runner,

Go sit on a cactus.

Looks like another LNP politician may be in hot water.

** See the video, no way those two guys are giving a therapeutic massage **

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6485289/MP-Gareth-Ward-insists-called-massage-New-York-hotel-room-new-CCTV-emerges.html

Moment a Liberal Party MP gets into the lift of a New York hotel with two men and heads up to his room after calling an escort service - before 'they attempted to extort $1,000 from him'

An MP who rang an escort agency's number on the night he was subjected to blackmail insists he had simply wanted a massage in his New York hotel room.

New South Wales Liberal Gareth Ward was captured on CCTV in August last year getting into a lift on the 33rd floor of the Intercontinental in Manhattan with two men wearing caps and white T-shirts.

The state member for Kiama, on the south coast, told the New York Police Department the men had tried to extort $1,000 from him after the vision-impaired politician had asked them to leave his hotel room.

The footage showed him in the lift moments before he ran to a concierge desk to alert police of the blackmail attempt, after the men had walked with him to an ATM.

While that police report listed a phone call from the MP to an escort service number, Mr Ward said he had simply called that number for a massage.

'I'd been walking all day, sightseeing, it was self-funded,' the albino MP told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.

'I have in the past got massages where I've gone because that's what often people will do and there was nothing untoward about what I did.'

The parliamentary secretary, who hails from the Liberal Party's moderate faction, said the number he had called was linked to various non-sexual services and insisted he had not broken any laws in New York, where it is illegal to solicit an escort.

He argued he had asked them to leave after realising the men were not offering a therapeutic massage.

'That's what happened,' he said.

Runners view Foxy is worth the reading, he is the very reason his party is stalled
That post, like others highlights a seeming woman hatred, at best his party does not want more women
It too talks of more conservatives needed, while already conservatives by percentage out number Liberal voters who support or even want them
Right now is the time for Liberals to take their eyes off Labor and look at themselves
A car wreck can not be avoided if you are not in control of the car

Another stupid decision from Morrison, this will turn people off the Liberals.

Parliamentarians & their staff will be protected from public hearings and findings of corruption in Morrison's CIC
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Scott Morrison's media release on his Commonwealth Integrity Commission is below.

The Attorney General's 21 page paper on the new bureaucracy is here:

http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Documents/commonwealth-integrity-commission/cic-consultation-paper.pdf

The biggest question I have after reading those documents is "Why?".

Why are we creating this new body?

The CIC will have two divisions:

Law Enforcement Integrity
Public Sector Integrity
The Law Enforcement Integrity division already exists and it has real teeth. It's currently called the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity and it will simply move holus bolus into the new CIC.

The new bit, the Public Sector Integrity Division will cover parliamentarians, their staff and government departments.

And that new Division is an absolute toothless tiger.

It will not be permitted to hold public hearings.

It will not be permitted to make findings of corruption.

It will not be permitted to make any prima facie findings that criminal offences have been committed - in fact it won't be able to make findings of misconduct at all.

http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Pages/commonwealth-integrity-commission.aspx

Philip S my thought too, why not give us the full thing
Thought this thread may get Liberals to rebutte my words or say what changes they think are needed
Morrison is about to give a flimsy shadow policies Labor like in title only
But after the election and his loss, Liberals will be openly saying they should adopt changes much like the ones I have put forward here

Hi Belly, you know I am unbiased. Firstly I'm going to do what half the forums 'Usual Suspects' do, and declare myself a swinging voter. Why not, it might fool some demented halfwit!

Next I'm going to give out the good oil as to what the Coalition can do to improve their chances at the next erection. Here's the drum; ScuMo, The Mad Monk and Dud Dutton, should get themselves well and truly plasted, I mean pissed, until they can't stand up. Then they should all get onto that grubby 'Sky Crappy Channel' with the regular loony live interviewers, and take it in turns at abusing those fools, each other, and most importantly the voters! Something like "I f'n hate babies...old farts...pregnant sheila's, and so on, and so on. To really convince the electorate they are worthy of their vote, at the end, they could do an all mighty up chuck on each other, the interviewers and the TV camera, all on live national television, terrific stuff, most effective on us swinging voters who haven't made up our minds yet! That would improve the Coalitions chances ten fold, cause what they are doing now is bloody awful!
Then Money Bags Malcolm could pop up, stone cold sober, in his best suit, smurky grin, and tell everyone, in a very jolly voice.."I TOLD YOU SO!"