Shadow, your repartee is astounding, who don't you go into comedy old son,and hopefully never come out, you would lay them in the isles in stitches.

The thing that is blatantly obvious and inescapable is Dyson Heydon was hand picked by Abbott to do a hatchet job on the unions, and therefore the Labor Party, and the bloke stuffed up, an $80 million stuff up. Nothing is simpler to understand, even for a hard right conservative like Shadow.

Paul1405,
Neither Bronwyn Bishop or Dyson Heydon have been accused of rape of a 16 year old.
For the last laugh the audience might be looking at you.

Paul,

Heydon as an ex high court judge, originally appointed to the supreme court by labor, is of sufficiently high character to shine a light into the corrupt and criminal dealings of the unions and those to whom they funnel the proceeds of crime ie. Labor and the pedogreens.

The Regressive left whingers as usual are kicking up a stink about nothing and have already been forced into a humiliating retreat.

P.S. the RC is mostly complete and has yet to pass the $30m mark.

JF Aus, your above post is rather cryptic as to whom you are accusing of "rape of a 16 year old". If it is not me, I can only assume you are making reference to the 1986 Bill Shorten allegation. I thought the Coalition handled that one particularly badly, they could have got a lot more political mileage out of it than they did. Gee, they didn't even pay a lousy $100k to have the woman on '60 Minutes' telling the world how it was all too much, and had ruined her life ever since, through a voice over of course, naturally with identity suppressed for privacy reasons.
One of the failing of today's political parties is that they don't have any decent "head kickers" they can unleash when a juicy bit of slime comes their way. Have you copped that Chrissy Pyne (manager of government business, aka chief head kicker) can have a s#@t load of dirt on Labor, looks good until he opens his mouth and then sounds like the chief butler from Buckingham Palace. Burke the Jerk is not much better.

Paul1405, you assumption is correct.
Perhaps the Coalition caught the grenade and is keeping it for later, for closer to an election, otherwise they did handle it badly.

I think the accusation of rape involving opposition leader Bill Shorten, should be cleared by the public. The AFP can be wrong. It was the AFP that accused and hounded innocent alleged child abuser Julian Moti. Google - Moti Salmon.

Australia needs to get on with business and employment and new productivity instead of all this political gross waste of time involving money that police and courts should be investigating.

I think Mr Hastie should be respected like all servicemen and women, unless they are proven guilty of something deserving of public disgust.

I think Labor would do well to clear the air over the 1986 Shorten rape allegation.
The public has not fogotten the allegation. Does Labor want to be elected?

What does the alleged victim have to say on tape off camera?
I hope she has not been frightened into silence like so many molested victims are in order to protect the accused.

I think it extraordinary a decent individual and lady like Bronwyn Bishop can be pulled through the coals over staff associated overcharge involving money, while this alleged rape of a young female human being is virtually ignored.

JF Aus,

"I think it extraordinary a decent individual and lady like Bronwyn Bishop can be pulled through the coals over staff associated overcharge involving money..."

Lol! - boing!...whirr...phut....

Think this thread has just about run its course.