Rache,

When the accusation of rape against BS first arose MT kept quiet, and said nothing to prevent harm to BS and his family as MT said that he wanted the debate to be on the issues.

Less than 2 years later, the tables are turned and Labor is on it like a rash making political capital. Labor has opened Pandora's box and if the libs go for their personal lives, they have no one but themselves to blame.

Shadow, another one of your claims gone out the window; "QT in parliament might well have questions for Shorten on the rape case against him, for Burke, and I believe for one of the greens."

A case of wishful thinking on your part.

From the start all Joyce has been interested in is saving his political bacon. The mealy-mouthed nonsense he went on with yesterday, was an attempt to garner sympathy, by painting himself as a man of contrition, when all he is, is a self servicing hypocrite!

'The mealy-mouthed nonsense he went on with yesterday, was an attempt to garner sympathy, by painting himself as a man of contrition, when all he is, is a self servicing hypocrite!' god has spoken.

Only if there was a God, runner! You believe in a mythical being, not me. Then you jump on here and preach your religious clap trap, running down those who don't swallow your biblical BS. I am not surprised by the antics of the Catholic hypocrite Joyce, typical Christian behaviour, preach one thing, then do the opposite. He should join the priesthood, he would fit right in with the rest of you.

Catholicism and Christianity are not responsible for Joyce's actions; he alone is responsible for them. He hasn't acted the way he has because of religion. He has acted that way because he is a weak human being who has ignored his religion.

If there was anything substantial to the Shorten allegations I'm sure they would have been raised by the many sanctimonious mud-slingers in the Liberal Party by now - especially when they've been continuously on the ropes for so long.

Who can forget the Credlin "Gillard file" white folder paraded around in Parliament when they were gunning for her years ago?

This is their modus operandi. Every ALP leader has been personally attacked at some time because it's easier than debating policy.

These Joyce allegations have been around since at least last October but were not raised by the ALP, they were intentionally made public by a Murdoch journalist and they are the ones controlling the narrative. There is much more to the story but comment has been restricted to what's been printed.

How is it that a political party with only 6% of the vote (even the Greens have 10%) can decide who should be deputy PM? Then they elect a Les Patterson-style boozing embarrassment who didn't even have the common sense not to drive a Government owned 4WD into a swollen creek and write it off and wept on election night because "nobody else loved Gina Reinhardt" as much as he did.

There's no point blaming the ALP - this is entirely their own doing.

Bananaby isn't the victim here - it's his estranged wife and daughters.

The interesting question should be why Murdoch is finally making his move.