It would seem the majority of people on this thread crying foul over ON getting caught with their pants down would want Sam Dastyari reinstated to the front bench immediately.

He got 'done over' by a secret recording of a briefing he gave to some Chinese media and another secret recording which we have never heard saying he warned a Chinese businessman about probable phone tapping.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-29/sam-dastyari-secret-south-china-sea-recordings/9198044

Me, I'm glad he is out of parliament but you lot should be championing the 'injustice of it all' if you going to be in any way consistent.

Some seem to get the sequence of events mixed.
It was the Koch Bros representatives with whom they talked money.
They even said that there were legal problems so why the hell were
they even talking to them.
I think from my memory of what was said that the AlJaz character
offered to take them to the US to meet money & gun people.
Anyone switched on in politics should have been enough awake to ask
themselves; "Why do they want to do this ?".

Anyone that dumb should not be in politics. Beware crocodiles.

Foxy: what they were really prepared to do - to get what
they wanted.

Which particular Politician or Party were you talking about. They are all guilty of the very same thing, except they published ON because they are frightened of the influence ON might have on the coming Election.

Stealie: It would seem the majority of people on this thread crying foul over ON getting caught with their pants down would want Sam Dastyari reinstated to the front bench immediately.

See Foxy, I told you so & that's only one that got caught. They are all as guilty as one another. Nothing to see here, moving on. ;-)

Jayb.,

Arguing that "they all do it,"just isn't good
enough mate.

One Nation is the only party who supposedly
stood for honesty, integrity et al - and yet
went about selling our country's gun laws
down the gurgler for money. The only party that
promised a foreigh entity control of our
country's legislation. For that alone they
should not only be kicked out - they should
be hurled out with great force.

Hi there BELLY & a good afternoon to you too...

Donald TRUMP has never been a public speaker of note, ever since we saw his ascendency to power. He stumbles and hesitates over just about all of his speeches, even his formal Whitehouse addresses. It doesn't prove that his brain & his thinking isn't still sharp. Some people are gifted at public speaking, eg, Sir Robert MENZIES.

While others have altogether different styles of public speaking; but nonetheless, both equally effective at getting their message across. Like Messrs Robert HAWKE & Paul KEATING. A good speaker doesn't necessarily make for a great leader. One, the population in toto, feels confident in their brand of leadership. You know, '...all talk and no action...'?

I realise you have a somewhat jaundiced view of the media, and that's most understandable, as do I. But when it comes to this Muslim controlled outfit, Al Jazeera, I urge caution? Anything they might release purporting as being accurate newsworthy material, I'd 'triple' check, from other more credible sources, before relying on its integrity.
Thanks, BELLY ol' mate.

G'day there JAYB...

You're quite correct when you assert no member of the judiciary would have any truck whatsoever, with the material Al Jazeera allegedly claimed they gathered as evidence of conspiracy, impropriety, or plain old inebriated trash talk.

Speaking of illegality that may've transpired in this matter - I'm of the view, Al Jazeera should have a strong glass placed over their own activities, ever since we've had these incidences, of Islamic fundamentalism taking place. What's it been now, forty-odd years since it became apparent? One might be surprised at how much 'stirring' by 'AJ' has occurred, in the intervening period?

Evidence that's capable of being admitted in a Court of Law must follow a precise procedure, & gathered in a conventional structure and strategy, that the Court recognizes. There have been more bulky tomes written on the topic of 'Evidence,' ('Cross & others, to be more precise), than perhaps anything else, in our standard of jurisprudence.