Ombudsman Lines Sublimely Declines To Act On Robe Probe But

Howdy dear availees, and mucho humblest apologies for the 10-day hiatus...had issues with my provider and changed accounts/plans which then disconnected my wi-fi, etc, and have been effectively without Interweb for a week...(sorted now then?-Ed)...hopefully, lots to catch-up on, so we're just gunna' whack-out this post asap, and finish it tomorrow...haven't forgotten the Mt Gambier City Council deceits and manipulations of the ludicrous Recreation Hub, but this absolute beauty (below) un-ravelled through last week, and we all just had to have a go at it...(oh for sure, and dear availees, please also refer to the relevant previous post if y'all haven't already-Ed)...and which post is that?...(Dear Robe CEO Roger Sweetman, Whim And Fancy This Champ, of 19th February 2018-Ed)...oh that's a beauty, one of my faves...(well, indeed, if the Statistics Page of this 'ere blog is to be believed, it's certainly proved quite the popular post this past week or so-Ed)...really?...(yep, apparently when people have been Interweb searching, that there post has been bobbing-up front and centre, there's been literally dozens of 'views'-Ed)...hurrah...(indeed-Ed)...and now we have this...***   

26 November, 2014 10:21AM ACDT

Robe council CEO responds to misconduct allegations

By Kate Hill

The CEO of Robe District Council has responded to serious allegations made against him and the council on ABC South East's Morning Show.

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Roger Sweetman said the Office of Public Integrity (OPI) would investigate an allegation inferring that Mr Sweetman held an inappropriate relationship with council auditors.

Earlier this year, the OPI had investigated a separate allegation relating to alleged misappropriation of funds by Robe District Council staff for the Lake Butler marina project, but said there was insufficient evidence to warrant further investigation.
Mr Sweetman said he was pleased council had been vindicated, but described the new allegations against him personally as 'baseless' and 'abhorrent'.
The complaint had been to made confidentially to auditor, Galpins.
"I have many professional relationships with people in local government," he said.
"I have a professional relationship with our auditor, but that's the end of it.
"However, because these allegations have been made as a public officer under the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) legislation, I have to do something about it."
Mr Sweetman said the allegations meant council would be unable to sign off on audited financial statements by the end of November and he would have to write to Minister for Local Government, Geoff Brock to advise him council could not meet its legislative requirements.
He said the allegations had cast aspersions on his professional ability and the auditor's professional ability also.
"It's ludicrous - you have many professional relationships with many people and it doesn't stop you doing your job and it doesn't influence the decisions you make in relations to your job in any way," he said.
The CEO said the council was currently in a good financial position, after struggles in previous years.
"Due to some very prudent financial management by my predecessors, council is in a very strong financial position - we have minimal debt and we are managing our finances and providing our services at a level which the community are happy with and as cheaply and as effectively as possible," he said.
Mr Sweetman said council voted last night to offer their full support to him.
"I've been in local government for 38 years and never dealt with anything at this level before - it's very disconcerting," he said.
"It's unfortunate that this sorry episode has chewed up a lot of resources on a lot of baseless claims.
"Council's time and effort would be better served providing services for our community."

***...(um, yeah, that's not the investigation that I was referring to?-Ed)...sorry?...(given that that's from 2014, I believe that that refers to the farcical shenanigans surrounding the $1million Marina Loan, as covered in that post from 19th February 2018-Ed)...whaaa?...(which is what the 19th February 2018 post mostly refers to-Ed)...and that post's also all the stuff about Roger Sweetman attacking and denigrating former Robe Mayor William 'Special Rules' Peden?...(yeah, that stuff, where-in 'Special Rules' refers to Roger Sweetman's actions in introducing 'rules' that allowed him to intercept Mr Peden's correspondence to Robe Council, and then presenting to Council his (Sweetman's) own version of that correspondence-Ed)...wow...(indeed, and 'Whim and Fancy' was Roger's seething on-air denigration of Mr Peden's absolutely appropriate attempts to get answers about many concerning aspects of Robe Council's conduct-Ed)...which is also Roger's agenda with the stuff about how much it's cost, etc, all that's an attack on Mr Peden...(spot on mate, a well-practised strategy/agenda of denigration, abuse, obfuscation and deliberate deceits, all aimed at avoiding discussing the actual issues, and instead attacking and undermining the credibility of the 'Whistleblower', in this instance Mr Peden-Ed)...now why does that sound so familiar?...(well because it's exactly what you have been subjected to for years now!-Ed)...yeah mate, it was a rhetorical question...  

And just how many times has the Ombudsman and/or Office Of Public Integrity investigated Robe Council and/or Roger Sweetman?...(well, as best as I can tell, at least twice, and I think that that 'Auditor' bit refers to the bizarre 'Internal Audit' that Robe Council did when that $1m Marina Loan appeared to have disappeared from Council's accounts/paperwork-Ed)...when they said that it was all fine, despite the fact they needed to do an 'Audit' to find it?...(yep, before then turning 'round and stating that that $1m Loan had actually never existed in the first place-Ed)...wow, I can see why you might call that a farce...(indeed, and the OPI/Ombudsman's response was to do nuthin'-Ed)...well SA's OPI/Ombudsman is in a farce of their own...(nice one-Ed)...and of course, if the OPI/Ombudsman is involved, that means the ICAC is also involved, and in a superior capacity...(absolutely, the ICAC/OPI/Ombudsman are basically and functionally the same animal, as identified in that article above, and as we covered in that previous post-Ed)...so hang on, if this latest thing is about the Robe Marina, but isn't specifically about that $1 Marina Loan, what's this about then?...(read on dear heart-Ed)...***

SA News

SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines finds Robe Council and former CEO Roger Sweetman mishandled $296,000 marina upgrade

Renato Castello, The Advertiser

April 4, 2019 8:00pm

Subscriber only

A council has been found guilty of maladministration and its retired chief executive of misconduct over their management of a $296,000 marina project, following an investigation by the state’s public sector watchdog.

SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines has upheld a whistleblower’s complaint that ex Robe Council chief executive Roger Sweetman had breached code of conduct during oversight of an upgrade of the Lake Butler marina entrance, the cost of which later blew out by $120,000.
Mr Lines ruled the council had mismanaged public resources by failing to obtain multiple quotes for the project and had not made “meaningful inquiries” behind the marina’s cost blowout despite being informed of the need for more funds.
The marina project had an initial approved budget of $170,000 but was completed in December 2014 for $296,309 without toilets, gates or asphalting of the carpark, which were included in an original project estimate.
Mr Sweetman tendered his resignation in December at the same time the council secretly considered preliminary findings of the investigation.
The council publicly released Mr Ombudsman’s final report on April 2, the day after Mr Sweetman permanently left council, and three weeks after Mr Lines had provided the council with a copy of his report
Mr Lines found Mr Sweetman, who was employed in July 2012, had failed to seek tenders for various aspects of the marina project in breach of the council’s procurement policy.
“I understand that the CEO developed a strategy of managing the project in-house, allowing for better management of local contractors and suppliers,” he said.
“This is critical given the finding that the council did not properly apply the procurement policy.
“Although I have not quantified the possible financial overspend by the council not following the procurement policy, it is clear that the CEO had responsibility to ensure the procurement policy was applied.”
He said Mr Sweetman had breached the council’s code of conduct and had committed misconduct in public administration.
Mr Lines said the council had acknowledged it had failed to obtain the “requisite number of quotes” for “at least nine significant transactions” under the project.
“The failure to apply the procurement policy … reflects a practice or pattern of conduct resulting in a substantial mismanagement of public resources,” he said.
“Given the scale of the project and the fact that there was a failure to comply with the procurement policy on a significant number of occasions, I consider that mismanagement to be substantial.”
In a statement, published in the council’s April 9 meeting agenda, Mr Sweetman said he accepted findings that he had committed misconduct.
“I also acknowledge that I failed council in ensuring that the correct processes and procedures relating to obtaining quotations for goods and services regarding the construction of the marina entrance,” he said.
But he said he did not agree with Mr Lines’ “assumption” that the council may not have received value for money.
“I do not feel that the Ombudsman fully appreciates the difficulty in procuring goods and services with rural regional areas where the number of suppliers for certain products are limited,” he wrote.
“Both council and I acted in the best interest of the community in relation to … the project.”
Mr Lines has given the council until May 3 to report on steps it has taken to improve its policies.

***...wow...(indeed, wow, findings of "Maladministration" against the Robe Council, and "Misconduct" and/or "Code of Conduct" specifically against CEO Sweetman, relating to "mismanaged public resources", but no action to be taken it appears-Ed)...wow...(you've already said that-Ed)...sure, but I just don't know what else to say, Lines actually identifies Maladministration but there's no action...(mmm, it's all rather reminiscent of Lines' farcical investigation of Mt Gambier's former Mayor Andrew Lee, who used Ratepayer's money to travel to China where he did personal business, including involving the purchase of a South East winery-Ed)...ahhh yes, we blogged about that too...(indeed we did, including where Andrew Lee repeatedly straight-out lied about his meetings, etc, and his failure to declare his winery purchase and the resultant income, etc, etc, etc-Ed)...all proven and no action from the Ombudsman or the farcically corrupt SA ICAC...(and in the context where a deeply traumatised father of a child abused at St Martins Lutheran School, tells the truth about a farcically deceitful pseudo-investigation of Mt Gambier City Council by ICAC in 2013-14, and is then subjected to more than 3 years of openly corrupt "bizarre trial", receives a Criminal Conviction for telling that truth, and is fined $540,000-Ed)...hey, that's me...(indeed it is, another rancidly corrupt attack on the 'Whistleblower'-Ed)...yeah, and I'm gunna' have a wild stab at it and suggest that the 'Whistleblower' identified in the above article is Mr Peden, again...

Gunna' finish here and continue on this topic tomorrow, or maybe even later today, see how I go, 'cos there's been a bunch-a-stuff in the media, including a truly bizarre Letter To The Editor from the new Robe Mayor...(I'm particularly keen to 'un-pack' that timeline where-in it looks like Roger, whilst under supposed investigation, again, has been the official Returning Officer for the November 2018 Local Government Elections, and then allowed to 'resign' before this report was released and any action has been taken, etc-Ed)...well that's just the ludicrously corrupted Local Government Election Process in SA, but it doesn't look like there was ever gunna' be any 'action taken' anyway...(well quite, it's a fundamental cluster-farce, from start to finish and everywhere in between-Ed)...and there have been 'issues' with that Election process as well, but I can't imagine they'll ever get appropriately investigated...(if investigated at all-Ed)...6 of 1, half a dozen of the other...

But if you want to get this perpetual Robe farce into context, please to be accessing the South Australian Ombudsman's Report page on their website, and read the truly incoherent justification that Wayne Lines has to offer for not taking any action against the former Pt Pirie Mayor...(which is?-Ed)...yeah sure Mayor Johnson has engaged in Insider Trading and/or Conflict of Interest and/or Maladministration by awarding a Council contract to a company he works for, etc, etc, but I'm not gunna' take any action 'cos he's not running for Council again at the November 2018 elections...(seriously?-Ed)...read it for ya'self...(so, metaphorically speaking, sure I used to rob banks, but I don't do that anymore so I should be excused of any prosecution?-Ed)...like I said, read it for ya'self, it's a classic case-study in just what a joke the SA OPI/Ombudsman/ICAC is, a structure designed and functioning to protect and excuse the Institutionalised Corruption and attack 'Whistleblowers', etc...

Tomorrow: More Robe Probe Farce

A shortish post today, but lots of homework for y'all dear availees, namely, checking-out that post from 19th February 2018 about my mate Roger 'Whim and Fancy' Sweetman, and the post about Wayne Lines' farcical pseudo-investigation and bizarre exoneration of former Mt Gambier Mayor Andrew Lee...(is that Lines Clearly Defines Fine Line By Clearing Lee, of 16th January 2018?-Ed)...yep, that's the one, where-in Wayne explains that Andrew startled the "fine line" defining 'corrupt conduct' by rushing right up to it and stamping madly there abouts, but that fleet-footed Andy never actually quite crosses that line...(now that's some fancy footwork indeed-Ed)...indeed...oh, and of course there's that Ombudsman's Report about the Pt Pirie Mayor...(mate, I've read that through 3 times, and it doesn't get any less hilarious, if anything, once you realise that you're not stone-cold tripping and have imagined the whole thing, the true hilarity really sets-in-Ed)...well you've always had a rather bizarre sense of humour Ed, but I take your point that it is indeed extraordinary to the point of hilarity...

Anyhoos, I am Nick Fletcher and this here is my blog, and that there is my confected literary device Ed...(cheers y'all-Ed)...and until next post, cheers and laters...     

Brief But Important Interim Post

Howdy dear availees everywhere, and humblest apologies for this very brief interim post, but I have been very unwell...(physically and mentally-Ed)...well indeed, and I've found that even trying to blog has been very confronting and traumatic...(is this tied into the counselling stuff you're currently doing?-Ed)...in part, absolutely, as helpful as some of it has been, it has also been incredibly confronting when re-hashing the many traumas of the past 16 years of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and being re-assessed in terms of what a devastating impact that has had on me personally...(let alone the impact on the dozens of 7 year old kids abused by "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, and those kid's families, etc-Ed)...and how it's affected my perception of our society and Mt Gambier, etc, etc, all that stuff...(so if the counselling's so bad for you, why do it?-Ed)...let me answer that in 9 parts...(oh gourd no!-Ed)...nah nah, just kidding, 2 main reasons...

Firstly, I was 'ordered' to do this by Corrections SA who flatly refused to accept my Disability Support Pension diagnosis and repeatedly demanded that I get "a more current one"...(and what's happened with all that stuff about your rankly, definably corrupt 'Trial', and the bizarre 'Conviction' and $540,000 fines what was changed to 260hrs of Community Service, and the changed ICAC legislation, etc, etc?-Ed)...nuthin'...(nuthin'?-Ed)...nope, still trying to 'Appeal', no-one returns my emails or phonecalls and I've heard nuthin' at all from Corrections for nearly 6 months...(and what about those multiple SAPol (police) visits to your humble abode in November/December 2018 and all of that harassment about supposedly breaching the "reprehensibly vile" Final Intervention Orders, etc, etc?-Ed)...nope, nuthin'...(nuthin'? but what about those repeated statements about how "you'll receive a Summons in a coupla' months", what about that stuff?-Ed)...yeah, sure, that's what I was told on 2nd November 2018 and again on 27th December it was "a month", but I've heard nought since...(wow-Ed)...

And then there was also all that stuff about how I had to submit to a DNA Swab and Fingerprinting or else I'd be arrested and forced to submit, etc...(ahhh, I'd forgotten about that-Ed)...so apparently have SAPol...(oh I don't think they've forgotten, I just think that were caught-out lying and harassing and intimidating you, and when called-out on that stuff, they've just withdrawn to re-draw their plans and to find new and exciting ways to harass and attack you-Ed)...and there's plenty of people who think exactly the same as you Ed...(you for example-Ed)...yeah, but I think all your stuff, what with you being a confected literary device and all...(fair enough-Ed)...but I believe that you are correct in so much as SAPol have definably lied so much in this FIO Breaches process, that to attempt to pursue that issue is just making huge problems for themselves...(eg, why insist on videoing you when it suits them, but failing to do so when they are lying about the DNA stuff-Ed)...a perfect example Ed, only exacerbated by their bizarre claim on 27th December that now they didn't need to do that Swab, etc, because my DNA and Fingerprints are supposedly "already up on the system"...but we digress...

I'm doing counselling because it was demanded of me by Corrections SA who refuse to accept my DSP situation as "current enough", but secondly, I have previously engaged positively with counselling and managed to achieve some positive advancement...and that's how I've explained it to said Counsellor, '1) I'm here because I have to be, and 2) I don't believe that there's a single thing you can do to change the realities that cause me such trauma, etc, and thirdly, given how I and other families have been so relentlessly betrayed by people claiming to helping us, I find it fundamentally impossible to trust you...(wow, way to endear yourself-Ed)...sure, but I very carefully explained my position, eg, what Hawkins Clinic did to me to destroy my 'Trial', at the behest of the rankly corrupt Magistrate Ian White, where-in my "Medical Certificate" was retracted/discounted in my absence and my medical details discussed at length in Open Court, to then be reported on the rankly corrupt ABC South East Radio and The Border Watch newspaper...across several appointments, my Counsellor has shown the maturity and good-grace to respond specifically to my initial statements, accepting the veracity of my position and motivators, and accepting my included repeated apology that none of it is their fault...

Regardless, I have found the process incredibly confronting because I am being asked to consider and accept the traumas and consequences that pursuing the St Martins Cover-up have had on me personally...and they are effectively absolute and definably unrelenting...and that brings us directly back to the undisguised Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution of my rankly corrupt 'Trial' and subsequent corrupt 'Conviction', etc, etc, all motivated by a corrupt Parliament and corrupt Police and corrupt Judiciary's desire to punish me for speaking-out about the St Martins Cover-up...which then leads directly to the one topic I really did want to cover today, the TV program, Crime Investigation Australia - The Family Murders...on telly just this week, please search it and view it, it explains exactly what South Australia is...(I thought you said it was a giant crock-a-shizzle designed and aired to obfuscate and deny the high-ranking connections to the Family Murders?-Ed)...no no, that was the ludicrously corrupted farce City of Evil starring The Advertiser newspaper's Sean Fewster and Nigel Hunt...(ah, I was gunna' say, because you stomped all over that particular piece of absolute bollocks-Ed)...indeed I did Ed, and it's exactly what it deserved, it was a deeply cynical and corrupt piece of propaganda...

Crime Investigation Australia - The Family Murders looked to be headed down that exact same path, blaming Bevan Von Einem as the sole perpetrator, etc, but it suddenly did a huge 180 and slammed-down a series of absolute and damning truths in the last 15-20 minutes...a parent told by SAPol that they couldn't touch the real perpetrators because they were 'too powerful', etc...a brother of a victim stating that Adelaide is the centre of global paedophilia, etc...statements about the realities known that there were many others involved and undoubtedly many more 'undiscovered' victims, etc...the murder of witnesses, etc...I was stunned to see a lengthy interview with Ms Wendy Utting, currently still pursuing The Family Murders and other issues of SA's Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption, and formerly one of the Child Protection Advocates involved with former Speaker Peter Lewis and the notorious 'Paedophile Dossier' released by his office in 2005, etc...(was that the stuff that named high-ranking paedophiles and led to that bizarrely corrupt 'Defamation/Treason Trial' stuff that we've discussed in several posts?-Ed)...that's the one Ed, but previously we've chosen to exclude her name because we were unawares that she was still involved in this stuff, had moved-on, etc...(wasn't it Ms Utting whom you were with that time that that rat-fink Nigel Hunt rushed at her in the Parliament House courtyard, threatening to "expose" her, etc?-Ed)...yeah, when I thought she was being attacked again, and I went within a hair's-breadth of body-slamming him into the side of the building, etc...

Please dear availees, watch this program because it exactly defines what I and other St Martins families have been fighting against, a rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt Lutheran Church colluding with a willingly complicit Pro-Paedophile South Australian Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary...(is this program so different to that City of Evil dross because it was produced outside of South Australia?-Ed)...dunno', but even as you ask that question, it rings so very very true...again dear availees, as disturbing and SA-disgraceful as this program is, please watch it...if it is likely to cause you discomfort and trauma as it has me, please be sure to have some sort of support-person with you or easily accessible...

Tomorrow: Hopefully The Recreation Centre Corruption Stuff              

And I say 'hopefully tomorrow'  because I've just suffered through a chronic tooth/gum infection, have had to do a course of antibiotics, etc, and am lookin' down the barrel at a double extraction early next week...usually I can motivate myself with all that stuff about being grateful to be here to whinge about it, etc, now nearly 15 years after all that Chemo, etc, and how lucky I am to still have all my front teeth, etc, but losing more teeth is still really unpleasant in the moment...and now not far from requiring some sort of back-denture, it brings into sharp focus 2 issues, namely, 1) as widely discussed, why isn't all Dental Care, a critical aspect of general health, why isn't Dental covered by Medicare?...which leads directly on to 2) dentures are not covered under the Public Clinic system, so how is someone on a Support Payment or Minimum Wage, etc, meant to cover the minimum $300-$400 for a basic partial denture? what if you need extensive denture work running into $1000s?...what do these people, including many 'Working Poor' and pensioners, etc, what do they do? suck food for the rest of their days?...

I refer to this in the context of this week's Federal Budget, farcically claiming a 'Surplus' based in-part on under-funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme, etc, and the Liberal/National Party's relentless demonising of the Unemployed, Pensioners, etc, and the cynically dysfunctional National Redress Scheme for Child Abuse Survivors, etc, etc, etc...contrast this with those like our Allowance-Guzzling politicians and non-taxpaying 'Franking Credit' retirees and non-taxpaying corporations, etc, and ask yourselves who is that is really the burden on this deeply broken nation we cannot rationally call The Lucky Country...

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

REPOST - Second Removed 'Premier Jay Weatherill' Post

Howdy Poland, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and welcome to another REPOST following the 'removal' of this post below, originally published on 25th October 2017...as per the immediate previous post of this morning, the relevant 'complaint' was supposedly lodged with the website 'Lumen', sometime after the March 2018 SA State Election when Premier Weatherill became "former Premier", as he is referred to in the 'complaint'...(hey! that's mine, I pointed that one out in the last post-Ed)...yeah, well done, moving on...'Lumen' are apparently now Google's 'Complaint Moderator'...again, I have received no notification of any description, not from Google, Lumen, or from whoever it was apparently anonymously lodged this complaint and had my bitterly accurate content removed...("bitterly"?-Ed)...telling such Truths leaves a very sour taste in my mouth...(and fair enough-Ed)...I also noticed that I made a 'date error' in the previous post, namely, that I confronted Jay Weatherill on ABC Radio on 1st June 2013, not on 1st June 2012 as written...

As previously identified, this post below, of 25th October 2017, and the previous REPOST of 9th August 2016 were on this 'ere blog for at least 5 months and 19 months respectively, before being  'deleted/removed' sometime after March 2018, which coincides with my extraordinarily corrupt  'Conviction' for talking about ICAC...(heck of a coincidence-Ed)...indeed, but given that I don't know exactly when that 'Complaint' was lodged or when the posts were pulled down, etc, that's all it is, potentially coincidence...(yeah, but still, that first post was up nearly 2 years before getting 'pulled', the second for 5 months, then they both get yanked at the same time under the one complaint?-Ed)...sure, it looks very suspect, but what can I say, it looks so suss because it is...(suss is as suss does-Ed)...well quite...also, there was a 'Comment' posted on that previous REPOST (of 9th August 2016), left on there 10th August 2016 by someone calling themselves 'Split Chick Pea'...I believe that that 'Comment' has also been deleted, so here 'tis...***

Weatherill resigning would just be another cop out for the govt. Another sacrificial lamb to distract from the role that the entire govt has played in countless cases of corruption and cover ups when it comes to child protection. Countless ! The entire govt needs outing and to be held accountable. We heard hundreds of 'cases' in Parliament, not just those that were squeezed into the terms of reference of the resulting Mullighan Inquiry. People had representation, they had not just one but multiple voices in and out of Parliament at the time, and the then Rann Govt set out to successfully shut those voices down by bullying, stand over tactics and worse. It cost people their lives, their livelihoods, and any scrap of remaining faith ( albeit misdirected ) in the decency of human beings. Four years in court for doing the right thing taught me that one . Weatherill resigning would be an inadequate result in my eyes , unless his entire party goes with him. Sad reality is that St Martins

***...so there you go, it just cuts-off there for some reason, but, anyhoos, here's the other 'removed/deleted' post originally titled, Jay Weatherill - The Pro-Paedophile Premier's Complicit Role In The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and yet again Dear Googles, as vitriolic and angry and traumatised as the content of my blog may well be, these are the thoroughly documented realities that Jay Weatherill and many others have brought into the lives of me, my family, and many other families involved with the St Martins Cover-up...again dear availees I've had to censor out the name of a rancidly corrupt person thusly (*****) because of the "reprehensibly vile" Final Intervention Orders associated with my 'Conviction' for blogging, etc...right, here we go...***

Howdy to Serbia, Brazil, India, and yoohoo Peru...look, I know I'm basically re-inventing my own wheel with this topic/title, and it is a rather a long title, but then again, The Shiny Man has such an extensive portfolio of Pro-Paedophile Corruption, what with a series of vacuously corrupt Royal Commissions, eg, the farcical Debelle Inquiry that tracked emails directly to Jay Weatherill's computer, but then allowed for the ludicrous outcome that those emails had just 'disappeared'...(and how many other 'Child Abuse' Royal Commissions or similar farces have we had in SA?-Ed)...well, 4 or 5 under this Rann/Weatherill Labor government, but we haven't had one for at least 6 months, so we're about due...(overdue I'd say-Ed)...indeed...

Premier Jay Weatherill is a rankly corrupt pro-paedophile egomaniac, who is so far-gone, so enamoured with the wonder of his own being, that even the deeply embarrassing and wholly corrupt disaster that he's been for South Australia, that won't stop him furiously advertising himself all over the SA media...all day, every day, I simply cannot avoid it, so here we are again dear availees, railing against him and his corruption...Truth and Reality and Conscience are not things that impose themselves upon The Shiny Man's sense of himself...you Jay, mate, are fully responsible for the ongoing St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and it defines you and the rank pro-paedophile corruption that runs South Australia and it's entire Parliament, but most particularly you and your Labor Party...

South Australian Labor Party - Proudly Supporting Paedophilia In SA:...oh, and where's the Liberal Party when it comes to the St Martins Cover-up?...(ummm, completely corruptly complicit?-Ed)...well let's just ask, ummm, I dunno', mmm, ooo yes I do, let's ask (*****), Peter Gandolfi, Rob Lucas, David Ridgway, Vicki Chapman, Michelle Lensink, Mitch Williams, etc, and not least of all former leaders Rob Kerin or Isobel Redmond and even that rancid turncoat, Martin Hamilton-Smith...(disgraceful betrayal of both the Libs and the Electorate-Ed)...indeed...and remember of course that former Member for Barker, Liberal Patrick Secker wrote to various persons, including the then Deputy-Prime Minister Julia Gillard...dear availees, I just recently posted some of that correspondence between Mr Secker and Ms Gillard...of all the Liberals I/us parents spoke to about this, Mr Secker stands glowingly alone as the one Liberal who actually did something, anything...(the Liberals you say? mmm, I know who we should ask-Ed)...whom?...(Tony-Ed)...of course... 

Liberal's Federal Member for Barker, Tony Pasin:...is as absolutely complicit in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up as any of the rankly corrupt Labor stooges involved, eg, Rory McEwen, Don Pegler, Julia Gillard, etc...Tony has taken his rank corruption as a Councillor with the rankly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, taken all that corruption with him into Federal politics, and with him has gone the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...as I've stated many times before, Tony Pasin has known about the St Martins Abuse and associated Cover-up since it first happened...furthermore, I was looking at him...(right at 'im?-Ed)...right at 'im when I named/identified "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling's lawyer, as being Stephen Lieschke, business partner of Jay Weatherill (law firm)...(that's right! at that March 2010 Election Forum when the issue of St Martins was raised by a question from the floor, and Tony was so excited about your revelations that he dead-set levitated himself out of the chair!-Ed)...right out of it?...(well certainly clear of the seat, so sure, right out of it-Ed)...I can fly!... 

Speaker Of SA Parliament Micheal Atkinson:...I rarely if ever comment on people's physical appearance in a denigrating manner, but I do have my moments, and Mikey-boy's corruption is etched into his deeply-disturbing countenance...you, Mike, mate, are one creepy looking dude and you genuinely make my skin crawl because your greed, your avarice, your rank pro-paedophile corruption is etched deep...(yeah, but is that purely about what a creepy looking dude he is, and he most surely is, or is your 'experience' of his physical appearance, an experience deeply distorted by your knowledge of who he is and what he's done?-Ed)...fair call, he looks effectively 'rancid' even 'evil' to me, because when I look at him I see his rancid/'evil' actions...(mmm, I thought you were supposed to put the decaying portrait in the attic and carry your contracted countenance with you about the town? you know? Dorian Grey and all that-Ed)...indeed, what's the point of making a deal with the Devil if you're gunna' wear the 'evil' portrait face 'round the town, and stick the smooth youthful face somewhere outta' sight?...  

Been reading a bunch of 'Comments' on various news websites, and it seems that people are not as stupid as Jay Weatherill thinks...(but that's simply not enough to get Labor outed at the March 2018 Election though, because the Liberal 'Opposition' are just un-inspiringly un-electable...as a Political unit, we in South Australia are fundamentally rooted, out alleged Democracy forfeit to the rank Pro-Peadophile Corruption that defines our Parliament and therefore us-Ed)...unfortunately true Ed... 

The Pork-Barrelling Trough Of Taxpayer's Money:...as finalists have been announced, apparently, for the $40million Fund My Neighbourhood, with $20million to be doled-out now, and then another $20m 'early' next year...and in another exemplary 'Dorothy Dixer' ABC South East Radio interview, Labor's Russell Wortley was spruiking this massive Pre-Election Bribe or PBTOTM, whatevs, this irrefutably transparent piece of self-interested Political Stunting...(pah!-Ed)...and there's the weasel-words about how these 1600 'projects' had to be "sponsored"...(where-in 'sponsored' means 'approved by Council'-Ed)...exactly, and that's why it is that, of the '250 finalists' who we are being encouraged to support via the 'important community-based voting', etc, something like 25 projects 'sponsored' for a share, up to $150,000 per 'project', with a local funding pool of $750k due to population, etc...a few examples were sport clubs like West (I think) Gambier, Casadio Pk Lights, improved (more?) bike tracks and/or 'bmx track', and/or 'a fitness track', 'seating in Wehl St Theatre', etc... 

Rusty Doorknocks:...'Claire and I went to Mt Gambier's schools, and after we spoke to them they all put in for FMN cash', says Russell ...(what does that even mean?-Ed)...it means that they went to schools to directly promote this crass bribery and drag schools, etc, into trying to justify this rank Political Stunt...this is absolute bullshit, rolled-gold pork-barrelling from a wholly grandstanding Labor Party who have all-but dismantled Regional communities like Mt Gambier, before suddenly introducing this FMN less than a year before the March 2018 State Election, and where-in the money will still go to 'projects' that are 'MGCC sponsored' and therefore likely to be family and/or mates of Councillors, etc...(is that why you didn't bother to submit any ideas?-Ed)...well exactly, a complete waste of time, 'cos the moment I put my name to some idea, no matter how positive or productive that it might be for everyone, that idea will be officially jumped-on and buried and sure-as-shreck ain't gunna' get no money from these clowns...  

Wake In Plight:...of the recent demise of Holden at Elizabeth (in Adelaide), which also brings to an end Car Manufacturing in Australia...so whilst I can understand the 'Wake-style' proceedings of last week, this is an unmitigated disaster, so even for me, even for one so accustomed to the deeply corrupted lies of Premier Jay, even I found it just mind-boggling to see The Shiny Man, with that automaton muppet Minister Kyam Maher bobbing-about over 'is shoulder like one of them inflated kite-people advertising thingies...(you don't like Kyam much, do you?-Ed)...not my fault mate, I look at him and all I see is the rank pro-paedophile corruption that defines SA, because that's what he is, and that's what he does, that's how he got there, etc, etc...(yeah, fair enough-Ed)...but that aside, even I was stunned to see Ray Jay describe the Holden closure with it's associated massive job losses across many suppliers, etc, well according to Jay this is a 'fantastic foundation to build on for the future'...(wow-Ed)...indeed..(well nah but hang-on, it's a great foundation if one is building a funeral cairn, or a memorial monument of some description, etc-Ed)...well indeed... 

   

Just look at these people, the lights are on, the engine's running, but there isn't a single original thought between them, it's 100% rehearsed catch-phrase, professional denial and/or institutionalised faux-ignorance...and in SA it isn't a race to the bottom...(ooo that sounds the cue for a really rude joke, doesn't it Nick?-Ed)...not now, yes, but not now...('butt knot now', teeheeheehee-Ed)...riiight, mate, I'm trying to launch into a vaguely un-hinged and probably vastly verbose, certainly viciously vindictive and expletive-laden excoriation of the State of the Nation, and most particularly this sad, sick Pro-Paedophile State we all call home, so's I'd appreciate it if you stopped with the 'arse humour' for just a bit...("arse humour", teehee, sounds a bit like 'arse humour'...oh wait-Ed)...quite finished?...it isn't a race to the bottom, because you have to have run and won that particular race to get into the Labor Team...(are you referring to rankly corrupt official appointments like Grant King being made simultaneous Head Honchos for the Health Advisory Committee thingy and Regional Development Australia?-Ed)...yes Ed, exactly like that, and exactly like Kyam Maher, straight-out of the rankly corrupt Crown Solicitors Office and straight into Labor Cabinet as a Minister with several important portfolios...

Labor's Peter Malinauskas and Penny Richardson were just on ABC Radio about the Renal Dialysis Unit funding, etc...it's an endless cavalcade of absolutely disgraceful pro-Labor stoogery redefining the realities we experience as Mt Gambier residents...much more tomorrow...

  

Tomorrow: Verbosely Speaking Frankly About Verbally Spanking Frank

I can't quite recall whether Mt Gambier City Councillor Frank Morello said 'stop writing about me on your blog', or whether he actually said 'write about me every single post and carefully explain to availees just what a corrupt pro-paedophile sack-a'-alleged human being that I am, mate'...(I'm pretty sure it was the second one, 'cos I recall him saying, "you're not well Nick, you're not well", indicating that indeed, he wished to be the subject of daily mentions for his rankly pro-paedophile corruption and deeply complicit involvement in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...yeah, I thought that's what he was saying when he deliberately ambushed me outside MGCC's Full Meeting back in September 2017, started babbling about me allegedly calling him "a paedophile", and then sought to upset me with the attempted denigration about my Mental Health issues...see you tomorrow Frank, mate...

Robe 2040-Oh:...and the question apparently being posed by Robe Council is, 'Where will Robe be in 2040?'...(well, about 200m offshore in 10-15 feet of water, if current erosion rates continue-Ed)...nice one man, a hyperbolic over-exaggeration of an actual issue, 'cos erosion and/or rising sea levels are very relevant issues for a very flat area that was only recently itself entirely a shallow sea...(and hence the South East is referred to as the Limestone Coast, 'cos the Limestone we all are a' settin' on, from here in Mt Gambier right up through Naracoorte, Keith, etc, up-to and possibly including Murray Bridge, all that Limestone is the bones and carapaces and other assorted gristly bits of millions of sea critters from across millions of years, all packed-down and compressed into 'stone'-Ed)...spot on Ed, indeed, it is incorrect to refer to 'fossils in Limestone', because every bit of Limestone is technically a fossil...(well hurrah!-Ed)...indeed...(and what ever happened about that $1million Marina 'Loan' that Robe Council appeared to have 'misplaced', requiring an 'Audit' to find it again?-Ed)...I don't recall Ed, was that ever resolved? whatevs, I'm sure I'll hear about it if it ain't...(sweet-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...still trying to get those other blogs happenin', slowly, and some are set to go, etc...cheers and laters...oh, and PS, just go back a coupla' posts to see those letters from Weatherill, Mike Rann, and Julia Gillard re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...

***...and we're back in March 2019, and mmm, that was hardly my best effort blog-wise, but they can't all be gems...(well at least you're trying mate, better than I can say for most-Ed)...cheers, that is unfortunately true...having said that, a big shout-out to all those who are trying, eg, former Australian Tax Office employee turned 'Whistleblower' Richard Boyle, currently facing 161 years in gaol for speaking the truth about the rancid corruption in the ATO...I'll finish-up there and say seeya's all...

Tomorrow: That Long-Promised Rec Centre Lies/Corruption Post

Oh, and some stuff about the rather bizarre sudden return of my laptop, as 'seized by SAPol (police) on 8th May 2014 and then returned a coupla' weeks ago, just shy of 5 years later...(wow, so it's now effectively obsolete and worthless-Ed)...well that is an issue, yeah, but what do you suggest I do about that, write to SAPol and ask them to compensate me for that?...(why not, and ask them for the money for having to replace that laptop back in May 2014, etc-Ed)...tell you what mate, you reckon you've got a snowball's chance in hell of getting any money from the definably corrupt SAPol, knock ya'self out...

I am Nick Fletcher and I suspect that there may well be a series of these REPOST posts on this 'ere my blog as I go back and review thoroughly just what exactly else has been 'deleted/removed' without me being notified...and as always, cheers and laters...

 

REPOST - Jay Weatherill Post Removed From 9th August 2016

***Howdy Nigeria, Israel, the USofA, and Aotearoa (New Zealand)...dear availees, this post was originally published on 9th August 2016, under Jay Weatherill - The Pro-Paedophile Premier Of The Paedophile State, but then removed following the attached un-dated 'complaint'...I have received no notification from Google or 'Lumen' who are the 'Complaint Site Monitor' or whatevs...in one place it says that 'this post is unavailable', but when you try to access the post, it has been completely removed and says 'this page doesn't exist'...here is a copy of the anonymous complaint...*** 

Defamation Complaint to Google

sender

REDACTED

COUNTRY: AU

recipient

Google LLC

[Private] Mountain View, CA, 94043, US

submitter

Google LLC

Re: Unknown

Sent via: Unknown

Notice Type:

Defamation

Legal Complaint

This entire blogspot account posts defamatory claims about the former Premier of 

South Australia, Jay Weatherill, suggesting he is a paedophile, has covered up 

child sexual abuse amongst many other things. There is also defamatory material 

about a number of other members of Parliament. The three URLs are simply examples, 

this material is littered throughout all posts on the site.

1. Defamation Claim #1

   URLs of Allegedly Defamatory Material:
   

   1. https://themountgambierindependent.blogspot.com/2017/10/jay-weatherill-pro-paedophile.html
   2. https://themountgambierindependent.blogspot.com/2016/08/jay-weatherill-pro-paedophile-premier.html
   3. https://themountgambierindependent.blogspot.com/

***...so there you have it, an undated anonymous 'complaint' has seen that entire post removed, and so here we go again...
Dear Googles:...why do you continue to allow these people to continue to manipulate you into being complicit in their definable Pro-Paedophile Corruption...the attached letter (below) from Jay Weatherill to DeGaris Lawyers clearly shows that he, Weatherill, intervened personally to stop Comm Mullighan's investigation of the St Martins Cover-up...and I say "stop" because Comm Mullighan was already investigating St Martins and had met with us parents several times, we'd provided him reams of documentation, he had personally asked Premier Mike Rann to be allowed to add St Martins to his Royal Commission, etc, etc...(why did he have to ask?-Ed)...dunno'...(but he was the Royal Commissioner, he had the powers to investigate whatevs he wanted-Ed)...indeed, it casts a huge doubt-shaped shadow across Comm Mullighan's genuineness regarding us and St Martins, but that's an issue for another post, today we're dealing with this removed post...(fair enough-Ed)...

For the record, I have proven beyond question that the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up is real, and that people like Jay Weatherill are fully aware and completely complicit...and who is the anonymous stooge who can just 'complain' and have this Truth censored without apparently providing any evidence to counter my documents...(ooo, I just noticed something-Ed)...what?...(well that 'complaint' is undated, but it refers to "former Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill"-Ed)...yeah, so?...(so that post was originally published 9th August 2016, yeah?-Ed)...yeah, that's what I said...(well Weatherill was Premier until he lost the March 2018 State Election, and then quit Parliament in December 2018, forcing a by-election in his seat, etc-Ed)...yeah, so?...(so that 'complaint' was clearly lodged at some point after the March 2018 election-Ed)...ahhhhhh...(at least 18 months after the post was originally lodged-Ed)...yeahhhhhs...(so why was it not touched until then?-Ed)...don't know, maybe it has something to do with my rankly corrupt 'Conviction' for blogging about the rancidly Corrupt SA ICAC, that was February-April 2018...(dunno'-Ed)...whatevs...

Please note that in the re-posted post below, that (*****)  is where I've had to remove a certain name due to the "reprehensibly vile" Final Intervention Orders handed down by the definably corrupt Magistrate Ian White, politically motivated FIOs designed to censor and/or block me from telling the unpleasant truths that I do about the definable Pro-Paedophile Corruption in South Australia...and again Dear Googles, I have clearly documented Magistrate White's corruption on this 'ere blog and confronted him with it in Court and written repeatedly to the Chief Magistrate and SA Attorneys-General, etc, etc, etc...so here 'tis, the post from 9th August 2016...***

c/- This 'Ere Blog

I cannot and will not apologise for being deeply traumatised by the extraordinary events of the last 2 days; events extraordinary only in that they are so familiar...here, ladies and gentlemen, et al others as you yourselves would have it be known, your god loves you whoever you are, here (below) is the front page of todays' The Advertiser, and Premier Jay Weatherill lying through his teeth, crying his crocodile tears, and refusing to resign...(why would he resign? seems to me that everythings' running exactly as is wanted by the people running the state?-Ed)...whaaaa?! the 'Child Protection System', such as it does exist in South Australia, is a corrupted disaster that leaves children vulnerable, voiceless, and unrepresented!...(exactly, in a State clearly run by and/or for paedophiles, South Australia is running exactly as they would have it-Ed)...ahhh, indeed, I apologise that I missed the sarcasm, what with my white-hot rage and everything...(nah, fair enough-Ed)...

I remind availees that on June 1st 2012 I managed to corner Jay mate...(maaate-Ed)...on ABC Radio Adelaide, and he claimed he 'didn't recall' his role in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, a role irrefutably defined below, yet again, by the letter from FAYS Minister Weatherill from August 25th 2005 (attached), and as accompanied by then Premier Mike Ranns' own letter (August 13th 2005) to lawyer Bill DeGaris...(hello Billy-Ed)...here, again, is the irrefutable proof that, 1) Comm Mullighan was liaising/meeting with families re the St Martins Cover-up, and, 2) Rann and Weatherill were intimately aware of the details re St Martins, but then, despite this intimate knowledge and direct contact with Comm Mullighan, etc, directly refused appropriate 'official' investigation by the man who was, clearly, already 'unofficially' investigating St Martins...

Also attached, the Friday January 7th 2005 article from The Advertiser, corruptly waving-away the realities of the St Martins Cover-up, and I remind availees that The Advertiser refused to print any sort of 'right-of-reply' from parents, particularly corrupt given that the Lutherans have been afforded carte-blanche to denigrate and dismiss us parents...the Lutheran Church in Australia, as headquartered in Adelaide, is to my extensive personal experience, exactly like South Australia itself, effectively run by and/or for paedophiles, and all involved hide behind their corrupt lawyers in Adelaide and their corrupt State Parliament mates...South Australia, what a mind-numbing disgrace...

And just to keep it all so very, very real, the last attachment below, is the front page bastardry of The Border Watch, May 6th 2005, with my fav alleged journo, Sandra Morello (nee Wallace)...(yay-Ed)...yeah, absolutely, classic Sandra, outrageously corrupted presentation of a corrupt agenda, on behalf of the Vested Interests in Mt Gambier, themselves intimately involved in the St Martins Cover-up, eg, Rory McEwen, (*****), Jim and Viv Maher, et al...regular availees will be well aware that these letters/articles are just the tip of a horrendously thorough iceberg, an iceberg that may well roll over occasionally and show a different face, but remains always the same iceberg...

South Australia under the Rann/Weatherill Labor Government (2002-2016) has had multiple Child Protection Royal Commissions and/or Parliamentary Inquiries and nothing has changed, other than for the worse...and now yet another Royal Commission has regurgitated the no.1 Recommendation from the 2003 Layton Report, namely, establish the position of Childrens' Commissioner...no.1 in 2003 and yet to be implemented in August 2016, and Jay's saying that he'll 'look at it seriously'...(don't want to rush into these things-Ed)...don't want to do them at all...

And again Dear Google, please consider that as outrageous and damning as some of the statements are in this 'ere post, they are statements of fact backed by actual documentation, much of it already available on this 'ere blog...cheers...

Tomorrow: So Much More Of The Same

Jay Weatherill, you are a coward and a liar and I dare you to face the children and parents from St Martins and apologise for your reprehensible conduct re the abuse of the then 7-year-old, grade 2 children by their teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School, Mt Gambier, abuses committed systematically from February-June 2002...(yeah, and bring ya' corrupt mate Rory McEwen with ya'!-Ed)...absolutely...but whatevs, see ya' here tomorrow Jay mate...(maaate-Ed)...right 'ere on this 'ere blog...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and here are my truths as I have lived them...(and yes, we're talking to you again Google-Ed)...cheers and laters...(laters-Ed)...

***...so there you go...don't reckon there's really much to add to those realities, other than to question why exactly that post has been removed and point out yet again to Dear Googles, if what I'm saying is supposedly so scurrilously defamatory, why are these clowns constantly bleating to you about it but are not actually ever sueing me, yeah? why not try to stop me with appropriate Court action?...(well because they can't stop the Pro-Paedophile Truth, even in an SA Court, so they have to attack the blog instead-Ed)...well exactly...anyhoos, I'll end there for today but be back...

Tomorrow: Another Removed Post Re-posted

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

My Brutally Passive Aggressive Submission To Magistrate White

Howdy y'all...and again apologies that I've slipped another whole week, but it's been extraordinarily traumatic and resultantly tiring, etc, to watch the George Pell conviction/sentencing stuff...(I can only imagine what it's been like for people who have had to deal with this horrendous human being, in any context-Ed)...absolutely...(unless of course you're one of these RWNJs who have proudly supported him and openly questioned, even condemned the conviction/sentence-Ed)...you mean Right Wing Nut Jobs like former PM John Howard, Tony Abbott, the rancid sneer-fest that is Andrew Bolt, etc, etc...(that be they, them and plenty of others, and I refer back to our immediate most recent past-post about the fetid SA Liberal Mark Brindall-Ed)...well quite...(and his extraordinary public comments on the ABC about South Australian politicians "chasing boys"-Ed)...and the abject failure of the ABC interviewer to even question that comment...(yeah, all of that, all of that stuff clearly illustrating that the ABC is every bit as complicit as the Main Stream Media in protecting and perpetuating unchallenged the Pro-Paedophile Control of our Parliaments and 'Authorities'-Ed)...strewth, no wonder I feel so exhausted...

And of course, I have my very own personal corner of this delightful situation, namely the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the definable complicit involvement of literally all levels of government, from local Mayors like Peter Gandolfi...(and numerous others-Ed)...well, exactly, and through to state government reps like the rancidly corrupt Rory McEwen, his Pro-Paedophile bosses former Labor Premiers Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill, former Attorneys-General Michael Atkinson and li'l Johnny Rau...(not forgetting multiple Liberal politicians from Rob Kerin to Rob Lucas to David Ridgway to our current AG Vicki Chapman-Ed)...who could forget them...(well not us!-Ed)..indeed, and then it's on-up into federal politics and the rankly complicit conduct of Member for Barker Tony Pasin, Liberal Julie Bishop, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and so on and so forth...(and it would be absolutely remiss of us to not mention a procession of rankly corrupt Pro-Paedophile SAPol (police) Commissioners, from Mal Hyde to our mate Grant Stevens-Ed)...yeah, gidday Grant, mate, I'll never forget that conversation we had when you were head of the SAPol Paedophile Taskforce, and you told me that you'd been ordered by your superiors to 'drop/not touch' the St Martins Cover-up...       
(And let us not forget the litany of rancidly corrupt Public Officials connected to the Pro-Paedophile Corrupt Teachers Registration Board hearing into "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling-Ed)...well quite, the TRB, SAPol, again, the Crown Solicitors Office...(the Crown Solicitor, Ed said laughingly, what a sick joke is the CSO-Ed)...yeah, and I'm feeling a bit neglected 'cos it's been a year nearly since I received my latest bizarrely incompetent Pro-Paedophile threat-letter from the rancidly corrupt CSO...(and isn't former CS Simon Sretton now a Magistrate-Ed)...yep, another close mate of mine who repeatedly but ever-so politely threatened to gaol me (2005-06) if I didn't stop telling the truth about the CSO's definable collusion with the TRB and Glyn Dorling's lawyer, Stephen Lieschke...(and wasn't Lieschke Jay Weatherill's law-firm partner?-Ed)...still is for all I know...(and what a gutless flat-wicket bully is Stephen Lieschke, a corrupt incompetent crook-Ed)...surprised he's not in SA Parliament m'self...(indeed, indeed-Ed)...and indeed we could wantonly wax lyrical about the many others specifically involved in the St Martins Cover-up...(you mean other rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt lawyers like Bill DeGaris, Tim Bourne, and Peter Humphries?-Ed)...yeah, all good mates of mine, gidday fella's...but regular availees will already be aware of all of this, and again forgive me that I'm effectively just venting my anger by repeating this stuff above...

(And besides, it ain't just you in that St Martins corner-Ed)...well quite, there's literally dozens of kids, now young adults, and their families...(and not just the kids it appears that Dorling abused prior to his sudden 'removal' from St Martins in June 2002, potentially hundreds of primary school kids, but also the kids at the Lutheran school in Adelaide that he was 'removed' from in the late 1990s, before then being moved to Mt Gambier and St Martins -Ed)...exactly, the St Martins Cover-up genuinely begins not in 2002, but 4-6 years before...(and the unknown number of children that the Lutherans knowingly and deliberately exposed to Dorling's abuses when he was moved to a Lutheran school in Victoria, after St Martins-Ed)...exactly, as identified to parents by former SA Child Abuse Commissioner Ted Mullighan (deceased)...and so it goes on...and it's not just the St Martins stuff, 'cos just this week I've met 2 'survivors' of Catholic priest abuse, both 'seniors' and both still deeply affected by the abuses they were subjected to many decades ago...

And my thoughts and air-hugs go out to a very special young lady who is still fighting the rancid Catholic Church and Tennyson Woods College Jazz Academy and the man who assaulted her, etc, and who is, nearly 8 years after the assault/s, currently under attack from her abuser as represented by the rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt lawyer Bill DeGaris, via a complicitly corrupt SA Judiciary, etc...she is an extraordinary young woman who has achieved extraordinary things in pursuing merely justice...(if there is such a thing in such circumstances-Ed)...indeed...and if you're reading this young lady, I think about you literally every day, and more than once I've used your courage and strength as an anchor-point to drag myself through the bad days - be good, be well, love Nick...and I'm deliberately not naming this young lady because of the legal abuse she is currently being subjected to...(erring on the side of caution?-Ed)...exactly, but if y'all aren't aware of whom I speak, there is still stuff on the New Matilda website, just search 'New Matilda Jazz'...(and didn't we recently do a post about that abuser being given access to students again because he's mates with the boss, etc?-Ed)...indeed we did Ed, No Apologies For Being Angry About This, dated August 2018...

And it was recently that I discovered that today's actual topic was absent from this 'ere blog...now I don't know if it is my 'fault' that I never got 'round to posting this, or whether it was one of the several posts that simply and inexplicably disappeared completely off the blog this time last year...(still no 'Google Notification' or anything then?-Ed)...nope, just gone, solid gone...(and when we proposed the premise that it was SAPol using you're 'seized' laptop to access the inner-workings of this 'ere blog, that it were they what done do it, we suddenly received a Bill DeGaris threat-letter stating it was him what done it, via complaints to Google-Ed)...absolutely, all as covered in posts a year ago...(along with that bizarre anonymous threat-letter supposedly from the Crown Solicitors Office?-Ed)...yep, that's there, April 2018, and the 'Disappeared Posts Re-Posted' stuff, and also the posts about Magistrate White's bizarre 'Addenda', which we'll specifically reference after this letter (below) which self-dates and self-explains, etc, so off we go...(hurrah!-Ed)...***              

Magistrate White                                                                               21^st February 2018

Magistrates Court of South Australia

c/- Mt Gambier Registry

re: MCMTG -15-72 Police vs Nicholas Francis Fletcher

Magistrate White,

As per your Orders of 1^st December 2017 that I provide a final submission about my 3-year long 'Trial' for allegedly breaching the as yet still undefined Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 2012, Section 56 (a) and/or (b).

Given your extraordinary conduct of my 'Trial' I find it fundamentally pointless and even impossible to provide a thorough submission on your own behaviour, let alone the multiple gross improprieties of SAPol Prosecution and their multiple SAPol witnesses.

For example: your extraordinary conduct in refusing me presenting my “Malicious Prosecution” argument/case, as I was Ordered to do by my previous Magistrate Her Honour Teresa Anderson, and that saw Her Honour suddenly recuse herself mid-'Trial' (November 2016). You refused me but then produced related Orders (8^th March 2017) that says, 1) there is no ' Malicious Prosecution', 2) that the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse hasn't happened, and then 3) carefully cherry-picks tiny fragments of 'defamation threats' made against me by people like Premier Jay Weatherill.

You have made this 'defamation threat' observation specifically to try and discredit me and to try and set me up for further such threats from the same deeply corrupt people who's letters you gleaned those snippets.

And as I have told you repeatedly to your face, you do not get to say that the St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up doesn't exist, it is not your place to have an opinion let-alone dismiss is it as not happening.

Another example: I have repeatedly caught-out SAPol Prosecution's Batten and her SAPol witness SAPol Anti-Corruption Branch Det (*****), caught them in carefully rehearsed collusion, straight-out lying about SAPol's original failure (late 2014 - early 2015) to 'Charge' me or even Summons me to 'Trial', as I have repeatedly proven to the Court, and yet you have repeatedly refused to even acknowledge these SAPol lies, even though I've been right there in front of you clearly identifying them to you.

(*****Post Script 16 March 2018 - name removed due to the "reprehensibly vile" Final Intervention Orders as handed down by the definably corrupt Magistrate Ian White, FIOs that are definably part of the broader Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution of my "bizarre trial"*****)

Similarly, despite my repeated entreaties, you have flatly refused to acknowledge the Constitutional Law Issues as repeatedly officially identified throughout my 'Trial', eg, multiple references when my 'Trial' was moved to Adelaide in June/July 2015 for that exact reason, and again when it was returned to Mt Gambier in February 2016.

Across multiple hearing dates, even with me standing there right in front of you and literally pleading with you to pick-up the Certificate of Record right there in front of you, you have repeatedly flatly refused to acknowledge the specific Orders of HH Teresa Anderson, of 2^nd February 2016, where-in Her Honour clearly Orders SAPol Prosecutions to resolve the relevant Constitutional Law Issues so that the relevant State's Attorneys-General may be notified.

On 27^th November 2017 you again flatly refused to acknowledge the Constitutional Law Issues and these related Orders and SAPol Prosecution's failure to comply, etc, before going-on to deliberately, repeatedly and quite bizarrely ignore your own Orders from 19^th July 2017, where-in you Ordered, 1) that SAPol Prosecutions notify me about SAPol's Det (*****) extended and supposedly ongoing 'Medical Absence' (starting March 2017), and 2) that you will resolve then notify me about my requests for 'all transcripts from all hearings'.

When Det (*****) suddenly appeared back in Court (27^th Nov 2017), back in the Witness Box without me being notified , and I objected that I had done no work for this witness because (*****) wasn't even meant to be there, as per your own Orders, etc, you grew rapidly more annoyed and aggressive and abused me and threatened me and actually counted-down the clock at me to force me to question Det (*****), etc, but with all that happening you still flatly refused to acknowledge these Orders, your own Orders, even when I repeatedly directed you to said Orders, right there in front of you on the Certificate of Record.

Despite my desperate pleas you flatly refused to even pick-up the CoR, flatly refused to acknowledge what I was saying, then threatened and abused me and forced me to question a witness who wasn't meant to be there, as identified in your own Orders.

You simultaneously ignored my repeated questions about your failure to comply with your own Order about the 'transcripts from all hearings', again simply refusing to even acknowledge my repeated requests/pleas to simply pick-up the CoR and read your own Orders right there in front of you.

Next day, 28^th November 2017, when I was feeling unwell and really struggling to question the next SAPol /ICAC witness, you directly abused me about 'wasting their time' because 'they're Major Crime in the middle of investigating 2 murders', before again forcing me to ask questions.

Then, on 28^th November 2017, when I basically gave-up, mentally and physically exhausted after 2 days of your extraordinary behaviour, I went to a doctor for a Medical Certificate to excuse me from Court, and you dragged that doctor into Court next morning, forced her to discuss my personal Personal Medical Details, and did so in Open Court, such that my Personal Medical Details were being reported across the Mt Gambier media first thing Friday morning.

Even if it were 'legally appropriate' to force a doctor into Court like this and force them to breach the supposedly sacrosanct Doctor/Patient Confidentiality, how is it appropriate to do it in the public realm in front of the media?

As a private citizen, I say how dare you question let-alone discuss in Open Court my Personal Medical Details in front of the media. How dare you. As a defendant subjected to your relentless bias and associated corruption of appropriate process, I remind you of the multiple adjournments of my 'Trial' across 2017 whilst you and Det (*****) had Medical Absences, for which I've been provided not a single document of proof.

Given your wantonly biased, corrupted and abusive conduct toward me, I believe that you did this quite deliberately to try and embarrass and humiliate and denigrate me and thus further traumatise me.

You extraordinary decision to ignore/over-ride that Medical Certificate, including carefully not identifying issues of my Personal Medical Details that I have repeatedly identified to you/the Court, and to then continue and conclude my 'Trial' in my absence, is all just further proof of your gross bias against me and your definable intent of proceeding to a pre-determined outcome regardless of the gross improprieties of the SAPol Prosecution and/or anything I say and/or do.

I note for the record that SAPol Prosecutions and/or Det (*****) have repeatedly tried to say that the Failure to Charge issue is redundant/irrelevant, arguing strongly that I was apparently “reported” by Det (*****) on 8^th May 2014 here in Mt Gambier.

I further note that in May/June 2014 my legal representative was forced to write twice to ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander, asking for clarification of many aspects of the “vague” ICAC Act 2012, most specifically, 1) if they were allowed to even speak with me, and 2) what does 'to publish' mean? because there is no definition.

You know this already because these letters are included in the 100 documents I presented for the “Malicious Prosecution”, along with Comm Lander's deeply facetious first response, and his bizarre 'Authorisation' that allows me to speak with a lawyer, a doctor, my family and/or friends.

I further note that Comm Lander has then approached Labor Attorney General John Rau and had the ICAC Act 2012 altered via the ICAC Miscellaneous Amendment Act (Nov 2014), directly addressing the exact issues my lawyer raised with Comm Lander, including the addition of a very specific new definition of 'to publish' that now exactly covers me and my alleged crimes.

When my home was raided on 8^th May 2014 and I was allegedly “reported” by Det (*****) of SAPol's Anti-Corruption Branch for supposedly breaching ICAC Act 2012, Section 56 (a) and/or (b), etc, and that I subsequently have been forced into Court to defend, etc, at that time, in the time-period of my alleged crimes, what I'm 'Charged' with wasn't actually a crime.

What has happened is that Comm Lander, confronted with the gaping holes in his own ICAC Act, has definably colluded with Attorney General John Rau to change the law so as to be able to retrospectively prosecute me, and that collusion clearly flows back into SAPol and SAPol Prosecutions, and perhaps explains why they didn't ' Charge' and/or Summons me and have lied about and/or refused to explain since.

I have clearly proven in Court my repeated, original assertion that my entire 'Trial' process is a gross Abuse of Process and definably a “Malicious Prosecution” being conducted by a corrupt ICAC Comm Lander at the request of an equally corrupt Weatherill Labor government, a viciously corrupt retribution motivated by my blog, The Mount Gambier Independent, and that your conduct is self-evidently continuation of that “Malicious Prosecution”.

Beyond that, you have already demonstrated beyond any doubt that you intend to do whatever, to ignore whatever, on your way to a decision clearly already made.

Nick Fletcher

***...and yes, I know, there's a coupla' typos in the first paragraphs, but the rest is fairly reasonable...and I direct dear availees to Magistrate White's 'Addenda' and the related posts (March 2018)...apart from the bizarre acknowledgement-then-dismissal that I was prosecuted under 'the wrong definition', but that that's apparently irrelevant, etc, the point I really want to focus on is Magistrate White's extraordinary Addendum assertions that I didn't explain the 'Legislative Changes' to him properly until in Court on 28th February 2018, and his related attempt to just ignore those changes in his original 'Verdict' of that 28/02/18...firstly, why is it my job to explain to him the legislation he's convicting me of, but secondly, as above, I have clearly identified the exact changes, the name of the Legislation (the ICAC Miscellaneous Amendment Act 2014), who did it, how it was done, and the exact relevance...it's self-evidently all there, and makes a rock-solid mockery of Magistrate White's assertions otherwise in his bizarre 'Addenda'...

And right abouttttt here I've had a gut-full for today, so's there ya's have it, it really is self-explanatory, and with the various other posts referred to, provides an irrefutable illustration of the truly bizarre Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption that continues in South Australia, regardless of countless 'Royal Commissions' and relentless disingenuous political hand-wringing, etc...this is what the definably corrupt SA Parliament and their complicit mates the SA Courts are still doing to people in 2018/19, all in the name of protecting paedophiles and punishing those who speak-out about SA's Pro-Paedophile Corruption...

Tomorrow: Mt Gambier City Council's Recreation Centre Lies    

MGCC ain't 'sleeping dogs' but by crikey they sure do lie...(ahahahhhahhaahahaaaaastrewth-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, and oh, did I mention, I've got my laptop back...('laptop'? what is 'laptop'?-Ed)...laptop is the relatively small electronic device mentioned previous as being in the possession of SAPol...('SAPol'? what is 'SAPol'?-Ed)...stop that...(sorry, I was just shocked to hear you say you'd got it back, how long has it been?-Ed)...errr, seized when SAPol Anti-Corruption Branch raided my home on 8th May 2014...(wow-Ed)...got it back Friday 8th March 2018, so thaaaat's, ummm, 4 years, 10 months, and exactly 0 days, or there abouts...(gee, that long? really? it seems like only 4 years, 10 months, and 8 days ago that SAPol marched into your home as part of the relentlessly corrupt Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution and effectively stole your laptop-Ed)...your facetiousness is duly noted and thoroughly deserved...anyhoos, more about that tomorrow...(I bet-Ed)...indeed, so until then, cheers and laters...

PS To Dear Googles:...again, I know that some of this content appears possibly scurrilous and even potentially libellous, etc, but as I've frequently explained to y'alls, it's absolutely accurate and any of these clowns are more than capable of fending for themselves...for example, I re-refer y'all to 'Bouncin' Billy DeGaris's repeated threat-letters about 'Suing For Defamation', etc, as eviscerated by his own refusal to actually act, all identified on this 'ere blog...cheers, Nick...

Liberal MP Mark Brindal - "Chasing Boys"

Howdy y'all dear availees and welcome to a very quick cut-n-paste post that still somehow fully encapsulates South Australian politics and the Pro-Paedophile attitudes that dominate...mucho apologies that I copied these 2 pieces, one from Twitter and the other from an Election Info website, but forgot to record who/where it was from...found the website myself, but a huge shout-out to the Twitterer what done find/tweet this gem (above, think that October date is wrong, but whatevs)...regular availees will recognise much of what is referred to there-in, eg, "some staff members" refer to the Child Protection Volunteers who were working with Speaker Peter Lewis...(are they the ones who were subsequently charged with 'Criminal Defamation', had that thrown-out by a Magistrate, only to have Labor Premier Mike Rann force it back into a higher Court?-Ed)...yeah, that be they mate...(and then part-way through the second 'trial', prosecutors tried to change the charges from 'defamation' to what was effectively 'treason' for damaging the good name of SA's political institutions and SAPol (police) and Judiciary, etc?-Ed)...yeah, don't remember the exact details, but pretty much, 'treason' for undermining the credibility and therefore authority of The Authorities...

(And weren't you a key defense witness in that second trial?-Ed)...well, I'm not sure about 'key witness'...(but weren't you there in Parliament House with those volunteers on the day, literally at the very moment that that now infamous Mullighan/Lewis document was 'accidentally' faxed to the media?-Ed)...you mean the document prepared for/with the Mullighan Child Abuse Royal Commission, the one that named former Liberal Premier John Olsen and (then) Labor Minister Patrick Conlon and a senior SAPol officer and a high-profile Magistrate as being paedophiles?...(yeah, the very document that we just discussed a coupla' posts back when we savaged Patrick Conlon for Tweeting about the George Pell conviction, etc-Ed)...yes Ed, indeed I was in Parliament that day, and then subsequently a defense witness, etc, but that 'trial' was clearly all-but-over by the time I hit the witness box...(indeed, how so?-Ed)...well, the whole thing was such a farcical travesty, that by the time I testified half the jury were shrugging their shoulders at me and smiling and a coupla' were quietly laughing, they had clearly already seen enough to make-up their minds...(and duly returned a resounding Not Guilty-Ed)...absolutely...

And you ain't exactly gotta' be a brain scientist to see the glaring similarities betwixt what these people had done to them and my experience of the exact same 'Authorities/Institutions'...(well, the Speaker of Parliament Peter Lewis was roundly abused and condemned by the entire screeching Parliament and hounded from his Speaker's chair within weeks, and his CPVs had their homes raided by swarms of SAPol, were attacked by the media, and then had to endure 2 trials across several years, all of which was clearly Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution-Ed)...well exactly, and Mark Brindal was lead screecher, publicly demanding that Parliament be 'suspended' and then re-formed and utilised as a Court to 'Charge', 'Prosecute/Try', and presumably then 'Convict' Peter Lewis and his CPVs...(wow, that's not Fascism much is it, that doesn't entirely trounce the fundamental Democratic Principles of Separation of Powers, ie, that the Legislature (Parliament), and the Executive (police), and the Judiciary act independently of one another?-Ed)...no Ed, you are exactly correct, that is absolutely text-book Fascism, and as motivated by a desire to facilitate an openly Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution/Retribution against those speaking-out about the rancid Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines South Australian 'Authorities'...  

And welcome to my life, my life what has become a text-book study in the Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution that SA 'Authorities' can and will visit on anyone who speaks-out about the rancidly sick Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines this sad, sick state...(and a Persecution supported and empowered by a rankly Pro-Paedophile complicit media-Ed)...indeed, particularly the ABC and The Advertiser, and including Mt Gambier's The Border Watch...as noted within this piece, Mark Brindal has made this extraordinary statement about politicians "chasing boys', but the ABC's Grant Cameron doesn't ask him one single question about that, just let's it sail through to the keeper...(extraordinary, particularly given Brindal's wretched 'Get Lewis' screeching about turning Parliament into a 'Court' only months before-Ed)...then there's this piece from an ABC Election website...***

Mark Brindal (LIB)

Unley

Age 57, Brindal was first elected as member for Hayward in 1989, only to the seat abolished in the 1991 redistribution. So he moved to contest and win Unley at the 1993 election, defeating a Labor Minister in Kym Mayes. He faced pre-selection challengers before the 1997 election, but was saved by the intervention of Dean Brown, despite Brindal being a supporter of John Olsen. Brindal is a former cadet journalist, primary school teacher and principal. He achieved a high profile in the first term of the Brown Liberal government by moving a private members bill for limited legalisation of prostitution. Brindal joined the Ministry after the 1997 election as Minister for Water Resources, Employment, Training and Youth, with responsibility for Local Government added in December 2001. Brindal was controversially dropped from the opposition frontbench in April 2004 and at one point in mid-term, there had been rumours he would join the band of ex-Liberal members sitting on the cross-bench. Facing a pre-selection challenge, Brindal announced he would contest Adelaide at the 2006 election. He withdrew his nomination in August 2005 after revelations of involvement in a gay affair with a 24 year-old man who was under the supervision of the Guardianship Board, and there were also claims of a blackmail attempt against Brindal. Forced to publicly admit his bisexuality, Brindal announced he would not contest the 2006 election.

***...and this (below) from The Sydney Morning Herald, dated only months after Brindal's venomous denouncing of Peter Lewis and his CPVs and his screech demands about the 'Parliament-to-Court' stuff, etc...(hang on, if you do the math, that "three month affair" takes us back to either the exact time he was doin' that screechin', or even prior-Ed)...yes it does Ed, yes it does...(and it's clearly not an 'affair', this man was committing Persistent Sexual Exploitation of a 'Disabled Person'-Ed)...oh it's far worse than that mate, this was/is the Statutory Rape of a Ward of the State, involving multiple acts of Gross Indecency committed in a Public Place... ***

Liberal MP resigns after gay affair

August 10, 2005 — 12.32am

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South Australian Liberal MP Mark Brindal has announced he will quit politics at the next election after admitting he had been blackmailed over a three-month homosexual affair.
Mr Brindal, 57, today said he would not contest the seat of Adelaide at the next poll to be held in March.
However, Mr Brindal said he would remain as the member for Unley, a position he has held since 1993, until that time.

Mr Brindal's resignation follows revelations he had a three-month affair with a 24-year-old man earlier this year and was allegedly blackmailed to avoid the fling being revealed.
"I've decided to withdraw as the Liberal candidate for Adelaide," Mr Brindal said in a statement.

"The media frenzy of the last few days in relation to my actions has caused an impact on my family and my party which I deeply regret.
"Following consultation with my wife and my close political colleagues, I believe that this decision reflects particularly the needs of my family and the interests of the Liberal Party as it prepares for the next election.
"I have been honest and up front in respect to my actions and involvement.

"However inappropriate those actions were, the matter remains deeply personal and private and needs to be worked through with those I love."
Mr Brindal, once touted as a possible state Liberal leader, is married and has four adult step-children.

He was endorsed as the Liberal candidate for Adelaide earlier this year, after losing preselection for Unley.
Mr Brindal today also asked for some privacy for both himself and his family "at this difficult time".

***...and what a guy to lead the charge against Lewis and Co., whipping-up a "media frenzy" against them, and then complaining about it when that focus shifts to him...and again, it wasn't an 'affair', the young man involved had the emotional/mental capacity of a ten-year old...this was/is the repeated Statutory Rape of a Ward of the State, rapes usually committed in the bed in Brindal's Electorate Office, and therefore also Acts of Gross Indecency in a Public Place......(and I thought he was actually only 19?-Ed)...ah yeah, so did I, but 19 or 24, it's almost irrelevant given that Brindal knew about his intellectual/emotional 'disabilities', etc...and what did the Liberal Party do when this abhorrent abuse was publicly revealed...(made him Party Leader?-Ed)...well sure, I appreciate the deeply cynical humour you've gone for there, but no, what did the Libs actually do? sling him out of the Party? chuck him outta' Parliament?...(nope, as we've covered in a very early TMGI post on our mate Mark, he was just quietly moved to the Opposition backbenches-Ed)...and we say quietly, because there wasn't a peep outta' the Labor Party on the issue, barely a shreckin' whisper...(well, the SA Labor Party are hardly in a position to attack others for having sex with boys, now are they?-Ed)...no indeed, and as evidenced, instead they attack those who attack the child-rapists...

And I've done this post because, although this was well over a decade ago, it's a critical period in SA Politics, it clearly defines the Pro-Paedophile attitudes of the SA Parliament, and what exactly has changed in SA?...(nought, if anything, it's got worse-Ed)...indeed, and that again brings us neatly back to the relentless Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution that I am currently being subjected to...(hey yeah, what's happened with all that stuff about you supposedly breaching those "reprehensibly vile" and clearly politically motivated Final Intervention Orders, and SAPol repeatedly coming to your home, etc?-Ed)...well nuthin' since just after Christmas, but dunno', we'll look at that next post 'ey?...(sure, fair enough-Ed)...       

Tomorrow: Language Warning:...The Latest Farcical SA ICAC Cluster-Fuck...End Language Warning

All the latest self-contradicting lunacy from SA's premier Corrupt Institution, the Independent Commission Against Corruption...(or as we are now want to call it, the Insidious Commissioner Assisting Corruption-Ed)...indeed, not our hilarious play on 'ICAC', but we're gunna' use it regularly and with gusto and with relish...(mmm, indeed, I'm finding this humour a li'l dry, please pass the gusto-Ed)...my pleasure sir, enjoy...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, and Ed may be a confected literary device I utilise to enable discourse rather than just lecture at people, and to set-up jokes, etc, but he's still a critical component of this 'ere blog...(cheers mate-Ed)...yep, no probs, and cheers and laters to y'all dear availees...

PS:...just as I was tryin' to fact-check and/or track-down that top article (above), etc, I found this on the Crikey website...please note that this identifies that the 24 year-old is still in 'foster care', etc...

Politics

Office s*x and extortion claims in SA

Aug 08, 2005

Just months after pedophilia allegations rocked South Australian politics, a former Liberal minister and candidate for a vital state marginal seat is at the centre of a storm over a same-sex relationship. “Mark Brindal is the Liberal MP who claims to have been blackmailed over his sexual relationship with a 24-year-old man,” The Adelaide Advertiser […]

Just months after pedophilia allegations rocked South Australian politics, a former Liberal minister and candidate for a vital state marginal seat is at the centre of a storm over a same-sex relationship.

“Mark Brindal is the Liberal MP who claims to have been blackmailed over his sexual relationship with a 24-year-old man,” The Adelaide Advertiser reports today. “The married father of four had a three-month affair with the man – who has a mental incapacity – earlier this year,” the paper claims. “The pair had sex in Mr Brindal's Unley electorate office several times."

“Mr Brindal, 57, told his wife Pam and four adult children he was bisexual after his ex-lover's foster carer allegedly demanded money in return for not going public.” Yesterday's Adelaide Sunday Mailreported that police were investigating allegations by an unnamed MP that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt. “It is believed [SA Liberal Leader] Mr Kerin was interviewed by members of the anti-corruption branch on Friday.”

Brindal told The Advertiser yesterday he couldn't speak publicly as he was “under special instructions from police not to say anything.” However, he spoke frankly at a forum in Adelaide yesterday on same-sex marriage. “Mr Brindal entered a relationship with a 24-year-old pensioner under the protection of the Guardianship Board in March,” The Advertiser reports. “The man, who lives in supported accommodation in the western suburbs, has a ‘mental incapacity' and his financial affairs are administered by the Public Trustee.”

No breach of the law appears to have occurred, but it is where the story may lead that's causing consternation. Earlier this year, Brindal announced he wouldn't seek preselection in his seat of Unley, stacked over several years. Instead, he announced he would contest the vital Labor marginal of Adelaide. Adelaide is one of two vital suburban seats the Liberal Party needs to win to retain government in South Australia at next March's election.

Party heavies breathed a sigh of relief when Brindal bowed to the inevitable and avoided a messy preselection fight in Unley – and welcomed his candidacy in Adelaide, where the first term Labor MP, former city Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith has disappointed many. They were finding it hard to get a decent candidate. At the moment the South Australian Liberals are saying they still expect Brindal to contest the seat – but anything could happen now.