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."

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?

i think i heard that somewhere, i forgot who said it as the room was full of steam in a fitnessfirst on bond street.

Slipper stands aside.

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

yes we know you have an iphone!

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?

Will he ride into the sunset with Bob Brown ?lololol

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.