JOEL Fitzgibbon has resigned as Defence Minister over a series of meetings involving his brother Mark, the head of health insurance company NIB, US health giant Humana, and the Government.
In a letter to Kevin Rudd, Mr Fitzgibbon said he could not be "satisfied" that he had "entirely conformed with your ministerial code of conduct".
At a press conference in Canberra, the Prime Minister said Mr Fitzgibbon had been “a first-class defence minister”.
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Update:
Oopsie. Thinks (finally) he may have not entirely conformed with Rudd's ministerial code of conduct. Finally. Where was the tipping point?
Hearing him on PM tonight complaining that he's been Judased by people close to him was really annoying. You stupid man. If you hadn't done anything wrong or deceptive none of this, NONE OF THIS, would have jumped back at you and snapped you on the arse. (If you go to PM you can listen, the transcript should be up later if you can't bear to listen... and if they decide to put up the transcript, sometimes if they're embarrassing they become "untilligible".)
More on PM later... I hope.
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Should one say, "Adios?"
Whoops - wrong person
The Gibbon, no real loss there, when senior defence command has no confidence in the minister, said minister has a real problem. I wonder who the next bumbling incompetent to go will be??
Unfortunately he'll be replaced by another party hack or ex-unionist seat warmer.
As an aside i met both Kim Beasley (MO Defence ALP) & Bronwyn Bishop (Mo Defence Science & Technology Lib), obviously at different times. What stood out with both was that they were genuinely interested in, and were very conversant with the details of their portfolios and seemed to take a delight in said portfolios
'Should one say, "Adios?"'
'Zài jiàn'?
So, who'll we get in 'Liu of Jizzgiven'?
(Sorry)
Egg, is that, Chk Chk Liu.
cheers
Wet Chk Chk Liu?
(Even more sorry)
Nah, Egg.
I reckon that Fibsgorn is the wet one...
Oh, wait.
Fitzgibbon the first 'Liuser' of the Guvvmint (ok a bad pun)
Just started watching the Kevin30 report, what, did fitzgibbon clean house for Brissenden? What a sad apologist.
OOoooh prime sock puppet with red kerry, kevvi - could this odious little cretin speak english just once?
I don't think red kerry likes kevvi much. Looking at the body language, red kerry is leaning forward with direct eye contact & kevvi is bolt upright, a few shoulder shrugs, rapid blinking & head movement speaking as though from a script........if this were a job interview kevvie would not be getting the gig.
Kezza's (& Aunty's) prolly rooting for Jules - how long til Kev's outta the top job & friendless, again?
Egg, given kevvis latest effort he may be a start up for 'Kevs Kar Kapitol & Used Ute Utopia'.
cheers
Symptomatic of the ALP philosophy (whatever it takes to gain power is always acceptable) is the fact that the ex-Minister showed no contrition, nor offered anything in defence of his sacking — just pissed off at being dobbed in by a "Judas".
But let's not rush to celebrate his going. There is talk of him being replaced by Combet.
Hi Skeeter, yes i saw that on TV, an interesting choice, he would be the ?son-in-law of Quentin the traveller i believe. Although i think he would find the bullpit of question time a little harder than life as a union hack or perhaps this is an appointment to appease GG the traveller. Interesting times.
cheers
Carpe Jugulum
son-in-law of Quentin
you are thinking of an other labor dickhead there, can't recall his name just now.
Orion
there is an absolutely funny movie on sbs2 Jackie Chan, mixture of ancient Rome, barbarians what have you!
All in mandarin suits our fearless leader.
Thanks Orion, bugger - i was working on some creative comments too
Carpe J and Orion, could the name you are trying to remember be Bill Shorten?
He was also mentioned as a possible replacement for Fitzgibbon.
Yes Skeeter, he is the one with the square head, looks like one of the Munsters.
He knows where his next meal is coming from!
Orion
Yes, Orion, the same square-head who, with the help of Ch 7's dynamic duo, spun himself into being the hero of the Beaconsfield mine disaster.
It will be interesting to see how being the GG's son-in-law affects his future political career.
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