Julie Bishop

The answering machine did it

Not a Hedgehog - June 22, 2008 - 8:05pm

Bishop is trying to stretch this for all it’s worth:

“My concern is the cover-up within the Prime Minister’s office,” she said.

“What did the Prime Minister’s office advise Belinda Neal to do?

“Now there are these allegations that staffers have been leant on to swear false declarations.

“That is serious, that is a criminal offence.”

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Q&A - Julie Bishop is full of shit

HarrangueMan - June 5, 2008 - 11:10pm

No surprises there. She and fucking Sheridan are double teaming in some nice partisan work on the panel. Bishop just told a breath taking lie about hecs. 'You don't have to pay it back until you earn 40k plus and if you never earn that amounts you never have to pay it back.'

Utter rot. 1) It's indexed to inflation (or CPI) and your debt increases the longer your don't pay it back. 2) If you die then partial HECS can be recovered from your estate if you have one. Read more »