Bazz, do you think that it is possible that SM is a Liberal Party troll?
He rigidly follows the party line.
Hardly ever answers criticism of the coalition and turns everything into an attack on Julia Gillard.

Bazz,

Do you think that it is possible that Paul 1405 is a Green Party troll?
He rigidly follows the party line.
Hardly ever answers criticism of the coalition and turns everything into an attack on Tony Abbott.

579 is incapable of anything more than spouting one liners from the Labor song sheet often completely irrelevant to the topic, so much so that he almost looks like a computer randomly printing labor slogans. Furthermore he incapable of defending or justifying anything he says and is more like background noise devoid of sentience.

Is Slipper guilty of sending sexist and vile texts? No, he is guilty of responding to them.
It was actually Ashby who composed most of those offensive (but private) texts.

Is he guilty of rorting his entitlements? Ashby apparently no longer thinks so. He withdrew those charges.

Did the Opposition pay for Ashby’s legal actions? Absolutely.
James Ashby’s legal action is being funded pro bono by Harmer’s Workplace Lawyers, as well as a mystery donor from the Liberal Party, who has apparently given him $100,000 worth of legal work for $1. Why?

Is Labor going to meet its budget surplus? Perhaps or perhaps not - a bit of a premature judgement to be making 6 months out from the Budget.

Is the government allowed to use treasury to produce estimates of opposition policies using unfavourable terms of reference and publish them? Absolutely. – as Peter Costello used to do himself.
For example - http://ministers.treasury.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=pressreleases/2002/029.htm&pageID=003&min=phc&Year=2002&DocType=0

"The weasel pops up again...."

That's funny, because when I saw this thread those were my thoughts exactly.

:)

Yes, yes & yes !

My though too Poirot.
Only your comment bought me here, to GLOAT.
Not a joke, only thought that came in to my head.