ttbn,

shifty & shady minister's comments are water off a duck's back.

What he doesn't like is that I can see through the emperor's new clothes and call things out for what they really are.

I don't think there would be too many people who have been watching the Canberra soap opera unfold who don't believe that Linda Reynolds has fallen off the wall and like Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together.

I think Christian Porter might want to start (re)thinking about his real career prospects in Parliament.

Ask Jen. Where's Jen? Has anybody seen Jen? Jen will know. After all, isn't she now Parliament's goddess of wisdom and knowledge: 'O great Pythia, what thou sayeth Jen?"

Mr Uneducated,

I'm glad that you have come to terms with your condition.

As for your x-ray vision, I would suggest that they are LSD tainted.

Porter ended his political career out on that podium.
If he had have come out hard and stern he might've saved it.
But he came out all crying and mealy-mouthed and that's not leadership qualities.
Having a staffer drop charges against you and kill herself the next day isn't a good look, no matter what the truth is.
Now he looks like a government liability.

AC,

I agree. His recently divorced status doesn't help, either.

The rumour around the traps is that he will not be back. The employment opportunities for him will be few and far between now that his reputation has been ruined by a very sick female (confirmed publicly by her family) and the dogs of the media.

He will need money, and one course open to him is to sue the ABC who trashed his life without bothering to speak to him first.

As for the increasingly weak Morrison government, there is a bit of poetic justice in this affair.

The Morrison government has been "hoist with its own petard". They did not utter a word before or during, or after for that matter, the disgraceful trial by media and the mob of an innocent man, George Pell. One would have thought that Porter himself, as the top 'lawman' in the country would have had something to say. Like Porter's situation, there was no evidence to come close to the standard of the balance of possibilities.

Also, with the Justice Hayden affair. The PM and AG Porter SAID NOTHING.

I'll never forget the day Andrew Forrest walked his Chinese mate into Greg Hunt's press conference and got his mate who was obviously a mouthpiece for the CCP up on the podium in front of Hunt to deliver a message from Xi.

That, now Reynolds and Porter, is the sort of ammunition the potato head guy needs to shove Soot out of the PM's office.

But if we want to know what will happen we need to ask Jen. We mere humans can only guess.

I'm baffled and should not be surprised at the level of vitriol and negative accusations and fait-accompli that is being expressed and promoted, both here and in the press, about Porters career being over. Far from it.
Sure he was far from forceful in his explanation to the media, but that does not change anything, other than to show how weak he really is and allowed himself to be "owned" by a virtue shaming, glory seeking media.
If I know I'm innocent of something, you guys know me well enough by now, I'll come out fighting, and shove all these gutless media scum back in the hole they reside in, not give in and take the "I'm sorry" line.
There was nothing to be sorry about.
It simply confirms how stupid, gullible, naïve and nasty the Aussies can be.
Add to that lazy and gutless.
You left leaning, lock-jaw-yokels are a useless lot, lacking in maturity and anything resembling intellect.
The part that annoys me as much as anything is, when you are found to be wrong, which is pretty much all the time, none of you come forward and appologise or admit to having got it wrong, AGAIN!
I suppose that makes sense, because otherwise the forums and the like would be full of the left appologising, and little or no room for anyone else, to engage in real and meaningful conversations.