David,

Ministers have been stood aside for far less, we Barry O'Farrell resigning over gift of a bottle of wine that in itself was not a crime, yet all the labor tragics leap to Slipper's defense of what was clearly fraud, and to Thomson's which was clearly theft. The evidence presented to the public was clear and damning, and Labor gave them full support.

To be convicted and jailed requires due court process, to pretend that until that has occurred that nothing has happened is pure hypocrisy.

SM,

Yoohoo

I thought perhaps since you are so against dodgy practices that you like to indulge us with a commentary on the latest from ICAC.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/icac-hears-that-liberal-party-boss-brian-loughnane-knew-of-developer-donations-going-through-federal-channels-20140806-100vlc.html

"Federal Liberal Party director Brian Loughnane has been drawn into a corruption scandal embroiling the party after an inquiry heard allegations he rubberstamped the use of federal channels to subvert the NSW ban on donations from property developers."

"An email shown at the inquiry suggests Mr Loughnane agreed for donations from property developers - which were banned in NSW in 2009 - to be made to the federal party to subvert the laws.
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“Brian Loughnane has agreed that for the time being the Fed Sec will operate on the policy…in effect, there is no benefit for a NSW donor to donate to via the Fed Sec, unless they are a property developer,” said Federal Liberal executive Colin Gracie in an email to Simon McInnes, the finance director of the NSW Liberal party.

The email was sent in July 2010."

Poirot,

You do realise that that is referred to as hearsay and has no legal weight whatsoever. For someone that declared Thomson as pure as the driven snow until convicted in spite of damning evidence, I see that as the height of hypocrisy.

The 'Conga Line' of corrupt LIBERALS continued today at the NSW ICAC. After the resignation of Boozy Barry over his lies about a corrupt bottle of grog. We now have 2 more LIBERALS committing political harry-carrey. Gone are LIBERAL MP'S the grub Tim Owen from Newcastle, and Andrew Cornwell the shonky member for Charlestown. Gone, Gone, Gone.

I am not totally heartless. and wish to express my sincere sympathy to my forum friend Shadow Minister, who must be devastated by the criminality of the Al Capone's that infest the NSW LIBERAL PARTY. Considering poor Shadow confessed to making a substantial donation to the party as part of the 2011 'Elect Fatty O'Barrall' campaign. Shadow skimped and saved to support Fatty, the pennies from his play lunch money went in, his tips from his paper run, went in, Shadow even sold his most prized possession a personally autographed photo of Little Johnny Howard, it read "To Shadow from your good buddy Jonky, Jonky..hummm who's Jonky, but more importantly Tony Abbott gave Shadow a whole 10 cents for his beloved picture. and the shiny new 5 cent piece his generous Uncle Thaddeus gave him for his 6th birthday, it all went in. After almost 5 years of tough saving Shadow had nearly 2 dollars to donate to the cause. And now poor Shadow has been duped, all his skimping and saving has come to naught, to see his hard earned being fretted away on another bottle of cheap plonk for Boozy Barry, my heart bleeds for the lad. sad, very sad.

Of course, you are right, SM.

But (snigger)...I can't wait to see where it leads.

Have you ever seen such a puerile bunch of desperados than these cretins in govt?

I mean, even you must realise what they are....and how limited is their tenure.

SM,

Sorry to rub it in, but these ideological goofballs continue to serve it up a daily basis.

Thinking that they had better have something on hand to compensate for their back down on 18c...they have pulled out a doozy.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/george-brandis-in-car-crash-interview-over-controversial-data-retention-regime-20140806-101849.html

"It’s been called "excruciating" and "the most embarrassing interview you'll ever be likely to see".

Attorney-General George Brandis struggled to explain live on Sky News on Wednesday afternoon the details of his government's controversial "data retention" policy, which would force all telcos to keep logs on what their customers do on the phone and online for up to two years, so law enforcement agencies could access the information without a warrant when investigating crime."

"Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the policy would capture "the sites you’re visiting". But his office later clarified this was not the case and that this would require a warrant.

Now Senator Brandis has confused matters again, telling Sky News that web addresses would be captured by his proposal to strengthen the powers of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.

After repeated questions over whether the sites people visited would be captured, he conceded they would be, but confusingly contradicted himself by saying his policy wouldn’t extend to web surfing.

He then attempted to clarify this by saying that the sites people visited would be captured, but not the individual web pages a person navigated to within a site."

Indicative of the calibre of Minister serving this govt....