Robo-Debt the climate wars the Khemlani Loans Affair from the Whitlam era the many and various cost-blow-outs on infrastructure projects the white Australia policy the Rum Rebellion the sending in of troops to break strikes in coal mines in 1949 the Petrov Affair the great schism of the ALP in the 1950s the Gair Affair anything to do with Joh Bjelke-Peterson the Dismissal of Gough Whitlam the Combe-Ivanov Affair many and various sports rorts the Tampa Affair any number of travel rorts the children overboard fiasco the oil for wheat scandal Ute-gate Pink Batts many big business’ and/or ‘union’ issues and scandals, embezzlements and enquiries scandals involving parliamentary Speakers such as Peter Slipper t he unexpected resignation of elected MPs and Senators from the political parties that supported and funded them to get elected the misuse of VIP aircraft and vehicles the disappearance of Harold Holt the merry-go-round of Prime Ministers between 2007 and 2015 institutionalised police corruption in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s the fraud around railway construction in Victoria in the 1880s the dismissal of NSW Premier Jack Lang by the state governor in 1932 various and many ‘conflict of interest’ scandals that time we had a lot of by-elections because politicians failed the citizenship test
and the list of embarrassing political behaviours and events goes on and on and of course continues to grow.