Politics is a rough business and not for the faint-hearted but politicians railing about people being vilified should look twice at the way they treat those in wildly unequal positions of power.
If things weren't so busy in federal politics, or if people — including the Coalition — were actually talking about the Coalition's nuclear power policy, the earthquake and any safety questions it might raise about nuclear power might have registered more in the news.The opposition leader's capacity to conflate a range of hot button issues, half-truths and misleading assertions is only matched by the federal government's often flat-footed capacity to respond.
It's been no secret that Australia's parliament has cultural problems; stories of bullying and intimidation in the house on the hill are the thing of legends. But there are signs of change. "Telling Nicola to get on her broomstick is hardly 'grossly unparliamentary' as Joolia claimed," he wrote, at the height of the attacks on then prime minister, Julia Gillard, and other female MPs as witches.
The job of IPSC will be to "enforce behaviour codes for Parliamentarians, MOPS staff and other people who work in Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces", according to the official release from the responsible minister, Katy Gallagher this week.At one level, that makes complete sense given there is already a huge volume of rules established by both Houses of Parliament about how business should be conducted and members should behave.
What makes these exchanges particularly unfair is that the public servants who have to front the committees have little recourse to object to their treatment. The Cartier watches controversy which led to the end of Christine Holgate's careers as the head of Australia Post arose in a Senate estimates hearing, after she was quizzed by the late Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching.
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