“NO, WE’RE NOT PART OF SOME ANTI-CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY BUT WE’RE PRETTY DAMNED SURE THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY AND THAT IT CONTINUES MODIFIED BUT UNABATED”

Firstly, let’s bring you up to speed with qld* governance -

She’s beyond redemption, literally FUBAR, when an entire state of this alleged common-wealth can be signed over to a mob of raffle winners.

Fig 1 – Mr. Beattie dictates at his second regional cabinet meeting in our little burg. We’d just been told that the CMC had been put under police control and that the qld constitution had been amended without the inconvenience of boring referenda, or for that matter even consulting anyone. Note the unconfined joy on every face.

Yes, raffle winners; not the sort of raffle where the average Lucky Joe gets to win a flyblown meat tray once or twice in life – rather the sort of rigged affair where someone chosen from a shortlist of interested mates challenges two or three of similar mindset and inclination in a compulsorily enforced popularity quest.

Multiply that fiasco about 89 times and you get the one stop shop (if your pockets are deep enough) jokingly called ‘queensland parliament’.

Of course there’s about 51 of those bludgers who won first prize (go figure) and call themselves ‘government’.

That 51 argue and blackmail amongst themselves and those who win that undemocratic little spat get to call themselves ‘premier and cabinet’ and gain a license to lock up anyone who disagrees.

Cabinet - http://rti.cabinet.qld.gov.au/cabinet.aspx - consists of a ‘collective’ about 18 who dictate the lives of about 4.5 million people without fear of any oversight/accountability mechanisms whatsoever.

A neat little situation where any incriminating cabinet documents if ever released under the ‘freedom from information’ bureau would by then be way past the use by date of the statutes of limitations.

But don’t think for a second that it is only the government/majority party that acts this way;

queensland replaced its Legislative Council (senate) with a committee system gracing (bribing) a few ‘acceptable’ members from other parties with a slice of the action; a sop to their egos providing little more than an illusion of influence over events.

It’s a great system when you look at it dispassionately.

A handful of whiteanted ‘political parties’ pushing a Hobson’s choice of ‘candidates’ down the throats of a captive, confused and mostly uncaring populace whose understanding of civics is marginal at best.

The most jaded intellect would realise that such a turnout is travesty; even the ANU has its doubts - http://www.democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/20070213_aronprass_upphqld.pdf

The political advantage of the recent floods will come next year when the political mileage gained from Bligh zipping about playing concerned leader combines with the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ kicking in amongst the victims as they fight through the red tape while attempting to reclaim their lives. http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/10/19/stockholm-syndrome/?like=1

If Ms. Bligh plays her cards right and suppresses publication of bureaucratic excess well enough she may well be able to slant the post-flood situation to her advantage and achieve another term as Fuhrer of queensland.

Why Fuhrer?

Well, why not. It merely means ‘leader’ but historically retains the tinge of dictatorship.

She certainly ain’t a premier since qld hasn’t had a proper parliament since about 1922 when the upper house was dissolved in what is considered by those who should know an ‘Ultra Vires’ fashion.

If we don’t have a proper parliament then it stands to reason that neither do we have a proper Australian style premier.

When what passes for a federal system condones that then we have no Commonwealth either.

Anyway queensland is such a silly name. Joh (bless his memory) should have changed it to NordReich, or something – then we’d all know where we stand.

Fig 2 – Fuhrer Beattie has the people assembled again four years later in order to have them instructed about the new police powers and responsibilities act and how well it fits in with subjects raised at the last meeting.

Note how carefully the photographer excluded those who had collapsed with rapture following his news.

So what caused this latest fulmination?

The other day Arthur was suffering from cabin fever what with all this flood stuff happening.

And since the devil makes work for idle hands he just had to go digging in old files.

He found an item referring to ‘The Brigalow Corporation’  amongst the NON-FARMER’s files which somehow caught his attention. Arthur being Arthur he had to go googling; probably in the vain hope he’d find pikkies of bikini girls prancing about in a natural setting wearing little else than gum leaves or something.

With that he was unlucky but neither did he expect to discover such a groundswell of reasonable fury that were queensland any sort of democracy an outside auditor would need be appointed to run the place while all the raffle winners were brought to trial.

Now all Arthur had to do was Google “BRIGALOW CORPORATION” and hit a few sites to realize that the usual queensland snow job was in operation apparently with a fair bit of help from Senator Conroy’s team out there in cyberspace.

A fair few remaining documents could only be opened from the cached files while attempts to open official qld.gov.au public files all too often had the PC doing “BLING, GLING, Danger, Will Robinson” fits.

(It might be astounding news to some that you don’t have to be Julian Assange to have your PC invaded, pages censored or cop enough heat to encourage you to ‘just walk away’ when a certain amount of digging causes nausea to happen.)

Nevertheless the few pages remaining in the public domain convey a remarkably convincing picture as to why EX-POQ Beattie suddenly had to drop everything and depart to California until the heat died down.

So what did that grinning item, the poor man’s caricature of Teddy Roosevelt, get up to while destroying the last vestiges of the Rule of Law in queensland.

Indeed it is true that amongst other things he converted at the stroke of a pen all of queensland including every Joe Blow’s and Freida Nerk’s back yard into one gynormous corporate park?

At times like this a wealthy person would compile a list of dot-points indicating what’s been so expertly mangled. To do that an immense amount of money would need to be handed over to the ‘freedom from information’ bureau – inevitably, as every journo knows, with unsatisfactory results.

It would be infinitely easier to list what has escaped the predation of the last few queensland regimes except that we run up against the same problem – successive queensland regimes have operated in secrecy and consequently little verifiable information is available to those outside the tontine.

Summary -

The entire situation has honest Queenslanders** innocently wondering what the queensland government corporation thinks it’s about.

Queenslanders are stuck with paying taxes, fees and fines to a secretive regime that apparently has nothing but contempt for those shelling out all that money in the forlorn hope that some benefit will be returned to them in services they’d once customarily received from the state of Queensland and from their once non-politicised/non-corporatised local councils.

Occasionally some of the more civic minded burghers object but are inevitably ‘dismissed’ out of hand by decree of an autocratic premier.

Which leaves the fallback scenario – “when state and commonwealth legislation is in conflict then commonwealth law shall prevail” - another futile argument lending to nothing but a feeding frenzy of legals in the higher courts.

The whole show is a road to nowhere -

If Queenslanders and for that matter all Australians cannot manage to get past their greed reflex they’ll never realize they are being duped by an oligarchy so narrow in mind thought and deed that any form of compromise, accommodation or cooperation is entirely alien to their nature.

For many years now we’ve heard the all the lip service and hot air about uniform national legislation from all tiers of government.

Yet those elected by the populace refuse to represent the populace while hiding behind false constructs surrounding unworkable constitutions.

Beattie has ably demonstrated that constitutions in Australia can be altered on the mere whim of a dozen or so conspirators meeting essentially in secret.

It becomes clear why Australians were denied a referendum about a bill of rights last year.

It seems we are all cut from the same cloth

So what document discovered by Arthur prompted all this -

Here it is below. The NON-FARMER is not a member of any political party, religious denomination nor extremist organization and for the record was ‘permitted’ to meet with the premier for a few minutes early in 2009.

He and his wife sat at a table opposite the premier while a Glock in bumbag wearing goon leaned over them waiting for the slightest excuse to make an arrest. ( A Glock automatic pistol concealed in a bumbag has been the fashion accessory of the queensland palace guard for some years now.)

NON-FARMER and his wife requested a meeting with Ms. Bligh to acquaint her with some facts regarding matters already provided her in writing (including matters mentioned in other articles in this weblog – malfeasance, detriment caused, official misconduct).

But all Madame Bligh could do is offer sympathy for the death of their son and a remarkably Bjelke Petersen style ‘don’t you worry about that’ for the item below.

At least, said the NON-FARMER, Joh would have made it sound sincere.

----- Original Message -----

From:  - xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To: Tablelands@parliament.qld.gov.au ; Nicklin@parliament.qld.gov.au ; Maryborough@parliament.qld.gov.au ; Nanango Electorate Office ; Indooroopilly@parliament.qld.gov.au ; The Premier ; Gladstone@parliament.qld.gov.au ; Gregory@parliament.qld.gov.au ; Evan.McDonald@opposition.qld.gov.au

Cc: Moore, Claire (Senator) ; Senator.Joyce@aph.gov.au ; Evan Jones

Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:12 PM

Subject: INFORMATION DISCOVERED

Dear Queensland Members, Premier and Senators,

Does Queensland have the right to annex or confiscate private property?

Does the Commonwealth, by inaction, condone theft?

Should a Bill be introduced in order to manage the confiscation of the proceeds of patriotism?

The elements compiled below seem to suggest so.

The corporatisation of government is one issue that would be unacceptable to the majority - but the consequences of corporatisation is something that appears to have not been noticed.

I have the Premier listed in the mailing address so that you all might choose to contact her in order to be advised about the veracity of the letter below, from her Staffer, S. Beckett.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/pdf/Archive/Uk/uk.local.herefordshire/2008-05/msg00005.pdf

"Apr 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am

I have today received a copy of a letter from the Office of the Premier, Queensland Government.

It reads as follows:-

"Thank you for your email dated ----

concerning claims that the State of Queensland has been removed as a State of the Commonwealth of Australia and common law is no longer recognised in Queensland.

I have been requested to reply to you on the Premier's behalf.

The comments in your correspondence have been noted. As these claims are to be considered in a current application before the High Court of Australia, it is inappropriate for the premier to comment at this time.

Again, thank you for bringing your views to the Premier's attention."

Yours sincerely

Stephen Beckett

Deputy Chief of Staff" 

Though these elements copied here result from a search of the net (about the only information resource left) I state that I shall rely upon them in the absence of anything readily available from 'governance'.

It appears that some are convinced beyond doubt that 'corporatisation' has gone too far - that Real Assets have become arbitrarily sequestered without precedent, justification or assent.

Appears they are quite right.

The Premier might consider there is a public perception that the Common Law is being subsumed to a regime of Civil Law without provision of those checks and balances as are necessary for the protection of the rights of Queenslanders.

So what do we have - a Queensland that has corporatised and decentralised the agencies of governance. They now exist as entities registered in the US - with the US Securities and Exchange commission. They are now untouchable and as is becoming noticed, growing increasingly amoral, unethical and irresponsible.

Certainly irresponsible enough to entrust what should be confidential information to cyberspace.

In our circumstance when the corruption has gone so far that police are being used by the state of queensland to stop us, as a still registered family business/defence industry, from making a living - then it has become impossible.

So I take the time this weekend to do research only to find that in the opinion of many Australians most of our elected representatives are traitors.

This document illustrates a small part of what I discovered.

http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/ACTS/1992/92AC064.pdf

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/legis/qld/consol_act/la199448/s506b.html?query=BRIGALOW%20CORPORATION

506B Corporation

(1) The Corporation of the Land Administration Commission is continued in existence, as a corporation sole, under the name of the  Brigalow Corporation .

(2) The  Brigalow Corporation --

(a) is a body corporate; and

(b) has a seal; and

(c) may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(3) The chief executive constitutes the  Brigalow Corporation .

(4) A reference to the Corporation of the Land Administration Commission in any Act or in any document is taken to be a reference to the  Brigalow Corporation .

(5) Judicial notice must be taken of the imprint of the  Brigalow Corporation 's seal appearing on a document and the document must be presumed to have been properly sealed until the contrary is proved.

http://sosnews.org/newsfront/documents/brigalow.htm

"QLD is now outside the Commonwealth of Australia as an independent sovereign State without common law, and the people are subject to civil and statute law only. The 'common law and general jurisdiction'; the 'Laws of England to be applied in the administration of justice' and 'equitable jurisdiction' have been removed under the Supreme Court Act 1995(Qld) Reprint number 2A dated 2nd March, 2001 under Schedule 2 of the Constitution of Queensland 2001.

All private equity and inheritance in the State is the property of “the State”, see Corporations (Q) Act 1990 (Q), Reprint No 3, reprinted as in force immediately before 15 July 2001 ©State of Q 2006. All courts, including the Magistrates Courts, are inside the Parliament of QLD.

The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of QLD is found in the Constitution of Queensland 2001, Part 5 - Powers of the State. Therefore it is assumed that the Judges of the Supreme and District Courts of QLD must protect the 'assets' of the State of QLD and find only in favour of the State, not in favour of the registered owners of private land who have lost, under the statute laws of QLD, the rights to use their fee simple land as they see fit.

The Constitution of Queensland 2001 Chapter 3, Sections 51 & 27 are ultra vires to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act at s109, s106, s107, s51 & s52 of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 (C’wth). Ultra vires meaning Without authority. An act which is beyond the powers or authority of the person or organization which took it."

Would the Premier of Qld explain to me what the following information is about?-http://searchwww.sec.gov/EDGARFSClient/jsp/EDGAR_MainAccess.jsp#topAnchor

DOCUMENT> <TYPE>424B3 <SEQUENCE>1 <FILENAME>y72505pe424b3.txt

 Registration No. 333-121263

 FINAL TERMS NO. 2037 DATED 10 NOVEMBER 2008
                         QUEENSLAND TREASURY CORPORATION
                      ISSUE OF 8,000,000.00 GLOBAL A$ BONDS
      GUARANTEED BY THE TREASURER ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF QUEENSLAND
               UNDER THE A$18,000,000,000 GLOBAL A$ BOND FACILITY
        ISSUED ON A CONSOLIDATED BASIS WITH THE GLOBAL A$ BONDS DUE 2011
CURRENTLY TOTALING A$4,676,748,000.00 (A$2,958,154,000.00 INCLUDING BUY BACKS)

<TABLE>
<S>                                          <C>
1.  (i)   Issuer:                            Queensland Treasury Corporation
    (ii)  Guarantor:                         The Treasurer on behalf of the Government of Queensland
2.  Benchmark line:                          2011
 (to be consolidated and form a single series  with QTC 6% Global A$Bonds due 14 June 2011,  ISIN US748305BC27)

Is this sort of info ordinarily available to Qld citizens?

Why is confidential Government information available for sale on the net to the highest bidder?

www.secinfo.com/dsvr4.z8Yq.f.htm - 12k 
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:aQLOM43eQOEJ:www.secinfo.com/dsvr4.z8Yq.f.htm+No+0001244818+%22State+of+Queensland%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=au 1: 18-K/A      Amendment NO. 1 to Form 18-K                        HTML     23K
2: EX-99.C.IV  Ex-99.C.Iv: Queensland Treasury Corporation         HTML    344K
                          Half-Yearly Report                                    
3: EX-99.C.V   Ex-99.C.V: Queensland State Accounts                HTML    423K
4: EX-99.C.VI  Ex-99.C.Vi: 2004-05 Mid-Year Fiscal and Economic    HTML    203K
                          Review                                                
5: EX-99.C.VII  Ex-99.C.Vii: Queensland 2005-06 Budget Papers      HTML  2,751K
6: EX-99.C.VIII  Ex-99.C.Viii: Pricing Supplement                  HTML     31K
7: EX-99.C.IX  Ex-99.C.Ix: Queensland Treasury Corporation         HTML     21K
                          Indicative Borrowing Program                          
8: EX-99.C.X Ex-99.C.X: Queensland State Accounts March Quarter HTML 467K

2005

9: EX-99.H.II  Ex-99.H.Ii: Consents                                HTML     17K
Best regards – A NON FARMER

(Full/correct name and address supplied with original)

Further reading –

http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/2918140.htm

http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/ACTS/1992/92AC064.pdf - see chapter 2 part 1 for the core mischief – part 2 etc goes on to detail in its secretive way how the public service has been extinguished and replaced by ‘officers’ of a corporation under the dictation of a minister but from time to convenient time being required to act ‘as’ the minister. (a dictatorship)

http://www.wernercairns.com/2010/01/queensland-aint-what-it-used-to-be.html - funny this - the premier told the NON FARMER (early 2010) that “the situation was being dealt with” – if so then why is Werner still worried?

http://abpac-australia.net/assets/constitnchanges.pdf - 26 points summing up the implications

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/pdf/Archive/Uk/uk.local.herefordshire/2008-05/msg00005.pdf

http://www.freestatevoice.com.au/politics/item/438-the-queensland-constitution-2001-/-the-brigalow-corporation-/-the-removal-of-all-ownership-rights-in-qld-deceit-and-treachery-by-qld-politicians-did-you-give-your-consent-to-this?-did-you-even-know-about-it?-queensland-politicians-should-go-to-jai – and here we go again, same thing, same reply, another source

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:JrpQfCMFnbIJ:www.premiers.qld.gov.au/community-issues/open-transparent-gov/submissions/assets/steven-robinson-submission.doc+%22high+court+of+australia%22+-+vs+%22Brigalow+Corporation%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgcvRmVwdCMUBOdr6Vq3xBQbeF3WD6yA7t1rQcKR-mwW8An3bBgz5cJ1Gp_N6mh6S7ERE2fp8s1a-ei4cDK2TZauvNAxSVkR0XUcKs2KPN5q93BNlZzsIbGfJ7ZnX2H3KyLIVBG&sig=AHIEtbTCL5kpGLbx3-Zyod9-QdkTAlJOMA – all he wanted was a little Royal Commission to be granted by our dismissive premier/fuhrer. As much chance of that as Hitler returning Jewish gold.

http://sosnews.org/newsfront/documents/brigalow.htm

http://loveforlife.com.au/node/2666 - a reasonably well researched resource

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=126204693750&topic=16101

http://www.abpac-australia.com/assets/dictatbystealth.pdf

* queensland – with reference to the regime illegality does not warrant capitalization

** Queenslanders – are the people of Queensland; an entity and a people apparently unlawfully disposed of by a dictatorial regime



“DO OUR POLITICIANS WANT AUSTRALIANS INVOLVED IN DEFENCE INDUSTRY”

No pretty pikkies this time.

Note - Some urls in the copied document may have expired.

The great master of deceit himself, John Howard, appointed Gillian Marks as the one stop shop for Australian defence industry complaints – that is for officially lodging complaints made by civilians in industry about misconduct, unfair dealing and skullduggery within the procurement regime.

Just about the first thing Ms Marks did on the job was to drive a coach and eight horses through the procurement process by giving several million dollars worth of shinyarse work to her pals in the legal profession without any application of the legally required tender process whatsoever.

The next thing she did, once that act of callous malfeasance was discovered was to go on fully paid sick leave for a couple of years – as some suggest, in order to avoid prosecution.

A new regime and new defence ministry seemed unable to deal with MS Marks.

They claimed that she couldn’t be sacked while on sick leave and couldn’t be prosecuted while still employed by the corporatised procurement agency, DMO.

A parallel scenario, reductio ad absurdum –

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/494815/reductio-ad-absurdum

That means a pissed truck driver can’t be booked for DD ‘cos he’s sick and employed by, say, Toll Corporation.

I reckon both truckies and Toll Corporation would go ballistic if such a stupidity were sustained. In self interest most truckers would avoid a colleague exhibiting such dangerous behaviour while their employers would be justifiably concerned about cargo loss and their safety reputation.

So where does that leave the morality of our governments and the crop of outstandingly narrow minded dolts who continue to win that rigged raffle that we blinkered punters pretend to be a democratic electoral process?

De we really have to keep accepting two sets of rules – one for peasants and truckies and another for the self-promoted elite?

To look at that the document copied below was sent in good faith to yet another defence minister who shortly after was dismissed for malfeasance himself.

Like the recent floods in Queensland and the comment of the overworked radio announcer one rainy night – “it might be easier to tell you which roads are still open rather than those that are closed – since there are definitely more closed than remain open.”

The big question is therefore –

Who, anymore, from top to bottom in these quasi-government organizations and within government itself is innocent of malfeasance or able to conduct their allotted activity without fear or favour in an environment such as has been exposed as corrupted beyond recall?

Hey; Fitzgibbon said it himself. Keep reading -

The hon. Joel Fitzgibbon

Minister for Defence

ministerfordefence@defence.gov.au

Dear Joel Fitzgibbon,

1 - I have recently spoken (pm 25/7/08) with Michael Crossman, Chris Condon and others by phone about a matter I believe you should study.

They all advise me to write to you, the Defence Minister, ‘outlining my concerns’ in detail, on one or two pages. An impossible constraint, hence the brevity of this document.

2 - We, my family, established **** Defence in order to contribute our skills towards the common good of and for Australia. We offered those services to help out with industry replacement in our sorry region - a DOTARS recognized – UNSUSTAINABLE REGION – for the duration of the last administration. We stupidly believed we were doing the right THING.

3 - The following extracts demonstrate that ‘The Minister’ has spoken plainly, in the public domain, about these topics. This statement aligns your concerns and ours both in the political arena and the public forum. We agree with the Minister with regard to these matters. We shouldn’t need to preach to you, the converted.

   Your quote, its provenance -

“Mr Fitzgibbon said the duplication, inefficiencies, buck passing and blame shifting cost the economy billions. He said the Business Council of Australia put the cost at $9 billion a year.”

www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23963988-29277,00.html   -  Max Blenkin again

The “obstruction, interference, buck passing and blame” the Minister toys with as an abstract concept, but is a reality my family has had to endure since we first made a decision to begin work in defence industry after formalising our business in Queensland. You are right – but we remind you the wrong is endemic federally too.

4 - The letter from Davina Langton of 2 June 08, your office, when read by us and referenced, displays such attributes as you publicly condemn.

That letter repeated what I already knew; then invited me to waste more time writing more novels for initiatives and reviews (e.g. Mortimer, DPS review, closing 6/6/08) that were at their closure date when I received the letter on  6/6/08.  This sort of thing only mirrors similar from the past.      

I trust the Minister is himself otherwise being provided relevant and timely advice.

5 - For some reason (perhaps connected with that letter) I was contacted by Colleen Milliken of DSTO some weeks ago. She asked me to detail our negative experience as ‘defence suppliers’ and to provide evidence of malfeasance.

Colleen is –

 Colleen Milliken  Office Manager, and  Manager Unsolicited Innovative Proposals Capability & Technology Demonstrator Program F2-1-099 Fairbairn ACT 2600  Ph: 02 612 86497 : Colleen.milliken@dsto.defence.gov.au

That project has taken a fair amount of my time from 10 June 2008 to the present including some 19 attachment rich communications.

I have been advised the purpose of this is for Colleen to ‘oversee’ the forwarding of my documents of evidence along to ‘defence legal’. Recently I’ve been trying to discover the address of ‘Defence Legal from a database of numerous agencies generically termed ‘defence legal’. While doing this today I accidentally found an 1800 647 946 number and an answering machine message that sounded amazingly like our Colleen?

While Colleen’s contact is appreciated I find it incomprehensible that once the documents have been passed from her office to some ephemeral, unidentifiable ‘Defence Legal’ the ‘pathway’ becomes ‘opaque’ and denies us the means to corroborate or further detail our submission about what amounts to the theft of 20 years of our life.

6 - I would remind the Minister that we have been here before. The last ‘Defence legal’ dedicated to solving industry issues was Gillian Marks. Need I say more?

At a recent meeting with a senior company man, the Australian (Defence) minister purportedly said: “Look mate, don’t f— us around. If there’s something wrong with this plane then tell us now.” clubwah.wordpress.com/2008/06/

.I submit that it is clear that we, myself and family, have equally been ‘fooled around’ (I assume that’s what ‘f— us around’ means, above) by a succession of ministerial predecessors who, for reasons known only to themselves, refused to play by rule.

The DPPM is the primary reference document for Defence procurement. The DPPM must comply with Commonwealth legislation and policy, as well as a range of internal Defence guidance. - http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/gc/contracting/dppi/PRO06_08.pdf

(Reasonable people in similar situations might come to suspect that they didn’t have enough cash to pay the bribes)

I submit that if the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon, even Mr. Fitzgibbon, citizen, was subject to the sort of chronic obfuscation and subsequently applied malfeasance we’ve related to Colleen by way of evidentiary document that he would have ‘spat the dummy’ himself  in real style years ago.

There is a principle at law of ‘reasonable anger’.

Joel Fitzgibbon, ‘reportedly’, expressed his wrath in ‘reasonable terms’ above. I am expressing that same sentiment now.

http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/gc/contracting/dppi/PRO10_04.pdf

http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fadt_ctte/estimates/bud_0001/def/ans-def-may00.doc

theft of –

·          1 incident involving a complete F88 Steyr rifle lost in East Timor (including its magazine containing 30 rounds)

·          F88 Steyr parts (trigger mechanisms and bolt assemblies)

·          an incomplete F88 Steyr rifle (trigger mechanism was not lost)

·          a complete 7.62mm sniper rifle

·          a complete .50in calibre sniper rifle

·          an (innocuous) .303in calibre rifle

·          a 1884 vintage Enfield pistol

·          a replica pistol

two M203 Grenade launchers; four pistols namely: a Browning .32, a 9mm Tokarev, a Colt, and a Webley; one 5.56mm M16 Armalite; four AK47 assault rifles; four AKS/AKM assault rifles; seven other rifles namely: a 7.62mm, a 7.62mm G3, a 7.62mm HMD, a Carl Gustav M5, and three PPSH 43s; two 9mm Austen SMG; and one PPSH 41 rifle

www.aph.gov.au/Hansard/senate/commttee/S10645.pdf  - search terms “weapons security”

http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/FADT_CTTE/completed_inquiries/2004-07/miljustice/report/c06.htm

My contact details –  supplied at original

“WHY DON’T AUSTRALIANS WANT AN INDIGINOUS DEFENCE INDUSTRY?” More specifically – Q - Why doesn’t a certain comfortable set entrenched in regional Australia want any sort of new, high level, value adding, technology based industries queering their grotty little pitch? A – ‘Cos they’d be shown up for the braindead counterproductive mob they are!

VIDEO – Some of us are stupid. Years of argument with 'authority' followed by years of frustration, more argument and huge expense to do project work for the defence of this blind and benighted country. Here is being trialled a prototype for project Land 40-2.

Authors – The Team.

Another long-winded diatribe beginning with a potted history of a very insignificant part of regional Australia leading towards a theory (based on fact) as to why a select few intend the district shall remain insignificant into the foreseeable future.

Some geezer from academia (or was that macadamia) was on the radio the other day discussing with his peers the way Australia might best improve economically.

He pulled out of his hat his best example of how Oz might resist improvement by citing this part of regional Queensland inhabited by our team at Calligula’s Horse.

Now, we know it’s the armpit of the universe here – flat, boring, flood plain landscapes, swamps and no offshore islands to pretty up the beach but it suited the mindset of the original settlers who wanted an easily navigable port approach and otherwise mostly wanted to do little more than grow sugar cane and oppress slaves from the nearby Pacific Islands.

Their other pastime was posturing about all day outside church on Sundays gossiping pettishly and backstabbing their more prosperous neighbours with unremitting bile.

Indeed, those were the days and nowadays we are stuck with the outcomes they, perhaps unintentionally, forged.

For, you see, despite being somewhat dour, well scrubbed once a week, and narrow focused – they were too successful at converting scrubland into sugar plantations and amazingly innovative at introducing new agricultural and industrial technology toward value adding: converting their favourite monoculture into saleable product (their favourite product being firewater rum).

Their success and the enforced eradication of blackbirding (essentially slavetrading of a sort) eventually led to mechanization of harvesting and milling technology which naturally morphed towards ‘big farming’, industry regulation and exploitation of the original exploiters of humanity by financiers, banks and middlemen.

All of which meant that over a century of hard labour under the blazing sub-tropical sun let to ownership of the district’s kit of assets by absentee entities and its eventual dispersal overseas to locations with lower labour costs.

The best, most recent, example of that was the removal of a huge harvester factory to Brazil.

The entire intellectual property and machinery contents of a couple of acres was packed up and shipped out in a few weeks with the tacit agreement of a few local ‘gentlemen’ whose morals and code of conduct floats at about at the same level as sharkshit.

Naturally they’re still good mates with our local politicians.

There, in a nutshell, is described about a century and a half; the futile history of a region which having faced depredation (more like old-fashioned predation) has for years now desperately needed imagination,  more innovation, meaningful occupation and industry replacement.

Which brings us back to the profound comments of our erstwhile academician who asserts with some justification that our region lately is apparently being intentionally overpopulated with southern immigrants who mostly lack the least occupational skills and precious little social skills whatsoever. (and so says the ABS)

His concern that such an underemployed population cannot create wealth when fifty percent of the regional population employed part-time in bargain barns is doing nothing more than selling on cheap imported tradegoods to the other unemployed fifty percent.

He submits that this situation being economically and socially unsustainable is most definitely the sort of no-brainer that should have occurred to the masters years ago.

What our expert failed to mention is that our little oligarchy not only want it that way but made it that way by gulling locals with a spot of cash into believing that ‘family tourists’ and the white shoe brigade (old farts in caravan parks) might be interested in eternally watching turtles lay eggs on a beach. (It is true that some experiments were attempted at nightlife but drinking hot, flat beer in a locked tin shed ‘til 2.00 am while listening to scratched Michael Jackson records is twice as boring but infinitely more painful than watching paint dry.)

The next grand experiment was to con southerners to relocate here.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/migrant-backlash-blights-bligh/story-e6frg6oo-1111118990367 - Note, even the premier’s bellyaching about it.

As noted by our academician a certain societal set were targeted for their lack of employment skills (didn’t matter from the angle that there was no bloody work for the poor buggers anyway) and resultant inability to repay a usurous mortgage.

A twice yearly cycle. A few weeks before the beginning of summer and then again at the beginning of winter out came the real estate signs touting the same old blocks of ticky tacky adorning our streets.

A huge southern migration exploited to the hilt by the same set of lazy bludging capitalists that sold off the few remaining employment opportunities a few years before.

Now they’re sucking ‘em in; sucking them dry; then spitting them out off farther north.

The latest refinement of the nouveau riche is somewhat of an old twist.

In order to ensure that there is absolutely no work here for our mortgage encumbered southern friends we’ve established a series of ‘backpacker hostels’.

We mightn’t have had Kanakas to bash about for many years but thousands of mostly oriental kids locked into monopolistic, hermetic, working holiday packages is perhaps even more fun.

For one thing they can’t usually hang around to complain about exploitation – but surely the best bit is that they are mostly youthful, healthy, good looking – and very available.

Jeez – and they reckon the American Civil War was theoretically fought over exploitation and slavery!

But what happens to a local lad who is into engineering and chronically out of work in a region subsumed to the machinations of self interested idiots who sell off industry for fun and profit and a bit of a good ol’ So’ Caroliny lifestyle?

Well if you are a mug and believe the advertising you invest your savings and energy towards setting up your shingle as a government condoned and approved defence supplier.

And if you are a persistent mug who spent all his money gaining accreditation, licenses and developing products matching government specifications for approved defence projects you soon learn that all our tiers of governance are infested with factionalism and corruption.

Then if you are a furious mug who sees this going on you raise official complaint through ‘correct channels’.

That is when they send the ‘thought police’ along to threaten your family with violence, close you down and steal your projects.

Makes you wonder why they ever bothered to swear the Oath of Allegiance.

“GOD’S OWN COUNTRY UNDERWATER AGAIN” – or – “Everyone Knows Electrical Power and Water Don’t Mix!”

In the midst of writing this the news of the disaster in Toowoomba and through SE Qld arrived.

The first reaction after the shock was to decide whether or to publish the following article at the risk of causing more grief for all those who have already suffered too much.

Clearly once our weather improves the replacement and repair of our infrastructure and homes is going to take years and cost billions.

Clearly if that massive task is undertaken without consideration for our weather and the mayhem it has created we’ll all be facing another butcher’s bill and another every time we experience a patch of foul weather.

Some might deem it unfair to criticize those in office now when stupid decisions were made by those who preceded them. Those same might likewise not grasp the concept of continuance of governance.

But the elect and those alleged professionals employed by them in government are required to understand and abide by such concepts.

Instead, the populace nowadays face silence, obfuscation, hostility, and increasingly often, when that fails, covert action whenever they attempt to place fact before the nabobs.

A casual scroll through the internet will demonstrate that a reasonable number of Queenslanders are convinced that certain of our past masters and decision makers managed to retire and hightail it out of jurisdiction in the nick of time.

Perhaps, in order to avoid embarrassment, it might be best if some of the present crop did the same.

And since the big mistake mentioned below was signed off and approved on the watch of a set of past masters and decisionmakers then built and put into service by the present lot in both state and local governments the resultant errors are both cross-jurisdictional and chronically compounded.

Which is precisely why we maintain the concept of continuance of governance within our alleged democracy.

Image 1 – the submarine sub-station on a dry day. Note transformers and heavy gauge switchery behind control room, While not arcing and sparking underwater in this study the thing is still quietly irradiating the kids playing at the council built recreational facility immediately next door.

Perhaps council thinks non-ionising radiation is character building?

Or are they managing a covert environmental health study?

It has been an interesting few weeks at the office – if you call staring at mold growing on the walls, listening to confused, contradictory radio bulletins and helos flying over all day interesting.

Even Arthur had to park the Hardly Driveable in deference to the lack of navigable roads.

So what happens in our neck of the woods when everything goes underwater?

Firstly City Hall opened up its doors to those flooded out of their homes.

I understand that those unfortunate enough to be in that situation were offered a cup of tea or coffee.

Then for some reason the ever popular premier of Q. came back from holidays in the nick of time to visit town coincident to the arrival of a no-nonsense, fact seeking, Prime Minister.

Must have been a close call, publicitywise, that.

Mind you there is one of the ‘Emily’s List’ set who was conspicuously (and probably fortunately) absent until the drama was over and all the hard work begun.

Indeed, during the first several days of the crisis, while just about every other mayor in Qld has been flat as a lizard drinking, sleeplessly manning the barricades and purposefully egging along the citizenry with their war against the elements – our beloved mayoress had been absent without leave.

But perhaps in a perverse way she’s smarter than we give her credit for –

Image 2 – 29/12/10. Whoops. See, I told you so. Low flood level and the control room floor is already awash, the kids have traded their skateboards for surfboards and are happily paddling around something sounding like a million electric toasters being dropped into a swimming pool. Note, no birdlife.

Must be difficult to come back from a holiday in Europe when you know you’ll be confronted by the sort of thing shown in the pikkies here.

After all you’d know your administration team definitely has its finger on the community’s pulse when they sign off approval for construction of a massive electricity sub-station below known flood level on an inner city flood plain.

‘But what the hell (she’ll think) all that was approved before I won my raffle for mayor.

And ex-premier Beattie was the man in charge when the project was approved.’

Which is just another of the tiny defects in the makeup of this ‘mayor’ – not the tiniest clue about the concept of continuance of governance at all.

But other than the fact of the total absence of correct process in governance as has evolved in modern Queensland (as the eminent Mr. John Passant put it to me “the inadequacies of government divorced from the people “) there is the ongoing detriment and continual risk to life and limb caused by this sort of stupid decision.

Aside from the matter of flooding the installation - which might have been remedied at the relatively trifling cost of a little more landfill under the foundations – there remains the spider’s web of underground (now waterlogged and underwater) 11 kilovolt cables leading out from this facility and the total lack of dry-shod access to any of it when wet.

To make that plain the Ergon fellows stood at the edge of the floodwaters on 29/12/2010 but made no move whatsoever to approach their new ‘jewel in the crown’.

Obviously they are savvy enough to agree with their boss that “electricity and water don’t mix”.

Nonetheless there are other concerns even when this installation is ‘dry’.

Kids are curious and quite agile and so are some drunks.

Which in the opinion of the team at Calligula’s horse two very good reasons why it is such a bloody stupid idea (even when its not underwater) to have the best part of an acre full of megawatts of raw power immediately adjacent to a kids playground and just over the road from a pub.

Image 3 – 30/12/2010, Photo taken from footpath at pub across the road.  Comparison with image 2 illustrates that there is at least ane half a metre of water sloshing about in that control room and around all the high tension equipment behind this building.

Note, water height approximately same as past floods.

Note, buzzing, crackling and popping noises emanating from sub-station clearly heard from photo staging point and louder than previous day.

Note, no birdlife.

Conclusion –

We tried to contact the electricity people about our concerns.

Standard operating procedure/spin/damage control was adopted when the young bimbo employed for such occasions offered a few phone numbers that mostly didn’t work.

We did receive a call a few days later from some electrical safety outfit attached to the Justice portfolio.

He suggested that the noises we heard might have been birdlife displaced by the floodwaters.

Would an operative of our illustrious state government lie or mislead?

On the strength of his advice I have forwarded an e-mail to the great naturalist Sir David Attenborough – title – “New species, exploding ducks” – and have included a copy of this article.

I anxiously await his reply.

If there is anyone on the face of this planet who could rule out exploding ducks as the cause of funny fizz, crack, pop noises coming from electrical power stations - it has gotta be him.