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Anything they can do, we can do better

Posted by Ian in Uncategorized on November 8th, 2006

The US had the Mark Foley scandal, the Republican congressman accused of making sexual advances to young men serving as congressional pages (note to US politicians, pages and interns (Monica Lewinsky) seem to be too tempting for some, maybe its safer to remove the temptation).

Now in Australia, we have trumped that. NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Milton Orkopoulos, was today sacked from the ministry and from the Labor Party by Premier Morris Iemma after being charged with 30 child sex and drug offences. He allegedly used government funds to pay a teenage boy for sex.

According to a police statement tendered to the Newcastle court today, Orkopoulos met one alleged victim, then aged 15, between April and October 1997. The alleged victim, now 24, told police Orkopoulos supplied him with cannabis on two occasions before the first alleged sexual assault. When the boy was 18, Orkopoulos was paying him about $250 per week to have sex with him, according to the statement. Police allege Orkopoulos supplied the teenager with cannabis to relax him before sex, and occasionally supplied him with amphetamines. The alleged victim said he met with Orkopoulos twice a week for a period of seven or eight years.

Shock horror … the money Orkopoulos was allegedly paying to the teenager came from his electoral office’s petty cash - wonder what he was claiming on the petty cash docket?

Orkopoulos was granted bail on the conditions that he report to police three times a week, that he not leave NSW, that he not have any contact with anyone aged under 18 unless another adult is present, and that he surrender his passport.

My question to Australians, particularly NSW residents: has anyone actually heard of Milton Orkopoulos until today? I hadn’t … he obviously kept a low profile, and I bet he wishes that was still the case.

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3 Responses to “Anything they can do, we can do better”

  1. Comment by TOM
    November 9th, 2006 at 11:35 am

    politricians are worthy of crapping on, we should make toilet paper with their faces on them!!

  2. Comment by Ryan
    November 10th, 2006 at 10:43 am

    Wow, yeah, I would say that beats the Mark Foley thing by a long shot.

  3. Comment by Anonymous
    November 15th, 2006 at 4:53 am

    You really don’t know the scandalous history of the ALP in Lake Macquarie:

    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20759727-601,00.html

    How many times does it have to happen?