I Got It Half Right - Why Mt Gambier City Council Must Resign En Masse.

Hello Sweden, Egypt, India, and Japan and welcome to TMGI...and in a rare treat for regular availees, I'm going to do exactly the post I promised last time...(treat?-Ed)...shhh...please to be finding attached the relative statements/Motions from the 2 consecutive Mt Gambier City Council meetings, July and August 2016, and the article from The Border Watch (Thursday August 18th 2016)...here again is the carefully planned, cynically orchestrated, institutionalised and systemic corruption of the wholly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, in collusion with the willingly complicit and equally corrupt The Border Watch newspaper...

But First:...whilst I cannot and will not apologise for the anger in recent posts, this one included, I greatly appreciate the ongoing support and feedback and the patience of availees as I trudge relentlessly forward with this 'ere blog and/or my personal stuff...(blah blah esoteric journey of self-discovery blah blah-Ed)...and sure, I do continue to suffer the crushing depression of living in a pro-paedophile corrupt community, be that South Australia itself or in l'il ol' Mt Gambier as run by a rancidly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council that operates for the specific financial gain of Its' constituent Members, etc, etc, etc, but despite that, what I have 'achieved' in trying to address this corruption cannot be ignored...as others have put it to me, this 'ere blog TMGI has created an undeniable parallel history to the one that these corrupt public officials would have y'all believe...cheers...and on with the post!...(tally-bally-ho!-Ed)... 

In the recent post about this self-appointed Tourism Mount Gambier group, and the associated rank corruption of a number of it's constituent/founding members, and the direct rank corruption of Mt Gambier City Council in supporting TMG, particularly the bizarre and deeply corrupted discussions/processes re the 2016/17 Budget, we all have already discussed the contemptuously corrupt 'Conflict Of Interest' conduct of former Mayor and current MGC Councillor Steve Perryman, who, as a founding Board Member of TMG, belligerently led the attack (in Council meetings) on what Council services should be 'de-funded' so as to free-up Ratepayers' money for him and his mates on TMG...(ya' know, I was there, and I still can't believe 1) that Stevo mate was so arrogantly self-righteous in his demands and in his denigration of disabled people, etc, or 2) that the rest of the Council just sat there and let it happen! pathetic!-Ed)...not just pathetic Ed, corrupt, rankly corrupt...

Remember too availees, that 1) it is reported that TMG intends to achieve 'Tourism' results that are already being achieved by State authorities/campaigns/whatevs, and 2) former MGC Councillor Biddie (Tietz) Shearing, who is also part of TMG, is currently swanning-about the place on the Taxpayers' dollar as the Tourism Development Officer for Regional Development Australia...and this bizarre TDO RDA appointment fresh off-the-back of a disastrous 'career' with other failed Tourism groups...(is this the stuff about how a demonstrated commitment to the institutionalised pro-paedophile corruption that defines SA is a fundamental requisite in being employed to these RDA jobs and any number of other similar positions?-Ed)...yep, that's the one...please also remember that this TMG has been officially described/reported as a 'Sub-committee of the Mt Gambier Chamber of Commerce', therefore Ratepayers are funding not just TMG but also the MGCoC...(wow...and don't the CoC have Members on TMG?-Ed)...yep...(wow, it's a veritable smorgasbord of self-serving Nepotism, Conflicts of Interest, and self-righteous greed-Ed)...indeed...

I note that this TMG has in it's self-appointed Board-ship several very wealthy individuals...very, very wealthy individuals, anyone of whom could easily self-fund this self-appointed group...and I can point directly at at least 2 of these very, very wealthy individuals and say they've made their wealth through corruption...and not just ya' standard garden variety corruption, ya' know, like ripping-off Ratepayers via super-dodgy building projects, relentlessly nepotistic Tender processes, etc, etc...(the sort of standard fare ya' get from Mt Gambier City Council?-Ed)...exactly like that...it's absolutely corrupt, sure, but it's not the pro-paedophile corruption that defines the political careers of Rory McEwen and Steve Perryman, as evidenced by their extensive and intimately complicit involvement in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(ah yeah now there's some corruption right there-Ed)...damn straight...

(So what you're saying is, is that every current Councillor, the Mayor, the CEO, all senior Council Officers, et al, they should all be sacked/removed and duly charged, under ICAC legislation, because that's exactly what ICAC's supposed to do, and then all involved appropriately fined/whatevs?-Ed)...and include the recent former CEO Greg Muller and Mayor (Perryman)...(fair enough, they're shockers too, but you're saying that all of that corruption, as undoubtedly bad as it is, all of that pales in comparison to the extraordinary levels of corruption, deceit, and self-serving criminality that our mates Rory and Stevo have involved themselves in re the St Martins Cover-up?-Ed)...that's exactly what I'm saying...and I say these things 100% confident that I can prove, indeed, have already repeatedly proven on this 'ere blog just exactly what Rory's capable of, eg, his extraordinary defense of the "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher and then slanderous attack on us parents via the front page of the equally complicit The Border Watch from May 6th 2005 (see previous posts, including recent post about Premier Jay Weatherill)... 

MGC Council is obviously feeling some of the public backlash about the rank corruption of this entire TMG process, because after initially trumpetting (via The Border Watch, previous post) that there would be $480,000 of Ratepayers' money going to TMG, with $350,000 of that for employing a 'Tourism Officer/Specialist', Council has now reined right-back from Its' billowing self-praise about how much of Ratepayers' money is being poured into TMG...(and reined-back so much that they've got TBW very carefully pseudo-accurately reporting these corrupt shenanigans-Ed)...pseudo-accurately?...(yeah, it's the deceit by omission stuff, the carefully crafted half-truth stuff-Ed)...you mean like Council and TBW now stating/reporting that MGC Council has "committed $160,000 in seed funding", followed 2 paragraphs later with a verbose acknowledgement of the fiscal realities, "Identical financial contributions over the next two years have been foreshadowed by council", itself a lie because Council hasn't "foreshadowed" squat, they've stated outright and voted for this funding for a 3 year period...period...

When you start to look at the various different versions side-by-side, these manipulations and/or omissions become glaringly obvious...eg, whilst I don't have a copy of the relevant "attached budget proposal", Council has self-evidently been very careful to go from "in kind support for tourism specialists' office accommodation, vehicle usage, office consumables", right back to just "in kind support"...and the discussion in Councils' July meeting couched this "in kind support" in terms of providing an office within the Council premises, and a car...(what? on top of the $110,000 salary?-Ed)...yep...(wow, so Ratepayers are straight-out being robbed of $160,000 for this ludicrous TMG nonsense, plus we're paying for all the other rorts that Council commits, eg, luxury cars for Council staffers, etc, including it would appear, a car for this 'Tourism Specialist'-Ed)...and all very carefully hidden behind "in kind support"...

The final act re this rankly corrupt TMG Motion in MGC Councils' August 2016 meeting is as below, item b), point 6), "Provide Councillor representation on the Tourism Mount Gambier Board."...(but isn't TMG founding Board Member Steve Perryman also former Mayor and current MGCC Councillor Steve Perryman?-Ed)...one and the same...(the same Cr Perryman who shat spectacularly all over Local Government provisions re 'Conflict Of Interest' when he led the attack on other Council services re funding TMG?-Ed)...yep...(what? all that stuff we've discussed just before/above and in recent posts? that Steve Perryman?-Ed)...what can I tell ya' Ed...(it doesn't make sense...why would Council include and then vote-through a statement that conflicts so fundamentally with the reality? the sentence itself simply doesn't make sense-Ed)...and that Ed, that's what I was saying previous about how this stuff is carefully written to hide the corrupt truths, and particularly to deceive those who wouldn't know otherwise...  
Here is a text-book example of the deliberate deceit of these official Council documents...this is carefully worded for a reader who wouldn't know the critical, intimate and repeated role that Cr Steve Perryman has played in establishing TMG and forcing Council to fund it...this is written to try and deny the rankly corrupt realities by suggesting/inferring that TMG need to provide a position for Council representation, when the whole shenaniganous-shebang has been set-up and orchestrated by a serving Councillor...and round we come again to the Plausible Deniability stuff where-in Stevo was absent from Councils' July meeting where the TMG Motion wasn't even Seconded...(hilarious-Ed)...if it wasn't so serious...(fair call-Ed)...so Stevo had to be absent yet again in August so that it would get voted-through in his absence, and hence he can and will screech 'there's no Conflict Of Interest, I wasn't even there'...(wow, so corrupt-Ed)...absolutely, and how corrupt is the stoogefest of a Council that votes this crap through...(indeed-Ed)...

But the crowning glory in this pig-gutted frenzy of self-importance, this maelstrom of sanctimonious self-congratulation...(steady on, I quite like this 'ere blog-Ed)...shhh, idiot...where was I? ah yes, this Bacchanalian romp of self-serving corruption, this orgy of orchestrated official fraudulence, this vacuous avalanche of rank rorting, this...(oh for gourd sake, get on with it!-Ed)...fair enough...but truly the most bare-faced audacity, the...(ahh!-Ed)...sorry, the worst bit (TBW, below) where MGCC CEO Mark McShane states as fact that Ratepayers have "a responsibility to drive tourism"...(so what he's actually saying is, is that Ratepayers have an 'obligation' to fund Steve Perrymans' corruption?-Ed)...pretty much, but not just Stevos', Councils' corruption in general...(and don't Ratepayers pay Mighty Mark McShenanigans wage-Ed)...yep, Ratepayers fork-out for all their wages, their allowances, and for all their cars and their little soirees at the Main Corner...(a building also payed for wholly by Ratepayers and with all its' own litany of MGC Councils' rank Nepotism, Conflicts Of Interests, missing monies, et al?-Ed)...yeah, that's the one...

And now MGC Council therefore Ratepayers are apparently paying for advertising this 'Tourism Officer' position (attached below) as well...the adjacent TBW column Progress important is from the same page as the article Tourism funds allocated, and the job ad is from the next days' TBW, Friday August 19th 2016...the entire TMG set-up is such a deeply Nepotistic, corrupted and inappropriate entity that it is not possible to define the genuine control structure and/or a single specific thread of corruption re Nepotism, etc...the whole thing is riddled with corruption...TMG has been set-up by corrupt people, not least of all Councillor Stevo, and is apparently a Sub-committee of the Chamber of Commerce, but being funded by Council therefore Ratepayers, but with Council employing the 'Tourism Specialist' and paying for all that as well...(wow-Ed)...  

Tomorrow: Embarrassed To Be An Angry White Man? I'm Not...Embarrassed That Is.

And sorry, read it through several times but I literally just picked-up the repeated references to "5 years" (TBW)...here again is the careful manipulation of truths to hide realities..."growth to the sector over 5 years", and "quest to become self-sufficient within five years" are 'Dodgy Council 101' language for indicating that the $480,000 over 3 years that Council has been furiously trying to downplay by referring to $160,000 for one year...(plus that "in kind support", don't forget that-Ed)...indeed, plus that, however much that turns out to be, whatevs, that's not the final goal/reality, that goal is 5 years of Ratepayer funding, meaning a grand total pushing $1million, well over $600,000 of which goes straight in the pocket of this alleged 'Tourism Specialist'...(wow-Ed)...nah, but it's not corrupt...much...

In closing, please also note at the bottom of the August Agenda page, the shizzle about the Rail Lands, and here again is Council, again, telling yet further lies about their genuine actions re the iconic Old Rail Station...as with the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, I have via this 'ere blog proven beyond debate MGC Councils' ongoing commitment to the Rail Lands Retail Agenda, a massive Retail Development right across the Rail Lands site, and the Old Station is not just surplus to RLRA requirement, it's right in the way...Council has studiously avoided spending anything on this building because it's a building they've got marked for demolition...(and lied through their teeth about 'potential tenants' to make sure it remains empty?-Ed)...spot on, it's why Council refused locating the Public Bus Terminal there...it is fundamentally undeniable that the Old Station should have been the very first thing that was renovated/restored/whatevs, but MGC Council have absolutely no intention of doing so...(and where's the Sound Shell?-Ed)...indeed, no Sound Shell...and so it goes on... 


I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

Well I Got It Half Right - Why Mt Gambier City Council Must Be Removed

Howdy Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Moldova...welcome again y'all to The Mount Gambier Independent...please insert here all my usual whinging about how I'm struggling to give a damn about my community/society/species, and equally struggling with doing this 'ere blog...what really concerns me is that, despite the normal/reasonable/remarkable people I have met from here abouts, my opinion of Mt Gambier is still firmly mired in the contempt and loathing born of years of dealing with the pro-paedophile corruption that defines this sick li'l town to me...(hardly your fault mate, and if anything, it's knowing 'decent people' that just makes it all that much harder to deal with-Ed)...yeah, fair point, it'd be a whole lot easier if I could just lump everyone together and write them all off as corrupt little shreckers...(I blame those decent people, the selfish bastards-Ed)...yeah, let's do that, the bastards!...

The Selfies Team:...I know my self well enough that I can confidently say that this 'one post per week' thing simply isn't working and ain't ever gunna' work because if I walk away from the blog for a coupla' days it's very, very difficult to come back to it...(it's all that 'having some semblance of self-esteem' nonsense and 'enjoying your life for the first time in gourd knows how long' malarchy-Ed)...indeed, that's a big part of it, this 'Self-Esteem' business is a very odd thing to deal with for someone who hasn't experienced it before...I refer availees to the very early post, 'Self Esteem - The Issue I'd Love To Have', and my much more recent declaration that SE has become an issue in my life...don't ask me to nominate a specific date, but earlier this year (2016) I found myself grappling with a weird new sensation, and it very quickly became apparent that that strange state of being was/is Self Esteem...

Language Warning:...because for all the rolled-gold fuck-up of a human being that I am still capable of being, what I have achieved and continue to achieve makes me the shadow of that extraordinary person I never honestly believed could be me...(and where there's the shadow of an extraordinary person, there's an extraordinary person-Ed)...and where there's a shadow there's light, and where there's light there's warmth, and where there's warmth and light there's growth, and shebang! Self Esteem...(whatta ya' know-Ed)...and it's not about being arrogant or vain or whatevs, it's about confidence/self-belief...answer me this availee, does who I am detract from what I've achieved with this 'ere blog, my Court stuff, etc? or, is what I've achieved extraordinary considering who/what/whatevs I am?...(well, at the very least, you're working furiously to be accurate and factual, and you've stared-down a wall of threats and harassment, etc, and you've gotta' get some credit for that stuff...and no-one can say you haven't tried-Ed)...fair enough, cheers...and that's enough airy-fairy self-discovery shizzle, to the blog!...

Please find attached below the relevant pages from the MGC Council Agendas for their July 2016 and August 2016 Full Council meetings...(is that the stuff from July when half of them were absent and then there was no 'Seconder' for that bizarre 'Lapse' of the original Motion to corruptly syphon-off $480,000 of Ratepayers hard-earned* by handing it to the rankly corrupt self-appointed Tourism Mount Gambier group? that meeting?-Ed)...like I'd forgotten...dear availee, if you haven't yet read the recent posts re this bizarre process, please do...in brief, founding TMG Board member Steve Perryman, former MG Mayor and current MGC Councillor, used the recent Budget meetings to argue for cuts to Council services so as to fund his organisation, but he has been absent from the Full Meetings where the funding leapt to $450,000 over 3 years, as voted through last meeting, August 16th 2016...(wow-Ed)...  (*means money)

And I call the Tourism Mount Gambier a "rankly corrupt self-appointed" organisation because it involves and was set-up by the rankly corrupt former Member for Mount Gambier Rory McEwen, his equally corrupt mate, Councillor Steve Perryman, and RDA Tourism Development Officer Biddie (nee Tietz) Shearing, herself a former MGC Councillor...my personal experience of each of these people is that they are corrupt, full stop...beyond that, it is not being glibly facetious to state that it would be far quicker to discuss MGC Councils' non-corrupt dealings than to constantly trawl through this school of officious corruption...

Please note that the wording of these Agenda items is very carefully chosen to misrepresent the rankly corrupt realities associated with this farcically Nepotistic process/outcome...(Council has worked very hard to furiously back-pedal away from said realities-Ed)...absolutely they have, this is all very carefully manipulated to have the 'official version' present a vaguely appropriate process/outcome/organisation that might give these wholly corrupt dealings some sense of credibility...(good luck with that-Ed)...indeed, I'd reckon that many availees of this 'ere blog will immediately pick-up on these clumsy and crass deceits and manipulations, particularly as we've already trudged through the factual realities re this corrupt TMG stoogefest in recent posts...(remind me-Ed)...

Tourism Mount Gambier is a self-appointed group claiming to represent Mt Gambier and Districts, a group that has been repeatedly, officially identified as a "sub-committee of the Mt Gambier Chamber of Commerce"...(in previous posts we've covered all the rank corruption and smug contempt for Ratepayers as perpetrated by Steve Perryman in that extraordinarily self-serving slandering of disabled people as part of his plans/demands, made during Councils' 2016/17 Budget Meetings, demands to slash basic Council maintenance programs, eg, tree-lopping and footpath maintenance, so as to free-up the $160,000 that he/TMG wanted-Ed)...indeed, it's not the self-justified belligerence or the blatant greed, it's the offensive belittling of people for being who they are...disgraceful, absolutely bloody disgraceful, and every other Councillor just sat there, not one single word to tell Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...to pull his bloody head in...(not even from Mayor Lee?-Ed)...seriously Ed?!...(sorry, sorry, no time for jokes-Ed)...thankyou... 

I have so many of these types of correspondence, particularly re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...these are letters/documents/Motions carefully drafted to present a preferred version of events to a reader who might know only the broader details, or none at all...this very official, very 'templated' document is designed 1) for those who have read only that document, as prepared by 2) people keen to create a wall of deniability between the reality of their actions, and what they want to be seen to have done...and here with this Council/TMG corruption, here is the textbook example from the textbook corruption playbook that is the Mount Gambier City Council...

Apologies that yet again I've spewed forth without actually threatening to engage directly with the promised subject matter, but that's just the way we roll here at TMGI, so I'll go straight into another post re this TMG stuff and specifically dissect the manipulative language, the careful omissions, and the very deliberate deceits that are manifest in this festival of corruption...(indeed, it's a 'Manifestival of Corruption'-Ed)...witty Wilde, witty...'Manifestival' - an extended, extensive, and thorough almost definitive celebration or carnival (of corruption)...I like it, I'm going to use it in conversations... 

Tomorrow: Directly On From This

But, despite the bare-faced corruption of the entire MGC Council in voting to approve this corrupt funding for this wholly corrupted group, the crowning glory of the night (August 16th 2016) was former The Border Watch Editor and my mate Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello and his little effort re public transport in Mt Gambier...(you mean the City Bus that only runs 9am - 5pm on weekdays with no service at all weekends or public holidays?-Ed)...that's the one...(that literally everyone wanted to see operating from a centralised terminus at the Rail Lands, preferably from a renovated/refurbished Old Rail Station building, way back in 2005/06?-Ed)...yeah...(that Council doesn't fund at all, whilst barely maintaining the few shelters that do exist?-Ed)...right...(as opposed to the $300,000+ that Council provide in funding to the Riddoch Art gallery?-Ed)....gee...(which, I understand, doesn't include the 'peppercorn lease' on the recently renovated premises, as all paid for by Ratepayers?-Ed)...yeah, probably...

Anyhoos, Frank got-up, declared a Conflict of Interest because he runs the Helpmann Theatre, then proceeded in a Self-Righteously direction, straight into a power-whinge about how the school buses park across the small side carpark (Ferrers St) where the theatre's loading bay is...for 3 minutes per day...(wow-Ed)...orrr yeah, not one bloody cent for public transport...$450,000 for the TMG corruption, and well over $300,000 for the Riddoch, but not Cent One for buses...(not nuthin'?-Ed)...nuthin' but a shreckin' whinge about where the buses are forced to park/terminate/whatevs because that's where Council has forced them to be...(for 3 minutes a day?-Ed)...Frank's own words...(wow-Ed)...and when Frank voted for that $450k for the TMG, he had his hand up so fast I thought his arm was gunna' fly right out of 'is sleeve and embed itself in the ceiling...(thudddrrrrrrrrrrr!-Ed)...exactly...

And I've stayed right away from the recent shenanigans that have resulted in half the Riddoch Board resigning/leaving/whatevs, and MGC Council taking over the entire thing, hence the massive funding, etc, but it's the same template as the TMG stuff...run by MGC Council, therefore highly corrupt, and as being told what to do by Rory McEwen, who is wholly corrupt...multiply 'highly corrupt' by 'wholly corrupt'...you do the math...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...anger is an emotion, a passionate emotion, and passion is not always beautiful, but thankfully, neither am I...cheers and laters...   

A Complete Lack Of De' Quorum

Howdy Russia, United Kingdom, Turkey, and the United States of America, and welcome y'all else...and particularly here in l'il ol' Mt Gambier 'cos this here post is another severely pun-laden ridiculing of Mt Gambier City Council, following-on directly from the last 'Council' post which was pretty much a pun-laden ridiculing of MGCC...(and one wouldn't want to become so predictable, now would one?-Ed)...and I've let a bunch of other stuff go, like the Wind Turbine stuff and the extraordinary plethora of vacuous excuses and lies pouring out of SA Labor Minister Tom Koutsontonis as he blithely tries to wave away responsibility for the collapse of the State's electricity supply during Julys' biggish storm...('urrrrrgh, it's not my fault, the dog ate my Heywood Interconnector, urrrrrgh'-Ed)...Ed! that was an uncanny rendition of the good Ministers' bitchin' about how it was quite literally everybody elses' fault but his governments'...('urrrrrgh'-Ed)...ok, that's enough...

This is Why I Go To Council Meetings:...following directly on from the last post specifically about Council, and the front-page news, etc, that the self-appointed group calling itself 'Tourism Mount Gambier' was gunna' save us all...(by doing exactly what's happening anyway?-Ed)...that's the one...(to achieve outcomes already being achieved?-Ed)...spot on...(strewth-Ed)...well here below is how The Border Watch has reported the truly bizarre dysfunction of what went down at MGC Council's Full Meeting on Tuesday evening July 19th 2016...well, Semi-full Meeting, there were 5 absentees...(5?...you sure?...that seems an awful lot-Ed)...indeed, 5 missing from a total of 13 (being Mayor, CEO, Operations Manager, and 10 Councillors), 5 of 13 is just under 40%...Mayor Lee, CEO McShane, and Councillors Perryman, Lynagh, and Morello were all absent, with Deputy-Mayor Richardson presiding and Mr Humphries as Acting CEO...

And that's 2 meetings in a row that Mayor Andrew Lee has failed to attend...(well the first was for his honeymoon apparently-Ed)...whatevs, don't care, unless actually physically unable due to health there's no excuse, and a honeymoon certainly ain't an excuse...the Mayor has a full calendar of Council meetings, etc, and knows exactly when the Full Meetings are...if it's good enough for the Mayor to do things like swan-off to China on the Ratepayers' dollar, and then, without any Public Consultation, sign secret agreements with the Chinese government, which is exactly what this Mayor/Council has done, then that same Mayor, who does receive Ratepayer funded payment and benefits for this honour, then they can organise themselves around their obligations to the Ratepayers of Mt Gambier, the Ratepayers who pay for all this, and front-up for the bloody meetings...whatever the 'excuse', missing 2 meetings in a row is unacceptable...(wasn't he also absent earlier this year?-Ed)...possibly, I'd have to check, but whatevs, that's at least 2 missed of 12 meetings for this calendar year already, and there's still 5 more meetings to come in 2016, we've only had the 7 thus far...that's the Mayor absent 2 of 7 meetings...simply not good enough...

I repeat my call for the rankly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council to make publicly available this 'Agreement' as signed with the Chinese government...what exactly has this Nepotistic Council signed on our behalf without us ever seeing it or knowing exactly what we're being signed-up to/for...and I'll say it again, I view with deep concern the actions of this wholly corrupt Council when they are here in their own Chambers right in the middle of their own community, so gourd only knows what level of corruption they're capable of in closed rooms in foreign lands...(exactly-Ed)...    

As the meeting July kicked-off, I swear that I'd have bet every-not-very-much I have on these absenteeisms being driven by our good friend, Plausible Denial...(ahh, you mean that these individuals were absent so that when the rankly corrupt Tourism Mount Gambier funding, now at $480,000 across 3 years, with $350,000 of that to employ a dedicated 'Tourism Officer', etc, when that Nepotistically corrupt funding was approved, Perryman, McShane, and Mayor Lee could squeal 'it's got nothing to with me! I wasn't even there'-Ed)...exactly Ed, that's what I thought, the Plausible Denial of I Wasn't Even There...but it's too late for Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...because that ship has already sailed right-off into the Sea of Public Opinion...

Remember dear availees how my mate Stevo...(maaate-Ed)...himself a Board member of the self-appointed TMG, Stevo deliberately, cynically, and clearly unlawfully shat unceremoniously on every aspect of Local Government Association legislation re Conflict Of Interest matters, including the new and very specific 2016 LGA COI provisions/guidelines, as rolled-out earlier this year to local Councils via a series of workshops/trainings...Stevo dumped a steaming heap of contempt right on it when he led the charge in Council's recent-ish 2016/17 Budget Special Meetings, particularly on hacking-back other Council services to free-up what was then $160,000 for the TMG clowns...(ah yes, when Council voted to 'suspend usual procedures', in-and-of-itself perfectly appropriate, particularly for the open discussion/exchange required in sorting-out aspects of a Budget, but during this 'suspension' Stevo called for Council to cut-back on Street Tree and Pavement maintenance, with an accompanying charming jibe about the ridiculousness of Political Correctness and 'disabled people'-Ed)...indeed, he is quite the arse... 

(And then when Council went back into Formal mode to vote on this funding, Stevo immediately leapt-up and smugly declared a 'Non-Pecuniary Conflict of Interest'?-Ed)...spot on...(and walked out whilst Council voted to ratify that funding?-Ed)...exactly...(wow-Ed)...I know...(they really are quite extraordinarily corrupt-Ed)...I know...and right there, there's Stevo's unabashed contempt for the Ratepayers of Mt Gambier and the institutions of Local Government, specifically Mt Gambier City Council, and most specifically the office of Mayor...good ol' Stevo...(maaate-Ed)...a definable litany of corruption in the Mayorship, a commitment to corruption that hasn't waned as a Councillor...(and ahead of all of that, his critically complicit role in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up (2002), not least of all as Liberal candidate in the 2010 South Australian Election-Ed)...yay for Stevo...

And as put to me though I cannot prove it though I trust my sources, Stevos' incredibly corrupt manipulation of the COI legislation re this TMG corruption, Stevos' conduct has been discussed at other Councils' recent COI trainings/workshops as being exactly what a Councillor shouldn't do re this COI stuff...Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...you are quite literally the talk of the town in quantifying/personifying corrupt behaviour in Local Government...and Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...have a wild guess as to where that info was originally sourced...(well it sure as heck wasn't in The Border Watch or any other media-Ed)...think Ed, in this exciting new era of Citizen Journalists and blogs and shizzle...(ummm, nooo, I, ummm, oh, oh, us, I mean this 'ere blog, TMGI, it was TMGI-Ed)...exactly cobber, TMGI, 'Gettin' Right Amongst It Since January 2013'...(hurrah!-Ed)...how's about that Stevo mate, you're literally a textbook study in Council Corruption, as being discussed in other Councils, and all courtesy of this 'ere blog, The Mount Gambier Independent...(get in my son-Ed)...absolutely...

Anyhoos, somehow this funding went from this $160,000 for 1 year to $480,000 over 3, and the wage for this 'Tourism Officer' from $90,000 for that year out to $350,000 for the 3...and that's $350k for a role/position that already exists inside Regional Development Australia (RDA), as currently occupied by RDA Tourism Development Officer Biddie Shearing (nee Tietz), herself a former Mt Gambier City Councillor and as such personally involved in a series of rankly corrupt Tenders/grants/whatevs as is MGC Councils' usual modus operandi...anyhoos, so's $480,000 over 3 years is what came up for the vote on July 19th...but we nearly didn't get as far as a vote...(how come?-Ed)...because that particular Council Committee, the Corporate and Community Services Committee, couldn't do any business at their dedicated meeting earlier in the month because they didn't have a quorum...(whaaa?!-Ed)...oh yeah, even Acting-Mayor Richardson commented that it would be nice if absentee Councillors let the others know so's that they, the Others, didn't go to the bother of showing-up for a pointless non-meeting...(wow-Ed)...   

Despite this minor setback, Council plowed ahead at the Full Meeting with discussing and voting on issues re the CCSC...(how?-Ed)...what?...(how? how could Council continue with discussing the issues from the CCSC if there wasn't a CCSC meeting?-Ed)...look, I know, or rather, I don't know, but that's what they did, and it included the Motion/vote re the $480,000 for TMG...(wow-Ed)...indeed, only, when this Motion was tabled, nobody would 'Second' the Motion...(sorry what?!-Ed)...yeah, stony silence, nobody 'Seconded' the Motion...Acting-Mayor Richardson stated that if there was no-one to 'Second' it then it would lapse, there was a continued silence, and A-M Richardson declared the Motion 'Lapsed', and they went onto the next point/issue...(I, wow, I don't know what to say-Ed)...mate, I was there and I don't believe it either...just bizarre...

No quorum for the CCSC, but then discuss/Motion/vote on various issues from that non-meeting, including this rankly corrupt funding for the equally corrupt Tourism Mount Gambier, itself a Motion that collapses in silence due to a lack of support so absolute it didn't even get a 'Seconder'...and how does the mighty The Border Watch present this unfettered Debasco (debacle/fiasco)?...they do it as attached below there...buried on page 7 (Thursday July 21st 2016), after 5 other stories sourced from that July 19th meeting...(what a joke! page 7?-Ed)...yep, as attached...from TBW front page 'A Must-Have Salvation For All' to page 7 'Whatevs'...and even that farcical article, that 'Farticle' if you will...(I certainly will, that 'Farticle', excellent-Ed)...that 'Farticle' is riddled with inaccuracies and lies...(good ol' TBW, go' bless, go' bless-Ed)...indeed...and the other 'Farticle' is from the next days' TBW...

Tomorrow: Just More Of This, There's So Much More To Cover

Follow Me Now!:...I mean, you know, if you want to, no pressure...The Mount Gambier Independent is now to be found on Twitter under my personal descriptor '@LargeAngryHippy' titled 'Nick Fletcher'...probably just going to to be links/notifications re posts on this 'ere blog, but there you go, we'll see what happens...(huzzah!-Ed)...

 I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

REPOSTED - Jay Weatherill - The Pro-Paedophile Premier of The Paedophile State

***Howdy Nigeria, Israel, the USofA, and Aotearoa (New Zealand)...dear availees, this post was originally published on 9th August 2016, but then removed following the attached un-dated 'complaint'...I have received no notification from Google or 'Lumen' who are the 'Complaint Site Monitor' or whatevs...in one place it says that 'this post is unavailable', but when you try to access the post, it has been completely removed and says 'this page doesn't exist'...here is a copy of the anonymous complaint...*** 

Defamation Complaint to Google

sender

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COUNTRY: AU

recipient

Google LLC

[Private] Mountain View, CA, 94043, US

submitter

Google LLC

Re: Unknown

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Notice Type:

Defamation

Legal Complaint

This entire blogspot account posts defamatory claims about the former Premier of 

South Australia, Jay Weatherill, suggesting he is a paedophile, has covered up 

child sexual abuse amongst many other things. There is also defamatory material 

about a number of other members of Parliament. The three URLs are simply examples, 

this material is littered throughout all posts on the site.

1. Defamation Claim #1

   URLs of Allegedly Defamatory Material:
   

   1. https://themountgambierindependent.blogspot.com/2017/10/jay-weatherill-pro-paedophile.html
   2. https://themountgambierindependent.blogspot.com/2016/08/jay-weatherill-pro-paedophile-premier.html
   3. https://themountgambierindependent.blogspot.com/

***...so there you have it, an undated anonymous 'complaint' has seen that entire post removed, and so here we go again...

Dear Googles:...why do you continue to allow these people to continue to manipulate you into being complicit in their definable Pro-Paedophile Corruption...the attached letter (below) from Jay Weatherill to DeGaris Lawyers clearly shows that he, Weatherill, intervened personally to stop Comm Mullighan's investigation of the St Martins Cover-up...and I say "stop" because Comm Mullighan was already investigating St Martins and had met with us parents several times, we'd provided him reams of documentation, he had personally asked Premier Mike Rann to be allowed to add St Martins to his Royal Commission, etc, etc...(why did he have to ask?-Ed)...dunno'...(but he was the Royal Commissioner, he had the powers to investigate whatevs he wanted-Ed)...indeed, it casts a huge doubt-shaped shadow across Comm Mullighan's genuineness regarding us and St Martins, but that's an issue for another post, today we're dealing with this removed post...(fair enough-Ed)...

For the record, I have proven beyond question that the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up is real, and that people like Jay Weatherill are fully aware and completely complicit...and who is the anonymous stooge who can just 'complain' and have this Truth censored without apparently providing any evidence to counter my documents...(ooo, I just noticed something-Ed)...what?...(well that 'complaint' is undated, but it refers to "former Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill"-Ed)...yeah, so?...(so that post was originally published 9th August 2016, yeah?-Ed)...yeah, that's what I said...(well Weatherill was Premier until he lost the March 2018 State Election, and then quit Parliament in December 2018, forcing a by-election in his seat, etc-Ed)...yeah, so?...(so that 'complaint' was clearly lodged at some point after the March 2018 election-Ed)...ahhhhhh...(at least 18 months after the post was originally lodged-Ed)...yeahhhhhs...(so why was it not touched until then?-Ed)...don't know, maybe it has something to do with my rankly corrupt 'Conviction' for blogging about the rancidly Corrupt SA ICAC, that was February-April 2018...(dunno'-Ed)...whatevs...

Please note that in the re-posted post below, that (*****)  is where I've had to remove a certain name due to the "reprehensibly vile" Final Intervention Orders handed down by the definably corrupt Magistrate Ian White, politically motivated FIOs designed to censor and/or block me from telling the unpleasant truths that I do about the definable Pro-Paedophile Corruption in South Australia...and again Dear Googles, I have clearly documented Magistrate White's corruption on this 'ere blog and confronted him with it in Court and written repeatedly to the Chief Magistrate and SA Attorneys-General, etc, etc, etc...so here 'tis, the post from 9th August 2016...***

c/- This 'Ere Blog

I cannot and will not apologise for being deeply traumatised by the extraordinary events of the last 2 days; events extraordinary only in that they are so familiar...here, ladies and gentlemen, et al others as you yourselves would have it be known, your god loves you whoever you are, here (below) is the front page of todays' The Advertiser, and Premier Jay Weatherill lying through his teeth, crying his crocodile tears, and refusing to resign...(why would he resign? seems to me that everythings' running exactly as is wanted by the people running the state?-Ed)...whaaaa?! the 'Child Protection System', such as it does exist in South Australia, is a corrupted disaster that leaves children vulnerable, voiceless, and unrepresented!...(exactly, in a State clearly run by and/or for paedophiles, South Australia is running exactly as they would have it-Ed)...ahhh, indeed, I apologise that I missed the sarcasm, what with my white-hot rage and everything...(nah, fair enough-Ed)...

I remind availees that on June 1st 2012 I managed to corner Jay mate...(maaate-Ed)...on ABC Radio Adelaide, and he claimed he 'didn't recall' his role in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, a role irrefutably defined below, yet again, by the letter from FAYS Minister Weatherill from August 25th 2005 (attached), and as accompanied by then Premier Mike Ranns' own letter (August 13th 2005) to lawyer Bill DeGaris...(hello Billy-Ed)...here, again, is the irrefutable proof that, 1) Comm Mullighan was liaising/meeting with families re the St Martins Cover-up, and, 2) Rann and Weatherill were intimately aware of the details re St Martins, but then, despite this intimate knowledge and direct contact with Comm Mullighan, etc, directly refused appropriate 'official' investigation by the man who was, clearly, already 'unofficially' investigating St Martins...

Also attached, the Friday January 7th 2005 article from The Advertiser, corruptly waving-away the realities of the St Martins Cover-up, and I remind availees that The Advertiser refused to print any sort of 'right-of-reply' from parents, particularly corrupt given that the Lutherans have been afforded carte-blanche to denigrate and dismiss us parents...the Lutheran Church in Australia, as headquartered in Adelaide, is to my extensive personal experience, exactly like South Australia itself, effectively run by and/or for paedophiles, and all involved hide behind their corrupt lawyers in Adelaide and their corrupt State Parliament mates...South Australia, what a mind-numbing disgrace...

And just to keep it all so very, very real, the last attachment below, is the front page bastardry of The Border Watch, May 6th 2005, with my fav alleged journo, Sandra Morello (nee Wallace)...(yay-Ed)...yeah, absolutely, classic Sandra, outrageously corrupted presentation of a corrupt agenda, on behalf of the Vested Interests in Mt Gambier, themselves intimately involved in the St Martins Cover-up, eg, Rory McEwen, (*****), Jim and Viv Maher, et al...regular availees will be well aware that these letters/articles are just the tip of a horrendously thorough iceberg, an iceberg that may well roll over occasionally and show a different face, but remains always the same iceberg...

South Australia under the Rann/Weatherill Labor Government (2002-2016) has had multiple Child Protection Royal Commissions and/or Parliamentary Inquiries and nothing has changed, other than for the worse...and now yet another Royal Commission has regurgitated the no.1 Recommendation from the 2003 Layton Report, namely, establish the position of Childrens' Commissioner...no.1 in 2003 and yet to be implemented in August 2016, and Jay's saying that he'll 'look at it seriously'...(don't want to rush into these things-Ed)...don't want to do them at all...

And again Dear Google, please consider that as outrageous and damning as some of the statements are in this 'ere post, they are statements of fact backed by actual documentation, much of it already available on this 'ere blog...cheers...

Tomorrow: So Much More Of The Same

Jay Weatherill, you are a coward and a liar and I dare you to face the children and parents from St Martins and apologise for your reprehensible conduct re the abuse of the then 7-year-old, grade 2 children by their teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School, Mt Gambier, abuses committed systematically from February-June 2002...(yeah, and bring ya' corrupt mate Rory McEwen with ya'!-Ed)...absolutely...but whatevs, see ya' here tomorrow Jay mate...(maaate-Ed)...right 'ere on this 'ere blog...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and here are my truths as I have lived them...(and yes, we're talking to you again Google-Ed)...cheers and laters...(laters-Ed)...

***...so there you go...don't reckon there's really much to add to those realities, other than to question why exactly that post has been removed and point out yet again to Dear Googles, if what I'm saying is supposedly so scurrilously defamatory, why are these clowns constantly bleating to you about it but are not actually ever sueing me, yeah? why not try to stop me with appropriate Court action?...(well because they can't stop the Pro-Paedophile Truth, even in an SA Court, so they have to attack the blog instead-Ed)...well exactly...anyhoos, I'll end there for today but be back...

Tomorrow: Another Removed Post Re-posted

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

A Tale Of Two Issues

Hello Kenya, Russia, China, and India and welcome to a 'better late than never' post...despite ongoing problems I do intend to continue with this 'ere blog, The Mount Gambier Independent...(and indeed you're doing it now-Ed)...indeed, but it's been a very long 2 weeks since the last post and it's been a real struggle to get back to even doing this...not even going to attempt humour, got a bunch of stuff going on so's I'm just going to kick-off on 2 issues and do my best, cheers...

Fictitious Disorder:...as I heard discussed at length on the ABC/BBC World Service Radio, is the hilarious nomenclature for a condition otherwise described as a sort of 'social media Munchausen's', where Munchausen's Syndrome is broadly defined as acts of self-harm for attention...this FD involves people creating/discussing false maladies on Facebook/forums/chatrooms/whatevs, in what often becomes escalating behaviour where the alleged afflictions become more and more extreme...(a bit like that Aussie sheila Belle Gibson who claimed to have survived Cancer and had blogs and sponsors and whatevs, but then it turns-out to be all bollocks, she made it all up, never had Cancer-Ed)...well indeed, very much in that vein, although I didn't hear her mentioned...and most do it for attention, etc, and not with any specifically malicious intent, a much smaller number do it deliberately as a scam...elsewhere...

July/August 2016 is the 14th Anniversary of my Non-Hodgkins Cancer diagnosis...it was July 29th 2004 that I was X-rayed at Mt Gambier hospital and found to have a 16cm x 12cm mass right in the centre of my chest, and then discharged...(wow-Ed)...I know...this stuff is covered in detail in some early posts, eg, February 2013, so I won't run through it all again...suffice to say that I'm celebrating the extraordinary reality that in August 2004 no-one thought I'd see my 39th birthday only months away, let alone get to begin again at 40...(and 45 was right out!-Ed)...absolutely, and nice Monty Python reference there too, 'Holy Hand-grenade of Antioch'?...(that's the one, from The Holy Grail-Ed)...hilarious, but we digress...so, so very crook at 38 nearing 39, and yet here am the poor old bastard I, now burdened with the looming potential reality of possibly turning Hawaii...("Hawaii"?-Ed)...5-0...(ah, nice-Ed)...

The Elephant In The Tomb:...from August 2004 to February 2005 I had 8 rounds of CHOP, the Chemotherapy regime consisting of 4 chemicals/drugs fed intravenously over 2-3 hours, and given/taken every 3 weeks, and as followed by a strong 'steroid' injection the day after each Chemo...in short, I had enough Chemo to kill an elephant, to kill a tumour big enough to kill a horse...(a mild exaggeration, if not quite Gibson-esque-Ed)...not at all, if you took all the Chemo and steroids and gave it to an elephant in one hit, you'd kill it stone-dead...(fair enough-Ed)...and during one of the many initial scans/tests, the normal biopsy needle was too small for the size of the tumour, and they brought-out "the one used on horses"...(that's what they actually said?-Ed)...yep, quote-unquote, and the nurse on my right was holding my hand and said, "don't look at it, just look at me", and that's exactly what I did...so's I can tell ya' what it feels like to have the biopsy horse-needle through the chest, can tell ya' what it sounds like and what it feels like when it goes "crunch", but can't tell ya' what it looks like...(what a charming story, does it come with marshmallows?-Ed)...

What I can and will say is that when push comes to shove, I sir, I have been to The Crunch, indeed, I have quite possibly been The Crunch...(shazzam!-Ed)...and also please note that they had "the one used on horses" ready to hand, indicating that it likely wasn't the first time they'd had to haul it out on a human...(or you-Ed)...yes, thankyou! or me...

And I survived all that and then some and then a bit more and have the actual scars to prove it, and am obviously still here to whinge about that...(and a coupla' other things-Ed)...and my teeth are bad but could be much worse, and the arthritis stuff ain't great, and ya' can't go through an experience like that without it taking a toll...place those stressors on and/or in your body and you will pay a price...(and on your mind no doubt-Ed)...indeed, and in so many ways, and not least of all the 'Survivor Guilt' stuff...I'll get into all this stuff in more detail in future posts on the Health Issues confronting South Oz...(and it ain't good news, particularly re the new Adelaide Hospital-Ed)...indeed, it's not very positive stuff is it, and in some ways it's very confronting and it's certainly very, very concerning...oh, and re the recent re-revelation re the multiple Prostate Cancer mis-diagnosis, the latest in a recent series of mis-treatments and/or mis-diagnosis, I re-remind availees that I was also one of the approx 1,000 people not correctly Radiotherapy-treated in March/April 2005...more laters...

The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up:...is of course my main bug-bear and the June long weekend anniversary (the 14th) has just pounded me into the ground like a big, hairy, angry tent-peg, and that pounding has been, um, compounded by the continual reportage of the cynically farcical debasco that is the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission...(is that the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses that refuses to look at the St Martins case, and indeed, has never publicly mentioned and/or investigated the Lutheran Church?-Ed)...yes, that would be the one...it's apparently winding-up some time soon having refused to even look at St Martins...(and if the Royal Commission isn't looking at St Martins, with it's well documented litany of bureaucratic failures and refusals and dysfunction, etc, if they ain't even lookin' at St Martins, then what else is going under the carpet as well?-Ed)...and exactly, that's exactly the point, well, both points...

1) how can the Commission not just ignore but actually refuse to look at St Martins? the St Martins Cover-up, even if it was originally genuine mistakes that were then covered-up, etc, whatevs, what has happened with St Martins and how the Lutherans and Authorities have responded/reacted, etc, all of this is exactly what the Commission is supposedly looking at...and 2) given the Commission has refused to acknowledge the extraordinary 'official' conduct re St Martins, what else potentially remains undiscovered and unresolved?...this and what else?...

I do appreciate that I've covered this same ground repeatedly, and can only apologise to availees that this post and the next few are highly likely to be short, staggering shadows of the epic statutes that have preceded them...(strewth-Ed)...but the point is, there will be more posts...I am down if not quite out, and clearly not too proud to admit it, but I ain't goin' nowhere re this 'ere blog...well other than forward, I am going forward with this 'ere blog, ain't never givin' it up 'til it don't need to be done no more...(and I'm sorry, but I just can't see that happening anytime real soon-Ed)...yeah, maybe, maybe not...a few people have commented to me though about the apparent appearance of some fractious cracks in the rancorous ranks of various Vested Interests because of some angry old bastard with 'is ugly blog...(huzzah!-Ed)...or was that an ugly old bastard with 'is angry blog?...(I think it all boils down to the same thing-Ed)...
    
Tomorrow: South Oz's Energy Crisis

Is apparently everyone's fault other than the SA Labor government...(the people actually responsible-Ed)...absolutely...a diatribe of denial via a most accommodating and massively pro-Renewables ABC Radio, including some clown from New South Wales who actually blamed "the market"...(but 'the market' is an abstract construct that is determined by actual physical issues of production/supply vs usage/demand, not vice versa-Ed)...I know, I know, absolutely ludicrous redefining of fundamentally undeniable realities to support Renewables, no matter what...and that's what really pisses me off...

Just for the record, again, I am absolutely pro-Renewable Energy Production and minimising Coal-based pollution, etc, and I do not support Nuclear, etc, etc, all very Greenie really, and that's why it really pisses me right-off when people engage in such biased refusal to acknowledge the failings of production methods like Wind Turbines, particularly with the bloody Turbines, and the hugely vulnerable position that SA currently finds itself in, as witnessed over the previous week, etc...unwavering support that ignores the facts makes for very difficult discussions re genuine options...(well if you won't admit the problems, how can you ever hope to address and rectify them?-Ed)...exactly?...these people piss me off because they 1) are near impossible to debate with because they won't admit any fault or failing, and 2) having defined themselves thusly, self-undermine the good things they do have to say...and often they do have good things to say and with genuine intent...however, effective and responsible policy on any issue cannot be achieved by people who are 'barracking' for a particular element...  

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...