Dimebag posted:

If it was a full sitting day it could be done in time it takes to drive from Parliament house to the GGs house, post party vote. 12 hours would be a leasurly pace.

Dimebag posted:

If it was a full sitting day it could be done in time it takes to drive from Parliament house to the GGs house, post party vote. 12 hours would be a leasurly pace.

Birdstrike posted:

whom is getting spilled though?

Smegmatron posted:

My hot take on HSPs is that they’re better without chilli sauce because the chilli sauce most kebab places use tastes like poo poo and the only reason people ever included it in the first place is performative masculinity.

Tomato sauce is trash though.

Dimebag posted:

No-one currently just talking through how quick it could be done if motivated.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

Dimebag posted:

No-one currently just talking through how quick it could be done if motivated.

Solemn Sloth posted:

George Christensen revolting over sex ban, generally

Inescapable Duck posted:

I think we need to let the foreigners know of our government's novel solution to sex scandals.

Birdstrike posted:

yeah I was thinking it over and it’s almost as likely that MT gets spilled before the Beetrooter

Smegmatron posted:

My hot take on HSPs is that they’re better without chilli sauce because the chilli sauce most kebab places use tastes like poo poo and the only reason people ever included it in the first place is performative masculinity.

Tomato sauce is trash though.

quote:

The relationship that underpins the Coalition and the leadership has been irreparably damaged by Malcolm Turnbull’s intervention in the Barnaby Joyce affair, and Joyce’s supporters have declared it is “open season” on the prime minister.

Lid posted:

Yeah but... Ian MacDonald?

Mr Macdonald was driven by Mr Medich to the five-star Four Seasons hotel in the Rocks. There, he was handed a room key by Mr Medic, who had received it from Mr Gattellari’s driver, Senad Kaminic.

Waiting in the hotel room was a Chinese prostitute, who goes by the name of "Tiffanie", who told the commission she understood sex was expected from her.

The commission heard Mr Macdonald removed his coat and "roughly kissed" Tiffanie, who was in her underwear on the hotel bed.

Mr Macdonald told Tiffanie, "If you knew who I was you'd be very surprised". The pair did not have sex as Mr Macdonald fell asleep.

Tiffanie later telephoned a girlfriend and told her Mr Macdonald made her feel sick and like "vomiting".

Mr Macdonald told the inquiry that he had not known Tiffanie was a prostitute and was under the impression Mr Medich and Gattellari had arranged for a "remedial massage" in the hotel room he had developed "neck tiredness" during the meeting.

gay picnic defence posted:

This is gonna be good

DancingShade posted:

As much as I'd like to see the nationals tear themselves apart in a sheep filled orgy of self destruction I don't think any of them have the spine or sense of organisation to actually do it. They've been the aimless sheep under the IPA for so long I simply don't believe they know what to do.

Senor Tron posted:

I think Turnbull holding on is better for the next election for Labor though.

The Before Times posted:

the adulterers are in charge

Konomex posted:

Perhaps we should just make it a straight up part of the system? PM's get to serve one term, then they're on the backbench.

quote:

It's been 114 days since the Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation into a media tip-off about police raids on union offices, and employment minister Michaelia Cash is still refusing to answer questions.
Eleven questions on notice from the Employment Committee on December 1 last year – convened to deal with the scandal – remain unanswered by the minister.

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Cash has refused to answer other questions from the same hearing with the claim of public interest immunity. She also blamed the ongoing AFP investigation and impending Federal Court challenge into the legality of the raids lodged by the AWU as reasons for her silence.
The answers to the 11 questions were due on January 19, so are now 28 days overdue.
On Thursday, Cash gave the media nine minutes notice that she was holding a press conference, her first in Canberra since August 10. In the last six months she has only held one other press conference, in Perth on January 18.
She called the press conference to talk about the latest labour force figures, and became annoyed with journalists when asked about the raids.

QUESTION: Senator Cash, is your office being investigated by the AFP over the media tip-off of the AWU raid.
MINISTER CASH: No.
QUESTION: If your office isn’t being investigated, why did you claim public interest immunity in Senate committee hearings?
MINISTER CASH: Because as an AFP investigation, the AFP itself claimed public interest immunity.
QUESTION: But if your office isn’t being investigated, wouldn’t releasing those internal communications demonstrate that you had, and your office had, no role in coordinating the media tip offs about the raids?
MINISTER CASH: Again, I have complied at all times with the law and the procedures of the Senate. We are here though to talk about jobs growth. Would you like to ask a question on jobs growth? Would anyone like to ask a question about jobs growth?
QUESTION: On Mark Lee’s attempt to get a job in your office, why was it inappropriate for him to no longer take that role?
MINISTER CASH: I answered these questions last year. Again, would anyone like to talk about jobs growth?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/CUhlmann/status/964398625127260160

bandaid.friend posted:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/114-days

The Peccadillo posted:

Alice Workman rules