Palaszczuk delayed casting the rogue MP aside until after the critical confidence motion in the Parliament
With the Left it is so often not the principle that counts but the side.
In this case we must ask: what did Labor know about Gordon and what action did it take?:
By her own admission, Ms Palaszczuk definitely knew on March 19 – the Thursday before Parliament resumed – about the allegations against Mr Gordon raised by a former partner, relating to his failure to pay child support to help raise two of his young children. Those allegations were raised in a letter that also canvassed a series of domestic abuse claims against Mr Gordon. Attached to that correspondence was a letter purportedly from Mr Gordon in which he admitted to having “acted like an animal” and putting his former partner through years of hell…
A full week then passed before the formal confidence motion in Ms Palaszczuk’s Government was debated and voted on in the Parliament, during which time Labor accepted Mr Gordon’s support… The confidence vote was held in the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning, by which time our presses had already rolled with the exclusive story from Steven Wardill revealing – publicly for the first time – the fact Mr Gordon had dodged his child-support obligations.
Parliament rose later that day – after Mr Gordon promised to address the child support matters and Ms Palaszczuk said the matter had been “dealt with”. Parliament will not sit again – and therefore its confidence in the Palaszczuk Government won’t again have to be tested – until May 5.
It was only after Parliament rose that evening that Ms Palaszczuk referred Mr Gordon to the police over the abuse allegations that she had by that time been aware of for more than a week – after they were detailed on a blog.
A day later, Mr Gordon confessed to a series of undeclared criminal offences – including a violence order taken out by his fearful mother…
...it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than this: By early last week, Labor’s senior leadership knew Mr Gordon’s position in the party was untenable but they delayed casting the rogue MP aside until after the critical confidence motion in the Parliament. That having been achieved, the Premier was able to act decisively and talk tough knowing that she had almost six weeks to clean up the mess before Parliament’s confidence in her administration could be tested again.
