When the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) made its debut post on Twitter, it asked for only one thing from the platform’s users.
“This is the official NACC Twitter account. Please do not make reports of corruption here,” @NACCgovau tweeted on July 1.
Naturally, people took absolutely no notice of its request and started immediately using the microblogging service to urge the corruption watchdog to start investigating various issues and grievances.
“The corrupt $3 million payment to Brittany Higgins by the Labor government ought to be at the top of the list,” one user replied to NACC’s tweet. Another user tweeted that Stuart Robert, Angus Taylor, Bridget McKenzie, Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg and Linda Reynolds should all also be investigated over what they knew about the handling of Higgins’ claim. (Just so we’re crystal clear, Crikey is absolutely not alleging that any of the individuals or organisations named in this article are corrupt or have been credibly accused of being so.)
Other Twitter users called on NACC to investigate various police forces, Legal Aid, the judicial system, politicians and, somehow, NACC itself.
Some people even made complaints of corruption to @NACC_NRM, the Twitter account for a WA-based regional agricultural community management organisation and not the corruption commission. “List those that need referring to @NACC_NRM besides @AngusTaylorMP & @Barnaby_Joyce,” one person tweeted.
NACC (the anti-corruption body, not the agricultural organisation) began accepting reports of suspected corrupt conduct on July 1. By the close of business on July 4, the commission had received 186 reports via its website, 116 calls and zero made via Twitter.
Which rather begs the question……………………..
…………what possible reason would a supposedly serious body have for joining Titter in the first place?
So they can keep themselves fully abreast of the latest in nutbaggery????
Never mind what possible reason would a supposedly serious body have for joining T[w]itter in the first place?. What reason would ANY body have?
In the interests of equal opportunity, the mentally-challenged deserve at least some forum to gather together…………….
“user tweeted that Stuart Robert, Angus Taylor, Bridget McKenzie, Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg and Linda Reynolds should all also be investigated … Crikey is absolutely not alleging that any of the individuals or organisations named in this article are corrupt or have been credibly accused of being so.”
I think Stuart Robert, at the very least, has been credibly accused of corruption by the Royal Commission into Robodebt?
The Northern Agricultural Catchments Council (NACC) has been around for some time, and probably has some good ideas on how to mulch and return the other NACC’s targets back into soil, even if not particularly healthy or fertile soil. Why did the parliament not check if another NACC already existed when it named its anti-corruption body? It falls in the electorate of parliament’s most dynamic member, the MHR for Durack, but maybe she didn’t know? Perhaps that should be referred to the NACC?
How about stop using Twitter.
People are still using twitter?
99% Russian bots, 1% nutbags………….