That is probably one of the cost cutting measures. Prove your innocence at your own expense.
The Kangaroo court is alive and well among the believers of the 1% rule.
I can not get over how it is taking to hang Thomson, he was convicted at least two years ago. Slipper was another case which has been delayed, after absolute proof of guilt.
I suppose it is just as well there are some in society that ere; on the side of caution, just in case there is a mistake.
Where does the Gillard sex come into it, or is that a sensationalistic headline.
Butch is going to PROVE beyond doubt again something or another. Somehow he does not quite fit into the kangaroo court jury.
Abbott is lost for words, must be out of his depth again.
The floor mop is like a snake with no teeth.
The fat boy is counting calories.
It's hard to know there is a country to run. Just as well we have Julia and Wayne at the helm.

Evidence!

Juliar admitted that she knew of the rort 8 months before the AWU did, and said nothing.

Juliar told her partners that she knew nothing of the mortgage loan, yet was in charge of conveyancing it.

Juliar deliberately avoided opening a file on the slush fund, in spite of knowing that it was standard policy.

I have never accused her of fraud, however, none of what I have said above is in dispute, none of this was in any way ethical, and Juliar's changing story, looks at best shifty.

None of Thomson's evidence was in dispute either, according to one side of politics.
Bluet's first agenda was to claim indemnity for his story, i suppose that means he could say whatever he likes.
Would this have anything to do with the libs, or is Blewet's concience getting to him. Whatever it is we could be assured he will be a trustworthy story teller. At least the libs will believe him.

Prove your innocence at your own expense579,
Isn't that what's happening here now ? In our village you can't even call the police & the magistrates mollycoddle the little crims while we victims have to pay to cover our losses.

The Kangaroo court is alive and well among the believers of the 1% rule.
Well, if you insist we can call queer academics Kangaroos. Fine by me.

So few coalition scandals?
Really?
I recall Howard lost 8 Ministers in his first term due to various improprieties and there were been many in the years following, until he put some clamps onto media reporting and tightened up FOI access.
I would be happy to provide a list.

As for the media this is looking more like the faked Godwin Grech "Utegate" fiasco, the stripper paid to falsly testify against Thomson, the non-existent Latham stripper tape story that ran for days, the faked ComCar travel logs used against one Judge and also a Minister and all those other smear schemes that have been rolled out.

Advocates are looking more and more like the fanatical US Tea Party "Birthers" who are still in denial over Obama's actual birthplace. Apparently proof doesn't count in such cases but innuendo does.

Abbott said it was going to be a dirty personal campaign but forgot to add who would be throwing the dirt. Just because his handlers have told him to hang up his fluoro vest and hard-hat for a while doesn't mean he has come up with any new ideas.

LNP=Lies Not Policies.

wobbels you and I know the rot is just as bad in the coalition ranks.
You have got it quite right, left some out in fact.
Right now, in QLD and Victoria, I hesitate to include NSW it is quite apparent questions must be asked of both sides.
IF the Packer casino was on Labors watch it would be done.
Interested posters,could do far worse than research the 1972 to 1975 newspapers, with hindsight.
Those days have returned.
A Labor party prepared, by its dumping Rudd, BUT not a decade ago dumping the SUSSEX STREET MAFIA.
Assists a biased media, sometimes an uniformed one, to drag us all down.
A blind man,will know I dislike Gillard, watch uncertain, I can ever forgive those who back/backed her.
So truly would like her to fall, on any issue, including this.
BUT Police for all these years have not been able to charge anyone.
SM, like the totally unlikable Bishop, and those who support them, blindly, should know.
Support for a party no matter what it does Liberal trash buckets, leads to what took place in NSW.
Abbott is not john Howard, far far from it.
American Republicans lurched far from their followers, continue to do so.
Followed by an inferior Abbott.
Much pain ahead for true Liberals, but Labor in the long run, is best served by scaremongering and in many more cases, pure dog whistling.
Our day is coming.