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Buzzy,

despite how much you wish for it to be otherwise all is calm and orderly on the good guys' side.

There is lots of mirth at Labor's expense of course and much satisfaction that Bulldust Billy will now be staying until the election as the worst most despised Opposition "leader" in Australia's history.

So things is lookin' good for Australia now that an election victory for the Libs is almost a certainty.

What do you think the next Labor scandal will be ?

Wee Willy, still shaking in his slippers, praises Emma Husar for not forcing a by-election which would have shafted Battling Billy for sure.



Shorten: Labor MP Emma Husar made right call to quit
8:27pm Aug 9, 2018

Bill Shorten denies he knew about Emma Husar allegations.

Labor leader Bill Shorten believes outgoing MP Emma Husar was right to quit politics while facing a series of bullying allegations in her federal seat.

The western Sydney MP won't recontest her seat of Lindsay at the next election, after 22 former staff accused her of bullying and harassment.

NSW Labor is expected to release the conclusions of its investigations into Ms Husar on Friday.


An emotional Emma Husar told 9NEWS' Chris O'Keefe yesterday that she won't recontest her seat of Lindsay at the next election. Picture: 9NEWS (9NEWS)

"There's plenty, clearly plenty, of unhappy people here, but she's made a very principled decision to say that politics isn't for her," Mr Shorten told reporters on Thursday.

"She's put her party and the people first. I actually now think that it's time for some of the personal attacks to stop. It's what turns people off politics."

Mr Shorten refused to say if he was happy with the NSW Labor investigation, which was widely leaked to the media.

"Emma Husar has been under extreme pressure, and I don't know all the facts at the end of the day," he said.

After announcing she would quit, Ms Husar accused some in the party of resenting her election because she had not come through the party machine.


Bill Shorten, who was in Longreach in Queensland today, said the Labor MP was making a "very principled decision". Picture: AAP (AAP)

"I had not done my Labor Party apprenticeship," she told the Nine Network.

"A few nasty, faceless people can ruin someone's career, almost completely smash it to pieces."

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull asked Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann about the bullying allegations, and he was told there were processes in place to help the former electorate office staff who complained.

That could include complaints to the Finance Department, and the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority.

"Those processes are managed by Finance or IPEA independently and confidentially in the appropriate way," a spokeswoman for Senator Cormann told AAP.

Mr Turnbull questioned how much Mr Shorten knew about the investigation.


The Prime Minister has questioned what Mr Shorten knew about the investigation into Ms Husar. Picture: AAP (AAP)

"Where was the champion of the workers when people were being allegedly mistreated in this way?" he told 6PR radio in Perth.

But the Labor leader insisted he only found out when the story was leaked to the media.

"It's rubbish. I had no knowledge of these complaints," Mr Shorten said.

Ms Husar's western Sydney seat of Lindsay, held with a margin of just 1.1 per cent, will be hotly contested between Labor and the Liberals at the election due by May 2019.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/08/09/03/33/labor-mp-husar-to-quit-amid-i...

Sounds like Buzzy is getting excited.

Fairfax Media understands that Ms Husar has retained the high-profile Sydney defamation silk Sandy Dawson, while her lawyer has sent letters threatening defamation action to Jeremy Anderson, BuzzFeed and News Corp Australia.

Will Emma sue the pants off them ?


Read all about it here.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/fighting-to-survive-emma-husar-details-h...

aqua your noble ravings may be a bit misplaced.

It seems Emma has been shafted by the union controlled Labor Party because she is not a UNION BROWN NOSER and the unions want Jeremy Anderson Son of ex NSW Labor Minister Peter to replace her.

Jeremy Anderson is rumored to be running daily leaks so that he can get Emma Husar booted so he can get preselected in her seat.

This is just more Labor slime causing a few ripples in Labor's vast Cesspool of Corruption.



ex NSW Labor Minister Peter Anderson

This Husar saga is sounding like a late night program on the SBS.



Labor MP Jason Clare refutes claim that under-fire colleague provocatively crossed her legs in front of him
By Lane Calcutt • Political Reporter 8:32pm Aug 2, 2018

VIDEO: Labor MP Emma Husar ‘fighting for political life’

Labor frontbencher Jason Clare has rejected as “categorically untrue” allegations under-siege MP Emma Husar sexually harassed him in his office at Parliament House.

Ms Husar has taken to Twitter to vehemently deny the claims.

“This smear campaign is completely and utterly untrue, unfair and hurtful beyond belief. 100 percent false,” she wrote, accusing people of trying to 'destroy' her.

“These are absolute lies that have been fabricated by Jeremy Anderson, who’s working with his father to leak against me and ruin my reputation.”


Emma Husar tweeted today that she was attempting to clear her name - but believes people are out to 'destroy' her. Picture: AP (AAP)

The claim was contained in a letter from special investigator, John Whelan, to Ms Husar, in which he detailed a long list of allegations against her, published by Buzzfeed.

Mr Whelan was asked by the NSW branch of the Labor Party, to inquire into claims the member for the seat of Lindsay, in Sydney’s west, had bullied staff and misused her parliamentary entitlement.

In what has been described as a “Basic Instinct” moment, the letter cites an incident, when it’s alleged Ms Husar provocatively crossed her legs as Mr Clare sat on the floor.

But, Mr Clare told 9NEWS, the claim was “categorically untrue”.

The letter also lists allegations by former staff members that Ms Husar was abusive, forced them to do domestic chores, talked openly in her office about her sex life, and had sexually harassed a number of male employees.


Jason Clare refuted the allegations made against Emma Husar. Picture: AAP (AAP)

It also raised claims she had diverted party funds to her personal bank account.

Twenty staff have left in two years.

Ms Husar, who has taken indefinite leave while the investigation proceeds, has strongly denied any misuse of entitlements.

Yesterday she was forced to defend her attendance at a Bruno Mars concert in Brisbane during a taxpayer-funded interstate trip.

What is clear is there are forces, who had access to the documents, who are trying to bring Ms Husar down.

Bill Shorten’s office said he hadn’t seen the letter, nor did he know about it before today.

He repeated he didn’t know of the investigation, until told by the NSW ALP on July 18.

Whatever the findings, some within the Labor Party are questioning if Ms Husar will contest the next election, and whether she’ll be re-endorsed.

Treasurer, Scott Morrison, said it was beyond belief Mr Shorten didn’t know about the allegations earlier.

“If he didn’t know about them, what sort of an indictment is that on him,” he said.

“He either is incompetent or he’s been covering it up. Which is it, Bill?”

He said Labor had made Ms Husar the “pin up” of the 2016 campaign.

“She was the face the Labor Party presented at the last election. There’s now egg on that face.

“But more importantly, there’s egg on the face of Bill Shorten.”

Greens senator, senator Sarah Hanson-Young, called the situation "revolting", and further evidence of "sexualised bullying" of women in parliament.

Ms Hanson-Young said it was clear "someone's got it in" for Ms Husar and had sunk to a new low, by leaking the allegations.

"There's one thing to be questioning whether somebody's entitlements have been properly managed," she told 9NEWS.

"There's a whole other thing to be attacking somebody with sexist slurs and innuendo.

"This is still very much a boys' club in this place.

"There are still those people who still think parliament is not a place for women.

"We've got to stem put sexist behaviour and sexualised bullying."

Former Labor powerbroker, Graham Richardson, doesn't think Ms Husar can survive.

"I don't think she should be in parliament after the election, and I'm pretty sure she won't be," the former minister told Sky News.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/08/02/11/02/labor-mp-jason-clare-says-emm...

Emma Husar's treatment of staffers was “offensive and unreasonable” but NSW Labor sees no reason for the besieged MP to resign from Parliament.

The party has backed Ms Husar despite an independent investigation finding merit in the complaints alleged in evidence from 22 former employees that included bullying and intimidation.

The investigation, headed by barrister John Joseph Whelan, recommended there be a further inquiry into allegations Ms Husar misused taxpayer entitlements and travel expenses.

Ms Husar has continued to reject all allegations and told the investigation she managed staff appropriately given her heavy workload and intense personal stress.

But the Lindsay MP announced earlier this week that she would not recontest her western Sydney seat at the next election.

A statement released by NSW Labor today stated that, based on the findings of the Whelan investigation, there was “no basis for Ms Husar to resign from the Australian Parliament”.

It brings to an end speculation that Ms Husar may have been kicked out of the party and forced to sit on the crossbench.

The Whelan report also called for another investigation into the way her staff were used to perform non-electorate work duties, such as walking her dog and minding her children.

“In general terms there are two contrasting perceptions which have been expressed to the Assessment,” the statement said.

“The Member (Ms Husar) expressed that she manages appropriately to achieve higher standards of performance and loyalty. And does so under a heavy workload, intense personal stress and a desire to serve Western Sydney and in particular the cause of victims of domestic violence

Whereas male and female complainants perceive and allege they have found much of the Member’s management offensive and unreasonable.

“After considering all sides of the relevant issues the Assessment has generally favoured the complainant’s perception of events.”

Claims that Ms Husar sexually harassed a staff member were not supported on the “balance of probabilities, while a claim she exposed herself to another federal MP was also not supported.

The investigation into Ms Husar’s office began in March but only became public within recent weeks, with the leak of some of the details of allegations against her.

Ms Husar announced on Wednesday she would step down from politics, hitting out at “faceless” people within the Labor Party who leaked against her.

Labor leader Bill Shorten said Ms Husar had done the right thing by the party when she quit.

“In terms of what she’s done and what she hasn’t done, she will get a chance to read the report and people will learn the lessons,” he said.

“Everyone needs to be treated with respect out of this process and there is little more I can add.”




well there you have it....


bizzare to say the least.....

cods wrote on Aug 10^th, 2018 at 3:13pm:


Particularly cringe worthy considering as it is likely also untrue.

If something that is extremely unlikely to have happened and is denied by all present the odds would say that it most likely never happened.