Paul,

Yes...anything more disingenuous?

"I have not taken this decision lightly, however it is because of my love and respect for the institution of Parliament and the Australian people that I have resigned as Speaker."

No-one is buying that at all...as you say, it's just clap-trap - meaningless noise as she is pushed out the door.

This woman has done more than anyone to damage the integrity of parliament with her obscene bias.

She's made a mockery of the role of Speaker - that is a given.

To deploy that kind of self-serving rhetoric as some sort of face-saving device after her gymnastics of late is an insult to our intelligence.

Poirot, "the "rorts" which Bronnie undertook"

Details please, your proof of fraudulent or dishonest practice by Bronwyn Bishop.

The AFP and the administering Department have not levelled any such charges against Bronwyn Bishop. What about all of that "innocent until proved guilty by a Court" that you, Fox and others were insisting on where 'your' (wo)men were concerned?

Hypocrisy.

Gillian Triggs
Gillian Triggs should also do the right thing and resign.
See here,
onthebeach, Sunday, 2 August 2015 10:24:27 PM
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6930&page=48

Both Triggs and Bishop have become controversial figures in themselves, politicised along with their respective Offices. Both have lost the confidence of large sections of the Parliament and the Australian public. There is no going back from that, particularly where the unrepentant Triggs is concerned.

To preserve any vestiges of public trust in the offices they occupied, both needed to resign out of ethics and principle, but only one did.

Triggs should be carefully considering the embarrassment and damage her intransigence in NOT doing the principled thing and resigning is inflicting on the Commission she heads.

Dear Poirot,

You and others may enjoy this:

http://newmatilda.com/2015/08/02/abbott-fronts-media-new-matilda-provides-translation

Dear Poirot,

The following gives a very succinct account
of Gillian Triggs and who in actual fact should
have resigned. It was not Gillian Triggs - but
Attorney-General George Brandis.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/gillian-triggs-resign/

otb,

Bishop has admitted to hiring a chopper to take her to a Lib fundraising event. She knows the guidelines preclude her from charging such trips to the taxpayer.

She's paying it back, even though she still maintains it was within the rules.

If she signed it off as for official duties then she can't pretend that it was within guidelines - the rules are clear on that one.

"Under current rules, Mrs Bishop was required to sign a form confirming that the charter was for her "office holder duties". The form states that "knowingly giving false or misleading information is a serious offence" under the Criminal Code."

http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3216675/bronwyn-bishop-could-lose-job-despite-helicopter-expenses-refund/

It's all straight forward.

Of course, it will be an uphill battle getting the AFP to take it back on board to even contemplate charges - for some reason (I wonder what it could be?) they've gone out of their way to flick it away.

So there we have it, otb is trying desperately to make this about anything else by Bronnie rorting - $300,000 on overseas trips in one year, $88,000 of that on a job-hunting junket, $6,000 on choppers, $7,000 on charter flights to LNP fundraisers...limousines, chauffeurs, $14,000 for entertaining in her offices for fundraisers...on and on....

But otb reckons it's all about Triggs!

Lol!

BTT, otb

otb,

Do you think it's right to treat these two cases differently?

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bronwyn-bishop-allegations-no-different-from-peter-slippers-lawyer-says-20150802-gipxy6.html

"Former speaker Peter Slipper's lawyer says the fraud case that ruined his client's health and reputation is "no different" to the Bronwyn Bishop expenses scandal that the government is dealing with internally.

The allegations against the two former speakers have been treated in markedly different fashion, and Mrs Bishop has so far avoided a federal police investigation.

Mr Slipper was doggedly pursued through the courts for using $954 worth of Cabcharge vouchers to visit Canberra region wineries in 2010.

Lawyer Owen Harris represented Mr Slipper both during the protracted criminal proceedings that eventually saw the former member for Fisher convicted of fraud in the ACT Magistrates Court, and in the successful Supreme Court appeal that cleared his client's name earlier this year.

Mr Harris told Fairfax Media that Mr Slipper had tried to repay the money and have it dealt with internally by the Department of Finance under the Minchin protocol, the avenue taken by Mrs Bishop over her $5227 helicopter ride from Melbourne to Geelong.

"In Mr Slipper's case his attempts to repay around $900 under the Minchin protocol were declined, and his matter was referred to the [Australian Federal Police]," he said.

"He was found not guilty after a rigorous prosecution by the Commonwealth DPP which seemingly cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in the process ruined Mr Slipper's health and reputation."

Mr Slipper claimed the department told him it could not deal with the matter while it was in the hands of the police.

In Mrs Bishop's case, however, complaints made directly to the AFP about the helicopter ride were referred back to finance for investigation.

The AFP said it would only act if the department decided to refer it back to police at the conclusion of their internal investigation."

It stinks to high heaven....