Watching The Children Play A Game Called Politics

Repost from Andrew Bolt's Blog:

Nicola Roxon made a goose of herself in June, playing politics with a court case: 

The Federal Government has launched an attack on the sexual harassment case against embattled Speaker Peter Slipper, saying it is politically motivated.

Lawyers for the Commonwealth yesterday told a Federal Court that former staffer James Ashby, who is suing Mr Slipper for sexual harassment, colluded with another staffer, Karen Doane, to undermine Mr Slipper’s reputation and advance his political opponents…

They allege Mr Ashby gave information to former Howard minister Mal Brough and to News Limited journalist Steve Lewis.

Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says it shows the case against Mr Slipper was politically motivated…

“It will be clearly shown and this will be argued in the court that there was in fact clear intention to harm Mr Slipper and bring his reputation into disrepute and to assist his political opponents and that was the purpose for the bringing of this claim,” she said.

So much for that conspiracy Roxon was going to prove: 

In a bombshell development, the federal government has settled its case with James Ashby, the aide to the stood-aside Speaker of the Parliament Peter Slipper, for $50,000 and a commitment to introduce training for all MPs and senators regarding sexual harassment.

The settlement between the commonwealth and Mr Ashby was reached on Thursday and detailed in a three-page letter of offer from the Australian Government Solicitor.

Mr Ashby’s lawyers, Harmers Workplace Lawyers, accepted the deal on his behalf. Mr Ashby had sued the commonwealth, alleging it had failed to provide a safe workplace.

Separately, Mr Ashby has sued Mr Slipper with allegations of sexual harassment, supported by records of lurid text messages sent by the Speaker to Mr Ashby.

Mr Ashby’s case against Mr Slipper continues and is listed for an interlocutory hearing at 10.15am on Tuesday. 

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And doesn't Australia’s Socialist Government’s ineptitude show itself again with the case involving Australia’s Attorney General, Nicola Roxon.  In my opinion, Roxon is too inexperienced in Law to have been appointed to such an important position, given her comments made whilst matters were before the Court.

The political motivation behind this deplorable situation is not that of the Coalition, but that of this Federal Government and it’s disgraceful.

I hope James Ashby follows through with his threat to now sue the Commonwealth and Roxon for defamation and contempt of court.

Michael Smith has more here:  http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2012/09/the-sub-prime-and-her-sub-prime-attorney-general.html