Late yesterday Michaelia Cash announced one of her staffers had told the media of the AFP raid on the AWU premises. ( This is a good synopsis).
Her staffer , whom Coalition MPs says us a very good staffer has resigned. the said MPS say he has paid the ultimate price for poor judgement.
This 'Very good' staffer had the opportunity to tell his Minister what he had did all day ( some Opposition MPs say at least 5 times) yet did not until the end of the day. This staff member did not tell his minister nor the PM on the day.
The government is relying on we are hopeless excuse. If you are John Howard and lead a competent government you can get away with it. I very much doubt if this present government can get away from it. It seems every time they try to do Bill Shorten it blows up in their face.
I would say too many times the media are alerted to police raids both at State and Federal level. It is a bad look.
Update:
no explanation how the media advisor knew of the raids when her office was only notified 15 minutes before they occurred. Either the AFP or ROC leaked this to the advisor. Not hard to bet on whom it was.
I just learnt Albo spurted out most of this on morning radio in SA around 9 a.m. there. Chrisdtopher Pyne who was also on the radio never thought to investigate this!!
Interesting perspective on Ministerial responsibility
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