SM
Lying? So what else did the ABC say?

The evidence was a 31 page dossier and a supporting transcript of an interview from another person.
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/dyer-v-chrysanthou/Exhibit-1-redacted-as-at-12-July-2021.pdf

A formal complaint was indeed submitted but withdrawn before the woman committed suicide, so like Kitching we will never know the whole story.

Other documentation submitted by the ABC was subsequently blocked from public disclosure by Porter - the action of an innocent person with nothing to hide?

https://www.andrewwilliamslawyer.com.au/christian-porter-vs-abc-defamation-case.html

Hi Foxy,

SM can't help himself, as another poster once commented; "The bloke has an unhealthy fixation with paedophilia." Being a self claimed legal eagle he may well be Gerry Ridsdales defence lawyer.

Hi Paul,

Growing up I was taught - "Always be a lady, no matter
where you are, for as a lady you'll obtain much and travel far."
I went to an all girls high school. My parents stressed the
importance of education to me. I didn't know any "hairy armpit"
females. I never burned my bra nor fought for my "rights."
I achieved what I did through sheer hard work and with the help
of people who believed in me. My parents, husband and family.

I find it odd from some of the commentary on this forum how
some people define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Is that a "conservative" thing?

Foxy,

I believe that you are certainly a social conservative, who had a conservative background and raising. Good for you. Forget the politics. Our new SA premier, despite his politics, is a social conservative, and he is also described as of the Right faction of Labor. He is already looking heaps better than his predecessor who was of the Left faction of the Liberal party. I think that the downfall of what used to be thought of as a conservative party, and the arrival of a more centrist Labor party here, shows us that loyalty to political brands is a thing of the past. Unfortunately, that doesn't yet apply to the other states, and certainly not federally.

ttbn,

Thank you for your kind words. I come from a traditionally
Liberal voting family who firmly believed in Liberal
values - especially personal responsibility.

As John Gorton once said; "I am not a conservative, I am a liberal." Many Liberal members today can be defined as social progressives and economic conservatives. Not surprisingly in the face of crises, the Liberal Party and most of its supporter base, will quickly ditch their mantra of economic rationalism in favour of economic pragmatism.