It's really only the rabid lefties making a hullabaloo about Palmer while keeping deadly quiet about the masses of freshly laundered union thugs that dominate the labor party front ranks...
The rest of us have been consistently disturbed by the union-boss domination of the labor party via the placing of masses of useless union-thugs in safe seats where union-foot soldiers can be mobilized for their usual voter imtimidation, standover, vandalism of opposition voting material and general vote rigging to various extents...
As the union membership declines over time, the union-bosses seem to have decided that full spectrum domination of the labor party is the easiest way to continue creating and distorting laws to advantage and enforce union control of the workplace, and to keep the union-boss bank accounts full by looting and crony contracts...
And of course by service a couple of terms of government, these masses of union thugs qualify for the extraordinarily generaous, lifetime retirement perks due to politicians that get the requirements for continual hush-money and payoffs for these useless union-thugs of the books of the union-bosses and onto the public...
The union-bosses seem to have corrupted the ABC to turn the massive public financed media empire into a political propaganda organ and megaphone for the union-bosses and their 100% owned and controlled labor party to further corrupt the election and political process by continual, full spectrum socialist propaganda and constant attacks on the Liberal government...
