Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
Whilst I have no evidence to dispute your opinion of Macklin and don't doubt you for a second, one thing she needs credit for is getting herself in a position to stick her nose in the trough and keeping it there for a very lucrative time.

That takes a certain type of smarts, you gotta give her that.
She is where she is because she poses absolutely no threat to the established right wing conservative shit for brains labour party boys club. If she had any talent Macklin would be punted immediately.
Nothing too different to why Bronwyn Bishop has a role within the Coalition. Again, no threat to the boys club and will pretty much do whatever they tell her because she lacks the reasoning power to think outside of the dogma she's fed on.