After Abbott had another dumb, dumb, hectic day that went viral across the world and had to apologise for it, or sort of apologize for it, for his having accused the Prime Minister of childlessness and ignorance and fear of nappies, his friends O’Farrell and Baillieu conspired to shift the public gaze away from him. They had police arrive in Bateau Bay and ask Craig Thomson, now thought innocent of everything, if he had incriminating papers in his house or office he hadn’t burned or shredded and would he now unveil them please. Kate McClymont, who distressed and abashed my family once with a needless noisome targeted smear, was coincidentally there and so was Ray Hadley, on holiday adjacently but soon agog and huffing and puffing on the street outside.
Thus it is, and so it goes, that the television headlines tonight will not be about Abbott’s latest cock-up going viral and incensing western womanhood and making him unelectable, but about some cops once again smearing someone Abbott thinks even viler than himself, and a worse rat with women than even he, who left his pregnant fiancee at the altar and became a priest.
What a coincidence.
Discuss.
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Who tipped off the media? Lets have a judicial inquiry into that. Amazing that so many journalists arrived at the same time as police, and were even taking photos of Craig and his wife while they were inside the house answering questions. Pretty disgusting behaviour on the part of the media.
Just how did the nefarious conspirators make off with Craig’s wallet, phone and penis, far down the F3 to the brothel in Sydney, then return them all without him noticing?
Spooky.
He has admitted to approving the brothel expenses on his HSU-issued credit card for payment by the HSU.
As Craig claims correctly, the NSW Police have concluded that there was indeed NO credit card fraud. Which means the card was indeed used at the brothel by the Cardholder, the honourable Craig Thomson MP.
Oh and before you cast aspersions on Tony Abbott, who never planned to marry his pregnant (to somebody else it turns out) girlfriend… do you pay any form of child support (or a lump sum) for your daughter to Alexandra Long?
Abbott really has the luvvies deranged considering he’s supposedly finished, sunk, finally lost it, etc etc.
But the ALP/Union mafia gets the last laugh… knowing PM Abbott will work his hardest to fix their disasters.
Yes I pay for Juliet Long. Her mother hasn’t let me see her for thirteen years, I’m not sure why. But it may be she isn’t my child at all, the timing makes no sense, and the alleged prematurity of the birth, and the DNA test may have been fiddled with.
Thank you for asking.
I don’t think Tony Abbott paid a cent towards the birth, adoption and upbringing of Kathy’s child for the twenty five years he thought the child was his. Less honourable than me on any count.
What was your point again?
Well done, Bob – glad to hear that you aren’t a deadbeat dad.
Was the “bride” actually waiting at the altar? Or did you forget to enclose that bit in quotation marks?
Tony Abbott became a priest you say? Next you’ll be calling him a kiddy-fiddler.
Poetic licence, I think they call it.
Didn’t say bride. Did say
fiancee.
Too true Lozza.
It’s amazing how the media roll up.
It sounds like an inside job, Vic police in particular have form.
wHAt R u On abOut?!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/vic-police-angered-by-media-at-raid/story-fn3dxiwe-1226502579071
Well, golly.
Maybe it’s those media tart rozzers in NSW.
Ah, but Abbott isn’t sexist or misogynist : after all his mother is a woman, he married a woman and his daughters are women. See, that proves it!
Only those whose mothers are men, whose wives are men (!) and whose daughters are also men can ever be sexist or misogynist.
And apparently he has never beaten any of the aforesaid women, except perhaps at Snap!
So you see Bob you are barking up the wrong tree.
How do Ellis Conspiracy Theories work? Exactly?
For this one: two state guys realise, together, their national colleague is in trouble (again) but now with international headlines and opprobrium, so they contact the police and suddenly arrange a raid on someone innocent so that that night’s headlines don’t show what will show up again in a few days. Man, that’s some palwork going on. And – how good is this – all within three hours!
I love these Ellis Conspiracy Theories so far!
Number 43 or thereabouts is going to be something, that’s for sure.
But without having fun, why would anyone conspire to keep a jumped shark, internationally defunct, down spiralling, daily dill, totally intemperate Goose for a leader, unelectable? Wouldn’t they want to swap quicksmart? Simply, why protect him? That would be doing Labor a grand service, wouldn’t it?
That’s how it goes in politics in Australia Bob, you should know that. It’s like that small fish being gobbled up by a larger fish and then it goes into a yet larger fish and so on.
While Julia Gillard is quite capable of stuffing things up on cue as she has shown for some years now, this was good to watch (in a way).
Create a faux-sexism/woman problem as the new meme to the stale one of ‘Abbott as Dr No’. Handbag Hit Squad stooges compliant to the Scottish MAN running the show do what they are told to do whenever they are told to do it.
Fightback of sorts and out comes Margie and the girls. Can’t have that. The Scottish man prepares a Hollywood script about four weak, (very weak) quotes dating as far back as 14 years before. Test it and ready to go. Albanese gives it a test run at lunchtime and Gillard prepares to read from it with as much outrage as she can muster. Hey, there is a motion to sack him and Slimebag Slipper has to be defended at all costs and the Hollywood script has to do. Usual suspects, the ‘strong’ women who, as Brendan O’Neil states perfectly, take offence now instead of giving it, shriek it all over the friendly media without any context as to Slimebag Slipper who it was meant to defend. Good heavy blow with the tame media lapping it up. Could the Scottish Man actually be onto a winner for a change? Usual failures and missteps (Scotland, Gordon Brown, Australia Day Riot) to be as forgotten as the Gillard reduction in single parent benefits gets slipped into view? Certainly seemed like it for a while,
But this terrible government has to still govern – terribly( natch). So cuts to super, health rebate, business and all that had to be announced to bolster up the financial failures and pretend to fix the budget for a few months. Starts to get some biteback. What to do, it is gobbling up the faux sexism rap. Well why not get into the joke about comments of Abbott about this ignorant ALP laughably claiming that parents don’t ever need a second cot and revive the faux sexism claim? And so it was to be. The Scottish Man and his stooges read the Liberal Party well. If they didn’t have the gumption to call this out for the fake meme it was weeks ago why would they do so now? And so it was.
Now you might think that my opinion of the competence of the Liberal party is low already but even the most faithful members of that party wouldn’t see them even thinking of trying to influence the Fraud squads of Victoria and NSW. I don’t know about Victoria, but the NSW fraud squad is so incompetent and lazy that they could have had Thomson in the dock six months ago. In any case, with Thomson in the news it seems that the bigger fish has sum into view again and is taking another bite at Thomson.
Rest easily Bob. The Thomson predator will go away again and lazily come into view some months from now. Your friends can crank up the faux sexism again.
Can you say what crime Thomson is guilty of?
What is it, exactly?
Stupidity for a start. absence of integrity as well . Real vote winners when one supports him like Julia. If he doesn’t go to jail and it vindicates your support who gives a rats it is still a disaster for labor and the union movement is suffering big yime over this. I suppose the former head of the Labor party{Williamson} is innocent too Bob
Stupidity is not a crime. Once again you have shown yourself unworthy of publication, and you are banned, once again, for life.
Being caught with his pants down, whoring away HSU membership fees.
He has admitted authorising payment of brothel charges on his HSU credit card.
He will sue you for that.
What are your details? Who is your lawyer?
Meanwhile in Victoria, a Liberal member, Geoff Shaw has been alleged to have breached parliamentary rules by allowing his taxpayer-funded car to be used for his own commercial purposes, as well as using taxpayer-funded fuel to run for his business.
The Ombudsman’s investigation found that not only had Mr Shaw used his own vehicle for commercial purposes, but that he had also given it to employees for business trips, including interstate travel.
No dawn police raid here; no media scrum on the nature strip; his vote is still counted in the House; the Premier won’t comment because investigations are afoot, and the innocent till guilty principle applies.
Oh, I forgot – the Liberal Nationals coalition has 45 seats and Labor has 43 seats; the deputy premier was involved in hounding the former police chief out of office and is in charge of his replacement; the Baillieu government’s highest priority is to get Tony Abbott into the lodge.
Yes!
Bob – it’s worse than you think.
Have you seen the news at lunchtime? Mick Potter was named Wests Tigers coach! Obviously the ARL was contacted by Murdoch and told to name their coach so as to distract coverage that Abbott may have fathered Nicole Kidman’s adopted Ethiopian child.
But wait Bob, there’s more. Lance Armstrong. He’s no dope fiend – this is a conspiracy hatched at the highest levels to detract from the Midyear economic forecast.
Yes indeed, the ICU, in cahoots with Murdoch, have made up a smear campaign against Lance so that the voters will be distracted from changes to the Baby Bonus.
And did you see when Romney mentioned military funding in the debate, he smiled at the camera? That was code for Murdoch to get the ABC to air that expose of Tinkler so the Newcastle Jets won’t win this weekend.
I’m writing this from under my bed, where they can’t find me…
Pleb, are you wearing a tin foil hat? Smart move.
Bob, why do you have to go on about conspiracy theories?
You must realize by now that Tony Abbott will be the next prime minister of Australia.
It will happen. No conspiracy needed.
Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono knows this fact as do other governments in their briefings. Thats why Yudhoyono went out of his way to personally greet Tony Abbott recently. He won’t meet Gillard and any of her government ministers in person – ever – after the live cattle debacle. Who can blame them?
That’s how the Indonesians send a strong message to the government. Gillard and the media are too dull and fixated on Abbott to fully understand or comprehend the implications.
The coalition is looking more like the defacto government and the Gillard Labor government by their shrewish strident behaviour, more like a third rate opposition that know they are on the way out.
Bob, may I offer my congratulations. You are attracting a higher level of quality comments here.
“He won’t meet Gillard and any of her government ministers in person – ever – after the live cattle debacle. Who can blame them?”
Does 3 months ago count as ever, Frank?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/indonesian-jets-in-australian-war-games-20120717-228f3.html
Nick, he was here in Australia and had to shake her flamin’ hand. He refused to answer questions at a press conference later and won’t personally meet Gillard or her ministers in his own country. They are forced to deal with junior ministers only. That was my original point.
@nick
thanks – well spotted! people just say the darndest things hoping to get away with it.
Sin binned I think for too many links. Let’s try a rewrite.
Nov 2011 in Bali and Jul 2012 Darwin were the last two official meetings. The PM wasn’t forced to speak with junior ministers on either of those occasions. The idea is a bit absurd, btw.
They also met and spoke with one another Jun 2012 in Los Cabos, and Sep 2012 in New York.
http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/transcript-press-conference-los-cabos
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/364258/lukewarm-libs-may-hurt-un-bid/?cs=8
“At the same time, Mr Abbott berated Ms Gillard for going to New York this week and ‘swanning around with Africans’, saying she should have gone to Jakarta instead to talk about boat people with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.”
That thing Abbott didn’t bring up himself in Jakarta.
When did Yudhoyono refuse to answer questions at a press conference, or give any indication he wouldn’t meet Gillard in Indonesia?
Here’s hoping Thompson sues Abbott personally when all this is finished.
After Thomson does time for allegedly receiving a secret commission from production of the union magazine by John Gilleland at reportedly 10 times the normal production cost:
“when he was HSU NSW assistant general secretary, took secret commissions in the form of American Express credit cards on the account of graphic designer John Gilleland, who had a long-running lucrative contract with the union”
Look up Strikeforce Carnarvon.
Thomson, the idiot who got caught, will likely find Jimmy Hoffa – if you know what I mean. *wink*
and John Howard? The war criminal? Bush, Blair?
What of Kathy Jackson, dining with Peter Reith, the proven propagandist that would have you believe a human being is capable of throwing their own progeny into the sea to save their own skins? PR the union-smasher? The head-kicker?
Gillard will remain the PM for a number of years to come. Get used to it. Abbott is finished.
George Brandis sleeps naked in a bath of olive oil. Abetz sleeps standing, in a broom cupboard. O’Dwyer, with headphones and tapes of her own voice, speaking words. Pyne snivels and smirks all night long. Hockey sleep-eats a box of paddlepops a night and has grown used to his morning multicoloured poos. Why can’t you? Prove that I lie.
Yes, William – and this boat just magically exploded, all of it’s own accord:
SIEV 36
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SIEV 36 (Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel 36) was a vessel from Indonesia that exploded and sank off Ashmore Reef, Australia on 16 April 2009. The vessel, carrying 47 refugees and two crew, was intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy patrol boat HMAS Albany early on 15 April. A boarding party secured the vessel, but failed to locate two canisters of petrol. Although it was intended to take the crew and passengers to Christmas Island for processing, a notice informing the crew that their vessel may be returned to Indonesia was presented, and the passengers were kept in the dark about their destination. While waiting for transportation to arrive, Albany and SIEV 36 sailed in a holding pattern, with the Indonesian boat taken in tow overnight. A second patrol boat, HMAS Childers, arrived that evening, and was directed to provide a boarding party and take care of the vessel starting at 06:00 on 16 April.
Childers’ boarding party arrived aboard SIEV 36 at 06:15. Shortly after, the passengers found the notice, and, assuming that they would be sent back to Indonesia, became agitated. Salt was poured into the boat’s diesel engine, stalling it, and one of the petrol canisters was spread on the deck. Reinforcements were sent from Childers to restore control, and boarded shortly before the petrol was ignited; the resulting explosion tore the boat apart. RHIBs from the two patrol boats focused on recovering the nine Australian Defence Force personnel first, then began recovering others. Five passengers were killed, and many of the survivors were heavily burned; the two patrol boats sailed to the tanker Front Puffin, from where the wounded were heli-lifted to hospitals ashore.
An investigation by the Northern Territory Police concluded in October 2009, finding that one or more of the refugees had spread and ignited the petrol, but charges could not be laid as there was no enough evidence to identify the individuals responsible. A separate investigation by the Northern Territory Coroner criticised the RAN for not finding the petrol canisters, failing to confiscate ignition sources, and the lack of information provided about the refugee’s destination, although praised the actions of several Australian personnel in the aftermath of the explosion. The coroner found the crew as the cause of the sabotaged engine and the passengers as starting the fire, but was unable to identify individuals because of collusion by those involved to hide the information from the inquiry. Commendations were issued to all military personnel involved in the incident. One refugee was charged with obstructing the actions of two sailors trying to confiscate a lighter from him shortly before the explosion, and the two Indonesian crew were imprisoned for five years on people-smuggling charges.
Oh and HSU members thank you for your concern, because you care so much about the working folk, and their hard-earned union dues.
The HSU should thank Kathy Jackson am I right?
and you want Peta for PM?
It fits well with Liberal spin that people do not need unions for representation, but they do and always will. Bring on the election, you bastards and remember the wind blows both ways.
I’ve been a Union member, willingly once, unwillingly once.
Also a employee, employer, unemployed, bankrupt, contractor, and a sole trader.
I have never said that Unions shouldn’t exist – they just need a heck of a lot of transparency, then crap like this won’t happen.
Hey dudmeister. If you don’t keep your fingers under control on this ere blog, you just may go bankrupt again.
There will be many people hoping Thomson will disappear, it is going to cost them a motza.
This is more political than the Whitlam saga.
The cops have been told to nail Thomson because the pay outs from big mouths in the Liberal party to Thomson, will reach telephone numbers.
If anything the Police are on a massive go-slow. Just like the FWA “investigation”. Glacial.
Thomson will wind up like Norm Gallgher – getting a stripy suntan, and more than a few HSU members will cheer.
At least we can agree the cops are told what to do by their masters.
Thomson with a striped sun tan that’s fucking funny. You win.
And so they should cheer till the cows come home and beyond
Crap like this will always happen. The consequences of the case in point are relatively minimal.
If though, Qantas, or Telstra were to be run into the ground that is, after all jobs have been sent offshore, the consequences would be far greater and the crimes unnamed and undefined. The cost is always socialised and the perpetrators set for how many lifetimes?
We can have a go though at criminalising desperate refugees surrounded by military elites, and omit the whole, ‘yeah let them sink first it will be good for the cameras’ bit, and overlook the fact we put our name willingly to a conflict that caused the feckin influx of boat people to begin with. Furthermore Monty, we have these new damfangled contraptions called fecking passenger jets these days. Amazing. Perhaps you have seen one in action? Grounding Australia’s flagship airline unannounced though, this is not terrorism. Not for you, me, Qantas workers, union members; It’s just cricket. It’s just a fecking ferry and back, safe as a house. Not a risk to be seen, heard or smelt.
Tax the absurdly wealthy? Don’t be daft.
We just keep fighting their absurd battles, losing them and sticking to the same obscenely slanted geography like we have a hope pushing this unholy shit uphill. The hills begin to rumble in this here non-spring; Fight on your own terms. Hit and run. Radio silence. November is nearly upon us, much like the election where the bastards will no doubt, and in prime-time, suffer in their jocks. Language is ours, botches!
Thomson is charged with 37 alleged breaches. The maximum fine for each breach is only a paltry $6,600. It was designed by Bill Shorten who didn’t want to make it too tough on his union mates if caught with their hands in the till.
So lets hope Thomson is good for $244,200 in fines if found guilty or Labor is prepared to toss the hat around for him. Given that company directors are up for a seven year prison sentence and fines totally up to $290,000 for each breach, Thomson gets away with it relatively easy in my view.
@ frank
“Thomson is charged with 37 alleged breaches.”??
When?
By whom?
When are the charges going to be heard?
“Ageing student politicians mouthing off” about Thomson – well said Chris McArdle.
Why WOULDNT anyone suspect conspiracies at the moment??
Remember Godwin Grech and Malcolm Turnbull in the Utegate scandal?
Remember the anonymous former prostitute on A Current Affair bombshell? – yes he fucked me, no he didn’t, o shit i can’t remember
Remember James Ashby and Christopher Pyne and Mal Brough in the Slipper affair?
And now, a convoy of police conducting a dawn raid, as if they are after an armed robber – taserTaserTASER!! get that receipt out of your mouth”
Craig Thompson’s lawyer is right to tell Tony Abbott to shut the fuck up. It is not the prerogative of any politician to weigh in on civil or criminal matters. There are several MPs involved in legal matters, including Sophie Mirabella; is anyone conducting a public trial on her?
I really hope Abbott does get sued for libel/slander – he had no compunction in suing Bob Ellis.
According to the PM, she asked Craig Thomson to stand down from the ALP. Finally.
Abbott can’t control himself, with his childish thinly veiled sexist jibes. Only dumb luck will see he of the budgie-pecked nether regions become PM.
Must blame Abbott… somehow
There are several villages looking for their idiots. Sign up below please for repatriation : shad dudemeister and noel/phil .
D Q I was born into this world an idiot, what’s your excuse?
Worst come back in human history Phil. Noel.
Oh I don’t know, it always works for me.
If DQ was say a Christopher Hitchens, I would have mada an effort.
I mean take your good self, you wouldn’t know I was up you until I pulled out and a wind blew up your arse.
Out of ten please.
What would happen if everything you thought was true, was true?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRwCJdkjcrw&feature=share&list=UUGThM-ZZBba1Zl9rU-XeR-A
Tom Watson, could he be right again? Could someone have shot Jimmy Saville in the head and have been considered a hero?
The Taliban are threatening another teenage girl in Pakistan.
If Mitt Romney has “simian intelligence” should the left wing not be lobbying outright for his election to the Presidency of the U.S. in order to quicken its demise as a nation? It seems a small sacrifice to let an orator disappear for such a hefty prize.
The BBC is being destroyed by the Saville allegations, and perhaps that may be the price Rupert Murdoch demands for the demise of NOW and his reputation, Conrad Black believes Murdoch to be a psychopath. The BBC huh, who would have thunk it? Edward Heath and under age boys according to Edwina Currie.
France wants to deploy drones into Mali, the U.S. will help, the Germans are considering providing materiel and training for Mali defence forces. Europe’s PMI’s fall into a hole, Golden Dawn third most popular party in Greece according to the polls, the non bail out party in first position, that bodes well doesn’t it!
“A beautiful day in the neighbourhood”
mmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmmmm.
Bob,
Gillard derangement syndrome (GDS) is in full flight.
Piers Akerman:
Apologies in advance but here are his arguments:
“Childless Gillard whines like a baby”
“…more Coalition MPs have children than the government MPs.”
How profound.
By the way, did anyone else pick up on Gerard Henderson’s implication here regarding gay men:
“This suggests that Mr Turnbull would have particular appeal to Adam and Steve who enjoy peddaling around the inner-city to and from viewing Bill Henson’s pics of naked pre-pubescent girls and boys…”
Is Gerard Henderson implying that gay men enjoy looking at pictures of “pre-pubescent girls and boys” more than the the general population?
It’s fascinating that Gillard Derangement Syndrome is unleashing all these sorts of insane cave-dwelling ideas which have been lurking in the dark recesses of the minds of certain of the commentariat.
Perhaps it’s the truth that really hurts.