FP,
You claim that this REEKS of a Lib party set up. How come?

These are not allegations. They are the findings of a FWA investigation into the actions of Thomson. There are aboout 150 adverse findings.

FWA is a body set up by the present Labor government. Members are appointed on the direct recomendation of the government.

Now I do not have any time for this present government, but I do not see them being so silly to have any body or committee that it did not have a majority on, or not likely to be biased to the government.

I thought Arjay was the chief conspiracy theorist on OLO.

If you want to scrutinize the members, there is a list available. Just google FWA.

You do realize that by saying FWA has been compromized, you are alluding to a failure of the government. At present you have not shown any evidence of a scandal. Unless you are referring to the time taken to investigate. Now that is scandalous.

But keep going, I am happy to hear any critisism of this government.

Muckraking is just another name for political strategy to some people and they go to all sorts of lengths to win.

On one side we've already seen forged ComCar dockets used to smear a High Court Judge and falsified taxi vouchers used to attack a Minister (who happened to be overseas at the time).

They happily fell for a Treasury Insider who faked emails on their behalf after a smear campaign about a "free ute" began to flounder.
I suppose he assumed it was just the way they did things, and who could blame him under the circumstances.

They won a federal election partly due to a forged letter between a State Premier and the then Opposition leader but somehow never bothered investigated this federal crime of forgery after winning office.

They continued to pursue an ex-PM long after he left office over alleged business dealings, probably out of revenge.

Keating is later said to have given Latham a personal file on Howard but Latham refused to use personal attacks to win political arguments.

It says a lot more about the character of some people than their targets.

If it's going to be a tit-for-tat struggle then maybe Sophie Mirabella (for one) better get her affairs in order and some certain frontbenchers should come clean on their private dealings.

It's always easier to throw mud than it is to wipe if off.

I say they should throw open the gates now and clean out BOTH sides. It would be interesting to see how deep hypocrisy goes, particularly in those who seem to claim the moral high ground.

Lexi, I read the financial review. It might come as a shock, but the appointment of a person to a statutory body does not even imply that the appointee and appointer even knew each other before the event or have contact after. Howard appointed judges that he never spoke to ever again etc. The selection of candidates is prepared by a selection committee and recommended to the minister. While it is the policy of Labor to appoint ex union mates to FWA, this was not the practise previously.

Labor reappointed the members of the AIRC, but were under no obligation to do so, and most of the senior members from the ranks of the unions.

FP, Opus Dei, You do realise that Dan Brown was writing fiction? Now this is getting decidedly fruity.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Kindly answer the questions I asked.
How do you know - and what do you know?

SM, why do you think that Opus Dei is a "fictional" organization? That's strange. Fact = Opus Dei exists ... just like the Catholic Church exists, the Harbour Bridge exists and the Opera House exists.

FP,

OD exists as a small and generally un-influential diocese of the Catholic Church with less impact on world affairs than the boy scouts. Secondly I can find no links with Abbott or Lawler. This is by far the most laughable proposition.

Lexi,

I did tell you. Feel free to read the financial review today, it is all there. It is too long to cut and paste.