who has credibility at all these days ???
Yes I would have liked to see her name MORE names too
Very acurate view Old Man. The Turnbull faithful slamming the door on their way out. Showing their immaturity and lack of leadership.
They are all leaving because the LNP nest has become so toxic.
Oh wow Old Man, have you been going around with your eyes closed? The total dysfunction of the Libs and Nationals has all been laid out in the public domain for all to see. Both are corrupt, self-serving and not interested in the welfare of any one of us unless we are worth over a million dollars. Bring on the election and turf the lot out!!
the next election will be a farce, especially with a person like R. O......T
udo1103 can you explain what or who is R. O......T is
Every one thinks that he will call it for may but that is only for half the senate, the house has till november so he will have another 7 months to screw us wait and see
Every one thinks that he will call it for may but that is only for half the senate, the house has till november so he will have another 7 months to screw us wait and see
Some short memories here. Didn't Julia Banks say that 'she could live on forty bucks Newstart a day'?
She walked away from providing evidence there too.
Yes, it was a ridiculous statement from someone who didn’t think what ‘living’ actually entails. I have no time for her
Subdays,
Agreed. She is totally selfish and self-absorbed.
Thanks for that reminder LJ --- yes I was disgusted on that comment of her's ---
I do not like her but she did say a few things on the project the other night she could have named more names though
I have no time for Julia Banks!
They are all tared with the same brush! It's ME ME ME and bugger everyone else. Most of them wouldn't know what a hard day's work was.
Dead right ronloby, most went from school to FREE Uni and then straight into politics and have never done a fair dinkum days work in their lives
just like many in labor who went straight from the unions into politics.
How Julia Banks ever got through a law degree is a mystery. The wind must whistle through her ears.
It is sad that some people like Julia Banks can have all of life's advantages, the university education, the plum jobs and the assistance of mates, but have such self-entitlement to always expect more or the spoilt girl takes her bat and ball and is off.
We all have known so many earnest, conscientious people who have worked lifetimes in the service of others but expect no special treatment and certainly do not get any from government either.
Makes me wonder -- when they say they have done a Law degree --- it really doesn't mean much at all unless they have worked in that field for quite a few years -- I know a few young ones that have done a few 'degrees" but never worked at what they studied --- Uni a lot of the time is just another "cool" thing to do --- and so many are working in places you need NO degree at all for -- and the Uni was a total waste of money -- some are professional Uni students -- because sometimes Mum & Dad have a few quid, I know quite a few like this.
PlanB, from my experience and observations, there are many who go to University to get an education and there are many who go to get a qualification. It is possible to come away from University with one and not the other. Being a Uni student can be a great time of your life and for many, that is the most imortant bit.
Yes I agree Couldabeen, I am sure Uni is PARTY time for many
Julia Banks worked as a lawyer in private practice principally in litigation and then joined Hoechst Australia Limited as Corporate Counsel.
From 1992, she worked at Kraft Foods rising from General Counsel to Senior Counsel and ultimately becoming the Director for Corporate Affairs (Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific Regions).
From 2009 to 2014, Banks served as General Counsel and Company Secretary for Glaxo Smith Australasia, also taking on the role of Head of Compliance and Risk Management.
In 2014, she moved to George Weston Foods where she served as the Chief General Counsel and Company Secretary. She has also been a member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property and a Director of the Australian Made company.
Julia Banks is not only a very accomplished lawyer..she has held down some pretty impressive jobs. I have some admiration for her..however..I was very upset when she and Julie Bishop left the LNP..I feel they should have both stayed and helped demolish the boys’ club mentality that exists in the Liberal Party. Having said that..I am proud of her for exposing the treatment women in the Parliament have received from the “boys” in the LNP.
I dont know what Julia Banks has exposed other than her desire for revenge? The sooner the LNP move on from the Turnbull era the better they will be viewed by the electorate, in my opinion.
Sophie, thank you for that summary of Ms Banks career in Law. What it shows to me is that she had a good CV and interviewed well for the jobs. it does not indicate that she was ever actually competent as a Lawyer. Certainly never had to go to Court and debate a point with a learned counsel. At least not with any demonstrated success.
"Certainly never had to go to Court and debate a point with a learned counsel."
Perhaps because she is a corporate lawyer and not a defence lawyer. Most corporate lawyers probably never step into a courtroom in their lives. Corporate lawyers spend their careers focusing on the legal issues businesses face.
Were she a defence lawyer it might never have occurred to her to enter politics :)
Agree Sophie, Ms Banks is a significant loss to the Liberal Party. For the most part gender is immaterial in my view simply something that may irrationally sway voters not something which is likely to change the way we govern much. When we get beyond actual and feelings of subservience and containment, numbers of people of all sorts will change with the wind. Julia Banks has a good mind and while i know too little to comment on any failings others discuss she appeared a strong performer to me. Her feeling for corporate law, ethnicity and sexuality were imporant inputs.
My guess is that coming from roles where she would be treated as an expert on largely defined matters she would have found the pace, strategy, posturing and all but conniving nature of politics especially confronting. That is an evolving thing and I don't expect it will change quickly. That it may take a Margaret Thatcher, Benizir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi, Mrs. Bandairanaiki, Angela Merkel or even Theresa May to stand out as those who have withstood it and thrived there are plenty that have been part of the process and plenty that will be as it evolves.
Without comparative analysis and adjudicated evidence the charge of bullying sounds too hollow to be taken as gospel. More an unpreparedness to play the game realising that games can be changed.
Extremely well put JAID..
This interview with Ms Banks certainly shows that she never actually joined the Liberal Party as such. She did not join it for it's constitution or values. She joined it as she saw it as a stepping stone for her own personal career.
She had no allegiance to the future growth of Australia, only to the primary rent seeker, one Mr Turnbull.
She was elected as a Liberal and not as Julia Banks. She had a moral obligation to see out her term in Parliament representing her electors as a Liberal.
As another commentator on here has said, she works with inuendo and smear with no facts or names to substantiate her disgraceful behaviour.
One must ask if in the leadership challenge vote, did she vote for Julie Bishop because she saw Ms Bishop as the best candidate or merely because she was a woman? Ms Bishop did have my support for many years, but having tied herself too tightly to Malcolm Turnbull, either her true colours surfaced or she has sold her principles to the highest bidder.
And what she saw and interpreted as anti-woman bullying is all part and parcel of political life, gender has nothing to do with who is targeted or how they are targeted.
Australian politics will be well rid of this opportunist.
well said!
Quote Couldabeen: "And what she saw and interpreted as anti-woman bullying is all part and parcel of political life, gender has nothing to do with who is targeted or how they are targeted."
Is that so?? How did you come to that conclusion? I completely disagree and yes, gender has a lot to do with it.
Good to see you having an opinion of your own RAY. Please explain how "gender has a lot to do with it."
Good to see you having an opinion of your own RAY. Please explain how "gender has a lot to do with it."
Can someone explain to me how bullying based on gender is any worse or better than bullying based on some other condition. A bit like argueing about whether it is better to be killed with a Mac truck or a Kenworth, the result is exactly the same.
looks like another case of rusted ons tryig to deflect from the real story. It's all a bit lame, as well as predictable. Don't like the outcome, change the story.
Simply put Adrianus - if Julia Banks were male, she would not have felt she had to leave.
The sooner the far right conservatives realise they are a scourge on society, the sooner we shall have a fairer society.
I doubt if Julia Banks would identify as a male just to change her own feelings.
The situation is much worse than I had thought if people actually believe this nonsense. Politics is a game of one up manship, a game of making oneself look good and ones opponents look ordinary. It can be a tough game at times, regardless of wether you are male or female, but to play a victim because of being female is below the belt in my opinion. I say, go hard or go home!
Adrianus: “Politics is a game of one up manship”
Yes it is...a game many of us have come to hate because it’s more about one up manship than about the welfare of the people.
Sometimes I think there is no news exclude this woman.
quite frankly the party is better off without her IMHO!
I'm sorry, Julia Banks has dumped on the Liberals with accusations of bullying but refuses to give any details. Accusations are easy, offering irrefutable proof is hard. She is standing for re-election but hasn't the guts to do so in the seat she currently represents but has chosen a seat with a smaller margin. This person has no credibility.