What I fail to understand is why throw more fat into the fire by putting the Mrdak/Dolan duo into a very fierce spotlight?, when they're joined at the hip. One whiff of involvement in anything remotely resembling the Pel-Air debacle and the government will catch the blame; probably not all of it, but enough to 'shorten' their credibility.
While M&M, Bea-Cur & Co continue to play the WIOS for fools it would seem that Senate BOP has now shifted into NX's favour...
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Palmer power weakens as Xenophon fosters allies
...One crossbencher said the experienced South Australian has forged a close bond with Ms Lambie. "Nick has been duchessing Jacqui. He sat and giggled away with her all day in the chamber during the FOFA [Future of Financial Advice] vote," he said.
Another source said: "He's the powerbroker again; the government knows that, that's why they've called this briefing. Nick loves it. He wants to be the linchpin. He wants to be the guy who makes or breaks legislation. He's always wanted that."
Senator Xenophon, whose huge personal popularity in South Australia delivered his Nick Xenophon Group one in four upper house votes in that state at the last election, is known as a wily political pragmatist with a good antenna for the public mood.
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, who drove the FOFA coup, said: "Graham Richardson called him the most talented politician in Canberra, and it's hard not to agree with that assessment. There's a lot of ego in politics but Nick doesn't let his ego get in the way of doing what he believes is right..."
Now the fact the miniscule is recuperating at home for probably the last Parliamentary sitting days for the year...
" Mr ABBOTT(Warringah—Prime Minister) (14:12): The Deputy Prime Minister is recuperating at home from an illness and will not be in question time this week. Questions to him should instead be directed to the Treasurer..."
...plays perfectly into M&M's hands for stalling any real action on the Forsyth report or the Board position announcements etc. till effectively the New Year; however it will not stop the pending TSBC released report as promised by Bea-Cur...
Senator FAWCETT: And the time frame for that to come back?
Mr Dolan : We had a teleconference with our Canadian counterparts last Friday and they assured us that their report would be published by 1 December.
Or will it??
Given the suspicions of complicity with the TSBC stalling the release of the final report so far it would not be a small stretch to think that they will do it again..and again till the WIOS has lost interest or fallen asleep...
However I don't think NX will rest on his laurels if the TSBC sail past their promised due date without the report being - also as promised - published on their website...
{nor is it guaranteed the WIOS will be so BOHICA when it comes to the TSBC terminally stalled report..
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NX will still have 3 sitting days to bring this next attempt of obfuscation (if that is what transpires) - call it the cover-up of the duck-up of the cover-up - by Bea-Cur (& his top-cover Mandarin) to the attention of the Parliament.
Not to mention he has time to put pressure on the Privileges Committee to
get on with it an release their AAI MoP report preferably before the New Year...
To the self-serving Mandarin and his minions there is a new paradigm in the Senate and gone are the days when you can merely thumb your nose to the good Senator X...
It will indeed be interesting when this debate finally resumes:
MTF...
Ps In regards to the Ben Sandilands MEMO to the PM it is well worth remembering that there is no love lost between NX & the KL Govt...
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Deportation from Malaysia 'a big mistake': Independent Senator Nick Xenophon