Emma Husar and other things politics

Emma Husar

There was has been much talk about 'former rising star' Emma Husar since Alice Workman from Buzz feed dropped allegations against her.
Before starting this Very few people who come into politics like Husar has any idea of what the job entails. It is literally a 24/7 job.  The hours are hellish , more so if you are a single mum. There is no induction period what so ever. NO party knows how to help rookie mps at all.

In no particular order let me deal with some of the issues.

• Bullying is something I do know about having experienced it and having seen senior management in workplaces use it with abandon. IMHO calling people 'c-nts' or 'f--kwits' is harassment. It certainly does not not allow for an enjoyable workplace
• She has gone through 20 people in two years. did not anyone at the ALP think there was a problem with such a large turnover in her office??
• Helping out in family duties is part of the job. More so if you are a single parent. workman's youthful inexperience of what occurs in an MP's office an the long hours they work is obvious. She has children to mother yet she has  politician hours, Husar is not on her pat malone in getting staff to assist her in this indeed it was on their job description
• It is clear that some staff were put out by Husar short time in the ALP. She has been only in the ALP for a mere 4 years yet her staff had been in the party for some 20 years.
• Why are the allegations written about now afterall they are not stop the press allegations. workman has known about this for sometime. Yet she writes now just before 'Super Saturday. It is interesting every time workman is asked about this she deflects the questions and takes umbrage at her reputation.She may have a very good reason on why she is writing now but me thinks she is being manipulated to be writing at this time. She could of course provide a time line to show there is nothing in this but either avoiding the question or deflecting together with moral outrage usually means a big problem She is a young and inexperienced journalist. Even experienced journos are used without knowing!!

Super Saturday

A few things here. I am going Andre Elderish here but why are so many journos wood-ducked by so-called internal polling which is at odds with published polling. Why are so many journos hung up about seat polling which Kevin Bonhan are we have seen has shown to be complete bunkum.

Oh and just on that I am an Antony Green man not Kevin Bonham man. They are RE-ELECTIONS not by-elections. Why because the Court of Disputed Returns has absurdly ruled that were illegally elected. They were in fact never elected.

Polls

It would be highly unusual for marginal seats to go differently to national polls however two problems here.

1.  Even at 51:49 to the ALP the margin of error means it could equally mean the government winning the election.
2. In the last two re-elections the electorate gave the Court of Disputed Returns the two fingers and convincingly voted for the previous incumbent despite both having fathers born in another country. the ALP candidates were relying on the Sykes V Clearly decision. They had a strong case to think they were legally elected. Yet the electorates seem not to realise this. either the ALP are very poor at making their case, The media just does not understand the differences or the electorate in general simply are biased in favour of the Libs/Nats over the ALP or indeed there is all three theories in action