Sinodinos

[donnashuggy]

What is your favourite article so far? I like to be entertained by what I read and this pretty good

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/no-martha-defence-for-arthur-sinodinos-20140321-358cd.html

Do you think the name Arfur might stick?  I love it.

[monman12]

DY we do have had this topic currently running elsewhere, but it is your daily diss choice

"What is your favourite article so far?:"
As you have linked to a Carlton article DY, how about this one of his from the SMH a while ago:
"there is something badly rotten in the Labor Party around the country at the moment. Let me count the ways:"

However the pièce de résistance must be Carlton's comment regarding the highly   malodorous Thomson,  much defended for some reason  by the pink gang here:
"Poor form to kick a man while he's down, I know, but Craig Thomson is too tempting a target. Thief, cheat, scoundrel and liar, he well deserves the beating he is getting.

The plush brothels, the iced champagne for the "ladies", the hotel room porn are not the problem. It's the way he brazenly ripped off the rank and file of the Health Services Union that is so disgusting. Arrogantly, deceitfully, he frolicked in the high life on the backs of workers lucky to be making $35,000 a year."

A bonus DY,  Carlton's comments encompass 2 threads, and as you say "I like to be entertained by what I read" and that certainly is "pretty good".

[donnashuggy]

He's a great writer isn't he? What do you think about the name Arfur? Rather fitting eh?

I know you won't answer but how many times have I defended Craig Thompson? 

[just_me_karen]

There can never be enough threads about the corrupt Libs. I hope someone starts another one tomorrow.

I'm disappointed there isn't more attention given to the lib corruption behind the slipper affair.

[monman12]

"Arfur" has been taken DY, Keating dubbed Brtian Burke  (WA ALP) with that title a fair while ago

"I know you won't answer but how many times have I defended Craig Thompson?"
Well you are wrong already  DY because I have answered.  As for: "how many times have I defended Craig Thompson?" you should know that,  and I deliberately  wrote "much (not always) defended for some reason  by the pink gang here".

"There can never be enough threads about the corrupt Libs." I know a good cathartic treatment does help PPTSD JMK. However you will be hard put to trump  any threads about convicted corrupt ALP/union  hacks.

nɥºɾ

[lakeland27]

 MM i defended thomson because of what i knew about 'whistleblower' Kathy jackson and her crew. i've never defended williamson.

'' a 49-page schedule of charges, detailing a long list of concerns that have been raised about Ms Jackson's role over many years, Daniel Govan alleges union elections were corrupted by spending without proper authority, that $58,000 was paid into an account in the name of Ms Jackson's former husband, an $84,000 luxury Volvo XC90 was bought with a $5000 unexplained invoice discrepancy, and payments were made to a childcare centre known to be used by Ms Jackson.

Mr Govan says Ms Jackson has made allegations against others "in a way that disguises or omits her role in the wrongdoing".

He accuses her of "dishonesty of the most Machiavellian kind".

 there's plenty more, and she'll face court eventually.

[donnashuggy]

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@monman12 wrote:

"Arfur" has been taken DY, Keating dubbed Brtian Burke  (WA ALP) with that title a fair while ago

"I know you won't answer but how many times have I defended Craig Thompson?"
Well you are wrong already  DY because I have answered.  As for: "how many times have I defended Craig Thompson?" you should know that,  and I deliberately  wrote "much (not always) defended for some reason  by the pink gang here".

"There can never be enough threads about the corrupt Libs." I know a good cathartic treatment does help PPTSD JMK. However you will be hard put to trump  any threads about convicted corrupt ALP/union  hacks.

nɥºɾ

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Incorrect, I don't recall ever defending him. If you like I could lump you with nero. Pink gang? Can you come up with something better?

[spotweldersfriend]

What's the latest news! Anyone?

[boris1gary]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/icac-hearing-senator-arthur-sinodinos-silk-...

ICAC hearing: Senator Arthur Sinodinos' silk had something of a shocker

Senator Arthur Sinodinos' strategy to salvage his reputation by paying top dollar for a senior silk at a corruption inquiry ended in disaster.

It didn't start off too well when Tony Bannon, SC, called the witness a ''smart-**bleep**''. Sarcastic asides about witnesses are not picked up on the microphones at the superior courts where Mr Bannon normally plies his expensive trade. But to the silk's horror, his cutting comment about the witness reverberated around the hearing room.

Giving evidence was Rod De Aboitiz, who had needled Mr Bannon by referring to his client as the former assistant treasurer.

De Aboitiz corrected Mr Bannon's pronunciation of names, though Mr Bannon's occasional calling his own client Mr ''Sidonis" was left to go through to the keeper

The former assistant treasurer's high-powered legal team had demanded that Mr De Aboitiz be recalled so that they could give him a proper grilling about his meeting with Senator Sinodinos in May 2010. Previously Mr De Aboitiz had given evidence that he warned Senator Sinodinos, then the deputy chairman of Australian Water Holdings, that the company was running up huge debts and was on the brink of insolvency. Directors can be prosecuted for allowing their company to trade while insolvent.

Mr De Aboitiz's previous evidence that he referred Senator Sinodinos to AWH's Liberal Party debts may also contradict Senator Sinodinos' claims to Parliament last year that he was unaware of donations to the party. Mr De Aboitiz's evidence may very well contradict what Mr Sinodinos has told ICAC in private hearings.

''I didn't go into specific figures, with Mr Sinodinos because I had already …'' Mr De Aboitiz began before Mr Bannon cut him off, saying ''I just want to know whether you did or didn't''.

''He should be allowed to answer,'' counsel assisting, Geoffrey Watson, SC, said.

''I suggest not,'' Mr Bannon said.

''Then why am I here?" the witness demanded

[spotweldersfriend]

Thanks boris.All going tickety boo by the sounds of it.