Why isn't this a headline?

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If it was Rudd's guy whole hell would have broken loose:

http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/1658760/tony-abbotts-chief-of-staff-peta-credlin-pleads-guil...

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@catmad*2013 wrote:

Yep.. news here too... 

But why should it be a headline?? 

She was low range... I never drink and drive.. not even one drink...  but this is not that newsworthy.. 

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That's the whole point, Catad, it's not newsworthy and has no bearing on the credibility or otherwise of LNP policies anymore than Craig thomson's allegedpersonal misdeeds have any bearing on ALP policies.  However,  if it had been Rudd's chief of staff who got caught, the Murdoch papers would have been all over it like a rash.

[i-once-was-bump]

I live in NSW and it was headlines when it happened.

Also in NSW we have way too many magistrates willing to let those with high or low profiles and totally anonomous people get off without recording a conviction.

There is nothing special about this case and the request for no conviction to be recorded, it is too close to the norm for us here.

Spend a week or two in the Magiestrates' courts and see how many get off for low range drink driving, it makes me wonder why the police bother taking them to court but I suppose they need to so that when the person has racked up enough convictions and lost their licence for 38 years or so and owe thousands in fines someone might actually take some action.

I am a Liberal leaning voter and I think that anyone one in a high profile job should live to a higher standard than those they preach to, but then I have seen a family destroyed by an only child being killed by a drunk driver going through a red light and that driver lost their licence for 6 months.

We are really tough in NSW when it comes to drink driving.