Where is the video of Tony Abbott describing Kathy Jackson

[donnashuggy]

As being courageous and decent?

I can't find it.

[monman12]

Interesting , some links in the post take you to...... IA, the self styled Independent Media, independent of balance?

However, why exactly should Pyne et al apologise for a parliamentary motion attempting to undo the attempts by slug Thomson to misuse House "privilege", and wash it down with a few tears? ?

''The former member for Dobell used parliamentary privilege to defame individual members of this House and also individuals outside the Parliament and to mislead the Parliament with a fantastic story that he then did not repeat in court when he had the opportunity to stand by it.''

Oh gosh perhaps there should actually be a bipartisan apology because:

"Labor has joined the Abbott government to pass a parliamentary motion apologising to Health Services Union members for the conduct of convicted former MP Craig Thomson."

[icyfroth]

Employment Minister Eric Abetz says whistleblower Kathy Jackson should be treated no differently to other disgraced union leaders but firmly maintains she was instrumen­tal in lifting the “veil of secrecy” on corruption within the labour movement.

Bill Shorten described it yesterday as the “biggest union fraud in Australia” and attacked Tony Abbott­ and Senator Abetz for praising Ms Jackson when she blew the whistle on former HSU president Michael Williamson and her predeces­sor as national secretary, Craig Thomson.

Senator Abetz said the Oppos­ition Leader was “delighted” by the demise of Ms Jackson for strictly political reasons and not because he wanted to clean up the “rats’ nest” within the union movement.
 

The government has been unable to pass its legislation to revive the Australian Building and Construction Commission or its registered organisations legislation, which would improve union transparency and governance.

“What I would say to Bill Shorten, if he is so concerned: support our registered organisations commission legislation, which would require the same standard basic­ally of union officials as that of company directors,” he said.

Senator Abetz seized on Mr Shorten’s condemnation of Ms Jackson to question why he had not taken a similarly critical approach­ to the findings from the royal commission: there have been four arrests and 30 ­people referred for possible charges.

Entire Article Here

Not sure if  the article's blocked seeings it's  from the Australian.

[tezza2844]

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@monman12 wrote:

Interesting , some links in the post take you to...... IA, the self styled Independent Media, independent of balance?

However, why exactly should Pyne et al apologise for a parliamentary motion attempting to undo the attempts by slug Thomson to misuse House "privilege", and wash it down with a few tears? ?

''The former member for Dobell used parliamentary privilege to defame individual members of this House and also individuals outside the Parliament and to mislead the Parliament with a fantastic story that he then did not repeat in court when he had the opportunity to stand by it.''

Oh gosh perhaps there should actually be a bipartisan apology because:

"Labor has joined the Abbott government to pass a parliamentary motion apologising to Health Services Union members for the conduct of convicted former MP Craig Thomson."

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Yes you are spot on, some links go to the independent media and even to the SMH. I usually find the Independent media (Left, Right, Centre or even Green) better inform than the news Ltd outlets.

Whilst Labor may have joined in with the Government , the apology was to the members of the HSU. At no stage do I recall the Labor party prasing Kathy Jackson.

As for speech Thomson made here is a link to that:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/craig-thomsons-full-address-to-parliament-2012...