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Once again, the rank hypocrisy of the left is as staggering as it is predictable.
In 2021, multiple left-media sites accused Liberal MP Andrew Laming of ‘upskirting’ a woman. Laming was vilified for weeks, except it was all a lie. Nine Entertainment was forced to issue an apology and pay damages – but the smear campaign had done its work.
At almost exactly the same time, the left-media led a spurious witch-hunt against Morrison government minister Christian Porter, accusing him of being a rapist. Although Porter was vindicated, the scandal ended his career.
If only those men had been on the left, they’d have been protected furiously by the legacy media. When Labor leader Bill Shorten was similarly accused of rape, the legacy media couldn’t have been less interested.
As for PM Anthony Albanese’s promise to ‘lift the standards’ of MPs’ behaviour…
The coalition has accused the Assistant Minister for Women, Rebecca White, of breaching the ministerial code of conduct, after a complaint was lodged about a late-night conversation between her and two Tasmanian Labor MPs at the Taste of Summer festival in Hobart.
After attending the foodie festival as part of a group of state and federal Labor MPs, Ms White became the subject of a written complaint from a Liberal Party member sat within earshot of the group, which accused her of engaging in a game of “shoot, shag, marry” – discussing the desirability of various Liberal MPs.
Just a typical drunken girls’ night out? Maybe, but flip the script: imagine the unholy meltdown if they were conservative men. More importantly, their behaviour is, prima facie, a breach of the ministerial code of conduct.
The code’s key principles include requirements that ministers “act with due regard for integrity, fairness, accountability and responsibility – including in a private capacity” – which the coalition argues Ms White breached during the ranking of her parliamentary colleagues.
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Fairly open and shut? But this is the left we’re dealing with, remember.
The left who pontificate about making parliament ‘women friendly’ – and then proceed to not only bully one of their own colleagues into an early grave, but also a respected female minister out of her job.
Senator James McGrath said the exchange summed up the government’s “disregard for the Australian people”.
“Let’s be clear, this is a government which has a culture problem both in the way they govern and in the way they treat anyone who stands to correct them and call them out,” he said.
The affair also highlights the pitfalls of Labor’s quota system, which repeatedly promotes second-rate women into jobs they’re clearly not up to, solely on the basis of possessing a vagina. Former member of the ‘Mean Girls’ triumvirate who so horribly bullied the late Kimberley Kitching – Kristina Keneally, for instance. Keneally was repeated parachuted by Labor into safe jobs, including the premiership of NSW (a job she got after knifing the incumbent), only to be booted out again by voters. It was only after Keneally achieved the remarkable feat of losing a seat Labor had held for its entire existence that the party finally gave up on repeatedly dumping such a turd in the electoral punchbowl.
Similarly, Rebecca White has previously only distinguished herself as a three-time loser. In three elections over five years, White lost Tasmanian state elections to the Liberals.
This is exactly the sort of female talent the left’s quota is there to promote.
Ms White, a former Tasmanian opposition leader who won the federal seat of Lyons at the last election and was immediately made an assistant minister, reiterated an apology to the complainant on the day the complaint was made, which is understood to have been accepted.
“I unreservedly apologise for offending you and appreciate you making direct contact to share your feedback,” she wrote.
Note the mealy mouthed Clayton’s apology. Apologising, not for what she did, but “for offending you”. It’s just a vicious rumour that the phrase, ‘but they were asking for it’ was excised by a frantic party official.
All this is just SOP for Labor’s troughers and quota queens.
The calls for Anthony Albanese to scrutinise his minister’s behaviour follow similar demands made over Anika Wells use of parliamentary travel entitlements to fly her family to a slew of sporting fixtures and the Thredbo ski fields.
“The Prime Minister failed to hold Minister Wells to account; this is his chance to show leadership and integrity when it comes to the standards of his code of conduct, his chance to put a stop to derogatory and sexual insensitivity,” Senator McGrath said.
