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Howdy Cambodia, Ireland, India, and Ukraine, and y'all else...(I'm so confused-Ed)...what with matey?...(well, just, just everything really-Ed)...fair enough, but perhaps we could just have a look at some specific stuff one issue at a time...(sure, mmm, well this farcical carry-on with Robe Council and the "Maladministration" identified by the Ombudsman Wayne Lines, all that stuff, that's just got even more dodgy-Ed)...what, more dodgy than last week's post what we done do about the extraordinary $290,000 spent on a tiny wall and a flagpole, all done on a super-dodgy per-hour contract without any Tender process, etc, all that stuff?...(yeah, I mean, even our post, in one place it's a $1million Dodgy-a-thon, then it's only $290,000-Ed)...ahhh, sure I can see why that might be confusing, but would it help to realise that we're talking about 2 separate issues there...(2 separate dodginesses...es?-Ed)...yep...(well that helps a bit, sure, but a little more explanation couldn't hurt-Ed)...sure, and then we'll address this week's latest shonkiness...but first...
Where We're A Peerless Salty Watergate:...because it actually involves actual water, albeit water that never actually existed and therefore didn't require a weir or a pier...(ah witty Wilde-Ed)...and it is absolutely illustrative of our times that it was a Twitterer-er, 'Ronni Salt', aka, 'Veruca Salt', and currently 'Ronni-Who Knew About The Contracts?-Salt' that did most of the foot-slogging groundwork, and herself acknowledges others like '@MaryanneSlatte1 and @R_o_d_C (Rod Campbell)...(amongst several others-Ed)...indeed...and it was Ms Salt's tweets where I first read specific details about the rancid corruption evident in the dealings of the LNP's Angus Taylor and Barnaby Joyce...(rancid corruption you say?-Ed)...Barnaby 'Beetrooter' as Water Minister and Angus as a Director/Founder/whatevs of a company that received $80m in 'Water Buybacks', for water that never actually existed...(wow-Ed)...$80m payed directly to a Cayman Islands account...(cha-ching-Ed)...and when exposed, deathly silence from Beetrooter who is apparently 'out of phone range somewhere'...(so he doesn't have a satelite phone? bollocks-Ed)...indeed, and Angry Angus goes all rabidly 'Defamation Threaty' with Ms Salt and other media, and her Twitter account gets suspended, etc...
Here's what's happening in the age of new media, the exposure of issues that would otherwise likely remain complicitly hidden from public view...(are you referring to the abject failure of the vast majority of Main Stream Media and the wholly compromised ABC, etc, to even acknowledge this extraordinary issue?-Ed)...absolutely I am, and I also note the standard 'defense' of the rancidly corrupt politicians involved...(what, either temporarily disappear hoping to avoid any accountability, ala Beetrooter, or go entirely the other way like The Angry Angus, and try to threaten/bully/intimidate with vacuous 'Defamation Threats'?-Ed)...exactly, whilst furiously contradicting himself one day to the next...I'm not gunna' try to break this down to it's constituent elements about when AA set-up the company or when he/they received the money, etc, 'cos 1) it's very complicated and involved, and 2) I don't completely understand bits of it, and 3) there's now an absolute shreck-load of info on the Interweb, not least of all the lengthy story run by Channel 10's The Project...(not to mention the above 'Ronni-WKATC?-Salt' twitter account, which is obviously back up again-Ed)...it's all there, including The Project's latest tweets, and other stuff about 'more info that has to be checked due to legal threats'...(in my humble opinion, and I am entitled to an opinion, well least-ways I think I still am, anyhoos, IMHO, the Liberal/National Party is nothing short of a Criminal Organisation-Ed)...and you sure-as-shreck ain't Robinson Crusoe on that one mate, strewth, the LNP's own conduct confirms it...
Just to conclude our very brief go at this story of extraordinary corruption, we'd like to defer to Ms Salt, namely...
"Mainstream journalists are crippled by defamation laws and bound by the constraints of
regulations, etc"...and...
"With respect, it's not complicated really. Water that doesn't exist was bought by Barnaby
Joyce from a company initially founded in the Caymans by Angus Taylor with almost all
$80 million going offshore"
...(well hurrah!-Ed)...indeed, and because I've previously criticised it/them, The Project does have it's occasional moments, and their attempt to at least acknowledge/address this rank corruption is one such moment...(kudo's-Ed)...and I very happily sit here somewhat personally chastised, albeit sort of vicariously, for my bleating about being The Only One Who Trys, 'cos clearly I ain't, and massive kudo's to you Ms Salt for proving me so fantastically wrong...(but mate, strewth, you've got your own ICAC/SAPol (police) 'Operation Baritone' and 3 year "bizarre trial" and subsequent rankly corrupt 'Conviction', etc, and who else has been through that shizzle? no bloody wonder you sometimes feel like you're doin' it on your own-Ed)...cheers mate...
Back From The Bush, Beetrooter's Berzerkly Belligerent Baked Barney:...and since starting this post, this issue has gone spectacularly ballistic with arguably the worst/best interview ever...("worst/best"? WTF?-Ed)...well 'worst' if you are Beetrooter, the Liberal/National Party, PM Scott 'Scummo' Morrison, Angus Taylor, et al, and 'best' if you enjoy an angry, drunk, unhinged man relentlessly shouting jibberish that only confirms that there's a massive problem with this deal...(wow, I've just spent what seems like a week listening to that interview, and it is a rolled-gold train wreck, Beetrooter is clearly drunk-as, relentlessly shouting-over the interviewer Pat Karvelas-Ed)...yep, and he does that classic obfuscation that Rory McEwen made his own, namely, ignore the question asked by asking himself a question and then don't even answer that!...(that is truly the most extraordinary interview I've ever heard/seen, it is absolutely excruciating-Ed)...indeed it is...(and it just goes on and on-Ed)...he does doesn't he...(and how many bloody times does he mention Labor and blame Labor and then support Labor before again blaming Labor? it's just bizarre-Ed)...bizarre is the polite way of putting it, it's actually quite disturbing...as confronting and infuriating and distressing as this interview is, I urge availees to persist and endure it in it's entirety because it starts bad, gets worse...(then worser-Ed)...indeed, and then gets positively surreal...(you'll cry, you'll laugh, you'll wanna' see the poor bastard get the rehab he so clearly needs, it's got literally everything-Ed)...except actual answers...
And as I've kudoed The Project, so shall I heap praise on Ms Karvelas for this amazingly patient attempt to get even a single straight answer from a juiced-up Beetrooter...(but I thought you said that the ABC was as Right Wing LNP complicit as the Murdoch media and various other Main Stream Media?-Ed)...I have said that Ed, and I stand by it, 'cos for this one fantastic interview I can offer-up dozens of pathetic Dorothy-Dixer interviews from ABC Morning News, the ABC South East Radio, etc, etc...(ah, fair call-Ed)...however, I urge dear availees to access this excellent interview on the Radio National website...Beetrooter even manages to 'Allude/Infer Threaten' Ms Karvelas with yet another attack on The Project, using the classic 'That's Almost Defamation' threat...(well either it is or it isn't, so either do it or shut the shreck up!-Ed)...my thoughts exactly, it's the vacuous threat of a desperate man, and exactly what I've repeatedly had to say to rankly corrupt people like 'Bouncin' Billy DeGaris, etc, who keep threatening me and/or bleating to The Googles to have my posts removed, etc, etc, if you think you've got what it takes, Billy mate, let's to be gettin' it on, mate...and isn't it clinically and insightfully symptomatic of the Robe Council situation that we now find ourselves in that exact 'Defamation Threat Zone', with redacted documents, etc...(it's almost like it's a template for Institutionalised Corruption-Ed)...indeed, we'll get to that..
But first, more kudo's to proffer here, and further acknowledgement that it ain't just I what tries to address this Institutionalised Corruption, because clearly former Robe Mayor Mr William Peden has had (is still having?) a red-hot go at holding the Robe Council to account for some definably dodgy dealings, even if he's had limited results...(yeah, limited maybe, but Mr Peden can hardly be held responsible for the fact that the Institutionalised Corruption he has unambiguously identified/exposed in Robe Council also controls the Ombudsman, the Office of Public Integrity, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption-Ed)...nah, that's a very fair point mate...(I mean, strewth, look at the rancid Pro-Paedophile Institutionalised Corruption you've exposed re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up from 2002-Ed)...good point...(PPIC you yourself have then been subjected to for pursuing action re that cover-up-Ed)...sure...(up to and including the extraordinary corruption of Your Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Commissioner Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander-Ed)...testify!...(who's corruption you have also defined-Ed)...you mean that stuff about where my mate Bruce conspired with Labor's Attorney General li'l Johnny Rau in 2014 to change the ICAC Act 2012 to facilitate prosecuting me?...(yeah, all that stuff, stuff that dwarfs the rancid corruption of Magistrate Ian White and his definable collusion with SAPol Prosecutions, his ignoring of those ICAC Act changes, etc, etc, etc-Ed)...sure, but we digress...
(Well, yes and no, 'cos this is meant to be about Mr Peden and his dealings with Robe Council, etc, but I think the bigger issue here is one of appropriate conduct in trying to address this Institutionalised Corruption-Ed)...how so?...(well you know all this blow-back from the major parties and various vested interests and complicit stooges, etc, about how if you want to change things you're welcome to/should get involved in the political process?-Ed)...sure, I've regularly heard that particular deferral and/or denial of political responsibility, 'if you don't like it, get involved, run for parliament yourself', etc...(yeah, well Mr Peden's experience proves what a vacuous and flaccid lie that is-Ed)...ahhh, so you're saying that, if someone of Mr Peden's obvious intellect, with his professional credentials, formal qualifications, and personal political credibility, operating as the actual Mayor and/or former Mayor, etc, etc, if he addresses/exposes all of the dodginess he has, and yet he still cannot get actual accountability from the supposed 'Accounters', namely the Ombudsman/OPI/ICAC, then that absolutely puts paid to this farcical notion that 'getting involved' will resolve anything...(bingo! SA is the text-book example of the old joke, 'it's not a few bad apples making the barrel rotten, you have to be rotten to be allowed in the barrel'-Ed)...classic, never a truer word spoken in quoting a jest...
What you're saying is, is that the Pro-Paedophile Institutionalised Corruption that defines South Australia is so absolute, so 'Institutionalised', that it entirely controls not just who gets into the barrel and therefore who's/what issues get addressed and who is subjected to the tender machinations of that Corrupt System's Corrupt 'Accounters', etc, etc, but it also controls who makes the barrel and what it's made of...(exactly, and I'd go further on that same theme, and quantify that by referencing your own attempts to engage 'appropriately' with the rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt System that is SA-Ed)...you mean the definably Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution and "Malicious Prosecution", etc, of my "bizarre trial", where-in I tried to have Mt Gambier City Council's rabid corruption addressed by the SA Ombudsman, only to have that defined corruption excused/protected by the extraordinary corruption of the SA ICAC and ICAC Comm Bruce Lander, to then myself be 'Charged/Prosecuted/Persecuted' under the bizarrely undefinable ICAC Act 2012 Section 56, and subjected to 3 years of a relentlessly incompetent and definably corrupt SAPol Prosecutions and complicit Magistrate White, etc, etc...(well I was gunna' get to that, sure, but I was gunna' start with your own attempts at political engagement that started long before this 'ere blog and the subsequent corrupt ICAC farce-Ed)...ahhh, fair enough...
(I was going to start with what you parents were deliberately put through with the St Martins Cover-up and your many attempts to get appropriate action from the appropriate authorities like SAPol, etc, only to be ruthlessly repeatedly deceived and betrayed and blamed, etc-Ed)...like SAPol pretending to investigate "text-book grooming paedophile" Lutheran teacher Glyn Dorling (June 2002), then dumping their 'investigation' weeks later (July 2002) but not telling parents, then relentlessly lying about that alleged 'investigation' and attacking and blaming us parents, etc, which then led us to local Member of SA Parliament Rory McEwen (August 2002), who then deceived, betrayed, and attacked us parents to negotiate himself a Ministerial position with the rancidly corrupt Mike Rann Labor government?...(yeah, exactly all that stuff-Ed)...and how we parents organised for Flinders Child Protection Unit/Services to interview kids and parents (July-August 2002), and how Labor's (then) Attorney General Michael Atkinson took those reports off FCPU and gave them to the Lutherans' lawyers to be edited/censored before being released to us parents, etc, as covered in the previous post...(all that-Ed)...which then led us to approach the Teachers Registration Board (Feb 2003), starting a 21-month process, including an official 7-hearing TRB Inquiry (June 2004-November 2004) that straight-out called me a liar and exonerated Dorling by accepting his extraordinary excuse/defense that 'the kids were forcing themselves on me and I couldn't stop them'...(was that the TRB Inquiry where Labor Minister/Premier Jay Weatherill's business partner Stephen Lieschke was Dorling's lawyer and Liberal leader Rob Kerin's cousin Carmel was the TRB Chairwoman?-Ed)...that's the one...(wow, Liberal leader on one side, Labor leader on the other, you's parents never stood a chance-Ed)...like I said, the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption that is SA...
(And again, I fully accept that all this stuff is absolutely relevant in a discussion about the farcical nature of the 'Give It A Go Or Shut-up' statements-Ed)...ta'...(and I'd also include the further attempts you's parents made to get SA Parliament to act and/or SAPol to 're-investigate' that only ever led to fresh rounds of parent-blaming by SAPol and Rory McEwen, etc-Ed)...not least-of-all on the front page of a complicit The Border Watch newspaper (eg, 6th May 2005)...(yep, and parents extensive involvement with the 'Now Suppressed For 80 Years' Mullighan Royal Commission (2005-2007)-Ed)...sure...(and then the farcical Statutory Authorities Review Committee (Parliamentary) Inquiry into the TRB that you's parents lobbied for and established with the support of (then) MLC Nick Xenophon, an Inquiry that itself specifically referenced the Glyn Dorling/St Martins case as it's primary cause/justification and ran from late 2007 until mid-2011, before handing-down a raft of vacuously pointless 'recommendations' that did absolutely nothing about the St Martins Cover-up or the TRB Dorling Exoneration Cover-up-Ed)...hmph, happy days mate, happy days, year upon year of polite lobbying and letter-writing and providing lengthy document-supported Affidavits, etc, etc, etc, all in trying to appropriately engage with a wholly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt 'System' wholly committed to protecting the rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt Lutheran Church and "text-book grooming paedophile" Glyn Dorling...
(Indeed, all very unpleasant, and all very, very relevant in a discussion about 'Giving It A Go', but we can take it even further-Ed)...we can? you mean all that stuff about engaging with the then Member for Barker Patrick Secker and/or Bravehearts and/or Federal Education Ministers Julia Gillard and/or Julie Bishop...(yeahhh, sure, all of that, but what about when you ran as an Independent candidate in the March 2010 State Election?-Ed)...oh yeah...(and in particular, the February 2010 Candidate's Forum at the Helpmann Theatre, when the last question of the evening was from another St Martins parent, about the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)...and all the other candidates just sat there staring resolutely at the table and didn't even get up to speak on the issue, because they all knew and didn't want to touch it...(indeed-Ed)...a perfect example of me putting myself up for public scrutiny on the St Martins Cover-up issue, only to have complete silence from those who otherwise saw fit to denigrate me...(well that's true, that was their chance to publicly humiliate you for your supposedly scurrilous untruths about the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, a chance they didn't dare embrace for the obvious reasons, but I had one particular moment in mind-Ed)...being?...(when you identified Dorling's lawyer in the TRB, Stephen Lieschke, as Jay Weatherill's business partner-Ed)...ah yeah, and I was looking straight at Tony Pasin, current Liberal Member for Barker, who was so excited at my Labor-kicking statement that he dead-set 'hover-gasmed' out of his seat...
And of course Tony already knew all about the St Martins Cover-up, having been told in late 2002 by parents whilst he was still a Mt Gambier City Councillor, and has since used Federal 'grants' to St Martins for self-promoting photo opportunities...(and that's my point right there-Ed)...what, that no-one stands any chance of getting any appropriate action against the Institutionalised Corruption that is destroying our society/community when the Federal Member is knowingly and willingly complicit in the cover-up of the gross abuse of dozens of 7 year old kids because it's personally politically expedient...(exactly, I mean, what hope that a few dodgy Insider Tradings and/or Conflicts of Interests, etc, are gunna' get appropriately addressed when Tony Pasin, the Federal Member for Barker, sets the standard at willing collusion in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...fair point Ed, what hope indeed...
Tomorrow: The Actual Robe Stuff
'Cos I got a little distracted today...(distracted with 16 years of gross Pro-Paedophile Corruption-Ed)...indeed...(and how that directly relates to SA's farcically corrupt 'Independent Accounters', the Ombudsman, OPI, and especially the ICAC-Ed)...well that's true, that's the whole sub-text to this 'ere post, and more widely, to this 'ere blog in general...(and Tony Pasin has well-earned and duly deserves every scything serve he cops for his complicit role in supporting the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)..true, true, that he does...(so really all we've done today is very briefly remind dear regular availees of why we're all here-Ed)...sure...(and provide any newer availees with a succinct outline of what's happened with St Martins, etc, all of which they can further research by going back through this 'ere blog-Ed)...mmm, fair enough...
But just in closing, I'll quickly qualify/quantify my earlier statement about where Robe Council's conduct mimics this Actual Watergate stuff, namely, where Robe Council has combined the inappropriate redaction and/or removal of and/or refusal to supply critical documents with the 'Defamation Threat Agenda'...(combined them? how?-Ed)...well as I understand it, Mt Peden's official statement provided to Robe Council at the relevant meeting in April 2019, and as printed/reported in the local paper, and as Council apparently committed to including in their Meeting Minutes, etc, etc, well Council has seen fit to redact/remove large swathes of that statement from their Minutes, replacing it with the statement/threat that, and I quote...
"On legal advice the Council has redacted information contained within the presentation that
is factually incorrect, potentially inflammatory and/or defamatory. It is also stated where
comments are opinion and not supported by fact."
...(wow, good work Robe Council-Ed)...indeed, I'll have a thorough look at this nonsense and get back to y'all asap...(and what's the "legal advice"?-Ed)...dunno', doesn't say, why?...
(Well, they'd wanna' be real sure mate, 'cos publicly accusing someone of 'defamation', which is what Robe Council have done by putting this statement in their Minutes, making that specific accusation publicly and without any proof, that is in-and-of-itself actually defamation of Mr Peden by the Robe Council-Ed)...ouch!...(and rather reminiscent of when that cloth-eared half-wit, former MGC Councillor Josh Lynagh stated on his Facebook page that "he defames people", where "he" is referring to you, and that is not just a direct public accusation of criminality, but a direct public statement of fact of criminality, a public statement of fact not supported by any evidence (eg, a trial and subsequent 'conviction') and therefore defamation-Ed)...or where people like Bill DeGaris have 'Threat Complained' to The Googles with false accusations about my supposed 'defamations', thus falsely accusing me of 'criminality' to a third party...(well quite, it's the standard corrupt response to actual criminality, threaten defamation-Ed)...threaten defamation but in doing so, actually commit defamation themselves...(exactly-Ed)...hilarious...can't wait to see Robe Council's "legal advice"...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog....cheers and laters...
Howdy y'all dear availees, and I know I promised more Robe Council Shenanigans, but here's a super-quick post just to get this on the blog and therefore the record...(yeah sure, "super-quick"-Ed)...no no, I understand your skepticism given my many previous similar statements...(that were then followed by voluminous ventings-Ed)...yeah yeah, I concede, fair dues, but honestly, today it's just this and then a quick review there-of...(just what?-Ed)...just this...***
South
Australia's anti-corruption watchdog will probe an Adelaide council
following a number of complaints about the organisation.
Deputy
Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Michael Riches said an
evaluation will be conducted into the City of Playford's practices,
policies and procedures.
"It is critical that (the council's)
functions are carried out appropriately and in a manner that is free of
corruption, misconduct and maladministration," he said on Wednesday.
"An
evaluation is a useful means of gaining an in depth understanding of a
public authority's operations and how it guards against risks of
corruption, misconduct and maladministration."
Mr Riches said the
evaluation is not an investigation of individual conduct, and if matters
of concern are identified they were be dealt with separately.
He said the Office for Public Integrity had received a number of complaints and reports about the council.
The
public will be invited to make submissions to the inquiry, and the
evaluation may be broadened in light of the information received.
The
announcement comes after the council's former chief executive, Mal
Hemmerling, was last stood down for alleged bullying and misconduct.
Mr Riches said he hopes to deliver a report to parliament by the end of the year.
"I
am hopeful that my report, together with any recommendations made, will
be of assistance not only to the City of Playford but to the 67 other
local councils in South Australia," he said.
***...(but hang on, wasn't your whole "Malicious Prosecution" (Magistrate Teresa Anderson) and relevant 3 year long "bizarre trial" (The Border Watch) and subsequent wholly corrupt 'Conviction', etc, etc, all that stuff, wasn't that for talking/blogging about the ICAC's alleged-but-actually-fake October 2013-January 2014 investigation of Mt Gambier City Council?-Ed)...indeed it was Ed, indeed it was, and Michael Riches is one of the people I dealt with directly, still got the emails, etc...(but here's the ICAC openly discussing it's own alleged investigation of the very problematic Playford Council-Ed)...ah, it's not an 'investigation' Ed, it's an "evaluation"...(bollocks! that's bureaucratic weasel-words, for shreck sake, it even states there's been "a number of complaints and reports"-Ed)...fair point...(and then argues against itself by stating that "if matters of concern are identified they (will) be dealt with separately", well what are all those shreckin' complaints and reports?-Ed)...again, fair point...(and where/when were the good people of Mt Gambier "invited to make submissions to the Inquiry" into MGCC?-Ed)...again, spot on, they weren't were they, 'cos, as I proved in Court, the entire ICAC investigation of MGCC was a brief unrecorded chat with me in a cafe, albeit in clear earshot of several people, and another brief unrecorded chat with MGCC's then CEO Mark 'Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans' McShane in a hallway at Adelaide's Convention Centre...(so, no stone left un-turned then-Ed)...well quite...(and as for this latest nonsense, I mean, honestly, it's just another orchestrated ICAC cover-up looking for somewhere to happen-Ed)...how so dear heart?...
(Well, mate, ICAC has a well-documented history of 'investigating' SA's institutionalised corruption and then excusing it, eg, the ludicrous Gillman Land Sale debasco (debacle/fiasco)-Ed)...that was indeed a beauty...(indeed, and this is ICAC looking to address the many well-publicised issues in Playford Council, pretend to 'investigate', and then dismiss it all as nuthin' really, it's all fine, just fine, honest-Ed)...all of the issues?...(well it sure-as-shreck ain't just my pal Mal, eg, there's the super-dodgy re-development issues centering around our other mate Rory McEwen's former parliamentary Chief of Staff, Stephen Campbell-Ed)...is that the stuff about the Ice Rink thingy that just got shelved/axed...(axed? really?-Ed)...yeah, just last month, axed/shelved/dropped/whatevs, not exactly sure why, but here's some of Stevo and Rory's earlier work...***
A-G defends staffer over union election claims
Posted
South Australia's Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson,
has defended one of his staff members amid allegations he was involved
in a deal to influence a union election.
Facing more questioning
in Parliament today, Mr Atkinson said neither he nor his staffer, George
Karzis, had any knowledge of an alleged deal to get a candidate to
withdraw from the Shopworkers Union elections.
Mr Atkinson says he was not even aware Mr Karzis attended meetings with the union, until after they happened.
"When I became aware that Mr Karzis had attended two meetings I can tell you, he didn't attend any more," Mr Atkinson said.
The election candidate concerned is Stephen Campbell, a staffer for Minister Rory McEwen.
Deputy Premier Kevin Foley told Parliament of other concerns related to the election campaign.
"I
told Mr Campbell that Minister McEwen was uncomfortable with members of
his staff participating in election campaigns as candidates while
attached to his office," he said.
***...(classic!-Ed)...I particularly like the bit where the rankly corrupt Michael Atkinson says he had no idea what was happening, but gee-whiz, when he found out, by golly, "I can tell you, he didn't attend any more"...(bahahahhhaahhaa-Ed)...absolute shreckin' bollocks from the rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt Atko, mate...(don't like Atko much, do ya'?-Ed)...seething loathing for a horrendously corrupt Paedophile Protector...(look, mate, just because he took the St Martin's kid's Flinders Child Protection Service Reports off of FCPS and handed them to the Lutherans and their lawyers to edit/censor before those also heavily-redacted report remnants were then released to parents, that doesn't make him a paedophile-Ed)...I said "rancidly Pro-Paedophile corrupt" and "Paedophile Protector", I never said 'Michael Atkinson is a Paedophile'...(ah, so you're saying he is "rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt" and a critically complicit "Paedophile Protector" intimately involved in the horrendous St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?-Ed)...absolutely...(but you're not specifically saying that former Labor Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is himself a paedophile?-Ed)...my opinion of him is my opinion, but correct, officially and legally, I am not in a position to say he is a paedophile...
But we digress, because the real issue here is obviously the farcical contradiction between this alleged ICAC "evaluation" of Playford Council being publicly reported, and the rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt "Malicious Prosecution" I was subjected to...("was"? don't you mean 'am being'?-Ed)...sorry?...(well, aren't you still trying to 'Appeal' but are still being ignored by current Liberal AG Vicki Chapman, the Dept of Corrections, etc, etc, effectively a continuation of the rank bias and open corruption of your "bizarre trial"?-Ed)...mmm, fair point, I am still trying to 'Appeal'...(and chuck onto that stuff the repeated SAPol (police) harassmentings on your front step in November-December 2018, that's all a part of the broader Pro-Paedophile Persecution-Ed)...well sure, you make a valid point, again...(no need to sound quite so surprised-Ed)...not surprised, as always I'm very appreciative of your critical role in the narrative, you are invaluable and indispensable...(even for a confected literary device?-Ed)...well sure, but still, when you're right you're right and now is one of those times, I am very much still being 'Maliciously Persecuted/Prosecuted'...
And dear regular availees, I'm sure y'all are rather over me repeatedly setting y'all homework...(orrrrr, homework? agaaaaain?-Ed)...but those of you's what already done do it previous like, will now not have to do it again...(whaaa?-Ed)...because y'all will already know that when I say 'dear availees go to the SA ICAC website thingy and search for any mention of either Mt Gambier City Council or Nicholas (Nick) Fletcher', that that right there is an exercise in furious and abject futility...(ahhh, you mean the stuff where ICAC claims to have investigated and subsequently exonerated MGCC but there ain't a single mention not nowheres-Ed)...exactly...(and similarly, your extraordinary Precedent Conviction under the wholly bizarre ICAC Act 2012 Section 56, that don't rate a mention either-Ed)...not in any Official Statement, not in any Yearly Report, not in any form what-so-ever not nowheres...(wow...do they mention where ICAC Comm Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander conspired with Labor's AG li'l Johnny Rau in September-November 2014 to change the ICAC Act via the ICAC Miscellaneous Amendment Act November 2014, by including that 'To Publish' definition that directly addresses your Legal Eagle's specific questions on that issue, and therefore retrospectively criminalises your actions in a manner to specifically 'allow' you be prosecuted?-Ed)...lovin' the sarcasm Ed, but no, ICAC surprisingly does not acknowledge that the ICAC Act was changed as to allow me to be prosecuted for what was technically therefore 'Not A Crime' when I did it...
Anyhoos, I'm just venting now because regular availees will be well aquainted with this rankly corrupt conduct by My Bestie And Also In His Spare Time Comm Lander and his wee pally li'l Johnny Rau...(as eventually acknowledged but corruptly dismissed by Magistrate Ian White-Ed)...indeed, and if y'all ain't familiar with all that stuff, please to be reading all the relevant posts from February-April 2018, eg, Addin' Dem Addendums...(well it's 'Addenda', the plural of Addendum is Addenda-Ed)...yeah, ok! I think everyone gets the point...
Tomorrow: The Robe Probe Debasco
(I wonder if that Ice Rink development collapse/cancellation has anything to do with this ridiculous ICAC pseudo-investigation?-Ed)...I'd be truly gob-smacked if it weren't, and I guarantee ya's that ICAC won't look at that issue 'because it ain't happening now'...(like there's gunna' be no action against the former Pt Pirie Mayor Johnson 'because he ain't in Local Government since November 2018'?-Ed)...yes Ed, exactly like that...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...............see Ed, that wasn't that long...(yeah, fair enough, that's reasonably short-Ed)...
Howdy dear availees, and mucho humblest apologies for the 10-day hiatus...had issues with my provider and changed accounts/plans which then disconnected my wi-fi, etc, and have been effectively without Interweb for a week...(sorted now then?-Ed)...hopefully, lots to catch-up on, so we're just gunna' whack-out this post asap, and finish it tomorrow...haven't forgotten the Mt Gambier City Council deceits and manipulations of the ludicrous Recreation Hub, but this absolute beauty (below) un-ravelled through last week, and we all just had to have a go at it...(oh for sure, and dear availees, please also refer to the relevant previous post if y'all haven't already-Ed)...and which post is that?...(Dear Robe CEO Roger Sweetman, Whim And Fancy This Champ, of 19th February 2018-Ed)...oh that's a beauty, one of my faves...(well, indeed, if the Statistics Page of this 'ere blog is to be believed, it's certainly proved quite the popular post this past week or so-Ed)...really?...(yep, apparently when people have been Interweb searching, that there post has been bobbing-up front and centre, there's been literally dozens of 'views'-Ed)...hurrah...(indeed-Ed)...and now we have this...***
26 November, 2014 10:21AM ACDT
Robe council CEO responds to misconduct allegations
By Kate Hill
The CEO of Robe District Council has responded to serious allegations
made against him and the council on ABC South East's Morning Show.
Roger Sweetman said the Office of Public Integrity
(OPI) would investigate an allegation inferring that Mr Sweetman held an
inappropriate relationship with council auditors.
Earlier this year, the OPI had investigated a separate allegation
relating to alleged misappropriation of funds by Robe District Council
staff for the Lake Butler marina project, but said there was insufficient evidence to warrant further investigation.
Mr Sweetman said he was pleased council had been vindicated, but
described the new allegations against him personally as 'baseless' and
'abhorrent'.
The complaint had been to made confidentially to auditor, Galpins.
"I have many professional relationships with people in local government," he said.
"I have a professional relationship with our auditor, but that's the end of it.
"However, because these allegations have been made as a public
officer under the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)
legislation, I have to do something about it."
Mr Sweetman said the allegations meant council would be unable to
sign off on audited financial statements by the end of November and he
would have to write to Minister for Local Government, Geoff Brock to
advise him council could not meet its legislative requirements.
He said the allegations had cast aspersions on his professional ability and the auditor's professional ability also.
"It's ludicrous - you have many professional relationships with many
people and it doesn't stop you doing your job and it doesn't influence
the decisions you make in relations to your job in any way," he said.
The CEO said the council was currently in a good financial position, after struggles in previous years.
"Due to some very prudent financial management by my predecessors,
council is in a very strong financial position - we have minimal debt
and we are managing our finances and providing our services at a level
which the community are happy with and as cheaply and as effectively as
possible," he said.
Mr Sweetman said council voted last night to offer their full support to him.
"I've been in local government for 38 years and never dealt with
anything at this level before - it's very disconcerting," he said.
"It's unfortunate that this sorry episode has chewed up a lot of resources on a lot of baseless claims.
"Council's time and effort would be better served providing services for our community."
***...(um, yeah, that's not the investigation that I was referring to?-Ed)...sorry?...(given that that's from 2014, I believe that that refers to the farcical shenanigans surrounding the $1million Marina Loan, as covered in that post from 19th February 2018-Ed)...whaaa?...(which is what the 19th February 2018 post mostly refers to-Ed)...and that post's also all the stuff about Roger Sweetman attacking and denigrating former Robe Mayor William 'Special Rules' Peden?...(yeah, that stuff, where-in 'Special Rules' refers to Roger Sweetman's actions in introducing 'rules' that allowed him to intercept Mr Peden's correspondence to Robe Council, and then presenting to Council his (Sweetman's) own version of that correspondence-Ed)...wow...(indeed, and 'Whim and Fancy' was Roger's seething on-air denigration of Mr Peden's absolutely appropriate attempts to get answers about many concerning aspects of Robe Council's conduct-Ed)...which is also Roger's agenda with the stuff about how much it's cost, etc, all that's an attack on Mr Peden...(spot on mate, a well-practised strategy/agenda of denigration, abuse, obfuscation and deliberate deceits, all aimed at avoiding discussing the actual issues, and instead attacking and undermining the credibility of the 'Whistleblower', in this instance Mr Peden-Ed)...now why does that sound so familiar?...(well because it's exactly what you have been subjected to for years now!-Ed)...yeah mate, it was a rhetorical question...
And just how many times has the Ombudsman and/or Office Of Public Integrity investigated Robe Council and/or Roger Sweetman?...(well, as best as I can tell, at least twice, and I think that that 'Auditor' bit refers to the bizarre 'Internal Audit' that Robe Council did when that $1m Marina Loan appeared to have disappeared from Council's accounts/paperwork-Ed)...when they said that it was all fine, despite the fact they needed to do an 'Audit' to find it?...(yep, before then turning 'round and stating that that $1m Loan had actually never existed in the first place-Ed)...wow, I can see why you might call that a farce...(indeed, and the OPI/Ombudsman's response was to do nuthin'-Ed)...well SA's OPI/Ombudsman is in a farce of their own...(nice one-Ed)...and of course, if the OPI/Ombudsman is involved, that means the ICAC is also involved, and in a superior capacity...(absolutely, the ICAC/OPI/Ombudsman are basically and functionally the same animal, as identified in that article above, and as we covered in that previous post-Ed)...so hang on, if this latest thing is about the Robe Marina, but isn't specifically about that $1 Marina Loan, what's this about then?...(read on dear heart-Ed)...***
SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines finds Robe Council and former CEO Roger Sweetman mishandled $296,000 marina upgrade
Renato Castello, The Advertiser
Subscriber only
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council has been found guilty of maladministration and its retired
chief executive of misconduct over their management of a $296,000 marina
project, following an investigation by the state’s public sector
watchdog.
SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines has upheld a
whistleblower’s complaint that ex Robe Council chief executive Roger
Sweetman had breached code of conduct during oversight of an upgrade of
the Lake Butler marina entrance, the cost of which later blew out by
$120,000.
Mr Lines ruled the council had mismanaged public
resources by failing to obtain multiple quotes for the project and had
not made “meaningful inquiries” behind the marina’s cost blowout despite
being informed of the need for more funds.
The marina project had
an initial approved budget of $170,000 but was completed in December
2014 for $296,309 without toilets, gates or asphalting of the carpark,
which were included in an original project estimate.
Mr Sweetman
tendered his resignation in December at the same time the council
secretly considered preliminary findings of the investigation.
The
council publicly released Mr Ombudsman’s final report on April 2, the
day after Mr Sweetman permanently left council, and three weeks after Mr
Lines had provided the council with a copy of his report
Mr Lines
found Mr Sweetman, who was employed in July 2012, had failed to seek
tenders for various aspects of the marina project in breach of the
council’s procurement policy.
“I understand that the CEO developed
a strategy of managing the project in-house, allowing for better
management of local contractors and suppliers,” he said.
“This is critical given the finding that the council did not properly apply the procurement policy.
“Although
I have not quantified the possible financial overspend by the council
not following the procurement policy, it is clear that the CEO had
responsibility to ensure the procurement policy was applied.”
He said Mr Sweetman had breached the council’s code of conduct and had committed misconduct in public administration.
Mr
Lines said the council had acknowledged it had failed to obtain the
“requisite number of quotes” for “at least nine significant
transactions” under the project.
“The failure to apply the
procurement policy … reflects a practice or pattern of conduct resulting
in a substantial mismanagement of public resources,” he said.
“Given
the scale of the project and the fact that there was a failure to
comply with the procurement policy on a significant number of occasions,
I consider that mismanagement to be substantial.”
In a statement,
published in the council’s April 9 meeting agenda, Mr Sweetman said he
accepted findings that he had committed misconduct.
“I also
acknowledge that I failed council in ensuring that the correct processes
and procedures relating to obtaining quotations for goods and services
regarding the construction of the marina entrance,” he said.
But he said he did not agree with Mr Lines’ “assumption” that the council may not have received value for money.
“I
do not feel that the Ombudsman fully appreciates the difficulty in
procuring goods and services with rural regional areas where the number
of suppliers for certain products are limited,” he wrote.
“Both council and I acted in the best interest of the community in relation to … the project.”
Mr Lines has given the council until May 3 to report on steps it has taken to improve its policies.
***...wow...(indeed, wow, findings of "Maladministration" against the Robe Council, and "Misconduct" and/or "Code of Conduct" specifically against CEO Sweetman, relating to "mismanaged public resources", but no action to be taken it appears-Ed)...wow...(you've already said that-Ed)...sure, but I just don't know what else to say, Lines actually identifies Maladministration but there's no action...(mmm, it's all rather reminiscent of Lines' farcical investigation of Mt Gambier's former Mayor Andrew Lee, who used Ratepayer's money to travel to China where he did personal business, including involving the purchase of a South East winery-Ed)...ahhh yes, we blogged about that too...(indeed we did, including where Andrew Lee repeatedly straight-out lied about his meetings, etc, and his failure to declare his winery purchase and the resultant income, etc, etc, etc-Ed)...all proven and no action from the Ombudsman or the farcically corrupt SA ICAC...(and in the context where a deeply traumatised father of a child abused at St Martins Lutheran School, tells the truth about a farcically deceitful pseudo-investigation of Mt Gambier City Council by ICAC in 2013-14, and is then subjected to more than 3 years of openly corrupt "bizarre trial", receives a Criminal Conviction for telling that truth, and is fined $540,000-Ed)...hey, that's me...(indeed it is, another rancidly corrupt attack on the 'Whistleblower'-Ed)...yeah, and I'm gunna' have a wild stab at it and suggest that the 'Whistleblower' identified in the above article is Mr Peden, again...
Gunna' finish here and continue on this topic tomorrow, or maybe even later today, see how I go, 'cos there's been a bunch-a-stuff in the media, including a truly bizarre Letter To The Editor from the new Robe Mayor...(I'm particularly keen to 'un-pack' that timeline where-in it looks like Roger, whilst under supposed investigation, again, has been the official Returning Officer for the November 2018 Local Government Elections, and then allowed to 'resign' before this report was released and any action has been taken, etc-Ed)...well that's just the ludicrously corrupted Local Government Election Process in SA, but it doesn't look like there was ever gunna' be any 'action taken' anyway...(well quite, it's a fundamental cluster-farce, from start to finish and everywhere in between-Ed)...and there have been 'issues' with that Election process as well, but I can't imagine they'll ever get appropriately investigated...(if investigated at all-Ed)...6 of 1, half a dozen of the other...
But if you want to get this perpetual Robe farce into context, please to be accessing the South Australian Ombudsman's Report page on their website, and read the truly incoherent justification that Wayne Lines has to offer for not taking any action against the former Pt Pirie Mayor...(which is?-Ed)...yeah sure Mayor Johnson has engaged in Insider Trading and/or Conflict of Interest and/or Maladministration by awarding a Council contract to a company he works for, etc, etc, but I'm not gunna' take any action 'cos he's not running for Council again at the November 2018 elections...(seriously?-Ed)...read it for ya'self...(so, metaphorically speaking, sure I used to rob banks, but I don't do that anymore so I should be excused of any prosecution?-Ed)...like I said, read it for ya'self, it's a classic case-study in just what a joke the SA OPI/Ombudsman/ICAC is, a structure designed and functioning to protect and excuse the Institutionalised Corruption and attack 'Whistleblowers', etc...
Tomorrow: More Robe Probe Farce
A shortish post today, but lots of homework for y'all dear availees, namely, checking-out that post from 19th February 2018 about my mate Roger 'Whim and Fancy' Sweetman, and the post about Wayne Lines' farcical pseudo-investigation and bizarre exoneration of former Mt Gambier Mayor Andrew Lee...(is that Lines Clearly Defines Fine Line By Clearing Lee, of 16th January 2018?-Ed)...yep, that's the one, where-in Wayne explains that Andrew startled the "fine line" defining 'corrupt conduct' by rushing right up to it and stamping madly there abouts, but that fleet-footed Andy never actually quite crosses that line...(now that's some fancy footwork indeed-Ed)...indeed...oh, and of course there's that Ombudsman's Report about the Pt Pirie Mayor...(mate, I've read that through 3 times, and it doesn't get any less hilarious, if anything, once you realise that you're not stone-cold tripping and have imagined the whole thing, the true hilarity really sets-in-Ed)...well you've always had a rather bizarre sense of humour Ed, but I take your point that it is indeed extraordinary to the point of hilarity...
Anyhoos, I am Nick Fletcher and this here is my blog, and that there is my confected literary device Ed...(cheersy'all-Ed)...and until next post, cheers and laters...
Howdy dear availees everywhere, and humblest apologies for this very brief interim post, but I have been very unwell...(physically and mentally-Ed)...well indeed, and I've found that even trying to blog has been very confronting and traumatic...(is this tied into the counselling stuff you're currently doing?-Ed)...in part, absolutely, as helpful as some of it has been, it has also been incredibly confronting when re-hashing the many traumas of the past 16 years of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and being re-assessed in terms of what a devastating impact that has had on me personally...(let alone the impact on the dozens of 7 year old kids abused by "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, and those kid's families, etc-Ed)...and how it's affected my perception of our society and Mt Gambier, etc, etc, all that stuff...(so if the counselling's so bad for you, why do it?-Ed)...let me answer that in 9 parts...(oh gourd no!-Ed)...nah nah, just kidding, 2 main reasons...
Firstly, I was 'ordered' to do this by Corrections SA who flatly refused to accept my Disability Support Pension diagnosis and repeatedly demanded that I get "a more current one"...(and what's happened with all that stuff about your rankly, definably corrupt 'Trial', and the bizarre 'Conviction' and $540,000 fines what was changed to 260hrs of Community Service, and the changed ICAC legislation, etc, etc?-Ed)...nuthin'...(nuthin'?-Ed)...nope, still trying to 'Appeal', no-one returns my emails or phonecalls and I've heard nuthin' at all from Corrections for nearly 6 months...(and what about those multiple SAPol (police) visits to your humble abode in November/December 2018 and all of that harassment about supposedly breaching the "reprehensibly vile" Final Intervention Orders, etc, etc?-Ed)...nope, nuthin'...(nuthin'? but what about those repeated statements about how "you'll receive a Summons in a coupla' months", what about that stuff?-Ed)...yeah, sure, that's what I was told on 2nd November 2018 and again on 27th December it was "a month", but I've heard nought since...(wow-Ed)...
And then there was also all that stuff about how I had to submit to a DNA Swab and Fingerprinting or else I'd be arrested and forced to submit, etc...(ahhh, I'd forgotten about that-Ed)...so apparently have SAPol...(oh I don't think they've forgotten, I just think that were caught-out lying and harassing and intimidating you, and when called-out on that stuff, they've just withdrawn to re-draw their plans and to find new and exciting ways to harass and attack you-Ed)...and there's plenty of people who think exactly the same as you Ed...(you for example-Ed)...yeah, but I think all your stuff, what with you being a confected literary device and all...(fair enough-Ed)...but I believe that you are correct in so much as SAPol have definably lied so much in this FIO Breaches process, that to attempt to pursue that issue is just making huge problems for themselves...(eg, why insist on videoing you when it suits them, but failing to do so when they are lying about the DNA stuff-Ed)...a perfect example Ed, only exacerbated by their bizarre claim on 27th December that now they didn't need to do that Swab, etc, because my DNA and Fingerprints are supposedly "already up on the system"...but we digress...
I'm doing counselling because it was demanded of me by Corrections SA who refuse to accept my DSP situation as "current enough", but secondly, I have previously engaged positively with counselling and managed to achieve some positive advancement...and that's how I've explained it to said Counsellor, '1) I'm here because I have to be, and 2) I don't believe that there's a single thing you can do to change the realities that cause me such trauma, etc, and thirdly, given how I and other families have been so relentlessly betrayed by people claiming to helping us, I find it fundamentally impossible to trust you...(wow, way to endear yourself-Ed)...sure, but I very carefully explained my position, eg, what Hawkins Clinic did to me to destroy my 'Trial', at the behest of the rankly corrupt Magistrate Ian White, where-in my "Medical Certificate" was retracted/discounted in my absence and my medical details discussed at length in Open Court, to then be reported on the rankly corrupt ABC South East Radio and The Border Watch newspaper...across several appointments, my Counsellor has shown the maturity and good-grace to respond specifically to my initial statements, accepting the veracity of my position and motivators, and accepting my included repeated apology that none of it is their fault...
Regardless, I have found the process incredibly confronting because I am being asked to consider and accept the traumas and consequences that pursuing the St Martins Cover-up have had on me personally...and they are effectively absolute and definably unrelenting...and that brings us directly back to the undisguised Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution of my rankly corrupt 'Trial' and subsequent corrupt 'Conviction', etc, etc, all motivated by a corrupt Parliament and corrupt Police and corrupt Judiciary's desire to punish me for speaking-out about the St Martins Cover-up...which then leads directly to the one topic I really did want to cover today, the TV program, Crime Investigation Australia - The Family Murders...on telly just this week, please search it and view it, it explains exactly what South Australia is...(I thought you said it was a giant crock-a-shizzle designed and aired to obfuscate and deny the high-ranking connections to the Family Murders?-Ed)...no no, that was the ludicrously corrupted farce City of Evil starring The Advertiser newspaper's Sean Fewster and Nigel Hunt...(ah, I was gunna' say, because you stomped all over that particular piece of absolute bollocks-Ed)...indeed I did Ed, and it's exactly what it deserved, it was a deeply cynical and corrupt piece of propaganda...
Crime Investigation Australia - The Family Murders looked to be headed down that exact same path, blaming Bevan Von Einem as the sole perpetrator, etc, but it suddenly did a huge 180 and slammed-down a series of absolute and damning truths in the last 15-20 minutes...a parent told by SAPol that they couldn't touch the real perpetrators because they were 'too powerful', etc...a brother of a victim stating that Adelaide is the centre of global paedophilia, etc...statements about the realities known that there were many others involved and undoubtedly many more 'undiscovered' victims, etc...the murder of witnesses, etc...I was stunned to see a lengthy interview with Ms Wendy Utting, currently still pursuing The Family Murders and other issues of SA's Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption, and formerly one of the Child Protection Advocates involved with former Speaker Peter Lewis and the notorious 'Paedophile Dossier' released by his office in 2005, etc...(was that the stuff that named high-ranking paedophiles and led to that bizarrely corrupt 'Defamation/Treason Trial' stuff that we've discussed in several posts?-Ed)...that's the one Ed, but previously we've chosen to exclude her name because we were unawares that she was still involved in this stuff, had moved-on, etc...(wasn't it Ms Utting whom you were with that time that that rat-fink Nigel Hunt rushed at her in the Parliament House courtyard, threatening to "expose" her, etc?-Ed)...yeah, when I thought she was being attacked again, and I went within a hair's-breadth of body-slamming him into the side of the building, etc...
Please dear availees, watch this program because it exactly defines what I and other St Martins families have been fighting against, a rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt Lutheran Church colluding with a willingly complicit Pro-Paedophile South Australian Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary...(is this program so different to that City of Evil dross because it was produced outside of South Australia?-Ed)...dunno', but even as you ask that question, it rings so very very true...again dear availees, as disturbing and SA-disgraceful as this program is, please watch it...if it is likely to cause you discomfort and trauma as it has me, please be sure to have some sort of support-person with you or easily accessible...
Tomorrow: Hopefully The Recreation Centre Corruption Stuff
And I say 'hopefully tomorrow' because I've just suffered through a chronic tooth/gum infection, have had to do a course of antibiotics, etc, and am lookin' down the barrel at a double extraction early next week...usually I can motivate myself with all that stuff about being grateful to be here to whinge about it, etc, now nearly 15 years after all that Chemo, etc, and how lucky I am to still have all my front teeth, etc, but losing more teeth is still really unpleasant in the moment...and now not far from requiring some sort of back-denture, it brings into sharp focus 2 issues, namely, 1) as widely discussed, why isn't all Dental Care, a critical aspect of general health, why isn't Dental covered by Medicare?...which leads directly on to 2) dentures are not covered under the Public Clinic system, so how is someone on a Support Payment or Minimum Wage, etc, meant to cover the minimum $300-$400 for a basic partial denture? what if you need extensive denture work running into $1000s?...what do these people, including many 'Working Poor' and pensioners, etc, what do they do? suck food for the rest of their days?...
I refer to this in the context of this week's Federal Budget, farcically claiming a 'Surplus' based in-part on under-funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme, etc, and the Liberal/National Party's relentless demonising of the Unemployed, Pensioners, etc, and the cynically dysfunctional National Redress Scheme for Child Abuse Survivors, etc, etc, etc...contrast this with those like our Allowance-Guzzling politicians and non-taxpaying 'Franking Credit' retirees and non-taxpaying corporations, etc, and ask yourselves who is that is really the burden on this deeply broken nation we cannot rationally call The Lucky Country...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
