#nswpol — Public Fediverse posts
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Catholic Schools NSW — the body that distributes federal funding to almost 600 Catholic schools — is under pressure from its own teachers for transparency as ICAC's Operation Rosny examines how public money was used.
The inquiry has heard that operatives inside the organisation branch-stacked local Liberal branches on work time, and that it made undeclared political donations exceeding legal caps under a scheme authorised by chief executive Dallas McInerney, who has stood aside and faces ICAC this week.
The teachers' union notes NSW closely scrutinises the $3.8 billion in school funding at individual-school level, but not the peak bodies that receive it for religious systems. Federal minister Jason Clare called the evidence "very concerning".
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Catholic Schools NSW — the body that distributes federal funding to almost 600 Catholic schools — is under pressure from its own teachers for transparency as ICAC's Operation Rosny examines how public money was used.
The inquiry has heard that operatives inside the organisation branch-stacked local Liberal branches on work time, and that it made undeclared political donations exceeding legal caps under a scheme authorised by chief executive Dallas McInerney, who has stood aside and faces ICAC this week.
The teachers' union notes NSW closely scrutinises the $3.8 billion in school funding at individual-school level, but not the peak bodies that receive it for religious systems. Federal minister Jason Clare called the evidence "very concerning".
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{updated govt responsible]
Yes, of course, it’s the Federal govt’s water buy-back scheme that is at fault. No, nothing to do with growing a thirsty crop on the driest Continent on earth or the #ClimateCrisis and the resulting droughts we are experiencing as a result of man made emmissions (with more to come with forecasted El Ninio events — have I got that right?)No, nothing at all. Shame on the govt for hoarding water like that.
#WaterBuyBack #NSWPol #EnvironmentalFlows #MurreyDarlingBasin #EcosystemInCrisis #ConservationEfforts #AustralianFauna #AustralianFlora #SpeciesExtinction #AusPol #RiceCrops #RegionalJobs #ClimateAction #RiverinaDistrict #NearNetZerohttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/sunrice-riverina-job-cuts/107026752
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{updated govt responsible]
Yes, of course, it’s the Federal govt’s water buy-back scheme that is at fault. No, nothing to do with growing a thirsty crop on the driest Continent on earth or the #ClimateCrisis and the resulting droughts we are experiencing as a result of man made emmissions (with more to come with forecasted El Ninio events — have I got that right?)No, nothing at all. Shame on the govt for hoarding water like that.
#WaterBuyBack #NSWPol #EnvironmentalFlows #MurreyDarlingBasin #EcosystemInCrisis #ConservationEfforts #AustralianFauna #AustralianFlora #SpeciesExtinction #AusPol #RiceCrops #RegionalJobs #ClimateAction #RiverinaDistrict #NearNetZerohttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/sunrice-riverina-job-cuts/107026752
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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Another cost of doing buissness for ecological destruction.
#auspol #nswpol #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/09/trees-vandalism-lane-cove-council-sydney-gardener-fined-court-longueville-ntwnfb -
Another cost of doing buissness for ecological destruction.
#auspol #nswpol #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/09/trees-vandalism-lane-cove-council-sydney-gardener-fined-court-longueville-ntwnfb -
Why did the NSW premier feel he needed to appear on Kylie Sandilands first live subscription only, internet only show?
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Why did the NSW premier feel he needed to appear on Kylie Sandilands first live subscription only, internet only show?
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Everyone ready for an explosive week of ICAC?
Jeremy Greenwood then Dallas McInerney. Two dudes who know where the bodies are buried, and are desperate to show they're giving up the real bad guys.
Apparently they're who know whether Well Done Angus started funding this group of corrupt individuals, and which government minister was funnelling taxpayer funds to them
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If anyone cares about the future of the #NSW #Libs, and I do, for reasons I’ll outline below, here is some advice that should be taken seriously:
“…the right [-wing of the NSW liberal party] may now control branches through these stacking activities will undercut that message.
The South Australian and Western Australian Liberal parties have already seen takeovers by religiously aligned rightwing cooperatives. The result has been they have been reduced to a handful of seats in their state parliaments.
The NSW Liberals would be well advised to look at those examples and deal with the aftermath of the stacking as soon as possible.”
I want the State’s Liberal Party to come back to its small *L* liberal roots and push #NSWLabor back to the left were it ought to be, working for the workers of NSW and not the *bosses*.
#AusPol #NSWPol #Libs #Labor #PartyShenanigans #ConsevativeFaction #CenterRight #OvertonWindow
#PartyRoots #antifa #ant-Oligachy #anti-Paternalism
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If anyone cares about the future of the #NSW #Libs, and I do, for reasons I’ll outline below, here is some advice that should be taken seriously:
“…the right [-wing of the NSW liberal party] may now control branches through these stacking activities will undercut that message.
The South Australian and Western Australian Liberal parties have already seen takeovers by religiously aligned rightwing cooperatives. The result has been they have been reduced to a handful of seats in their state parliaments.
The NSW Liberals would be well advised to look at those examples and deal with the aftermath of the stacking as soon as possible.”
I want the State’s Liberal Party to come back to its small *L* liberal roots and push #NSWLabor back to the left were it ought to be, working for the workers of NSW and not the *bosses*.
#AusPol #NSWPol #Libs #Labor #PartyShenanigans #ConsevativeFaction #CenterRight #OvertonWindow
#PartyRoots #antifa #ant-Oligachy #anti-Paternalism
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While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.
It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.
Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?
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While the Premier’s message is absolutely *on song* and it’s refreshing to finally have the head of a govt acknowledge that not only does #StateCapture exists but that it is not in the interest of our society. #Privatization is the mechanism by which the worst of #NeoLiberalism is implemented.
It should be written into the constitution that no public infrastructure should be help in private hands. Period.
Let’s have a referendum on this #ChrisMinns, let’s put that in the NSW Constitution. Or are you just *dog whistling* ?
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Another article on new NSW Police powers. Facial recognition and #DAO (Device Access Order). If this report is accurate and hasn’t left out crucial details, there is little to fear except *Overreach* by police officers. Hence there is a real need for some kind of *Check & Review* procedures and a clearer understanding of a citizen’s rights under both of these legislation proposals.
Fighting #OrganisedCrime under increasingly complex technologies is a fair matter for legislative action, but what are the social costs? Has any study been conducted on this?
#AusPol #NSWPol #NSWPolice #SurveillanceState #ChrisMinns
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw-digital-licences-facial-recognition-database/107002852
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Another article on new NSW Police powers. Facial recognition and #DAO (Device Access Order). If this report is accurate and hasn’t left out crucial details, there is little to fear except *Overreach* by police officers. Hence there is a real need for some kind of *Check & Review* procedures and a clearer understanding of a citizen’s rights under both of these legislation proposals.
Fighting #OrganisedCrime under increasingly complex technologies is a fair matter for legislative action, but what are the social costs? Has any study been conducted on this?
#AusPol #NSWPol #NSWPolice #SurveillanceState #ChrisMinns
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw-digital-licences-facial-recognition-database/107002852
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Liberal power brokers left phones in car to avoid tracing before discussing corruption probe, Icac hears
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/03/icac-nsw-young-liberal-phones-corruption-probeShhh! Nothing to see here!
Nothing suspicious about everyone agreeing to ditch their phones before attending a secret meeting about taking illegal political donations from conservative and religious donors.
Nothing suspicious about coaching witnesses before a trial.
Nothing suspicious about a conspiracy to take over a political party and backstab a Premier in an effort to assert control of a State Government.
This is fine, just the usual internal jostling, for the Liberal Party of New South Wales.
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Liberal power brokers left phones in car to avoid tracing before discussing corruption probe, Icac hears
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/03/icac-nsw-young-liberal-phones-corruption-probeShhh! Nothing to see here!
Nothing suspicious about everyone agreeing to ditch their phones before attending a secret meeting about taking illegal political donations from conservative and religious donors.
Nothing suspicious about coaching witnesses before a trial.
Nothing suspicious about a conspiracy to take over a political party and backstab a Premier in an effort to assert control of a State Government.
This is fine, just the usual internal jostling, for the Liberal Party of New South Wales.
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I remember a time decades ago when NSW was considered a police state where crooked cops was a systemic problem. It doesn’t look like it has changed much. Worse, the police now tramples on common law rights…
“The October 2022-enacted digital evidence access order regime provides that police can obtain a DEAO when executing search and crime scene warrants, and if the subject of the order refuses this, then it’s an offence carrying up to 5 years prison time. And as the section containing this criminal offence notes, this measure overrides the common law right against self-incrimination.
However, once NSW police officers have obtained access to a suspect’s phone, they don’t simply scroll through the owner’s latest social media posts, as rather, they employ a device and software developed by Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite that once connected to a civilian’s phone downloads its entire content, including all deleted messages and images.”
How good are ‘panick buttons’, those that wipe a mobile clean as the push of a button? Not that I’d necessarliy consider it on my mobile, but you never know, right? I can’t see Police powers being roled back anytime soon, quite the contrary, expansion of those powers seems inevitable while #Minns is in charge.
(Source: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-to-be-given-powers-to-access-and-download-phone-content-on-the-beat/ )#Privacy #CommonLawRights #DEAO #DigitalEvidenceAccessOrder #MobilePrivacy #LegislativeAgenda #NSWPol #PoliceState
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I remember a time decades ago when NSW was considered a police state where crooked cops was a systemic problem. It doesn’t look like it has changed much. Worse, the police now tramples on common law rights…
“The October 2022-enacted digital evidence access order regime provides that police can obtain a DEAO when executing search and crime scene warrants, and if the subject of the order refuses this, then it’s an offence carrying up to 5 years prison time. And as the section containing this criminal offence notes, this measure overrides the common law right against self-incrimination.
However, once NSW police officers have obtained access to a suspect’s phone, they don’t simply scroll through the owner’s latest social media posts, as rather, they employ a device and software developed by Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite that once connected to a civilian’s phone downloads its entire content, including all deleted messages and images.”
How good are ‘panick buttons’, those that wipe a mobile clean as the push of a button? Not that I’d necessarliy consider it on my mobile, but you never know, right? I can’t see Police powers being roled back anytime soon, quite the contrary, expansion of those powers seems inevitable while #Minns is in charge.
(Source: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-to-be-given-powers-to-access-and-download-phone-content-on-the-beat/ )#Privacy #CommonLawRights #DEAO #DigitalEvidenceAccessOrder #MobilePrivacy #LegislativeAgenda #NSWPol #PoliceState
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Zionism corrupts. Any reasonable person would agree that Israel is Zionist, not Jewish.
“Under the law, the committee was required to act independently of the minister …”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-questions-ministers
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Zionism corrupts. Any reasonable person would agree that Israel is Zionist, not Jewish.
“Under the law, the committee was required to act independently of the minister …”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-questions-ministers
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@johnquiggin Let's imagine for a moment this happened on the other side of politics.
Imagine one of the unions established a trades training school that received taxpayer money through the federal government.
And let's suppose the CEO of this trades training school allegedly channelled money to a particular faction of the Labor Party through donations.
Let alone all the other accusations around colourful property developers and the premier's brothers and the attempts to roll the police minister who's from a rival faction or remove the Building Commissioner.
You wouldn't hear the end of it! Not from Sky, or the Murdoch tabloids, or Seven, or The Australian, or the Coalition, or One Nation!
It really goes to the heart of whether public education money should go to a private school organisation that's so deeply involved in Liberal Party politics.
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@johnquiggin Let's imagine for a moment this happened on the other side of politics.
Imagine one of the unions established a trades training school that received taxpayer money through the federal government.
And let's suppose the CEO of this trades training school allegedly channelled money to a particular faction of the Labor Party through donations.
Let alone all the other accusations around colourful property developers and the premier's brothers and the attempts to roll the police minister who's from a rival faction or remove the Building Commissioner.
You wouldn't hear the end of it! Not from Sky, or the Murdoch tabloids, or Seven, or The Australian, or the Coalition, or One Nation!
It really goes to the heart of whether public education money should go to a private school organisation that's so deeply involved in Liberal Party politics.
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Before we even got to the scandal stage, how could leaders of NSW Catholic Church have thought it appropriate that the head of Catholic Schools NSW should be a senior figure on the Liberal Party? McInerney has resigned but his patron Archbishop Fisher should go too. #nswpol
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@news Well this certainly looks concerning...
#auspol #nswpol #nsw #australia