SHADOW BOXING: James Ashby’s $500,000+ legal bill is the dirtiest little secret in Australian politics

James Ashby won’t tell us who’s funding his sexual harassment litigation against Speaker Peter Slipper. WIth his legal costs estimated at $500,000, it’s time for answers. We also look at the sheer folly of $50,000 in taxpayers’ funds being paid to the gutter-snipe whose own paid shrink thinks behaved in a “provocative and sexualised” manner in the workplace. UPDATE: Sources tell VEXNEWS that the number Ashby’s lawyers cited in discussions with the Commonwealth as having been expended on legal costs is $1.2 million. Even allowing for traditional padding, that’s a huge amount for anyone to fund.