Joe Aston rips teal independents’ pork barreling hypocrisy

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After spending month’s attacking the Morrison Government’s JobKeeper waste, The AFR’s Joe Aston has turned his sites on the ‘Teal’ independents for sooking about only receiving five parliamentary staff rather than eight following the Albanese Government’s decision to reduce their allocation of personal advisers to one each (plus four electorate advisers):

Five days have elapsed, yet the crossbenchers’ outrage burns like a wildfire… The reporting of this entire issue has been somewhat loaded…

[Kooyong MP Monique Ryan] tweeted her gripe that “the independents in parliament don’t have massive party machines behind them.” Er, yeah, wasn’t that supposed to be their selling point?..

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.