The Government's disgraceful attacks on Gillian Triggs

[Tannin]

National newspaper? You are kidding, right? Taking Rupert's dirty money to write press release propaganda for the LNP house magazine doesn't count as getting published in a newspaper. Newspapers usually exist to print the news, at least some form of it, and to sell papers and make a profit. The reason - the only reason that in-house Liberal Party mag even exists today is that Abbott's sleazy rich friends are stumping up almost one million dollars a week to prop it up.

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Anyone with half a brain & with a pulse would have seen the senate committee in February where liberal national attack dogs kept bullying this honourable woman.

She asked one particular liberal cnut sorry member (?McDonald) if after his continual berating of Trigg, he'd actually read the Human Rights report they were complaining about. Guess what, this dickwad said he wouldn't waste his time doing so as though being ignorant is a badge of merit. This is the level of political debate we have courtesy of the mad Misogynist Monk & his attack dogs.

Now the undertaker (Dutton) got his facts wrong this weekend & collated two things & misattributing the liberal party construction to Trigg.

The only question that hasn't been answered truthfully is what inducements were offered by the government to get Trigg to quit. The Government has had more twists & backflips than acrobat & essentially is a corrupt. No iff's, buts or maybes.

But as usual TBF brings us tripe & seriously blames the victim here. One doesn't have to play the gender card, it been played: first by the libs now by TBF. She was asking for it wasn't she?

Now this isn't two sides to an argument that somehow have equal merit unless you are Pollyanna or a cynical Liberal party sycophant. FFS many clear headed Liberal party people are disgusted with Abbott over this tactic.

It's also a distraction from yet again another bad budget & the growing long term unemployment that has increasing rapidly under this government & this government is doing zilch about.

[partypie]

Dutton is a bit of a worry. He mishandled the Medicare rebate and now has been proposing powers which even a considerable number of his colleagues have a problem with. I heard the other day that he was a member of the Qld police force before he entered parliament. As an ex Queenslander, I can say that the police do not have a good reputation in that state.

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[thebaldfacts]

Oh dear. It appears that I have hit a nerve with WPT and Tannin. Their hysterics and personal attacks are more rabid than usual.

Typical, play the man and smear those you disagree with, with false innuendo and accusations. Typical of the intolerant bigoted left.

[Pies4shaw]

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[Pies4shaw]

I apologise for the confusion.

What I meant is:

"It's a sure sign of the pathetic state of politics in this country that the Government has been able to get away with such outrageous attacks on someone who has actually been doing nothing more than stating the bleeding obvious."

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"it" being [quote] Thanks?

[David]

I'm not sure I buy that this is about gender, although I have no doubt that the Liberal Party houses at least a few unreconstructed misogynists who resent a woman being in any position of power. I think the important point here, though, is that they would have used the same tactics on anyone ��the most important thing for this government is to shoot the messenger at all costs, to just keep smearing and distracting and hope that the outrage which should rightly be directed at them can be pushed onto an alternative target.

It's all really appalling, and what makes me despair most is my suspicion that all of these cutting pieces in The Guardian, The Age and elsewhere just aren't making a dent in the wider electorate. Out of all this, the cheap, stupid smears probably have much greater staying power, and I think the government knows this.

[Tannin]

Of course it's not about gender. It's about rule by intimidation, and the vicious hatred senior members of the Liberal Party have for anyone with the moral standing and courage to stand up for decency and fairness. They see her as an example, as someone who must be cut down and humiliated pour encourager les autres .