingers at Indonesia, China, developing countries in Asia, Africa, South America, etc. Those were the good old days when Australian politicians stood tall, representing the people honourably and with great dignity.

Australian newspapers of recent years are having a ball reporting corrupt politicians taking money directly or bribes disguising as political donations, junket tours, misusing public funds or taxpayers' money, using official credit cards for personal use including visiting brothels.

I really like to see no one, including politicians, be exempted from punishment for lack of judgement intentionally and lack the duty of care, and that the punishment should be severe enough to curb future copy cats.

Politicians should receive punishment twice that of a normal citizen making the same offence or committing the same crime.

On 24 September 2013, the Melbourne City Council adopted a Councillor Code of Conduct. It seems some of the Councillors never read the document, or they join many illiterate Australians who can read words but cannot understand the content. They do not deserve to represent the people, and should be sacked with all future entitlements stripped.

A fresh by-election should be called to replace them as soon as practicable.

Contractors at state's IT agency bringing home a Premier salary

Posted to The Age (7/9/2011) on 7/9/2011 at 11:00 AM
Commenting on "Contractors at state's IT agency bringing home a Premier salary"
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It is usually about whom you know, not what you know, and also about the best crap one can tell in their CV and at interview that gets the job.

Charging on hourly basis is a joke; if a bug is detected in a system, a contractor can say they have spent 100 hours to fix it but in fact only taken 10 minutes. To be more pedantic, if the software bug was "coded" in the system due to carelessness by a contractor, present or past, who pays for fixing it? Obviously, present contractor can do no wrong, can they? Even Sherlock Holmes can't help in finding the culprit.

By the way, where are these contractors from and where are they graduated? Do they have proper, formal training and qualification? An ox in a Chinese rice field has years of leg-on experience in ploughing land, but an efficient machine can turn the soil in a matter of minutes instead of hours.

Who normal ripped off the organisation? The ones that can play politics in the IT department, who do not necessarily know much about IT, do. Like what Parkinson's Law say, "they have been promoted to their incompetence".

Often Western countries (including Australia) point fingers at the Asian countries about existence of prevalent corruption. It is about time Australia needs a few more "Clean Up Australia" days