But the unseemly spectacle of AAP's top leaders squabbling in the open, the intemperate language used in phone conversations and the virtual banishment of two of the party's brightest leaders, will now put to rest the illusion that AAP is all that different.
But Linn recognized that federal law gives a union license to use intemperate, abusive, or insulting language without fear of restraint or penalty if it believes such rhetoric to be an effective means to make its point.
Behaviour and language such as Palmer's on Monday night are of course unseemly from an Australian elected representative, though Palmer is not the first Australian politician to use intemperate invective against China.
As the furore rolled on, the Mail argued that as socialists use intemperate, poisonous language about Thatcher they should not protest when the right returns fire in the same vein.
When you talk about leaders who use "intemperate language" and the "rhetoric of extremists," are you talking about President Trump?
Fraud, which accounts for less than 1% of the overall benefits bill, was mentioned 85 times in the press releases, while it was not used at all in the final year of Labour, which was itself accused of sometimes using intemperate language on the issue.
Responding to the Guardian, Armstrong said: "I regret the intemperate wording I used in my exchange with Stella Creasy.
Even at its extravagant length, the book fails to get inside its subject, leaving the reader with a portrait of Cissy Patterson as little more than a wildly intemperate woman who used her money to bully friends and employees.
Other known and alleged incidents include hitting a policeman in Puerto Rico, throwing a chair across the court in a game, punching an assistant, shoving a fan and using intemperate language.
Anybody representing the club should desist from using intemperate and offensive language on whatever platform.
