Tony Abbott should prove he didn't have an affair with Credlin

[donnashuggy]

He applied this to others, how did they keep this out of the papers?

[amber-eyed-girl]

Well...it's his private life unless it can be shown to have led to detrimental performance at work. Or been a security issue (noone's suggested that I think).

Donna...I'm going to back away slowly from this thread now. If I am told something or read it, I visualise it. Arrrgh.

A rumour believed by many still doesn't make it a fact. It's a fact they believed it, but it in itself is still a rumour.

[donnashuggy]

And this is something that caused the leadership change, if he had have sacked her the votes MAY have kept him there

[amber-eyed-girl]

Nah. Turnbull was gunning for him in his quiet "no, no, I don't want it...but if you insist" way.

Bit hard to sack her if she was doing whatever her work terms were. Wasn't he also responsible for women's policies? Sacking her would have been damning, too. A woman in a powerful position of advising the PM, gets sacked on a rumour. To ostensibly protect him from a spill. Imagine the headlines on that one. Bad for his public image.

Damned if he did, damned if he didn't.

both the rumour and a sacking 😛

[donnashuggy]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:

Nah. Turnbull was gunning for him in his quiet "no, no, I don't want it...but if you insist" way.

Bit hard to sack her if she was doing whatever her work terms were. Wasn't he also responsible for women's policies? Sacking her would have been damning, too. A woman in a powerful position of advising the PM, gets sacked on a rumour.

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From what I have read she was behind a lot of the poor way he performed, that is why others wanted her out. She was behind all the dreadful attacks he made against Julia Gillard too. That did not serve him well.

[***super_nova***]

He was not overthrown because he may have had an affair, he was dumped because he was polling very badly, because he made too many embarrassing gaffs, because he was a laughing stock right around the world, because of his captain calls, and his unwillingness to let Peta and Joe go.  Some people may find his loyalty to PC and JH admirable, however politicians' first loyalty should be with the electorate and their party.  Not their mates.  Their 1st responsibility should be to the people who elected them.

[donnashuggy]

She was a big part of the problem. Her reply to the book states that it was unscourced gossip, I wonder who is going to believe that!

[donnashuggy]

"

Credlin sent a text message to the newspaper's editor in chief, Chris Mitchell. He tells Fairfax Media: "For several months she'd been complaining about Niki and the text said 'I've had enough, you have to sack her'."

Mitchell replied that in 24 years as an editor no political staffer had ever made such a request and that he was shocked that she would ask.

"Then Abbott got on the blower," says Mitchell. "He rang me about 10 minutes after my response to Credlin.

"He asked me why I'd object to Peta's request to sack Niki when I had sacked Glenn Milne [an earlier columnist at The Australian] at Julia Gillard's request. I explained to him that that wasn't what had happened."

Abbott denies asking for Savva's sacking, but Mitchell says that was exactly the interpretation he'd put on the prime minister's call."

http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2015/Shirtfronted/PartTwoPeta.html

[donnashuggy]

Here is another slant on it lol http://noplaceforsheep.com/2016/03/06/why-abbotts-sex-life-is-my-business/

[amber-eyed-girl]

Hey! That link contains the words sex and Abbott in the same sentence!

I know what his personal stand is. Values and morals.

That's why I think he should actually get out there and say NO. If he can. Easy to deny something if it's a truthful denial. For the sake of his credibility on moral issues.

[donnashuggy]

Yes I agree, he should have said the same on abortion which he clearly opposes.