Banks is creditable, believable and in my opinion truthful. Morrison's and his stock reply that "I was not aware, no one in my office told me", is a nonsense.

calling out the cockup they have made
Steeleredux,
Sabotage, not cockups ! You show me one, just one health worker who is not Labor !

Hey individual,
"Thank God Banks is out as is Bishop ! The Nation is better off not having such people in Govt."

Don't you know Julie Bishop is now an Australian icon?
Don't you know she has her own Barbie?

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/it-sent-a-message-julie-bishop-just-got-her-own-barbie-doll-20210615-p5816v.html

"Toy giant Mattel is honouring Bishop, now chancellor of the Australian National University, as its 2021 Australian role model for being a 'true trailblazer' in politics and the roles she has occupied since, giving her a one-off doll that is, sadly, not for sale."

I think as Chancellor of the ANU, she's still got her fingers in a few pies...

SR wrote:"Well the extension of your insipid argument is that without evidence people shouldn't be making claims about incidences which happened to them."

Look, we all know that you struggle to follow the logic of an argument but that leap was Olympic class. Nowhere did I say, suggest or intimate that she shouldn't make her claims. As I've shown you elsewhere, I'm entirely in favour of people saying whatever they like, especially when it reveals their true selves such as in this case or in the case of ABC journos on twitter.

But what intrigues me is the way that all the usual suspects just immediately fall into line, believing a story that has precisely zero evidence to back it. Sure I can see people saying that on the balance of probabilities they think it more likely true than false. But saying it's absolutely true and demanding action based on precisely nothing is an entirely alien way of thinking to my mind.

Hilariously, people saying that she won a seat in parliament therefore she's telling the truth, or she's been given a sinecure in the People's Republic of Victoria therefore she must be believed is inane in the extreme.

The people who believe this are the same dills who believed the Pell fables, or the Rush stories or the McLachlin stories. They never learn and never want to.

But the Shorten story? Oh suddenly they develop all sorts of nuance and can suddenly tell the difference between accusation and fact. But don't ever say they just play sides because they think they're better than that. Hint: they're not

Good Morning Paul and Steelie,

We've all seen it so many times - in the business world,
in politics, and elsewhere, where women are called
liars, or they make it up, or they're doing it for
publicity or notoriety or promoting books, or they're
bitter and rejected, emotional or over emotional.

And the attempts to silence them and the various underhanded
techniques that are used to do so are simply ignored or
not mentioned. In Julia Banks's case it was an offer
to go to New York for a 3 month UN secondment.

Instead she quit the pParty in a bombshell speech to the
Parliament on 27th November.

Also she had not been silent in the months leading up to her
move - speaking out about the "bullying and intimidation"
that occurred during the leadership spill. But hey, she's
lying of course. As were other women like - Lucy Gichuhi,
Linda Reynolds, Kelly O'Dwyer, and Julie Bishop - following
the leadership spill. (Some later felt prey to the
bullying and softened their comments). Bishop left politics
followed closely by Gichuhi.

Gillian Triggs, Julia Gillard, all come to mind in moments
like these. Branding women is an occupational habit for
some and they glory in it. Hence we can see why the
Boy's Club in Canberra is nothing new.

And yet these women's achievements speak for themselves.
Independents like Dr Kerryn Phelps, Cathy McGowan,
Rebekha Sharkie formed an alliance with Banks helping to
push the Government into announcing a federal anti-
corruption commission. And it was Banks and the
crossbench's support for Dr Phelps'medical evacuation
bill which saw the last sitting of Parliament descent
into chaos, with the Government filibustering in the
Senate for hours to stop the bill from reaching the
House.

Julia Banks thought that joining the Liberal Party would
give her a broader platform from which to continue her
advocacy on important community and social issues including
gender and cultural equality - instead she found that
entering politics was like entering another world. One
stuck in time and so deficient in trust and rational
judgement.

cont'd ...

Julia Bank's book - "Power Play" should be available
from all good bookshops and local libraries. Interesting
reading for anyone interested in politics. Just like
Niki Savva's books - "Road to Ruin," and "Plots and
Prayers," were worth a read.