Labor, the media and you-know-who get the band back together

I’d just note if Ms Higgins is going to try and kibosh the human right of a fair trial again and also further defame me, at least get your facts right before you post.”

– Whether you believe him or not, Bruce Lehrmann is being outrageously set up again
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44 Responses to Labor, the media and you-know-who get the band back together

  1. Rafiki says:

    Lehrmann has been charged, so statements stating or implying that he is guilty might result in their makers and/or publishers being charged with contempt of court. Inserting “alleged” in the statement should not necessarily avoid a finding of guilt if the implication is clear. OTOH of course, we are dealing with the Queensland justice system here.

  2. Entropy says:

    It is interesting what is the actual alleged crime is in this case. There is no doubt really what happened, it is just that in Qld law not wearing a condom is called assault.

  3. twostix says:

    Police will allege the woman told Mr Lehrmann she needed a morning-after pill and that he agreed to drive her to a chemist in a farm ute.

    Afterwards, she allegedly asked Mr Lehrmann to take her home and he stopped at McDonald’s on the way.

    It will be alleged in court that the pair exchanged messages on Snapchat for a few days after the encounter, but soon lost contact.

    Weeks later, the woman was allegedly speaking to a friend’s mother about the Brittany Higgins case when she searched for details on her phone and saw Mr Lehrmann’s photo – and recognised him as the same person who allegedly had sex with her.

    Lol.

  4. twostix says:

    Dude needs to stop rooting then ghosting the club bushpigs when he’s plastered. What does he think this is, 1997?

  5. Rafiki says:

    There seems to be a major problem with her story. It looks like her claim is that she reported Lehtmann to the police only after she learnt his name after reading about the Higgins story. But if she and Bruce were in contact by Snapchat, she thereby had the means to identify him to the police in the days following their night together.

  6. Cassie of Sydney says:

    There’s a very sinister left/green channel here, or perhaps the better analogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces all fit together so perfectly. It all began in late in 2020, Morrison was riding high in the polls, and the left decided to lynch him and his government. Bingo, Morrison’s government was slowly destroyed. It started in November 2020 with the Four Corners programme, in that programme were the tawdry allegations against Alan Tudge, and the whispers were ignited that night about a certain cabinet minister…..which morphed into the “Porter affair”. Labor and the Greens were behind this from day one, this morphed, like a conga line, into the Higgins rubbish, the ludicrous Porter allegations, Tudge resigned from the ministry (it was a consensual affair), then there was a nonsensical Laming stuff, and Scott Morrison was so utterly inept in handling this.

    Let me just state here categorically that I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever that the reason Dumgold dropped the Higgins case was because he received info that QLD plod were going to charge Lehrmann for a separate ‘incident’. I also have no doubt that Higgins was also told of this charge The conga line held firm, it’s still in place and until the Liberals and others, including some in the media, expose this once and for all, it will happen again

  7. twostix says:

    This is the exact same thing they tried to get Assange with after all other efforts had failed.

    Coincidences abound in clown world.

  8. Ed Case says:

    The conga line held firm, it’s still in place and until the Liberals and others, including some in the media, expose this once and for all, it will happen again
    Are you kidding?
    The Liberals lost the 2022 Election over their handling of Higgins.
    Do you want them to lose their remaining female voters too?

  9. Wally Dali says:

    “powerful statement … fires back …”
    Regardless of the implications of free-range hearsay and self-representation in a public ‘roo trial, I think we need some solid boundaries around the red-top terms of hyperbowl. Powerful? Fire? These are three or more children of demonstrably poor judgement having a social media spat.

  10. Lee says:

    Brittany Higgins issues a powerful statement

    “Powerful” is an example of implicit bias in this case.

  11. Christine says:

    Her heart broke, did it?
    the anguish of Miss SlyPus …. shattered that another delicate petal drifted into the clutches of sneaky Bruce.

  12. Ed Case says:

    Basically, this issue is the gift that keeps on giving for Labor like nothing else.
    High interest rates?
    Well, unless you’re a Mortgagee, there’s always either an upside or minimal downside.
    The Morrison/Dutton Government’s handling of the Higgins issue before it blew up?
    Abysmal doesn’t even begin to describe it.

  13. Boambee John says:

    Ed remains fully committed to the cause of Mizzz Knickerless, and his assertion that women voted against the Liberals last year because of her.

    The thought that the incompetence of Scommo, the Stradivarius player, was significant never entered Ed’s thick head.

  14. Sahul Rex says:

    I’d say old mate is stuck between a rock and a hard place

    (4) A person does not consent to an act just because they consented to—

    (a)a different act with the same person; or

    (b)the same act with the same person at a different time or place; or

    (c)the same act with a different person; or

    (d)a different act with a different person.

    And

    (n) the person participates in the act with another person on the basis that a condom is used for the act and the other person does any of the following things before or during the act—

    (i)does not use a condom;

    (ii)tampers with the condom;

    (iii)removes the condom;

    (iv)becomes aware that the condom is no longer effective but continues with the act.

    Because

    (3)A belief by the person that another person consented to an act is not reasonable if the person did not, immediately before or at the time of the act, say or do anything to ascertain whether the other person consented to the act.

    I was under the impression SnatchChat messages self destructed so who knows what the law guys are after.

  15. Ed Case says:

    John
    There’s a report into the effectiveness of JobKeeper just released.
    Guess what?
    it was effective.
    Guess what else?
    Morrison wasn’t bllamed for McClown closing the WA borders for 2 years, he wasn’t blamed for Andrews ordering the cops to shoot Victorians with rubber bullets either.
    What he was blamed for was mishandling the Higgins saga.
    Read The Australian sometime and get informed.
    Higgins was the reason their support among women voters crashed while support among male voters remained steady.

  16. Ed Case says:

    I was under the impression SnatchChat messages self destructed so who knows what the law guys are after.
    If they’re anything like their AFP counterparts in the Higgins case, they’re after the Complainant.
    Which might also explain the calls for Palaszczuk to step down?

  17. Buccaneer says:

    Stitching Bruce up for a second time won’t wind back the clock for Uncle Albo, as much as you might wish it Ed. Dumgold totally screwed the pooch, Higgins lacks credibility and your average Joe is smart enough to sniff out a payout chaser regardless of how many gormless liberal wets go limp on absurd anti male consent legislation that intentionally removes the right to contest these kinds of allegations.

    Given how the alp establishment abandoned dumgold, it would be a very committed lefty prosecutor that tried the same on again. I’m sure those folks are out there, but who might want destroying the metoo movement for good on your resume, if you’re in the in dinner set?

  18. Ed Case says:

    Stitching Bruce up for a second time won’t wind back the clock for Uncle Albo, as much as you might wish it Ed.
    He beat the first Charge and the Committal hasn’t happened yet on the new Charges..
    Politiically, Lehrmann doesn’t matter anymore and neither does Higgins.
    The Liberal Party’s problem, and it’s probably terminal for them, is they can never acknowledge why they lost the 2022 Election ,without jettisonong Peter Dutton.
    Ever wonder why there’s been no Internal Review into the 2022 loss?
    Now you know.
    Dumgold totally screwed the pooch,
    Drumgold knew his career was cactus and proceeded anyway.
    He’ll get a payout, plus the eternal gratitude of the ALP for what will be a 5 Term Federal Government, at least.
    Albanese got on the front foot with The Voice Referendum, it’s not his fault it was slaughtered, he’s now got clear air to do whatever he likes.

  19. Buccaneer says:

    Ed, you simply wishcast what you hope is true, Dutton has no baggage from Higgins, that’s all Reynolds, Cash and Scomo.

    If Uncle Albo has so much clear air, why isn’t he here thumping Dutton, instead of hiding overseas? He can’t even get his lines right over Hamas. Face it, Uncle Albo is on borrowed time. He owns cost of living, he owns stuffing up the voice and he can’t make up his mind as to whether he condemns terrorists or condones them.

  20. Tel says:

    Politiically, Lehrmann doesn’t matter anymore and neither does Higgins.

    The three million dollar payoff still matters to me … not everyone has a short memory.

    I wonder if knowing about big money like that might, you know, influence other people’s behaviour. I mean … incentives matter, as the saying goes.

  21. Boambee John says:

    Sad. Ed believes government sponsored reports.

    Like he believes in the innocence of Mizzz Knickerless.

  22. Tiny Dancer says:

    Bruce allegedly used the “false” name of Bryce.
    Hahahahahaha. This trials off to a rocky start.

  23. C.L. says:

    That’s what she told the offishers.

  24. Ed Case says:

    The three million dollar payoff still matters to me … not everyone has a short memory.
    1. It wasn’t $3 million.
    2. $3 million is a rounding error to a rounding error to the people who okayed the payout. They spend $90 million/day on Aboriginal Funding.
    That’s $3 million every 48 minutes.
    But, yeah, Higgins got paid
    1. Because the Commonwealth admitted liability rather than risk a Hearing turn into a fishing expedition
    2. Because Labor woulda got slaughtered without her.

  25. Ed Case says:

    Bryce Loman – salesman extraordinaire or international man of mystery?
    He doesn’t appear psychologically stressed or on the bones of his arse in that pic of him exiting the Bondi Trattoria.
    He’s got no priors and is of good character, so they won’t lock him up if he pleads guilty at the door of the Hearing.
    He won’t do that thougfh, I reckon Albanese can see another win in this, as a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bryce scores a payout for Reynolds sacking him.
    That’ll be after Albanese is reelected with a 40 Seat majority and all the value has been wrung outta the issue.

  26. Buccaneer says:

    Ed, mumbling rubbish.

  27. Lee says:

    Albo is literally unelectable after his pride and joy the Voice flopped, his broken election promises, his absolute ineptness at handling the economy, and general incompetence.

    Worst PM ever.

    The whole Brittany/Bruce saga is a dead issue as far as the next election is concerned.

  28. Ed Case says:

    Here’s the Referendum Final Results, Lee:
    Non Oui
    National 6,275,356 39.93 9,439,859 60.07
    Now, you know, and I know, that the Proposal was something only a maniac could support.
    Albanese just found out that he’s got the backing of 6 million+ maniacs, no matter what.

  29. Boambee John says:

    Ed

    Six million isn’t enough, he needs a majority of seats in the Reps.

    But keep having your wet dreams, they seem to give you some passing pleasure.

  30. Lee says:

    Ed

    Six million isn’t enough, he needs a majority of seats in the Reps.

    And it’s where the votes fall that is important.

    BTW, last time Labor was elected on a miserly 32% of the primary vote and only got in on preferences.

    As with Biden, Albo’s popularity (what there was of it) has dramatically tanked – like the economy – since elected.

  31. Tel says:

    Albo never had popularity.

    People just hated ScoMo, and Albo happened to hanging around at about the right time.

  32. Ed Case says:

    John Howard was never popular, yet won 4 Elections.
    Bruce still has a few Defamation cases on foot and we’re already at the halfway mark of the Term.
    So, the pain ain’t over for the Liberal Party yet.

  33. Ed Case says:

    Albo never had popularity.

    He beat PeanutHead 2:1 with the Rank & File in the 2013 Leadership ballot.
    Morrison lost the female vote over his handling of the Higgins Disaster.
    Without that, he would still be PM.

  34. Lee says:

    John Howard was never popular, yet won 4 Elections.

    You’re comparing Howard, who presided over an era of prosperity and no debt or anxiety about power prices or the cost of living, with a blundering moron who escapes the country at every opportunity to avoid scrutiny, and is barely half way through his term?

  35. Buccaneer says:

    Albanese just found out that he’s got the backing of 6 million+ maniacs, no matter what.

    Ed, if we take your cockeyed binary view of this result to it’s natural conclusion, it means Dutton is winning the next election 60/40 in contrast to your other cockeyed comments in this thread.
    Do you even read what you write, or just spew out random rubbish to pollute this blog?

  36. Lee says:

    Bruce still has a few Defamation cases on foot and we’re already at the halfway mark of the Term.
    So, the pain ain’t over for the Liberal Party yet.

    That will have zero effect on the next election.

    The only people who care are already rusted-on, die hard Labor/Green voters.

  37. Ed Case says:

    Six million isn’t enough, he needs a majority of seats in the Reps.

    He’s already got that.
    Albo hasn’t .lost any bark from the Referendum result, it was always a 100/1 shot, but he’s got credit for having a go anyway.
    Labor was calling Dutton a hypocrite in QT the other week.
    Not sure what that’s about, but I think we’re gonna find out.

  38. Buccaneer says:

    but he’s got credit for having a go anyway.

    Yeah, that’s why he’s on an extended trip overseas, to gather all that credit he got for having a go. Pull the other one dipstick.

  39. Boambee John says:

    Even Ed is finding touting for the Liars hard work these days. But, loyal to the end, he just keeps on keeping on.

  40. Ed Case says:

    If I was touting for the ALP, wouldn’t I be doing all I could to obscure the fact that Labor only won last year on the back of a collapse in female support for the Liberal Party?
    Due to their woeful mismanagement of the Higgins Disaster.
    What the Referendum result disclosed is that there’s potential for the Liberal Party to lose even more female support next time.
    Particularly if there are further revelations from the Higgins Disaster.

  41. Buccaneer says:

    If I was touting for the ALP, wouldn’t I be doing all I could to obscure the fact that Labor only won last year on the back of a collapse in female support for the Liberal Party?

    This is only a thing in your mind, in reality, Morrison not holding a hose and back flipping on net zero probably has as much if not more influence in undermining his government. There was also the it’s time factor, which Morrison miraculously avoided the previous election.

    Please show us some evidence that there is any link between female support and the referendum, this appears like another of your sad fantasies.

  42. Ed Case says:

    There was also the it’s time factor, which Morrison miraculously avoided the previous election.
    An It’s Time factor after less than 2 Terms?
    Gimme a break
    in reality, Morrison not holding a hose and back flipping on net zero
    Huh?
    There was no backflip on NetZero, and the Liberal went within 137 votes of winning Gilmore, where the hose holding non event happened.
    Did the National Party lose any seats, they went to the Election with the same Policies?
    Here’s the reality:
    The Liberal Party lost 20 seats in high income electorates because the Doctors Wives demographic deserted them.
    Did they win that demographic back at the Referendum?
    No.

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