Rache,

Now you are just lying. That is not all the ABC said.

Secondly, there is not one jot of evidence nor formal complaint that Porter did anything wrong. How can you hold an inquiry with zero evidence?

There is far more evidence against Shorten yet you seem silent on this.

According to SM, 'Cry Baby' Porter was in for $10 million plus from the ABC, a grovelling apology and 100 ABC employees sacked to pay for it all.

shadowminister,

In both Christian Porter's case, and Bill Shorten's
neither faced a criminal court. Therefore they are
not entitled to the presumption of innocence. Had they
been tried before a criminal court the outcomes would
have been different.

However because the police in both cases determined there
was insufficient admissable evidence to take allegations of
a historical rape case to court - neither man never faced
a criminal court - and therefore cannot be afforded the
presumption of innocence. Instead as we've seen - Christian
Porter's life is in limbo, in which he wil never be legally
convicted, nor ever cleared.

cont'd ...

I forgot to add that Christian Porter was never questioned
by police. Bill Shorten was.

Pauliar,

Once again you are proving to be a LIAR and a FRAUD.

Foxy,

You got it wrong twice. In the case of Shorten, a complaint was laid, but with no corroborating evidence, the police did not have sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction.

With Porter, not only was no complaint to the police, there was zero evidence other than the incoherent scribblings of a mentally ill woman now deceased, so the police could not even start an inquiry.

Finally, you were the one claiming that the police had cleared Shorten and that Pell was still guilty in spite of being exonerated by the high court. You judgements seem somewhat partisan.

I don't know whether or not rache is "lying" as SM suggests, and I don't care. But I will repeat my claim that he is politicising the affair by bringing up what some disgusting grunt said about Julia Gillard. It was disgusting, but it should't be used to discount the also disgusting - and current - behaviour of the three disgusting Labor senators who hope to be in government soon.

A youngish woman is dead. Julia is alive and kicking, well able to look after herself. That's why she was our only female PM, even if she did queer the pitch for any other hopeful women for a long time to come. I quite liked her.