I wondered what the working women of Australia thought when Roxie delivered this excuse for taking early retirement.
I realised that I wouldn’t be retired when my child started high school.
So? Who can afford to retire when their child starts high school?
And I thought that this government was all about promoting the role of women in the workforce and was keen to see higher rates of female labour force participation.
(Actually, Roxie, here’s a tip from me. I took long service leave when my daughters were doing Year 12 to support them and drive them to the exams, etc. I had had to work for many years to accumulate the leave though, including when my children were not in school and then in primary school and high school.)
This all looks a bit fishy. Assuming she is OK at arithmetic – a big assumption, admittedly – she knew when she took the job as AG just over 12 months ago that it would be eating into family time in the future. But now she tells us she has been planning to leave for a year or so. Something doesn’t add up.
Something is fishy alright.
I do believe that someone inside the ALP may have moved the various dirt files to Defcon 4.
Rousie
2 Feb 13 at 5:38 pm
You economists, always with the silly assumptions. Of course something is amiss, Roxon is lying to cover up something else…maybe something big or maybe she’s had enough of gillard’s policy on the run, non-collaborative style of communication. Or maybe she knows full well come the election Roxon will be turfed out.
Gab
2 Feb 13 at 5:39 pm
This resignation sounded all to familiar to me, it sounded just like the resignation speech by Mark Arbib. the children are a driving force for our Labor politicians (not).
Take Note
2 Feb 13 at 5:39 pm
And talk about the longest farewell speech evah! On and on and on she
spunrambled.Gab
2 Feb 13 at 5:42 pm
It does add up if you apply the one consistent rule of this
governmentramshackle mob of no hopers. They lie and they lie and they lie. They lie about everything.That’s the Labor way.
So of course she is lying about wanting to retire when her child made high school. (And since when has being retired by the time your kids get to high school been a mainstream aspiration. That’s just BS.)
johno
2 Feb 13 at 5:43 pm
No, it does – at least a decade* on the opposition benches in an utterly destroyed ALP might have focused her attention somewhat.
Again, the only thing I really want to say about this woman is good riddance.
* Never underestimate the stupidity of the Australian electorate, especially while we are cursed with compulsory voting.
Rabz
2 Feb 13 at 5:43 pm
Gab -
Roxon has a 24% margin. She is concerned either with the risk of her child introducing shampoo into the house once in high school, or with leverage.
I’m betting the latter. It’s how the ALP roll.
Rousie
2 Feb 13 at 5:45 pm
Roxon resigned from cabinet because Gillard forced her to water down her discrimination bill and followed that by announcing an election date without consulting the rest of cabinet. Roxon is attempting to stand on principle but isn’t brave enough (or too loyal to the ALP if you want to be charitable) to say boldly what she thinks.
Makes a nonsense of taking a stand on principle though when you have to hide behind your family but …
Matt
2 Feb 13 at 5:46 pm
Dear God…….
Appealing and able? They’re smoking a particularly nasty strain of crack at Fairfax this weekend.
boy on a bike
2 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
Anne Summers fawned over Roxon in The Monthly in June 2012. She included a quote from Roxon on the proposed new anti-discrimination legislation:
“Roxon describes it as ‘a really exciting piece of work [that] will require all my political skills’”.
So seven months later she’s suddenly lost interest and it’s not as if the bill is anywhere near finalisation, let alone passage. As Prof Sloan says, it looks a bit fishy!
Des Deskperson
2 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
They’ve got one child, yea? Aged eight.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/a-straight-shooter-20120412-1wwk4.html#ixzz2Jio2qGhN
Gab
2 Feb 13 at 5:51 pm
Anne Summers fawned over Roxon in The Monthly in June 2012. The article included a quote from Roxon on the proposed new anti-discrimination legislation:
“Roxon describes it as ‘a really exciting piece of work [that] will require all my political skills’”.
So seven months later she’s suddenly lost interest and it’s not as if the bill is anywhere near finalisation, let alone passage. As Prof Sloan says, it looks a bit fishy!
Des Deskperson
2 Feb 13 at 5:52 pm
My God, the hypocrisy of these dirtbags is infuriating.
Rabz
2 Feb 13 at 5:54 pm
Sorry, posted twice. It’s one of the things, along with over use of capitals, makes a poster look like an obsessive.
Des Deskperson
2 Feb 13 at 5:56 pm
100,000 Australian war dead must still watch over the lucky country. Nicola “criminalise offence” Roxon was the most dangerous legislator in our history…….and then like magic she was politically disappeared.
Alfonso
2 Feb 13 at 5:56 pm
Roxon has obviously done her research.
She knows that the trick is to put your hands up to cover your face. And then pull out a nostril hair.
Starts the tears up immediately, no worries.
The Old and Unimproved Dave
2 Feb 13 at 6:00 pm
Rabz – the nanny’s employment will be secure long after Roxons retirement. You can be sure of that.
Rousie
2 Feb 13 at 6:01 pm
Ahhh, John McTernan has been very busy handing out the scripts to his charges and they are are all doing as they are told.
Roxon has a Nanny? Well, there you have it, the sheer hypocrisy of the ALP.
Merilyn
2 Feb 13 at 6:03 pm
The liar – she’d have tonnes of time to look after the brats when in opposition.
GeorgeL
2 Feb 13 at 6:06 pm
She only has the one, GeorgeL.
Gab
2 Feb 13 at 6:08 pm
Retire from politics doesn’t mean retired from working. One of my friends at school was the son of liberal party MP. His father was away a lot and he wasn’t even a minister. There are other jobs where one parent has to be away a lot (Fifo mining for example) but lots end up giving it up because of family reasons or end up divorced.
Still is surprising though – its fairly unusual for politicians to willingly give up power like that.
Chris
2 Feb 13 at 6:09 pm
Methinks that would be impossible with Roxon – her nostril hairs would be too greasy to grip effectively.
boy on a bike
2 Feb 13 at 6:11 pm
Guys and Gals, for goodness sake, read Grace Collier on MSnews1
fey
2 Feb 13 at 6:12 pm
So if she told the truth, she won’t be looking for any quasi government job then, once she has left.
Its all rubbish, she is just trying to save her own skin.
This is all going to crash and probably pretty quickly.
Peter
2 Feb 13 at 6:13 pm
Gab
She only has the one, GeorgeL.
She had an alcopop once, didnt like it? Taxed it..
She had a smoke once, didnt like it? Plain packaged it..
She had sex once, then didnt like it?
I think we dodged a serious bullet here.
thefrollickingmole
2 Feb 13 at 6:16 pm
Yeah, the working mothers of Australia are likely puzzled by this.
In fact, many women rejoin the workforce when their kids hit high school, because they are old enough to travel to and from school alone, fix themselves a snack and amuse themselves for an hour or two after school, etc.
Politicians who claim they are retiring ‘to spend more time with the family’ are almost always lying. It is the standard cover story for being sacked, spitting the dummy or fearing major embarrassment in the very near future.
As a rule, it takes the Jaws of Life to remove them from their very addictive jobs, especially Ministers.
johanna
2 Feb 13 at 6:17 pm
I don’t think she wanted to spend years watching Abbott on the Treasury benches, was sick of Gillard, might have some issues about the AWU scandal that are yet to come to light and knew that if she walked she can do a Mark Latham. That is, take her lifetime guaranteed indexed Parliamentary super pension and look after her child full time without a care in the world.
Seems pretty rational to me to be honest. Happy we won’t have to see too much of her boat-race on the TV anymore or hear her whingy voice.
Just A View
2 Feb 13 at 6:23 pm
Let’s hope in a few years time she takes up the darbs and the alcopops.
jupes
2 Feb 13 at 6:24 pm
Rox on rax off
John Comnenus
2 Feb 13 at 6:25 pm
Totally agree Johanna.
jupes
2 Feb 13 at 6:26 pm
It’s good to see the back of Nicola Roxon; someone who has so ferociously attacked Australian’s rights to their own opinion.
Her bleating about her wish to spend more time with her family rings hollow. That anyone who aspires to the dizzy heights of the Federal Attorney General (The Nation’s First Law Officer) is incapable of juggling that job with raising one child was evidently severely out of her depth.
Her erratic and emotional behaviour plainly demonstrates that Roxon is not temperamentally, intellectually, nor psychologically suited to that office. Nor does she have appropriate legal qualifications.
She can now relax with her family, and with her skill set perhaps take a job that she will find suitable and fulfilling; perhaps as a librarian or pre-school teacher.
Dexter Rous
2 Feb 13 at 6:47 pm
Roxie may not want to be the only ex-AG who failed to authorise proper investigations of certain Abuse of Office allegations.
Leo G
2 Feb 13 at 6:54 pm
The poor dears – struggling with one whole child.
C.L.
2 Feb 13 at 6:55 pm
And what a shock to learn that Roxon’s husband is a former Labor staffer, now public sector tax leech.
C.L.
2 Feb 13 at 7:00 pm
There are lots I theory’s but no substance as to why now, at the peak of her powers? I would like to think there is some fishy, I think there could be bu at the moment it is hidden. So the best I can come up with is she thinks they will loose the election, as a studen politician she has realized her dream of AG, she’s had a win she can tell her grand kids, tobacco packaging (in the lefts mind anyway) it’s all downhill from here so why not kick back for the next seven months. Could it just b hat simple? I wish I was say th AWU slush fund but I think she would look Gillards Belersconni play book, stay in power is you best defense and you might even change th laws.
Honesty
2 Feb 13 at 7:04 pm
Pedestrian crossing lollipop lady, more like.
Rabz
2 Feb 13 at 7:22 pm
It could be true. Who hasn’t seen a career woman agonise when they have young kids. The likelihood of losing might have been enough to make her decide she didn’t have the stomach to keep going, especially with the criticism of her stupid bill.
Pedro
2 Feb 13 at 7:22 pm
Announces partial roll back of her aggressive discrimination legislation on January 31st, announces resignation on February 2nd. Connection? Surely. I do hope she enjoys her time with her family, though it’s a luxury most working mums cannot afford.
Anthony
2 Feb 13 at 8:07 pm
Something sure is fishy.
Could there be a (cough) AWU skeleton knocking down the closet door?
Has she had to eat a large slice of humble pie over the Gag My Enemies Act (2013)?
I can just see McTurdman being sent around to Roxy by the Slapper-in-Chief to deliver the bad news ………
“This wee Anti-Discrrrrrrrimination Act is nae gonna fly laddie. Everyone from David Fucking Marrrrrrrr to High Court Judges to Anthony Fucking Mundine is lining up to have a crack. Ah Donna need another turd on my plate, matey, so rrrrrroll the draft legislation up and shove it up ye jacksie, laddie”
Leigh Lowe
2 Feb 13 at 8:09 pm
The most distressing thing about this story is the revelation that this woman has produced offspring.
Leigh Lowe
2 Feb 13 at 8:12 pm
Oh are we serious?
I have a child (adult actually seeing as he turns 21 this year) and i am not retired and I receive no benefits and neither does my son and he barely works and studies full time.
Do you think he cam afford to be independant and the asnwer is NO. So who pays a lot of his eexpenses. We do and get nothing even though he is legally an adult.
Going to uni is bloody expensive.
Clearly Roxie is totally out of touch with mormal people.
God, please dont let the silly bitch resign. Make her broke or something.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:20 pm
Sorry above should read
God dont let her retire…
Make her broke first.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:21 pm
OMG
imagine reirting when your children reach high school age? Only for the prvileged few like roxon thinks she is..
Really Ive never seen such a farce as the current labor givernments but I sincerely hope the liberals reign in all this bullshit about felxible labour and insecure contract working and BS free markets or I will vote outfield next election (because that is not helping the young in this country or production in this country).
there has to be some job creation going on and no we cant rely on the private sector for all of it. In fact the private sector also rely on government contracts and projects. So the libs who arent in government now, but may be a better lot, need to moderate themselves. As for labor it needs to clean up its rorting ranks from top to bottom.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:28 pm
No Roxies resignation doesnt add up at all and she \is givng the usual “family excuses”.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:30 pm
Warning – bad spelling above. Dont care. Cranky at Roxon’s delusions of grandeur.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:32 pm
Nice thought Pedro but apparently her daughter is 8 -seems like Mummy Nicola didn’t mind being an absent mother until right now.
Tracey
2 Feb 13 at 8:40 pm
What 8 years???
Hello? She wants to be rtired in what four years time when 8 year old reaches high school?
What a vacant lazy thing she is. This is a crock of lies (there is more to this story) or maybe she is angling for a perk ridden early retirement? Who knows? Has someone promised her something if she goes quietly?
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:44 pm
Goodnight all
Disgusted. Outraged. Had enough.
Its one scam after the other in the news, perpetrated by politicians.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 8:48 pm
Labor politicians.
C.L.
2 Feb 13 at 8:49 pm
Plenty of time for her to try volunteer fire fighting or surf life saving or perhaps give a little time in remote aboriginal communities.
jumpnmcar
2 Feb 13 at 8:54 pm
Sounds like Alice is ready for The Mad Katters tea party.
Honesty
2 Feb 13 at 8:55 pm
Is this why Thomson spent so much HSU funds on rooting random women in brothels?
.
2 Feb 13 at 8:56 pm
Quite right, Just a View.
Nothing mysterious in Roxon going. Her ghastly anti-discrimination legislation is dead in the water. And for less than 15 years as a pollie, her pension will be over $150K a year for life, starting this year, at age 46. Which does not count previous pensions, free travel, tax offset from age 60, hubby’s income etc. etc.
As she says herself, why work?
David Brewer
2 Feb 13 at 9:01 pm
Lazy thing, How can you collect a pension at 45?
isnt this short termism and hypocroitical when they legislate everyone else has to work to 67 or whatever.
Sack them all – there are too many incentives in the game for self interest.
Lazy cow. Sorry (not really) but thats what she is.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 9:05 pm
Look Dot
Thommo just got out of the police station and drove back to Sydney talking on his mobile mu;tiple times and running three red lights.
I mean seriously what normal decent person runs red lights with impunity?
You get the picture? The scumbag thinks the law doesnt apply to him because he is a pollie and maybe he is right. The system may be broken.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 9:10 pm
Honesty…in all honesty..I am.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 9:11 pm
Maurice Blackburn (Roxon) handled the AWU’s affairs after S&G got the flick, didn’t it? So, is she dodgy like Gillard or does she know something about Gillard? Would she grass if she did?
Lloyd
2 Feb 13 at 9:13 pm
She id dodgy like Gillarc is my guess and in politics for a;; the perks along the way. I think its endemic in Labor or its proving itself to be.
Husbands, wives, mates, cousins, brothers and sons etc
Keep it in da famiglia.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 9:19 pm
24% margin for her seat?
She’s been promised a fab job elsewhere so someone can be parachuted into a safe seat. But even then, 24% is not that safe these days.
Winston Smith
2 Feb 13 at 9:25 pm
BOAB IT SAID “Not only is she one of the government’s most articulate, appealing and able ministers”
Given the performance of this governments performance it’s easily one of the most backhanded compliments imaginable. It didn’t actually say that she was articulate, appealing and able, merely that she seems to be one of the taller pygmys.
Rob
2 Feb 13 at 9:37 pm
Thanks for that searing insight, Pedro. The ABC could have told us that.
blogstrop
2 Feb 13 at 9:37 pm
Winston – that is the reason I bet.
Aliice
2 Feb 13 at 9:40 pm
Winston, certainly not if Gillard packed the chute!
Rob
2 Feb 13 at 9:45 pm
Doesn’t want to get disqualified from sitting an lose her pension for misprision of a felony?
Econocrat
2 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
So what’s the guess on who gets dropped into Roxon’s seat?
Is it a lifeboat for one of the other members?
duncanm
2 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm
Blackburn is not just a suburb of Melbourne.
Show us your files,
Jeffrey
2 Feb 13 at 10:23 pm
I don’t believe roxson has a kid.
Not. Enough. Paper. Bags.
kae
2 Feb 13 at 10:24 pm
Morrie Enema?
After all, most stupid bloody Victorians would never have had the misfortune to have heard of him…
Rabz
2 Feb 13 at 10:24 pm
Lloyd nailed it at 9.13pm. She is in pension protection mode.
Lazlo
2 Feb 13 at 10:43 pm
Kids in high school don’t need mum making lunches and being home at 3:30 pm for them …
it’s all very curious.
candy
2 Feb 13 at 10:51 pm
LLoyd and Lazlo have it right.
Pension is % of salary – so retiring now as AG before someone knifes her means a bigger pot of gold.
duncanm
2 Feb 13 at 10:54 pm
This country has suffered through a plague of terrible politicians in its time. The majority that have represented us are vile disease ridden street walkers, but never before have we had to put up with someone as despicable and evil as this woman. This is a great day in our history and everyone that believes in and treasures liberty should be ecstatic.
This is a far more significant day than when that stupid old racist Gough was given his pink slip.
Infidel Tiger
2 Feb 13 at 10:54 pm
Actually.. scratch that last comment:
http://www.finance.gov.au/superannuation/parliamentary-superannuation/parliamentary-leaflet.html#benefits
“Additional pension in respect of service as a Minister or office holder accrues at the rate of 6.25% of the Ministerial or office holder salary for each year the office is held (pro-rated for the number of days if less than a full year), up to a maximum of 75% for the highest office held.
“
duncanm
2 Feb 13 at 10:55 pm
Roxon never planned to go in December 2012. Gillard touched her on the shoulder and told her to get out because of the ghastly job she has done with the discrimination laws. She has let the media run with the story about poor legislation and has done a poor job at trying to defend the bill, even if it is indefensible.
Andrew
2 Feb 13 at 11:13 pm
Lazlo is right and so are others here. Crocodile tears. Follow the money. Nannies don’t come – or in Roxie’s case go – cheaply.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
2 Feb 13 at 11:14 pm
Only just caught up with this bit of news now, but it is great to hear that Roxon is going.
Winston, Gellibrand is very safe for Labor. Any federal seat with a two-party preferred vote of 74% can be considered ultra safe. Although there have been some big swings in recent elections, the swings are usually higher at the state level than federally.
Monkey's Uncle
2 Feb 13 at 11:35 pm
Roxon now Roxoff?
Ubique
2 Feb 13 at 11:38 pm
Has the Vic Fraud Squad been talking to Roxon? She inherited the S&G AWU files when they were transferred to Maurice Blackburn. Is there some information which she was privy to which should have been reported to the police but wasn’t?
old bloke
3 Feb 13 at 2:50 am
Roxon’s choices:
1. Stand for re-election, Labor loses: she is on a backbencher’s salary of $191K.
2. Retire: she gets $152K, and doesn’t have to pay 11.5% into the pension scheme.
So she gets $110K to $115K net either way. Literally no point in working.
Consider also the sheer volume of her pension. A rich white Australian female, already 45 years old, can expect to live another 45 years or so. Over that period she will receive almost $7 million in pension in today’s money, or nearly half a million for each year she spent in parliament. Counting her salary, those 15 years of whining moralism will have cost the Aussie taxpayer about $800 000 each.
David Brewer
3 Feb 13 at 4:10 am
No crying in
baseballpolitics!And that goes for “Teary” Julia Gillard and Kevin “Blubbing” Rudd as well.
Sheesh.
sdog
3 Feb 13 at 4:15 am
My line was the same as Old Bloke. Roxon must have some direct knowledge of the AWU-WRA and Gillard’s role. Will she turn on TLS or will she do a runner?
I’m guessing she intends to scoot off somewhere safe until it all blows over and has figured that since Labor is unlikely to win the next election and since she can’t gag public comment that she may as well get a head start.
Lloyd
3 Feb 13 at 5:11 am
Why do people assume that the Gillard Wilson matter was the only dodgy deal Roxon could’ve done as she knifed and clawed her way to a seat in parliament?
That said, the most likely answer is Gillard wont make it o the election and Roxon is getting out of the way so she won’t have blood on her hands when her former lover dispatches the Red Yabbi.
Token
3 Feb 13 at 6:28 am
It is exceedingly odd how A.L.P. and “Emily’s List” members will shed copious crocodile tears over their darling, beloved little kiddies just before they jump overboard from the sinking ship “SS A.L.P”, but have no such qualms about having a child or three despatched down the local abortion abattoir, when it suits them to do so.
Does McTernan coach all his performing seals to “blub on demand” for the cameras?
Up The Workers!
3 Feb 13 at 6:32 am
So Ricola Noxious wants to “retire” at 45 and live like a Queen out of the pockets of taxpayers for the rest of her days on a monstrously overpaid Parliamentary pension?
I just hope that when the Liberals are back in office, they appoint Wayne Swan to PERSONALLY look after the A.L.P./Greens Parliamentary pensions and Superannuation.
The pension fund and super scheme would both be bankrupt inside 6 months.
Up The Workers!
3 Feb 13 at 6:42 am
Apologies in advance for the long post.
Yup, my thoughts too. The family excuse is no excuse given her behaviour over the last twelve months leading up to this ‘announcement’. The scrapping of the most odious part of her proposed legislation wouldn’t break her either.
My reasoning is that the heavy hand of the Victorian constabulary is about to descend on several persons of interest in regards to the AWU-WRA matter, and those involved who have amassed wealth, or would like to keep their ongoing wealth, are devising schemes to protect themselves. It also has been pointed out that Roxon as a backbencher cannot be directly questioned by the Opposition in Question Time, so what she allegedly did, or did not do in regards to covering up criminal acts during her time at MB and after, and perhaps helping make certain files disappear etc, she cannot be quizzed about publically in Parliament (privately by the constabulary is another matter).
Roxon is a perfect example of the saying ‘Rooster one day, featherduster the next’ and the emotion she displayed yesterday was I believe, primarily driven by fear.
As for Gillard, what is going through her mind is unknowable, she certainly doesn’t seem to show true emotion (a sociopathic or narcissistic trait perhaps). However, it is clear to me after spending months reading all the documentation on MSN, that Gillard IS a person of interest to the police, and that one day she will have to account for, and bear the consequences of those choices she made back in the early 1990′s. She may not face those consequences whilst she is PM (the Office of PM may be considered to be too important to be thrown into disrepute by police action). However the moment she is no longer PM, is the moment that she will be truly vulnerable. This, in my opinion, is the real reason for her clinging onto power in such an unedifying way. Yes she craves power, but she also fears the consequences of her actions, and is doing everything in her power to delay or prevent them from coming down upon her head.
If you look at everything she has done, all the recent irrational decisions, through a prism of fear, then in my opinion, it all makes sense.
A Lurker
3 Feb 13 at 6:56 am
Interesting analysis, lurker.
Rabz
3 Feb 13 at 7:04 am
She will lose her pension and gold card if she stays and is then caught up in the AWU fraud through misprision. Maybe the pension is more important to her.
Bazza
3 Feb 13 at 7:06 am
Red Ted maybe as weak as water, but there is no love for the Commonwealth in the Victorian government. Red has recently been running the line that the greatest threat to Victoria is Canberra. I’m pretty sure that he and his Police Minister, the National Party leader Peter Ryan, will provide the Vic Police with all the political cover they need if the Vic Police believe they have the evidance to charge the Dishonourable scumbag.
johno
3 Feb 13 at 7:40 am
A Lurker, I think you have it, I didn’t think of Question Time, it definitely could be a defense to the Coalition roping them all in to show widespread corruption.
Honesty
3 Feb 13 at 7:41 am
I didn’t come up with it. As my name suggests, I ‘lurk’ and read many blogs and opinion sites, occasionally contributing to them. However from reading the morass of comments and opinion, you do get a feel for what the truth may be.
Fear drives the Gillard Government at the moment, fear also drives irrational, spur-of-the-moment decision making and outright lies and spin. I think Roxon would have preferred to have departed politics now, putting as much space between her and the potential public fallout and embarassment of the AWU-WRA debacle as possible. However, my opinion is Gillard leant on her to remain in Parliament, because Gillard is trying to avoid by-elections. So the most protected position from quizzing by the Opposition is as a backbencher.
The years of the cover-up are drawing to a rapid close. Now is the time of trying to limit damage and protect your own hide. It will be interesting to see which hides ‘get tossed to the lions’ in order to protect more important ones (cough…’Big Bill’…cough).
A Lurker
3 Feb 13 at 8:14 am
I feel much better this morning Barry Cassidy said the Goverment is not in chaos and Albosleasy said Craig Thompson has not had anything proven against him but Mal Brough has and it’s a bigger problem for Abbott. Barry didn’t need to do any follow up questions as everything that needed to be covered was. Ignore Taylor thought things were going smoothly. David Marred got a few facts and dates wrong but that didn’t matter. They didn’t mention Broadcasting Act requiring equal time as an issue I guess it’s not important.
Honesty
3 Feb 13 at 10:46 am
It also seems that racist,sexist and misogynist remarks have been given the green light at least when indulged in by members of the Socialist Aristocracy.Len,Barrie and the Dancing Queen seem to think so anyway and Brown Nose Cartoonists appear to support the view as does Mr.Kate Ellis in his piece in the Sunday Telegraph.
Lew
3 Feb 13 at 10:57 am
I hadn’t thought of the QT angle either. But yes fear is driving these people. Shedding tears at resignation does not make sense otherwise.
Lloyd
3 Feb 13 at 12:22 pm
Ok the goss on MSN is that AWU police interviews have been wide spread and are spooking key players like Kelty, who owes payback for Roxon appointment. They are distancing all the AWU slush fund connections which includes Roxon. I am not sure where this leaves The Pieman but even if it’s half true they will all need to be standing a long way back from the fan!
Honesty
3 Feb 13 at 1:15 pm