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Culprit 
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Maybe he got Africans and Americans mixed up. 
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Tannin 
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It's back:
Abbott accuser to sue Liberal Party powerbroker
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/abbott-accuser-to-sue-liberal-party-powerbroker-20121024-285xc.html
Abbott's original assault victim has now begun an action in the NSW Supreme Court for defamation against prominent Liberal Party identity Michael Kroger and the Liberal Party official newspaper after their strong claims made in defence of Abbott.
Alan Jones, of all the most unlikely people you could think of, is not being sued because he has already apologised for his remarks. Wow!
Hang on to your hats, this could be juicy!
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Culprit
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I loved this. Thomsons Lawyer | Quote: | If Mr Abbott has evidence of that he should come forward forthwith, or he should shut his mouth," he said.
"We will not tolerate our client being condemned by innuendo or ageing student politicians mouthing off. |
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| Culprit wrote: | I loved this. Thomsons Lawyer | Quote: | If Mr Abbott has evidence of that he should come forward forthwith, or he should shut his mouth," he said.
"We will not tolerate our client being condemned by innuendo or ageing student politicians mouthing off. |
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Brilliant.
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Tannin
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David 
to wish impossible things
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Shame Abbott's fist didn't connect with him. I'm no fan of physical violence, but I'm slightly less opposed to it in this case.
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Icant imagine him hitting anyone
Or anyone admitting he hit them, how embarrassing
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stui magpie 
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An air swing that doesn't connect is now an assault?
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Tannin
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^ Always has been.
You have already learned this simple fact and had it proved to you beyond doubt - from memory it was in this very thread - so is your memory that badly shot, or are you just pretending you don't know and hoping no-one notices?
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stui magpie
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Oh yeah, I ignored that because it's such a pitifully weak part of the legislation. has anyone ever been convicted of "Assaulting" someone by taking an air swing or waving a fist in their general direction? 
I can see it playing out in court. No physical evidence that anything happened, no genuine actual uncompromised witnesses, just someone with a political agenda making a claim. Wow.
This claim stinks to high heaven and proves utterly nothing, as did the previous one. Claiming someone has a history of violence when they haven't actually struck anyone is quite funny.
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David
to wish impossible things
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All I gather from stories like these is that student politics was and undoubtedly still is the domain of thuggish, narcissistic wankers who occasionally think their little power games are somehow making the world a better place. It reflects badly on Abbott for having been part of that scene, but his 'victims' come off looking no better. The same goes for all ex-student politicians, a group which includes our current PM...
I'd vote for Kim Jong-un ahead of any of them.
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| David wrote: | All I gather from stories like these is that student politics was and undoubtedly still is the domain of thuggish, narcissistic wankers who occasionally think their little power games are somehow making the world a better place. It reflects badly on Abbott for having been part of that scene, but his 'victims' come off looking no better. The same goes for all ex-student politicians, a group which includes our current PM...
I'd vote for Kim Jong-un ahead of any of them. |
sounds like parliament you see on the news 
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stui magpie
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| David wrote: | All I gather from stories like these is that student politics was and undoubtedly still is the domain of thuggish, narcissistic wankers who occasionally think their little power games are somehow making the world a better place. It reflects badly on Abbott for having been part of that scene, but his 'victims' come off looking no better. The same goes for all ex-student politicians, a group which includes our current PM...
I'd vote for Kim Jong-un ahead of any of them. |
It would be a very interesting study to see how many current politicians (federal, state and local) have a background in student politics or student unions. I think your description would apply to most of them.
I'm aware of one who has a reasonably notorious background in student politics, at the now defunct Melbourne Student Union I believe it was, who went onto a controversial and short lived career in local council politics and is now working as (I believe) Snr Industrial office for a union that was in the news a lot earlier this year.
The interesting fact about that last bit is that he has no qualifications or formal experience that is publically known in Industrial relations. Interesting coincidence is that the new state secretary just happens to have also been in local council in the same area.
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David
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| think positive wrote: | | David wrote: | All I gather from stories like these is that student politics was and undoubtedly still is the domain of thuggish, narcissistic wankers who occasionally think their little power games are somehow making the world a better place. It reflects badly on Abbott for having been part of that scene, but his 'victims' come off looking no better. The same goes for all ex-student politicians, a group which includes our current PM...
I'd vote for Kim Jong-un ahead of any of them. |
sounds like parliament you see on the news |
Yes, well, it does explain rather a lot. 
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