Peter van Onselen: The dodgy tactic that every political party is indulging in ... trends now
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It is a tactic politicians of all political stripes deploy but it has to stop: asking inflammatory questions which are factually wrong to gain media attention.
The Greens are now using it to inaccurately smear Australian businesses as well as individuals.
Just a week after Greens Senator Barbara Pocock made an embarrassing blunder in Parliament she's at it again, this time misleading the parliament with an inaccurate and leading question.
Daily Mail Australia recently revealed Senator Pocock's $99,900,000 gaffe when she grilled government officials over a 'missing' $100million payment which didn't actually exist.
The payment she mistakenly referred to was in fact $100,000 not $100million, and while the senator claimed 'key milestones had not been properly met', both the government department and the service provider (big four consultancy firm KPMG) denied this.
Greens senator Barbara Pocock (left) has asked questions attacking KPMG and ASIC which were based on incorrect information
The Greens Senator eventually deleted her tweet but only after questions from Daily Mail Australia.
Yet Senator Pocock is at it again, using questions at another committee hearing to smear the consultancy firm once again. This time she is also attacking another government body: regulator ASIC.
The problem with the attacks is that they include more sloppy mistakes by the senator.
In February Senator Pocock grilled
