We need a Royal Commission into the lying Liberals

[watt price tully]

We need a Royal Commission into the lying Liberals to get to the bottom of this. This is an outrage. Is this the same as perverting the course of justice? Hmmm. Pyne has to stand down till this is cleared up.

Busted:

Pyne allegedly offered to help find Ashby a lawyer and a job


"...Mr Pyne also allegedly threatened to call Mr Ashby a "pathological liar" if he told the media about their discussion and Mr Pyne's offer of assistance.....".

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pyne-allegedly-offered-to-help-find-ashby-a-lawyer-and-a-job-20140907-10dor0.html

[watt price tully]

Of course the liberals have form here. Don't believe me then see what the Judge said about "honest Mal Brough" at the time.

The judgment of Justice Rares in dismissing the sexual harassment case of James Ashby against former speaker Peter Slipper is profoundly damaging for Mal Brough, former Howard government minister and preselected Liberal-National Party candidate for Slipper�s seat.

Brough, ..... has been found to have been part of a �combination� to bring proceedings determined to have been �an abuse of the process of the Court�, one designed �for the predominant purpose of causing significant public, reputational and political damage to Mr Slipper�.

Of course the article in Crickey quoting the judge above was sufficiently prescient to note that the little turd Pyne was inextricably linked to this grubby affair:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/12/12/brough-justice-mal-cant-slip-the-net-on-slipper-campaign/

Pyne has to stand down till the matter is investigated by a Royal Commission.

[David]

How Mal Brough ever successfully became an MP after this affair I'll never know. Evidently corruption is no barrier to electoral popularity.

[3.14159]

If Pyne is found to have orchestrated the attack on Peter Slipper he should be strung from the yard-arm.
He IS the minister for Education.
He should be setting an example to young Australians but seems more concerned with knee-capping democracy for his own grubby ends.

I watched his 1/2 press conference and it seemed to consist of...

[watt price tully]

Pyne's spin:

"I was misunderstood":

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/christopher-pyne-says-james-ashby-may-have-misinterpreted-discussions-over-peter-slipper-20140

We need a Royal Commission into this to clear the air & get to the truth of the matter.

[Wokko]

Nick's resident Leftists on Unions Royal Commission : "Royal Commissions are just political revenge forums"

Make up your damn minds.

[watt price tully]

[1061]

[watt price tully]

Now the NSW ICAC enquiry just keeps on giving:

Property developers are prohibited from donating to political developers.

So a company called Brickworks donates big money to a third party ( a front organisation) controlled by liberal interests then funnelled into NSW Liberal party.

A number of Libs are involved here:

Remember Sidonis - the so called policy gravitas of the Liberals - gawn & inextricably linked.

Add Peta (the toe cutter) Credlin (PM's Chief of staff married to a Lib - head of the Liberal party) has her fingerprints all over it.

NSW Liberals are a disgrace.

BTW, where is our PM from?

[swoop42]

Surely the biggest issue here is the conduct of Slipper with everything else just the sideshow.

Besides Labor are in no position to be taking the moral high ground either since they morally bankrupted themselves to appoint him for pure political advantage as speaker of the house in the first place.

[stui magpie]

I think we need to have a royal commission into royal commissions.

Seriously, how do you get on that gravy train?

As far as Slipper, Asby etc goes, seriously no care anymore. What Swoop said.

[David]

[Tannin]

Bahh. Ex-Liberal Slipper seems to be guilty of nothing more than a tiny bit of marginal fiddling of his Cabcharge dockets, worth a few hundred dollars in total. Very, very small beer, especially for a Liberal.

Compare with his ex-friends in the Liberal Party:

• Sinodinos, Liberal Assistant Treasurer: in it up to his eyeballs for trying to scam the NSW taxpayer for a cool 20 million dollars. (The scheme failed: he "only" got $200,000 "pay" out of the public trough for a few hours work.) Also the guiding force behind the recent Liberal act to remove the laws against fraud and superannuation theft by financial "advisors".
  
• Hockey, Liberal Treasurer: guilty as sin. Hockey took $10,000 of tainted money extracted from the NSW taxpayer by the company chaired by his good mate (and Liberal Party paymaster) Arfur Sinodinos.
  
• O'Farrell, Liberal Premier of NSW: resigned in disgrace. More dirt still coming out.
  
• Cornwell, NSW Liberal and Government Whip: resigned in disgrace after ICAC told about $10,000 in a paper bag.
  
• Hartcher, NSW Liberal Energy Minister. Under investigation for corruption. Resigned.
  
• Randall, Liberal Senator caught claiming thousands of dollars in "expenses" from the taxpayer to fly him from WA to Queensland to inspect his investment property.
  
• Spence, Liberal MP: resigned from parliamentary Liberal Party because of corruption investigation.
  
• Napthine, Victorian Liberal Premier: continues to bluster out successive revelations about the several million dollars worth of taxpayer money handed out by his government to a friend and close business associate in Waranmbool.
  
• Webber, NSW Liberal MP: resigned from parliamentary Liberal Party after corruption allegatiosn
  
• Ficarra, NSW Liberal MLC: resigned from parliamentary Liberal Party when accused of corruptly soliciting illegal electoral donations.
  
• Owen, Liberal MP: admits taking illegal electoral donations. Has resigned.
  
• Abbott, Liberal Prime Minister: thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of expenses fraud and rorting, from using public money to make a tour selling his own book, through rorting the taxpayer for thousands worth of travel "expenses" so he could go to weddings and fun runs, right through to publicly admitting just last week that he only visted a cancer ward in Melbourne (and made himself late for Cabinet) so as to be able to claim expenses for his flight to attend a party fundraiser.
  
• Guy, Victorian Liberal Minister for Planning: a history of devious secret deals to do with the grant of planning permits outside of normal zoning to Liberal Party members owning large tracts of land and making donations. watch this space as more comes out.
  
• Gallacher, NSW Liberal Police Minister: Resigned in disgrace after being tagged as the matermind behind a "corrupt scheme". Investigations continue.
  
• Shaw, Victorian Liberal MP: 'nuff said.
  

Doubtless I've missed a few. Feel free to remind me.

[swoop42]

The text messages are hardly irrelevant when the speaker of the house is accussed of sexually harassing someone during that very tenure.

It's an important position and whoever is in should be above reproach.

The Liberals used it for political purposes no doubt but the bigger sin is leaving Ashby high and dry and using him as a pawn when as a victim he should have been treated better.

Let's not forget Slipper was accused of (and subsequently found guilty of) misuse of parliamentary allowance when Labor appointed him and this appointment was no less politically motivated than that of the Liberals witch hunt.

They also continued to support him when the allegations arose against him made by Ashby.

If if was a female junior staffer making these allegations I'd be surprised if it would have played out the same way.

This whole sorry affair had no winners and all sides come out looking grubby IMO.

[David]