Dear Shadow Minister,

I did not ignore the bad behaviour of anybody.
On the contrary - however you attempt to deflect by
pointing to the bad behaviour of others, while
ignoring that of those you support politically.
That is hypocrisy. And rather lame. But that's nothing
new from you.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Strewth mate you can be a right partisan tosser sometimes.

You wrote;

“More unsubstantiated finger wagging? Considering that Vikki Campion was competent staffer and that the office of finance has no authority to dictate who can and can't fill a MP's staffer position, there are no rules broken.”

Campion was transferred to Canavan's office when the PM insisted after learning about the relationship with Joyce. After Canavan got the chop she was then transferred to Damian Drum's office as a media advisor even though he already had one in Callum Whitehead thereby increasing Drum's staff from 6 to 7. Whitehead was on $80,000 a year by Campion came in at over $100,000.

This stinks to high heaven, it is corrupt and a blatant use of taxpayer's money for personal gain.

If you are really going to support all this then your moral and ethical compasses are that severely off I'm not sure you can be regarded as anything other than a political hack.

Foxy,

I have not actually commented on BJ's affair at all. The point I am pursuing is that the resident left whingers have spent their time coming up with the flimsiest reasons why Barnaby's indiscretion deserves special and greater attention than the multiple similar indiscretions of Labor MPs.

If Labor does pursue this, then this opens the floodgates to put under the microscope the lives of past and present MPs. For example Tanya Plibersek might not appreciate her drug dealer husband's past being exposed in excruciating detail for her children to see.

SR,

I look forward to the day when you are not partisan tosser. I suppose your ethics incl firing a pregnant employee? Can you show that she was not productive?

The rules around MPs' staffing has for decades been left deliberately open ended, with limits on total expenditure and travel expenses etc. MPs staffing has been used to train cadets, bring family into politics etc. If you start investigating this case, MT can easily open the books on every labor MP, and it won't be pretty.

Many posters moralising about what is right and wrong while denying absolutes. Sick irrational failed secular dogma. Just shows you don't believe your irrational dogmas.

Dear Shadow Minister,

You really are a shocker aren't you. To be defending this is just a terrible look my friend.

Besides the maternal sense Campion was not adding to productivity at all. The reason she was moved from Joyce's office by the PM was not because of the pregnancy, but because the relationship had caused such severe dysfunction within it that the Chief of staff had resigned in protest.

Why on earth should this mean there are jobs invented out of thin air for her by the PM?

news.com.au reports that the job in Canavan's office was a constructed one as well. She went from social media adviser in Joyce's office to a senior adviser in Canavan's with nearly a 100% jump in pay and allowances. After Canavan was outed she was moved back to Joyce's office then on to Drum's at the same pay after a new position was created for her.

This is just a shocking example of inappropriate use and abuse of power and rightly is disgusting the majority of thinking Australians.

And you think it is entirely appropriate conduct. You are terribly out of touch mate. You might think the shite doesn't stink on your side of politics but wouldn't pass the pub test anywhere in the country outside of Canberra.

Funny...

Shadow's gone all quiet about the subject of the subject of sexual impropriety since he's been reminded about some of the hilarious escapades of the British tories.

I wonder why that would be?