The Labor Party's blatant breathtaking policy of double standards continue to manifest itself in the most ugly pernicious manner.
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Recently we had the hypocritical double standards regarding the Bronwyn Bishop affair.
Albeit Labor has done its level best to put the lid back on this can of worms which they opened with a chainsaw, evidence is still being slowly unearthed pertaining to their chief attack dog's extravagances.
Mrs Bishop's indiscretions pale into insignificance when compared to Tony Bouke's taxpayer funded indulgences.
Now in cahoots with the trade union movement we have the spectacle of Labor doing its utmost to have Dyson Heydon removed from the royal commission which is looking into thuggery and corruption within the various Unions.
Because of very serious wrong doings already unearthed by the commission it is not surprising that Bill Shorten and his union puppeteers want to see this inquiry shut down.
However they say Justice Heydon should remove himself on the pretext that he is biased toward the Liberal Party because he initially agreed to be the key speaker at the Sir Garfield Barwick address organised by the NSW division of the Liberal Party.
It should be noted that Dyson Heydon withdrew from this engagement prior to the Fairfax press bringing this matter to the attention of the public.
This function is to be largely attended by the law fraternity and the subject matter of the address is to be matters pertaining to the judiciary and the law, nothing to do with politics.
Of course Labor and the unions are conveniently turning a blind eye to the fact that former High Court judges, Michael Kirby and Michael McHugh, while serving on the NSW Court of Appeal, and Mary Gaudron, when she was serving on the High Court, had delivered similar addresses at Labor Party functions.
The Neville Wran address is one which immediately comes to mind.
It is in Labor's DNA to set the bar high for the Liberal Party, high enough for Labor to crawl underneath.
Tom Griffin,
Pambula.