Poirot,
You're familiar with James Ashby and Ralph Blewitt, do you remember Jack Johnson? He was the supposed ex boyfriend of Pauline Hanson who was touted at one point as being involved in the taking of the (fake) nude photos.
We don't need an ICAC hearing into Abbott and his minions because this is just their modus operandi, it's the way they do business, they find a dodgy "witness" or someone who has nothing to lose by running their mouth and prod them forward into the spotlight for a few minutes.
The payoff for these rubes is the suggestion of inducements, 15 minutes of fame/notoriety or a way to exact revenge on someone they don't like or have a history with.
To be honest the Coalition dirt unit don't need Murdoch anymore when they have shonky internet pundits like Mike Smith and Larry Pickering, Rupert has the weight to demand favours in return, Smith and Pickering can be thrown away after they've played their part.

Paul 1405
You mind is wandering all over the place old boy, race and credibility wouldn't work in this context, nobody is going to think any less of a player in one of these political dramas because of their race, it'd be more likely to backfire because nobody really thinks that way and a brown face is more likely to elicit sympathy from the public.
Ashby having failed in his mission for the dirt unit can be disposed of because anyone who's ever known a homosexual man understands that they're normally unreliable and often unstable people, this assessment of the mental state of most homosexuals is borne out in pretty much every study of Gay health and wellbeing.

we do need an Icac into the global warming scam that has seen charlitons from the Green religion pocket billions from scaring kids and the naive.

Jay "Do you also believe all BLACK PEOPLE are lazy?" I was only asking in general.

Given your outrageous views,and all encompassing sweeping statements,
This sweeping statement <<like all homosexuals is mentally unstable, vain and easily flattered...the description "pathological liar" fits most people's experience of dealing with homosexual men.>>
To back this up this up you post <<anyone who's ever known a homosexual man understands that they're normally unreliable and often unstable people, this assessment of the mental state of most homosexuals is borne out in pretty much every study of Gay health and wellbeing.>> Can you post a link to a ( reliable) study which corroborates your sweeping claims about homosexual men. Nothing from 'Whitelaw Towers' please.

Another general question. What is the real difference between Jay Of Melbourne and Ross Of Sydney?

Paul 1405.
Is that last part a riddle?
Peter Slipper had a reputation as a drunk and closet homosexual before his present predicament, to set a honey trap you need a person to whom the subject will be attracted, Slipper had allegedly made advances to a younger man in the past so Ashby was judged right for the role.
What I mean, and well you know it is that due to his psychological make up, his vulnerabilities a homosexual makes a good patsy for the Machiavellian types in the Coalition because nobody is going to believe his story even if he does go blubbing to Sixty Minutes.
Most people also hold the view that a grown, White man can't be sexually harassed at all, let alone a homosexual who would be deemed to have been "asking for it".
Hey I believe James Ashby when he says he's been sold out but it's his own fault for agreeing to set up an MP, as I said earlier, lie down with dogs, get up with fleas..or, join one of Pyne's "Black Ops" and expect to be thrown under the bus as soon as you've outlived your usefulness.
We don't need an ICAC hearing to uncover this skullduggery because it's all been pretty much out in the open since day one and Ashby, being a mentally fragile homosexual man flubbed his mission at the start and was never going to be a credible witness or be able to see the project through.

Jay, you made sweeping statements about "all" and "most" homosexual men. Can you back those claims up with evidence. I'll repeat what you posted;

<<Ashby, like all homosexuals is mentally unstable, vain and easily flattered, he's far from the perfect accomplice but at least he's easy to dismiss because the description "pathological liar" fits most people's experience of dealing with homosexual men.>>

I doubt you can provide any such evidence to back up what you claim. If not simply post that it's no more than what you believe, fair enough, and do not try and make out its a known fact, if its not.

Paul 1405,
You know that my assertions about mental illness and homosexuality are factually correct, you can look at "Rates and predictors of mental illness in gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women". Eamonn,McKeown,Johnson,Griffin,Ramsay, Cort & King (2004)
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/185/6/479.full.pdf
That's a large sample taken in the U.K and comes from a sympathetic point of view in that the authors are assessing the impact of discrimination upon homosexuals, you'll no doubt be able to find other studies which contradict those figures but they are of such small sample size that their data is meaningless.
Here's a source biased in the other direction if you want, I always prefer the sympathetic sources because it shows that political correctness can't cover the truth about homosexuality but the data on right wing site Homosexinfo shows much the same picture;
http://www.homosexinfo.org/Psychiatry/Overview
See, the sympathetic source and the unsympathetic source both fail to find that discrimination or "Homophobia" is the major contributing factor in psychiatric morbidity among Gays and Lesbians.
So most people who have had to live or work with homosexuals on a day to day basis have experienced their mental problems, their anti social behaviour, the lying, the stealing, the callous and unreliable nature of such people. Thus Christopher Pyne's threat to paint Ashby as a "pathological liar" would have been, to the Machiavellian operator the most viable means of smearing his errant agent provocateur because homosexuality reflects upon character in the minds of reasonable, well informed members of the public.

You see Paul,you're partly correct, in real life I'm a inclined to be thug and a bully to get my own way, I can step into the mindset of a Chris Pyne or Tony Abbott as easy as putting on a hat and think about what I'd do in their situation, if my agent had screwed up and i had to get rid of him I'd go for his most obvious weakness first.