Tim Blair has all the details covered, but here are some questions unanswered:
* what exactly are the Federal Police going to be investigating if there is no "hard copy" of an email to produce? That someone told News Limited and/or Turnbull that there was an email? Why would the journalist even co-operate in identifying his source? Seems to me to another clear case of a dead-end investigation before it even starts.
* If it is a fake email, what are the odds that it would be faked and then have its existence supported by Godwin? Very peculiar.
* will it come out that (when poor old Godwin Grech is questioned by the Auditor General or the AFP) that he may have mistaken a fax for an email?
* where's the outrage from those like the Larvatus Prodeo crowd over the clear obstructionism of Godwin's boss in the Senate hearing? (See Insiders for compilation of that when they get their video up.) If that had happened under Howard, we would be hearing about corruption of the public service for weeks.
Instead, most LP commenters are running completely with the Rudd line that it is Turnbull who must resign. No curiosity about Godwin's recollection lining up with a "fake" document at all.
* I still suspect that Rudd's overly intense denial in Parliament when this originally came up is due to him knowing that he office may have made unofficial queries regarding Grant, and his relief when they confirmed they had not done it in writing.
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Leave aside the fake email and the Rudd side of it, or even Turnbull's smart-alec performance this last week.
It remains true that Swan took a personal interest in Rudd's ute-friend. Undisputed, even by Swan.
Despite the flood of other emails now released to the media about other car dealers, not one of those cases were regularly updated to Swan's home fax machine.
None of that was fake. All acknowledged as being true.
If Turnbull has botched this messy situation, the media have botched it on an even grander scale. Our political journalists are useless, and this is not even a complete story to tell.
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