oakshott sought a state labor seat, page-3

Oakeshott - the fly in the ointment.
His so-called "high standards" are revealed to be what they are - a fraud, and a lie.
And HE controls who rules a whole nation for the next three years? Laughing uncontollaby while he's hoodwinking?
AND so does Windsor - just as bad. He kept it very quiet that he was a first cousin to a major Labor Party player.
Who hosted and squired he and OAkeshott around Canberra - met them at the airport, etc.
Then Katter tells us he would have gone Labor if Rudd had still been in power - after being wined and dined by Rudd and Therese Rein for two days of cajoling!
Katter had to be careful to preserve HIS seat for his son to inherit. I admit he has done good work with the indigenous community.
But Katter is no idiot. He would have known the other two were going through a sham, from day one!
What absolutle hypocrisy - and sheer GALL - for the three of them to lecture all of us about "transparency",
"stability", "who can best run stable Government", and
all their other sanctimonius clap trap!

Same thing happened in Victoria in 1999 - one of the three so-called "Independents" who installed Labor over Kennett then reverted back to the Labor Party and stood for them at the next election.

Dirty rotten games!
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Here is the article from today's Australian:-


Cabinet and shadow cabinet are being pieced together, but there is nothing official yet.
..Neutral? Rob Oakeshott 'asked Labor for state cabinet seat' EXCLUSIVE: Imre Salusinszky, NSW political reporter From: The Australian September 10, 2010 12:00AM
Oakeshott arrives in Port Macquarie on Tuesday. Picture: Rogers Jeremy Source: The Australian

ROB Oakeshott has previously sought positions in Labor cabinets, casting doubt on whether the independent MP was fully impartial as he considered the claims of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott to form minority government.
The Australian has learned that Mr Oakeshott, then a state MP, approached former NSW premier Morris Iemma in 2007 and asked to join his ministry. He was emboldened by persistent rumours of a cabinet reshuffle and the fact that Mr Iemma had recently appointed another independent, Northern Tablelands MP Richard Torbay, as Speaker.

According to a senior Labor source, Mr Oakeshott told Mr Iemma he might resign from parliament if his request were not met, warning that his seat of Port Macquarie would probably revert to the Nationals.

In fact, Mr Oakeshott did leave state parliament a year later, winning the federal seat of Lyne at a by-election and vacating his state seat for another independent, Peter Besseling.

A spokesman for Mr Oakeshott said last night he had "no recollection whatsoever of being in a conversation with Morris Iemma about a ministerial position in 2007".

Mr Iemma declined to comment in detail but confirmed that the conversations took place.

Mr Oakeshott is due to announce today whether he will accept a ministerial position overseeing regional Australia in the Gillard government.

The conversations between Mr Iemma and Mr Oakeshott took place at Mr Oakeshott's behest, seven months after the March 2007 state election. Mr Iemma, who had a workable majority of five seats, at that time saw no advantage in appointing an independent to cabinet and calculated that it would arouse anger on his back bench.

He told Mr Oakeshott if he were to consider such a move it would be in the event of a hung parliament following the 2011 state election.

The Labor source, who was privy to the discussions, said Mr Oakeshott told Mr Iemma: "If there is a reshuffle, I have a suggestion, and the suggestion is put me in."

"He said, 'It's in your interests . . . to keep me in the parliament, because Port Macquarie's a safe conservative seat, and if it's not me, it reverts to the Nats'.

"He said he was growing increasingly bored. His mind was not being exercised and he was not being intellectually engaged.

"There was a follow-up meeting when he told Morris, 'I'm going brain-dead here'."

Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce said last night it had been Mr Oakeshott's right to seek elevation to a Labor cabinet in 2007, but that it showed it was "mischievous" of the MP to suggest his decision last week came down to the toss of a coin.

"Once I saw that (Labor strategist) Bruce Hawker was the friend, guide and philosopher for Mr Oakeshott and Mr Windsor, I thought our chances were buckley's and none of getting them to support the Coalition," Senator Joyce said. "Were they genuinely interested in the Coalition's election costings? Did they sit back at night and peruse them? Or was it merely a tactic?"

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What an act these guys put on. The whole thing was a done deal from day one. We were just the dummies they stood there and lectured about "ethics" and "morals" and "doing the right thing by Australia".

"Idols" with hollow legs.

We should maintain the rage! Gillard, in the light of this, has not been justly elected. If she had any orinciples, SHE, in the light of the above, should instigate another election herself, for the sake of true democracy!