Senator Brandis, who provided documents to police on the earlier allegations, said the new claims were “very serious”.

“I am writing to you to request that, in accordance with your standard procedures, you make an assessment and, if appropriate, direct your officers to make an investigation into those allegations in order to determine whether an offence against the law of New South Wales has been committed by Thomson,” Senator Brandis said in his letter to Mr Scipione.

“This would appear to attract the operation of section 249B of the Crimes Act.”

Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese accused the opposition of acting like a “quasi police force” by referring the new allegations to police.

He said politicians should not interfere in the judicial process and the latest reports were simply allegations.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/coalitions-george-brandis-refers-second-set-of-craig-thomson-claims-to-nsw-police/story-fn59niix-1226133189475

"[The Government is] in effect condoning workplace sexual harassment, because that's what they've done by their flippant attitude to this case," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-24/gillard-fires-back-over-sexual-harassment/3968894?WT.svl=news1

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Beware. Brandis finds every one guilty of the worst crime, even if (denied) allegations of whatever have not been confirmed... As a would be atorney general, Brandis is the worst fantasist to vie for the job... He is a vindictive political dog with NO RESPECT FOR THE DUE PROCESSES of the law...

He should resign from parliament or be thrown out.

Embattled Labor MP Craig Thomson has announced he will leave the party and sit on the crossbenches as an independent.

The federal member for Dobell, on New South Wales' central coast, has been at the centre of scandal and controversy for years now regarding spending and credit card expenditure at the Health Services Union.

He has denied the allegations.

Last week the Government took the extreme step of seeking a Federal Court intervention to appoint an administrator to the Health Services Union (HSU)'s east branch.

Fair Work Australia has just completed an investigation into the HSU and Mr Thomson and it is due to make its report public soon.

Mr Thomson's resignation from the Labor Party today indicates he may be fearing the fallout from that report.

In terms of numbers, Mr Thomson's resignation leaves Labor and the Coalition effectively tied, however it is expected he will continue to vote with his former party.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-29/craig-thomson-leaves-labor-party/3978614

6. If Peter Slipper was involved in an alleged improper incident with a staffer in 2003, someone from the Prime Minister’s office (John Howard’s) covered it up, only to bring it to Ashby’s attention in 2012 for political reasons.

7. James Ashby’s legal action is being funded pro bono by Harmer’s Workplace Lawyers, as well as a mystery donor from the Liberal Party, who has apparently given him $100,000 worth of legal work for $1. Why?

8. Why wasn’t this complaint handled under the normal procedures for workplace sexual harassment? If a normal (and not apparently politically motivated) procedure in these cases had been followed by Ashby, then there would have been a completely different outcome. This is demonstrated by a report called ‘Formal Complaints of Workplace Sexual Harassment Lodged with Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissions 1 July 2009 – 31 December 2009‘, which said that in 132 cases studied:

‘The lowest amount of compensation received was $364 and the largest was $114,128, with an average amount of $13,596.31 per complainant and a median compensation figure of $7,000. Some gender differences were noted regarding the amount of compensation received, with only female complainants receiving payments greater than $50,000.’

So, if this had been handled under the normal procedures which exist for sexual harassment complaints, the complaint would have already been resolved, the Government would not have had to pay $3/4 million in legal expenses.

Of course, if Slipper’s alleged 2003 behaviour had not apparently been covered up by Liberal Party staffers, Eric Abetz would not have any cause for complaint. That’s unless it is a politically motivated concoction dreamt up to smear and further defame Slipper and assist Ashby’s claims.

So, in conclusion, let me reiterate my agreement with Paul Sheehan on the one part of the article I agree with:

‘The political mischief in this case has never been in doubt.’

Finally, let’s look at what has happened politically.

Peter Slipper has been outed as having used vile text language.

He has resigned as Speaker.

He is probably very pissed off with his former colleagues in the Liberal party.

The Government still has a firm hold on power.

The people of Australia are $750,000 worse off, perhaps because of a cover-up by the Liberal Party in 2003.

Tony  Abbott is still Opposition Leader, not the Prime Minister.

Nicola Roxon is still Attorney-General. Having done nothing wrong.

And the bleaters are still bleating, but fewer and fewer people are listening.

read more: http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/the-alleged-peter-slipper-cover-up/

And a-Paul-ling Sheehan writes crap as usual... see toon at top.