Senate looks into Pyne pork as dodgy Parko rolled

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

It smells to high heaven, via the AFR:

Scott Morrison and senior partners from consultancy EY will be called to appear before a Senate committee to explain career moves by former ministers Christopher Pyne and Julie Bishop.

…The vote, held on Monday afternoon, was delayed after Prime Minister Scott Morrison agreed to ask his departmental head Martin Parkinson to review the appointments and the applications of the rules.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.