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Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

icyfroth — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 01:16:49 GMT

Labor's shadow minister for multicultural interests Margaret Quirk has been forced into an embarrassing apology in State Parliament after she wrongly linked two Liberal MPs to the alleged crime family at the centre of raids at a Carabooda market gardening business.

Yesterday, Ms Quirk acknowledged she was trying to link Mr Miles and Mr Castrilli to criminal activity when she made a speech on the evening of May 15 asking Mr Miles what "due diligence" he had done before backing Mr Le's call for more seasonal workers from Vietnam and China to be allowed into the country.

In her speech, she also asked Mr Miles if he or the Liberal Party had received any campaign donations from Mr Le.

"My constituent, Mr Thang Le of Gnangara is alive and well," Mr Miles told Parliament late on Tuesday.

"He has nothing to do with the Le family of Carabooda or the Le family in Neerabup.

"They are not even part of the same Vietnamese community or group."

An hour later, Ms Quirk told Parliament she "unequivocally apologised" for the error.

"I'm very careful with my facts and I'm just very sad that it was incorrect."

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Tut tut Ms Quirk. You'd never get away with not checking your facts on CS

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

bluecat*dancing — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:09:05 GMT

She made a mistake: she apologised. Unlike the Libs who make mistake after mistake but are too arrogant and dismissive to admit it, let alone apologise.

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

hargrlynet — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:29:46 GMT

OMG she is HUMAN, she made a mistake .... how dare she?????

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

kilroy_is_here — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:34:29 GMT

If she made that mistake out side of parliament she would be up for thousands of dollars and a trip to court , she has a major responsibility as a member of parliament to make sure that the information she uses under parliamentary privilege is true and accurate as it impacts on peoples lives out side of the safety she enjoys , she played a game of chess where the piece on the board are real life people , it's time all pollititions realised just because they are protected does not mean those they use are, remove parliamentary privilege and see how quick these idiots clean up their act.

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

icyfroth — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:08:05 GMT

@hargrlynet wrote:
OMG she is HUMAN, she made a mistake .... how dare she?????

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

icyfroth — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:20:56 GMT

@hargrlynet wrote:
OMG she is HUMAN, she made a mistake .... how dare she?????

Yes how dare she? It's not only quite a serious allegation but also quite stupid not to get your facts right before you accuse a member of parliament of links to crime gangs (families).

She obviously didn't take "due diligence" about being "careful of her facts" when she questioned Mr Miles.

If it had've been Liberal Minister accusing a Labor MP the uproar would have been deafening.

Making mistakes is obviously "only HUMAN" when Labor ministers make them.

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

pct001wine — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:26:30 GMT

Our dear ex-leader of the opposition here in SA accused our Electoral Commissioner of being "utterly corrupt" under parliamentary privilege. Apparently she apologised later (though I can't find any record of that). I don't think this sort of stupidity is limited to one party, or the outrage is different according to who perpetrates it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-22/isobel-redmond-calls-electoral-commissioner-kay-mousley-corrupt/5468092

Re: Bid To Smear Libs Backfires

nero_bolt — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:32:07 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
@hargrlynet wrote:
OMG she is HUMAN, she made a mistake .... how dare she?????

Yes how dare she? It's not only quite a serious allegation but also quite stupid not to get your facts right before you accuse a member of parliament of links to crime gangs (families).

She obviously didn't take "due diligence" about being "careful of her facts" when she questioned Mr Miles.

If it had've been Liberal Minister accusing a Labor MP the uproar would have been deafening.

Making mistakes is obviously "only HUMAN" when Labor ministers make them.

I would agree KUDOS to you icy