LNP giving "mates" favor, has the corruption started?
copuis
Brisbane, Queensland
2858 posts
This might be more a faceman type post, but it looks like clive palmer is been able to challenge his speeding ticket and the LNP is ordering the police to allow it
This isn't the first "mates" favour he's done so far.
I'm guessing he owes a lot of people, those 10 metre tall anti-ALP posters in Ashgrove weren't cheap.
cunt thinks he's above the law because he's cashed up.. hey I probably would too if I was that rich but I wouldn't be a douche and not pay a measely speeding fine.
1) Misuse of power by the LNP government.
2) What judge is going to accept this? Clive will get spanked like a naughty boy in a court.
3) This sets a precedent. Will it be allowed for all or is it just for Clive?
Looks all chummy on the outside but if I fucked up like Clive has I would just accept whatever penalty and move on. Taking it in to court is bad publicity not to mention a judge tearing you a new one is bad all round.
A spokesman for Transport Minister Scott Emerson last night said it was his understanding the matter had been referred to the State Penalties Enforcement Registry (SPER) under the normal process of dealing with unpaid fines.
There is no suggestion that Mr Palmer sought a favourable decision from the Government.
Barrister Joseph Crowley said there were provisions to appeal against a fine that had been referred to SPER, based on "exceptional" circumstances.
"This is not unprecedented, but it is highly unusual," Mr Crowley said. "There is provision for it in the legislation."
Seems like a non-story. Of course it's not usual, most people don't have billions and 6 figure lawers on retainer.
People with money to fight charges, fight charges. News at 11.
The ABC is reporting about some kiddie games being played in parliament. With abbot and some other guy bolting for the door because Thomson was going to vote for them, or something.
Anyway, apparently it is the rules that if someone can get out of the room in time his vote is negated. I, and I'm sure many of you, have seen very similar rules for games children make up in the playground of primary school. Gives me awesome feelings that our country is being run bound on rules that children make up.
While the LNP might like his money, I'm pretty sure most of the party view him as some sort of insane liability. He didn't win any friends when he announced that he wanted to run against Swan.
Tollazor, there's actually a damned good reason that the Federal Opposition didn't want to gain an advantage by having Craig Thomson voting with them against the Government. It's actually ALP douchebaggery that's behind it.
Sure did today, even with Tony's marathon experience he still couldn't run fast enough.
Yeah Abbott's skills seem to be entirely long distance running, not sprinting.
Must be tough to make the dash in a tailored suit compared to budgie smugglers as well.
Pyne should have realised poodles have little legs and he wouldn't have made it to the door. Abbott on the otherhand bodysurfed a wave which dumped him out the door and it took ages to find his budgie smugglers amongst the foam.
for someone claiming he doesn't want more media attention as it may push him to the brink he sure seems to be going out of his way to grab more media attention
for someone claiming he doesn't want more media attention as it may push him to the brink he sure seems to be going out of his way to grab more media attention
I'd say it was more of a case of "Abbott getting some of his own shit thrown back".
I suppose if you're going to be a turd and throw around turds then expect it to rain turds and on occasion misplace your umbrella.
LOL. I'd actually debate that but why bother, you have no interest in hearing any other opinion but your own and those that echo the same. I couldn't give a toss about Abbott nor Gillard, just have to laugh at all the excuses people make for either.
Obviously it's the former Bligh Labor government's fault that Clive Palmer has to put up with a 28 day limit to pay his fine, and the Newman LNP government will rectify this oversight in due course.
I'm with Clive Palmer on this. I missed my appeal time limit due to being out of country and it was a bureaucratic pain in the ass to get it seen to. Took ages but got sorted. Fuck bureaucrats. Just a shame Newman won't cut through the red tape for everyone :p
That's fair enough, I suppose. Just as long as you're hating the game, not the players.
wait, when the players get to decide the rule of the game? who is responsible for the childish games they play? considering these idiots make the rules its entirely appropriate to blame them.
there's actually a damned good reason that the Federal Opposition didn't want to gain an advantage by having Craig Thomson voting with them against the Government.
i'd love to hear a GOOD reason, there are a few reasons, none of them good, most of them subvert the entire point of a representative democracy to maintain party power.
there's actually a damned good reason that the Federal Opposition didn't want to gain an advantage by having Craig Thomson voting with them against the Government.
There is no GOODreason.
There is a political point scoring might look good in the papers reason.
Australian politics is such a pile of horseshit now. People don't vote for good legislation. They vote yes or no based on who had the idea.
Tollazor, there's actually a damned good reason that the Federal Opposition didn't want to gain an advantage by having Craig Thomson voting with them against the Government. It's actually ALP douchebaggery that's behind it.
lol.
So, you're blaming them for having to follow the established process to negate his vote? I'm confused :S
lol lol.
To paraphrase Anna Burke, Deputy Speaker, the whole theory of accepting or negating a vote is a fallacy and is nonsense.
They had to run out because they backed themselves into a corner and couldn't be seen to support Craig Thompson's vote when they've been calling out the Government for "accepting" his vote.
don't forget the millions upon millions of union donations that have funded the ALP since its inception and the Union domination of the ALP organisation which has driven the ALP legislative agenda the whole time it has been in government.
the complainers make clive sound like a trailblazer. the Australian union movement runs the ALP both financially and organisationally.
Palmer has absolutely no organisational or policy power in the LNP. So which party is actually controlled by external forces.....
so it's ok for labor to be run by a corrupt union movement of people who are not ACTUALLY ELECTED to the ALP (remember that, the union officials are not elected politicians) and that bears no semblance of a transparent organisation - in fact less transparent than any ASIC regulated businesses.
BUT, it is so wrong for businesses to donate to the liberal party? wtf?
as to the palmer issue and the traffic appeal, does anyone have any evidence of anything besides a 250 word newspaper article?
there is nothing wrong in donating till the cows come home.
there is something wrong with donating to a political party in an effort to lobby for laws to be or not be passed to suit individual agendas at the expense of everyone else.
otherwise you have the farcical state of affairs that exists in america which is a plutocracy in all but official name.
so it's ok for labor to be run by a corrupt union movement of people who are not ACTUALLY ELECTED to the ALP (remember that, the union officials are not elected politicians) and that bears no semblance of a transparent organisation - in fact less transparent than any ASIC regulated businesses.
BUT, it is so wrong for businesses to donate to the liberal party? wtf?
as to the palmer issue and the traffic appeal, does anyone have any evidence of anything besides a 250 word newspaper article?
QPS media responded, and basically said that the matter had been referred to them from sper, and they had to re-look at it because sper asked them to
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