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Mr Has Been finally pulls the pin for now
Jan 26th, 2018 at 8:07am
 
Mr Has Been silently slips out the door until it is safe for the unions to slip him back under the back door.

Is he still the unions' contact with their Chinese benefactors ?




Sam Dastyari and the enemy within
CHRISTIAN SLATTERY January 18, 2018

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Mr Has Been

The inglorious implosion of Sam Dastyari’s political career has ignited concern about the influence of foreign money on Australian politics.

The Senator’s decision to resign was the only appropriate response to revelations about the nature of his relationship with Chinese business owner and political donor Huang Xiangmo.

The final straw was the accusation Dastyari requested that deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek not meet with pro-democracy campaigners while on a trip to Hong Kong in 2015. While Plibersek rebuked Dastyari at the time, the clear inference is that Dastyari’s lobbying was motivated by his ties to Chinese money.


Dastyari’s conduct was a clear breach of his obligation to the Australian public and for that he was right to resign. The Prime Minister is correct to suggest that foreign donations request divided loyalties of our elected representatives.

However, Dastyari’s public skewering, which has included hysterical claims that he is a “double agent”, is an attempt by Australia’s political establishment to deflect attention from the deeply anti-democratic function played by campaign donations and political lobbyists. In the establishment’s eyes, Dastyari’s most egregious offence was not that he was bought-out, but that he was caught doing so.

Business and industry lobby groups depend on political donations and cosy relationships to wield influence. They demand that politicians pledge allegiance to laws that protect private profits, rather than a foreign flag.

For example, in the past 10 years, the mining industry has spent more than $540 million on political lobbying and campaigning. Substantial “donations” have been made to the treasuries of the Coalition and Labor parties. This enormous expenditure directly led to the downfall of the Mineral Resources Rent Tax and the Carbon Price.

The word “donation” is clearly misleading. They are actually investments. Business and industry spend money on politicians because it gets results.

Spending money is one way that business gets what it wants. The other strategy involves leveraging personal connections within parliament.

Lately, the revolving door between politics and industry has been spinning wildly. Former Queensland Labor Premier Anna Bligh now heads up the banking sector’s lobby group, which successfully delayed the formation of a royal commission. Similarly, former federal Labor ministers Stephen Conroy and Martin Ferguson have taken up posts with the gambling and petroleum industries.

Admittedly these ex-politicians can claim their advocacy for big business occurred after their parliamentary tenures concluded. Nevertheless, we would be fools to assume that the temptation of well-remunerated lobbying positions post-politics does not prey on the minds of current MPs.

Further, for every politician that has maintained a formal distinction between their political and business careers, many others do not. Take Liberal MP Bruce Billson, who saw no conflict of interest between remaining in parliament and drawing a salary from the Franchise Council of Australia, where he is now executive chairman. And what about Barnaby Joyce, whose friendship with Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, saw him honoured at a recent Hancock Mining event?

Make no mistake, Sam Dastyari’s conduct was appalling, but he is not the only politician in this country to be influenced by his paymasters. If we want to talk about banning political donations, corporate contributions would be a good place to start.


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Re: Mr Has Been finally pulls the pin for now
Reply #1 - Jan 26th, 2018 at 9:43am
 
Good riddance. He served only the ALP and himself, not his constituents or the country. Just his party and his own self-interest.
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Reply #2 - Jan 26th, 2018 at 10:43am
 
But he will be back because with his corruption record he will be irresistible to the unions who don't consider someone to be human until they pass the unions' corruption test.

You never know he might replace Bull S. on the throne if Eddie Obeid's girl doesn't get in first.
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Reply #3 - Jan 26th, 2018 at 10:57am
 
oh they will find a little perch for him to sit on and preen himself...an d Kris will send him Xmas Cards each years...

what a con.. what a bunch of tricksters..
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Reply #4 - Jan 26th, 2018 at 11:19am
 
Gee won't Bull S. be upset that his golden boy has been banished.




Dastyari: the weasel withdraws his snout from the trough
AMM 26/01/2018

Waiting long enough to pocket $20,000 more.

Labor senator Sam Dastyari has formally resigned from parliament after a scandal over his ties to a Chinese donor.

Senate President Scott Ryan confirmed the resignation on Thursday.

I have received a letter of resignation from Senator Sam Dastyari as a Senator for New South Wales.

The resignation takes effect immediately.




Labor senator Sam Dastyari formally quits Parliament
Source: ABC

Mr Dastyari announced his resignation in December but did not immediately stand down, saying only that he would “not return to the Senate in 2018”. Parliament is due to return on February 5.

By waiting six weeks before resigning Mr Dastyari was able to continue to draw his senator’s salary, which amounts to about an extra $20,000.

Labor leader Bill Shorten defended the delay, arguing that a number of other outgoing senators had also taken more than a month to exit the Parliament after resigning.

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Muphin 26/01/2018, 6:10 am
A despicable grub, coming in second to the TURD. Good riddance.


TommyGun 26/01/2018, 8:20 am
Gone at last! Snivelling little traitor. But he’ll turn up again on our TV’s, I’m sure. Like a dog-turd that is stuck to the sole of your boot, he’ll just stick around.


Geoff 26/01/2018, 8:44 am
Great news. Just in time for Australia Day. It would be good if he’d piss off to London like the other traitor.


Zoltan 26/01/2018, 8:50 am
He could be the subject of the MM Australia day sweepstakes.
How long before he’s back in the limelight sufficiently to feature in another story on here?
I’m thinking we’ve not heard the last of him.


Lorraine 26/01/2018, 9:22 am
Labor and the Greens have had persons of ill repute in their chambers most of my life time. Sam the disaster man is a as despicable as others have been take Rudd, Gillard and any Union thug that has been drafted into the Government as pigs at the trough.


Joe Blogs 26/01/2018, 10:13 am
Should have been kicked out on its swarthy arse.


Biking Voter 26/01/2018, 11:45 am
Make way at the trough for a new trougher to step up to the trough of plenty, all free, as much as you can eat.


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Re: Mr Has Been finally pulls the pin for now
Reply #5 - Jan 26th, 2018 at 1:16pm
 
Actually the article spent ten seconds lambasting Dastardly, and then pointed out the REAL issue - of political, relationship, and financial influences on politicians..... all of which must be brought under control and abolished - starting with donations/payment for service/politicians for sale...

What Sam Choy Bau did was miniscule compared to the overall grim picture of undue influence and the massive amounts of cash flowing into party coffers ...... though one has to question his common sense in advocating for non-contact with democratic activists in China (unless they were government plants, which is highly likely if they are still walking around without a bullet to the neck).... maybe he was alerting Tanya to the real danger of getting in close with such plants)...

In any case, he will be found a nice little earner to tide him over pending his return...... political parties always take care of their own, even if it means compromising their ethics and their REAL mandate from the people to govern correctly, legally, and fairly to ALL.

We all know juliar sees only one side of any published article....... not worth the paper he's reading on....

OH - and BTW - there are any number of OTHER 'politicians' who have associations with that Chinese 'businessman'/Party member/agent of Chinese government - many of them on the 'other' side' of the Tag Team.

I wouldn't go crowing too much about Little Sammy.
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Reply #6 - Jan 27th, 2018 at 8:34am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 26th, 2018 at 1:16pm:
Actually the article spent ten seconds lambasting Dastardly, and then pointed out the REAL issue - of political, relationship, and financial influences on politicians..... all of which must be brought under control and abolished - starting with donations/payment for service/politicians for sale...

What Sam Choy Bau did was miniscule compared to the overall grim picture of undue influence and the massive amounts of cash flowing into party coffers ...... though one has to question his common sense in advocating for non-contact with democratic activists in China (unless they were government plants, which is highly likely if they are still walking around without a bullet to the neck).... maybe he was alerting Tanya to the real danger of getting in close with such plants)...

In any case, he will be found a nice little earner to tide him over pending his return...... political parties always take care of their own, even if it means compromising their ethics and their REAL mandate from the people to govern correctly, legally, and fairly to ALL.

We all know juliar sees only one side of any published article....... not worth the paper he's reading on....

OH - and BTW - there are any number of OTHER 'politicians' who have associations with that Chinese 'businessman'/Party member/agent of Chinese government - many of them on the 'other' side' of the Tag Team.

I wouldn't go crowing too much about Little Sammy.


I don't think there would be many common Australians who would feel any pity for his departure from politics.     Whilst Jules has every reason to highlight Sam's bits of her post there are some she has conveniently overlooked:

"Further, for every politician that has maintained a formal distinction between their political and business careers, many others do not.
Take Liberal MP Bruce Billson, who saw no conflict of interest between remaining in parliament and drawing a salary from the Franchise Council of Australia, where he is now executive chairman. And what about Barnaby Joyce, whose friendship with Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, saw him honoured at a recent Hancock Mining event?

Make no mistake, Sam Dastyari’s conduct was appalling, but he is not the only politician in this country to be influenced by his paymasters. If we want to talk about banning political donations, corporate contributions would be a good place to start."

It would be interesting to see a graph of how much Chinese money flowed to both major parties, but noting things like "The Julie Bishop Glorious Glasshouse"   and other news articles, I thing the Coalition take the cake with eating with chopsticks.



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Reply #7 - Jan 27th, 2018 at 8:45am
 
Vic wrote on Jan 27th, 2018 at 8:34am:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 26th, 2018 at 1:16pm:
Actually the article spent ten seconds lambasting Dastardly, and then pointed out the REAL issue - of political, relationship, and financial influences on politicians..... all of which must be brought under control and abolished - starting with donations/payment for service/politicians for sale...

What Sam Choy Bau did was miniscule compared to the overall grim picture of undue influence and the massive amounts of cash flowing into party coffers ...... though one has to question his common sense in advocating for non-contact with democratic activists in China (unless they were government plants, which is highly likely if they are still walking around without a bullet to the neck).... maybe he was alerting Tanya to the real danger of getting in close with such plants)...

In any case, he will be found a nice little earner to tide him over pending his return...... political parties always take care of their own, even if it means compromising their ethics and their REAL mandate from the people to govern correctly, legally, and fairly to ALL.

We all know juliar sees only one side of any published article....... not worth the paper he's reading on....

OH - and BTW - there are any number of OTHER 'politicians' who have associations with that Chinese 'businessman'/Party member/agent of Chinese government - many of them on the 'other' side' of the Tag Team.

I wouldn't go crowing too much about Little Sammy.


I don't think there would be many common Australians who would feel any pity for his departure from politics.     Whilst Jules has every reason to highlight Sam's bits of her post there are some she has conveniently overlooked:

"Further, for every politician that has maintained a formal distinction between their political and business careers, many others do not.
Take Liberal MP Bruce Billson, who saw no conflict of interest between remaining in parliament and drawing a salary from the Franchise Council of Australia, where he is now executive chairman. And what about Barnaby Joyce, whose friendship with Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, saw him honoured at a recent Hancock Mining event?

Make no mistake, Sam Dastyari’s conduct was appalling, but he is not the only politician in this country to be influenced by his paymasters. If we want to talk about banning political donations, corporate contributions would be a good place to start."

It would be interesting to see a graph of how much Chinese money flowed to both major parties, but noting things like "The Julie Bishop Glorious Glasshouse"   and other news articles, I thing the Coalition take the cake with eating with chopsticks.





500 000 flowed in to Libtards coffers from Chinese donors , just in WA  Shocked
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Reply #8 - Jan 27th, 2018 at 10:57am
 
Politicians for sale - Ban it NOW!

I still find it near impossible to believe that Dastardly could be so utterly stupid... but he is definitely not the only one.

No wonder they don't want a Federal ICAC.

Somebody trot out the old 'pay peanuts and you get monkeys' line again - just for the fun.  It costs around $2.5M a year to keep each politician - not a bad salary for sitting on their arse and being spoon fed every cost out of the public purse.

Like pretty much every 'installed' wrong in this nation, this needs to be reduced to a fresh start.  Kick the current system out and start again... offer $50k plus proven costs and a plywood office on a block - and see how many of these parasites line up for that trough.
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Reply #9 - Jan 28th, 2018 at 8:25pm
 
Gee the Lefty Socialist Sheeple are trying to defend Mr Has Been.
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