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May 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Federal Finance Minister Penny Wong remains adamant that suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson should be afforded due legal process, despite a key independent questioning his support for the government over the scandal.
NSW MP Rob Oakeshott says the moral authority of the Labor Party has been eroded by the fact Mr Thomson was preselected when a 1100-page Fair Work Australia (FWA) report now indicates he misused Health Services Union funds when general secretary between 2002 and 2007.
The independent MP asked whether Prime Minister Julia Gillard should have been able to form a minority government after the 2010 election.
“Have I entered a good faith agreement with someone who doesn’t have the authority to do it because they actually don’t have the legitimate numbers in the house to enter that agreement because it’s based on people who are dodgy?” Mr Oakeshott told The Australian Financial Review on Thursday.
But Senator Wong remains adamant legal processes should resolve the matter.
“Ultimately Mr Oakeshott has to make his decisions,” she told ABC Radio.
“(But) what I would say is what I’ve said (before).
“The way in which this matter is dealt with should be respected with separation of powers. Parliament isn’t judge and jury.”
Mr Thomson, who quit the Labor caucus in late April and now sits on the crossbench, was subsequently found by FWA to have spent almost $500,000 of union funds on prostitutes, fancy meals and his election campaign when he ran the HSU.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on Friday said it was a credit to Mr Oakeshott that he was taking the FWA report seriously.
He said the independent MP was right to question Mr Thomson’s legitimacy as an member of parliament.
Mr Abbott stressed the findings by FWA were just that and not merely allegations.
“We have to assume there is enormous substance in all of this,” he told Sky News.
“It’s to Rob Oakeshott’s credit that he is taking this report very, very seriously because I think that it is entirely right to question the legitimacy of this man (Mr Thomson) sitting in the parliament under these circumstances.
“Effectively, he was elected doing things that he should never have done.”
Mr Abbott said he hadn’t spoken to Mr Oakeshott about the issue.
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