windsor king hits abbott, page-134

for those who spruik Windsor's credentials
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/windsor_the_hypocrite/

and before anyone trusts Windsor’s judgment or recall of events:
Consider this: a few years ago an MP rose in parliament and named two fellow parliamentarians as attempting to bribe him…

The MP who made the allegations ... was the member for New England, Tony Windsor.

After the ALP had referred the claims to the AEC and while the AFP had not concluded its processes, Windsor named the then deputy prime minister and arch political rival John Anderson, and Nationals senator Sandy Macdonald, in parliament as the two who had offered him a bribe, through a Tamworth businessman, not to contest the 2004 election.

Anderson vehemently denied the charge and the next day Windsor returned to parliament to give an even more detailed account of the attempted inducement…

... the then leader of the House, Tony Abbott, had demanded Windsor produce evidence of his claims.

The matter was resolved when the businessman said the claims were wrong and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions found there was no prima facie case for charges to be laid.

Windsor’s defeat at the next election by Richard Torbay would cleanse this parliament of a hypocrite.

UPDATE

Windsor had nothing but praise for Abbott after ending their negotiations:

"There are number of other issues and both sides of the debate have put regional packages together and I don’t think that’s any secret. And they’ve both done a great job, they really have."

And in September 2010:


"I actually gained a much higher personal regard for [Tony Abbott] during that period of a fortnight…"