MPs Swimming in Public Money While Excavators Gouge Out the Taxpayer’s Pocket

Ah, Australian politics—a world where reality and satire have become so entangled it’s hard to tell one from the other. Imagine, if you will, a pool filled not with water but with public money. Now picture MPs donning their best Speedos, diving into that cash like it’s the Olympics. And what’s that? Excavators at the edge of the pool, gouging out massive chunks of our hard-earned dollars? Yep, that’s happening too. 💸💦

Take a good look, Australia, at the **Robodebt Scandal**—the disaster so absurd it’s practically a sitcom, only we’re the ones footing the bill. Former PM Scott Morrison alone racked up **$461,445** in legal expenses, all funded by—you guessed it—us. Add that to the total of **$4.2 million** in taxpayer-funded legal expenses just this year. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 🧊

🚩 **Scott Morrison: $461,445**
🚩 **Christian Porter: $217,646**
🚩 **Stuart Robert: $170,690**
🚩 **Alan Tudge: $151,436**
🚩 **Michael Keenan: $27,435**

Total? A whopping **$1 million** extra spent in 2023-24 on legal defenses for those involved in the Robodebt catastrophe. Meanwhile, we’re left with the crumbling remnants of a “costly failure of public administration” that was neither fair nor legal.

So, are these inquiries just a grand construction to help a few Legal Eagles finance their next mansion or yacht? Is this the point where politics, already far removed from normalcy, descends into the depths of absurdity? The numbers say it all, and so do the outcomes—no one is charged, no one is brought to account, and the cycle of waste continues. 🚫🔄

So, here’s the big question: When did our government become a farce, and why are we still paying for the tickets? 🎟️