'Remember "Crazy" Mark Latham hinting that the Thompson affair was just the tip of the iceberg, not so crazy after all eh? '

Yes Jay these days I feel quite sorry for Latham. With all his faults you knew what you were likely to get. It has been all sleaze ever since with the help of the honest accountable independants Windsor and Oakshott. No wonder they are so bitter.

Even if Gillard can be charged,they can delay preceedings until the next election anyway.Labor are dead in the water no matter who leads them.The gutless independants won't bring on an early election because they know their fate is sealed also.

None will do what is best for Australia since corruption is now the order of the day.

The Politicians are really getting worried these two stories suggest more of a lot of different issues will surface and some one is worried.
1) "Journalists and media that publish leaked information from parliamentary committees could be banned from federal parliament and face charges of contempt" Politicians trying to cover there mistakes and corruption.
Also "Federal Labor backbencher Steve Gibbons has called for fines for journalists who publish misleading or incorrect stories" It is okay for politicians to lie but no one else can NO CARBON TAX
I smell a rat here.

If there are no allegations - criminal or otherwise - what is there to respond to?

Unfounded heresay? Media fantasies?

Instead of the typical and well-practiced conniving Liberal strategy of using forged documents and vague mudslinging, how about putting up some real facts for a change?

Now that Thomson has been cleared of electoral funding charges, how soon before the media publishes the whole truth behind Kathy Jackson and Lawler's own (documented) corruption, the quiet coffee dates with Pyne and the phone calls to Brandis?

Relying of the tainted testimonies of the likes of Jackson/Lawler/Grech/Ashby and others says a lot more about the accusers than the accused and they had better be very certain about pursuing yet another smear without some real evidence.

It has reached the stage of not only integrity being necessary but the
appearance of integrity also being necessary.

There is one little snippet that has been largely ignored.

Why did Julia Gillard's builder go to the Australian Workers Union for payment ?

Did he confuse the name of the fund set up by Wilson, AWU Workplace Reform Assoc, with that of the Australian Workers Union ?
So he was under the impression the work was for the union ?

Hmmmm

The media reports were based on the other senior partners of Slater and Gordon.

While there is much misrepresentation from others, these are sound.