We look to the rollicking Senate Estimates for our prestigious Scam of the Week. Who will it be, the world’s most useless corruption commission, or the red Porsche at Home Affairs supremo, or the heroic ‘terror granny’? Michael unpacks how a handful of very well paid public servants and political mates keep dodgy deals secret while ordinary Australians are told to just trust the system. 

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00:00 Intro, trust in government
00:37 Parliament wraps, Senate estimates explained
01:20 NACC, the useless anti corruption commission
02:56 Jobs for Mates report buried
04:03 Human rights envoy and Gaza hypocrisy
05:09 China flotilla scare and war drums
06:35 Fossil media blackout as renewables pass 50 percent
07:49 Senate estimates, enter Stephanie “the Winker” Foster
12:09 Secret Nauru asylum trust deed and FOI stonewall
14:28 Gold plated bureaucrats and Defence chief pay
17:03 Trump war cabinet and the AUKUS mega junket
18:22 Sky News terror granny scare campaign
19:00 Scam of the Week Winner, Stephanie Foster