Just in case you are thinking how nice and simple it was under a LNP Fed Government.... take some time to see if you remember these points...... From John Howards' scrapbook.
* Minister Jim Short was forced to resign for failing to divest himself of financial interests in his area of ministerial responsibility.
* Industry minister John Moore was exposed for his shareholdings in technology investment and share-trading companies.
* Parliamentary secretary Brian Gibson lost his job because of a conflict of interest.
* Small business minister Geoff Prosser was running three shopping centres while he was a Minister and he was forced to resign. (Geoff Prosser resigned in July 1997 following the disclosure that he was a shopping centre landlord while he was responsible for commercial tenancy provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1975).
* Resources minister Warwick Parer had massive share interests in a coalmine and in other resource companies; he stayed, in breach of the Ministerial Code.
* Acting Minister for Communications Peter McGauran forgot that he owned 70 poker machines.
* Employment Services Minister Mal Brough promoted training courses which were actually Liberal Party fundraisers.
* Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane was involved in a complex scam to rort GST rebates from Liberal Party fundraisers.
* Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Herron kept up his practice as a surgeon, in breach of the code.
Mr Howard himself was found to be in breach of his own code when he failed to resign as a director of the Menzies Research Centre.
Mr Howard misled the Parliament over meetings he had held with ethanol producer Manildra’s boss – massive Liberal Party donor Dick Honan. It was eventually proved that the meetings did occur, and three weeks later the Government increased trade penalties against a Brazilian ethanol producer.
Not enough to turn you away from Tony Abbott? Have a look at the full article.
http://theaimn.com/2013/02/03/howards-golden-years/
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