I'm sure most Australians are more than well aware of the heinous conduct from Peter Dutton and Border Farce, I mean Border Force, and 'our' horrendous treatment of Saudi women being blocked from entering Australia 'if unaccompanied by a man', upto and including some women being returned to Saudi Arabia and 'disappearing'...(well pretty-much everything Peter 'Mr Potato Head' Dutton does is reprehensibly vile, corrupt, and hypocritical, particularly his Conflict of Interests 'Family Trust Child Care Centres' investment stuff, and the 'Au Pairs' corruption-Ed)...indeed, and many a jolly japester has observed that it's a pity these Saudi women aren't au pairs 'cos then they'd be golden, given entry visas no probs...(and isn't there that sort of insinuation that in at least some instances 'au pair' is actually a euphemism for 'escort/prostitute'-Ed)...well there is that, but gourd knows, I certainly don't, and it's crooked enough either which way and P-Dutty has clearly lied about it, etc, that that particular issue is almost irrelevant...(fair enough-Ed)...and now there's very concerning news spreading about the extraordinary $20million per month fees being paid to a tiny company re providing services to the Offshore Detention Centre on Manus Island...just Interweb search using those references...
A Bridget Too Farcical:...National Party deputy leader Bridget McKenzie has stoutly defended the fact that she spent $40,000 on a single flight from Queensland to Melbourne...this follows various other similar incidents from LNP members, eg, Matthias Corman, Susan Ley, Bronwyn Bishop, Tony Pasin, etc, etc...(well sure, but it's still small change compared to the vast sums LNP members are claiming for 'Expenses' like travel, office upgrades, etc-Ed)...well quite, and only recently it was put to me that our charming local Member for Barker Tony Pasin's $400,000+ office upgrade here in Mt Gambier, was to a building owned by his family...(I thought it was owned by one of the Herberts?-Ed)...which ones, the same dodgy lot who are involved in the super-corrupt attempt by Mt Gambier Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Roger Saunders to sell-off a fair chunk a' the Show Grounds to ALDI, as covered in the previous post, or the ones who keep getting vastly bloated Mt Gambier City Council 'Tenders', eg, the Main Corner debasco (debacle/fiasco)...(not sure, does it matter which one if it's Pasin's family who own it anyway?-Ed)...yeah, fair enough, I'll try to find out dear availees but don't hold your collective breaths...and with Bridget's $40k flight of fancy, as per usual I'm gunna' use the LNP's own Leaners-Lifters Scale of Rank Bastardry to make the observation that the cost of that one flight could have supported 2 Disability Support Pensioners for a full year...(with change-Ed)...well quite...
(And the Future Fund chairman is former Liberal Treasurer Peter Costello, a spineless drain on the national accounts whom, largely responsible and/or complicit in the disastrous John Howard LNP government that caused irreparable damage to Australian society-Ed)...well quite, and he's involved with Channel 9...(yeah, but only as Chair of the Board-Ed)...indeed, it's just another in a litany of rankly self-serving 'Reward Appointments' that ensures the systemic corruption continues unabated and the perpetrators unaccountable...
And of course there's the rankly problematic Margaret Cuneen, a former subject and vocal critic of the New South Wales ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption), who has been appointed by PM Scott Morrison as part of the Advisory Panel 'advising' on the creation of a Federal ICAC...(hang on, a known critic of ICAC is 1 of 3 on the ICAC Advisory Panel?-Ed)...yep, but it gets better...(good gourd, how?-Ed)...she's also acting as disgraced NSW Labor MP Eddie Obeid's defence lawyer in his impending 'Corruption Trial'...(whaaa? but aren't those charges the result of NSW ICAC hearings/investigations?-Ed)...yeah...(wow-Ed)...indeed...but wait there's more...
Sans Mal Content:...as former SAPol (police) Commissioner Mal Hyde, intimately complicit in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up (2002-present), has had to 'step-down' as the 'Inquiry Commissioner' overseeing the Inquiry into Victorian police paying a lawyer to be an informant...(is that the Lawyer X stuff?-Ed)...yep...(but hang-on, isn't Mal also previously a senior Victorian police member?-Ed)...yep, and that's why he's had to step down, because it's been revealed that this Lawyer X stuff goes back 20+ years to include his time as Vic Deputy Police Commissioner...(so, from Vic Police Dep Comm, to SAPol Comm, and a direct extended involvement in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?-Ed)...and gourd knows what else...(well he was SA Labor's pick to investigate Families SA over the Shane McCoole Child Abuse Scandal-Ed)...and also headed the Victorian government's Inquiry into Sexual Abuse by church officials and other non-government organisations, aways back in 2012...(so straight from VICPol to SAPol Comm and the St Martins Cover-up, then back to Victoria to head an inquiry into abuse in churches, etc?-Ed)...yep, and then back to Families SA, which directly involved gross failures by SAPol, then back yet again to the Victoria Police Inquiry...and when SAPol was asked if they have been using lawyer's as paid informants, including under Mal's watch, their response was 'we don't comment on informers'...(so the answer is 'yes'-Ed)...exactly...
Then there's our new mate Liberal Tim Wilson and his hilarious Franking Credits Inquiry, including moving a hearing date at the request of his relative Geoff Wilson, so that the hearing would coincide with a meeting of Geoffo's 'Anti-Tax lobby group'...(and didn't Timmy draft the pro-forma complaints to the Inquiry?-Ed)...apparently...here's some hastily cut-'n'-pasted stuff from a source I forgot to note down, sorry, 'cos it's only part of a much longer story...***
It’s that mindset that leads you to a place where you can establish an “inquiry” into a “retirement tax” (that isn’t a tax), funded by the taxpayer (thanks for that guys), and think it’s fine for the chairman of the relevant parliamentary committee (in this case Tim Wilson) to authorise what is clearly an accompanying, partisan campaign website (endorsed by him in his committee capacity) in order to better funnel outrage to the main event.Again, in that mindset, it’s OK for Wilson to decline to answer direct questions about who is funding that campaign website which is pushing submissions into the taxpayer-funded process. I don’t have to disclose that information, so I won’t.
Voters keen to understand who is exerting influence in their democracy can talk to the hand. We decide the (taxpayer-subsidised) echo chambers, and the circumstances in which they come into being.
It’s also OK, when that mindset descends, for members of the government to hand out Liberal party membership forms to retirees concerned about the changes during a taxpayer-funded hearing of the standing committee on economics.
It’s OK, too, for Wilson to draft up pro-forma submissions to his own inquiry, submissions he will later have to assess as evidence. On Wilson’s rationale, doing that is fine, because people can amend his pro-forma wording, so not all the submissions he will be assessing will have been written by him. Phew, huh? What a relief.
It’s also OK – amazingly – to be a shareholder in Wilson Asset Management (owned by Geoff Wilson, a different Wilson and a distant relative), and coordinate with that same fund manager to get opponents of the policy out with placards at the same time as taxpayer-funded hearings are happening.
***...again, simply Interweb search this stuff for a more specific dissection of exactly how corrupt this particular Inquiry process is...
Surprised to see/hear the complete lack of response to Sky News' translucent sack-a-crap Rowan Dean cracking a hilarious joke about a woman claiming that she was treated poorly at an airport 'due to the (dark) colour of her skin'...a coupla' months back, in a discussion about how she was being too precious and 'reverse-rascism', etc, my mate Rowan wittily observed to that other Sky News luminary Andrew Bolt that 'at least Bill Cosby wasn't rascist because he drugged and assaulted women of all colours and creeds'...(wow-Ed)...yeah, now my wording isn't exact, but that's what he said, and I'm shocked that no-one has held him to account for this atrocious statement...(did Bolt laugh?-Ed)...well he had this weird leering smirk...(yeah, but that's just Andrew knowing that he knows better than everyone else, it's his usual demeanour-Ed)...yeah, fair point...
And on top of various other bleating from the SA Liberals, comes this...***
Law and order reforms top State Government agenda
“Restoring
faith” in the state’s justice system will be a key focus for the State
Government’s legislative agenda, as Parliament returns on Tuesday.
Attorney-General Vickie Chapman told The Advertiser
that the Government will bring a suite of proposed new laws to
Parliament in the first half of the year which include changes to home
detention and possible reform of the sentencing discount system, as well
as increased transparency measures and moves to reduce backlogs
clogging the system.It follows heated debates in Parliament last year over the key issue of law and order, including Opposition moves to seize the momentum over the possible release of paedophiles.
Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has also flagged that Environment and Water Minister David Speirs faces a grilling, after a Royal Commission criticised him for “capitulating” to the upstream states over the River Murray.
“We worked intensively to rewrite home detention laws, fixing, among other things, the issues relating to the home detention of serious sex offenders, rather than a simple Band-Aid fix,” she said.
Later in the year, Ms Chapman will advance plans for open Independent Commission Against Corruption hearings and receive a review on sentencing discounts for criminals who plead guilty early.
The Government will also seek to repeal labour hire rules passed by its predecessor.
***...and this nonsense follows Vicki's ludicrous statements about SA's farcical new 'Whistleblower Protection Laws', laws that say that 'if authorities don't act on a report of corruption/malfeasance/whatevs within 3 months, then the whistleblower can legally go to the media with their report/complaint/whatevs'...(but that's absolute shizzle! all the Office of Public Integrity/ICAC need to do is say 'we're looking at it' or 'we have looked at it', etc, and the whistleblower/reporter is legally refused the right to discuss it further, at all, ever!-Ed)...well exactly, it's a deliberate manipulation and misrepresentation of the reality, where-in everything goes straight to ICAC, where Our Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Comm Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander will either dismiss it or lock it down amid 'secrecy legislation' as he has repeatedly done with other stuff involving his government paymasters...(how many times has he protected Premier Jay Weatherill?-Ed)...is always a number?...this farcical legislation is 0% about genuine whistlebower protection, and 100% about giving the illusion of protections and transparency, etc...
...and here's a quick reminder (pasted-across from an ABC website) of some of the rank Pro-Paedophile Corruption surrounding SAPol, Labor, and the Adelaide Public Service...I remind availees that it was a Danish Police Taskforce that exposed/caught Shannon McCoole, and as reported here, he had been 'investigated' by SA authorities a year earlier and cleared...(and our mate Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill announcing yet another SA Child Abuse Royal Commission, what a sick joke-Ed)...indeed...***
Former SA police commissioner Mal Hyde appointed to help manage Families SA scandal
Updated
Former South Australian police commissioner Mal Hyde
has been appointed to check the employment records of residential care
staff.
The process is one of a range of measures the State Government has announced in response to the alleged sexual abuse of seven toddlers in state care.The Government said it would also advertise for a new executive director of Families SA, as well as a replacement for former deputy chief David Waterford.
Mr Waterford resigned last week for "inadvertently misleading" his boss and the Minister over the sexual abuse case.
It was revealed the charged man had been investigated a year ago for alleged improper conduct against a toddler, but the claims could not be substantiated.
Mr Waterford said he had resigned because he fell well short of the standards of a public servant.
Police Commissioner confirms prior investigation
Earlier today Police Commissioner Gary Burns confirmed South Australian police were previously alerted to a concern about the 32-year-old Families SA worker who was recently charged with child sex offences.It is understood another Families SA worker complained a year ago about alleged inappropriate behaviour between the accused man and a young girl.
Commissioner Burns told 891 ABC Adelaide detectives looked at the complaint and decided it did not warrant further investigation.
"My understanding is this care notification was looked at by detectives and it was determined that there wasn't anything concrete enough to proceed," Commissioner Burns said.
"As a result of the subsequent arrest of this person, that care and concern notification will be picked up in the overall investigations that are continuing now.
"The aim will be to put the police resources in to secure a conviction and therefore prevent the person being involved in more of these type of offences into the future," he said.
Meanwhile Premier Jay Weatherill has released the draft terms of reference for the proposed royal commission into child sexual abuse.
They include looking into the adequacy of existing laws and policies relevant to the state's child protection regime for children at risk of harm, as well as the adequacy of existing practices and procedures adopted by Families SA and other relevant agencies.
Comments on the terms of reference are invited up until close of business of Tuesday August 12 at YourSay.
***...(I just don't know what to say-Ed)...why not go with your traditional "wow"?...(well somehow 'wow' just doesn't seem to be anywhere near enough for this chronic/deliberate SAPol incompetence, rancid deceits from the Pro-Paedophile Premier, and yet another SA Child Abuse Royal Commission-Ed)...fair points...
Tomorrow: MGCC Lies And Manipulation About Indoor Recreation Centre
Apologies that I promised this last time, but today I just had to shed, as in 'shake-off' not 'store away in a small building', at least some of the stress and anger and whatevs that all of this rank corruption has bought into my life again this week...
I am Nick Fletcher and this 'ere is my blog, cheers and laters...
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