Well, well, in Parliament today, Brough said that Sixty Minutes had edited the relevant interview in which he admitted that he asked Ashby to get him copies of the Slipper Diary.
Link.What a major error that was Mr Brough, and it is gonna cost you big time! Fancy trying to 'verbal' Sixty Minutes when it has the tapes! On Ch 9 News tonight, Oakes aired the relevant part of the interview, and it is very clear that the only edit was to get rid of a slight stumble of no relevance on the part of the interviewer. The question was singular, very clear, and answered very responsively and relevantly.
Bye bye Brough. It is now a matter of how much this erodes Turnbull. It will. He has a lousy record on matters of judgement, and I give you the Gordon Gretch fiasco as evidence.
It is important to keep in mind that Turnbull gave Brough a Ministerial post (on integrity of all things)
knowing this stuff was hanging over Brough's head.
Turnbull has been able (till tonight) to say that he has no need to act against Brough because
nothing new has emerged. Well, that defence has now evaporated after tonight's Ch 9 News. The Toad has delivered the knock out blow.
Nyuk nyuk nyuk!