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Reply #15 - May 5^th, 2012 at 7:13pm

MOTR wrote on May 5^th, 2012 at 7:11pm:

The answer to your question is rather simple. Slipper was a "protected species" within the Liberal party due to his symbiotic relationship with the Queensland Liberal party factional boss Santo Santoro.

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Former Howard government advisers and senior Liberal Party figures have told The Sun-Herald Mr Santoro's factional support for Mr Slipper protected him from being disendorsed.

''There was definitely a concern [about Mr Slipper] but he was entrenched,'' a former senior adviser in Mr Howard's prime ministerial office said. ''If you'd been able to move him on, you would [have], but you weren't able to. He had the numbers.''

A senior figure within the Queensland party concurred: ''He was very much a protected species … [Mr Santoro's faction] would use their influence to look after him. They did that for their own self-interest. It was a symbiotic relationship with Santo.''

Sources said Mr Slipper would marshal members of his electorate to back candidates favoured by Mr Santoro for party positions and preselections. John Howard attempted to rein in Mr Slipper's behaviour by appointing him his personal parliamentary secretary in March 2002. ''Howard wanted to keep a close eye on him,'' another former senior adviser to the Howard government said.

Slipper remained in parliament because it would have been politically inconvenient to disendorse him.

so they are hypocrites ... how nice to have it confirmed .. again

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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Simple question for rights/conservatives on here. Reply #16 - May 5^th, 2012 at 7:13pm Hmmmm - the faceless men of the Liberal Party then?
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Reply #17 - May 6^th, 2012 at 8:38am

Good question Green Person. Our system is designed to protect the rich, well connected, national treasures, powerful, and other identities.

Note the lack of enthusiasm to kick Kirby off the high court bench; the lack of action to prosecute the judge who hung around the crappers at Wynyard and other railway stations; the path cleared for one of our biggest drug dealers to flee overseas; the reluctance to bring alleged judge Einfeld to book; the promotion to the high court bench of alleged judge Murphy and then the lack of action to prosecute him. These and other notorious cases make you go mmmmmmmmmm.

It's a bit late to be disturbed by the Slipper affair don't you think?

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Reply #18 - May 6^th, 2012 at 4:28pm

salad in wrote on May 6^th, 2012 at 8:38am:

Good question Green Person. Our system is designed to protect the rich, well connected, national treasures, powerful, and other identities.

Note the lack of enthusiasm to kick Kirby off the high court bench; the lack of action to prosecute the judge who hung around the crappers at Wynyard and other railway stations; the path cleared for one of our biggest drug dealers to flee overseas; the reluctance to bring alleged judge Einfeld to book; the promotion to the high court bench of alleged judge Murphy and then the lack of action to prosecute him. These and other notorious cases make you go mmmmmmmmmm.

It's a bit late to be disturbed by the Slipper affair don't you think?

Thanks Saladin for your fine input. Do you mean stuff like this:

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Australian Judge David Yeldham - The suicide of Justice David Yeldham after his secret life had been revealed
Wed, 05/28/2008 - 22:22 — Arthur Cristian

Australian Judge David Yeldham

Broadcast: 17/02/97

Courting Disaster

The suicide of Justice David Yeldham after his secret life had been revealed scandalized the judiciary. There is evidence that the highest judicial officers in the state were made aware of his behavior in the late 1980s but failed to take effective action. His practices, in the eyes of Sir Laurence Street, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, made him unfit to hold his office. Original Story.

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http://loveforlife.com.au/content/08/05/28/australian-judge-david-yeldham-suicide-justice-david-yeldham-after-his-secret-life-

Yes Saladin, that's exactly what I mean. I love this part...There is evidence that the highest judicial officers in the state were made aware of his behavior in the late 1980s but failed to take effective action. That's how the system works.

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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: Simple question for rights/conservatives on here. Reply #19 - May 7^th, 2012 at 12:19pm For the same reason Gillard supported him (and Thompson), political expediency. It isn’t that hard. You don’t really think one side has moral superiority over the other do you?
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