Isn't two or three Thomson threads enough ????

At least maybe now his wife can have a shower without entertaining a channel 7 camera crew.

cods wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 7:30am:


If you and Macca were not conservatives Andrei would have rolled all three topics into one.

common knowledge...

is not AB BOTT AND ABETZ......as YOU CLAIMED....

you will find that would be the finance dept....and I do not think either of those worked in the finance dept..


prove me wrong.

I await the apologies of all the lefties on here who said that he was an innocent man.

nup it all under privilege..he wouldnt have said anything if it was outside..

Thomson has committed high contempt against the House of Representatives and should be sanctioned by the House.

The House has powers to imprison or fine persons that it has inherited from the House of Commons and which are now enshrined in the  Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987.

The House of Commons Practice (May) states

    The Commons may treat the making of a deliberately misleading statement as a contempt. In 1963 the House resolved that in making a personal statement which contained words which he later admitted not to be true, a former Member had been guilty of a grave contempt.

As noted in House of Representatives Practice

    By section 49 of the Constitution the House of Representatives acquired the powers, privileges and immunities of the House of Commons as at 1 January 1901, until the Parliament otherwise declared. In the absence of such a declaration of those powers, privileges and immunities until 1987 with the enactment of the Parliamentary Privileges Act, they remained those of the House of Commons as at 1 January 1901.

The House may sentence a person to up to six months imprisonment

    Section 7 of the Parliamentary Privileges Act provides that the House may impose a penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months for an offence against it. Such a penalty is not affected by prorogation or dissolution. Before the enactment of this provision, the House, under section 49 of the Constitution, possessed the same power in this area as the House of Commons in 1901; the Commons was considered to be without the power to imprison for a period beyond the session, although apart from this constraint there were no other limits in terms of the length of committal.171

    On the only occasion when the House of Representatives has exercised its power of commitment (see p. 731), Messrs Browne and Fitzpatrick, in 1955, were committed for three months. No prorogation or dissolution of the Parliament intervened during the period of their imprisonment and they served the full period of their commitment.

http://catallaxyfiles.com/

I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. Craig Thomson has declared his innocence all through this. After the political witch hunt and trial by media he was put through, he could never get a fair trial in this country.

Pathetic, leftards, just pathetic.

Karnal wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 9:40am:


How many of the 179 charges has he been found guilty of?

MOST OF THEM!!!