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Banker/Finance and Oz Political Leaders Revolving Door
by claire Friday, May 31 2019, 11:52pm
international / prose / post

If average Aussies where in any doubt about the real rulers of Australia, then doubt no more, Big Banks/Finance rules our politicians regardless of ideological VENEER.

Former conservative PM, Malcolm Turnbull, barely out of politics, has been appointed senior global adviser by KKR & Co. global investment firm, effective 1 June, today! Former conservative NSW premier, Mike 'smiling assassin' Baird, sailed into a $1 million/year wage with one of Australia's largest and most corrupt/criminal – according to a Royal Commission – BANKS, NAB. Former Labor PM, Paul 'fingers' Keating, known for surrendering Oz's financial sovereignty to Wall Street Bankers/speculators, is currently an adviser to investment BANK, Lazard Australia. Former Labor NSW premier Bob Carr, acts as a consultant for Australia's largest investment BANK, Macquarie Group. Former conservative PM, John Howard's Canberra office internet connection was established by and through the Macquarie Bank's digital communications network, so much for administrative, essential, political privacy.

Is a picture beginning to form here, you beer swilling, wine imbibing Aussie morons? Those politicians that serve private elite financial interests are rewarded with cushy high paying jobs after their sell-out stints in political high office; the above FACTS spell it out in no uncertain terms.

We should also note that these elite private interests do not discriminate ideologically and reward politicians of both stripes that serve their interests above the interests of the people/nation. Clearly, the two major party political system is a joke as it's far too easily BOUGHT; major parties are simply two sides of the one coin, owned by Big Banks/Finance. This clearly corrupt situation is NOT peculiar to Oz as the same applies to ALL western nations though most brazenly to the USA.

So there you have it, average Australians that continue to imagine that elite financial interests do not rule Australia and other western nations. And why take my word for it, read it directly from REUTERS, below?

KKR hires former Australian Prime Minister Turnbull as Global Senior Advisor
by Kane Wu, Byron Kaye

KKR & Co has appointed former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as a global senior advisor, the global investment firm told Reuters on Friday.

The appointment is effective from June 1, KKR said in a statement.

Turnbull, 64, served as Australia’s 29th prime minister from September 2015 to August 2018, when he was ousted in a leadership battle.

The appointment marks a return to the world of finance for Turnbull, a former lawyer who held a host of high-profile corporate roles before entering politics as a local member of parliament in 2004.

In the 1990s, Turnbull was the local managing director of global investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He was also an investor in one of Australia’s first internet service providers, OzEmail, reportedly buying a stake for A$500,000 ($345,450) in 1994 and selling it for A$57 million to MCI Worldcom five years later.

In office, Turnbull had several Cabinet ministries and shadow ministries for the conservative-leaning Liberal-National coalition, before orchestrating a leadership coup and becoming prime minister in September 2015.

He was himself unseated as prime minister in another leadership challenge in August 2018, one of four Australian prime ministers to be overthrown by their own party in a decade.

Turnbull’s first appointment since leaving the government puts him in the company of several Australian prime ministers and senior politicians who have take up financial advisory roles after leaving office.

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating became an adviser to investment bank Lazard Australia, while former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr became a consultant to the country’s biggest investment bank, Macquarie Group Ltd.

KKR counts around 18 senior advisors and 27 industry advisors who provide counsel on investment implications of trends and developments in public policy, regulation, societal needs and technology around the world.

Among the senior advisors with experience in the Asia-Pacific region are the former group chairman of HSBC Holdings PLC, John Bond, former chairman of Qantas Airways Ltd Leigh Clifford and former Singaporean minister Lim Hwee Hua, KKR’s website showed.

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