SPQR said;
PS: Can you envisage this lot giving up power peacefully if they are voted out?

Have you forgotten that the Liberals/CP won more seats than Labour at the last election ?

It was a dopey thing to even say the word "shame", but under that sort
of pressure thats what happens.

I think the measure of Julia Gillard was shown in her reaction to it.

Diamond Pete said;
Can anyone point to any criminal offence that Peter Slipper has been convicted of?

Nope !!

This means we're a bunch of moralising, holier than thou judges and total hypocrites!
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The point is that the Speaker is supposed to be "holier than thou".
That is why he was stood aside, but when his texts were exposed in
sworn evidence and not contested then it makes no difference whether
he is ultimately found guilty or not.
Because such a fuss has been made about misogyny even the government
could not have ignored it.

So your argument that we are all hypocrites is not valid.

Abbott's carbon tax exercise is in ruins, He can-not handle women of power, or any other woman. Uses the same language as Jones. He has been caught out. He has now got to find something to say.
Slipper has been sentenced without a trial. Why were the texts released while a trial is in progress. We seen the juicy bits what about the rest, if any.
What ever the discussion, it won't contain the welfare of the country.
Abbott can't talk economics, as the power bills showed he is battling to add up. We are headed for another hung parliament.
Gillard has got the wood on Abbott, he can't say anything without it being used against him.
All his reborn image is in tatters, lasted 3 days.
The man is an international whimp, manhandled by a female.
What will the next installment be

579, are you on the circulation list for "Today's issues position"
sent out to all concerned by the PM's office ?

All your output sounds like it !

'The man is an international whimp, manhandled by a female.'

579 are you as sexist and misogynist too?

<< The point is that the Speaker is supposed to be "holier than thou". >>

Really Bazz?

But no one is holier than thou. Some of us pretend to be. And those who are good at the pretence actually win brownie points from their highly unholy peers! Pffff… what hypocrisy!!

Surely all that should matter is whether Slipper could do the job or not.

In fact if anything, his use of good old hard-core Australian vernacular, in a manner completely outside of his role a speaker, and in what was really private correspondence, should make him appear as a normal bloke rather one of those pretentious false holier than thou types… and thus actually WIN him a few brownie points amongst the hordes of the highly unholy!