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Keeping Mr Porter’s secrets

September 23, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray An external observer of Australian politics in 2021 might be excused for imagining that there was some far-reaching network striving to ensure that the activities of - and circumstances surrounding - former attorney-general Christian Porter are hidden forever from the eyes of the electorate. Of course that can't possibly be true. It's just the way that our democracy, our police and our legal and judicial systems work. The defence that the ABC was going to use in Mr Porter's much-trumpeted but rapidly aborted defamation case has been suppressed and…

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Porter’s blind faith in his blind trust

September 15, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray Even by the snake’s belly low standards of Australia’s present Federal Government, former Attorney-General Christian Porter’s “blind trust” humbug is startlingly bad. Basically, he’s had his expensive failed legal action against the ABC at least partly bankrolled by wealthy donors whose identity he claims to be unaware of. If Porter is aiming for “plausible deniability” of the kind incessantly relied on by Prime Minister Scott Morrison for avoiding any kind of responsibility for anything, ever, then he has badly missed the mark. The blind trust story isn’t remotely plausible,…

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