Re: Keating's Departure

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From: Rory Campbell
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00

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In article <ljh655.28.000DF76C@anugpo.anu.edu.au>, ljh655@anugpo.anu.edu.au (Lubosh) writes:
|> I like the cartoon in The Australian yesterday (Monday 29 April 1996) showing 
|> Paul Keating enacting his departure from politics "with honour".
|> It reminded me of the discussion last year, and suggestions from the minor 
|> parties not to allow MPs to resign from the service in the Parliament at will. 
|> I think the proposal was to make them pay for the cost of the by-election (or 
|> at least a part of it). Is this still going to happen, or can someone just 
|> decide a few weeks after being elected that he doesn't really want to serve 
|> the people who elected him after all ?!?
|> Lubosh
|> 

It's a job plain and simple.  Like any other job you can quit when you
want to.

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From: rory@solution.maths.unsw.edu.au (Rory Campbell)
Subject: Re: Keating's Departure
Date: 1996/05/01
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