Our Bestie Brews Slander, Part II

Howdy dear availees in Lithuania, Estonia, France, and India, and to y'all everywhere else, bonjour mes ami, bon soir, bon chance...again I am personally stunned that yet another week has skunned past...(sorry? "skunned"?-Ed)...yeah, from the dim, dark recesses of my distant childhood, usually applied to describe the rather un-ceremonial removal of several layers of skin from one's elbows and/or knees, usually as a result of some sort of spill, usually from a push-bike or running 'round a schoolyard, usually on asphalt or gravel, etc...(ouuuuuch, just the thought of that gives me the shivers-Ed)...indeed, as it likely will anyone who's had the displeasure of that experience...anyhoos, it perfectly encapsulates how I feel I'm semi-functioning at the moment, dragging through days, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, feeling more than a li'l bruised and battered, and just a wee bit sorry for myself...(and always with plenty of skin left in the game-Ed)...beautifully put sir, I do have plenty of skin in The Game, and I've left plenty behind to boot...and again, I ain't particularly seeking sympathy, etc, but it's just a shout-out to those who do struggle a bit...(and often with good reason-Ed)...well quite, that's my point, people often do have good reason, and here's some of mine...

I know I owes y'all a post about the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(and one about the Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre malarkey-Ed)...sure, but I'd just like to do a quick post rounding-out what we covered in the immediate previous post, 'cos it appears that I have not explained clearly enough my well-proven concerns with the deeply compromised, nay wholly corrupted South Australian version of an Independent Commission Against Corruption...(allegedly-Ed)...sorry?...(allegedly 'Independent'-Ed)...well that's the concern, isn't it...(the only concern?-Ed)...hardly, and that is itself further cause for concern...so, having referred dear availees to the previous post...(and the several other posts we've done about ICAC issues-Ed)...absolutely, but apparently not specifically enough for some, so let's look closely at what exactly our ICAC is and/or does...and again, I'll make reference to the specific cover-ups of governmental corruption and/or failures, eg, the Gillman Land Sale, the Oakden Nursing Home issue, etc, but we're gunna' stick to my very personal experience of how corrupt the SA ICAC is...

After repeatedly witnessing extraordinary corruption within Mt Gambier City Council, including Nepotism, Insider Trading, and Conflict of Interest, in September 2013 I reported some of these specific issues/incidents to the Ombudsman and our local State government representative, Member for Mt Gambier, Don Pegler...because of the concerns I already had about the implementation and structuring of SA's ICAC I deliberately tried to avoid it/them, but unfortunately the 'catch-all' spider's web nature of ICAC legislation demands that any such report/complaint must be forwarded to the OPI/ICAC...through September-October 2013 I was frequently in contact with the Office of Public Integrity and/or the ICAC, and I was repeatedly 'warned' about the 'Confidentiality Clauses' of ICAC legislation...this included me repeatedly requesting a clarification/explanation of the bizarre one page 'Information Sheet' OPI/ICAC sent me several times, which 'explained' nothing, rather, it just had a copy of the legislation itself, namely, Section 56 of the ICAC Act 2012...(a copy of the legislation, but no actual explanation of it?-Ed)...exactly, and to fully understand why an explanation is required, here again is that specific Section 56...

56—Publication of information and evidence

	A person must not, except as authorised by the Commissioner or a court hearing proceedings for an offence against this Act, publish, or cause to be published—
	(a)	information tending to suggest that a particular person is, has been, may be, or may have been, the subject of a complaint, report, assessment, investigation or referral under this Act; or
	(b)	information that might enable a person who has made a complaint or report under this Act to be identified or located; or
	(c)	the fact that a person has made or may be about to make a complaint or report under this Act; or
	(d)	information that might enable a person who has given or may be about to give information or other evidence under this Act to be identified or located; or
	(e)	the fact that a person has given or may be about to give information or other evidence under this Act; or
	(f)	any other information or evidence publication of which is prohibited by the Commissioner.
	Maximum penalty:
	(a)	in the case of a body corporate—$150 000;
	(b)	in the case of a natural person—$30 000.

...and as I repeatedly requested/challenged in September/October 2013...(and repeatedly in Court too-Ed)...indeed, anyone, please, please define that ludicrous nonsense...(well what the shreck does "tending to suggest" mean, let alone "may be"-Ed)...well quite, when I contacted ICAC, I stated that this Section 56 effectively demands that no-one ever says anything about anything because it 'might' end-up in ICAC, and was told "well go with that"...when I cross-examined that person during my "bizarre trial", he admitted that he hadn't actually read that 'Info Sheet' when he pseudo-advised me about it over the phone...(and still hadn't read it before appearing in Court, even though that's exactly what SAPol (police) Prosecutions had him there to give evidence about-Ed)...yep...(strewth mate-Ed)...just another classic incompetence from SAPol Prosecutions...(and he was also a former cop-Ed)...as were most of SAPol's witnesses, 6 of their 9 'witnesses' were SAPol or formerly SAPol...(wow-Ed)...and Sec 56 is so ridiculously undefinable that Don Pegler himself met with the then Labor Attorney General li'l Johnny Rau and OPI/ICAC, then wrote to me on 1st October 2013, stating,
    "I have been in discussions with the Attorney General, OPI and ICAC about what information
      MPs can give their constituents when they make complaints. It appears that Sec 56 of the act
      is ambiguous and quite wordy and not clear enough on confidentiality. This will be a fairly
      common occurrence..."

Right from the off, and repeatedly through-out, I questioned and challenged that cynically Fascist piece of dross known as Section 56...many times during my "bizarre trial" I requested/demanded/challenged that someone actually define it, but no-one ever did...(not even Magistrate White?-Ed)...you are joking aren't you?...(absolutely, that was a festeringly-facetious jibe commenting on Magistrate White's openly complicit contribution to your Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution-Ed)...well that's alright then...anyhoos, as I proved in Court, ICAC pretended to investigate MGCC by meeting with me at Metro Cafe (October 2013), for an unrecorded and undocumented 30 minute chat, held within clear earshot of other cafe patrons...(now that's what I call confidential, 'just us and the rest of the English-speaking world are to know'-Ed)...indeed, that line borrowed from Blackadder perfectly describes it...this fake investigation was so 'confidential' it was held in a cafe...ICAC also 'spoke with' the then MGCC CEO Mark McShane in a corridor of the Adelaide Convention Centre, and again nothing recorded or even written down...and that was it...ICAC's investigation of multiple Corruption issues involving MGCC, a 'formal investigation' of multiple issues within an entire Council, was 2 unrecorded 'chats' held in public places, and not one question put to the Corrupt public officials concerned...(well apart from McShane himself-Ed)...oh yeah, fair call...

That farcical cafe chat was enough to tell me that ICAC had absolutely no intention of appropriately investigating MGCC, and I was hardly surprised when I received an ICAC letter, 13th January 2014, with my Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Commissioner Bruce stating that;
     "All of your allegations have been carefully investigated by my office under my direction.
       Investigators from my office travelled to Mount Gambier and met with you and other
       relevant persons.
       No evidence has been located to substantiate any of the allegations."
...as I proved in Court, "carefully investigated" is an outright lie, as is "other relevant persons" and "no evidence"...(well you provided Don Pegler and the Ombudsman with a copy of MGCC's own Minutes clearly identifying multiple issues of Gross Corruption regarding the Old Hospital Demolition, and ICAC stated in the cafe chat that they had that copy of those Minutes-Ed)...indeed they did Ed, whilst refusing to accept the copy I was pushing across the table at them...and having waited months for this corrupt ICAC farce to play-out and conclude in exactly the manner I had predicted, I then addressed these ICAC lies on this 'ere blog...

When SAPol Anti-Corruption Branch raided my home on 7th/8th May 2014, as part of ICAC/SAPol's 'Operation Baritone' that miraculously just 'started' sometime in mid-February 2014 and was about me and this 'ere blog...("was"? still is for all we know-Ed)...well indeed, given that no-one's ever identified an end-date...anyhoos, I went to the South East Community Legal Service (May 2014), and their first action was to write to ICAC Commissioner Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander...(twice, due to Bruce's dismissive non-answers to their first letter-Ed)...yep, specifically asking,
 1) what does 'To publish' mean, because, "...(it) has not been defined within the act."
 2) "Is he entitled to talk to his family and friends so that he can gain their support..."
 3) "...is he allowed to talk to a lawyer for the purpose of legal advice and assistance?"
...to which Bruce eventually responded with an official ICAC 'Authorisation', allowing me to speak with a lawyer, my family and/or friends, and a medical practitioner...I remind regular availees that at this time I had not actually been 'Charged' by SAPol...to just review all that...

In May 2014, with my very own ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone', but not actually 'Charged' with anything yet, I 'required' official ICAC permission to speak to my family, friends or a doctor, and arguably most concerning, written permission to even speak with a lawyer.  

I further remind dear availees that my mate Bruce then colluded with his mate li'l Johnny Rau to introduce a 'To Publish' definition to the ICAC Act 2012, via the November 2014 ICAC Miscellaneous Amendment Act, a fact that Magistrate White tried to ignore in Court in February 2018, even when I repeatedly confronted/challenged him about it...(ignored until he was embarrassingly outed in The Border Watch newspaper later that week-Ed)...indeed, when he suddenly produced two Addenda acknowledging my claims that I'd been prosecuted under the wrong definition, etc, but dismissing it all as 'irrelevant' and 'Convicting' me anyways...I was tried and 'Convicted' using the definition from 'Defamation Law', as identified and questioned in those SECLS letters...(wow, just like a real Court-Ed)...there was also another 'Amendment' to the ICAC Act in 2016 that specifically states that an 'accused' can get legal advice, confirming that the original ICAC Act 2012 barred me (or any 'accused') from speaking to a lawyer...(and more wow-Ed)...the original ICAC Act 2012 went through SA Parliament with that ludicrous Sec 56 (above), deliberately not defining any of it, and with the resultant criminalisation of legal advice/representation...and that right there is Fascism...I urge dear availees to Google search those Amendments for y'allselves, read those realities for y'allselves...    

And that, that definable Fascism, that's why it is so important that I carefully explain the rank corruption evident in the structure and conduct of SA ICAC...it is specifically designed and legislated to shut-down any appropriate discussion and/or investigation of the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines SA, and to threaten, and scare 'Whistleblowers' into silence, and if that doesn't work, where necessary, to persecute/punish/prosecute anyone who speaks-out about that Corruption...(well that's exactly what's happened to you, you spoke-out about the rank Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption you have witnessed with the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and the conduct of the rankly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, etc, and you have been relentlessly officially attacked for doing so-Ed)...exactly, and there's plenty a' people involved in both St Martins and MGCC, hence the necessity for the ICAC to shut-down any appropriate review of MGCC and protect those who have helped protect the Lutherans/St Martins and/or the broader Pro-Paedophile Corruption that rules South Australia...

(I mean, what the shreck is goin' on in this sad, sick state when ICAC/SAPol instigate a full 'Operation Baritone' and a 3+year 'trial', etc, and change ICAC legislation, etc, and all about some rabidly punitive obsession with gettin' some dude and his humble li'l blog?-Ed)...indeed...(in a context where they've got 2 chats-worth to investigate mind-numbingly obvious corruption in MGCC, but a literal, actual fortune to come after you-Ed)...yep...(it's almost like what you say in this 'ere blog is such a factually accurate discourse of the Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines SA, that 'Operation Baritone' and the associated brazenly corrupt "bizarre trial", etc, it's the only way they've got to attack you about it-Ed)...well quite...and that's why my rankly corrupt 'Conviction' is such a disturbing and critical development, it ratifies the openly Fascist ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 without actually defining what any of it means, meaning that it means whatevs ICAC/SAPol/Government wants it to mean when and as it suits them, openly criminalising Free Speech, and furthermore quantifies the retribution for daring to speak-out at the maximum possible of $30,000 per 'Count', for anyone, including private citizens...

The ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 is solely about threatening and silencing 'Whistleblowers' and/or journalists, anyone who would speak-out about any sort of Corruption in SA, and punishing those who do...I'll say it again 'cos some people do seem to struggle with the reality,
                           this is unambiguous text-book Fascism
 ...what does it say about South Australia when the supposed monitor 'against Institutionalised Corruption' is definably the most 'Corrupt Institution' in the State?...(Language Warning: well what it says is that we're all  right royally fucked, that's what it says, End Language Warning-Ed)...spot on, we are done like the proverbial dinner...and of course, further recent changes now puts Bruce, mate...(maaate-Ed)...in charge of complaints about the Judiciary and Police, with the same Section 56 restrictions attached...so if you make a complaint about the Legislature (politicians/public servants/etc), and/or the Executive (police/public servants/etc), and/or the Judiciary (judges/Courts/etc) it all falls to Bruce, and it can and will be duly buried beneath the 'Confidentiality Provisions' of that Fascist legislation...(yay-Ed)...so who you gunna' run to when the North wind blows?...(whaaa?-Ed)...it's just an expression, you know, when the metaphoric hits the fan, who you gunna' go to to sort it out?...(exactly, who?-Ed)...damned if I know...

Tomorrow: The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up

Of course, whilst the St Martins Cover-up is definitively illustrative of the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption of South Australia, the corruption evident in ICAC and it's deliberate dysfunctionings completely compromises any potential action on more good ol'-fashioned grass-roots issues of 'Vanilla Corruption', eg, the extraordinary corruption evident in the Grant District Council's re-zoning of Heavy/Light Industry lands on Millicent Rd so that the (then) serving GDC Councillor who owned that site could build the now-empty Bunnings complex there, and sub-divide the remainder into Residential zones, etc, thusly and completely rooting appropriate Zoning all around Mt Gambier, for ever...(and of course MGCC and GDC then colluded to change Council Boundaries to bring all that re-zoned land into the City of Mt Gambier, a rezoning process that saw former MGCC Councilor and current Liberal Member for Barker Tony Pasin get some very favourable re-zonings done specifically on his properties-Ed)...like I said mate, good ol'-fashioned grass-roots corruption...(yay-Ed)...and of course Tony is intimately complicit in the St Martins Cover-up too, both originally as a MGCC Councillor, and now even more specifically as a Member of Federal Parliament who regularly pops-by to hand the Lutherans yet more cash for their precious shreckin' school...(all just mates lookin' after mates, mate, so what if it's riddled with Child Abuse Corruption?-Ed)...indeed, certainly seems to be Tony's attitude...

And I was deeply dismayed but hardly surprised to learn that the many of the same players who were involved in that definably corrupt GDC Re-Zoning Debasco (debacle/fiasco), are now also involved in the very questionable approval and construction of a 'truck stop' petrol station on the city side of the Heavy Traffic route designed to divert trucks away from Mt Gambier...(but won't that truck stop mean trucks will miss the turn-off for that route and end-up in/near Mt Gambier instead?-Ed)...indeed...I'll open with a more detailed account of this next post, but it's another classic instance of who ya' gunna go to to address this? ICAC? good luck... 

I am Nick Fletcher, and I may be a very broken and very, very angry man, but it just seems to be that that's what it takes and that that's what someone needs to be...(and apparently that someone seems be thee-Ed)...it ain't nuthin' but a thang...anyhoos, see y'all back here next time for that St Martins Cover-up review...(and until then?-Ed)...well, y'all Speak Truth To Power...(solidarity brother-Ed)...sure, and beyond that, well, it's just cheers and laters...

Our Bestie, The Insidious Commissioner Assisting Corruption

Howdy dear availees in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Germany, and Japan, and here in Oz, and welcome to a post about the latest ICAC farce...I again note the flurry of views of the St Martins Cover-up posts on this 'ere blog, and don't apologise for effectively avoiding the issue, despite the fact that I've recently promised a post about it...(and you haven't finished the stuff about the Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre yet either-Ed)...how come when everything's great you say 'us', but when there's a problem it's always 'you', namely me...(well, just refer to the end of the next paragraph for a full explanation-Ed)...fair enough, I will, but first, I think this is very important...

A Shout-Out To Limestone Coast Protection Alliance And/Or Lock The Gate Alliance:...and any associated or similarly-minded groups or individuals, regarding the proposed 'Farm Protection' legislation, both Federal and State versions...(and by shout-out we mean dire warning-Ed)...indeed we do Ed, 'cos I recently heard a LCPA or LTGA (sorry) member on the ABC South East Radio discussing the proposed SA legislation, and stating that this legislation doesn't apply to them because they 'act respectfully and don't go trespassing onto properties', etc...(but the Federal legislation goes well beyond any actual physical acts, very concerningly specifically referring to "sedition" and "incitement", as we extensively covered in the previous post-Ed)...indeed it does and indeed we did...'sedition' is just a weazel-word to wedge in the door that very quickly can become 'treason' if the enforcers so desire, or at the very least 'Contempt of Court'...(ahhh, Contempt of Court, our old friend, along with that other ol' pal 'Defamation-Ed)...indeed...(so many threats, so little actual actioning-Ed)...well quite...(they're such a great way to threaten, intimidate and harass people-Ed)...as indeed they've been frequently used against me personally and/or TMGI...(why does no-one ever threaten me? I'm feeling rather left out thankyou very much-ED)...yeahhh, I'm fairly sure it's because you're a confected literary device utilised to create discussion, set-up jokes, etc, and not actually an actual person...(well that would explain it, sure-Ed)...anyhoos...

Combined with 'incitement', 'sedition' can be very easily defined as words and/or actions to encourage someone to act against the authority of the State, and equally easily applied to someone who, for example, writes a blog that exposes, say, the corruption of 'Authorities', a blog that someone else reads and then acts upon, eg, protests, etc...and given the legislation, there doesn't need to be an 'effect', just the cause...that is, just reporting something or discussing something or exposing something, etc, effectively and specifically any sort of 'journalism' can be prosecuted even if no-one reacts or responds to it, that 'report' itself becomes illegal...(mate, in that context I'm surprised we haven't been done for sedition and/or incitement, particularly how we've ripped into and duly exposed the rancid Pro-Paedophile Corruption of South Australia's Legislature, Executive and Judiciary-Ed)...well we've been threatened with 'Defamation' and/or 'Contempt of Court' often enough, and my wholly corrupt ICAC 'Trial' is unambiguously Official Institutional Retribution for exposing that Pro-Paedophile Corruption...(yeah, fair point-Ed)...and careful what you wish for mate, next thing ya' know we'll have the jolly ol' Australian Federal Police 'round here kickin' the door down because we've exposed the rancid corruption of various Federal politicians...(and the rank corruption of the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission, don't forget the rank Pro-Lutheran Corruption of the FCARC-Ed)...never forgotten mate, never...but we digress...

I have not read the proposed SA State legislation but I heard SA Liberal Nick McBride in that ABC interview make numerous comments aligned with the Federal Liberal's argument/alleged rationale, and after identifying 'farm invaders/trespassers', etc, he specifically referred to "other protestors", and that catch-all phrase is designed to do exactly that...(catch all?-Ed)...precisely...and that puts people like the LCPA and LTGA, etc, right in the firing line...all it takes is for you's lot to print/circulate/discuss any info that might call into question the propriety of governmental actions and/or policies, etc, and/or for someone to do something supposedly inspired by your info, and/or for police to say 'move on' from a protest site outside of a 'farm property', etc, and you are subject to these neo-Fascist controls...(got to say mate, given that you've been booed and jeered and scowled at, etc, just for attending meetings and/or protests by these groups and expressing a dissenting opinion, eg, about Wind Turbines, it's mighty generous of you to jump to their defence in this way-Ed)...generous got nuthin' to do with it mate, this to me looks exactly like another raft of Fascist control following on from the rank Fascism of things like the SA ICAC Act 2012, AFP raids on journos, etc, etc, it's part of a broader removal of Civil Rights by corrupt politicians...(well when you explain it like that-Ed)...again, how I explain it is basically irrelevant given that what I say is correct...
  
And why am I so fired-up about this 'Farm Protection' legislation stuff?...(because you're a very angry man lashing-out at Authority as a way of dealing with your traumas?-Ed)...oh well, okay, sure...(albeit that the vast majority of those traumas have been foisted on you by the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption that dominates and defines South Australia's alleged 'Authorities'-Ed)...well that's the absolute point isn't it? and I repeat, to me this 'Farm Protection' stuff is just more Fascism, like I said, following-on from all of the rank Fascist corruption I have personally been subjected to via the ICAC Act 2012...and it doesn't just end with the rankly corrupt ICAC, because just today I was forced to withdraw an official complaint about a specific SAPol matter because I received the Office of Public Integrity 'Fact Sheet', that included 'Confidentiality Clauses' that are exactly the same as the ICAC Act 2012, Section 56...(noooo??!!-Ed)...yep, identical...(what, all that ludicrous nonsense about discussing anything "tending to suggest" that someone "may be" subject of an investigation or report, etc, etc?-Ed)...yep, exactly identical...if a private citizen lodges an official complaint about SAPol with the OPI, then that person is subject to the rank Fascism of the ICAC Act 2012 Section 56, and at the mercy of the rankly corrupt ICAC Comm Bruce Lander...(look out, Language Warning-Ed)...sorry?...(FAAARRRKKK meeee! End Language Warning-Ed)...fair enough...

And I remind dear availees that my bestie Bruce, that's him there below, he conspired with Labor's Attorney General li'l Johnny Rau to change the ICAC Act in November 2014 to include a definition of 'To Publish', specifically addressing the enquiries from my Legal Eagles (June 2014) and to allow for me to be retrospectively prosecuted, starting February 2015...(and changed it again in 2016 to address/include the specific issue also raised by your Leagles about 'is our client even allowed to speak to a lawyer?'-Ed)...indeed Ed, the original ICAC Act 2012 made it unlawful to speak to a lawyer, and that blatant Fascism was in place for at least 4 years, including whilst I was being prosecuted...we've covered this stuff at great length in previous posts, and I refer dear availees to those posts, but here's a brief reminder of the undefinable lunacy of Section 56 of the SA ICAC Act...
   
56—Publication of information and evidence

	A person must not, except as authorised by the Commissioner or a court hearing proceedings for an offence against this Act, publish, or cause to be published—
	(a)	information tending to suggest that a particular person is, has been, may be, or may have been, the subject of a complaint, report, assessment, investigation or referral under this Act; or
	(b)	information that might enable a person who has made a complaint or report under this Act to be identified or located; or
	(c)	the fact that a person has made or may be about to make a complaint or report under this Act; or
	(d)	information that might enable a person who has given or may be about to give information or other evidence under this Act to be identified or located; or
	(e)	the fact that a person has given or may be about to give information or other evidence under this Act; or
	(f)	any other information or evidence publication of which is prohibited by the Commissioner.
	Maximum penalty:
	(a)	in the case of a body corporate—$150 000;
	(b)	in the case of a natural person—$30 000.

     
...and that's the exact wording of the OPI/SAPol 'Confidentiality Clauses'...(wow, that is some seriously Fascist bullshizzle right there-Ed)...ain't it though...mind-numbingly Fascist control mechanisms to quash and deny public discourse and hide the Institutionalised Corruption in SA...and I remind dear availees that Bruce is now ICAC Commissioner, Judicial Conduct Commissioner, and Police Conduct Commissioner, meaning that if you lodge any sort of official complaint about Public Servants, Politicians, the Judiciary, or Police, etc, etc, then y'all are at subject to the tender machinations of Bruce and his ICAC Act 2012... 

And then I just happened to happen uponst this li'l gem...("uponst"?-Ed)...and not in the Adelaide/SA media, but coming outta' Melbourne/Victoria via the ABC website , below, and via another website, The Mandarin, dated 10th September 2019, below that...if this has been reported in SA I ain't seen it and I ain't found it after searching the Interweb, so if it's there somewhere but I've somehow missed it, I can only apologise...this here is what I did find...***

Renewal SA worker becomes first public servant charged with breaching ICAC secrecy rules

Updated 9 Sep 2019, 2:09pm
Photo: ICAC investigations must stay secret unless Mr Lander gives permission for publication. (ABC News: Nick Harmsen)
A former administrative employee at Renewal SA has become the first public servant charged with breaching secrecy provisions covering investigations by South Australia's Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC).

Key points:

• A 24-year-old woman from Paradise is accused of disclosing information about an ICAC probe
• She is the first public servant to be charged with breaching ICAC secrecy laws
• Separately, a 40-year-old prison employee has been accused of corruption
  

Commissioner Bruce Lander has publicly revealed that a 24-year-old woman from Paradise is accused of receiving and disclosing information without being authorised to do so, knowing that it was connected with a matter involving an ICAC investigation.
She has been charged under Section 54 of the ICAC Act, which prohibits such disclosures, unless the person is authorised in writing by the commissioner, or by a person approved by him.
It will be alleged that disclosures were made on four separate occasions in September 2018.
The commissioner's office has confirmed that the woman was the first public officer charged with breaching the ICAC Act's confidentiality provisions and the first person ever to be charged with breaching the Section 54 provisions.
Renewal SA is a government agency responsible for urban development, and the woman is expected to appear in court in October.

***...and this from The Mandarin...***

SA public servant charged with breaching ICAC confidentiality law

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Source: Getty Images

A former employee of Renewal SA has been charged with illegally disclosing information about an investigation by the state’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC), Bruce Lander.
In September 2018, the woman — who worked in administration — allegedly received and shared information connected with an investigation by the ICAC on four separate occasions.
The disclosure was a violation of Section 54 of the ICAC Act. The 24-year-old is the first person to ever be charged under the confidentiality provision.
In September last year, SA Attorney-General Vicki Chapman appeared to breach the same rules by indirectly confirming the head of Renewal SA, John Hanlon, was under investigation by the ICAC.

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After being questioned about why Hanlon and another executive were suddenly on paid leave, Chapman issued a public statement saying she had asked Lander if she could say any more about the matter. She quickly withdrew her statement, and Lander stayed silent over whether the secrecy provision had been breached.
“The ICAC Act is designed in such a way that a person [who is] the subject of a corruption investigation ought not suffer reputational harm until such time the person is charged,” Lander said in a statement at the time.
“The very purpose of an investigation is to collect evidence. The fact of an investigation is not proof that corruption has occurred. Corruption investigations must be conducted in private. I think that is appropriate.”
The woman has been summonsed to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on 22 October 2019.
Meanwhile, Lander has also revealed that an employee of the company contracted to operate the Mount Gambier Prison has been charged with accepting a bribe or corruption of a public office.
The 40-year-old man allegedly accepted a “benefit” from someone after bringing contraband into the prison sometime between 31 June and 10 July 2018.
He will also appear in court next month.

***...and I'd best correct myself in that I might have previously said that this stuff with Vicki Chapman was directly related to the "Malicious Prosecution" of my "bizarre trial", etc, etc, under the truly bizarre and undefinable ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 (a) and/or (b), etc, etc...(well I think it was also reported in those terms in other places, namely Section 56, etc-Ed)...would you mind checking for me pal?...(ummm, well here's the official statement from SAPol (police), as taken from the ABC website, dated 28th February 2019-Ed)... 
      SA Police confirmed the matter has now been referred to DPP Adam Kimber.
         "Commissioner [Grant] Stevens has sought and been provided with authority from
           the deputy [ICAC] to make public comment concerning the allegation that the
           Deputy Premier breached section 56 of the Independent Commissioner Against
           Corruption Act, 2012,"
       police said in a statement.
...well cheers mate, but that doesn't exactly clear up the confusion does it?...(sure, if anything it just serves to highlight the vastly ludicrous and undefinable nature of the ICAC Act 2012 and associated Amendments, and the ensuing confusion for all concerned, including the media, the Attorney-General, SAPol, etc, etc-Ed)...indeed, it's as farcical as it is Fascist...

Tomorrow: That St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up Review

In the context that there continues to be many recent views of previous posts about the St Martins Cover-up...(yeah I saw that, seems that the title of the last post has re-re-stirred what was already re-stirring following the George Pell Appeal-Ed)...indeed, and apparently the St Martins Cover-up has re-surfaced as a topic of conversation in some areas of the community...(do you mean within Mt Gambier City Council?-Ed)...well, as I understand it, you and/or I and/or our li'l tome here, good ol' TMGI, we're apparently quite a regular topic of conversation within MGCC, and it certainly could be that that extends to the St Martins Cover-up I s'pose, ya' know...(let's pretend for a moment, just for the sake of argument, that I don't know-Ed)...well, I do hear bits and pieces from here and there about this and that, and that might possibly have included MGCC and the St Martins Cover-up...(and would that be because so many involved with MGCC are insidiously and directly complicit in the St Martins Cover-up?-Ed)...well that'd be my guess, sure, guilty consciences don't take much pricking...(and you're just the perfect prick for the job-Ed)...I like to think so...     

I am Prick, I mean Nick Fletcher and this 'ere is my blog...cheers and laters...

The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, A Review

*** A Post-Script Preface Apology:...(nah nah, let me guess, we ain't gunna' get anywhere near the St Martins Cover-up stuff?-Ed)...yeah, sorry, and also it's been 8-9 days since the last post, again...it took me 3-4 days to put this together and was proof-reading last evening and just hit the metaphoric literal wall and had to come back to it today, and I still ain't necessarily that happy with it...(sure, it's not ya' greatest work, but it's ok, and there's much to be said for the fact that you've kept on keeping on and have produced something at all-Ed)...cheers, and that's how I choose to look at it...anyhoos, here's what I've managed to come up with, albeit not exactly what I'd set-out to cover...***

Howdy y'all dear availees in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, and Ireland, and welcome to a rather disjointed post...still staggering forward in that teeth-gritted, head-down, leanin' into the perpetual gale sortta' way, know what I mean?...just last week I wrote about how counselling and/or medication can cause as many problems as they can address, and so it was that I had that exact conversation with someone who is formally medicating for issues of Depression and Anxiety, etc, and they openly stated that they'd rather not be doin' that, but that it was better than not being medicated...(three steps forward and two back?-Ed)...yeah, sortta', and we discussed how we both found Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to be fundamentally flawed and deeply problematic...(because of the inherent inference that if it doesn't work for you, then you're the problem?-Ed)...precisely, I for one completely reject the premise that if you think good thoughts everything is gunna' be peachy...(yeah, I reckon CBT's a little more complicated than that-Ed)...is it though? is is really?...(but I take your point that it's simply not gunna' help with people who either have a genuine 'chemical imbalance', or as you do, multiple genuine issues of a massively traumatic and wholly unresolved nature-Ed)...mmm, fair enough, but I also had that conversation with someone else about how counselling can drag you back into traumatic memories and how just thinkin' positive thoughts, etc, ain't never gunna' cut it...(all reasonable points, in context-Ed)...well, as we like to say here at TMGI, it's all about the context...

And today I was gunna' plow head-down into another deeply depressing dissection of the deliberate disaster that is the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and we're sure-as-shreck goin' there, but I have noticed that there's been a recent surge in View Numbers on that exact topic on this 'ere blog...(do tell-Ed)...well I just did, seems I ain't the only one for whom the St Martins Cover-up looms large in wake of the current media shizzle-storm about the Conviction/Appeal of that charming chunck-a-humanity George Pell...I've also had feedback about certain conversations and/or incidents where the St Martins Cover-up has been front and centre...(say what?! I thought this was supposed to be all about us!-Ed)...well yes, conversations that included discourse about this 'ere blog and it's contents on the subject...(I should jolly well think so!-Ed)...and also had some feedback about how I'm a drug-f***ed self-obsessed/selfish person...(there's no pleasing some people-Ed)...whatevs, my conscience is clear, and anybody who thinks that what I do here is about big-noting myself, about self-aggrandisement, etc, then they're gettin' the cart to shove the horse just one more time...(whaaa?-Ed)...in that I take enormous pride in what I have achieved via this 'ere blog and how I've stood my ground against that aforementioned howling gale of Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption...(despite being a drug-f***ed self-absorbed person-Ed)...exactly, one doesn't exclude the other, and in that context, my faults and failings as a person only further highlight the extraordinary strength and commitment I have demonstrated time-and-again...(albeit at a massive personal cost, mentally, physically, financially, and all the other 'allys'-Ed)...absolutely, that's a defining part of it...

That Fine Line Between Committed And Should Be:...and yes, I know I've used that line before, but if the cap fits, well...(and well you're quite correct, it's sometimes a staggeringly fine line between showing commitment to an issue and being obsessed to the point that one oughtta' be committed to an institution-Ed)...and so I choose to take all that trauma and the personal baggage and pile it all into that cart and suddenly it ain't such a burden...(whaaa?-Ed)...well, as confronting and traumatising, etc, as all this has been and still is and looks set to remain, despite all that, for all the times I've stumbled and/or staggered and/or tripped and/or fallen, each-and-every time I've managed to gather myself back-up and go again...(and so here we are after 6 1/2 years of TMGI, some 17 years into the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)...indeed, and that right there is badge of honour that I've earned and proudly wear in clear view on my sleeve...(right there next to your heart-Ed)...sure...but we digress dear friend and dear availees, so here's some quick observations before we hoe into the St Martins quagmire yet again...

It's All About Context:...when our illustrious Prime Minister Scott 'Scummo' Morrison holds-forth about how he's showing strength and protecting the children of Australia from a paedophile predator by having that criminal deported back to wherevs...(and the hypocritical context please-Ed)...that the self-same Scummo will happily stand next to his Pentacostal Pray-Pal Brian Houston as they praisingly wave their hands at the ceiling...(given that Brian has been exposed for covering-up the paedophile abuses of his father, the founder of said Riversong Church?-Ed)...exactly, when it suits Scummo and his agenda of demonising predominantly non-White immigrants, he's all piss-and-vinegar about protecting the kiddies, but when it's his preachy mate in the frame, all is forgiven and/or forgotten...(or at the very least very conveniently ignored-Ed)...such a convenient context...and the same for Home Affairs Minister Peter 'Spud' Dutton...when he's raging against 'illegal immigrants' like he is with the Sri Lankan family from Biloela, Queensland, currently residing in lock-up on Christmas Island, etc, he's all about Border Security and Appropriate Process, etc, etc, but if you're one of his mate's 'au-pairs' then you're in like Flynn, coupla' quick phone calls between mates, sorted...(maaate-Ed)...and most contextually for me, that family has done everything Spuddo and his mates bleat about being important...(when it suits them-Ed)...exactly, that family has integrated into the community and both the kids are Australian-born, etc, etc, but all that's conveniently ignored by Spuddo &Co...

Thar He Blows:...and whilst Spuddo and Scummo et al Co, whilst they're all screeching about 'Border Security' and 'Illegal Boat Arrivals', etc, they very conveniently ignore the many thousands of 'illegal' people arriving via plane...(I saw a report quoting 80,000-Ed)...indeed, I saw the same report, and as I understand it, the Liberal/National Party aren't refuting that claim, but whatevs, it's the broader context I'm referring to about the obsession with demonising 'Boat People', but where 'Flying People' are all okeydokes...and it's been a regular statement from Spuddo and his mates that 'We Don't Discuss On Water Matters', but then, in the middle of the furore about this Sri Lankan (Biloela) family, suddenly Spuddo's front-and-centre in the media bangin'-on about how a boat full of Sri Lankans has just been intercepted and turned back...(gee, it's almost like he was trying to distract away from the Biloela family fiasco, whilst simultaneously reinforcing the idea of what a champ he is when it comes to all things Border Security-Ed)...your biting sarcasm is duly noted, because no-one trusts him except the willingly ignorant...(and there's plenty of those-Ed)...unfortunately true, but there's many more who see this for the blatantly political opportunistic stunt that it clearly is...this is purely about demonising the vulnerable for political advantage, offering the ignorant and selfish a suitable, supposedly justifiable focus for their anger and greed...       

And it's the exact same LNP Agenda of Demonisation that's evident with the current 'debate' about allegedly helping the unemployed and/or drug addicts with the Debit Card and Mandatory Drug Testing and associated Forced Rehabilitation...(this whole thing is an absolute crock of crocodile tears from Scummo and the LNP, they don't give a rat's fat clacker about these people, this is purely about identifying convenient targets and demonising and dividing, etc-Ed)...that's exactly what I'm saying...(the Debit Card is solely about targetting the unemployed and stigmatising them for political advantage, whilst simultaneously pouring money into the pockets of the 'providers', it's the same strategy evident in the Tertiary Education fiasco of recent years-Ed)...absolutely it is, exactly that and so very much more to boot, issues like piss-poor Health Provision in Rural/Regional Oz, particularly Aboriginal communities, so much more in fact that we'll have to re-visit this issue in the next post or two...but here's something that's really been grindin' my gears and is directly related to the Debit Card issue, failures of Service Provision, etc, and the abject refusal to appropriately recognise and empower Aboriginal peoples in the Australian political structure... 

A Hall Of Mirrors:...if we're gunna' spend a ludicrous $50million on celebrating Captain Cook, etc, and an obscene $500million on expanding the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, largely in political glorification of the wars that Australians have served in as minions to the British and/or American Empires...(you mean like at Gallipoli in 1915 when Australians and New Zealanders and various other nationalities were sent in to distract the Turkish army so that British troops could be landed elsewhere without opposition, all as part of British Empirical aspirations in the Middle East?-Ed)...indeed, and that truth don't sound quite so grand when you put it like that...(what, you mean when it's put truthfully?-Ed)...indeed, and I say that because I had a great-grandpa who landed with the New Zealanders at Gallipoli in April 2015 and was wounded there, and both my grandfathers served in WWII, one a New Zealander who served as a pilot in the RAF during the Battle of France/Britain and then in the Pacific with the USofA, etc, and was awarded the DSO and a Military OBE, etc, and the other, a teenage Scottish immigrant who was in Australia only a few short years before he was back across the globe in the trenches of Tobruk with the AIF, and then Malta/Crete, then in New Guinea, etc, a classic larrikin-type who was frequently promoted but as often busted and demoted, etc, etc...my ancestors have given me the right nay obligation to continue their oft-stated position that war was nothing but good men lost for no good reason...so, if we're gunna' build commemorative monuments to those who fought in wars for Australia, then best we include those who have been killed in the wars fought on this ground after Europeans officially invaded this country in the late 1700s...

Graphic Content Warning:...every person has every right to celebrate and commemorate their family and friends or their comrades-at-arms, and to acknowledge their service and their sacrifice and everything else that is a part of this experience...I have discussed this before, but if I may, my AIF grandpa, at Tobruk, his best mate was killed on their first night when they got lost and strayed right  into German lines...the rest of his unit managed to scrap their way back to the Aussie positions, then spent 3 days fighting their way back again to their fallen comrade to retrieve his body...Pops grabbed the body by the feet to drag back into the ditch where his mates were providing covering fire, but the decaying feet came away in his hands, and they were forced to gather his remains in a blanket, etc, all while under fire...the man's body was repatriated to Australia and that man's family wrote to my grandpa after the war and thanked him for returning their son to them...just stop and think about that for a moment, the man's family wrote to say thank you...I've lived with that story all my life and it still floors me just to think about it...my father was named after that man, and my father and I share the same middle name of another of Pop's fallen comrades...that sort of extraordinary courage should be commemorated and never forgotten, and in that context, we as British and Europeans and Chinese and Whoevs else, we came to this land and attacked and killed those peoples living here, we waged war against those peoples in their lands, those peoples we call Aboriginal...

And so it is absolutely appropriate that any monument to acknowledge and commemorate War should have an entrance area that literally forces people to enter the building through a chamber dedicated to the unpleasant realities of what has happened right here in Australia...when it suits them, our politicians cynically manipulate the service of Australian men and women, upto and including the Darwin bombings of WWII...(and the attack on Sydney-Ed)...yeah, that too, but especially Gallipoli Kokoda, etc, etc, etc...we've all heard it, we've all seen it...and they'll even go as far as to praise the service of Aboriginal people, even identifying that up until the mid-1960s Aboriginal people were serving a country that didn't legally recognise them as humans, all this when it's politically expedient, but when it comes to empowering and respecting Aboriginal people in a genuine political and/or Constitutional manner, not a bloody chance...(and we do a lovely thing where we trot-out Aboriginal heritage when it suits us at sporting finals, etc, but again, no genuine acknowledgement of Aboriginal peoples' situation in communities, etc, or action to politically empower them, etc, etc-Ed)...indeed, and regular availees will be well aware of my personal position on all of this stuff, namely, I acknowledge the life of relative privilege and luxury that I live simply for being born White and a Man in this Stolen Land...(hear hear!-Ed)...

And so I genuinely believe that, given we're spending that $500m, that we should incorporate an entrance that clearly and effectively educates people as to the realities of the occupation of Australia, then covers the role of Aboriginal peoples in the Armed Services, etc, and then moves onto other issues of service and sacrifice, etc...(would you include education of the many massacres of Aboriginal peoples?-Ed)...absolutely, war is war and any loss of life in that context is worthy of acknowledgement, eg, would you not consider the multiple organised massacres in Tasmania to be acts of war?...(mmm, fair enough-Ed)...and any similar deaths of settlers, etc, identify it all and educate our kids, and quite a few adults I'm sure, educate everyone as to these realities of our very recent 'White' history in Australia, an Aboriginal history that dates back thousands of generations...as confronting and unpleasant as some of those realities surely are, owning this part of our collective history can only benefit everyone involved...      

DILLIGAF:...in most cultures this is an amusing anagram based on a premise of selfishness and disinterest, namely, Do I Look Like I Give A F***...(nice one man-Ed)...well it ain't actually mine...(it's right up there with FIG JAM, F*** I'm Good, Just Ask Me-Ed)...well quite, but here in good ol' Oz we've completely re-defined DILLIGAF to mean how we have completely screwed-up our own highly illegal efforts to use our 'Security Services', at the behest of our Foreign Minister, misused those Services to spy on the Parliament of a supposed close ally, so that the aforementioned Minister could get commercially advantageous information on behalf of a global corporation he was basically working for, and indeed did work for immediately post-politics...(well I know exactly what you're talking about, and actually that's quite clever, but you may have to explain it a bit for the dear availees playing along at home-Ed)...absolutely, and the game we're playing? it's called The Fascism Of the Corrupt LNP Government...(oh I love this game-Ed)...well you oughta' 'cos you're standing in it mate...confused dear availees? please bear with me...this of course refers to our recent discussion about that Prize Piece of Political Pomposity, former Liberal Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and how he used Australian security personnel to bug the East Timorese Parliament in the capital Dili during deliberations about mining rights in the Timor Sea, etc, etc, and did so basically on behalf of Woodside Petroleum, the company that Downsie mate went to work for when he hissy-fitted his way out of Federal politics...(what a guy-Ed)...indeed...

And that absolute and illegal bastardry was of course exposed by Witness K, a former security official/agent, and duly denounced in the Hague, etc, etc...(and then Witness K and his lawyer were raided and charged by the AFP, etc, etc, the LNP's rankly Fascist retaliation for having their corruption publicly exposed-Ed)...indeed, all the whilst doubling-down on that initial bastardry by trying to justify that persecution with empty and definably false claims of 'breaching national security', etc, etc, and, dare I say it, etcetera...it's an unmitigated screw-up of global proportions, a multi-levelled internationally embarrassing indictment of the insular, institutionalised corruption and increasing Fascism of the LNP, and that's why this incident/situation is exactly our very own version of, wait for it, the Dili Gaffe...(phew, that was hard work, but we got there eventually, the Dili Gaffe, nice one man-Ed)...yes, as embarrassed as I am as an Australian that we, or rather Downsie mate, did that to Timor, and that we then persecute those who exposed that rank corruption, despite all of that, I'm quite proud of that appalling pun...  

Tomorrow: The St Martins Cover-up Review

Apologies, I had genuinely intended to get to this St Martins stuff today, but I've had a lotta' stuff on my chest and once I got to venting, well, you've just read the result...(nah, it's all good mate, you make some really valid points that, quite frankly, unfortunately need to be made-Ed)...cheers, but I got just one more thing to address...(go for it mate-Ed)...well, Mt Gambier City Councillor Ben Hood was recently appointed to a very senior and influential position with the South Australian Liberal Party...(Vice-President I believe-Ed)...indeed, responsible for things like candidate selection, etc...this puts paid to any notion that Local Government, and particularly MCGG, is a non-partisan environment acting in the best interests of local Ratepayers...(well MGCC has always been a corruption-riddled, Liberal-controlled cluster-f*** of Nepotistic self-interest, we all know that-Ed)...well sure, even when there were card-carrying Labor members like Jim Maher and Penny Richardson, it's always been about the Liberals and their mates and agendas, etc...(yeah, it's one thing to be a member, but surely as a paid employee of the Liberal Party, and I'm assuming there's a degree of remuneration for that position, surely that requires Ben Hood to remove himself from a paid position with MGCC-Ed)...fair point but never gunna' happen...

And no-one's surprised about Ben's promotion to a senior Liberal position, after all, he's been flagrantly flogging his indisputable credentials all over social media...(oh you mean where he was openly defending the Liberal agenda playing-out in MGCC by bullying, abusing, and denigrating an elected female Councillor on his Facebook page-Ed)...ahahahaaaahaha haaaaaa, nice one man, commenting on the LNPs relentless conduct of bullying and harassing and intimidating female colleagues and members of the Party, and relating that to Benno mates' actual deplorable conduct...this was of course part of that recent blizzard of official MGCC Councillor complaints to the Ombudsman/Office of Public Integrity, complaints that were bounced back to MGCC...(what a pathetic joke-Ed)...indeed...anyhoos, what's abundantly clear, defined by his own words, actions, and associations, is that Councillor Hood, mate, is just another nasty li'l Right Wing bully who's a big man when it comes to harassing and abusing women...(future candidate material for sure-Ed)...seems almost inevitable really...

Ahhhh, that feels better...(ya' know, if I didn't know you better, I'd reckon it's almost like you're trying to get Benno, mate, to come after you, like former Councillor Josh Lynagh used to do, so that you can then fundamentally literally eviscerate him blog-style the way you did li'l Joshy-Ed)...I can see how you might think that mate, and I'm not saying that it won't happen or that I wouldn't warmly welcome that discourse, etc, but this is purely about holding him to account for what he's actually done...(and fair enough-Ed)...

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

 

Wallowing In The Theocratic Kleptocracy Stuff

Howdy dear availees in Morocco, Serbia, Belgium, and Greece, and to y'all else all elsewhere...just a quick post today and then hopefully one tomorrow and so-on and so-forth...still coming to terms with my own deeply debilitating demi-demons of depression, and yet again quietly stunned that it's been 8 days since the last post...also realised that I hadn't adequately explained the title of the previous post, as re-visited above, so here 'tis...a Theocracy is a State run by a religion, eg, Israel is a Jewish Theocracy or Iran is a Muslim Theocracy...now that is a very specific definition that doesn't cover any of the very relevant issues of religious influence/interference in supposedly democratic systems, eg, the influence of the Catholic church in Australian politics...(or the Lutherans here in South Australia-Ed)...indeed, and I remind dear availees of the ABC Lateline interview from about 8-9 years ago I've mentioned previous on this 'ere blog, and where-in the interviewee referred to SA as a Theocracy controlled by the Lutherans...(alongside identifying Iran as one-Ed)...indeed, it was an extraordinary statement that I and other families have endured the reality of, namely the trauma of the ongoing St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...but I digress...(well not really, SA is by definition a Lutheran-controlled Pro-Paedophile Theocratic Kleptocracy!-Ed)...well, when you're right Ed, you are inevitably very, very right...

SA Is A Pro-Paedophile Lutheran Theocratic Kleptocracy:...where-in the theft includes the lives of countless children, stolen from them at the hands of the complicit SA Parliament, itself riddled with Paedophile Perpetrators...(well there's that hilarious game we play in SA, where we try to guess the name of the last State Premier who wasn't a Paedophile-Ed)...oh what fun we do have...and of course there's also the hilarity of the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission that flatly refused to even look at the St Martins Cover-up and ultimately didn't ask the Lutherans a single question...(a FCARC set-up by the SA-based Labor PM Julia Gillard, herself absolutely complicit in the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)...indeed, as Labor's Education Minister, before then setting-up a rancidly corrupt FCARC that was/is clearly designed to protect her Pro-Paedophile Corrupt mates in SA Labor and/or the Lutheran church...(yay for Julia-Ed)...indeed, and a yay for Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill and Michael Atkinson and Rory McEwen, etc, etc et al...(and haven't they all profitted nicely from their Pro-Paedophile Corruption-Ed)...and so enters the Kleptocracy, namely, Institutionalised Theft of Public Monies by Members of Government...

No Accounting For Angus:...a perfect example of this is the extraordinary corruption exposed by Ronni Salt and her colleagues via Twitter, irrefutable evidence of the relentless rorting of the Murray-Darling Water Buyback scheme by Liberal MP Angus Taylor and his family and business colleagues...(and involving former Water Minister, National Party MP Barnaby 'Barnyard' Joyce-Ed)...indeed, and Federal Parliament clearly has no intention of holding Angus to account for his multiple business involvements and off-shore accounts and associated denials, etc, etc...(or going after Barnaby, it's all just mates looking after mates-Ed)...and as part of this Federal Parliamentary Protection Racket, in rides the Australian Federal Police with media raids that suit the Liberals but no investigation of pro-Liberal leaks and assorted other dodginess...only this week it was exposed that Home Affairs Dept Secretary, Michael Pezzullo, Mikey-boy contacted AFP Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan the evening of the Annika Smedhurst raid to congratulate him/them for raiding the journo's home and ratting through her stuff for 7 hours...(bloody disgraceful!-Ed)...and a clear indicator of the complicit nature and insidiously intimidatory intent of those raids, there is a very clear agenda at play here, attack 'Whistleblowers' and silence the media...there's a plethora of 'National Security' legislation that seeks to intimidate and silence all-and-sundry, and now there's some very concerning new legislation before Parliament that reeks of that exact same agenda...

An Animal Farm Metaphor:...is more than appropriate here...(referencing the classic novel?-Ed)...yep, and how it illustrates how creeping 'Security Legislation' can deliberately quash personal freedoms and hide official corruption and avarice, etc, etc...there's been much discussion of 'Farm Invasions' by 'Pro-animal Activists' and/or other assorted like-minded protestors, and particularly about a website that lists farms, etc, and allegedly/supposedly incites trespassers, etc, etc...I'm being deliberately vague here because there's a wide range of personal positions relevant to the identification and description of these various actors and their motivations and actions, etc, etc, but the Liberal/National Party's response is to openly vilify all involved and stamp-about demanding 'tough new laws to protect producers'...(but aren't there already specific 'Trespassing Laws'  that can and should be applied?-Ed)...indeed, and that's the concern raised by many who oppose these 'new laws', why are they necessary and what's the real intent?...(good questions-Ed)...aren't they though, and questions that remain not reasonably answered and further heighten concerns raised by the wording of the proposed legislation, the Agricultural (Farm) Protection Bill...

Which Brings Us To The Meat Of The Issue:...the language and intent of the Bill...I am deeply concerned when I see the words "sedition" and "incitement" included ...("sedition"? really? but doesn't that mean, hang on, I've got it here, the Oxford Dictionary states, "conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch"-Ed)...well exactly, it blunders quite deliberately into 'National Security' and grossly over-criminalises actions already covered by other legislation...it aligns very neatly with the gross over-kill of other legislation that allows lengthy gaol terms for relatively minor breaches, eg, minor even accidental damage to government infrastructure can lead to extensive gaol time...these words are also very vague in their application and open to wide-ranging interpretation upon application...this is further exacerbated by the extraordinary 'Reverse Onus Provisions' within the legislation...("Reverse Onus"?-Ed)...yeah, you can get slammed with a charge for doing whatevs, and it's not down to the government to prove it's case/accusation, it's legally the responsibility of the slammee to prove they ain't guilty...(but that's the exact same ludicrous bastardry of the Centrelink Robodebt disaster!-Ed)...indeed it is, only with this stuff it's not just about attacking and vilifying and punishing vulnerable people who have no way of retaliating, this is even more insidious...

And insidious because it all relates rather neatly to the Ronni Salt expose of the Angus Taylor corruption...(how so?-Ed)...well, Ms Salt's work could be said to directly encompass issues of "sedition" and "incitement" because 1) it goes to the very heart of exactly how corrupt the LNP is, and therefore undermines the supposed credibility of this rancidly corrupt government...(like their own corrupt conduct doesn't do that!-Ed)...well quite, but this is about silencing exposure of that corruption...(I see your point-Ed)...and 2) Ms Salt's actions may cause others to engage in those issues and take action, eg, protest at the Minister's office or the properties involved or even just discuss on 'social media' which spreads that news, etc...now if Ms Salt is malicious or even genuinely erroneous, there's plenty of legislation that covers those issues, eg, 'Criminal Defamation', etc, but where the reportage is accurate and damning...(as with Ms Salt's-Ed)...yep, then it could be very effectively silenced by utilising the Agriculture Protection Act to sling bogus charges at Ms Salt and try to break her with years of Legal Persecution and massive Court costs, etc, in an 'un-winnable' battle to prove her innocence in the 'Guilty Until Self-Proven Innocent' climate of the Act...(and aren't we very, very well aquainted with being persecuted for years via dodgy, vague legislation and being found guilty despite the facts, etc-Ed)...indeed we are Ed, that's exactly what's happened in my "bizarre trial" for supposedly breaching the undefinable ICAC Act 2012 Section 56...

To my personal experience of the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption of Australia and my associated Political Persecution via Section 56, etc, it's a very short, thick, dark line from the Agriculture Protection Act straight to attacking and silencing people like Ms Ronni Salt and other very committed and genuine 'Activists'...and it's an equally short and thick circular line from that 'persecution'  directly back to the Game of Mates conduct of the Federal Parliament...I can't see the deeply complicit and fundamentally non-functional Labor Party doing anything to stop this very problematic legislation...and if you think I'm being overly paranoid and making non-relevant connections, just take a step back and consider the realities I have identified...yet again I'd love to be wrong, but I ain't, this is yet another plank in the raft of Fascist legislation that increasingly defines Australian politics...

Game Of Mates:...is an increasingly popular phrase and hashtag that encapsulates this Kleptocracy, the current bare-faced theft of Public Monies by a series of politicians, eg, Angus Taylor and the Murray-Darling Watergate scandal, corruption where-in the Labor supposed-Opposition just marches hand-in-hand with the perpetrators because they're all as crook as each other...(are you referring to Labor leader Anthony 'Eggs Over' Albanese and his recent statements that he's never seen any corruption in Federal politics?-Ed)...as the most obvious example, sure, but there's the entire Labor silence on a whole range of issues leading into the May 2019 Federal Election that underlines that one ludicrously corrupt statement...(you mean the way Labor didn't touch the $440m Paladin stuff or Stuart Roberts litany of personal corruptions or Peter 'Spud' Dutton's sudden and massive unexplained wealth or the farcically corrupt $420m to the Barrier Reef Foundation, etc, etc, etc?-Ed)...absolutely, there is literally a litany of definably corrupt issues that Labor barely even mentioned that defines the reality of The Game Of Mates, the current state of affairs where they're all as crook as each other so everyone's got something to lose...(and everyone's got heaps to gain, albeit corruptly-Ed)...well exactly...and this is the system of government we currently have in Australia, one of organised large-scale theft by the elected government, with the complicit support of the Opposition...

And that is exactly what we have been subjected to regarding the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, a bipartisan Cover-up where-in the SA Liberals have such a rich and recent history of paedophiles operating in their ranks that they were never going to help us hold the equally Pro-Paedophile Corrupt Mike Rann/Jay Weatherill Labor government to account...(instead they lied to you and manipulated you all by repeatedly promising support and action, etc, but always with an intention of betraying you and breaking you and forcing you all to give-up, etc, operating in absolute collusion with the rancidly corrupt Rann/Weatherill government-Ed)...absolutely, good ol' Rob Kerin and Rob Lucas and current Attorney-General Vicki Chapman, etc, etc, all intimately aware of the realities of the St Martins Cover-up and all intimately complicit...(Vicki responded to any of your emails yet, you know, about your definably corrupt "bizarre trial" stuff and trying to 'Appeal' it, and Labor and ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander changing the law so as to prosecute you, etc?-Ed)...no, no response, and I'll soon have to write again whilst fully expecting exactly the same level of corrupt ignorance...(yay-Ed)...yep, she knows exactly what the issues are and how it all stems from the St Martins Cover-up and that's why the AG and Corrections et al have been ignoring me...(because if they engage with you they're gunna' get absolutely hammered by a blizzard of bitter realities that none of them want to acknowledge-Ed)...exactly, it's all rather depressing really...       

Wallowing In Depression:...(oh nice one man, given that a 'wallow' is by definition a 'depression' in the ground-Ed)...well that was the pun I was going for, but the subject matter is genuinely serious...regular availees will no doubt remember 1) my personal issues of Agoraphobia, etc, and the Disability Support Pension, etc, and how that all relates to 2) the farcical shenanigans that the SA Correctional Services put me through back in August-October 2018...(remind me-Ed)...when Corrections refused to accept that diagnosis, etc, and demanded I get a 'current' diagnosis, etc...(oh yeah, when they refused to accept Centrelink's renewal of your DSP out until November 2020, etc, and insisted that you get a 'certificate' from a local GP, etc, not least of all because there was/is no local appropriately qualified psychologist services-Ed)...yep...(just another case of sub-standard Health Service provision in regional SA-Ed)...well quite...and that successive local GPs flatly refused to provide that 'certificate' saying they weren't qualified, etc...(but Corrections insisted that the GPs were qualified and repeatedly sent you back, etc-Ed)...yeah, and for weeks I bounced back and forward between those Correction's demands and those GP's refusals, and eventually managed to organise via the GP some 'counselling'...(I still don't understand why someone who is suffering these issues of Depression, etc, why the 'patient' is the one forced to organise this stuff?-Ed)...great point Ed, and one I regularly raised during that time...

 Anyhoos, the 'counselling' was of a very generic and minimal form, no offence to the provider...(no no, they were quite professional and respectful, etc, just that they weren't even in the ball-park qualifications-wise when it came to a new 'certificate'-Ed)...exactly, they treated me very respectfully and indeed took it very well when I politely stated my position with it all, namely 1) that I was there because I had been ordered to by Corrections, and 2) they (the counsellors) wouldn't be able to provide the 'certificate' that Corrections continued to demand, etc, and 3) ultimately there wasn't a single thing that they, the counsellors, could do to address the fundamental realities of Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption at the centre of my depression and dysfunction, etc...(yeah, regardless of how calm and polite and respectful you were in chucking that stuff at them, it's gotta' be a fairly confronting menu of professional impotence-Ed)...well quite, and they very professionally took it all on board, considered it, and responded after a coupla' sessions that they concurred, and we co-operatively worked to address relatively minor issues of diet, sleep patterns, etc...(all very valid issues with achieving general good health, mental and physical-Ed)...exactly... 

But, as part of this counselling process, the counsellor quite appropriately and respectfully challenged me on various issues/statements around my assertions about the Pro-Paedophile Corruption stuff and how it runs SA Parliament and SAPol (police) and SA Judiciary, etc...these discussions inevitably led to me re-visiting a whole range of issues/incidents that I really don't need to, and in a degree of detail that I really didn't need to, and in many respects would rather not, and that has driven me into another deeply debilitating bout of Not Leave The House Depression...again, I don't blame the counsellor, just doing what they should do, and I cannot blame them for the resultant depressive episode...(and besides, there's also been all the stuff about the Jazz Academy Cover-up, and the 17th anniversary of the St Martins Cover-up, and recently yet more stuff about George Pell, etc, etc-Ed)...absolutely true Ed, so many other issues impacting, but from my privileged position within the maelstrom, it was this counselling that has really dragged me down again...the counselling for Depression itself has proven to be extremely 're-depressing'...having discussed this with a coupla' people who have had similar experiences, I am somewhat buoyed to know that it's not my 'weakness'...(well I'd liken it to the advice/warnings that you've been given about things like addiction or adverse reactions, etc, with things like pain medication and/or anti-depressants, etc-Ed)...excellent point Ed, sometimes valid medical treatment can become problematic addiction or exacerbate psychological problems, etc...          
I canvas these topics not in search of pity or quarter, no apologies sought or given, this is simply an exercise in exorcising mine own demi-demons, but it hopefully serves also to offer empathy, support, and encouragement...as someone who has been subjected to the St Martins Cover-up, I fully empathise with the multitude of victims of the Catholic church and how this recent saturation reportage of the George Pell Appeal must re-fresh trauma and re-open old wounds, etc...just want to shout-out my support and empathy, because, relatively speaking, it's perfectly normal and absolutely ok to be traumatised and depressed by your experiences and by the constant re-hashing of those incidents/issues...(some would argue that that's part of the Pro-Paedophile Corruption stuff, constantly re-traumatising victims/survivors so that they are eventually 'broken' and give-up, etc-Ed)...well quite Ed, it's exactly what's been done to us re the St Martins Cover-up, an endless stream of empty promises and deeply corrupted disingenuous Inquiries, etc, etc, designed to cause us maximum trauma and break us and make us give-up...and that's why we're going to skip past the Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre stuff next post, and instead...  

Tomorrow: A Review Of The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up

And It's Child Protection Week:...in South Australia...again...what a sad sick joke...that's all I have to say about that...

For those dear availees whom have, like myself, been following the experiences and/or work of former Morrison Jazz Academy student Matilda Duncan on websites New Matilda and Independent Australia, Ms Duncan has a new article further exploring the funding quagmire that saw the MJA established back in 2014, just search Matilda Duncan - Morrison - medium.com...I don't pretend to understand some of it, but it's absolutely clear that 1) Ms Duncan is at least trying to be scrupulously accurate via appropriate Freedom Of Information applications, requests for comments from relevant parties, etc, albeit with apparently limited success, and 2) that many involved, eg, Mt Gambier City Council, had been acting to support and/or fund the MJA long before it was suddenly announced just prior to the November 2014 Local Government Elections...there are also clearly issues/questions to be explained and/or answered regarding how the program/contract was moved from Tennyson Woods College and the relevant $500,000 Funding Process, etc...I look forward to further articles on this issue from Ms Duncan and potential clarification/resolution of these many issues/questions...

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