Reply With QuoteThat just shows how many are con artists and abuse the system.
In nearly every other field of employment we are bound by codes of conduct. Why should these people be any different.
Time a few of them lost their jobs and/or went to jail.
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Have been reading the news today and in the light of the Craig Thompson and Peter Slipper affairs. MPs reluctant to support code of conduct - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
It seems that neither of the major parties are willing to support legislation that will codify their conduct inside and outside Parliament.
The Ministry of Health requires me to have a code of conduct, as do most departments in the public service. So if it's good for the goose then it should be good for the gander and members of parliament, the senate and state legislatures should also have a legally required code of conduct. To which they can be legally held accountable.
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That just shows how many are con artists and abuse the system.
In nearly every other field of employment we are bound by codes of conduct. Why should these people be any different.
Time a few of them lost their jobs and/or went to jail.
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Political Code of Conduct = Political suicide
…..and that’s why it will never happen.
ForumSage
SupporterIs there a danger that if such a thing existed, they would spend all their time in the house debating whether some member of the party across the chamber had breeched the code of conduct?
It might become another distraction from their job of running the country.
Although lately they seem to be spending a lot of time on the issue of their colleagues' behaviour anyway.
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Not sure about their distracting from the business of mucking up the country, but if they had a Code of conduct, it should be clear when they have to stand down instead of playing musical chairs while keeping an illegitimate government in power.Originally Posted by vnx205
Is there a danger that if such a thing existed, they would spend all their time in the house debating whether some member of the party across the chamber had breeched the code of conduct?
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Couldnt have said it better myself. The ALP are just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
Swaggie
whats that I can smell? ah yes, its just the soapbox being pushed into position.....
RoverLord
At the risk of usurping Ron's prerogatives, can I ask what pants have to do with codes of conduct? (I do seem to remember quite some time ago a prominent Australian politician losing his in a foreign city.)Is there a danger that if such a thing existed, they would spend all their time in the house debating whether some member of the party across the chamber had breeched the code of conduct?
It might become another distraction from their job of running the country.
Although lately they seem to be spending a lot of time on the issue of their colleagues' behaviour anyway.
But I was of the impression that the (proposed) code of conduct probably referred more to issues such as fiddling expense accounts or accepting cash or skiing holidays in exchange for legislation. Be too much to ask, I suppose, that it be applied to those members caught 'branch stacking' or doing deals in secret in return for support in the house.
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Not at all. I can be retrenched because of the fiscal requirements of the government, he can be unelected at the fickle requirements of the electorate so neither of us has secure employment.
I am under a code of conduct and it is frequently held above our heads as is professional misconduct. Why should my ultimate boss be exempted from the same conditions.
BTW: I did not vote for the current opposition at the last election, but I did vote believing in Juliar's promise of no carbon tax.
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YarnMaster
If those we elect to parliament don't know right from wrong at their age, what hope have we of their ability to run the country properly?
It's a disgrace that the whole of the parliamentary system and the image of the country itself, should be sullied by the actions of these selfish, arrogant incompetents, on both sides of the house, in the upper and lower chambers.
And we've got no hope of it ever getting any better and no so called "code of conduct" will change that.
Stop wasting time and get on with trying to keep the country from being mired in the same pile of **** that's going to affect the world soon because of the actions of a tin pot country like Greece and a few other members of the EU.
Plus the bankers of course.
AlanH.
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