Once she
finished knifing then Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the back,
Liberal Party Senator for WA Michaelia Clare Cash was demoted from
Minister for Jobs and Innovation to Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education.
Then she was further ‘rewarded’
by this leak to the media……
Financial Review, 30 August 2018:
Cabinet minister
Michaelia Cash has become the latest target of the payback culture inside the
Liberal Party, after allegations emerged that she declined to provide a witness
statement to the Australian Federal Police investigating the leaking of a union
raid from within her office.
Senator Cash, who was
demoted in Sunday's leadership reshuffle after turning on Malcolm Turnbull,
rejected any assertion she refused to cooperate.
It is understood she
told the officers that she did not need to make a fresh statement because she
had been quizzed on the matter many times in Parliament and everything she knew
was on the public record.
The AFP was
investigating a tip-off to the media about a raid on the offices of the
Australian Workers' Union last year.
The raids were conducted
by the AFP at the behest of the union watchdog, the Registered Organisations
Commission.
Senator Cash had asked
the commission to investigate whether two political donations made by the AWU
more than a decade ago, when Bill Shorten was the union's national secretary,
accorded with union rules.
But
the exercise backfired when it emerged a staffer inside her office had
tipped off the media about the raid. The staffer resigned and Senator Cash
denied having any advance knowledge of the raid nor of the tip-off to the media…..
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