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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Liberal party will move quickly to fill the vacancy of Senator Mary Jo Fisher, federal manager of opposition business Christopher Pyne says.
He says the party is “shocked and saddened” to hear the Senator’s mental health issues have forced her to resign.
The senator, who faced court for shoplifting last year, announced on Thursday, after being reported for shoplifting again, that she would resign from the Senate on August 10.
“It is terribly sad news,” Mr Pyne told ABC radio.
“And the Liberal party and I are shocked and saddened.
“We all hoped that she would fully recover.”
Senator Fisher said she was resigning on medical advice after experiencing a further panic attack, similar but less severe than the one which caused such grief 18 months ago.
She was then charged with shoplifting and assaulting a guard after taking almost $93 worth of food from a supermarket.
At the time she was found not guilty on the shoplifting charge but guilty of assault. However, no conviction was recorded because of her panic attack.
The senator’s statement of resignation did not mention she had been reported again.
Mr Pyne said being a senator was a highly stressful job and Senator Fisher also had to fight a difficult prosecution.
He said he hoped she would make a full recovery.
In the meantime, the party would “move very quickly” to find a replacement when parliament resumes in August after a winter break, Mr Pyne said.
Liberal MP Jamie Briggs said there were questions to be asked “about who made the decision to overturn the arrangement that the police came to with her legal team early on”.
Last month, Senator Fisher’s defence counsel, Michael Abbott, QC, told the Adelaide Magistrates Court she had proposed pleading guilty to an assault charge, with no conviction recorded, in return for the shoplifting charge being dropped.
Mr Abbott said the deal was backed by the two prosecutors in the case who recommended it be accepted.
“(But) somewhere, somehow, in the chain of command, the police were not willing to deal with the matter by any way other than a full trial,” he told the court.
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