There will be much political gaming of the parliamentary privileges and related CCC matters; we don’t fully know yet who has done what, nor do we know the outcomes.

WA\'s Parliament House. Credit:Kate Hedley

But righteous indignation will rule and that time honoured political process of justifying your transgressions by alleging someone on the other side did the same, or worse, means much mud will fly.

Virtuous media commentators will gnash their teeth and the public is most likely to shrug its collective shoulders and say a pox on all their houses.

It has always been that political parties, lobby groups, vested interests and some individuals often try to rort, game or bend the system to meet their own ends. When miscreants behave in this manner, it is crucial that our public systems discover, expose and punish such behaviour.