Politician tries to kill himself after 'mail-order bride' disgrace

[emad]

August 31, 2005

Times
By Our Foreign Staff



A LEADING Australian politician was reported to have tried to kill himself as new allegations emerged about his predatory sexual behaviour a day after he resigned from office in disgrace.

John Brogden, 36, leader of the opposition Liberals in New South Wales, was found unconscious in a back room of his office at Mona Vale yesterday. Australian police said that he had tried to commit suicide. He was taken to hospital with self-inflicted stab wounds, where he was said to be in a stable condition. He is expected to be discharged today.

Mr Brogden resigned on Monday after reports that he had called the Malaysian wife of a political rival a “mail-order bride” at an alcohol-soaked function and sexually harassed two women journalists.

The Australian Daily Telegraph published further lurid details of Mr Brogden’s stormy private life yesterday. It alleged that during a boozy Christmas party in his parliamentary office in 2003 he invited two women journalists for a group sex session. He is said to have told them that they were so attractive they should be kept in a nunnery. “He jokingly made this suggestion about threesomes,” one of the women was quoted as saying. They declined his offer.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1757891,00.html

[northzax]

1. stabbing yourself is not a good way to go

I figure.

[0007]

2. I never could figure out how the Japanese could do the

hari-kari thingy.

[northzax]

3. dirty little secret

immediately following the self-disembowelment, someone behind you decapitates you, so you don't lose face (aw, crap bad pun) by showing fear or pain.

[GregW]

4. Remember folks, in Oz ...

Liberals = Republicans (US)
Labour = Democrats (US)
Democrats = Centrists (US)

[jarab]

5. Had this been a US figure ...

he would have a photo-op news conference, claim some concocted cause-and-effect dependency, (later) sit in the favored box at the State of the Union address, receive a freedom medal, and retire with comfort.
Strange how different cultures look upon "public service".
...O...

[jobycom]

6. Released one day after a suicide attempt? Are they giving him a hint?

They save him then release him in the same emotional condition he tried to kill himself in. This must be one unpopular politician.

[emad]

7. Maybe he fell on his letter-opener.....

?