@bacci; Suggestion 6 applies far wider than a member of Parliament - but even that aside, let's not pretend that most politicians do not already have legal backgrounds let alone access to whatever they might need from contacts they have within the legal profession.
For just one moment consider the case of a young female political staffer alleging she's been raped by a senior politician and the legal services she can afford versus a senior politician with a legal background and mates in high places ensuring he can draw on support from a QC/SC team.
Australia's legal system is stacked very heavily against Aussie Battlers and women are the ones it fails most often. When it comes to protected species like politicians they've Buckley's hope in Hell of achieving justice from one of the developed world's most inequitable judicial systems.
That's what's provoked yesterday's protests and pretending otherwise is not a solution - it's the problem!
