Politics really attracts the most unsavoury characters. There was a photograph in yesterdays's Australian of Pauline Hanson with her campaign manager, James Ashby. Hmmm, that's a familiar name. James Ashby is the former Liberal staffer who met with Mal Brough, Wyatt Roy and Christopher Pyne in the process of bringing down former speaker, Peter Slipper, by accusing him of sexual harassment. This claim was subsequently dropped (but doesn't mud stick!) and the only crime for which Mr Slipper was found guilty was rorting his travel allowance by $600. Anybody else making an illegal claim, even if they are a serial offender, is simply allowed to pay it back when they are found out, but Mr Slipper was not given that privilege; he was hounded in the courts and his reputation dragged through the mud.
Well Peter Slipper is gone, Mal Brough is gone, Wyatt Roy is gone, but Christopher Pyne and James Ashby remain. It seems that James has found his niche and Christopher continues to be the darling of the blue-rinse brigade.
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