Writing in Crikey today, Bernard Keane goes off:
That Christian Porter thinks it’s appropriate to remain a cabinet minister in the absence of an independent inquiry into much-denied allegations of sexual assault is bad enough, but there can be no doubt he has now spat in the face of any Australian who thinks there should be basic level of transparency and integrity in government.
His declaration of being the beneficiary of an anonymous windfall for his legal costs in his withdrawn legal action against the ABC — where the story revealing allegations of rape by a cabinet minister remains up, intact — is an act of gross contempt for political integrity.
In a way, such arrogant behaviour by this privileged man-child has done us a favour in revealing just how piss weak federal standards of accountability are — standards fit for a tinpot dictatorship rather than a country that feels entitled to lecture others about democracy.
Pretty much what Malcolm Turnbull said on Radio National, too.
I am curious as to what old Porter pal and (semi?) defender Peter van Onselen thinks about it. Oh, his tweets are "protected".
I wrote about this today.
ReplyDeleteA disgrace