ALTRAV,

Looks like you might be happier living in China where the State can control what one hears and sees and people are not allowed to express themselves without Big Brother giving approval.

I think that unless they hold an inquiry the suspicion will never go away and it will be a constant cloud hanging over Porter's head unless it can be proven that he did nothing wrong.

Otherwise people will always be asking questions. It's up to the powers to be to make a decision. They can either put it to rest or let Porter live under a cloud of suspicion.

What does Porter want done?

Porter was weak alright, because he was using the good old victim ploy. Everyone loves a victim. But, and its a big but, you have to be a Leftist female, preferably with a liking for other females to get sympathy.

I do not believe that Porter is guilty of anything; but I agree with ALTRAV about his pathetic performance. He has done more damage to himself than the baying mob has. Australian politicians are big boobies these days.

Mr Opinion, I think YOU are over-thinking this whole stupid circus, that is media at it's worst.
As far as being watched and having your language critiqued and you being stopped from saying what you want, in a free and frank discussion, look no further than this forth rate discriminatory piece of journalistic farce, the very thing we are interacting on, OLO!
You don't have to go to China to be prejudiced and scrutinised to the point of it being no different than in China.
Why don't you try it and try to speak in the Australian "speak", see how far you get.
I do not trust the judiciary as it is too politically driven, so taking OLO to court or to task would prove futile, and this they know, that's why they rule with such arrogance and total intolerance and dis-respect of the Australian narrative and our way of speaking or communicating.
As for the Porter thing you elude to, I honestly feel it is not relevant enough to warrant the amount of attention it is receiving.
It is, plain and simple, a political stunt as the liberals numbers are precariously dangerous at present and only a Labour fool will take advantage of a non-starter like this to see the Libs lose control of the senate or wherever the heck the numbers are currently balanced.
So it is the media, who by now you should have realised are very bias to the left, so cannot be trusted or relied upon to report the news, but unfortunately they have taken it upon themselves to CREATE the news!
So when things are slow, they latch onto something and ride it to death, but only IF it favours the left, and threatens the right.

Hey ALTRAV,

Let it be said that I don't know what the truth is, I wasn't there.
And I try to refrain from taking sides when I don't know.
- It's easier for me to just say 'I don't know'.

Now maybe it's just me, right.

But if he had have come out hard and stern.
Maybe raised his voice and pointed his finger a bit you know.
Slammed his fists down on the podium.

And said "I don't want to slander the dead, but I'm not going to have my political career ruined by lies"...

Maybe then he'd still look like some kind of a leader.

You said quote 'show how weak he really is'
- And that's the problem.

Doesn't matter whether he's guilty or not.
He's not leadership material, and he's not on top of things right now, that's for sure.
He's a problem for the government now.

I wonder if Scomo's position was we're not going to force you out as that will make you look guilty.
But he has to force him out now I think, because Porter did something worse, and made himself look incompetent

Hi ALTRAV,

How do you reconcile your two beliefs, one, that there is no such thing as rape, and two, all politicians are liars. In the Porter case both can't be true. The now deceased women claims Porter raped her as a sixteen year old, which is an impossibility under your belief system. Porter on the other hand claims no such event took place, but as a pathological lying politician the opposite is true.

Just on the point of rape, when you scream "THERE WAS NO RAPE" is that because you believe rape is always an impossibility, like "no" means "yes" from a woman, and woman simply want sex under all circumstances etc. On the other hand you might only be referring to certain instances, like those involving hard right politicians. Oh great fountain of knowledge please give us you words of wisdom on this vexing topic of rape, explain your belief to us, oh great one.

Paul1405,

We should all take time out to think about how all this has impacted on Soot and Jen.

They didn't sign up for all this rape and violence stuff.

All they wanted to do was watch football, put out bushfires, and shake hands with the people of Cobargo.

They didn't even know anything had happened until after it had happened.

So I think Soot and Jen would say "Let's just forget all this nonsense about rape and violence and let's all just move on."

Has anybody asked Tony Abbott about all this rape and violence stuff?