sets the record straight.
WITH THE 70 charges being laid against Kathy Jackson the media have once again gone into a frenzy of self-congratulation and misperception.
There are many seemingly claiming to have broken the story, been there from the start, and set the tone for the coverage of the story.
Don’t get me wrong, many of those making the claims have played vital roles in the demise of Tony Abbott’s heroic whistleblower but it’s time we busted some of the myths.
We’ll start with Fairfax.
For years, Kate McClymont, one of Fairfax’s leading investigative journalists had been proudly displaying anything but an ability to investigate when it comes to Jackson. McClymont has seemingly taken Jackson’s word for everything and run stories appearing to be based solely on Jackson’s word which we now know is the word of a liar and fraudster.
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Controversial âpreference whispererâ Glenn Druery faces new probity concerns after landing a taxpayer-funded role working for state upper house Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick while running his own lucrative cash-for-votes business.
Mr Drueryâs business brings micro parties together in a bloc to preference each other and leapfrog better-supported parties. The practice helped Mr Limbrick get elected at the 2018 poll with just 0.8 per cent of the primary vote.
Glenn Druery appearing before a Senate Voting Reform Committee hearing in 2016.
Credit:Andrew Meares
An investigation by
The Sunday Agerevealed on the weekend that in a previous staff job for then senator Derryn Hinch, Mr Druery charged taxpayers almost $155,000 in travel and other expenses in a period of just over two years.
Preference whisperer Glenn Druery in lavish travel spend
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Controversial âpreference whispererâ Glenn Druery charged taxpayers more than $150,000 in travel and other expenses while working as an adviser to then-senator Derryn Hinch, and also running a lucrative cash-for-votes business in state elections.
Travel expense records obtained by
The Sunday Age after a two-year Freedom of Information battle reveal a dramatic hike in trips Mr Druery took to Melbourne in 2018 coinciding with the Victorian election, where he made hundreds of thousands of dollars helping micro parties win the balance of power in the stateâs upper house.