accountability

So it turns out there is no $2billion bushfire recovery fund. Under questioning in the Senate, the federal public servants whose job it was to provide answers to the parliamentary representatives of taxpayers and voters admitted the fund was “notional”. It’s a “notion”, an idea. It exists in theory, but not in practice. There is no allocation of money in the budget. Parliament has not set aside $2billion to help in bushfire recovery. The much-vaunted fund does not exist. This doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s more or less what I expect from Australian governments these…