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| Subject: OZschwitz Labor MP Craig Thomson clocking up hookers on govt credit card Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:27 am | |
| THE federal opposition has called on the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions to launch criminal proceedings against the Labor MP Craig Thomson, an act that would have the potential to force a byelection and bring down the Gillard government.
The shadow attorney-general, George Brandis, seized on an admission by Mr Thomson on the radio station 2UE on Monday that he approved a Health Services Union credit card payment to a Sydney escort agency.
Mr Thomson, who was the head of the union before entering Parliament in 2007, said: ''I authorised all credit card bills'', when asked about a payment of $2475 to a brothel in April 2005. The bill had appeared on his union-supplied credit card.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/dpp-urged-to-act-against-thomson-20110803-1ibrq.html |
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