Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm Bligh Turnbull
still continues (as late as Wednesday 28 March 2018) to deny any part in the Barnaby Joyce scandal…..
The
Sydney Morning Herald,
28 March 2018:
A key adviser to Prime
Minister Malcolm Turnbull helped to formalise a job transfer for the partner of
Barnaby Joyce, according to new details about the controversial decision to
secure the new position in a ministerial office.
The letter from Mr
Turnbull’s senior governance adviser was signed on May 9 last year and gave
official clearance to the new role for Vikki Campion, who was in a relationship
with Mr Joyce at the time and is due to give birth to their baby next month.
The role played by the
Prime Minister’s office triggered detailed questioning in Parliament last month
amid an uproar over the relationship and the way the government moved Ms
Campion from one office to another to manage the matter….
A spokesman for the
Prime Minister said on Wednesday, "The email simply confirms what we have
always said: as is usual practice, the PMO performed a purely administrative
role passing on the documents to the relevant department."
Sacked former Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Warringah,Tony Abbott, doing his best to ensure Malcolm Turnbull leads the Coalition to defeat at the forthcoming federal election. Rumour has it that he sees himself as Leader of the Opposition for a second time around.......
The
Conversation,
27 March 2018:
Former prime minister
Tony Abbott has said that if people had been more willing to heed the message
of those like Pauline Hanson over the last two decades, “we would be a better
country today”.
In a speech loaded with
praise for the controversial One Nation leader, Abbott described her as “a
remarkable and a resilient presence in our public life for more than two
decades”.
He also said the only
way the Coalition could win the next election was to harvest Hanson
preferences. “If I can make that more likely, that is a very positive
contribution that I can make to the prospects of the Turnbull government.” He
said the Coalition should preference One Nation above Labor and the Greens,
because the government had been able to work constructively with it in the
Senate.
Launching a book of her
speeches, Pauline: In Her Own Words, Abbott referenced a “lot of dirty water
under the bridge” between them in the past. When he was a member of the Howard
government, Abbott was involved in moves that ended in Hanson being jailed for
electoral fraud. She said after
she was released: “Heaven help this country if Tony Abbott is ever in
control of it. I detest the man.”
At the launch Abbott
praised Hanson’s “willingness to let the past be the past”.
While over in Western Australia a nasty Liberal mano a mano war has erupted.....
The
West, 28
March 2018:
A factional war inside
the WA Liberals has boiled over with Federal MP Ian Goodenough suggesting a
rival should face criminal charges for misleading the Australian Electoral
Commission.
The AEC confirmed it had
removed long-time Liberal player Simon Ehrenfeld from the electoral roll after
complaints from Mr Goodenough and his allies about Mr Ehrenfeld not actually
living at the address he had registered.
Mr Ehrenfeld is the
vice-president of the party’s Moore division and president of the Liberals’
Hillarys branch.
Mr Goodenough claimed Mr
Ehrenfeld could face investigation for misleading the AEC.
He said other senior
Liberal Party members could also face action for giving statements to the
commission asserting Mr Ehrenfeld lived at the Kallaroo address.
“The AEC should take
steps to prosecute him if they deem it necessary,” Mr Goodenough said.
“Obviously it is more
serious if two or three people have conspired.”
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