In public life, some private failings can be overlooked. But this MP should resign

More than a decade before the grubby antics of the Seven Network were revealed in spectacular fashion through its role in securing the infamous Bruce Lehrmann interview, the network had already stooped devastatingly low in its pursuit of a NSW Labor minister. The then transport minister, a man who was respected within his party and across the political divide, was followed to a gay men’s club and outed as a man living a double life.

Taylor Martin, a member of the upper house, is on the crossbench after being expelled from the Liberal Party after thehundreds of private messages in which he called former federal Liberal MP Lucy Wicks a pig, a “f---ing idiot” and a “dumb slut”. One text said: “Go stay in your world of f---ing make-believe you f---ing pig-ignorant bitch”.

The party hired senior counsel Trish McDonald to investigate, a wise move given the Liberals’ woeful track record in dealing with women. Taylor, a member of the centre-right faction of the Liberals agreed to remove himself from the party room until McDonald’s work was done. The investigation dragged on.

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