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Tannin 
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Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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Agreed on all counts, Stui.
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Culprit 
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Port Melbourne
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| Big Ears attack on Triggs is backfiring. She isn't going anywhere and is staying just to piss him off. |
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David 
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: Andromeda
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^ God, I hope so. Their badgering of her has been a complete disgrace, and Brandis's resignation/job offer is a bona fide scandal. And this is our attorney general! He should stand aside immediately.
These people are fascists who can't handle dissent, just like the last Queensland government. May they suffer exactly the same fate.
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http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/the-attack-on-triggs-is-an-abbott-stitchup-20150225-13ogxw.html?&utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn:fac-14omn0021-optim-nnn:nonpaid-25/06/2014-social_traffic-all-organicpost-nnn-age-o&campaign_code=nocode&promote_channel=social_facebook
| Quote: | The government's complaints are concocted nonsense. In any other context, such slippages would be excused once clarified. This government, though, whips them into a conspiracy of mock-horror proportions then tries to induce her to quit. All the while, the commission's report is shoved aside. Indeed, the chairman of the Senate committee, Liberal Senator Ian Macdonald, contemptuously declared he has not, and will not, read the report an appalling abrogation of his responsibilities.
Rarely has a federal government engaged in such a vicious, politicised campaign to demolish the integrity and professionalism of a statutory officer. The Prime Minister's enthusiastic participation in this tawdry episode greatly diminishes the standing of his office.
Senator Brandis says he wants the Human Rights Commission to focus on "projects that actually mean something to the mainstream of Australian people [and] will make a material difference to their lives". His proposal highlights how fundamentally out of touch this government is with issues of human rights, because it is not mainstream Australians who are at risk. It is those at the margins who cannot speak for themselves, the young and disadvantaged, minorities and non-Australians (such as asylum seekers), who most need their human rights secured.
The internationally respected Human Rights Commission provides a level of protection for these people. Its vital work must be allowed to proceed unimpeded by interference or intimidation from a cynical and desperate government.
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David
I dare you to try
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| Quote: | | Indeed, the chairman of the Senate committee, Liberal Senator Ian Macdonald, contemptuously declared he has not, and will not, read the report an appalling abrogation of his responsibilities. |
Well said. So many appalling things about this episode that I'd forgotten about that. Absolutely unbelievable.
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| David wrote: | | Quote: | | Indeed, the chairman of the Senate committee, Liberal Senator Ian Macdonald, contemptuously declared he has not, and will not, read the report an appalling abrogation of his responsibilities. |
Well said. So many appalling things about this episode that I'd forgotten about that. Absolutely unbelievable. |
Disgraceful. The Libs have no shame.
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Port Melbourne
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I like how they never offered her a job bit offered her a role. Maybe it was a bread roll. 
This is going to hurt the LNP big time. |
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| Im cynically wondering if their focus groups and opinion polls tell them there are votes in bagging people like Gillian |
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David
I dare you to try
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Good lord, I don't even want to know what there are 'votes in' these days. 
Wish there were some votes in ambitious vision and progressive, well-researched policy. Or, if there are, I wish the major parties realised it.
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Culprit
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An Ode To Leadership: Why Is Abbott A Dead Man Walking?
By Graeme Henchel
Was it justice, was it Karma?
Was it Murdoch, was it Palmer?
Was it lying and conceit?
Was it backbenchers fear of defeat?
Was it Mathias and Joe's cigars?
Was it because we've stopped making cars?
Was it climate change denial?
Was it putting Julia on trial?
Was it the daughter's scholarship prize?
Was it debt and deficit lies?
Was it removing the Carbon Tax?
Was it trying to give the RET the axe?
Was it cutting Foreign aid?
Was it being so retrograde?
Was it the Minister for Women joke?
Was it all the promises broke?
Was it Brandis's bigots rights?
Was it prancing around in lycra tights?
Was it cutting the SBS and the ABC?
Was it costing more for university?
Was it imposing a GP tax?
Was it the disregard of facts?
Was it the ridiculous Dames and Knights?
Was it the threats and talk of fights?
Was it Joe's "lifters and leaners"?
Was it cutting the pay of parliament's cleaners?
Was it punishing pensioners and the unemployed?
Was it the total moral void?
Was it the embarrassing G20 address?
Was it the ongoing budget mess?
Was it the book-launch travel rort?
Was it knighting the Queen's consort?
Was it use of the sham inquiry stunt?
Was it the weasel words of Hunt?
Was it the 800 Million given to News?
Was it longer unemployment queues?
Was it a budget most unfair?
Was it too much body hair?
Was it nobbling the NBN?
Was it lying again and again?
Was it exploiting terrorist threats?
Was it job applications of Eric Abetz?
Was it the sex worker wink?
Was it being too slow to think?
Was it the surprises and constant excuses?
Was it asylum seeker abuses?
Was it the work of Peta and the IPA?
Was it repeating slogans day after day?
Was it the dog whistle of "Team Australia"?
Was it the pungent smell of failure?
Was it wimping Putin's shirt front?
Was it because Christopher Pyne is a pain?
Was it Arthur's memory at ICAC?
Was it giving Mr Burns the sack?
Was it ever declining polls?
Was it funding Internet trolls?
Was it Newman's election loss?
Was it the submarine double cross?
Was it the whole damn useless crew?
Was it the ties of bogus blue?
Was it the hubris and the swagger?
Was it Malcolm and Julie's dagger?
Why will Abbott get the shove?
The answer is, all of the above. |
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partypie
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| Needs to include the sly reduction in nursing home funding for people with dementia. They probably don't vote after all |
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Joined: 12 Sep 2009
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| David wrote: | ^ God, I hope so. Their badgering of her has been a complete disgrace, and Brandis's resignation/job offer is a bona fide scandal. And this is our attorney general! He should stand aside immediately.
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He should have resigned after the Bollywood marriage tax payer junket! |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
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Can anyone explain why Peter Slipper had to go through a protracted legal case while George Brandis and Tony Abbott didn't? What was fundamentally different about those two cases, apart from the fact that they paid the money back when discovered while Slipper was denied the opportunity?
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Culprit
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| David wrote: | | Can anyone explain why Peter Slipper had to go through a protracted legal case while George Brandis and Tony Abbott didn't? What was fundamentally different about those two cases, apart from the fact that they paid the money back when discovered while Slipper was denied the opportunity? |
Slippers not in Power. |
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