Medich money a little embarrassing for Labor
Federal Labor’s deputy leader Tanya Plibersek gives a masterclass in Brisbane on avoiding responsibility, yesterday:
Reporter: So the federal Labor Party isn’t going to be intervening and ordering the NSW Labor Party to pay back that money (from convicted murderer Ron Medich)?
Plibersek: It’s really a decision for the NSW branch. It’s not my decision. I am not going to defend it.
Reporter: Do you have a personal view, though?
Plibersek: I am not going to go into personal views. It’s not my decision, I am not going to defend it.
Reporter: Do you think they should have put the money aside rather than spending it?
Plibersek: Like I say, I’m not going to defend the decision that I have got no part in making. It’s best that you save your questions for the secretary of the NSW branch of the Labor Party.
You’d think Labor would be desperate to get rid of any trace of Medich. The Australian, December 1, 2011:
Accused murderer and multi-millionaire property developer Ron Medich has admitted he had helped organise a prostitute for the former NSW Labor energy minister Ian Macdonald.
Labor MP Ed Husic repeats the party line on Sky News, yesterday:
It’s really a matter that the organisational wing of the party will deal with.
What a way they’ve dealt with it. A spokeswoman for NSW Labor, Monday:
Considering there has been a complete overhaul of donation laws since that time, we do not intend refunding money that was spent many years ago.
Time for Tanya to put her foot down? Plibersek in Brisbane, yesterday:
I’ll say this, I wouldn’t accept the money if it were me. I wouldn’t accept the money.
Elsewhere, junior Liberal minister Michael Sukkar’s comments at a November 2016 meeting have garnered some attention. Reported in Melbourne’s Herald Sun, yesterday:
The last bastion, the last vestige of conservatism which is the Liberal Party … they’re (lefties) trying to get their way into. And like termites, they’ll get in and they’ll eat us …
Termites? Really? What termites? Christopher Pyne speaking at the Black Hand dinner in Sydney, June 22 last year:
I would say that our fortunes are pretty good at the moment. And most of your senior cabinet ministers — George Brandis, Marise Payne, yours truly — quite a few of us are very senior ministers in a Turnbull government. George (Brandis) and I kept the faith. We voted for Malcolm Turnbull in every ballot he’s ever been in.
Finally, while all the lefties are doing this … Change.org director Sally Rugg on Twitter, April 16:
What if thousands of us all tweeted “lest we forget (Manus)” next week on April 25th …
Just remember stories such as this one. Former prisoner of war Colin Hamley talks about his brother Don in The Australian, yesterday:
In early February 1943 … we passed a group of prisoners working on the railway and among them was my brother. He must have heard we were coming through. He called out and threw a hatful of cigarettes up to me. Cigarettes were like money, and that was the last time I saw him.
Ignore the bitter lefties. One thing, and one thing only, matters today. The Fallen, Laurence Binyon, 1914:
We will remember them.