Paul,

It appears that you have a inability to stick to the truth.

Firstly, the worst that AT can be accused of is libel which anyone other than a moron would know is not criminal.

Secondly, the police are obligated to investigate anything referred to them whether complete bollocks or not. That the opposition leader made the referral is not a surprise and follows many referrals by labor that have gone nowhere.

Where were these ijits when Craig Thomson was around?

Come come Shadow,
"anyone other than a moron would know (it) is not criminal" Is that so Shadow.

Again the forums resident Rumpole of the Bailey sticks his foot in it.

"A police strike force will investigate whether any CRIMINAL OFFENCES have taken place in relation to document used to attack Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore. A NSW police spokesperson said the investigation was in the early stages and detectives from the state crime command’s financial crimes squad had launched Strike Force Garrad to determine if any CRIMINAL OFFENCES had been committed.

How about ScumO follows ministerial convention and stands down Taylor while the police determine if he's been up to any CRIMINAL activity. Someone doctored a (local) government annual report and then Taylor used it for in a shameful attempt to politically smear the Lord Mayor of Sydney

Note to all forumites, should you ever require the services of a lawyer do not, I repeat do not, engage Shadow Minister as your defence council. This legal eagle is sure to get you 20 years in the slammer, no sweat!

Been a bad week for the ScumO government, started off early trying to defend Taylor. Then to have their UNION BASHING LEGISLATION rolled in the Senate. Unfortunately while the ScumO mob have been trying to kick the CFMMEU and other unions in the guts, another construction worker has been killed on the job in Sydney.

SM,

Libel may be a civil matter provided the assertion has not been doctored or forged, ad is actionable if what it asserts is untrue and unjustly defames the reputation of another person, whereupon it may be a criminal matter, or at least a tort ?

Maybe a flimsy defence would be that the libellor believes it to be true ?

Joe

Dutton! get ready scomo has had a bad weak week, its you turn on the merry go round

Paul,

Perhaps you could use your vast legal brian to indicate what criminal law could have been broken? Put up or shut up.

Secondly, given that there has been a litany of Coalition MPs referred to the police for "potential crimes" with zero findings of crimes committed, this is yet another Labor Farce.

Thirdly, given that no Labor or greens MP's have stood aside without overwhelming evidence this is rank hypocrisy.

Shadow, I am not the one claiming to be a legal Eagle, you previously claimed some formal "letters" in relation to the law, did you not? Something to do with your days at uni.

In this case you seem not to be exercising your vast legal brian? What's that, perhaps you got it from Monty Pythons 'Life of Brian' Comprehension a problem for you again, "A NSW police spokesperson" that is who I am quoting. Want to try again? The undisputed fact is the document used by Taylor was doctored, that's not in dispute. There is a reasonable probability that Taylor himself, or one of his staff did the doctoring. But you never know maybe ScumO had fixed it up to get Taylor off the hook, with his bin toting copper mate.

BTW, why is a federal minister of the crown using taxpayer funds to run a smear campaign on a local government political opponent. The jerk should be doing what we pay him for, not that he does that very well. Taylor is one of the most incompetent ministers in the Morrison government, and that's saying something!