George Brandis is becoming a member of ANU as a professor. Is not it time he stopped dwelling off the general public purse?
Whereas a pompous clown as politician and attorney-general, George Brandis “QC”, was no idiot when it got here to extracting {dollars} from taxpayers. There was the time he charged taxpayers to attend the marriage of failed right-wing shock jock Michael Smith. Then there have been the notorious bookshelves — the $15,000 waste of cash for bookshelves for Brandis’ $13,000 taxpayer-funded library.
And after 18 years on the general public teat as senator for Queensland, the provincial lawyer scored one other profitable taxpayer-funded gig in 2018: excessive commissioner in London. Having adorned that function together with his standard mediocrity for 4 lengthy, probably arduous years, Brandis has returned to Australia, and after greater than 20 years of taxpayer largesse, one might need thought he was able to make his personal method on the planet once more.
Alas, no: he fetched up at Australian Nationwide College. At ANU’s prestigious School of Legislation, in fact? Properly, not fairly. In response to the gushing media launch from ANU, Brandis shall be “a Professor within the Observe of Nationwide Safety and shall be based totally on the Nationwide Safety School within the ANU School of Asia and the Pacific. He will even lend his unbelievable experience to the ANU School of Legislation.”
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