Thursday 31 January 2013

Oh dear, what a way to start our longest ever election campaign : Craig Thompson arrested and facing multiple fraud charges

Remember when PM Julia Gillard told us the embattled Member for Dobell had her full support, how times change as today she ducked for cover during a media conference in flood-bound Bundaberg when news of Craig Thompson's arrest broke. No comment, we are here to talk about the floods..
from the Courier Mail ( his solicitor has since  denied he refused to turn himself in):



SUSPENDED Labor MP Craig Thomson was arrested in his electorate office this afternoon after he refused to surrender himself to Victorian police.
NSW detective superintendent Colin Dyson said Mr Thomson was charged with one arrest warrant and served with paper relating to 149 charges.
He said Mr Thomson had been invited to surrender himself in Victoria prior to Christmas, but refused.
Det Supt Dyson said he could not comment on the Victorian police probe, but added Mr Thomson “remains a person of interest” in a NSW police probe.
NSW Police’s Operation Carnarvon is investigating allegations of fraud committed against the Health Services Union.
"He remains a person of interest in the Strike Force Carnarvon inquiry," Det Supt Colin Dyson said.....




8 comments:

  1. Andrew Bolt posted this article, Desperate actions of a damaged drama queen at midnight last night, the arrest of Thompson was yet to transpire.
    "Gillard is in awful strife, and has little to hope for with Parliament resuming next week.

    The year opened with fresh questions about her judgment, particularly within Labor, after she unilaterally sacked Senator Trish Crossin for not being Aboriginal and replaced her with a clearly floundering Nova Peris.

    Gillard's long-standing vow to at last return the Budget to surplus this year is just one more broken promise, and her mining tax, meant to raise billions, has come up empty after six months. Her vast new welfare and education promises cannot be credibly funded.
    "

    Yesterday when making the September 14th election date Gillard said, ""Announcing the election date now enables individuals and businesses, investors and consumers, to plan their year."
    Laurie Oakes was unimpressed by Gillard's announcement in his interview on The Today show this morning. Oakes said that it gives the Opposition a decisive advantage as they can now plan there campaign with certainy, even booking venues now well in advance.

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  2. It has started already, day 1 of the 277 election campaign period, an election promise of saving the environment on a grand scale. From The Examiner Feds nominate World Heritage forests
    I predicted this in a blog that I wrote and posted on this site back in early December, Election time takings, desperate policy on the run to ensnare an environmental vote while at the same time paying no consideration or compensation on how these policies will impact on landowners & business.
    This World heritage listing is of Tasmanian forest area part of the Forest peace deal which has failed to pass the Tasmanian parliament but that didn’t stop federal environment minister Tony Bourke from making this announcement.
    For more about the Forest peace deal read , Peace in Tassie forests?

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    1. "Feds nominate World Heritage Forests". Even to the dumbest person this statement is one of the most hypocritical statements ever made.
      It has to be an election promise fraud because how can they nominate forests for World Heritage listing and at the same time move to have 1,000 square kilometres of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area removed from the protection of the World Heritage Listing. This is just the first of a number of such proposed GBRWHA excisions right up the coast to create several "super ports" within the GBRWHA.
      The Great Barrier Reef is the largest and most important Marine environment on the entire Planet.
      Are they going to pull another confidence trick and claim that declaring forests will be to "offset" what they are intending to remove from the protection of the GBRWHA.

      The massive declarations of Marine Parks for hundreds of Kms out to sea is partly to "Offset" and "compensate " for the massive destruction that has been inflicted within the GBRWHA.

      Declarations of "marine parks" way out in the Pacific cannot compensate or offset the coastal seaways, fish and marine animal breeding mangrove forests and thousands of hectares of land based environment all within the GBRWHA. THere are no mangroves for marine creatures to breed in out in the deep ocean, so it can never be a substitute for what they have destroyed.

      Forests can never be considered as an offset for World Heritage destruction of Marine environment either because all of the displaced marine creatures have not yet got the hang of living in forests on the land.

      It is a joke. They are told by UNESCO to conduct a study and deliver a report on the GBR but they have done nothing yet about this study and report and it was supposed to be submitted for consideration in the current round of UNESCO meetings to discuss this as yet non-existent report but just in time for the UNESCO meetings they suddenly jump up with a proposal to nominate forests for World Heritage listing. As I say , they are hypocrites of the highest order.

      Do they think that UNESCO will fall for their red herring and praise them for being such wonderful environmental protectors.

      By all means nominate and protect some of our forests but leave the existing World Heritage Areas alone for future generations to enjoy.
      It is double standards when a fisherman can be threatened with fines of thousands of dollars for having a few mangrove leaves in with his crab catch to keep them fresh and the Government Corporations can destroy thousands of hectares of Mangrove forest and marine environment (much of which is within the GBRWHA) with total impunity.

      How about nominating the Mangrove forests that grow around the coastline of the continent. This is more important that timber forests because it is the main breeding grounds for much of our marine creatures.

      A very knowledgable person that I once spoke to said that up to 90% of all marine creatures spend at least some portion of their life cycle in Mangroves. If this is true, then we must protect ALL mangroves, be they in World Heritage or Marine Park areas or anywhere else to ensure that there is no disruption to the natural environmental welfare of our ocean dwellers.

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  3. Gillard denied she knew about Thompson's pending arrest beforehand but is she being over smart (like the proverbial s--t house rat?) Ch 10 commented last night that there was provision for a by-election to be deferred until the main election, once an election had been announced. Haven't heard any other source pick up on that but even if it were true and Thompson had to quit or be expelled, I think it would rebound once people smelled the rat.

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  4. And are the rats deserting the sinking ship .... Senator Chris Evans bowing out, Nicola Roxson said to be on the verge of resigning as Attorney General ... a lot of speculation in today's papers.

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  5. Peter, totally agree, re: "By all means nominate and protect some of our forests but leave the existing World Heritage Areas alone for future generations to enjoy.
    It is double standards when a fisherman can be threatened with fines of thousands of dollars for having a few mangrove leaves in with his crab catch to keep them fresh and the Government Corporations can destroy thousands of hectares of Mangrove forest and marine environment (much of which is within the GBRWHA) with total impunity.

    How about nominating the Mangrove forests that grow around the coastline of the continent. This is more important that timber forests because it is the main breeding grounds for much of our marine creatures."

    They are hypocrites of the first order.

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  6. The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics have entered the Election debate by co-presenting a tour of Lord Monckton around Australia - details on the bar on the home page of
    NCTCS -see blog list at right.


    At each presentation by Lord Monckton there will be a short video on why people should vote for the NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Party.

    http://youtu.be/1vM3AFah-bU

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  7. Anyone else smell a rat here? Or something more fish than the dead fish littering the banks of the Fitzroy after the Australia Day flood? http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/witness-says-he-was-approached-by-a-builder-over-payment-for-reno/story-fncvk70o-1226574905765 I don't think the Opposition will let this go away.

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