The texts were not sent to an employee - Ashby was not an employee when they were sent.

The text content was mutual and was never expressed to be disagreeable or offensive.

The judge called it as he saw it and explained the reasons for his decision.

There was no workplace harassment and no complaint was submitted until it was co-announced in the media and by Liberal Press Release.

There was however, a level of political interference which technically makes it a conspiracy.

This event has nothing to do with the ALP but everything to do with the QLD National Party and probably the Federal Liberal Party and no amount of straw man obfuscation will change that fact.

Abbott whines about this being a "witch hunt" but in other circumstances will say that people "are entitled to know the truth".

Well so be it.

You open with the line, "The Prime Minister says she has "done nothing wrong", but it seems that hardly any Australians accept that," yet the only way to interpret your statistics is that 51% of Australians do accept that. Only 49% disapprove of her actions in the affair: only 49% think she might have done something wrong.

I was one of those who completed the poll and picked "neither approve nor disapprove", I picked that because there seems to be nothing in the allegations: she did nothing wrong and there is nothing in her performance surround these events in her past job that is relevant to her current position, so there is nothing to approve or disapprove of.

Rhyme,

The Prime Minister says she has done nothing wrong. In reality she is claiming to have committed no crime.

It is unlikely that she was forced to leave Gordon and Slater because her behaviour was completely acceptable.

Rhyme says:

"she did nothing wrong and there is nothing in her performance surround these events in her past job that is relevant to her current position, so there is nothing to approve or disapprove of."

The Tinkerbell defence.

I bet you're one of the many women who Summers says admires the PM; I bet you also think that Abbott is a misogynist; and that magic happens.

In short you're another good example of why voting shouldn't be compulsory.

The Gillard "forced to resign" claim seems to have taken on a life of it's own.

The managing director of Slater and Gordon, Andrew Grech, says Gillard took leave from the firm to campaign for the Senate in 1995 and resigned the following year when she took up a position as a political advisor.

It's only Nick Styant-Browne who claims otherwise.

The best man at Styant-Browne's wedding just happened to be Mark Baker, the editor-at-large of The Age newspaper.

He is also a former foe of both Gillard well as her former mentor at the firm and now Federal Court judge, Bernard Murphy.

If you're as obsessed with conspiratorial links (as many appear to be here )-

Nick Styant-Browne’s brother is Tony Styant-Browne.
Tony’s son is Oliver Styant-Browne.
Oliver’s partner is Kylie Moreland.
Kylie’s sister is Helen Moreland.
Helen Moreland is Abbott’s social policy adviser.

The chief justice of the kangaroo court SM is never wrong, and can not be persuaded otherwise.