Hi JCE,

Not in the sense of an eyewitness, but a person who can give enlightening evidence before an enquiry which is tasked with determining if Porter is a fit and proper person to hold the high position of Attorney-General.

Hi Paul

A layperson's (non lawyer's) view may be:

Unfortunately this whole matter seems to rest on HEARSAY "Evidence" which is often INADMISSABLE depending on the rules of evidence of the court location/system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay

"Hearsay evidence, in a legal forum, is testimony from a witness under oath who is reciting an out-of-court statement, content of which is being offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted.

In most courts, hearsay evidence is inadmissible (the "Hearsay Evidence Rule") unless an exception to the Hearsay Rule applies."
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Some parts of matter may rest on "Double hearsay"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay

"Double hearsay is a hearsay statement that contains another hearsay statement itself. For example, a witness wants to testify that "a very reliable man informed me that Wools-Sampson told him"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay#Australia

"The rules of evidence differ among the states and the Commonwealth; the Commonwealth, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory all share similar hearsay provisions in their Uniform Evidence Acts;[8] the other states rely upon the common law. As elsewhere, hearsay is usually inadmissible, outside of interlocutory proceedings, unless it falls within one of the hearsay exceptions."
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Much more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay#Uniform_Evidence_Act and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay generally.

Regards

Come on people. Lets be a bit brutal about this.

A Liberal hating, man hating Labor polly of doubtful integrity & even less credibility has made a hearsay accusation against a male, liberal polly, with the only "evidence" that before she topped her self, some lady of doubtful mental stability, had claimed said liberal had raped her, back in her childhood.

For this the poor bloke is supposed to fall on his sword.

We have seen an increasing incidence of claims of long past rape by left leaning females against right pollies. It is perhaps following some predetermined script to snare a few votes, & divert interest from the glaring failures of the left.

Only a twit, or a lefty of doubtful integrity, would peddle this stuff.

Dear Hasbeen,

You write: "A Liberal hating, man hating Labor polly of doubtful integrity & even less credibility has made a hearsay accusation against a male, liberal polly, with the only "evidence" that before she topped her self, some lady of doubtful mental stability, had claimed said liberal had raped her, back in her childhood."

So true to form you are once again talking out of your backside. You do realise the material was sent to other people not just Penny Wong?

The victim had told others of the incident decades prior to talking to the police.

Why are you reducing this to pure politics?

SteeleRedux, it is very easy to see the whole situation as being of a purely political nature.
If the woman were alive today and be presented in Court and cross examined on her recollections of the event, she would be torn to shreds about her credibility.
Now she has committed suicide and we have no real idea why as no final note has been presented, this leaves her as a sacred totem that the people mentioned by Hasbeen are using as political lever against the AG.

Dear Jay Cee Ess,

And why do you think she would have been "torn to shreds"?