Lol! - Paul

But wait - here's a lengthy article and comprehensive run-down of Bronnie's machinations.

http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2015/07/25/bronwyn-bishops-lifelong-gambits/14377464002167

"Although she has always denied it, she relied heavily on the support of the ultra-right wing of the party, the so-called “Uglies”. This, together with her personal style, saw Fahey government police minister Ted Pickering describe her as “the unacceptable face of the Liberal Party”."

"Bishop was loathed by the party’s moderates, not just because of her alleged preparedness to do business with people accused of branch stacking, character assassination, racism and anti-Semitism, but because of how her personal ambitions were seen to trump party unity."

"The state president was meant to provide a sense of harmony, and yet her ability to stir up the pocket branches on issues such as the monarchy, flag and family values ensured a level of hostility and division that the organisational wing had never experienced."

"And this was the third remarkable aspect of her maiden speech in 1994 – that, unbeknown to anyone at the time, she had decided to borrow heavily for her speech from the pages of one of the most bizarre political tracts ever written in Australia.

The book was called Egoessentialism and its author, Bedrich (Rick) Kabriel, was a Czech-born migrant..."

"Bishop shared – without attribution – Kabriel’s thoughts in her maiden speech.."

Etc...

More...

http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2015/07/25/abbotts-military-pretensions-amid-echoes-howards-prattlers/14377464002158

"The guilt implied by Abbott’s probation puts Department of Finance secretary Jane Halton in an interesting position. Halton caught the Australian Federal Police hospital pass when they referred the problem to her late on Friday last week, after the ALP had referred it to them. Forty-eight hours before that, at a “Women in Focus” cocktail party held by Commonwealth Bank for selected customers at the National Press Club on July 15, Halton spoke about her experience as a female leader in the male-dominated bureaucracy. The Choppergate story had broken that day. Halton used it as an example of sexist double standards: she dismissed its significance, suggesting that had Bishop been a man, the helicopter claims would probably not have been a story."

"Even that early in the Choppergate saga, Halton’s dismissal of Bishop’s pricey, party-driven helicopter ride struck some of Commonwealth Bank’s cocktail party guests as surprising. Against the backdrop of Halton’s history in relation to the “children overboard” affair, however, her point about Choppergate’s potentially sexist dimension is interesting to consider. Halton’s silence about the Howard government’s children overboard lie helped it win the 2001 election, arguably one of the great political disasters of postwar Australian politics."

Reassuring to know the AFP tossed this one back to Halton's Finance - the polar opposite of their treatment of the Slipper allegations.

("Living the theme, Abbott lays his head down at night on a pillow in the Australian Federal Police College in Canberra. He increasingly appears in the media in military or quasi-military settings, often wearing military-style gear. But Abbott took this to a new extreme this week, holding the retreat with premiers at an actual military base, Sydney’s Victoria Barracks.")

Hi Poirot,

Yes Bishop is very sus when comes to her connection to The Liberal Party Uglies, so is Abbott and his mentor Howard. One sinister operative within the Liberal Party was Lyenko Urbanchich an Eastern European who escaped to Australia after WWII. As head of The Liberal Party Ethnic Council, Urbanchich was heavily into ethnic branch stacking. A former Nazi collaborator in WWII Urbanchich was part of the war criminals that influenced the Liberal Party from the 1950's, giving rise to the faction known as "The Uglies" today. Urbanchich combined with the hard rights David Clarke in 1996 to establish the far-right’s ironically named “central committee”; controlling the NSW state executive, the Young Liberals (in NSW and federally) and the NSW Women's Council.
Using their control the Uglies were able to purge the NSW Liberal Party of moderates and take full control. Urbenchich died in 2006 and Clarke was dumped in 2014 following the ICAC corruption findings.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/liberal-hard-right-faction-dumps-leader-and-regroups-after-icac-20141013-1155ht.html

Maybe OTB who is forever banging on about The NSW 'Watermelon' Greens, factions and Lee Rhiannon might care to comment about the ultra rights influence in The Liberal Party, or is that not part of his agenda here. Shadow might also like to throw his 2 cents worth in as well.

Foxy,
In plain English, you have shown experience in accounting costs incurred by Speaker BB, but in comparison what is the total cost per minute of time wasted by interruption and other political distraction in Parliament?

Many Australians are tired of productive national business not being done.

Dear JF Aus,

I am not an accounting expert and my earlier figures
were taken from the Sydney Morning Herald as I stated
earlier. All I can do for you is
suggest that you either contact the government Finance Department
in Canberra or your local MP to help you find the answers
you're after . Either that or go to your local library for some
help.

Question Time has always been a very robust time in Parliament.
It was formerly a democratic safeguard, but its now a
rancorous farce.

Questions on notice are defensively answered by public
servants. Questions without notice receive irrelevant,
rambling and propagandist replies.

Governments also use up the time with Dorothy Dixers where
sycophantic and ambitious backbenchers ask questions for
which the Minister has a well prepared answer boasting
about his own and his government's brilliance.

An Independent Speaker would be able to hold the
MPs to account - as they do in the UK. Mrs Bishop is not an
impartial or independent (from government) Speaker.

It should be noted that the majority of Liberal candidates and those elected in NSW during the past 15 years have been nominees of the "Uglies" with a few notable exceptions, Barry O'Farrell being one, a factual moderate who played the game very well. Unfortunately Barry become his own man, particularly on the billion dollar poles and wires privatization issue. This perceived failure led to the set up of O'Farrell with the 'Winegate' affair before the ICAC, this set up was orchestrated by party members and their right wing controllers from outside, Barry had to go!. Mike Baird one of the North Shore Mafia Liberal members was elected in 2007 and, took over from O'Farrell as Primer in 2014, Baird moved quickly to okay the NSW electricity privatization.