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May 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda AAP
Labor attempts to draw comparisons between allegations against a Liberal senator and the Craig Thomson scandal smack of desperation, opposition MPs say.
Senator Bill Heffernan has been accused of hitting a senior party staffer and calling him “a poofter” during a branch meeting on the NSW Central Coast.
Labor says if Opposition Leader Tony Abbott applied the same principles to Senator Heffernan, as he did to Mr Thomson, he would refuse to accept the senator’s vote and stand him down from chairing a Senate committee.
Mr Abbott repeatedly has attacked the government for relying on the “tainted” vote of Mr Thomson, who was suspended from the Labor caucus following a damning Fair Work Australia report about his time as national secretary of the Health Services Union
Liberal frontbencher Scott Morrison rejected any comparisons.
“If people want to conflate nothing that happened on the Central Coast with Senator Heffernan … with the findings of fact from the Fair Work inquiry about Mr Thomson then people are frankly as desperate as the Labor party are,” he told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
Colleague Christopher Pyne said the matters were entirely different, noting Mr Thomson was the subject of findings of fact in a FWA report detailing embezzlement, fraud and misuse of union funds on prostitutes, personal expenses and electoral expenses.
“The issues surrounding Bill Heffernan have been dismissed by the NSW Liberal Party president and state director,” he told reporters.
“Quite frankly comparing the two is not comparing apples with apples.”
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