The resignation of the Family First senator Bob Day has polarised the parliament, after the government praised his integrity and the Greens criticised $1.7m of political donations made by him and his company. “Senator Day has, very honourably, given personal guarantees to his company’s creditors, so he and his family will be directly affected by these events,” he said. Family First senator Bob Day quits after business collapses Read more“While Bob Day’s building empire, Home Australia, was leaving many, many people in financial stress, Bob Day was pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into his own party’s coffers,” she said. According to Rhiannon, Day and his company donated more than $1.7m to Family First between 2010 and 2015. “The people who had been left high and dry by his building company were forced to watch as Senator Day bankrolled his own political career.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2016 21:56 UTC