This is all just a failed Labor backed sabotage gone awry ! The woman probably realised she was being used as a pawn, couldn't see a way out & well ?

individual,

Are you talking about Linda Reynolds?

Albanese: "Linda, when you go to work tomorrow I want you to start calling a woman staffer a lying cow."

Linda: "Albo . . . . I thought you would never ask!"

MENTAL ILLNESS, EVIDENCE, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED INQUIRY

I reckon:

1. If "Kate" had a major mental illness (and was, for long periods, off her meds) she may have done her main Porter talking (to the police) in a phase of Mania.

In Mania people can exaggerate (make grandiose) an idea in their head, the more so with the telling, and with little grounding in reality.

2. She most probably topped herself in the depths of Depression, where reality is often also fairly distant.

3. Rules of HEARSAY "evidence" and Passage of Time would normally not satisfy a judge that a Court Case is justified.

4. To justify a case, a Court would ask for direct audio-visual recording of any "rape", failing that Bruising AND a DNA matched vaginal Swab-test within hours of alleged rape.

5. Putting an overlay of "Its all Porter's Fault" may speak more of today's politics than anything else. INCLUDING CALLS FOR WHAT WOULD BE A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED INQUIRY

STOP PRESS. STOP PRESS.

Six months from now Defence Minister Linda Reynolds answers a question from a reporter at the Canberra Press Club and someone in the back yells out "Lying cow!"

Somethings just won't go away.

Hi Pete,

We've never had a politically motivated enquiry in Aussie, never ever, so lets have our first. Lets get the dirt of this kid Porter. We could hold the enquiry in a Porta Loo, seems the appropriate place, given this blokes past form. It could be a traveling enquiry and anyone who wants to unload on Porter, could simply step into the mobile Porta Loo and do so.

None of this hearsay nonsense, we want direct lies written into evidence! No mucking around with the truth! Do you think Judge Jeffreys is still around to pass judgment, and his usual sentence on this bloke? .

shadowminister,

Once again with your slur of retarded. Why do you think you reserve it for women you think have wronged you in some fashion?

You state: "I would say that part of the reason this "Kate" killed herself is that she realised the information she'd passed to the police was fiction."

You would say that wouldn't you. Your victim shaming is really all you have isn't it. Utterly pathetic. You can't bring yourself to contemplate that an assault of any description took place. It was her word against his. Porter certainly has had a chequered past in his behaviour toward women. Yet to you he is absolutely incapable of being at fault while you were perfectly capable of hang Shorten out to dry.

There is enough of a stink around Porter to bring his suitability to hold the AG job into real question. I think he should go and Scomo will undoubtedly formally turf him soon.