Dear Foxy and Poirot,

I agree that Brandis and Abbott have been disgraceful on this. They are partisan thugs with little to no regard for important institutions like the Human Right Commission.

The remarks by the former Disability Commissioner were telling;

Quote;

Mr Innes said when he was first appointed to the two commission roles, then-attorney-general Philip Ruddock said he should do the job without fear or favour.

"The 'without fear or favour' process continued under Philip Ruddock and the three attorneys-general in the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd government ... It changed under that of George Brandis, where the officers ourselves, the commissioners ourselves, the statutory officers ourselves were questioned, rather than what we were putting to the Government and the attorney from the perspective of the Human Rights Commission … Our integrity was questioned in the same way that Gillian Triggs' integrity has been questioned in the last month."

Mr Innes also criticised the appointment of Tim Wilson, who is now the human rights commissioner, from the Institute of Public Affairs.
"Tim Wilson came from an organisation that was known to have a policy that the commission should be abolished," he said.
"That seems a contradiction to me, to appoint someone like that as human rights commissioner. There was also no selection process, as there has been for the former four or five commissioners before they were appointed, so this was very much a captain's pick. What it did was provide the attorney with his representative, his man in the commission.”

End quote.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-27/graeme-innes-says-attorney-general-not-doing-his-job/6269466

The sooner we see the backs of these two the better.

Dear SteeleRedux,

Thank You for the additional information.

I have a feeling that history will not judge either
Mr Abbott or Mr Brandis too gently. When all the facts
come out it will be quite a revelation what these
two got up to. Someone is sure to write an honest
account - perhaps it will be Philip Ruddock - or even
Julie Bishop or Scott Morrison - one day. It would make for interesting reading.

Notwithstanding just how bad Messrs ABBOTT and BRANDIS allegedly are, I'll always be a conservative as long as my mean-spirited life remains in the vertical. EXCEPT ! Should they (the LNP) have another Party room spill, and elect Mr Malcolm TURNBULL as their new Prime Minister, if that should come to pass; I'll gladly join the Greens.

Mr TURNBULL represents the epitome of treacherousness, the ultimate quisling or 'fifth columnist' (and here I thought, all of those buggers were situated in police command ?) and I wouldn't trust him with today's date ! I accept he's ostensibly the 'darling' of the Canberra Press Gallery, he's articulate, rarely stubbles over he's words, unlike the present incumbent, and he's a far more acceptable foe to Labour, than Mr ABBOTT.

One thing with Tony ABBOTT, what you see is what you get ! With Malcolm TURNBULL, he's very accomplished with positioning his Sykes Fairbairn - right through the medulla oblongata. Be well advised, our Mr TURNBULL is a very nasty, disloyal and duplicitous individual indeed.

o sung wu,

"One thing with Tony ABBOTT, what you see is what you get !..."

Is that supposed to be a mitigation for the shambles?

If "what you see is what get" is what we've seen and what we've got - and represents a "positive" it goes to heart of his inanity.

His problem was and is that he was a very successful Opposition leader because of Labor disunity, media bias and a policy in Opposition of misleading the electorate.

He campaigned as a moderate and governs like an extremist.

Add to that an extremely savvy and articulate social media revolution which often bypasses the middle man of MSM to share its information - and any disingenuous inarticulate liar (of which Abbott is a base example) will have problems.

Hi there POIROT...

Can I take it, you don't like him ?

It’s very hard to fathom some persons sizing up of fact when it comes to Abbott. He resembles a twisted and warped derelict. I find it hard to take them seriously when people stand up for Abbott’s good points.

A shameless addict, is our PM. Addicted to lies. Bishop could not take the lie any more saying there was not a job offered but there was a role.

Playing with words, in a disgraceful display of bastardisation against a person of the highest integrity