sonlymewalter

Should pollies be held to account for their partners work? Campbell Newmans wife may have been involved in various business interests possibly overlapping with her husbands role as mayor of Brissy. His party have stated that to ask him to answer questions about his wife and her family is tacky, vulgar and sleazy.


Whaddya reckon guys?

moneypenny20

If it impacts on public life then yes but until he explains himself we don't know if it does or not. As long as he witters on about how it's private, the more people will think he's covering something up. He's an idiot.

sonlymewalter

I fink I agree

He's being extremely evasive for some reason

His party keep saying its all a big sleazy propaganda ploy to get at him, so why don't they just agree for him to answer and show people how wrong they are

fish.01

Especially since he started it by insinuating Anna Bligh's husband was compromised because of his career as a public servant. His wife's position sounds a lot dodgier so he was foolish to go there.

sonlymewalter

Agree. Shot in foot sounds about right

fish.01

"...it has emerged that Lisa Newman was involved in the creation and ownership of a company trying to sell disaster management expertise and IT software.
Headed by Mrs Newman's brother Seb Monsour, the company was registered on January 21, a day after first offering its services to the government in assisting with the recovery from the January 12 floods."
...
"An email obtained by The Australian shows that Mr Monsour wrote on January 20 to John Bradley, then director-general of the Department of Environment and Resource Management, boasting that his company's products had been used after Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake. "We are the Asia Pacific representatives of Global Relief Technologies . . . we simply belief (sic) our product can provide immediate benefit in the support of the recovery efforts in Queensland," he wrote..."

(Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nati...-1226136186715)

fish.01

"CAMPBELL Newman failed to declare his wife's stake in a property that gained high-rise development approval from the Brisbane City Council on his personal interests register."

Beat up or not? http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/n...-1226141208266

sonlymewalter

It's just a bit suss dontcha fink

As Pauline Hanson would say "pleeeeze explain"

moneypenny20

The thing is, if the boot was on the other foot and it was Anna Bligh, Campbell would be screaming from the rooftops that she was up to no good.

sonlymewalter

Exactly. Personally I don't give a crap which side they're on....they need to be accountable like any other business.

If Newman's wife/her family were involved in the flood aftermath in this way (if) then they are sick puppies

I heard today there are people still not paid out after the floods, and some people have taken their own lives as they couldn't take any more. I hope it's not true

fish.01

(Pretend) Opposition Leader Jeff Seeney wouldn't see anything wrong with pushing for answers any way possible by the look of this juicy tidbit: http://twitpic.com/6nmnya

eddie007

Until now I hadnt really taken much of an interest in australian politics, but now being able to take citizenship (waiting for kevin to catch up with the rest of us coz she was out of the country for 6 weeks or so) I am beginning to want to know....

So its exactly the same as the uk?

moneypenny20

What? Crap self obsessed politicians, doing nothing of any use, arguing over sod all and leaving the important stuff to gather dust, shout and scream at each other in parliament house? Yeah pretty much.

eddie007

You forgot the bit about nepotism .......corruption and morals that make alley cats look like QEll

moneypenny20

I thought they were a given.