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Drunk on power LP.  Kenneally and SHY leading the charge of course.

EDIT - Should add that wasn't a political comment, but it was on personalities

As a casual observer, I just do not understand the thought that they can publicly make those assertions and not have some regard for the possibility the claims are false, based on the public evidence it's a coin toss! I gather that is why the police withdrew the charges, they nothing to work with!

If an enquiry is launched and clears Porter, surely the risk is the blow torch turns to the accusers, as discussed in that other famous thread freedom of speech does not engender freedom from responsibility or consequence. There are those already labelling the in media debate around "due process" as "Mansplaining", this is not what humanity represents.

I appreciate there is no justice for a person who takes their own life, and that applies equally whether the reasons given are real or imaginary!

I'm very sensitive to this, because I know a family with a young lad who was falsely accused of similar and almost took his life over it. Years later after some external events the young girl tried to unsuccessfully kill herself, she couldn't live with her own conscience and in recovery admitted making it all up to defend her honour to her parents. The fear of social media repercussions where the ultimate driver in both events! The social pressure for her to be perceived as a good girl, untarnished in her own cultural circles, drove the events that unfolded over many years.