Adani Group representatives are using a backdoor channel by ever so quietly meeting with Trade Minister Ciobo and the governments backroom Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) lobbying to secure funds for their reef-wrecking coal project and their suppliers.
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These people view themselves as "sui generis" (a race apart) and not having to comply with the democratic process.
Apparently transparency is viewed as a "dirty word" by this particular "race".
And now "heavens to Betsy!" good old Clive Palmer is aiming to get in on the act by wanting to have his very own coalmine next to Adani. Now this is from a bloke who told me a few years ago he didn't know anything about coal or coal seam gas.
Mein Gott, what a perfect combination.
And both Liberal and Labor complicit in the regulated destruction of our land with their 'mantra' of dig it up - ship it out, cut it down - burn it up, ship it out, suck it up - deplete the Great Artesian Basin - let's sock it to 'em.
May the force protect us.