Mr. Speaker, on the first anniversary of the Federal Accountability Act, we have backwoods Tories lining up at the trough for their piece of the public action. The reason why is because the PM has kiboshed a key element of the act which is the public appointments commission.
Now we have had almost a thousand appointments in place and it is beginning to look like a rogues gallery of old style Conservative cronies.
My question is simple. Why is the government engaged in old style, pork-barrel, rum bottle politics that is without any accountability or transparency?