News Limited's The Australian newspaper gets caught distorting known facts – again.
The Australian 8 January 2013:
Margot Kingston 8 January 2013:
Just to keep the record straight in the face of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's claim that these new allegations reflect on Australian Prime Minister Gillard's judgement (but apparently not on his own judgement or that of former Prime Minister Howard), herewith timeline information taken from the Parliament of Australia biography of the Hon. Peter Neil Slipper:
Elected to the House of
Representatives for Fisher, Queensland, 1984 for the National Party of
Australia. Defeated 1987.
Re-elected for the Liberal Party of
Australia 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010.
Liberal-Nationals Coalition Government Whip from 11.7.97 to 18.10.98.
Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister for Finance and Administration (Coalition Ministers John Fahey & Nick Minchin)
from 21.10.98 to 26.10.04.
Acting Parliamentary Secretary to the
Prime Minister John Howard from 14.3.02 to 7.10.03.
Member, Liberal Party 1989-2008;
Member, Liberal National Party of Queensland 2008-11.
Alternate Representative, Liberal
Party State Executive (Qld) 1990-92.
Vice-Chairman, Liberal Party Sunshine
Coast Zone 1990-92.
Membership Development Officer,
Liberal Party Sunshine Coast Zone 1990-92.
Branch Vice-Chairman, Liberal Party
1991-92.
Delegate, Liberal Party and Liberal
National Party State Conventions (Qld) 1990-2011.
Became an Independent MP from 24.11.2011.
On 7 January
2013 the Australian Federal Police served
the legal representative of Mr Peter Slipper MP with a summons in relation to
three offences of Dishonestly Causing a Risk of a Loss to the Commonwealth
pursuant to section 135.1(5) Criminal
Code Act 1995 (Cth).
The same day
The
Sydney Morning Herald reported:
1 comment:
As Peter Slipper was a Parliamentary secretary to Nick Minchin, did Nick Minchin write the Minchin Protocol with Slipper in mind?
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