Corruption in the Liberal Party

[SirRumpole]

Links between the Victorian Opposition leader and alleged Mafia members.

Doesn't look good for that Guy, as secret recordings cast doubt on his public comments.

Matthew Guy's claims about dinner with alleged Mafia boss called into question by secret tapes

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/matthew-guy-alleged-mafia-head-dinner-phone-call/8785700

 

[Gringotts Bank]

Links between the Victorian Opposition leader and alleged Mafia members.

Just pathetic. Who on earth would agree to such a meeting with an alleged mob boss and his cousins? Who does he think he is?

And then there's the recorded phone calls. Looks like a set up.

 

[Tisme]

Looks like the Paul Pissale corruption probe is uncovering quite a few big names across political brands reaching from local govt up to the federal members. Speaker has put a gag on publishing.

 

[basilio]

The statement that the dinner with "alleged-mafia-leaders -who -also-financed -the -Liberal -Party" was public and not secretive doesn't look good when the full story is given.

I wonder what the commercial medias take would be if this was a Labour Leader ?

Matthew Guy's claims about dinner with alleged Mafia boss called into question by secret tapes
Four Corners
By Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and state political reporter Richard Willingham
Updated Tue at 7:42pm

Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek.

Video: Barrie Macmillan outlines how he set up the dinner meeting earlier this year. (ABC News)
Related Story: Victorian Opposition Leader secretly dined with alleged Mafia head Madafferi
Related Story: Vic Opposition Leader 'didn't know' he would be dining with alleged Mafia head
Related Story: Matthew Guy refers himself to anti-corruption commission
Map: Melbourne 3000
Secretly recorded phone conversations call into question claims by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy that he had no idea he was meeting Melbourne's alleged Mafia boss at a lobster restaurant earlier this year.

Key points:

• Liberal Party organiser says in call he personally briefed Mr Guy's office that Tony Madaferri would be at dinner
• Call transcripts suggest dinner was a secretive affair, despite Mr Guy's claim
• Mr Guy says he will refer himself to Victoria's anti-corruption commission

Transcripts of the calls, obtained by Fairfax Media and Four Corners, also suggest that the Lobster Cave dinner attended by alleged Mafia boss Tony Madafferi was a secretive affair, not a semi-public function as depicted by Mr Guy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/matthew-guy-alleged-mafia-head-dinner-phone-call/8785700

 

[SirRumpole]

Josh Frydenburg tried to keep secret a deal he had with Angus Taylor to water down regulations regarding grassland protection in which Taylor had an interest.

Angus Taylor is smelling more and more after the water buy backs and now this revelation.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...vironmental-rule-changes-could-be-kept-secret

 

[IFocus]

Josh Frydenburg tried to keep secret a deal he had with Angus Taylor to water down regulations regarding grassland protection in which Taylor had an interest.

Angus Taylor is smelling more and more after the water buy backs and now this revelation.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...vironmental-rule-changes-could-be-kept-secret

There has been a disquiet about Taylor for awhile this just adds to the pile Liberals have been lucky Labor didn't get up as sure as hell they would have gone after him and a few others.

It will be interesting how the Prime Minister for good news and our best mate will swish this one away.

 

[orr]

I'll be back here shortly with more;
For those wanting to get up to speed 'Oil Under Troubled Water' Bernard Collaery...

 

[orr]

The following is a fun filled 20 odd minute romp... with a 'kicker'.
& this travesty is titled deputy Premier:

 

[orr]

Nothing to see here at the moment;
Over paying ten times the value in a dodgy land purchase to a Liberal party donor, Only $30mill of public money... Liberal Standard Operating Procedure...
Oh and then there's Tudge...

Federal ICAC anyone???
We'll need to biuild more prisons

 

[IFocus]

Nothing to see here at the moment;
Over paying ten times the value in a dodgy land purchase to a Liberal party donor, Only $30mill of public money... Liberal Standard Operating Procedure...
Oh and then there's Tudge...

Federal ICAC anyone???
We'll need to biuild more prisons

I look forward to watching Fox after dark lay into them.

 

[orr]

I look forward to watching Fox after dark lay into them.

Don't hold back on the details Focus I need you as the filter here. I suffer terribly from the 'gag reflex' in regard to the After Dark crew; in that the whole production has to be a gag ... right? If it's not, it's enough to make me spew.
Since my last post there's been some interesting going on's at the NSW ICAC. A lot of shape shifting and prompted re-remembering and hurried instructed shredding.... more Liberal Party standard operating procedure.

 

[orr]

Ohhh ...It's all almost to good.
All that hurried shredding! who would have guessed that so much would have been the love titterings between Berris Hobgoblin and a dodgy shifty shortly to charged numb-scull and Liberal Party Member... Ahh same old same old...

Federal ICAC Aloha Schmo??? We can all see why you want it not to be so.... It would be very quickly Au revoir Schmo....but not quick enough.

 

[moXJO]

So in the end they went the way of the Labor party corruption. Its a shame because Gladys was doing a decent job. Factions have been after her for a while though.
Bet one of them gleefully tossed her in.

 

[SirRumpole]

Is favourable funding to your mates corruption ?

I'm not interested in the "everyone does it" answer, just the principle.

NSW Premier defends $250m grants scheme to Coalition seats as 'not illegal'

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian denies any wrongdoing in relation to the Government's $250 million grants program which allocated more money to local councils in Coalition-held seats, saying all governments engage in election spending to "curry favour".

www.abc.net.au

 

[SirRumpole]

Snouts in the trough again.

Libs in WA take the taxpayers for a ride.

Inquiry finds former Liberal MPs spent taxpayer dollars on strippers, lavish dinners and 'sham' job for lover

WA's corruption watchdog claims Brian Ellis and Nigel Hallett engaged in serious misconduct by using electorate allowances for personal lifestyle expenses, and says Mr Hallett also employed an "intimate" friend.

www.abc.net.au

 

[basilio]

Snouts in the trough again.

Libs in WA take the taxpayers for a ride.

Inquiry finds former Liberal MPs spent taxpayer dollars on strippers, lavish dinners and 'sham' job for lover

WA's corruption watchdog claims Brian Ellis and Nigel Hallett engaged in serious misconduct by using electorate allowances for personal lifestyle expenses, and says Mr Hallett also employed an "intimate" friend.

www.abc.net.au

It's been a long story now but the abuse of public funds is pretty ripe.
Putting lovers on the payroll for no work, spending thousands of dollars on strip clubs using electoral allowances.

Will be interesting to see the outcome and if in fact there are some legal sanctions applied.

 

[basilio]

Is favourable funding to your mates corruption ?

I'm not interested in the "everyone does it" answer, just the principle.

NSW Premier defends $250m grants scheme to Coalition seats as 'not illegal'

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian denies any wrongdoing in relation to the Government's $250 million grants program which allocated more money to local councils in Coalition-held seats, saying all governments engage in election spending to "curry favour".

www.abc.net.au

Nah.. It's just how we do business aint it

 

[sptrawler]

SP you should follow up there is not only backpay back for wrongful payments but also compensation, good luck hope you have a win.

Is favourable funding to your mates corruption ?

I'm not interested in the "everyone does it" answer, just the principle.

NSW Premier defends $250m grants scheme to Coalition seats as 'not illegal'

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian denies any wrongdoing in relation to the Government's $250 million grants program which allocated more money to local councils in Coalition-held seats, saying all governments engage in election spending to "curry favour".

www.abc.net.au

Yes a couple of weeks ago there was an article in the paper about the W.A government and Kerry Stokes Westrack training complex in Collie. I'm on a phone so can't link it.
It is wrong, they all do it, but that doesn't make it acceptable. IMO
Money should be spent where it is needed, not where it has the most political clout.

 

[SirRumpole]

Prominent Liberal Party donor red flagged by ASIO as security risk.

Looks like Dastyari might have company in the cold hard world outside Parliament.

ASIO red-flags Liberal Party donor 'Haha' Liu as a national security risk

A Melbourne-based Chinese businessman who has aligned himself to prominent Liberal Party MPs is facing deportation after being assessed by ASIO as a national security risk, an ABC investigation can reveal.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sptrawler]

Yes a couple of weeks ago there was an article in the paper about the W.A government and Kerry Stokes Westrack training complex in Collie. I'm on a phone so can't link it.
It is wrong, they all do it, but that doesn't make it acceptable. IMO
Money should be spent where it is needed, not where it has the most political clout.

@SirRumpole just another example to show it isn't all one sided, no point in starting another thread over it, this one should just be titled corruption in politics. This land is directly opposite Perth's new football stadium on the other side of the river.
I wonder why the Government doesn't just use Western Power to de commission the switchyard, Power System Control is only a couple of hundred meters down the road, they would have land there to put in a sub station.

McGowan defends $1 price tag for East Perth power station despite Landgate analysis

Works at the derelict site could begin as early as next year but details of the agreement between the government and billionaires Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest remain shrouded in secrecy.

www.watoday.com.au

From the article:
Premier Mark McGowan has defended a controversial deal with two of the state’s wealthiest businessmen that could see the East Perth power station land sold for just $1.

Works at the derelict site could begin as early as next year but details of negotiations between the government and billionaires Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest remain shrouded in secrecy.

However, the latest unimproved value assessment by the government’s land authority, Landgate, suggested three of the four blocks within the precinct were worth a combined $26 million.

While unimproved land values are used for tax purposes only and don’t take into account contamination or improvement works, they give an indication of what the land would be expected to sell for in its current condition.

Environment Minister Stephen Dawson, who represents lands minister Ben Wyatt in the upper house, revealed under questioning from the opposition the four lots that made up the project precinct were worth $1, according to a valuation commissioned by the government.