Yea I agree Gladys has had an easy run tbh she should've stood down over the McGuire case.
But Federal and state on both sides are quite far apart than most realise.
The parties are actually different. Example the state coalition in QLD is different to NSW I think NSW just follow the Federal model.
If the McGuire case had happened to a Labor premier the Sky News pundits would still be baying for blood (assuming they hadn't been stood down already). They are still baying for Dan Andrews blood but unfortunately their resolve is lacking when it comes to their favourite political party.
Unfortunately both Labor and Liberal are as corrupt as each other when either of them are in power at a federal level (state corruption commissions somewhat keep a lid on it state wise) but everyone has this perception that Labor is worse because their actions are amplified and the Liberals actions are suppressed.
Recently we’ve had Sports rorts, the leppington triangle, watergate, Angus Taylors land use in Eden Monaro, Christopher Pyne and Julie Bishop going through the revolving door to companies they used to “regulate”, East Timor spying, the ATO whistle blower (and these are just the ones I can list off the top of my head) that apparently aren‘t that serious and don’t point to ongoing and systemic corruption and coverups by the federal government.
We need a federal ICAC to clean the joint up federally but unfortunately both sides have a lot to hide, which is why neither of the major parties will vote for one and the Liberal party is now trying to put up a neutered ICAC to try and continue to whitewash their corruption, which I’m sure the Labor party won’t disagree with as it will allow them to do the same whitewashing when they get back in power!
