Belly,

For starters, some Labor members were first trying to dismiss the charges as a rumour, then claiming that Ms Hussey could not be judged until the investigation was finished. Clearly, there was no intention of ever releasing the findings or the report, so that assertion was BS from the start.

Secondly, Ms Hussey had multiple complaints by more than a dozen witnesses, that were previous employees, of bullying, sexual harassment, and financial misappropriation of funds, and even then the sexual harassment claims were simply dismissed for lack of corroboration. Refusing to release the report essentially means that the public can take the accusations in the paper at face value as any claims of defamation would lead to the report be subpoenaed and open to the public.

Against BJ there is one complaint by one person which, as far as I know, is not corroborated. So I imagine that there would be no reason not to release the report.

SM you KNOW I found her guilty weeks ago, knew from the leaks you never saw, shewas in the wrong party, her actions best suited yours, BJ has a respected long term official of his party making the charges, bloke! you seem blind to faults on your side

Belly,

Firstly I wasn't talking about you. Secondly, Shorten had a Labor intern accuse him of rape. Has there been any inquiry here?

As far as BJ is concerned, neither of us has any idea of the specifics of the accusation, and what I was simply pointing out is that in any form of court or inquiry, an accusation without independent corroboration has to be dismissed.

Shorten it was said publicly at that time, had no charges to face quote from police who investigated if he did that he too should go Barnaby, by his own admission was well into his drunk and chasing women stage, not sure he has yet left the grog

"Former staffers of federal Labor MP Emma Husar want an apol­ogy from the NSW ALP’s head ­office, and for it to be acknowledged they were badly bullied by her, following an internal party report that said it “generally favoured” their “perception of events”.

Ex-staff among the 22 who gave evidence to an internal ALP investigation into Ms Husar’s conduct also yesterday accused Bill Shorten of double standards, claiming he was quick to brand workplace behaviour by former NSW ALP boss Jamie Clements as unacceptable but appeared to stand uncritically behind Ms Husar."

Belly,

While drinking and carousing is not a positive trait, BJ would still be a rank amateur compared to Bob Hawke.

Flirting is OK, groping is not. Drinking not nice, driving drunk is not OK etc.

It was not just a throw away line, my demand this woman no longer represent my party was based on two things, that she badly miss treated her staff, 20 of them, that the charges she faced, even some she was cleaded of, are true, once more, please consider, Catholic Priests got support, because they held that role, after commiting filth acts on children,,, defend filth if you want to be part of the problem