Does someone have the actual evidence that the public (not merely Abbott's Opus Dei wing of the "Liberal" Party) has lost confidence in the way Professor Triggs has carried out her function?

Emperor Julian,

"Does someone have the actual evidence that the public (not merely Abbott's Opus Dei wing of the "Liberal" Party) has lost confidence in the way Professor Triggs has carried out her function?"

Precisely!

There is no evidence of such.

The only people deriding Triggs are this partisan far right-wing govt and its various far right-wing minions.

Dear Paul and Poirot,

All this spin about loosing confidence in Prof. Triggs
can't be taken seriously. It reminds me of the following:

Remember the claims that were made by the Americans
about "Weapons of Mass Destruction ?"

The then US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield stated:

"Reports that say something hasn't happened are always
interesting to me, because as we know, there are known
knows, there are things we know we know. We also know there
are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things
we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the
ones we don't know we don't know."

A plain speaking Englishman John Lister translated this to:

"We think we know what he means. But we don't know if we
really know."

Gotta laugh!

Now back to the topic.

As far as entitlements and rorts are concerned - as somebody
pointed out - axe the
Life Gold Pass. Rid the planet of this useless, business-class
perk for retired politicians. It was always just another golden
handshake available for life and symbolised the age of entitlement.

Here's something that should make your blood boil:

http://www.afr.com/news/taxpayers-foot-bill-on-41-politicians-homes-in-canberra-20150615-ghow7s

Fox,

This is where your partisan attitude is exposed. You are blaming both major parties when only Labor and their Greens sidekicks were responsible.

Responsible because the government's own auditor (the ANAO) and the administering department drew the attention of the Labor Kevin Rudd aka Kevin707 government to the open door where politicians' entitlements were concerned, but the Labor and Greens sidekicks governments of Rudd and Gillard did nothing to rectify the situation. In fact they turned a blind eye to the relevant ANAO report they were given while in office and for years. Guess why!

Again, here is the evidence that Labor and their treacherous sidekicks, the Greens are directly to blame for the current sorry mess and guess what, NONE of them are resigning. So much for any interest in principle, ethics or accountability from the Left, the self-styled 'Progressives' aka the self-titled "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing".

<The gravy train was certainly popular with Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and the Greens, who did nothing to implement the recommendations of this report,

<ANAO Audit Report No.3 2009–10
Administration of Parliamentarians' Entitlements
by the Department of Finance and Deregulation
http://www.anao.gov.au/uploads/documents/2009-10_ANAO_Audit_Report_3_.pdf

-Tabled in the House of Representatives and Senate, 8 September 2009

As a reminder, Rudd Government 2007–10, Gillard 24 June 2010 – 27 June 2013 and Rudd 27 June 2013 - 18 September 2013.

For interest, Bill Shorten and some of his colleagues served in the Rudd and Gillard governments.>
[Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 24 July 2015 12:59:37 AM]
[Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 7:23:07 PM]

Shadow, such wit, your repartee is truly amazing. It was a simple question; please list the achievements of Bronnie Bishop in what is it, a 27 year parliamentary career, a senator, a minister and finally speaker of the house on $341K p/a. Surely given the vasts amounts of money, many millions in fact, the taxpayer has poured down this greedy gullet you could at least name one miserable achievement. Is the old sow destined to go down in history as one of Australia's worse parliamentary parasites, contributed nothing, achieving nothing, simply a gigantic flea on the body politic of Australia.

Now let me get this straight Beach, Bronnie cavorting around the sky's in her taxpayer funded whirligig, its all the fault of Labor and The Greens, wow! That is a revelation!

While I have Shadows and Beach's attention I'll repeat the good news. Lee Rhiannon won top spot on the NSW Greens Senate ticket for the next federal election. Following a vote of the membership Lee won by a huge margin. This resounding endorsement will see Lee returned for another 6 year Senate term. I know you guys will be pleased, no prize for guessing who I voted for.