Joe, way to go Mr Hockey, Australians are cheering you on Treasurer
I don't believe that they can and they shouldn't be permitted the chance imo Icy .
ICAC:Hartcher, Watson and the Shovel
IA, Ross Jones 20 May 2014
Chris Hartcher was in ICAC yesterday and so was Sydney bureau chief Ross Jones, who considers where it all will lead.
FOR MINE, the best line of ICAC so far didn’t come from Geoffrey Watson SC, it came from a tenacious Nine journalist Lizzie Pearl, who asked Terrigal MP Chris Hartcher, as he fled through the back entrance of the ICAC building on Castlereagh Street into an adjacent shopping centre:
“Is this really how you wanted your political career to end? Walking through Westfields?”
Hobson’s choice if you are a corrupt liar.
Watson has laid bare the squirming underbelly of the Liberal Party. Beneath the blue ties and the slightly trembling hands lies the truth.
In a Venn diagram of overlapping self-interest, Central Coast MPs, Tinkles, Caputo, Di Girolomo, BO'F, Sinodinos, state government ministers, parvenus and hangers-on have all sat, teeth–bared, in the face of the frigid, howling gale of logic that is ICAC.
I put it to you that you are corrupt?
No.
What about this document that nails you to the wall?
I have no recollection.
But surely that phone call followed by those texts followed by that email followed by those bank transactions means you were in it up to your neck?
I have no specific recollection.
“Oh well," says Geoffrey, “there goes your chance”.
A flicker of doubt, headlights sweep across the prey’s eyes. Too late, it’s all on tape
