Scott 'Promo Scummo' Morrison - A Study In Lies, Propaganda, and Ideological Hatred

***pardon moi, started this post 3 weeks ago, so it's a bit clunky, but here 'tis***

Howdy dear availees everywhere...I know that we've covered a lot of this stuff recently, but it's been another extraordinary coupla' weeks of PM Scott Morrison just straight-out lying, and a litany of accompanying Liberal/National ideological hatred...personally I've had a very average week dominated by galloping depression and the worst coupla' days of hayfever that I've had in literally decades, still recovering days later...(yes, whatevs, apology accepted, let's get back to the far more pleasant topic of LNP bastardry and hatred and associated political posturing-Ed)...we closed out the Annus Horribilis with two weeks of the LNP openly demonising and attacking the poorer people in our supposedly egalitarian society, eg, those receiving welfare, part-time and casual and low-income workers, etc, and trying to ram through Union-busting legislation and new 'Anti-Terrorist' laws that are actually about shutting down any anti-government reporters and particularly anyone using Twitter and/or blogs, etc, and most particularly any 'Whistleblowers'...(but hang on, we're at least 2 of those things, arguably all 3-Ed)...absolutely we are, and we're exactly the sort of citizens that the LNP is targetting with this faux legislation, but even more specifically those who have access to public servants and/or politicians, etc...

This supposedly desperately needed latest round of 'improved Anti-Terrorist' laws, by design, can and will give the government the sort of control it craves over 'social media-style' reportage and activism, whilst simultaneously having a massive 'chilling effect' on potential 'Whistleblowers' and other complainants and any reporting/public disclosure of that material...(what is this crap?! 'must answer questions'? no right to silence? must reveal sources? wildly vague and all-powerful warrants? and all with 5 years gaol hangin' over you as a threat?-Ed)...you've missed the bit about 5 years gaol for just revealing that you've had a warrant served against you...(I know people like to make jokes about this stuff, but this is truly Orwellian Totalitarian stuff right here-Ed)..indeed it is, and it's got SFA to do with 'Terrorism', and everything to do with protecting the Institutionalised Corruption of the LNP...note how some of this stuff was rushed through both houses of Parliament in literally hours, but it's been over 2 years since the LNP 'promised' some sort of 'Integrity Commission'...(and what they've proposed recently is a fatuous shell of an IC that is virtually powerless to do what most people would consider it's fundamental job of stopping corruption-Ed)...and nor will it have the power to address and resolve any historical corruption, ie, everything that the LNP is doing currently to steal Taxpayer's money via a litany of Nepotistic Tenders and 'Consultancies' and rorted 'Funding Progams', etc...    

So anybody on Twitter and/or bloggers, etc, y'all/we're all potential Terrorists according to the LNP...(but they still won't acknowledged what their own security experts are telling them, that it's not us bleedin'-heart lefties that are the real concern, it's the Right Wing extremists to look out for-Ed)...well indeed, but when you're a government consisting of Right Wing extremists and dull-eyed god-botherers and the like, you're hardly going to call-out a major part of your supporter base, now are you?...(absolutely not, and that takes us nicely to the latest attacks on workers and the unemployed, etc and the associated demonisation of these vulnerable groups-Ed)...indeed it does...and don't let the wholly complicit pro-LNP Main Stream Media piss their self-serving non-truths into your ever-suffering ears, there is nothing about the COVID-19 pandemic that has stopped the Scummo LNP from pursuing their Ideological Hatred War against the various political punching bags that they love to target...and at every first opportunity, real or created, the LNP have axed support and gone straight back to their hatred hobby-horse of demonising and blaming the poor...(and women, what about the cuts to Child Care Wage Support and associated funding?-Ed)...exactly mate, what was the first area to have it's JobKeeper withdrawn, Child Care, and other funding was reduced or stopped completely, with the effect of both 1) forcing workers back into the Child Care work place, and 2) mothers back into the home to look after their kids...in a predominantly female-based area, this is unambiguously a gender-based action, with a heavy bent toward forcing women back into the home where the LNP believe they belong...

Basically, it's a win-win for the blokey half-wits in the LNP...given the basic nuclear family male/female paradigm, etc, which is pretty much all they want to acknowledge anyways, given all that, it 1) literally forces the lower income earner in the household, almost always the female partner, given they're likely working part-time and almost always at a lower rate than male counterparts, etc...(mate, there's so much going on there-Ed)...indeed, but it forces those people to consider what's more financially advantageous, work and use that wage to pay for Child Care, or stay home...(which is effectively what it amounts to for many people, does the income justify the employment when the wage only just covers the cost of child care? better off just staying home and looking after your own kids, right?-Ed)...which brings us to 2) this then acts to reduce unemployment numbers and costs, etc, 'cos there's many women who are forced to return to work in the sector, and/or become their own 'primary carer' and withdraw from the job market...("and/or"?-Ed)...well how many women are forced to return to work in the sector 'cos there ain't no JobKeeper, etc, and have to put their own kids in 'care' for that time?...(ouch, it's a double whammy-Ed)...and one that affects almost entirely women...(and in contrast the LNP threw $$$hundreds of millions at Homebuilder and 'Apprenticeship' programs, both of which are hugely dominated by male workers, eg, tradies-Ed)...a perfect contrast Ed, axe all support for the female-dominated industry, but sling $$$millions at male-dominated areas...and it ain't no accident...

And whilst this was the first example, and occurred months ahead of other cuts to 'COVID Support', at every turn the LNP have hacked-back Jobkeeper and particularly Jobseeker, then in this past fortnight we've seen the LNP just launch themselves at workers and their incomes and rights, etc...we've seen Work Choices Mark II tabled with supposed benefits for casual workers, but at the cost of part-time and other low-income workers, and with no genuine repercussions for employers who transgress against these faux-improvements...(and right alongside that there's the renewed attack on Trade Unions, again promoted with the fraudulent justification that this is about improving things for workers-Ed)...absolute gaslighting, like the LNP give a stuff about workers welfare and/or rights...(well as I like to say, you know why we have Unions?-Ed)...why?...(because of employers-Ed)...hmmm, many a true word spoken in jest...(oh I ain't jokin' mate, if employers could be trusted to treat their employees justly and with respect and pay them properly, etc, the entire business model for Unions would be redundant-Ed)...great point mate...(if employers could be trusted the entire reason for Unions existing would be moot-Ed)...absolutely true mate, with a few genuine exceptions it's employers who are the problem...(yep, and their conduct creates the environment where Unions aren't just possible but are essential-Ed)...just look at the swathe of Food Industry problems where high-profile employers have ripped-off their employees, often totalling $$$millions...(and it's never an over payment 'errors', it's always underpayment 'errors', suggesting that it's not 'errors' but actually quite deliberate-Ed)...yep, certainly has that look about it...

Rebooting RoboDebt:...after the criminal and deliberate 'failures' of Robodebt, the LNP have established a Version 2.0 using private debt collectors to 'recover' alleged over-payments...it includes large quotas/retrievals, and specific directions that the collector must immediately notify the department if the 'client' threatens self-harm...(as was/is an issue with Robodebt I, with over 2,000 deaths associated, including several suicides directly linked to receiving a 'debt' notice-Ed)...indeed, but this notification directive is not about the welfare of the 'client', it's specifically defined as being about "reputational damage" to the department...and there's a further directive that the department must be advised "within one hour" if the 'client' threatens to contact a politician or go to the media...it's 100% LNP bastardry...(and didn't Scummo and Christian Porter and Alan Tudge, etc, didn't they capitulate on a class action against Robodebt?-Ed)...yep, a minimum $1.2 billion capitulation that was entirely without empathy, compassion or contrition, it was entirely about protecting these corrupt, sociopathic LNP clowns from having to front Court and be held to account for their deliberate bastardry...here's an excellent story about it from Independent Australia...    

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-morrison-governments-program-of-class-warfare,14644#.X-LgwS07VA8.twitter  

Never let y'allselves be distracted away from the truth, namely that everything that was done to support workers and protect jobs and to protect our society in general, eg, the JobKeeper payments and temporary increase to JobSeeker (NewStart) and border closures, etc, etc, all of that was forced on Scummo and his band of Merry Rorters by a combination of the State Premiers and/or the Unions and business leaders, etc...all of it...here's an excellent summary of Scummo's attitude from staunch LNP supporter Niki Savvas...(well actually, she may lean heavily that way, but I've seen her increasingly critical of the LNP, and whilst she still has her LNP_blinkered moments, sure, she's certainly far more balanced than most of her rabidly conspiratorial and complicit colleagues-Ed)...fair call mate...here 'tis..***

Credit where credits due! Huge wraps to Niki Savva. Admit I’ve never been a fan, but doesn’t she nail it smack bang with this #2020Wrapped

report of #screenshotsaturday #ScottyFromPhotoOps Ms Savva has nailed Morrison’s lack of action and opposition to everything to a tee!

***The only thing Niki has missed is Scummo's 'Let It Rip' attitude/strategy that relates to all this...(the stuff about just letting COVID-19 go through the community unchecked and whoever dies dies, etc, that stuff?-Ed)...yeah, exactly that stuff...and then there's bloody David Speers...(Speersy! maaate!-Ed)...yeah, poor old sad Speersy, what sort of drooling LNP stooge looks down the camera, and without the least trace of irony or sarcasm, tells the ABC viewers that Scott Morrison has had a great year...(if it weren't so sad and so deeply disturbing, it'd be hilarious, you know, in a comic-tragedy kinda' way-Ed)...no mate, it's just sad, sad and corrupt and a massive problem 'cos when this is the only story the people get fed, then unfortunately many are going to believe it...here's a great Twitter thread (below) that covers a lot of it...(yet more great work from the Twitterati-Ed)...absolutely...I would add to this list of abject failures, Scummo's heavy personal involvement in a series of losing elections, from the Eden-Monaro by-election, to Labor wins in the Northern Territory, Canberra, and in particular Queensland...(yeah right, Scummo was all over Eden-Monaro like stink on a monkey, and completely took over the lNP's Queensland campaign, frequently forcing LNP leader Deb Frecklington to literally stand quietly behind him-Ed)...like a good LNP woman should, right?...(well that certainly looked like it was the case, but whatevs, Scummo made those 2 elections all about him, and he lost, massively-Ed)...yay for Scummo...  

https://twitter.com/BelindaJones68/status/1337794608886030336

And I know this is next bit is about USofA President Donald Trump, currently setting-about destroying whatevs remains of the US's democratic processes and global standing as a functional world power, etc, but given Scummo's unambiguous and wholesale subscribing to 'Trumpian Politics', it's an apt descriptor/critique...again I've seen this several places so I don't know who was the original author...and I'm somewhat bemused but disturbed by the Trump supporters...(well you could stop that sentence right there, ahaha-Ed)...indeed, nice one man, but seriously, how do these people keep on keeping on with their 'Stolen Election' manifesto when 1) Trump's own lawyers have withdrawn  from multiple 'cases' when they go to Court and are asked to provide evidence...(because there ain't any, evidence that is-Ed)...exactly...and 2) a series of Republican judges have denied or thrown out numerous attempted 'cases'...and 3) the biggie, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court, bulging with Trump appointees, the highest Court in the land, etc, etc, now they've politely laughed the latest attempt right outta' the building...(and all this follows the pre-election campaign by Trump to compromise the election in his favour by voter suppression, eg, de-registering voters, de-funding the Postal Service to compromise mail-in voting, etc-Ed)...spot on! he tries to rig the election, still loses, and then squeals foul, what a class act... 

        Whoever wrote this, pretty much captured the thoughts of millions around the globe . #LoserOfTheYear

10:55 AM · Dec 12, 2020·Twitter for Android

Now just for a closing laugh at the laughable, corrupt, B-grade, repeatedly sacked, failed marketting stooge who has back-stabbed his way to be our illustrious PM, cop a gander at this...I'm not sure who the original artist is, but I believe that the image was first done using USofA Vice-President Mike 'Tup' Pence...(oh I've seen that one, it's even more disturbing than this version-Ed)...well quite, but anyways, here 'tis, enjoy... 

Captain Chaos - PSST - I'm incognito

@Captain_Chaos_X

#ScottyFromPhotoOps Why, because I can! All credit to the unknown original artist

(That is truly, truly hilarious-Ed)...yep, I reckon it sums him up perfectly, it's all flash and pomp and fantasy and professional fakery whilst poncing-about like a prize pony, making endless 'announcements' about things that do not and will not exist...but it ain't really over until the old lady sings...and never forget the attacks Scummo/the LNP have made on pensioners, eg, cutting the pension several years back...(and what about Scummo's recent comments about not counting on the Aged Pension as being a 'right', and even referring to it as 'welfare'-Ed)...well quite, but let's allow those whom suffer these crass indignities and abuses to speak for themselves, ma'am... 

This is far more relevant to #ScottyFromPhotoOps ... #auspol

 

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

Robe Council Trying To Use 'Unreasonable Conduct' To 'Ban' Former Mayor William Peden

Howdy dear availees everywhere...in the previous post we covered the rankly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council's deeply deceitful but blatant attempt to try and empower themselves to 'ban' troublemakers, and that this was unambiguously about denying Ratepayers/citizens from being able to hold MGCC to account for any of their (Council's) litany of Nepotisms, Conflict of Interests, and/or Insider Tradings, and/or other various corrupt dealings and/or mismanagement, etc...I had intended to mention that this 'Unreasonable Conduct' was very similar to what Robe District Council did a coupla' years back to former Mayor William Peden, when they passed 'special rules' stating that they weren't going to answer Mr Peden's letters, etc, etc...(didn't we cover that in the post Dear Robe Council CEO Roger Sweetman, "Whim And Fancy" This Champ, 19th February 2019?-Ed)...indeed we did Ed, and in a coupla' other posts, but it appears that we were a tad premature in our observation that this was a historical issue...(how so?-Ed)...well 'cos Robe Council is right at it right now, literally as we speak, as I was alerted to after we did the most recent post about MGCC...   

And partly 'cos I had planned to mention it anyways, but mostly 'cos it's a real-time example of exactly what MGCC is seeking to allow/'justify' in 'banning' people from contacting them, here's just a super quick post to get this stuff on the record...I can only apologise that I've not been as thorough with covering the local news as I might be, 'cos this was publicly exposed via the Naracoorte News on Wednesday 25th November 2020, as attached below...(well mate, you can't be following everything everywhere all the time-Ed)...sure, but perhaps this is the reasonable prompt I need to get a bit better organised, etc...anyhoos, here 'tis, the reportage of Robe Council straight-out threatening and denigrating a leading local citizen for having the brazen temerity to ask perfectly reasonable and appropriate questions about the conduct of the Council...(and not least of all, about stuff that should be placed on the public record by Council without having to be asked, eg, remuneration issues regarding former CEO Roger Sweetman who 'resigned' in disgrace!-Ed)...well quite, and regarding that specific point, it appears that Robe Council is not just attacking Mr Peden, but also failing/refusing to do what the Ombudsman 'ordered' them to do...   

For some reason there's a lotta' doubling-up there, but it's still an extraordinary story being told...(I think the really critical point in all of that is how Mayor Nunan refuses to answer the questions, particularly about whether or not that info is publicly available-Ed)...indeed, she certainly seems to be arguing that all of that stuff is somehow "in confidence" 'cos it's Mr Peden asking about it...(but I do also love the stuff where Robe Council is squealing about what this is supposedly costing Ratepayers, but they're the ones getting copious legal advice and holding single issue Special Meetings about one li'l ol' person, etc, all motivated by their own debilitating desire to avoid answering basic questions about their conduct, rather than just answer the questions-Ed)...yeah, but that's Mr Peden's fault 'cos he asked the questions...(ah right, I see, my bad, I thought it was the straw-clutching machinations of a desperate Council that was the actual issue-Ed)...well yeah sorry, I was being sarcastic, it is of course the Robe Council that's guilty of 'Unreasonable Conduct', in fact, I'd call it outrageous conduct...

This issue is going to continue across the next few posts, but I also have some other news...starting tomorrow, 19th December 2020, TMGI has a Facebook page of the same name...we'll mostly be using it to briefly alert the public to local issues like this one with Robe Council, and MGCC's latest actions in the same vein, etc, issues that will then be covered at length on this 'ere blog...I've been urged to use Facebook for some time, years in fact, and a series of recent events have finally pushed me to take the plunge, eg, the appalling mis-reportage of the MGCC Unreasonable Conduct stuff...I'll cover this in my opening post on TMGI Facebook...

Tomorrow: More MGCC Unreasonable Conduct Corruption 

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

PUBLIC INTEREST ALERT: Mt Gambier City Council's Latest Act Of Base Corruption

Howdy dear availees...have interrupted my own blog with 2 posts part-finished but shoved aside, etc, due to this appallingly concerning issue...please to be availling y'allselves of the MGCC Agenda for tomorrow night's Full Meeting, Tuesday 15th December 2020, and go to item 16.4, Unreasonable Conduct Policy, pages 39 and then in full 238 - 276...

In a nutshell, this is not about the 'Unreasonable Conduct' of Councillors and/or Council staff and/or contractors, etc, this is about MGCC giving themselves the 'legal right' to ignore and/or target and/or ban problematic Ratepayers, namely, those Ratepayers who write to Council asking embarrassing questions about MGCC's relentless Corruption, Nepotism, and/or Insider Trading, etc...(or anyone Council doesn't like who attend Council meetings, etc-Ed)...exactly...(and Council is trying to justify this by blaming the supposed but unidentified 'inappropriate conduct' of a supposedly large number of un-named 'perpetrators'-Ed)...absolutely, with faux concern for the welfare of Council staffers, and/or the burden on Council's meagre abilities to respond, etc...

This 'legislation' is solely and wholly about empowering Councillors to be allowed to officially ignore people they don't like and/or questions Council doesn't want to answer, and try to ban people from contacting Council and/or attending Council meetings, etc, etc...(well what about the stuff in the Background preamble, is that about the South Australian Ombudsman?-Ed)...I believe so, referring to the Ombudsman's Unreasonable Complaint Conduct Model Policy...(and who are these supposed but unnamed "best practice organisations"?-Ed)...no idea, looks like a construct of the report writer's imagination...whatevs, MGCC have clearly deliberately misrepresented or twisted the intent to suit their purpose, eg, this doesn't just include 'complainants' but anyone Council chooses...(so does that mean that they could/would come after people who don't attend meetings, etc, and don't complain to Council, etc, but who for example might write a blog critical of Council?-Ed)...well call me paranoid, but it certainly looks that way... 

I had intended to write a thorough review of this 'policy' but it is riddled with so many gaping pro-Council loopholes that it's going to take several posts, eg Council gets to define who and/or what constitutes 'Unreasonable', but by their own definition here-in, at page 243-4, dot point 3.3, under Unreasonable Persistence, a Ratepayer seeking a legally sanctioned review of a Council decision can be deemed 'Unreasonable' and therefore subject to this outrageously corrupt pseudo-legislation...(well doesn't that render this legislation technically 'non-legal' or unlawful' or whatevs the correct legal term is?-Ed)...how so?...(well if it unambiguously seeks to stifle and/or stop and/or punish Ratepayers from accessing their legal rights under other legislation, eg, appropriately Appealling, doesn't that contradiction/clash make this 'policy' therefore 'unlawful'?-Ed)...well damn Ed, it most certainly looks that way, but it ain't stopped MGCC before, so why would it now?...(and doesn't it also allow Council to just say 'nup, ain't lookin' at that' a coupla' times, and/or 'we've already answered that', etc, when in fact they haven't which is why the person keeps calling/writing/whatevs, and then Council can slam the door on ya' having never actually replied at all?-Ed)...you mean like they do now anyways?...(yep, but this supposedly allows and justifies that 'non-answering'-Ed)...absolutely, like I said, trying to legally allow what they already do, with the added bonus of being 'allowed' to 'officially' ban people...   

Excuse me, I've accidentally headed off down that rabbit hole of trying to carefully explain just how pro-MGCC corrupt this is, but like I say, literally every 'justification/explanation' and related 'action' is riddled with loopholes that allow the Institutionally Corrupt Mt Gambier City Council the supposed legal right to target people they don't like, and that's people who try to hold MGCC to account for their relentless Corruption...(and this follows on from MGCC's recent-ish legislation whereby Councillors (and staff?) are obliged to 'report/log' any conversations they might have with the general public, be it at the supermarket or in the street, etc, and that 'report' must include a synopsis of that conversation-Ed)...yep, hobble any vaguely genuine Councillors and clamp down and hopefully ban problematic Ratepayers who keep asking problematic questions about definable Corruption, or heaven forbid, exercising their legal rights, etc, etc, and try to present it all as being in Ratepayer's best interests...this is Totalitarian Gas-Lighting 101...

As I understand it some people are trying to organise some sort of protest tomorrow at the Council meeting, but I am also aware that Council has been loading the gallery with Council staffers, thusly allowing only a couple of Ratepayers to actually be in the room, so's Id get there early if ya' wanna' actually get in the Chamber before they shut the doors on ya'...and they will, shut the doors that is...

I've only read it through the once, but I am absolutely certain and therefore repeat, this 'policy' is unequivocally about attacking and shutting-down those handful of people who currently cause 'problems' by simply trying to hold the rankly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council to account, and then dissuading/stopping anyone whom tries in the future...I myself am still currently 'banned' from attending Council meetings due to Magistrate Ian White's reprehensibly vile politicised mis-use of Final Intervention Orders, and this is exactly the sort of outcome/powers that MGCC is trying to gift themselves here...and whilst I don't believe that this legislation is actually legal, in that it contradicts laws in higher jurisdictions, eg, rights to Appeal any Council decisions, etc, any and all efforts to stop it being passed in the first instance must be exhausted...(and good luck with that given the effort Council has clearly gone into to present this crassly corrupt farce in the first instance-Ed)...fair point Ed, but to those whom can, please do attend and make your displeasure known...  

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, and Mt Gambier City Council is a text-book study in Institutionalised Corruption...cheers and laters...

Mt Gambier City Council Deceitfully Evicts South East's Premier Tourism Experience

Howdy dear availees in Singapore, Spain, Canada and Brazil, welcome one and y'all...absolutely no offence intended to other hard-working tourism operators, but the Blue Lake is the single most identifiable natural attraction in the South East, possibly the state, and the Aquifer Tour is/was definitively Mt Gambier's most popular tourism experience...be it for locals and/or entertaining visitors, school kids on excursions, bus loads of pensioners, etc, etc, through to hordes of international tourists, the Aquifer Tour entertained and informed many thousands of people every year, for 30 years...the Cafe is/was the first contact site for many visitors who would visit the Blue Lake and then go in for info about other local attractions, eg, how to get to the Valley Lakes? what other tours/facilities are there? where's a good restaurant? etc...the Cafe is/was also the centre of a large social structure, from walkers to friends meeting for coffee to local artists who displayed and sold their wares, etc, etc...now it's just another empty building in Mt Gambier...(well not "just another empty building", as you've identified, it's the primary contact point for many tourists, who are now going to be met with an empty space and no services/advice, it's a terrible look for Mt Gambier-Ed)...indeed it is, and entirely unnecessary, this is a deliberate construct of the corrupt and/or incompetent Mt Gambier City Council... 

Hooray for me that I finally managed to locate those comments I referred to in the previous post...this person wrote to Council seeking some answers and this is the response they received...I've left the names out just because I don't want to make trouble for those involved, but in some instances, eg, MGCC's response, obviously Council knows who they sent that to...***

Response from Council this afternoon

Hi ******, The City of Mount Gambier property management agreement between the Blue Lake Welcome Centre sub-licencees Garry and Trish Turner ends on Monday 30 November 2020, one month before the 21 year head licence between SA Water and Council for the Crown Land the centre is located on expires on 31 December 2020.

Council is very thankful to Garry and Trish for their hard work and commitment in providing 30 years of tourism services at the Blue Lake.

Council has resolved to pursue a different path for its tourism assets as outlined in the 2020-2024 Strategic Plan, with a view to developing and delivering a tourism master plan for the area.

Council will continue to work with SA Water and Crown Lands (DEW) to establish a partnership model in the new year.

 

***...and here's the person's own response to that 'response' from MGCC...I believe that this and the other comments below are fairly indicative of how most people in the community feel about this extraordinary series of MGCC's latest deceits and grossly corrupt/incompetent actions...***

 

What a completely disingenuous response from council. Two issues come to mind, one, the investment in building a business and the valuable goodwill associated with that by the Turner’s and secondly the pathetic history that council has had relative to servicing the tourist industry and associated businesses. There isn’t a council that I’ve ever heard of in a regional centre that’s handled the tourism sector worse than the Mount Gambier City Council. Promises of a plan insults the intelligence of the public, especially when their belief in council is at an all time low. Shutting down a key tourism enterprise that sits at the primary tourist attraction in the city before a better option is in place is absurd in the extreme. Talk about a move that doesn’t pass the public test!!!

This matter like others currently taking place deserves scrutiny by ICAC because they are as suss as. It doesn’t take a very clever person to predict a vested interest connected to council having plans for the Tourist oriented cafe at the Blue Lake. 

 

***...nails it, absolutely nails it, across so many issues...(well except of course the call for ICAC's involvement-Ed)...well certainly, fair point, and we'll have to look at that later in the post...and here's some of the other comments related to this stuff, which I've picked as being representative of many such comments across social media and things I've personally heard...I'll follow with my take on some of these comments...*** 

 

1) Surely council should give an explanation for the lease not being renewed???? Hiding behind in confidence excuses with publicly owned property is a disgrace.

2) Absolutely ridiculous to cut this off without a ready to go option to service that need. It’s as suss as. Get ready for the connections to council or other sector of politics to benefit in some way for this operation to shut. The vested interests gravy train will be connected to this for sure.

3) Very sad. I often despair at the decisions of our Council.

Leading up to the busy tourism season and I suspect this will be closed as I have seen nothing regarding advertising for new operators, or does council have a preselected prefered operator.

4) Congratulations for what you have achieved for tourism and Mt Gambier and the enjoyment you have given to so many visitors 

5) Yes and trying to follow up the 2020-2024 plan is like walking the great wall in China, impossible!! 

 

***...and here's how operator Trish Turner very politely describes the situation...*** 

Trish Turner

Thank you everyone for your support over the many years we will miss you all . The decision is out of our hands we would still like some genuine answers which seem difficult to obtain ,Trish and Garry.

 

***...so there ya' go, MGCC has shut-down Mt Gambier's (the South East's) premier tourism site/operation, and the people at the centre of that storm of deceit and misinformation, the operators of that business, the Turner's themselves have subtly but specifically defined MGCC's conduct, "...genuine answers (are) difficult to obtain."...(indeed, says it all really-Ed)...and there is an extended 'polite' statement on the Aquifer Tours website, please to be checking it out...I absolutely agree with the comments here, it's a disgraceful incompetence to shut-down the premier Tourism site as we go into the main Tourism season, and that there are 'vested interest' motivations at play...

 

Tell Me This Is A Coincidence:...'cos there was sweet shreck-all posted/reported about this Eviction/Closure in local 'professional' media, couldn't find it mentioned anywhere, but then I posted about it early on Tuesday 1st December 2020, and the next day ABC South East Radio had MGCC's Barbara Cernovskis on to address the situation...y'all can hear this interview by going to...

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/southeastsa/programs/breakfast/breakfast/12921662 

...for their report on Wednesday 2nd December 2020, starting at about 1hr10mins35secs...(note that Barbara refers to the business closing as of 'yesterday', being 'Monday 30th November', confirming that that interview was recorded sometime on 1st December 2020, after we had posted-Ed)...perhaps it's just a case of coincidental timing, but the fact remains that this final closure has been public knowledge for nearly a week and discussed on local social media, etc, and Council themselves have known for months, but it doesn't get 'reported' until after I cut crook on this 'ere blog...I'm not gunna' comment on that entire interview, but suffice to say that, having made extensive enquiries, I believe that Council is straight-out lying about the current status of the 'Lease Agreement' as it relates to the 'Blue Lake Welcome Centre', that indeed there is a renewed/current lease agreement in place, and that this is provably a lie by Council...

 

Dear Availlees:...just check it for y'allselves, simply contact SA Water and/or the Dept of Environment and Water and ask, and go to your local Member Troy Bell and ask him, and contact other local politicians in state parliament...(wasn't MLC John Darley formerly head honcho with the Lands Dept or some such? he'd surely know where to look and/or who to ask, etc-Ed)...well remembered Ed, when I dealt with him aways back in 2006/07 regarding the St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up he mentioned that 'Lands' was his field of expertise...(and what's the 'Blue Lake Welcome Centre'?-Ed)...well that's a carefully weasel-worded deceit from MGCC, 'cos it's otherwise and more commonly known as the Aquifer Cafe...it is my understanding that the Turners provided the Tourism Info aspect of their business as a 'gratis community service' and a courtesy entirely separate to their actual 'Lease'...(so you mean that Council has taken absolute advantage of the Turners goodwill in providing that 'free' service?-Ed)...that's exactly what I'm saying...('free' in that Ratepayers weren't subsidising it, it was being provided gratis?-Ed)...yep...(and yet MGCC has seen fit to ignore and/or abuse the Turners, and now turf them out into the street?-Ed)...spot on...the Aquifer Cafe building is/was fundamentally the ticket office for the Aquifer Tours, and any and all other services provided are peripheral issues...that aside, the Cafe is/was the focus of a local social network that is now effectively homeless, and a critical Tourist contact/info point...

 

Read between Council's well-rehearsed lines about the 'unfortunate' demise of the sub-lease and how Council is trying to get "joint custodianship" to go in "a different direction" with a view to ensuring the "sustainability of future options", etc, but when asked, 'what is the "vision"?', Council ain't got one...(and then there's the self-contradictory bollocks about not having a lease and yet having a vision/plan for the entire site-Ed)...indeed, it simply doesn't make sense...and "joint custodianship" is weasel-words for forcing the Turners out of that side of their business, for taking the Aquifer Tours lease away from them...(and what's this absolute bollocks about a 'holistic vision for the whole Lakes Area'?-Ed)...well you've basically answered your own question Ed, it's a continuation of the weasel-words around poaching that Tours Lease off  the Turners and forcing them out, but it's also the mind-numbing nonsense of 'We've Got A Plan To Have A Plan'...(so at best it's more deceit, but it's also jingoistic public service speak for either 1) we don't know, or 2) we ain't tellin' you ya' damn plebs!-Ed)...and in this case I believe it's the latter, and that it ties in directly with 1) the lies that Council are telling about the lease, and 2) people's comments/observations that MGCC does have a plan, they have every intention of putting one of their mates/relatives in that potentially lucrative business...

 

This is my absolute belief, that this is the fundamental motivator, MGCC wants a relative/mate in there... and I refer dear availees to the litany of Nepotistic Council Tenders/Contracts that have gone to Councillor's families and/or mates, eg, the Main Corner Lease going to (then) Councillor Des Mutton's son Lachlan...(not to mention the relentless cavalcade of Insider Trading and Conflict of Interest issues-Ed)...which occur so frequently in Mt Gambier City Council that it can be rationally argued that matters do not make MGCC's Agenda unless there's a buck in it for Councillors and/or their families and/or mates...(which brings us neatly to the issue of involving the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption-Ed)...it's the perfect segue Ed...firstly, I remind dear availee that the Ombudsman/Office of Public Integrity/ICAC are all the same animal, that they are all parts of the same 'Accountability' mechanism and are linked by legislative requirements, etc...then there's how they have conducted themselves when it comes to MGCC...(well you're obviously referring to the farcical ICAC faux-investigation of MGCC from 2013/14-Ed)...exactly, and here's a brief history for those unawares...

 

1) In September 2013 I attended a MGCC meeting where-in a senior Council member identified a 'contractual agreement' with a business tendering for the Old Hospital Demolition, and left the meeting, and that business was immediately there-after awarded the tender, greatly profitting that Member;

2) I reported this to the Ombudsman and (then) local Member Don Pegler, and where it was identified in Council's Minutes, etc, and under legislation that report went directly to the ICAC Bruce Lander;

3) between October 2013 and January 2014 ICAC claimed to investigate MGCC for the Demolition Tender and numerous other corruption issues I had witnessed/identified and reported;

4) in January 2014 ICAC 'concluded' it's investigation ,claiming to have identified no problems and therefore no further action taken;

5) when I was 'Charged' for blogging about his farcical outcome, and taken to 'Trial', etc, I proved in Court that the official ICAC 'investigation' of multiple incidents of identifiable corruption within MGCC consisted of a) an unrecorded 30min chat with me in a local cafe, and b) an unrecorded chat with (then) MGCC CEO Mark McShane in a hallway of the Adelaide Convention Centre, and nothing else;

6) there were no public hearings or even canvassing of the community to expose other potential issues and/or evidence, and ICAC did not speak at all to the numerous Council Members involved in the various incidents reported...

 

South Australia's ICAC's official investigation of the entire Mt Gambier City Council, across multiple issues, comprised 2 unrecorded chats and no formal hearings, etc...(and then of course there was that totes hilarious Ombudsman's exoneration of (then) Mayor Andrew Lee for doing private business whilst in China on a Ratepayer-funded Council trip, and then lying about it, etc-Ed)...yep, which we covered at the time in 'Lines Clearly Defines Fine Line By Clearing Lee'...(yeah, that was the 'line' from the Ombudsman Wayne Lines wasn't it, Lee has strayed near to but not over the 'fine line' that would make it corruption-Ed)...yep, so there you have the previous 'actions' of SA's ICAC and/or Ombudsman when it comes to holding this rancidly corrupt Council to account...(and not to forget the years of persecuting you via a wholly corrupt 'Trial'!)...indeed, ICAC has proven itself to be a stout defender of MGCC's corruption, a bastion for the Corrupt...(and an entity for facilitating the prosecution/persecution of 'Whistleblowers'-Ed)...so good luck to ya's if ya' reckon that ICAC is gunna' do anything about this latest corrupt bastardry...    

    

(I note that our mate former MGC Councillor Josh Lynagh hasn't mentioned it at all on his 'local news' website Limestone Coast Community News-Ed)...Josh is of course notorious for routinely running interference and/or disinformation on behalf of Council...(is he still doing the stuff where, as a Councillor, he would claim that his info is/was absolutely accurate 'cos it was directly from Council, but then say that it wasn't actually Council's official position?-Ed)...oh yeah, hilarious stuff, but of course he ain't a Councillor anymore...(and is he still mouthing-off about you/us and deliberately deceiving his 'readers' by denying/contradicting the facts as he knows them, eg, the truths of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the many local politicians, police, community leaders, etc, etc, at al, whom are fully aware and fully complicit in that horrendously corrupt Pro-Paedophile Cover-up?-Ed)...ummm, not recently that I'm aware of, but he has had plenty to say in the past...well, other than actually to my face of course...(indeed, in person he literally scurries past and/or away, eyes averted, even though he knows you ain't gunna' lay a finger on 'im-Ed)...no, but he does know what he's done, and that trying to engage me in an actual exchange based on the facts of his conduct and the realities that he repeatedly denies/misrepresents/defends, etc, that's a verbal massacre that he ain't gunna' survive...as of just now, at the time of posting, 1330hrs local time Sunday 6th December 2020, I have done a 'search' on LCCN using the term 'Aquifer Tours Cafe' and there's nuthin' more recent than 2018, and that was about 'coffee vendors'...

 

Also, the new weekly local 'paper', the SE Voice, they've run a story about it...(well thank gourdness, it is after all front page news, this is a huge story/issue-Ed)...ummm yeah, not quite front page...(oh, fair enough, I guess page 2 isn't a complete disaster when reporting this complete disaster-Ed)...keep going...(page 3?-Ed)...not quite...(4?-Ed)...wellll...(give me that...it's not here at all, what are you talking about?-Ed)...it is, you just haven't dug far enough, try page 19...(19?! don't be ridiculous, this is a hugely important story/issue, they wouldn't bury it on.........oh-Ed)...yeah, "oh"...(and this is just a tepid regurgitation of Council's propaganda, where's the outrage? where's the anger?-Ed)...well I don't know about anger, but it is indeed an unquestioning reproduction of Council's misinformation...(this is a disgraceful joke! page 19 and nothing but dross! outrageous!-Ed)...yep...anyhoos, it's apparently in this weeks The Border Watch, but I ain't seen that yet, so I'll get back to ya's with that stuff...

I'm gunna' pull stumps here, but I guarantee there's a whole lot more to come on this issue...bottom-line, MGCC has knowingly and willingly and wantonly and deceitfully acted to destroy the Turner's cafe-based business, and are openly continuing to act to destroy the other part of the Turner's business, the Aquifer Tours...please remember to check-out that ABC South East Radio interview before it gets deleted...

Tomorrow: Maybe Scott 'Scombover' Morrison's Latest Photo-Ops Propaganda

 

Maybe more about this MGCC Aquifer Tours bastardry, whatevs...I'll just make the rather obvious observation that corruption such as we witness with MGCC, that sort of Institutionalised Corruption occurs on such a vast scale not just 'cos they've got ICAC protecting them, and they know it, but also because this is the standard set by a criminally corrupt Federal Liberal/National government...(and they know that too, and it emboldens and even encourages similar levels/types of corruption-Ed)...mate, that is exactly what's happening...

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

 

Mt Gambier City Council's Latest Act Of Moronic, Corrupt Thuggery - Blue Lake Aquifer Tours Evicted/Closed

Howdy dear availees...I've known for several months that there were shenanigans afoot with the Blue Lake Cafe and Aquifer Tours business, but I never imagined that this Eviction/Closure was even being contemplated, let alone actually possible...my concerns were, as always, that me commenting on the situation could potentially and likely probably make matters worse for the business owners Trish and Gary Turner...(but now that it's a done deal, you could've hardly made it any worse 'cos the Cafe/Tours are officially extinct as of close of business Sunday 29th November 2020, and the news is publicly 'out', eg, all over social media, and it's being publicly discussed, etc, so now the gloves are off?-Ed)...absolutely, but I'm not seeing/hearing it reported on ABC South East Radio or in the Border Watch Online or the SE Voice or former MGC Councillor Josh Lynagh's Limestone Coast Community News, etc, in fact, I can't see/hear it being reported anywhere other than on people's social media...and a General Language Warning here 'cos it's hard nay impossible to engage with this issue without referring to the rancidly fucking corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, and specifically, their definably punitive and retributional fuckery as it relates to MGCC's perpetual conflict with the Turners...

First point, to correct what has been opined in some social media, the Turners have not decided to close or retire or whatevs, they have been evicted by Mt Gambier City Council...(fuckers! Council that is, not the Turners-Ed)...yeah, I think we all know who you meant...anyhoos, like many tourism-focussed businesses, the Turners have undoubtedly suffered as a consequence of COVID-19 restrictions, eg, as I understand it there has been no capacity to provide Aquifer Tours for 6 months, even possibly for longer, and there have been on again/off again restrictions about operating the cafe side of things, eg, only take-aways and/or no inside customers, social distancing regulations, etc...(but regardless, the Turners have continued to provide whatevs level of service that they are/were actually allowed, and continued to be the focal point of a community-based social group, or rather group's', plural-Ed)...indeed they have/did...I don't consider myself a part of any of said groups, but over the years I have spent a fair bit of time at/around the cafe, eg, walking the dog weekly, or my once a month splurge on a cup of cafe coffee experience, where I'd sit out on the forecourt and watch the world go by...(and when you were involved with the Anti-Flouridation protests-Ed)...yep, they were excellent in how respectfully they dealt with us protestors who were potentially albeit unintentionally interferring with their business operations...

It was at this time that Gary carefully explained to myself and other protestors the very strict intricacies of the Tours contract with SA Water, namely, that the site was Mt Gambier's water supply and run by SA Water and that the 'tours contract' was therefore with SA Water...due to the sensitivities and security issues about protecting the water supply, etc, access to the entire Blue Lake area, as defined by the boundary fence, that access was/is prohibited without specific approval...and the 'tours contract' was itself such an 'approval' but still with very strict conditions...as explained, and it remains my understanding, the 'tours contract' is specifically between SA Water and the Turners, not with or directly involving MGCC...(does that mean that tours could still happen, albeit not via the cafe building?-Ed)...well technically, I believe that would be possible, but I'm not sure how you'd make that work...(and what about all the people who get wedding photos down there, or even get married there?-Ed)...well I'll guesstimate but not state as fact that they could probably contact the Turners directly and possibly organise that, maybe...but there's another cohort of peeps who are now potentially denied utilising this facility, newly weds...    

I've taken various visiting family members along to do the Aquifer Tour, and it is/was quite a surreal experience...(particularly when you've walked the rim so many times and then see it from that completely different perspective of being at water level looking up-Ed)...indeed, and you know there's all that traffic rushing past up above and people walking, etc, yet down by the water it's all quiet and calm, and it's cooler and there's little if any wind, etc, it's a whole different environment to that at road/path level...(and how much bigger the lake looks from water level-Ed)...absolutely, and with that comes a genuine sense of the size of the explosion that created it...(mate, I'm not great with close spaces, as you know, but I do/did love the bit where you go in the glass lift down to the long tunnel that comes out just above the water, and that lift is actually in the old original well shaft-Ed)...yep, you're literally travelling not just through the history of the site, but right in it, you're in the well and can see all the blockwork, etc, it is/was a fantastic experience...

So over the years I've been there for relatively brief visits, but collectively long enough to have a fair idea of what the Aquifer Tours and Cafe and the Turners provided to the community, and that is, Mt Gambier's and arguably the South East's premier Tourism experience...(and as above, much more than that to boot-Ed)...indeed, I cannot imagine how many tourists went through that cafe as their first-stop information point 'cos it was located right by the lake...I've witnessed dozens of people go in for info but not buy anything, and others who have made purchases of the various memorabilia and/or locally produced arts and crafts...(well there's another benefit of the cafe, the numerous local artisans who sold their wares through there, they've now lost that outlet for both sales and public exposure-Ed)...absolutely, I was talking to one such person last time I was up there, and there is/was nearly 30 different artists with items on display/sale, so now they've all lost their outlet/exposure...(and what about the school tours and the bus loads of pensioners, etc, etc-Ed)...yep, all them and many others we've failed to mention specifically, they're all affected/denied...         

And here's a li'l gem I've poached from the social media ether, 'cos it neatly defines the rancid corruption of MGCC, corruption enabled by deceits, manipulation and a fundamental knowledge that no-one is going to hold them to account for their corrupt fuckery...  

***and unreservedly apologies, 'cos in my Interwebby ineptitude I forgot to save this exchange and now I can't find it...(damn!-Ed)...exactly, so apologies and I'll just have to address what was written as best I can remember and post that original stuff when and if I can find it again...sorry...***

Basically, in a discussion forum/post a person claimed to have written to MGCC late last week expressing their displeasure about the Aquifer Tours/Cafe Eviction/Closure, and then posted Council's deeply disingenuous response...MGCC claims that the Crown Lands Lease for that site has lapsed, and therefore they had no choice but to evict, and made a disingenuous attempt to thank and praise the Turners...(bollocks! 100% bollocks-Ed)...indeed it is Ed, for years now the MGCC has treated the Turners with base contempt and undisguised animosity...MGCC went on to claim that they have 'a plan for Tourism', including a plan for that site... 

So anyhoos, and for several reasons, I know that that's absolute fuckin' deceits layered upon fuckin' lies...firstly, in all of my dealings with MGCC, it's their default functioning, straight-out lies and carefully crafted deceits, motivated by their Institutionalised Corruption of crass Nepotism and/or Insider Trading...if that Crown Land Lease has expired, then 1) what's happening with the building? it's my understanding that Council would/will be liable/responsible for clearing the entire site, toilets et al...and 2) how the fuck is Council gunna' organise/establish another enterprise at that site/building if they supposedly no longer have the lease for that site and therefore the building ain't there, etc...and 3) if you go past the obvious lie about the lease and therefore MGCC still have the legal capacity to have a business there, why in the living fuck would you destroy a highly successful business with 30 years experience and huge social connection/capital, etc, to set-up something else...(which by definition will have to be virtually identical to what's just been closed-Ed)...bingo! it's a self-proving lie that consumes itself whilst heading right back to where it began...

I have personally witnessed the sort of contempt, abuse, and/or neglect that MGCC have displayed toward the Turners and the premier tourism facility in Mt Gambier...I'm fairly sure that this animosity goes right back to the development of the current structure, but potentially even pre-dates that, but nothing defines it better that the notorious incident with (then) MGCC CEO Greg Muller a decade ago...(is that the one where Greg mate, where he went to the Cafe and tried to sweet-talk Gary into allowing a film crew down into the lake area, but it all went horribly pear-shaped?-Ed)...yep, that's the one...regular availees may well remember back when MGCC, suddenly at a meeting and without any public consultation, unilaterally added $3million to the cost of the Main Corner Project by adding a $1m commercial kitchen, extensive external lighting and projectors, etc, and by commissioning a $750,000 movie...(well it's just money, just Ratepayer's money-Ed)...indeed, well as part of that, the film crew rocked-up to the cafe 'politely' demanding access to do their li'l filmy thingy...however, due to the very strict contractual conditions with SA Water regarding operating those tours and/or any access to the site, which is Mt Gambier's water supply source, etc, the Turners were legally obliged to deny that access...and that's where it should have ended, but didn't...

The film peeps 'politely' insisted then 'politely' threatened that they'd just ring their mate Greg and get him to 'force' the Turners to provide access, and then Greg was thusly summoned...so up rocks Greg and he initially tried to sweetly coerce the Turners, but when that didn't work, basically 'cos the Turners had no choice but to refuse, as per their contractual obligations, well then Greg went to the 'bribe' phase of his attempted negotiations...(that's the bit where he offered preferential treatment on any future lease negotiations, etc?-Ed)...spot on...(and that could also be seen as a thinly-veiled threat to make problems with future lease issues, etc-Ed)...indeed it could, and because the Turners still had no choice but to refuse, that's exactly where Greg went next, straight to a straight-out threat to make trouble for them with their lease/business if they didn't acquiesce...(and how'd that go down?-Ed)...well I wasn't there, but I can't imagine Gary or Trish wearing that sortta' crap, not even a bit, and sure enough Greg was seen to leave, get in his car, do an angry u-turn burn-out aways up to the corner, and then do another angry burn-out off down Bay Rd...now as I said, I wasn't present for that incident, I happened past there for a walk roughly 10 minutes later, but there were several people there having coffee, etc, and they were still discussing it with intense mirthiness...

As they had just witnessed and then explained to me, Greg had tried to shmooze his way to getting what he wanted, but then when that didn't work, and ignoring the very strict contractual restrictions that he was having repeatedly explained to him, he went to bribery and very quickly to blatant threats...and this all happened in clear earshot of those patrons, Greg didn't even try to be subtle about it...this incident was a running joke and source of great amusement for several months after...(it's also been a running joke in recent times that Council's $200,000pa Tourism Officer never ever attended the Aquifer Tours/Cafe, and that nobody from Council ever goes near the place-Ed)...well quite, years back, whilst waiting to do the tour, I witnessed former Mayor Andrew Lee and a senior Council employee just walk right past, and I was there having a coffee when (then) MGCC CEO Mark 'Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans' McShane drove up, marched into the toilet, wife trailing behind him, then stormed back to his car and drove off before his missus had even shut her door...stopped there to use the toilets but didn't even stick his head in the door to say howdy, and was clearly a very angry man, about something...(well that was probably about you mate, he's such a fanboy of our work-Ed)...fair call, but there was a whole other vibe goin' on, and this stuff goes back well before I was on the scene...        

It is my understanding, let's say fact, that despite the problematic relationship with MGCC the Turners were fundamentally responsible for initiating, designing, drafting and actually substantially funding the current Cafe building and attached toilet facilities...(does that include the 'emotional investment'?-Ed)...I think that that's a given mate, a substantial given...and previously there was a small wooden hut as a ticket office and there wasn't even a toilet there...it is no exaggeration to say that Mt Gambier residents and tourists alike can thank the Turners for that building, particularly the toilets...they have worked tirelessly, literally 364 days a year, for 3 decades, to provide not only Mt Gambier's premier tourism experience, but a focal point for social cohesion and artistic expression, etc, etc...it's such a part of the community, I've seen locals step-in to volunteer to help out on the rare occasions the Turners were absent due to ill health or funerals, etc...it is/was a community institution...

And now they've been evicted and had their business destroyed by the thuggish and corrupt Mt Gambier City Council...(mate, I'd guarantee it that MGCC has got some mate or Councillor's son-in-law or nephew or whoevs lined-up to shove in there and effectively steal what the Turners spent decades establishing-Ed)...I'll take that bet, all the indicators are there and it's exactly how the corrupt Mt Gambier City Council operates, fuck the plebs, it's all about profitting Councillors' own families and/or businesses and/or their mates, etc...and I'd just like to sum-up the general public discourse about Council's actions regarding this closure/eviction thusly...fuck you Mt Gambier City Council you corrupt fucks...End Language Warning...

This does not end here, and no apologies for the anger and language, this is an absolute bloody disgrace...I will track-down that social media stuff I was referring to and re-visit this outrageous piece of economic vanadlism that will cost the entire community...coming into Mt Gambier's main tourism season, and with COVID-19 restrictions being continually lifted, and Mt Gambier's premier tourism experience and info point, a critical cornerstone of the entire South East tourism experience, that will be shut...just imagine what picture this paints to those many thousands of tourists and visitors when they rock-up to the Blue Lake and there's an empty building and no tours and no info, etc...     

Tomorrow: Just More Angry Hippy Cuttin' Crook About Somethin'

Can't wait to see how and even if the complicit Mt Gambier media reports this, and most likely runs protective interference for MGCC about this story of Council's appalling conduct and associated deceits and the immense and widespread damage this has caused and will cause into the future...

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