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Another gift from the Trade Union Party.

I suppose we have to live with this rubbish up to the next election and beyond if the Greens still have control of the upper house.

MEDIA RELEASE from the H R Nicholls Society

16/2/2012

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONDONES LAWLESS – FORCES WATCHDOG TO DROP COURT ACTION DESPITE UNIONS ADMITTING GUILT

The federal government, not content with neutering the ABCC, has now moved to prevent it prosecuting cases once parties involved in a dispute reach an agreement.

Even if the authority has found instance of illegality it will be prevented from prosecuting either party once they have reached an agreement.

Further, any action that is afoot must also be dropped.

The government through these actions is in effect sanctioning illegality.

What we have seen is connivance between the government and unions to protect unions from the full force of the law.

Rarely in memory has a government actually legislated to allow an organisation – union or employer – to side step the law.

This has been achieved by slipping in an amendment to Schedule 1, item 94 and 94A, Section 73 and 73A at the 11^th hour while the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011 bill was being debated.

These amendments would provide that where the Director or an Inspector of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate (the Building Inspectorate) intervenes in civil court proceedings that:

• arise under a designated building law;
• involve a building industry participant in relation to a particular matter; and
• the matter is subsequently settled and discontinued by the parties,

the Director or Inspector is prohibited from continuing to further participate in the proceedings in relation to the settled matter.

The amendments would also prohibit the Director or an Inspector of the Building Inspectorate from:
• instituting proceedings; or
• continuing a proceeding where the Director or Inspector was a joint applicant, in relation to a settled matter.

The government is now saying that an independent authority must turn a blind eye to illegality.

When the notoriousWestgateBridgedispute occurred the industrial parties reached an agreement despite the lawlessness that occurred and all court action ceased between the direct industrial parties.

The ABCC continued its prosecution of the unions involved and won some $2 million in fines and damages because the unions – the CFMEU and the AMWU – pleaded guilty and admitted the conduct.

The unions actually admitted facts: they admitted their illegal conduct!

Under the government’s bill this would no longer be allowed.

Anyone who supports the rule of law cannot support this bill – except of course you are the federal government that clearly is snubbing centuries of legal precedent.

This government should resign. It has drawn and line in the sand and sided with union lawlessness illegality at the expense of civil society.

It is unheard of.

For further information contact: Ian Hanke 0407 841 957.

Written by Poor Old Rafe

February 16th, 2012 at 3:22 pm

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An inept party covering for corrupt organisations.

Sadly I don’t think this will get much of a run in the media, at least not to the level it deserves.

AB

16 Feb 12 at 4:07 pm
The crazy thing is the morons actually think that after passing rafts of legislation like this they have a chance to balance a budget…

Token

16 Feb 12 at 4:44 pm
I recall some 70% of the Labor front bench in 2008 were ex union officials,

…and Greg Combet said in 2006 as the ACTU Secretary: “”we used to run the country and it wouldn’t be a bad thing if we did again”.

We elected him and his union mates, so why are we surprised that strikes and union thuggery and criminality – now placed above the law, are back with us like in the 70′s.

michaelc58

16 Feb 12 at 5:29 pm
I just wonder how their base feels regarding Kathy Jackson, and the various new taxes imposed on workers as the ALP tries to plug the budget holes.

What is union membership like now?

.

16 Feb 12 at 5:30 pm
Greg Combet.. or Louis Theroux’s Wild Weekend with the OzLabor Party?

derp

16 Feb 12 at 6:30 pm
Help me out here. I want to develop a list of all MP, State & Federal, who have been convicted and or jailed over the last 25 years. My guess is that we can put together a dozen names and that 11 out of that dozen will be from the ALP. What I want is the name, the party, the parliament served in, the year convicted and the crime.

Gordon Nuttall, ALP (QLD), corruption, 2010
Milton Orkopoulis, ALP (NSW), child sex offences, 2008
Keith Wright ALP (QLD), child sex offences and rape, 1993
Brian Burke ALP (WA), corruption? 1990s?
Terry Martin, ALP & Ind, (TAS), child pornography, 2012
Richard Face, ALP, (NSW), corruption? 2003?
Brian Austin, Lib Nat, (QLD) corruption? 1989?
Leisha Harvey Nat (QLD) misuse public funds, 1990
Michael Cobb, Nat (Fed) misuse public funds, 1998
Rex Jackson ALP (NSW) corruption, 1987?
Don Lane, Lib & Nat (QLD), misuse public funds? 1989?
Barry Morris, Lib & Ind (NSW), bomb making, 1995?
Ray O’Connor, ALP Premier (WA), theft, 1995,
David Parker, ALP Dep Premier, (WA), perjury, 1994,
Merri Rose, ALP, (QLD), Demand benefit with threat, 2007,
Andrew Theophanous, ALP (Fed), fraud, 2002,

Or I could have just gone here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

Score
ALP 15,
Nat 5,
Lib 5,
Green 1 (Bob Brown)

But this list seems incomplete

Of the 12 politicians convicted since 2000, all bar 1 (drink driving Andrew Olexander Vic) were from the ALP.

The ALP has become decidedly more corrupt in recent times and the LNP decidedly less corrupt over recent times.

We might include another list for those who’s charges are pending and or likely.
Craig Thomson, ALP, (NSW) misuse funds, secret commissions

John Comnenus

16 Feb 12 at 8:10 pm
Much more than a dozen

John Comnenus

16 Feb 12 at 8:11 pm
Former SA Minister Bernard Finnegan has charges pending for child pornography. And former Territory ALP Leader and Senator Bob Collins committed suicide before he could be brought to court on charges of paedophilia.

[Edited. Sinc]

Fisky

16 Feb 12 at 8:39 pm
John, I think Ray O’Connor was a Lib, not Lab. But then you did forget a couple of Labor paedophilia cases, so that evens it up.

Fisky

16 Feb 12 at 8:45 pm
John C,

Look up bazza ‘I chinese’ morris.

His li’l escapades were absolutely ‘ilarious and the court transcripts are a laugh a minute.

Here’s a hint, he didn’t go down for bomb making!

Rabz

16 Feb 12 at 8:48 pm
What happened to Karyn Paluzzano?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-07-13/charges-recommended-against-ex-mp-paluzzano/903146

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 8:53 pm
I found the answer: she has been charged.
http://penrith-press.whereilive.com.au/news/story/former-penrith-mp-karyn-paluzzano-charged-with-lying-to-icac/

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 9:07 pm
John C and MHD, joining Paluzzano:

http://www.news.com.au/national/former-lands-minister-tony-kelly-found-corrupt-by-icac/story-e6frfkvr-1226219898284

Ivan Denisovich

16 Feb 12 at 9:14 pm
Down a rung: former Wollongong City Councillor Frank Gigliotti. http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/ofarrell-hails-new-era-as-excouncillor-frank-gigliotti-jailed/2154586.aspx

By the sound of this article there may be more to come in Wollongong.

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 9:22 pm
If we’re going down to local government, then:

Phuong Ngo – Murder

Ivan Denisovich

16 Feb 12 at 9:26 pm
Then there is Mike Kaiser, who was never charged even though he admitted to vote rigging in party ballots. He went on to be Chief of Staff for both Iemma and Bligh, and now cops a mere $450k a year working for the NBN.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/bligh-hires-vote-rort-mp/story-e6freoof-1111115057202

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 9:33 pm
A couple of his mates, Deputy Premier Jim Elder and ALP backbencher Grant Musgrove, also escaped prosecution despite being found guilty of various offences by the Shepherdson Inquiry. Karen Ehrmann, Labor candidate for Thuringowa for the 1998 state election, wasn’t so lucky. She was forced to resign as candidate four days before the election was called and was later jailed for electoral fraud.

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 9:53 pm
Looks like we got a big list of corrupt comrades to add to the wiki partial list. Keep em coming. I reckon it will be an overwhelming list of ALP to LNP.

[Edited. Sinc]

John Comnenus

16 Feb 12 at 10:07 pm
By Christ, Tony Kelly, Richard Amery and Richard Face were colossal douchebags.

Jacqui Kelly’s (Liberal) hubby did some extremely dodgy Muslim baiting before the 2007 Federal election. When queried, it’s like she knew she was going to lose and couldn’t give a toss.

.

16 Feb 12 at 10:24 pm
Excellent inquiry.

[Edited. Sinc]

Hugh

16 Feb 12 at 11:08 pm
The extremely weird NSW Upper House MP Peter Breen, who resigned from the ALP after admitting his love for two of the killers of Janine Baldwin.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/killer-love-remarks-mp-resigns/2006/07/18/1153166362975.html

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 11:16 pm
Mother,
Your the bomb…how do know all these ALP scandals?

John Comnenus

16 Feb 12 at 11:23 pm
Google.

I’ve just remembered another from long ago – Lionel Murphy, who was convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice, had the conviction overturned on appeal, then found not guilty in a second trial. Lucky to get away with it, I reckon.

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 11:26 pm
Merri Rose, former Qld Cabinet Minister – tried to blackmail Peter Beattie.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/former-mp-jailed-for-blackmail/story-e6frea8c-1111113650411

Mother Hubbard's Dog

16 Feb 12 at 11:30 pm
Wow… Any more of a rap sheet and the ALP could be up of racketeering charges. Do we have anything resembling RICO in Oz?

JC

16 Feb 12 at 11:30 pm
Amazing finds, MHD. No wonder Wiki can’t keep up.

[Edited. Sinc]

Gab

16 Feb 12 at 11:32 pm
From Mother’s link:

FORMER Queensland cabinet minister Merri Rose was today sentenced to three months in jail for trying to blackmail Premier Peter Beattie into giving her a lucrative public service job.

Brisbane District Court Chief Judge Patsy Wolfe sentenced Rose to an 18-month-jail term, suspended after three months.

Rose, a 52-year-old former tourism minister and Gold Coast MP pleaded guilty in the District Court yesterday to one count of demanding a benefit with threats.

The court was told Rose threatened to make public “very damaging evidence” against someone that would cause them to “suffer and lose everything”, unless Mr Beattie organised her an executive position with Tourism Queensland.

But who that person is, and the details of the threat, will remain a secret after Judge Wolfe ruled that information should be suppressed.

The court was told Rose met her former ministerial adviser David Smith in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall on October 30 last year and asked him to take a message to Mr Beattie.

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Prosecutor Paul Rutledge said yesterday that Rose had told Mr Smith she had “very damaging evidence against a person (that if) revealed would cause them to suffer and lose everything personally”.

According to Mr Smith’s notes, Rose wanted a five-year contract as a tourism commissioner with a salary of at least $150,000 a year.

Defence barrister Michael Byrne said his client had been suffering a major depressive disorder at the time and her actions were a cry for help.

Judge Wolfe told the court there were several mitigating factors, including Rose’s early guilty plea and her psychiatric disorder.

“I have no doubt you did suffer from a major depressive disorder last year when you committed the offence,” Judge Wolfe told Rose.

Isn’t the depression thingi getting a lil’ long in the tooth these days?

JC

16 Feb 12 at 11:33 pm
Anyone know what the Lionel Murphy thing was about?

JC

16 Feb 12 at 11:36 pm
Anyone know what the Lionel Murphy thing was about?

Clarrie Briese, the NSW Chief Magistrate, alleged that Murphy had tried to influence the outcome of a court case against a friend, Sydney lawyer Morgan Ryan, in a telephone conversation in which Murphy is alleged to have said “and now what about my little mate?” Murphy denied ever saying these words, yet it is probably the thing most people remember about him.

Mother Hubbard's Dog

17 Feb 12 at 12:11 am
A good description of the events surrounding the Murphy trials, the corruption in the NSW justice system that was the genesis of the affair, and the trials themselves can be found here http://netk.net.au/Whitton/Worms19.asp

Mother Hubbard's Dog

17 Feb 12 at 12:21 am
Keep em coming and I will make up a list over the weekend and drop it in the open thread. I would say that the ALP out corrupts every other party by 3-1. The ALP seems to have a real child sex offence problem. My goodness there are a lot of them.

[Edited. Sinc]

John Comnenus

17 Feb 12 at 12:27 am
JC,
Good call, if we had RICO style laws both the ALP and the Unions would be broke and their leaders in jail.

John Comnenus

17 Feb 12 at 12:29 am
The ALP seems to have a real child sex offence problem. My goodness there are a lot of them.

[Edited. Sinc]

If they were Catholic priests…

spot

17 Feb 12 at 12:38 am
Hey Sinc, if you could use the P-word, why is my 10:38pm comment still stuck in moderation hell?

[Probably because I was in bed reading and then sleeping. Sinc]

spot

17 Feb 12 at 12:39 am
Here’s one from the Greens:

Greens party Councillor David Ellis pleads guilty to electric “shock collar” cruelty against dogs

Fisky

17 Feb 12 at 12:40 am
(spilt the italics… ‘pologies)

spot

17 Feb 12 at 12:40 am
They certainly start young:

A former high-achieving student convicted of fraud has been told his hopes of a career in law are now in tatters.

Darren Kenneth Ray, 26, was sentenced in the Victorian County Court today to 20 months’ jail, with a minimum of six months, for charges relating to operating bank accounts under false names and obtaining financial advantage by deception.

…

The Greensborough Secondary College dux of 1998 studied commerce/law at Melbourne University and joined the ALP.

The court heard he was president of the university’s student union in 2002 and presided over a $46 million property deal to develop a student accommodation building.

Fisky

17 Feb 12 at 12:47 am
The Liberals’ worst offences seem to have been in the past and generally seem to have gone unpunished. Corruption was the name of the game – for example, from the Wiki bio of Sir Robert Askin

Since his death, there have been persistent unproven allegations that Askin, allegedly assisted by then Police Commissioner Norman Allan, oversaw the creation of a lucrative network of corruption and bribery that involved politicians, public servants and police and the nascent Sydney organised crime syndicates.[34]

When questioned about his wealth, Askin always attributed it to the salary from his high public office, his frugal lifestyle, good investments and canny punting. After his death the Australian Taxation Office audited his estate, and although it made no finding of criminality, it determined that a substantial part of it came from undisclosed income derived from sources other than shares or gambling.[34]

With Askin’s death, investigative journalists were freed from the threat of legal action under Australia’s punitive defamation laws—unlike the United States, Australia has no constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and there is no precedent like that in US law that makes truth an absolute defence. As a result, stories about his reputed corruption were circulated by the press almost immediately.[34] The most notable of these was the sensational article co-authored by David Marr and David Hickie, headlined “Askin: friend of organised crime”, which was famously published on the day of Askin’s funeral in 1981. This was followed by David Hickie’s book “The Prince and The Premier”, which detailed Askin’s long involvement in illegal bookmaking and the allegations that he had received substantial and long-running payoffs from organised crime figures.

The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive. Alan Saffron alleged that his father made payments of between A$5000 and $10,000 per week to both men over many years, that Askin and Allan both visited Saffron’s office on several occasions, that Allan also visited the Saffron family home, and that Abe Saffron paid for an all-expenses overseas trip for Allan and a young female ‘friend’. He also alleged that, later in Askin’s premiership, Abe Saffron became the “bagman” for Sydney’s illegal liquor and prostitution rackets and most illegal gambling activities, collecting payoffs that were then passed to Askin, Allan and others, in return for which his father was completely protected.

Mother Hubbard's Dog

17 Feb 12 at 12:54 am
Remember that the political/media establishment were broadly conservative up to the 1970s so that might explain how the Liberals used to get away with murder. Labor’s criminality is partly due to their recently-acquired establishment status and the impunity that comes with it, but is also partly caused by cultural factors, such as the takeover of Labor by middle-class moral nihilists who are totally dependent on government largess for their livelihood.

Fisky

17 Feb 12 at 1:21 am
The coalition should refer to Thompson as Gillard’s “little mate”.

Abu Chowdah

17 Feb 12 at 6:41 am
I think Cardinal Pell and Archbishop Hollingsworth should speak the child victims truth to ALP power and lead the call for the ALP to reconcile through a formal public apology to the Left’s ignored generation of child sex abuse victims.

John Comnenus

17 Feb 12 at 7:29 am
Keep em coming and I will make up a list over the weekend and drop it in the open thread.

John C,

This list is going to deserve its own post. Perhaps we could prevail on Sinc/Steve, etc, to consider it?

[Preferably not. Post the list at the wiki if you must. Sinc]

Rabz

17 Feb 12 at 8:42 am
Rabz,
as usual I agree.

[Edited. Sinc]

John Comnenus

17 Feb 12 at 8:59 am
Al Grassby – never got caught, but almost certainly crooked.
http://www.protectionist.net/2008/01/05/al-grassby-raising-a-statue-for-a-criminal-in-canberra/

Mother Hubbard's Dog

17 Feb 12 at 9:11 am
Ah god the APP, what a bunch of small minded losers.

.

17 Feb 12 at 9:33 am
You’ll have noticed that many comments have been edited and some deleted. If anyone has evidence of a crime having been committed please inform the police. Accusing people of child abuse for political purposes in not acceptable behaviour. That is why the p-word goes straight into moderation – as it has for a long time.

Sinclair Davidson

17 Feb 12 at 11:04 am
We’ve slagged off Askin, can we slag off the other corrupt Premier when the old turd dies?

.

17 Feb 12 at 11:08 am
Sinc,

I think you’re being a tad over sensitive.

Pretty much all of what has been discussed in this thread is on the public record.

Rabz

17 Feb 12 at 11:14 am
You’ll have noticed that many comments have been edited and some deleted. If anyone has evidence of a crime having been committed please inform the police.

Um, the links I posted (from mainstream Australian newspapers like the Courier Mail) were about ALP pollies about whom there WAS “evidence of a crime having been committed” and the police WERE notified and the pollies in question WERE found guilty in Australian law courts of multiple charges of child sex abuse.

If one can’t call a serial rapist of 6 and 7 year old children “the P word,” to whom does that term apply? I mean, performing sex acts on primary school kids. It’s not like, “Oops, well let’s give the benefit of the doubt, maybe he believed them when they all said they were over 18″ …

spot

17 Feb 12 at 11:26 am
Oh well. Your blog; your rules.

spot

17 Feb 12 at 11:32 am
Sinc,

I appreciate your sensitivity, but I might reconfirm I said: I want to develop a list of all MP, State & Federal, who have been

convicted

and or jailed over the last 25 years.

Charges pending and or likely is a different kettle of fish and the point is taken.

If the person in question has been convicted then it is a matter of public record and accepted as a fact.

I must say I have been somewhat disturbed by the prevalence of child abuse cases amongst former ALP politicians. I wasn’t expecting that outcome.

John Comnenus

17 Feb 12 at 12:11 pm
I’ll take the non-editing as tacit agreement with my comment!

Abu Chowdah

17 Feb 12 at 2:46 pm
Same with mine at 11.08

.

17 Feb 12 at 5:20 pm

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