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brissybee Apr 21st 2012 1:03 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 
Maybe it's just me, but I thought the headline in todays Sunday Mail was amusingly a little Freudian...

"Push for Speaker to stand down during probe." :eek:

commonwealth Apr 21st 2012 2:13 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 
shouldn't this thread be closed now? i mean it's in the courts already . . .

slapphead_otool Apr 21st 2012 2:59 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 

Originally Posted by commonwealth (Post 10018786)
shouldn't this thread be closed now? i mean it's in the courts already . . .

Well no one knows any more than anything in the common knowledge, so Im not sure sub judice rules apply.

Unless you know something? :D

commonwealth Apr 21st 2012 3:43 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 

"are you a top or a bottom?"
i think i heard that somewhere, i forgot who said it as the room was full of steam in a fitnessfirst on bond street. :rofl:

IvanM Apr 21st 2012 7:29 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 
Slipper stands aside.

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/politica...422-1xeme.html

commonwealth Apr 21st 2012 7:34 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 

Originally Posted by IvanM (Post 10019067)

yes we know you have an iphone! :nod:

On Sunrise's facebook page there are already over 100 comments, some include things like calling him a "Pillow Biter" and "silly poofter".

moneypenny20 Apr 21st 2012 7:41 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 

Originally Posted by commonwealth (Post 10019072)
yes we know you have an iphone! :nod:

On Sunrise's facebook page there are already over 100 comments, some include things like calling him a "Pillow Biter" and "silly poofter".

Morons everywhere, that will never change no matter what.:(

roaringmouse Apr 21st 2012 10:45 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 10019082)

Originally Posted by commonwealth (Post 10019072)
yes we know you have an iphone! :nod:

On Sunrise's facebook page there are already over 100 comments, some include things like calling him a "Pillow Biter" and "silly poofter".

Morons everywhere, that will never change no matter what.:(

Referring to IvanM because commonwealth says he has an iphone?

Pennines49 Apr 23rd 2012 11:55 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 
Will he ride into the sunset with Bob Brown ?lololol

Petals Apr 24th 2012 10:20 am

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 
Trial by media, what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Its a worry that people jump to conclusions, and more of a worry that they vote on three minute grabs.

God help us if the libs get control of the Senate, we have been there before and it was not a pretty picture, ended up in lots of money for middle class welfare we now cannot get rid of.

We need the Senate to be a buffer.

brissybee Apr 24th 2012 12:17 pm

Re: Peter Slipper... What's the future?
 

Originally Posted by Petals (Post 10023570)
Trial by media, what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Its a worry that people jump to conclusions, and more of a worry that they vote on three minute grabs.

God help us if the libs get control of the Senate, we have been there before and it was not a pretty picture, ended up in lots of money for middle class welfare we now cannot get rid of.

We need the Senate to be a buffer.

The media doesn't have Slipper on trial. He has not been "found guilty" of anything. The media is reporting on allegations. That's what the media is supposed to do. Report.

If anyone was shallow enough to simply vote on a 10 second grab they could just as easily vote on Slippers denial as an allegation... and people who jump to conclusions would not be employed to investigate any matters raised.

As for welfare payment issues, the shadow treasurer was in the media recently advocating welfare payment cuts.

If I was to vote on that, I'd be thinking long and hard about the implications.


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