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confidence

The Governor-General needs to step in and dismiss the Attorney-General ("Labor fears office's 'integrity' at stake", October 26). If the Attorney-General remains then the position of solicitor-general will remain compromised. A compromised solicitor-general cannot provide unbiased and non-partisan advice which means that there can be no confidence in any legislation passed by our current Parliament. Brandis needs to go so that faith in our justice system can be restored.

Unfortunately our current Prime Minister is not in a position to govern his own party. Thus the Governor-General must step up and fulfil his constitutional duty to restore faith in our government and the rule of law.

read more:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/cosgrove-needs-to-step-in-over...

the prime minister and his AG need to go...

The Australian Lawyers Alliance has joined Labor in calls for the attorney general, George Brandis, to resign over a controversial legal direction that the solicitor general must get his consent before giving legal advice.

The solicitor general, Justin Gleeson, resigned on Monday after a public disagreement with Brandis over the legality of the direction and whether he was properly consulted before it was made.

On Wednesday Liberal National MP Andrew Laming told ABC Radio the direction was no longer needed because Gleeson is leaving his job.

“It’s not a problem now because you are now appointing someone else [as solicitor general],” he said. “This was done because they didn’t trust Gleeson.”

Laming’s account contradicts Brandis’s claim the direction was issued to regularise ad hoc requests for advice from the solicitor general, and was not aimed at limiting Gleeson’s independence.

On Wednesday the alliance, an advocacy group representing 200,000 lawyers and law professionals, called for Brandis’s resignation, citing his “unacceptable and gross infringement on the independence” of the office of the solicitor general.

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/26/lawyers-alliance-...

low and getting lower...

How low can they go ("Opinion divided as government seeks lifetime ban on asylum seekers entering Australia", October 31)? The Prime Minister is now in bed with Pauline Hanson – don't think about that for too long. We've been told ad nauseam the government has stopped the boats and sent a clear message to the people smugglers but now this is insufficient given the nature of the current Parliament.

The most disappointing prime minister in recent memory has revealed he has not only lost his backbone, he's had a humanity bypass. What will be left of the man in the end?

read more:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/lifetime-ban-on-asylum-seekers...

stinking sinking polls...

Malcolm Turnbull faces a perilous final parliamentary week as voters turn against his leadership, key legislation teeters against Senate manoeuvring, and an emboldened Tony Abbott openly criticises the government while virtually demanding a ministry.

With the government facing new hurdles to pass its union-busting Australian Building and Construction Commission bill, revamped backpacker tax and controversial life-time refugee visa ban, the Prime Minister has been given a harsh critique by voters in the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll.

read more:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/crashing-to-zero-m...

See toon at top.

meanwhile in the bush...

 

As the Kambra pollies are wading in complete delusion, as the general state of the Australian economy is tanking in favour of bank profits and negative gearing real estate barons, as the price of housing reaches the stratosphere, the people in the bush have had to make do with their own way of saving Australia from recession, without the need of any greedy lawyer-induced TPP or whatever. Good on you, cockies...

 

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/landline#playing

 

see also:

http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/