AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?
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What? He's staying? Then how come it took so long to make his announcement/decision public?
I agree, no good can come of him staying there... at least, not for the Libs.
Which they probably don't need to win, but just keep the circus in town until an election.
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Apparently he was too busy to notice the giant Liberal Party logo front and centre on the leaflet.
Likewise. Isn't that exactly the excuse used for the visa thing over the weekend?
And he delayed his finding (on himself, obv.) TWICE.
Cue people finding emails he's responded to directly.
He also gets people to read them to him. And feed him food, and drive him wherever he needs to go. At this point, I'd be surprised if he wipes his own arse.
Adam Bandt brings it, too:
From here
Edit: Holy shit, his response was 67 pages? What in the flying fuck?
Edit #2: lol
Never mind that no matter what or how much mud might get flung, because the decision fell on Heydon himself, he couldn't NOT withstand it. What a joke.
Dreyfus says they're taking vote to remove Heydon back to the Senate. I find myself wondering again if they have the numbers from the cross bench.
Not that a vote passing would do them all that much good I suspect, given Cosgrove is GG, but maybe that's the point, the optics of an Abbott appointed GG protecting the Royal Commission.
Not that a vote passing would do them all that much good I suspect, given Cosgrove is GG, but maybe that's the point, the optics of an Abbott appointed GG protecting the Royal Commission.
No he wasn't. The controversy was about a speech he made where he called judicial activism the end of the rule of law. It was controversial because people took it as a job pitch for being a HC judge. It's a pretty minor controversy though. Pretty different from just appointing your attorney general to the high court.
It's not Cosgrove that's the issue either. The GG acts on instructions from the PM. That's the point of democracy. The house is the proper chamber for such a vote, not the Senate. The senate can jump up and down all it wants but unless it's blocking a supply bill the GG basically has to act on instructions from the PM.
Yeah feels a bit like a stunt. If they wanted to fight this the courts seem like the place.
They might find it even more difficult there. I don't really know what they can argue. A royal commission has pretty extensive powers.
This is a former high court judge we are talking about he wouldn't spend fucking two weeks writing a 60+ page judgment unless he was pretty sure it wouldn't be thrown out at the first hurdle. This guy will forget more about law than any of us here will probably ever know. Still could happen I guess. We will have to see.
Probably had to wait for officeworks to send him a new ink ribbon for his typewriter.
No joke there were people who got real mad when we didn't have the specific type they needed on hand when I worked there five years ago. Retail was hell.
Fair enough. I had no memory of it whatsoever, just that there was something.
He's further cemented as Australia's Scalia with that speech topic though lol
He's as close as we're going to get, still fairly different though. He's more of a textualist than an originalist but they're both fairly "small c" conservative. A lot of his judgements are about restraining the executive and telling the government to fuck off. There's a fair few of his judgements and dissents that I'm willing to put money on that people here would agree with.
Also 67 pages ain't nothing. Some single judgements run into the hundreds of pages. He's a retired judge, old habits die hard.
That's true, I've said before that I agreed with his decision in Pape. (Fuck French his tenuous extensions of executive power. Fuck Verdalis (sp) in particular).
Sounds like he already has.
They both deserve each other.
What?
Whaaaaaat
What in the fuck is wrong with him? Can we just sit his dopey arse in the corner and tell him to not come out until after the adults are done talking?
Who would have guessed that Dutton could have two consecutive weeks of defence/security talking points in the lead up to the khaki election.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and all that.
The twat is a former cop. Says it all really.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...for-children-to-be-removed-from-nauru/6738644
Key points:
Key points:
- Senate committee finds conditions are 'not adequate, appropriate or safe'
- Calls for 'full audit' of allegations of sexual abuse
- Recommends all asylum seeker children and their families be removed from Nauru
- Requests reasonable access to detention centre for Human Rights Commission, media
So, Senate being unaustralian?
edit: less facetiously, again, when it comes to human rights, WHERE THE FUCK IS TIM WILSON
:lol
You're getting no argument from me on the first point. That also needs a royal fucking commission like right now.
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