philperth2010 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 10:45am:
Nope, the investigation was dropped because there is no possibility or prosecution. i.e it is obvious given the information supplied it is fabricated. Its an exoneration. On the evidence she supplied he couldnt have done it, game over. Calls for an inquiry are just plain stupid since the information is already on public record and will exonerate him again.  This is just  a political partisan witch hunt. Give it away, he was the victim of yet another fabricated sexual assault claim of which there are many if not most by a mentally ill female

philperth2010 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 10:45am:



Actually, the woman herself told police to drop the case.

Yep.

philperth2010 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 11:03am:


Not literally the next day, but soon after.  She withdrew the case citing personal and health problems.

tickleandrose wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 8:56am:


The other side of the coin to what I have highlighted is that if an Inquiry is called on the flimsy case against Porter (her former solicitors and the experts advising the police are saying there is insufficient admissible evidence) it will also undermine confidence in our criminal justice processes. Many see the persistent calls for an Inquiry as a muck raking campaign for political purposes and a direct assult on the rule of law and our rights under the criminal justice system.

Unless you want to set up a Star Chamber, this is over.

Aussie suggested an investigation/judicial review by an 'eminent jurist' - trouble is, given some of the decisions made by the courts in the past 20 or so years, where do you find an eminent jurist who is trusted?

Others have called for a Royal Commission, which I think is a bit extreme.. and costly.

Others, including my good self, have called for an independent body to accept and consider such complaints in the political sphere and handle them properly, arriving at giving an issue over to police if it is warranted.  Another Shadow Government, and inevitably empire building would come into it and the 'need' would endlessly arise for more and more staff etc, and more and more power.

Installing Star Chambers such as exist in universities under the feminist totalitarian supremacist regime, is fraught with dangers, not least of which is the approach of guilty until given no chance to prove innocence based on the absurd idea that we must always believe a woman who complains, but never a man who says otherwise.    Might as well proceed directly to the gulags/konzentrationslageren.... and not waste time and money on the intermediate steps - after we bring in guilty by denunciation, of course..

Jest wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 11:28am:


We already have enough 'tribunals', public or private (as in universities etc) that set their own rules and laws... and which in every case clearly favour massively the accuser... even businesses do that with their internal procedures etc about complaints... the accused has little to no chance of any successful defence.... should never have let that genie out of the box...

Jest wrote on Mar 5^th, 2021 at 11:33am:


I have only got that information from the age.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/we-are-not-out-to-destroy-anyone-woman-s-friends-back-inquiry-into-porter-rape-allegations-20210304-p577vf.html

It says:

o Dyer, who was a debater with the woman in the late 1980s, knew a cohort of seven national school champion debaters from that time, which included Mr Porter and the deceased woman. She said the five others in that group all believed the woman when she told them her story decades later.

Lawyers for the family of the woman, who took her own life last year, issued a statement on Thursday expressing the family’s grief, asking for privacy and endorsing an investigation.

“They are supportive of any inquiry which would potentially shed light on the circumstances surrounding the deceased’s passing,” the statement reads.

So in effect, those close friends, + her family + her lawyer, all supported an investigation.   She is not some random stranger from the street who has no relation to Mr Porter at all.   And that is a sticking problem.  There are not enough evidence so far to say that he is guilt or not guilty.  But it is enough to shake the confidence in the position of Attorney General - and that is the problem.