Senator Day takes funds while families have homes left unfinished
New documents have confirmed that Family First Senator Bob Day effectively gave $1.47 million to his political party a year after taking a sizable dividend from his loss-making home-building empire.
There is nothing positive to say
About Bob Day
just another christian con-man.
Two senior legal authorities contacted on Wednesday said an injunction was at least arguable, and would turn on whether the High Court regarded the make-up of the Parliament and the eligibility of an MP as "justiciable" – able to be tried within its jurisdiction.
Section 44 (iii) of the constitution states: "Any person who is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent, shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives."
Among the arguments to be run would be that any legislation passed could be rendered unsound if the material conditions of bankruptcy had been known to be present at the time, as all but stated voluntarily by the senator.
That makes a lot of sense.
Family first think they understand business and markets, at least they say they do. Clearly they don't even understand the constitution.
They support the Libs and keep them in power.
Yet people vote for him ???
But from what I've read he has somebody that is buying the indebted company so there is no reason for him to resign.
Day has resigned his Senate seat.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-01/bob-day-resigns/7983088
Good riddance.
Unfortunately, tradition says we just get another Family First bigot in his place.
http://www.familyfirst.org.au/
Cannot see anything in their policy that would make me see why you would call the next senate member a bigot ???
My concern is with their very narrow definition of "family".
I know of quite a few wonderful families that would not fit their definition.
I think this man is a scumbag and good riddance. For all the people he's left with half built houses and broken hearts, he should be in jail.
Toot
I think that about most of the politicians :)
Looks like Day has been playing a dodgy game for quite some years ie rental of office space. So much for honourable resignation.
They recognise that absent any tardiness in revealing this problem, the government still had a pretty obvious political interest in accommodating Day, in keeping him sweet. And that dates all the way back to July 2014 when Day took his place on the red carpet.
Or put another way, even when relevant ministers wrestled conscientiously with his unique office arrangements hoping to keep him within the law, they were disinclined to have a confrontation – to give him a flat "no" or call him out as unfit.
The affair adds a compelling reason to keep politicians out of such administrative decisions, and bolsters an already powerful case for a federal ICAC-like body.
A second Senate position is now in doubt. The Federal Government has confirmed it will ask the Senate to consider challenging the election of WA's One Nation senator Rod Culleton in the High Court, the day after it made a similar request regarding Bob Day's election
And here we are knocking Trump and Clinton the US politician ...
Abby - I cannot see a connection between our Senate mess and Trump vs Clinton.
Day, a veteran Family First Party Senator from South Australia, resigned after his building companies went bust owing $38 million and it emerged he may have got the taxpayer to rent his electoral office in a building in which he had a financial interest. Further, unions claim a $2 million federal government grant to an Adelaide trade school when Day was chairman of the board was a bid to buy his vote. The conflagration spread further on Friday when a photograph emerged of the Minister of Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, with Day at the school after telling a Senate committee last month he did not recall Day had a role at the college.
Bob Day has ripped off home builders, cheated taxpayers by deceitfully renting office space that he owns, and has traded his vote for bribes. Examples of Christian virtue? It beats me why genuine Christians would vote for this greedy, self-serving hypocrite.
The right-wing Christian conservatives in the LNP were perfectly happy to accept his parliamentary vote when it helped.
And a lot of other right-wing Christian conservative voters must have supported him.
I call all such people hypocrites.
All conservatives are not Christian.
I think you mean "Not all conservatives are Christian", which is true of course, but it's those conservatives who claim to be Christian I'm talking about. Their values, in many case, are anything but Christian.
Makes one shake their head in disgust -- I myself am totally over the lot of the political system on the whole planet
So Day props up Family First while his company loses money and families are left waiting for homes to be built. His public announcement of resigning because of his companies dire situation ( broke ) meant little as he intends to stay on till next year. It would take a fair while to have him declared bankrupt which would negate his position as a senator. Family first is his first priority and families a distant second in respect to unfinished homes. He also wants to block or determine his replacement by the party. Untenable situation as Day described it yet now its ok ? A bankrupt that is yet to declared staying on and getting the salary to play politics with his replacement and his party. Family, homes, a distant second in the thinking in Family First senators mind.