Pure gold.

Well well. It was quite obvious he was telling porkies at the time, now this appears to prove it. He should be stood down as unfit for office, and maybe tried and jailed for fraud too.

I hope justice is done for all parties.

How true.

One of the many reasons I kept referring to the regime as Howard’s Soviet Australia was the behavior of its high-ranking officials. It must be so distressing for Comrade-Minister Andrews now that the Glorious Leader and Creator Of Our Magnificent Prosperity has gone. L=O=L

Jenny [8]:

Yes but what were Keelty’s worst offences? Sincerity, gullibility, excess enthusiasm and unquestioning obedience?

DeeCee [10]:

The Chaser Team? Max Gillies? John Clark + Brian Dawes + Gina Reilly? Col Elliot? Kevin Bloody Wilson?

But, by ignoring advice from their UK colleagues, the cops stuffed up big-time early in the investigation, roonin’ it for (the Coalition) pollies in the run up to a critical election.

But then we found this wasn’t the only case rooned by the Keystones for the same pollies even closer to the election (ie Ul Harq).

I feel a sequel to “Keating the Musical” a’comin on for Comedy Festival 09.

Oh that Charlie Chaplin or Peter Sellars were still alive; or Te Pythons still performing!

I’ve got plenty to spare if it seems we’re running short.

Why do they do it???

It is always better to continue covert surveillance until [a] you have more real baddies lined up than your prison can hold, or [b] another monsterous outrage is on the verge of being committed, or [c] the subject is proven to be harmless - and in that case, like any business, you cut your losses and move on.

Spiros [2]:

Nelson may have a low approval rating [whatever that is supposed to mean out here in the real world] but he is probably the most useful leader the Liberals have had in ages.

Unfortunately, he is stuck with all the dunderheads who came through the filtering system of the former prime minister, the former opposition leader, the former NSW branch head-kicker, the former Young Liberal, the former trans-Pacific poodle and the former Aussie-basher.

Nelson cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear and until he purges his party of all its dead-wood, he will be stuck with having to make statements that are too stupid to be his own and to answer awkward questions about why a former Howard minister is on his back-bench and not in a rather different institution reflecting on his blunders.

Spiros, I don’t know the motives, but seeing K.A. put on the backbench was almost as good as the too-good-to-be-true scenario of him actually being rejected by his own electorate, who should know better.

The man is a disgrace. If Nelson refused to give him a spot in the shadow cabinet for ethical reasons good on him, but I suspect it was more to do with competency. Andrews is the father of WorkChoices remember … the legislation that many of Howard’s mob claim they never understood properly, presumably because they were given a misleading brief.

Here is someone who was a Cabinet minister, in an opposition bereft of experience, and yet Nelson keeps him out. Factional politics? Andrews is on the Right and the Right installed Nelson. Regional balance? Andrews is from Victoria and there is shortage of front-bench material Victorian Liberals.

Methinks someone had a word in Nelson’s ear and told him that when the truth about how Andrews acted during l’affaire Haneef comes out, it will be best if he is as far away from Nelson as possible.

Who woulda thunk it…

You could knock me over with a feather.

*/Wanders away shaking head and muttering expressions of surprise and disappointment/*