Government Arseclown George Brandis

[Contra Mundum]

Refuses to explain the term "facilitate". This is quite bad.

They all rabbit on about the sacred duties of parliamentarians and then don't answera direct and relevant question - the man is the worst federal attorney we have ever had

 

[raghav]

They all rabbit on about the sacred duties of parliamentarians and then don't answera direct and relevant question - the man is the worst federal attorney we have ever had

Aided and abetted by the worst and most biased speaker the House of Reps has ever had.

 

[Play by Numbers]

Not above using current events to push his agenda.

George Brandis still struggling with metadata

While it is perhaps unsurprising, the Attorney-General's latest attempt to use the Sydney siege and recent events in France as justifications for the government's mandatory data retention laws is as distasteful as it is misleading.

It's difficult to know whether he is being deliberately disingenuous or whether his understanding of the detail of what he is proposing has not advanced significantly since his spectacular failure to explain it to Sky News presenter David Speers in August last year.

The problem with citing France and Sydney as examples, apart from leveraging a number of tragic deaths for political gain, is that they are in fact fairly strong cases of why mandatory data retention may not be the critical necessity he asserts it to be.

 

[Play by Numbers]

It seems meta data Brandis and his authoritarian streak may have gotten himself into trouble.

How close was his office to offering an inducement?

A fine line he has straddled, though his contempt for statutory independance and a free and open society is on display

 

[Pessimistic]

Spending money to store the 'LOL' messages yet considering gutting the national census ?

Is this the party which patted itself on the back when it described the NBN as 'high speed pr0n' ?

Theyve got so good at opposition theve become incapable of governing

 

[Dry Rot]

Seems Brandis might be in a little hot water re Prof Twiggs

Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus wrote to the AFP Commissioner seeking an immediate investigation and possible prosecution regarding the conduct of Senator Brandis.

"The Attorney-General's offer to an independent statutory officer of an inducement to resign her position as president, with the object of affecting the leadership of the AHRC to avoid political damage to the Abbott Government may constitute corrupt and unlawful conduct," he wrote.[/quote

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-...igate-ag-department-over-triggs-offer/6257940

That big library of his might be useful after all.

 

[medusala]

Who put Tim Wilson on the HRC? That is bloody funny.

 

[Malifice]

Seems Brandis might be in a little hot water re Prof Twiggs

The Shadow AG could be onto something here.

 

[Juddism]

how the &%#$ did we end up with a bunch of slack-jawed imbeciles running the country? and you couldn't even say they're running the country because all they're doing is arguing amongst themselves, incredible! this is where my taxes are going...

 

[Qsaint]

Seems Brandis might be in a little hot water re Prof Twiggs

Naah ALP grandstanding at its finest, nothing will happen because this goes on all the time

She should resign though her position is surely untenable

 

[spinynorman]

She should resign though her position is surely untenable

Why? Surely the calls for her resignation are actually Coalition grandstanding at its finest?

 

[sherb]

Naah ALP grandstanding at its finest, nothing will happen because this goes on all the time

She should resign though her position is surely untenable

Yes, fancy producing a report that the government didn't like.

 

[Richard Pryor]

She should resign though her position is surely untenable

https://newmatilda.com/2015/02/24/g...gillian-triggs-resignation-just-blew-his-face

“I haven’t bothered to read the report,” Macdonald said, claiming its bias had motivated him to avoid it.

Not the least bias article in the world, but still, I have yet to see the government provide compelling evidence that her position is untenable.

 

[little graham]

It took backbencher Craig Laundy, speaking in the Liberal party room, to point to a better tactic. Laundy told his colleagues he’d just spent a week in his Sydney electorate of Reid, a “compassionate place”, and he was getting push back. The government should be focusing on the children, not shooting the messenger, he said

But Abbott, programmed for aggression, had Triggs squarely in his sights at question time, and evidence to the committee during Tuesday documented how Brandis had sent his emissary, armed with a modest lump of sugar, to see if Triggs could be pushed out.

https://theconversation.com/labor-r...er-to-human-rights-commission-president-37984

This is good government?

 

[sherb]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...ral-george-brandiss-face-20150224-13nr0s.html

 

[Richard Pryor]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...ral-george-brandiss-face-20150224-13nr0s.html

To back up the case of partisan conduct, Brandis accuses Triggs of meeting with Labor ministers during the caretaker period of government before the last election and of giving inconsistent answers during a gruelling first appearance before the same Senate committee in November.

This is really the best he can come up with?

To justify his offer of another government job if she resigned, Brandis claimed he had it from two sources that she was "considering" her position in the light of criticism from the government and relentless campaign by The Australian to remove her.

Does he know what a justification is?

 

[Contra Mundum]

This is really the best he can come up with?

Does he know what a justification is?

He sounds very lawyerly and he detested Howard (He was the guy that came up with rodent). I had high hopes after seeing him talk at a NSW bar dinner. I am obviously easily impressed because he is without question the worst attorney since Federation - they guy is a total fukstick who does not grasp basic legal precepts - his performance at senate estimates yesterday was only surpassed by the deplorable Sarah Hanson Young

 

[sherb]

This is really the best he can come up with?

Does he know what a justification is?

And from that article, on Abbott, rambling on in parliament:

Not only had Triggs lost the confidence of the government, Tony Abbott declared, she had lost the confidence of the Australian people.

Which leads to the obvious question, which the author wrote in the very next sentence.

How would he know?

Indeed.

 

[Footy Smarts]

You'd have to be a pretty sick person to receive reports of the sexual assault of children under your care and respond by blowing the messenger to smithereens.

 

[Qsaint]

Yes, fancy producing a report that the government didn't like.

She is not a judge she is a public servant, she also released the report against (I Believe) the govt wishes

 

[Qsaint]

Why? Surely the calls for her resignation are actually Coalition grandstanding at its finest?

She works for the Govt that happens to be the coalition

She has a duty to be non partisan, which one could argue she has not been.

Any public servant or appointment (other than judges), that has lost the support of the Govt of the day position is untenable and should resign.

 

[Richard Pryor]

She is not a judge she is a public servant

Ah I see. The "If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father" reasoning then.

 

[Gough]

I'd like to know how Senator McDonald knew the report was partisan without reading it.

 

[pazza]

She works for the Govt that happens to be the coalition

She has a duty to be non partisan, which one could argue she has not been.

Any public servant or appointment (other than judges), that has lost the support of the Govt of the day position is untenable and should resign.

Or be given a pay rise. It's called accountability.

The report is what needs to be focused on, not the person or the organisation producing the report.

So - Brandis should resign for acting in an apparently corrupt way of sweeping the issue under the carpet and not dealing with the issue.

 

[Richard Pryor]

She works for the Govt that happens to be the coalition

She has a duty to be non partisan, which one could argue she has not been.

One could argue Tony Abbott is a theistic satanist. You have to be able to prove what you're arguing for your next point to come into play. "She spoke to Labor and her answers are shady" doesn't prove anything.

Any public servant or appointment (other than judges), that has lost the support of the Govt of the day position is untenable and should resign.

???

So in your mind the government has a mandate to sack anyone they like for any reason regardless of any actual evidence? Although, let's not forget they wanted to give her another position, so clearly she hasn't lost that much support from the government.

There is no point having a human rights commission if the tenability of employees is based on whether the government of the day approves of their reports.