Helloworld chief made $200,000 donation to Liberal Party during government tender

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann had not paid for international travel booked through Mr Burnes’ companyOn December 1, 2016, the Finance Department released a request for tender for a three-year accommodation package that would serve thousands of government employees travelling for work.

"There's at the very least a perceived conflict of interest when a business bidding for a government contract makes a sizeable political contribution to the party in government," University of Melbourne law professor Joo-Cheong Tham said. "It raises questions about the purpose or motive of such a large donation but it raises bigger questions about why we have a national system that has no caps on donations and no ICAC-style investigative body," Professor Orr said."The fact that the Liberal Party’s honorary federal treasurer contributes to the party is completely unremarkable and is consistent with the long tradition of successful business leaders who have supported the party in that role," the spokesman said.

Mr Cormann said in Senate estimates he believed the call came after negotiations were settled on June 28, and that he directed Mr Burnes to call the department instead. The spokeswoman also said "it would breach the Commonwealth Procurement Rules to exclude a business from participating in a procurement based on the political affiliations of one or more of the shareholders or office holders of that business".

begley_patrick Oh now we see the payback. Those politicians can not be trusted they are all liers and fraudsters. Our political class has become 'low life'.

jurylady5 begley_patrick Corruption of the day. What will tomorrow bring? Any guesses?

begley_patrick What another rort?

Biggy1883 begley_patrick “Helloworld bribed Liberal Party during tender process”. There, fixed it for you.

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Qldaah begley_patrick How is this not blatant corruption? auspol

begley_patrick hmmm...

begley_patrick Federal ICAC with backdated powers can’t come soon enough

begley_patrick Attack & distract attention from Labors bad policies

begley_patrick If Labor win the election, they're going to need a lot of disinfectant.

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