Howdy dear availees in Germany, the UK, Poland, and Ukraine, and y'all back here in dear ol' Oz...again, brief apologies for the latest blog-break, but instead of my own personal malaise*, it was pretty-much all due to technical and/or financial complications...(please explain-Ed)...oh, just needed new Interweb security program and then new Windows to run that, then a new wifi dongle 'cos that wouldn't work otherwise...(ah, so new stuff needed and the cost of that-Ed)...exactly, combined with the complication of not really knowing what I'm doing with this 'ere computer box thingy so there was some serious stuffing-about whilst figuring-out exactly why stuff wasn't working, etc...and it's also been a short, sharp reminder of my personal precarious position on the Disability Support Pension, a 'Welfare Payment' relatively well-above the Dole (Unemployment Benefit)...(if you say "the best form of welfare is a job", I'm a gunna' job you mate, and when I say 'job', I mean punch you fair in the snout with absolute prejudice-Ed)...and fair enough, I'd thoroughly deserve it mate...(and of course, being a confected literary device, that is a metaphoric punch in the snout-Ed)...of course, that's a given mate, and dear availees understand that, as they also understand my Personal Gentleness, and that what I'm about to say is a metaphoric venting rather than a statement of absolute intent...
(**got a bit ahead of myself there...started this post early Saturday then collapsed into a draining slump for 2 days, and have literally forced myself back to this 'ere keyboard this morning (Monday)...no apologies for that, I'm doin' the best I can, and I do appreciate the continued support and requisite patience of regular availees, cheers...**)
The next smug, smirking, bigotted, self-righteous, happy-clapping, god-botherer who gets all up in my grill and shizzle and says "the best form of welfare is a job", is gunna' get slapped silly...(even sillier than they already are?-Ed)...if that's actually possible, yes...(and you are of course referring specifically to that serial smirk-fest looking for somewhere to happen, our illustrious Prime Minister Scott 'Scummo' Morrison-Ed)...well certainly, starting with him and working on down from there, but the one I saw/heard repeatedly yesterday was that trite piece of work Michaelia Cash viciously spitting it through those bitterly thin lips...(a truly despicable display from a thoroughly unlikeable person-Ed)...indeed...and just to completely clarify the metaphor, I ain't condoning or suggesting or anything else any acts of actual punching and/or slapping, it's an expression of disgust and frustration directed at these bigotted, entitled half-wits who get paid a base-rate $200,000pa, plus other expenses, with a Daily Sitting Allowance that is more per day than a full week of the Dole and can be spent/claimed whilst staying at their own properties in Canberra, etc...(and that's not even including chauffeured cars, rorting 'office funds' to refurbish private properties, printing allowances, etc, etc-Ed)...indeed, there's a long list...but it ain't just these two clowns, across the board the Liberal/National Party are spewing this disingenuous bigotted bile...
And before y'all contest that statement by saying, 'But what about Barnaby Joyce? he's calling for an increase', I'd ask you to consider just exactly how genuine he is...(or isn't-Ed)...my point precisely, ask y'allselves what it is that actually motivates our serial-rorting mate Barnaby to have this sudden epiphany and abruptly switch direction on this issue...(it almost looks like he's trying to generate some sort of sympathy with his alleged new-found empathy-Ed)...indeed, or at the very least distract away from any of the multiple rorting issues that define his conduct in Federal Parliament...(and I'd suggest that it's exactly the same with former PM John Howard, it's a farcically disingenuous distraction from the reality of who he is and what he's done previous-Ed)...agreed...anyhoos, we digress, and whilst I do fully intend to re-visit this ongoing issue, today I've promised the Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre, the FARC, and so today dear availees, that's what you're gunna' get...(at last! hoo-shreckin'-ray!-Ed)...okay, sure, I've promised it many times, but here we are at last...now the problem is, where to start?...(to the beginning!-Ed)...make it so...
And so, from the beginning, I was rather bemused to see The Border Watch newspaper include in it's bit that they do about stories from years gone by, under 25 Years Ago, this;
"July 25: Mount Gambier ratepayers will pay a minimum of $360 this year and contribute
a total of $5.7m to City Council's budget. Among the major projects for City Council is
work at the Aquatic Centre, providing for the development of a new 25-metre, eight-lane
indoor heated pool, costing $1.35m."
...(and there in the same TBW issue, Tuesday 23rd July 2019, under 10 Years Ago-Ed)...;
"July 30: Mount Gambier's main corner is now just a pile of rubble and the city is poised
to usher in a new era for it's inner city landscape. The former 50-year-old RSL building
has been completely demolished as part of Mount Gambier City Council's multi-million-
dollar vision to revitalise the main corner."
...indeed, the Main Corner debasco, another MGCC triumph...ooo, and under 1Year Ago;
"July 27: The city's political leaders have vowed they will not lobby state and federal
governments for funding for the proposed $40m Mount Gambier Indoor Sport and
Recreation Centre unless a poll determining ratepayer support is undertaken."
The Far Gone FARC:...(snigger-Ed)...like that one do you?...(snigger snigger-Ed)...anyhoos, 25 shreckin' years ago MGCC was gunna' do an Indoor Pool, and Mt Gambier Ratepayers are well aware that successive Councils have repeatedly trotted-out the same issue/plan/promise as-and-when it has suited them...it's not necessary to delve too far into that stuff though, because the blatantly obvious reality is that nuthin' has ever been done about it, that all the pretty talkin' was deliberately disingenuous and didn't amount to a hill-a-beans...(let alone a new pool-Ed)...so let's jump from 25 Years Ago to only 3 years ago, when I was in the public gallery at the MGCC Full Meeting where-in they voted to officially and permanently remove the ' Indoor /Covered Pool Issue' from Council's agenda...(gone?-Ed)...solid gone daddy-o...(well like far out man-Ed)...far out and far gone...(completely far gone gone-Ed)...hey! that's my rude pun-play on words!...(yeah yeah, but the point being, MGCC officially voted to remove the 'Indoor/Covered Pool'-Ed)...indeed they did, and as further proof of that decision, I offer the absolute absence of any mention of any 'Aquatic Centre' of any description as part of MGCC's various farcical 'Plans' for Mt Gambier...not in their '5 Year Plan', or their '10 Year Plan' or any of their other Agendas/Plans/Strategies...not diddly-squat not nowheres...
I was therefore somewhat stunned to see/hear in early 2018 that MGCC were suddenly considering an ' Indoor/Covered Pool', supposedly in response to a ground-swell of public interest/activism...(but I thought you said that it was entirely generated by Federal Liberal Member for Barker Tony Pasin as as an excuse for pork-barrelling self-promotion ahead of the May 2019 Federal Election-Ed)...yeah, what you've repeated is my mere observation of the reality, as opposed to what I've quoted from MGCC...(ahhh, of course, but I thought you also said it was related to the March 2018 State Election-Ed)...I did and I still do...(and also related to the November 2018 Local Government Election-Ed)...absolutely, any reason why it cannot be a multi-facetted, multi-election Liberal pork-barrelling manipulation?...(well, when you put it like that-Ed)..at the very least, it offers multiple opportunities for Liberal Party self-promotion...(that it does-Ed)...and it works equally well as a distraction away from the gross failures and/or rank corruptionings of all involved...(hmmm, yes, it works so well on so many levels-Ed)...and when-and-if it goes ahead, it'll continue to work best for the corrupt interests involved...("when-and-if"? I thought it was a done deal, fully funded and going ahead full steam-Ed)...well that's what they'd have you believe...(you don't sound so sure-Ed)...I have my doubts, and I'll explain them laters...
And MGCC have been actively manipulative and deliberately deceitful in their relentless promotion of the FARC, not afraid to engage in ludicrous minutiae or bombastic fear-mongering...(well hurrah-Ed)...and the very main culprit is/was MGCC's former CEO, your friend and ours, Mark 'Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans' McShane...(are you talkin' about his multiple appearances on ABC South East Radio in the lead-up to the farcical Postal Vote?-Ed)...yep...(starting with relatively calm and rational discussion about the general alleged positives for Mt Gambier's economy, supposed increased tourism, etc-Ed)...yep, starting from his statements about what were potentially genuine albeit none-realistic issues, but then moving to one discussion where the sole motivation became 'Obesity Concerns' and how this FARC was all about the health outcomes/welfare of Mt Gambier residents...(but there's already several gyms and multiple other fitness groups and/or options available in Mt Gambier, eg, walking the iconic Blue Lake Circuit-Ed)...exactly, personal fitness is almost entirely a matter of personal motivation and dietary control, etc...but then literally the next week it was a mildly unhinged rant from McShenanigans about how 'Mt Gambier will die if we don't do this'...(yes, that was an almost desperate plea for support that one-Ed)...it was/is a deliberate hyperbolic scaremongering...
This extended agenda of media manipulations was accompanied by a heaped side-serve of Citizen Guilt Shaming...(you mean the relentlessly inferred and often blatantly unabashed direct statements from McShenanigans and his colleagues that if you don't support this you're a bad citizen who doesn't want to see positive things happen for Mt Gambier?-Ed)...exactly...(hey! that's us! we're wholly malicious nay-sayers who just oppose everything and/or complain about stuff because we love to hear the sound of our own keyboard!-Ed)...yes, well, I appreciate your deeply facetious sarcasm, referencing as you are the MGCC-led campaign to belittle and discredit me and this 'ere blog, but there's plenty a' people, some of then regular availees, who know exactly what motivates me and how I conduct myself, etc...(sure, but that's not stopped some people who do know, it hasn't stopped them from attacking you/us as being the only genuine problem...and you know of whom I speak, maliciously corrupt stooges like former MGCC Councillor Josh Lynagh-Ed)...yep, indeed, I've copped more than my fair share, but there's a far wider-ranging campaign to guilt and/or denigrate anyone who has questioned let-alone actually opposed this FARC nonsense...
And this media saturation led us all to the truly ludicrous and massively expensive Public Postal Vote...(what I don't understand is, why, when MGCC and Pasin, et al, were repeatedly stating that this was a project that everyone had wanted for years and wanted now more than ever, etc, etc, why then the need for a massively expensive Postal Vote via a supposedly independent third party?-Ed)...well, a cynical person would no doubt be looking to try and find out which Councillor's relative owned that supposedly independent agency and received that huge commission...(ahhh-Ed)...and whilst I'd be surprised if that weren't the case, regardless, it's my belief that this was first-and-foremost about Plausible Denial of Responsibility when the whole thing goes balistically pear-shaped and blows-out to $50-$60million...(riiight, so that Pasin and MGCC, etc, can all deny it's their fault and instead throw it back on Ratepayers by saying 'you's all voted for this, this is what you wanted', that sortta' thing?-Ed)...exactly...and my Plausible Deniability concerns were further defined when MGCC voted to proceed with their Federal Funding Application at a Special Meeting on Wednesday 23rd January 2019, but held that vote in the absence of 1) Mayor Lynette Martin, and 2) Councillor Ben Hood who was/is the head of MGCC's 'Hub Committee', and 3) a third Councillor whom I'm not allowed to identify due to those "reprehensibly vile" and wholly corrupt Final Intervention Orders as issued by Magistrate Ian White...
This would seem a good point to remind dear availees of those Pro-Paedophile Politically-motivated FIOs that Magistrate White himself introduced at the second-of-three bizarre 'Verdict/Sentencing Hearings' of February-April 2018, FIOs that he issued on 20th April 2018 without a single word of explanation, FIOs that are purely about trying to stop me discussing the rank corruption of all involved, particularly MGCC and the ABC South East and SAPol, and that deliberately effectively ban me from attending any MGCC meeting and potentially any local public political meeting/gathering, and bans me from contacting the ABC South East, etc...and if anyone considers that I am somehow being in 'Contempt of Court' for identifying these FIOs as being corrupt and politically motivated, etc, simply go back and look at the posts from that time where-in I've thoroughly covered these deeply worrying realities about the gross mis-use of Judicial powers and FIOs, etc...(what's happened about those multiple 'CoC' threats by Magistrate White and the associated Anonymous Threat Letters from the Crown Solicitors Office?-Ed)...nuthin'...(nothing? since April 2018?-Ed)...nope, not a thing...(well apart from those multiple SAPol attendances at ya' home in November-December 2018 when they kept harassing you about supposed breaches of those cynically corrupt FIOs-Ed)...well sure, apart from that, but that's all covered in posts from that time too, and I've also heard nothing about that stuff since that last SAPol visit on 27th December 2018...
Anyhoos, these FIOs mean that I haven't been allowed to attend a MGCC meeting since April 2018...and I gotta' say that, whilst it is 1) a grossly corrupt mis-use of FIOs, and 2) it completely infringes on my rights as a citizen to attend public meetings, etc, and 3) it drastically compromises my ability to have direct access to and therefore report on a great deal of MGCC's various shenanigans, not least of all because of the appallingly inaccurate and/or very selective reporting of TBW, but also due to MGCC's propensity for censoring and/or outright changing their Minutes...(did someone say Rank Institutionalised Corruption?-Ed)...well quite, but despite all that entirely unacceptable shizzle, I comfort myself with knowing 1) I have done what I could when I could, for many years, often attending more meetings per year than most Councillors, and 2) I genuinely do not miss having to walk into that room of corrupt stooges and sit there in silence as they conduct their collective stoogery...(it's a small mercy though, considering the weight of the other issues of corrupt FIOs and denial of attendance and therefore information, etc-Ed)...indeed, it's a wafer thin silver-plated lining on a vast cloud of corruption...but again I digress...
Re-Birthing Pool:...whilst there's a degree of 'My Personal Opinion' about the true motivation for the sudden re-birth of the 'Indoor/Covered Pool'...(sure, but I reckon you're actually pretty close to the mark-Ed)...whatevs, but when it comes to The Funding Issue, here's where we look at the direct deceits and manipulations by the Liberals and/or MGCC...(but I thought you said that MGCC is literally a Liberal-controlled stoogefest looking for somewhere to happen-Ed)...of course Ed, you are again correct, I did say that and continue to say that, absolutely MGCC is partisan Liberal...and the current Member for Mt Gambier, ICAC-induced Independent Troy Bell is formerly a Liberal...("ICAC-induced"? I assume you're referencing Mr Bell's resignation
from the Liberal Party whilst their serving Member for Mt Gambier, after he was
charged by the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption-Ed)...well I prefer 'Insidious Commissioner Assisting Corruption', but we quibble over terms...and of course Tony Pasin is a former MGCC Councillor...it is unquestionably definable that this particular project is Liberal-controlled...(well it's entirely Liberal funded, except for the undefined amount that MGCC Ratepayers are gunna' get saddled with-Ed)...and that's where the definable lies and deceits become evident...it's really very simple, and I have covered this several times in previous posts...
But having dropped that teaser, I'm gunna' pull stumps on this 'ere post 'cos 1) I've strayed a bit from the topic...(surprise surprise-Ed)...fair enough, but 2) there's still so much to cover that it may take another coupla' posts to cover it all...we'll close today with this li'l gem from MGCC's Special Meeting...(as identified at the top there-Ed)...ah, so it is, well then, it won't take dear availees long to find that Agenda and Minutes and peruse it all for ya'selves...(orrrr, not homework-Ed)...only if you want to, but it's well worth a read...I'll just identify this bit for being exactly what it is, a less-than-subtle threat-manipulation to withhold any-and-all potential funding if Ratepayers chose to vote 'No'...(so, you're a bad person if you vote No, and you won't get a red cent either-Ed)...yep, abuse, threats, bullying, and intimidation...(classic MGCC-Ed)...well it's certainly been my experience of them...***
Special Council Agenda -23 January 2019 Federal Government Regional Growth Fund Full Business Case Endorsement Page 5 of 11
It is important to recognise that the proposed funding available from both the Federal and State Government (pending assessment of relevant documentation) is a very significant vote of confidence in the region and is the highest level that has ever been considered for this region for any purpose.
It is also important to note that the funding from government sources of $15 + $10 Million cannot be used for any purpose other than the proposed Community and Recreation Hub and if Council does not determine a pathway forward for meeting the funding shortfall then the whole of the $25 Million will be lost to this region. This means that all of the proposed economic, construction, employment, sport, health and community wellbeing benefits the Community and Recreation Hub will contribute to, will not come to this region. In addition, Council will need to consider it’s position after being given a strong mandate for progressing the project via the 72% yes vote in the Community Survey.
***...this is only one of several forms of the same threat, but I don't know that it gets any more obvious than that...(indeed, 'vote Yes or else'-Ed)...then followed by the deliberate deceit that "72%" of Ratepayers voted Yes...but we'll cover that in detail next time...having read through that whole Agenda/Minutes, I urge dear availees to do the same, there are some extraordinary things in there that MGCC have carefully kept very quiet...(like where they admit that MGCC Ratepayer's contribution will be at least $13.75m, not the $10m they keep referring to-Ed)...and how that directly identifies the outright lies from McShenanigans and/or MGCC about where Council intends to get that otherwise unfunded $5m shortfall...(so many lies, so many manipulations-Ed)...like I said mate, classic MGCC...
Tomorrow: The Mt Gambier Gaol Conspiracy
Not happy to just outright lie to Mt Gambier residents about what does and/or doesn't happen, our charming State Parliament now pretends to quietly acknowledge the realities we are all aware of, but continues to lie and deceive about those realities, a deceit fully endorsed and supported and engaged in by Mt Gambier City Council...(how so?-Ed)...this farcical shizzle about Mayor Lynette Martin writing to the government to supposedly get clarification/information about what really happens with the functioning of the gaol and release of prisoners, etc, like MGCC doesn't know already...(well maybe it's not a deceit, maybe she doesn't know, maybe she's completely oblivious to the realities that surround her-Ed)...mmm, good point Ed, and it wouldn't be the only issue I'm sure...(exactly what I was thinking-Ed)...I thought it might be...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
(*PS: Please to be ignoring that 'Tomorrow' bit what I writ earlier before realising just how much space and time the whole FARC thing was gunna' take...that MG Gaol stuff will be the next issue, but only once we've gotten up to date with all the FARC stuff...*)
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