It is a good day, I think, to begin some joining of the dots.
Rupert Murdoch, a man said this morning by a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry to be morally unfit to run an international media corporation, has been commissioning and concealing Newspolls that show a new party, the Katter Australian Party, doing as well as the Nationals and not even acknowledging its numerical existence, to the best of my belief. He is also behind, or involved in a plan to bring down Peter Slipper, as he brought down Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who would else today be President of France (to the best of my belief) with what may soon prove to be fabricated evidence of sexual harassment of one adult practising homosexual by another.
In this plan there SEEMS to be one Christopher Pyne, long thought to be ‘mincing’ and effeminate by about eight million of his adversaries, who spent some time over drinks with Ashby before he lodged his civil, not criminal, claim against Slipper for a suggestive text message or two and an open bathroom door. He did not speak to this homosexual about this aspect of his homosexual flat-mate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, at any time in that conversation, he said, why would he? As Master of Opposition Business in that House, and one who was frequently thrown out of it by Slipper, why would he?
It is thought by Murdoch, and Murdoch’s people, that these text-messages and a reported conversation or two are reason enough for a government to resign; and to call an election, moreover, in which it would be annihilated; and he said so in a public statement a day ago. Call an election, he said. It’s what the Australian people want.
Keep joining the dots; and pray keep in mind that this is a man alleged by the Mother of Parliaments to be ‘unfit to run an international organisation’ and therefore liable, under Delaware law, for immediate imprisonment for at least a decade without appeal for being head of an entity that corrupts, or seeks to corrupt, foreign officials.
Like, say, Scotland Yard.
And we are to believe, he says, that the Prime Minister, not he, must resign from office because of the ‘stench of immorality’ and chaos hanging like a thundercloud over her government while he, with two thousand lawsuits pending against his international entity, should stay in place. Ten text messages outweigh two thousand lawsuits, every time.
What then should the Gillard Government do? Well, it might ask Tony Abbott when last he spoke to Rupert Murdoch, and what they spoke of, what undertakings, spoken or signalled or hinted, were colluded or nudged or winked between them; and what Abbott then said to Pyne. And then ask Pyne what he said to Ashby. And then ask Ashby what he said to Pyne.
They are all reasonable questions when the dots are joined and the consequent line goes back inch by inch to a man unfit to head a media megacorporation because of his previous nod-and-wink arrangements with powerful governments – Whitlam’s, Fraser’s, Thatcher’s, Nixon’s, Blair’s, Howard’s, Bush’s, Rudd’s — and his people’s hacking and bugging of thousands of celebrities and crime victims. They should find out if a corrupt arrangement now exists between Murdoch and the Liberal Party and, in Queensland, the LNP, and if the relevant parties should be brought go trial.
They might also ask the ABC to divest itself of its partnership, in ABC Books, with the Murdoch company Harper Collins; or suspend it until it is known how corrupt that arrangement in the past it has been: whether, for instance, the rejection of the Alan Jones book Jonestown by Chris Masters had anything to do with a Murdoch intervention; it was, after all a puzzling thing to do, was it not, to commission a book and then, without stated reason, reject it?
There will be days and days and days like this.
Discuss.
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I don’t necessarily support your theory that Murdoch and/or the top echelon of the Liberal Party are engaged in a conspiracy here but I have, from the start of the Slipper affair, had the feeling that it is all a stitch up. It all seems too convenient and well timed.
That said, Julia Gillard has not managed this or the Thompson thing well.
oh, always the “they didn’t handle it well” line . . . like Gough didn’t handle the Senate well, or the G-G well, etc etc; what mealey-mouthed drivel, which hides important truths in clouds of faintly-true waffle
OK, Tell me what should have been done? Sack everyone at the first whiff of scandal? Wrong, they are entitled to loyalty and the presumption of innocence.
Back them to the end, until a court brings down a verdict – or even until the last appeal is rejected? Wrong, there is too much scandal, where there is smoke there is fire etc.
Then when DO you step in, and achieve : “Gee, She handled that well!”
A chorus from the media?!?
Where she did not handle it well is that, in respect of both Thompson and Slipper, she changed her mind without giving an explanation other than line in the sand and black cloud. What changed?
As for Gough, what he did not handle well was his response to Kerr’s action. Instead of going home and having a steak, it would have been better if he had planned a strategy that might have prevented Fraser getting supply. This would have totally stuffed Fraser and Kerr.
I have often pondered what Gough might have done instead of accepting Kerr’s letter of dismissal.
What would the upshot be of tearing it up and laughing in Kerr’s face? Would we have had genuine civil war, or merely the recent situation in Papua-New Guinea?
Whatever, Gough accepted the constitutional position and allowed the democratic process to play out. More fool him, or did he do the honourable thing?
As for Gillard, does she need to explain every move to the public; did it demand an address to the nation, no doubt with equal time to Mister Rabbit?
By the way, when Abbott stands up and gives a budget speech in reply and instead starts on the usual speech, the same one he has given for the last 100 appearances, the government should move “that he be no longer heard”. Irrelevancy. And bring on a censure motion, right then and there.
What do you think of that, Ellis – mention it to Albanese.
Labor should not have put the Supply bills to the Senate, which they did shortly after the dismissal. This allowed Fraser to pass them and to honour the condition on which he was given government by Kerr. The conspirators would have been snookered. Not putting the Bills to the Senate would have been constitutionally proper.
Had Whitlam refused to accept the dismissal then yes, who knows what would have happened? Emotions were running hot that day. Ask Bob; he was there.
At the heart of these allegations is an unacknowledged fact that a significant proportion of men in public office since before Pericles was a boy (I would hazzard a guess at somewhere around 30% or possibly higher), have observed the social rituals of courtship with females, marriage, fatherhood, and all that comes with these things, while maintaining a lifelong, behind-the-scenes active interest in homosexual liaisons, either in the workplace, or outside of it. One hears of far too many examples second hand of how the Member for Upper Bunyip or Senator Fartpants was spotted in flagrante delicto, or perhaps just keenly angling for something through a twitching eyebrow or verbal invitation, at some male bathhouse, public swimming pool, or other meeting place for it not to have some basis in fact.
As you’ve correctly identified Bob, the sheer hypocrisy of someone like the Manager of Opposition Business possibly being involved in facilitating a smear of a Parliamentary colleague based on this millenia-long gentlemens’ understanding, is breathtaking, and if the Murdoch machine is also involved, that makes two hypocrites.
The media machine are still claiming Craig Thomson is being investigated by the police when the report clearly shows he is not.
They further claim now that it is possible to “”hidë”, “not fill in properly” and “rort” small cab charge claims.
As the MP never gets the money and only the cabbie does how the fuck can any MP do that?
AS the claims are all paid up and the cabbies are not complaining about unpaid bills what can the police possibly investigate.
The ABC are no better.
They are still claiming that Thomson is being investigated over the minor HSU office he has never been part of and a union he has had nothing to do with for 5 years.
If the ABC want to get all self-righteous and write the stories up as if Thomson is lying they ought to read the Temby report and the interim Fair work report which don’t name him at all and could find no criminal charges to be laid.
But nudge, nudge, if the Murdoch rags the ABC rely on for their stories are saying something it must be true.
for the ignorant – I used to work for a senator.
All cab vouchers have to be filled in partly by the member and partly by the cabbie as a double check that the amounts are correct.
They are filed with the offices of the special minister of state for checking and payment TO THE DRIVER, NOT THE MP.
As they have an allowance of $19,500 if they choose not to have a tax payer funded car they don’t need to rort anything at all.
Once they go over,they are warned and have to pay back any excess.
The way our media carry on though Slipper is a great heat seeking pedophile poofter missile who steals from poor and honest cabbies and us and the small branch of the HSU is being run by Al Capone – and all based on the word of one nut case woman who pretends to be so holy while accepting a $275,000 per year pay check, a volvo, child care and loans of $58,000 to ex-hubby.
Now a real scandal is that not one public servant, MP or AWB staff was ever charged with stealing $300 million from starving men, women and children and giving it to
Saddam Hussein – but that was OK because most of the moron Murdoch media agreed “that’s how you do business”.
Fair dinkum, it”s the mindless leading the moronic.
As for Chrissy Pyne, I know his brother very well indeed and Chrissy ought to be very quiet indeed because lots of others know his secrets and might just decide finally to spill them.
This appeared in the Age letters recently and deserves republication :
“WHEN John Howard was prime minister, he haemorrhaged seven ministers in his first term alone with scandal after scandal. He had to rip up his promised ministerial code of conduct because he couldn’t afford to lose any more. He also reneged on almost all his election pledges (remember his ‘non-core promises’?); he took us into one dubious war and one illegal one; he lied about asylum seekers throwing their children overboard to win an election; the list goes on. And yet the media didn’t call for an election and nor did the opposition. The media instead judged him on the health of the economy.
Julia Gillard’s government has had fewer ministerial scandals than any in living memory. Craig Thomson allegedly misused a union credit card before he was even in Parliament, and Peter Slipper isn’t even an ALP member. Neither has been charged with anything. But still there are almost daily calls for an election from the Opposition Leader and a certain 70 per cent of the press.
Australia survived the global financial crisis better than any other country, and the IMF recently named our economy the best in the world. And yet, unlike under Mr Howard, these statistics are hardly mentioned. All we seem to read about is the incompetence of the government, constant opinion polls and calls for an early election”.
It’s very good. Did you write it?
No; but I would have proudly claimed it. I’ll try to find out.
I requoted it from Hypocritophobe on noplaceforsheep but he doesn’t know either, other than “Thanks to Billy Clyde Puckett for this GEM” but that was a dead end.
From my position I only see a communized 20-30% of stolen people power running this country.
I see this power mostly held under Liberal right auspice that runs into institutions and the major trades up to intelligence levels and able to manipulate people’s power across party divides.
The evidence is widespread and profound.
Labour has run the course of completing the set up and course those powers put in place from prior to the boom known to some. Strong evidence in matters of real estate and the privatising. Much of it as well as good, also a pit left to have to climb out of for Labour.
From what I’ve seen in Qld, our 70% media ownership has a lot of play and say in politics. Too much in many areas and is a consortium of self interests running the state with no shortage of lackey’s,crawlers and shirt tail holders.
The Liberal right is an oligarch always pulling to state owned by the rich and ruthless. The lower classes of the greater mass are scum and a resource to plunder.
With the advent of the net away from the monopoly of media ownership holding the peoples psyche as rightful property, these matters are showing up like a sore tooth and a too often deadly joke on all.
In these years away from being buried alive by the Libs pet self fulfilling programs and oligarch and institution courses set and always insidiously applied to management,in this case prior to the boom, Labours head and the little people’s, starts to appear out of the pit and the Liberal right froths at the mouth.
If i could place a point to that post ,I would say to the blindly Liberal barrackers to have a good look at the situation and who and what is actually coursing this country.
How more important is the fact that one gay may have turned to a sympathetic ear over drinks of a purported situation, and perhaps both and the situation raising opportunism,than matters of housing and health and newstart and pensioning? And other matters of foundations.
Murdochracies win in QLD has given the club of Rome and faithful a vigour for vigilant assault.
The cruelty of Newstart and matters of health reaping millions for the health and legal institutions through courts and despair, housing and assoc overcrowded and underfunded situations forcing domestic violence, drugs and alcohol and bill stress and nervous breakdowns.
Down to the finest grain and minor percentages of the monetary cent the foundations of society and community life and safety, the last cent is counted and administered for oligarch gain and class high brow and vicious snobbery that has a ragtrade of worshippers for various reasons.
Why isn’t this scrutiny and convenient application of traits and psychology of humans applied to the top end with the same vigour? Of overstuffing, overpayment, bludging, powers stolen from the people and masses, comforts ,standing and prestiges dangerously stolen from the masses that come back to bite as tyranny and imbalance making life perilous for all?
The major forces want to embed their comforts in our management systems, a self benefitting ecosystem and to their standard of abuses and “just desserts”.
Endlessly matters of labour and traditional grounds are in turmoil at all our detriment because that top 30% of stolen people power will not set foundations to benefit all.
Sociopathic. They endlessly, year after year,decade after decade, live in stolen comforts heavily since the industrial revolution.
it is plain and simple overindulgence always hidden in economics,media voodoo hoodoo and perilous world situation exactly as this current mass crisis of Slipper etc.