Cohenite "It wasn't Abbott who prosecuted Ettridge for criminal offences you fool, it was the State of QLD; can you understand that?"

Charming as always Cohenite...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if there is a court case coming up next month re Ettridge suing Abbott, then there must be a case to answer?

None of us can say how the case will go because none of us has the full facts about the contents of the allegations against Abbott except Ettridge and the lawyers.

I, for one, am not sure which of the fine opponents I want to see 'win'.

Tony Abbott denounced Julia Gillard as unfit for
office because of a slush fund she helped set
up in the early 1990s as a lawyer for Slater and
Gordon did he forget his very own slush fund?
And where did the money came from? He still has not
named the 12 donors. And he did lie to the AEC.
As quoted from the link given earlier.

Facts do exist no matter how some people choose
to ignore them. But it seems that slandering someone's
character and reputation is ok, but it's different if
someone attempts to call others to account - then it
becomes "slander" and "bile." No suprises there.
"Them" and "Us" all over again.

David Ettridge is correct in stating that before Mr
Abbott can become PM he needs to be judged on his
suitability to hold the highest office in Australia.
He can't judge others and not expect to be judged
himself.

As for articles printed by prominent Australian
investigative journalist Margot Kingston who's worked
not only for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
The Canberra Times, A Current Affair, published books,
"Not Happy, John," in 20o4 - her reporting
is accurate. Any queries about Deborah Shaw's confrontation
with Mr Abbott when she confronted him with his signed
personal guarantee to Terry Sharples should be directed
to the Sydney Morning Herald.

The court case in June will be interesting to watch.
Will justice prevail, or will it again be swept onto
the dung-heap of history, as has been the case in the past.
We'll have to wait and see.

The issue of whether ON QLD was correctly registered was considered initially in Sharples v O'Shea(1) which found it wasn't:

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Publications_Archive/CIB/cib9900/2000cib04

This decision was appealed by Hansen and the appeal was dismissed:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QCA/2000/23.html

There is nothing 'technical' about these decisions; the QLD SC in the first instance and the QLD CA found at law ON was not correctly registered; that's it.

Yet we have these ratbags saying Abbott has lied, perverted the system and influenced the political process through the courts and the AEC to achieve this result.

And then somehow influenced the subsequent criminal proceedings brought by the QLD AG and which was heard before a jury which convicted. This criminal conviction was overturned on the basis of the distinction of the standard of proof between the civil proceedings which is on the balance of probabilities and the criminal standard which is beyond reasonable doubt.

This distinction is also not a 'technicality'; it is common for people to have civil suits against them succeed which do not sustain a criminal conviction.

The initiator of all this was Sharples and Abbott's relationship with this person is neither Svengalic or dominant.

The preoccupation with this rubbish is just further evidence of the left and their lack of moral perspective.

Roll on September 14th.

Nice one, Mr Abbott,

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/26/1061663794315.html

reports from 2003. Must be desperate Poirot when you dig up an apology from Abbott. We are still waiting for one from Gillard instead of excusing her behaviour because in her 30's she was young and 'naive'. Talk about desperate.

runner,

He apologised for non-disclosure, not for setting it up.

"But last night's statement confirms that only two weeks after making that denial, he established a formal trust, Australians for Honest Politics, which collected $100,000 to funnel into anti-One Nation legal actions.

Mr Abbott confirmed that at the time of making the statements to 'Four Corners', he had already promised to underwrite the legal costs of disaffected One nation litigant Terry Sharples."

Australians for Honest Politics.....oh yeah!