Liberal Party staffer allegedly sexually harassed six women

[Gozu]

Anthony Scrinis who worked for the Liberal Party's spokeswoman on women's issues(!) has resigned after allegedly sexually harassing six women at federal parliament's mid-winter ball on Wednesday night supposedly including grabbing two women's breasts on the dance floor:

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html

[Jimmy_041]

You really need to open your eyes and fix your own backyard Gozu

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[Gozu]

"My backyard"? Nice dirt file though Jimmy, it is noted how manfully you try to defend anything to do with the Liberal Party though. Are you one of their hacks who rigs the polls or juices up the comments section on The Advertiser's website? I hope it pays well

[Psyber]

"My backyard"? Nice dirt file though Jimmy, it is noted how manfully you try to defend anything to do with the Liberal Party though. Are you one of their hacks who rigs the polls or juices up the comments section on The Advertiser's website? I hope it pays well

About as "manfully" as you leap on anything to attack the Libs, Gozu?
Can't take it when someone, one in a while, comes back with bigger and better ammunition in response to your constant sniping?
Did you forge the documents and slip them to MHS to enable your own fight for the ultra-leftist cause???

[Gozu]

Wow. From the moment I started posting on here Jimmy has been the ultimate defender of the Liberal Party. Noting a skewed right-wing bias on here I decided to take up the slack for the Left. Funny you didn't mention anything about sniping with all of those Rannwatch threads. If you can't take the fact I'm one of the very few people on here that defends the left that's your problem, my comment was made in jest with Jimmy.

Just remember Psyber it wasn't me that got on here and tried to talk up the impartiality of The Spectator!

[Psyber]

Wow. From the moment I started posting on here Jimmy has been the ultimate defender of the Liberal Party. Noting a skewed right-wing bias on here I decided to take up the slack for the Left. Funny you didn't mention anything about sniping with all of those Rannwatch threads. If you can't take the fact I'm one of the very few people on here that defends the left that's your problem, my comment was made in jest with Jimmy.
Just remember Psyber it wasn't me that got on here and tried to talk up the impartiality of The Spectator!

Revisionist!
I didn't say The Spectator was impartial. I just quoted it as a source and let the readers decide.
You claimed then that it was biased to the "right" and I don't recall bothering to argue that point...
We all know the truth only appears in Green Left publications.

[Gozu]

You claimed then that it was biased to the "right" and I don't recall bothering to argue that point...

Maybe because you wouldn't even be able to begin to mount an argument otherwise.

We all know the truth only appears in Green Left publications.

When I start posting extracts from the Green Left Weekly (not that I read it) jump on me

[mick]

You claimed then that it was biased to the "right" and I don't recall bothering to argue that point...

Maybe because you wouldn't even be able to begin to mount an argument otherwise.

We all know the truth only appears in Green Left publications.

When I start posting extracts from the Green Left Weekly (not that I read it) jump on me

Does anyone read "Green Left Weekly" ? I havn't seen anyone hawking that paper for years, it used to be a regular thing in the Exeter (Rundle St) at lunchtimes. I'd almost forgotten about it.

[Psyber]

You claimed then that it was biased to the "right" and I don't recall bothering to argue that point...

Maybe because you wouldn't even be able to begin to mount an argument otherwise.

I guess it is all in the perspective. I agree it is rather Conservative [UK style] in its orientation, but since it is also fairly liberal [i.e. democratic] in its approach to issues its perspective suits me.
As I have said before I am liberal first and conservative second, but not committed to the forms that come with capital letters.
I see most publications from the "left" as somewhat authoritarian in tone - it was authoritarianism that turned me away from the "left" after my voting for Gough Whitlam in 1972.
I liked the ideals, but not the righteousness and arrogance that became manifest later when not everone - including the voters in November 1975 - fell into line..

[Jimmy_041]

Wow. From the moment I started posting on here Jimmy has been the ultimate defender of the Liberal Party. Noting a skewed right-wing bias on here I decided to take up the slack for the Left. Funny you didn't mention anything about sniping with all of those Rannwatch threads. If you can't take the fact I'm one of the very few people on here that defends the left that's your problem, my comment was made in jest with Jimmy.

Just remember Psyber it wasn't me that got on here and tried to talk up the impartiality of The Spectator!

If you actually read my posts (with both eyes, its about them being as bad as each other. I dont defend the Liberal Party

My Rannwatch attacks the spin - my alltime favourite was the maintenance on the train windows

And I still cant wait for the source of the leaked documents

[Gozu]

Psyber, It's about as right-wing as you can get with a number of it's past editors going on to join the Conservative Party and you've got to be pretty out there to be a right-wing mag and yet labelled anti-semitic by Jews.

Then you've got the Australian version run by Peter Costello's father in law (and author of his memoirs) and we all know how extreme Costello was what with his far-right religious friends, being a founder of the extremist H.R. Nicholls Society and of course the architect of one of the most ill-fated policies in recent history, WorkChoices which Costello failed to even mention in his book.

[dedja]

So let me try to get a handle on all this ...

It's no big deal that a staffer who worked for a political party's spokeswoman on women's issues resigned because he groped a bunch of women at function because the other side does bad things as well and that's what we expect from them anyway. They're all liars and cheats with no morals but people will die in the ditch for one party over another?

Did I go near to getting that right?

[Gozu]

If you actually read my posts (with both eyes, its about them being as bad as each other. I dont defend the Liberal Party

My Rannwatch attacks the spin - my alltime favourite was the maintenance on the train windows

And I still cant wait for the source of the leaked documents

Nah you don't defend the Liberal Party. Everytime something like this pops up you jump straight in with an "oh well they're just as bad as each other". Yet again trying to shift the focus on to Labor over the naivety and sheer stupidity of MHS who could very well have been set-up by one of the leadership challengers in his own party.

[southee]

Here he goes again.....Gozu up to his usual spin

[Psyber]

I'm all for the abolition of political parties and developing a system of locally based representation with decisons based on consensus or [substantial] majority.
Of course you would need an executive to make urgent decisons, which could then be ratified or reversed after due consideration.
You would have no trouble getting the rabid supporters of all the parties to unite in opposing that and telling us how it couldn't possible work...

It is like the time I told Alexander Downer, face to face, that I thought we had made a mistake agreeing to pay politicians after Federation and should reverse it. He was amused by the idea that "even the Democrats would join us in opposing that!"

[Gozu]

Yeah, nice. Perhaps next time you could ask Downer about that $300m in the AWB scandal. As the great PJK once called him "the idiot son of the aristocracy".

[Jimmy_041]

So let me try to get a handle on all this ...

It's no big deal that a staffer who worked for a political party's spokeswoman on women's issues resigned because he groped a bunch of women at function because the other side does bad things as well and that's what we expect from them anyway. They're all liars and cheats with no morals but people will die in the ditch for one party over another?

Did I go near to getting that right?

No - he's a friggin idiot and should be hanged, drawn and quartered..........and then sacked, then maybe back to Step 1 by his mother

But to politicise it is stupid

[Psyber]

Yeah, nice. Perhaps next time you could ask Downer about that $300m in the AWB scandal. As the great PJK once called him "the idiot son of the aristocracy".

Yes well I would take PK's assessment as accurate of course - that arrogant French clock collecting suit, who pretended to care about the workers, while he did renovations to his house at Rose Bay without council consent and didn't do his tax returns for 2 years...

Alexander is actually, a pleasant guy and good-humoured, an Economics graduate, and, while not the quickest or most aggressive wit in the business, not stupid.

Aristocracy??

His great grandfather came from England in 1838.

His grandfather went to St Peters, and later became a lawyer, then was Premier of SA on two occasions.

His father was educated at Geelong Grammar School and at Oxford University, where he graduated in economics and political science. He practised as a barrister in Adelaide before joining the Australian Army in 1940. He served in Malaya and was a prisoner-of-war for three years. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the rural based Division of Angas. He was Minister for Immigration from 1958 to 1963.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downer_family

Both the Knighthoods in the family - father and gradfather - were awarded for political service as was common practice in those days - but were not heriditary.
None of that makes any of the family aristocracy!

[Jimmy_041]

If you actually read my posts (with both eyes, its about them being as bad as each other. I dont defend the Liberal Party

My Rannwatch attacks the spin - my alltime favourite was the maintenance on the train windows

And I still cant wait for the source of the leaked documents

Nah you don't defend the Liberal Party. Everytime something like this pops up you jump straight in with an "oh well they're just as bad as each other". Yet again trying to shift the focus on to Labor over the naivety and sheer stupidity of MHS who could very well have been set-up by one of the leadership challengers in his own party.

May well have - I'm waiting for the answer, ae you? Or you are quite happy to jump in boots and all because it suits your prejudice? They were very stupid to do what they did, and the emphasis is on they. As I said to you previously, MHS's training should have made him smell an ambush - very silly

Tell me - a hypothetical, if Labor are found to be the provider of the documents..... what's going to happen then?

[Jimmy_041]

At least Downer has some education

Keating was, and remains, a thug and a revisionist to try to legitimise his actions. He is consumed with self grandisation

If I was ever invited to dinner with Keating; I would politely decline - Hawke or Whitlam; I would be honoured to be even asked and would spend all evening asking them questions

The worst thing that ever happened to this country was the legitimisation of Keating by having him elected in his own right......no hang on.....it was the unfortunate outcome of the rejection of GST. The Liberal Party were too honest in their intentions - something the Labor Party would never do.

At the end of his acceptance speech, one of the supporters yelled out: "You can take Paul out of the West, but you cant take the West out of Paul." He quite noticably cringed Sums the man up