Matthias Corman Resigns

[icyfroth]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, one of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s most senior Cabinet members, says he is retiring from politics at the end of the year.

Belgium-born Cormann, who has been finance minister since 2013, entered federal politics in 2007 and became the leader of the government in the Senate, the upper house of Parliament, in 2017.

His decision to remove his support for former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and instead support Peter Dutton was seen as a major reason for the 2018 change that led to Morrison becoming the country’s leader.

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[joztamps]

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

Save your sarcasm it's childish.

This rort happened early 2019 I think and some of us don't eat and sleep politics,  particularly when since then there have been so many   corruptions/scandals , both left and right, that you need to ..... well....eat and sleep politics to keep abreast. 

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What is childish is the suggestion that you have to "eat and sleep politics" to remember for just a couple of years that the country's Finance Minister was caught red-handed taking a bribe, and was allowed to get away with it scot-free.

[icyfroth]

That doesn't make him "crooked".

[davewil1964]

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@icyfroth wrote:
That doesn't make him "crooked".

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Of course not.

One accepted bribe doesn't mean he's a crook. Or untrustworthy.

I'd be interested to know how many bribe-takings you consider the trigger.

Of course you won't come up with a number (given that ONE is the trigger) because you are only interested in sowing dissent.

[davidc4430]

i'm gonna miss him, he was a guy with a heart and was allways thinking of the little people

[davidc4430]

[myoclon1cjerk]

Mr Cormann's legacy.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/07/06/mathias-cormann-quits-pascoe/

[davidc4430]

and when will we learn of the cushy overseas posting he will have to endure for the next umpteen years?

hard to break that seal of mouth on public money teet

[icyfroth]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:
That doesn't make him "crooked".

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Of course not.

One accepted bribe doesn't mean he's a crook. Or untrustworthy.

I'd be interested to know how many bribe-takings you consider the trigger.

Of course you won't come up with a number (given that ONE is the trigger) because you are only interested in sowing dissent.

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The nasty is strong within you, methinks...

[myoclon1cjerk]

Was that a riposte? 😄

[lyhargr_0]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

and when will we learn of the cushy overseas posting he will have to endure for the next umpteen years?

hard to break that seal of mouth on public money teet

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Not just the Libs get those .................