Nash accepts staffer's resignation

[grandmoon]

Abbott government minister Fiona Nash has accepted the resignation of a senior staffer embroiled in a row over the taking down of a health food ratings website.

The resignation of Alastair Furnival came just hours after the assistant health minister expressed confidence in her chief of staff.

Senator Nash had told reporters in Sydney on Friday that Mr Furnival had done a "terrific job".

Later, in a statement, the minister said she had accepted his resignation with regret and thanked him for his service.

Senator Nash has been under pressure to explain what role Mr Furnival played in the take-down of the website after just 20 hours of operation.

He retains a shareholding in the lobbying firm Australian Public Affairs, operated by his wife Tracey Cain, which represents food industry opponents of the website including Kraft and Cadbury.

Labor insists there has been a serious breach of the ministerial staff code of conduct with opposition Senate leader Penny Wong accusing Senator Nash of misleading parliament twice in three days.

[lakeland27]

snakes in the grass (sorry spot)

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@am*3 wrote:
That 3 finger hand sign is from Girl Guides/Scouts I think. A promise.

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When I was a little wolfcub and you were a brownie

We did all the things a wolf cub and brownie should do.

I wanted to be a boyscout so I could salute you

with three fingers vertical instead of just two'

(Paddy Roberts) http://ratiocinativa.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/follow-me-paddy-roberts/

[freakiness]

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@debra9275 wrote:
Apologies for bumping an older thread but they just did a segment on her on the 7.30 report 🙂

How do they do it?? Turn a blatant lie into a " mistake" lol

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And how do they get away with refusing to answer questions?

Abbott just refuses to answer. After the way he carried on over all those opposite since he's been in parliament he now just refuses to answer anything that doesn't suit his agenda.  After all the talk about transparency, honesty and the adults being in charge (joke that that slogan is).

[boris1gary]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:
That 3 finger hand sign is from Girl Guides/Scouts I think. A promise.

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When I was a little wolfcub and you were a brownie

We did all the things a wolf cub and brownie should do.

I wanted to be a boyscout so I could salute you

with three fingers vertical instead of just two'

(Paddy Roberts) http://ratiocinativa.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/follow-me-paddy-roberts/

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I thought she was trying a sleight of hand trick.

was no one else a sunbeam?

[lakeland27]

Furnival rode with Abbott on the ''Pollie pedal'' . Cadbury (who furnival represents among others) were a sponsor of the Pollie Pedal

Cadbury recieved a governent bail out. Abbott claimed it on his taxpayer funded expenses. furnival was paid by cadbury 

[boris1gary]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/fiona-nash-has-been-poor-the-pm-must-be-...

Senator Nash's performance as the minister in the gun, has been consistently dismal, and yet strangely resolute.

Her approach, from what is an extremely weak position, has been orthodox tuck-and-roll politics, no doubt urged on her by a nervous prime ministerial office eager to keep its man out of it.

Protect, deflect, minimise. That's the three-stage process for ministers who stuff up and threaten the wider show - and particularly the Prime Minister himself.

Protect the PM, deflect any attempt to get at the detail, and minimise the governmental target at all times.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/fiona-nash-has-been-poor-the-pm-must-be-wor...

[debra9275]

It 's a dirty business LL