Is Parliamentary Privilage designed to allow politician's to get away with corruption. It seems that, in Western Australia, the ex Legislative Council President, Kate Doust (Labor), attempted to use the powerful Procedures and Privileges Committee (PPC), to stop the CCC from obtaining disgraced Liberal MP Phil Edman's laptop, which allegedly contained information about how he used his electoral allowance to pay for strip clubs, speeding fines, and to act as a Sugar Daddy to women he met online.

Kate Doust used the PPC to recover the hard drives from the CCC, as she claimed that the information was subject to parliamentary privilege, which is only to provide legal immunity against liability for statements or actions undertaken in the course of parliamentary duties. I'm sure that strippers, speeding fines and being a Sugar Daddy does not fall under these privileges.

Phil Edman was also part of a secret club of politician's who attended expensive dinners on taxpayer money.

In March, under the leadership of Premier Mark McGowan, Labor won the WA state election in such a landslide, that the Liberal Party had less members (2), than the National Party (4), out of 59 seats (Labor 53).

Mark McGowan sacked Doust from her position, as he supported the investigation into Phil Edman.