I have spent the past two weeks wondering about whether or not there is any point to writing yet another article condemning political corruption among our governments. After all, nothing done or said to date has made the slightest bit of difference. If anything, government ministers have become even more brazen in their contempt for standards of political ethics.

At one point, I thought we had hit “rock bottom” when, last November, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian defended the blatant misuse of public funds for private political purposes (pork barrelling) by saying that it was “not illegal” and common when she observed, “That is what our process rightly or wrongly is part of ... it’s not, unfortunately, unique or uncommon to my government”.