This case & the Peter Slipper affair confirm public suspicion that our politicians and corporate media are well past their use by date.

Remember this crap when next you cast your vote, because the big party candidates will lie & buy your vote while corporate media will serve its own interests.

There’s plenty of real news via independent online media and more choices for candidates than those who line up for the Liberal Labor duopoly.

ABC story below

Union official threatened to set me up: Thomson
Suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson has named the Victorian union official he says set him up over allegations he used union money to pay for prostitutes during his time with the Health Services Union (HSU).

Speaking under parliamentary privilege in the House of Representatives, Mr Thomson said Victo…

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