Poirot, you are right as always, I'll bow to your superior wisdom about the Abbott kid. Just one question who got second prize? LOL

Beach, I do not back away from my praise of Brian Parker the Secretary of the NSW branch of the CFMEU. I find Brian very approachable, and straight forward, doing a top job for the NSW membership.
Nothing you post is of any relevance to CORRUPTION, you'll find no Greens down at the ICAC, the place is packed out with CORRUPT members of THE LIBERAL and LABOR PARTIES. too bad my boy, your wasting your time, fishing in a dry waterhole like that.

P,

New Matilda is not known for being factually reliable, and in this instance it has a huge vested interest in conflating the story. Chris Graham the owner and editor was in communication with Freya Newman before she hacked into into the Whitehouse system and stole some documents, for which she has been charged and as a direct faces a very bleak future. If she graduates as an IT student, having to reveal that you used your IT skills to leak or sell your employer's confidential documents will be somewhat career limiting. Similarly if Chris is found to have been implicitly involved, he too is looking at jail time.

On the other side of the coin, lets see what the Whitehouse institute has gained from the scholarship. It now has a highly capable well connected designer, and thanks to Chris Graham has more free advertising than they could have dreamed of.

And for what is TA accused of? Where the status of the scholarship as a pecuniary interest is debatable, and secondly where neither TA nor his government has, nor is intending to, bring in legislation that directly affects the Whitehouse institute. Not registering this is at worst an administrative oversight.

Paul,

The CFMEU is well known as the single most corrupt union in Aus, if the Greens had any moral back bone they would keep their distance.

<<New Matilda is not known for being factually reliable>> Not part of the Murdoch empire! Shadow is well known for quoting from Rups gutter press 'The Daily Telecrap' when it suits, and that's often. Factually reliable 'TDT' what a laugh.

<<she hacked into the Whitehouse system and stole some documents>> and what did Barack Obama make of that? Again not working for Rupert? Jail. If your going to hack, you gotta do it right, serve your hacking apprenticeship with Murdoch's gutter press first.

<<The CFMEU is well known as the single most corrupt union in Aus>> Shadow, are you saying THE LIBERAL PARTY is not a union? I'll take that on board.

Good bloke that Brian Parker, top fella, number one with me.

More CORRUPTION in NSW! But its not THE CORRUPT LABOR PARTY or even THE CORRUPT LIBERAL PARTY and we all know by now how CORRUPT those two are. Who am I referring to this time, sadly none other than THE CORRUPT NATIONAL PARTY, sad but true. The poor old 'Cow Cockies' have spent too much time in bed with THE CORRUPT LIBERAL PARTY. Seems the Liberal have sneezed and The Nationals have caught a bad dose of CORRUPTION.
Well this bunch of CORRUPT hay seeds have firstly taken a $3000 "donation" from a property developer, Idwall Richards, to fund their 2011 election campaign, but worse still the CORRUPT NATIONALS took a so called "loan" of $175,000 from the same mob!
Its now looking very likely the good folk of The Hunter are going to be given the choice of voting for THE CORRUPT LABOR PARTY, or THE CORRUPT NATIONAL PARTY or the fair and honest GREENS! The choice is clear cut, VOTE ONE for CORRUPTION, or, VOTE ONE for HONESTY and INTEGRITY and VOTE GREEN.

SM,

"New Matilda is not known for being factually reliable..."

Well,Lol!...coming from someone who defends to the hilt the rabid right-wing miasma creeping its tentacles over our democracy.

I kinda expected that line.

: )

Poirot, Shadow is very much a Murdoch Man, gets all his "No News" from his copy of 'The Sydney Daily Telecrap'. Fighting for truth, justice and the Rupert way. What does that tell you?