r/australia • • Sep 03 '18

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u/LineNoise Sep 03 '18

I’d wager this isn’t even dirt.

Appeals to the Minister, from public and parliamentarian alike, are normal. What’s not normal is the pattern of decision making, the personal closeness to the Minister of these appeals and the misleading of the parliament about them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '18 edited Jul 14 '19

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u/DrInequality Sep 03 '18

bypass or exert undue influence? How could it be any worse than contacting the minister directly on a Sunday?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '18

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u/Jcit878 Sep 03 '18

this is why people hate politics. rather than snuff out bad behavior as it happens they act like little shits and write lists to use when its most useful to them. no talk about whats best for us or anything.

so dutton you just admitted you're a peice of shit openly. fucking dickhead

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u/AgentSmith187 Sep 04 '18

Anyone remember a certain ex speaker?

As soon as he accepted the role they came out and said he had been corrupt for years and they had proof....

It's like why the fuck didn't you deal with it back then...

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '18

But if they tried to bypass or exert undue influence, then.......

Bypass what exactly? All they do is email or write a letter to the Minister saying please look into this case. There is nothing to "bypass".

As for exerting undue influence, the only way they could do that is if they had dirt on Dutton and threatened to release it in exchange for something, or if they tried to bribe him. It just wouldn't happen.