Welcome To Q Research AUSTRALIA

In anticipation of FISA DECLAS and SPYGATE revelations, a new thread for research and discussion of Australia's role in The Great Awakening.

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Wednesday 11.20.19

>>7358352 ————————————–——– These people are stupid.

>>7358338 ————————————–——– All assets [F + D] being deployed.

>>7358318 ————————————–——– What happens when the PUBLIC discovers the TRUTH [magnitude] re: [D] party corruption?

Tuesday 11.19.19

>>7357790 ————————————–——– FISA goes both ways.

Saturday 11.16.2019

>>7356270 ————————————–——– There is no escaping God.

>>7356265 ————————————–——– The Harvest [crop] has been prepared and soon will be delivered to the public for consumption.

Friday 11.15.2019

>>7356017 ————————————–——– "Whistle Blower Traps" [Mar 4 2018] 'Trap' keyword select provided…..

Thursday 03.28.2019

>>5945210 ————————————–——– Sometimes our 'sniffer' picks and pulls w/o applying credit file

>>5945074 ————————————–——– We LOVE you!

>>5944970 ————————————–——– USA v. LifeLog?

>>5944908 ————————————–——– It is an embarrassment to our Nation!

>>5944859 ————————————–——– 'Knowingly'

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"The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

''"Does AUS stand w/ the US or only select divisions within the US?"''

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Notables

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#14 - Part 1

Australian Politics and Society - Part 1

>>13165211, >>13165218 Philippines Foreign Minister Teddy Locsin calls on Myanmar junta to release Aussie Sean Turnell

>>13165331 ‘It’s our turn’: Inside the Christian Right conference plotting a political takeover - “Church and State”

>>13165352 Video: The Australian #ChurchAndState Summit 2021 is just for you - Church And State

>>13165358 Video: Cardinal George Pell is a keynote speaker at the Australian #ChurchAndState Summit in 2021 - Church And State

>>13168992 Hopping mad: US campaign to ban kangaroo product imports gains bipartisan support

>>13169146 Video: How extreme right-wing groups have ‘weaponised the internet’ in Australia

>>13169267 Foreign Minister Marise Payne suspends military aid to Myanmar

>>13173275 Video: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews suffers broken ribs, spine damage after "nasty fall" on "wet and slippery stairs"

>>13173322 Video: Three women go public with allegations against MP Craig Kelly's senior aide, Frank Zumbo - ABC News In-depth

>>13173867 Video: Australian Sean Turnell ‘tried to flee Myanmar with secret state financial information’, junta leader Min Aung Hlaing says

>>13174865 Video: Anzac Day marches will be held in every capital city after Prime Minister Scott Morrison's intervention - "If people can party and if people can protest, then we can remember as a nation, and honour our veterans on Anzac Day"

>>13177387 Video: Daniel Andrews’ recovery could take ‘months’, decision looms on surgery

>>13177438 Rocco Galati Tweet: Australian Health Minister hospitalized, "in serious condition", day after receiving Covid, Astra-Zeneca, Vaccine

>>13183865 Greg Hunt has been hospitalised with cellulitis. So what is it? And how serious is it?

>>13183855 Scott Morrison says he will act as health minister but Greg Hunt will return to work next week

>>13183787 Video: Scott Morrison to join 'historic' Quad talks with Joe Biden, Yoshihide Suga and Narendra Modi

>>13184102 Former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Ted Hui moves to Australia

>>13184141 Australian Federal Police push for sweeping online surveillance powers lashed as ‘dangerous overreach’ by human rights groups

>>13184169 Video: Australia’s top spy, ASIO director-general Mike Burgess ‘knows’ culprit behind ANU cyber attack, but won’t say

>>13195850 Australia pulls off stunning diplomatic coup - Mathias Cormann set to be announced as secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

>>13195985 Video: Scott Morrison Facebook Post: A huge honour and recognition for Australia. Well done to Mathias Cormann on being elected as the next Secretary-General of the OECD

>>13196051 Scott Morrison Facebook Post: An historic meeting for India, the United States, Japan and Australia - the first ever leaders’ meeting of the Quad

>>13196059 Video: First ever Quad Leaders' Meeting - Scott Morrison: My opening remarks to the historic first Quad Meeting involving the leaders of India, the United States, Japan and Australia

>>13196223 President Joe Biden Tweet: This morning, I met virtually with the Quad in the first multilateral summit I’ve hosted as president

>>13196242 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Tweet: I think this meeting was a meeting that was able to take the four countries of Japan, the United States, Australia and India to a new stage. We also agreed to hold a face-to-face summit meeting within the year

>>13196255 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tweet: Our discussions today on vaccines, climate change, and emerging technologies make the Quad a positive force for global good and for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific

>>13196427 U.S. Department of State Tweet: Video - The United States, Japan, India, and Australia are united in our vision for a free and open, inclusive and healthy Indo-Pacific region

>>13200420 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews moved from ICU - expecting a “very long journey” to recover from a fractured vertebra and several broken ribs

>>13200498 Video: Australia joins US, India and Japan in 'unprecedented' deal for coronavirus vaccines after historic Quad meeting

>>13228570 Our four nations are committed to a free, open, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific region - Opinion by Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga - washingtonpost.com

>>13241716 Scott Morrison’s soft-power diplomacy triumphs - Mathias Cormann becomes OECD Secretary-General and the Quad holds its first leadership meeting

>>13247553 ASIO boss Mike Burgess says agency is ditching 'Islamic' and 'right-wing' tags, will now refer to 'religious' or 'ideological' violence

>>13247553 Transcript - ASIO Director-General’s Annual Threat Assessment - Wednesday, 17 March 2021

>>13247553 ASIO cracks 'Nest of Spies' seeking access to Australia's Defence secrets - "the country behind the foreign spy ring was not China"

#14 - Part 2

Australian Politics and Society - Part 2

>>13247561 Video: ASIO to censor term 'Islamic extremism' from espionage vocabulary - Sky News Australia

>>13247969 U.S. Space Force - Australian exchange officer exemplifies excellence in space career - Royal Australian Air Force Squadron Leader Jaimee Maika

>>13248019 ASIO Twitter Thread - "Spies and terrorists should know this: we are looking for you. And for the rest of the Australian community: we are looking out for you. ASIO is your security service."

>>13248019 Video: ASIO Director-General of Security Mike Burgess - "To those conducting espionage and foreign interference in our country. If you're doing this, ASIO and our partners will hunt you down."

>>13256977, >>13256981 ASIO warning: Threat of nation-state espionage and foreign interference set to supplant terrorism as the greatest threat to Australian security by 2025

>>13257003 Order of Nine Angles: What is this obscure Nazi Satanist group?

>>13257754 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: I had a warm & productive discussion with @SecDef Austin today focused on progressing outcomes from #AUSMIN 2020 & strengthening cooperation with regional partners.

>>13257754 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Tweet: Productive call with Australia’s Acting Minister for Defence @MarisePayne to discuss my ongoing trip to the Indo-Pacific region. The Unbreakable Alliance remains strong. We stand with our Australian allies as we look forward to the next 100 years of mateship.

>>13257865 Video: Annual Threat Assessment 2021 - Director-General of Security - Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

>>13260735 Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton threatens defamation action against Greens Senator Larissa Waters over “rape apologist” slur

>>13260752 Greens Senator Larissa Waters Tweet: WOMEN DO NOT LIE ABOUT BEING RAPED @PeterDutton_MP YOU INHUMANE, SEXIST RAPE APOLOGIST

>>13260752 Greens Senator Larissa Waters Press Release: Rape apologists and PM's arse-covering contribute to sexist and misogynistic culture in politics

>>13266943 Why the Quad’s a big strategic step forward for Australia - Alexander Downer - afr.com

>>13267035 Show and tell: the ‘not-so-secret’ mission of ASIO boss Mike Burgess

>>13273713 Sonnenkrieg Division: Australia lists right-wing organisation as terrorist group for the first time

>>13286902 ASIO calls for more extremists on terror list after Sonnenkrieg Division becomes first on list in Australia

>>13287867 The “strange” ideology of QAnon conspiracists - definition and etymology of "strange"

>>13286983 Video: Parliament of Australia Senate Estimates - ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess and Senator Kristina Keneally - 'QAnon, we can have a conversation about them.'

>>13301300 Video: ASIO watching Australian right-wing extremist groups - Sky News Australia

>>13301505 US neo-Nazi group recruits young Australians, secret recordings reveal

>>13301512 Australians recorded spruiking far-right credentials to global Neo-Nazi group - ABC News In-depth

>>13311373 NIKE Satan shoe with human blood - Lil Nas X - https://satan.shoes

>>13311389 A matching Video. They don't hide it anymore. - Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) (Official Video)

>>13311419 Q Post #3594 - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Prepare. For God & Country. For Humanity. We FIGHT!

>>13319973 Greens senator Larissa Waters retracts “rape apologist” tweet against Peter Dutton, issues an “unreserved” apology

>>13319973 Greens Senator Larissa Waters Tweet: I unreservedly apologise to Minister Dutton for the hurt, distress and damage to his reputation I have caused him

>>13319973 Greens Senator Larissa Waters Press Release: Apology to Peter Dutton - 24 MAR 2021

>>13320197 Myanmar’s worst day of violence sparks global military response - Australia’s Chief of Defence Angus Campbell issues rare joint statement with armed force leaders around the world

>>13320197 Foreign Minister Marise Payne Tweet: Australia strongly condemns the continued & horrific use of lethal force against civilians in Myanmar

>>13320197 Joint Statement of Chiefs of Defense Condemning Military-Sponsored Violence in Myanmar - General Angus J. Campbell, Chief of the Defence Force

>>13320397 Marise Payne the ‘prime minister for women’ as Morrison adds women’s taskforce in reshuffle

>>13320426 Australian government backflips on secrecy push in Witness K court case

>>13322614 Video: Peter Dutton becomes defence minister - Mr Morrison praises Mr Dutton’s record as home affairs minister, thanking him for his years of service

>>13335655 RAAF planning for new military space command as it celebrates 100th anniversary

>>13335660 Australia to build its own missiles with $1bn guided weapons facility

#14 - Part 3

Australian Government Sexual Assault Allegations

>>13168673 Defence Minister Linda Reynolds delays her return to work, raising questions about her future

>>13173322 Video: Three women go public with allegations against MP Craig Kelly's senior aide, Frank Zumbo - ABC News In-depth

>>13177491 Former Labor staffer Anna Jabour reveals the sexual misconduct she faced working in Parliament House under Prime Minister Julia Gillard

>>13189962 Linda Reynolds to pay damages to Brittany Higgins over ‘lying cow’ comment

>>13216720 Video: Christian Porter launches defamation action against ABC and journalist Louise Milligan

>>13279431, >>13279439 Images show senior government staff performing sex acts at Parliament House

>>13279446 Video: Finance Minister warns other Coalition staffers involved in lewd Parliament sex acts will be sacked

>>13279459 Video: Scott Morrison on verge of tears addressing culture within parliament

>>13293704 Peta Credlin says she sacked staffer at centre of lewd video, alleges orgies in Parliament

>>13293721 Video: Peta Credlin reveals Canberra staffer incidents for first time - Sky News Australia

>>13294106 Warren Entsch contradicts Peta Credlin, claiming he sacked staffer accused of solo sex act

>>13301036 Dossier of lewd sex acts to spark sackings - Whistleblower passes on information to Simon Birmingham and Kristina Keneally

>>13320062 Video: Liberal MP Andrew Laming to quit politics at next election after allegations of harassing women online

#14 - Part 4

Dassi Erlich Tweets / Malka Leifer Extradition and Prosecution

>>13190070 Fears alleged sex offender principal Malka Leifer could dodge justice - years of publicity may preclude a fair trial by an unbiased jury

#14 - Part 5

Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry

>>13168726 Brigadier Ian Langford, commander during period when Australian troops allegedly committed war crimes, prevented from handing back distinguished leadership medal

>>13241878 ‘Very serious criminal conduct’: Ben Roberts-Smith faces allegations of two more crimes on top of alleged involvement in six unlawful killings

#14 - Part 6

Cardinal George Pell and Vatican Financial Scandal Allegations

>>13165358 Video: Cardinal George Pell is a keynote speaker at the Australian #ChurchAndState Summit in 2021 - Church And State

>>13273728 Vatican money transfers no crime: Australian Federal Police

#14 - Part 7

Australian and Regional Resignations

>>13190628 ‘Personal cost’: Deloitte Australia CEO Richard Deutsch in shock early resignation

>>13248113 Hockeyroos coach Paul Gaudoin in shock resignation amid 'distressing' allegations of bullying, body-shaming and homophobic behaviour

>>13335678 Nationals MP Michael Johnsen resigns from NSW parliament following rape allegation he denies

#14 - Part 8

2020 US Presidential Election - Australian Perspectives

>>13165228 YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki: Donald Trump can return when risk of violence abates

>>13165440 Pentagon considers extending the stay of National Guard troops at Capitol for “the next couple of months”

>>13328396 THE OFFICE OF DONALD J. TRUMP - 45th President of the United States - 45office.com - White House Rose Garden with Australian Flag

#14 - Part 9

Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, Australia and Worldwide

>>13177350 Video: Coronavirus: Anthony Fauci praises Australia response, lockdowns

>>13177438 Rocco Galati Tweet: Australian Health Minister hospitalized, "in serious condition", day after receiving Covid, Astra-Zeneca, Vaccine

>>13183855 Scott Morrison says he will act as health minister but Greg Hunt will return to work next week

>>13190587 Prime Minister Scott Morrison: ‘AstraZeneca is safe’ - Australia not concerned by reports of blood clots in Europe

>>13301064 Clive Palmer’s anti-vax pamphlets slammed by Scott Morrison as “complete rubbish”

#14 - Part 10

Julian Assange Indictment and Extradition

>>13184085 Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, in Katoomba and Hazelbrook, New South Wales

>>13196546 Julian Assange’s father brings his fight to free his son to Canberra

>>13273605 Bipartisan delegation of Australian MPs meets with US embassy about Julian Assange

>>13275730 Video: The Aussie human rights lawyer who has stood by Julian Assange for 10 years - ABC / Australian Story

>>13328158 Pope sends Julian Assange personal message to his jail cell, partner Stella Moris says

#14 - Part 11

Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations

>>13168834 Video: World Cup rugby star Tony Daly speaks out about his childhood sexual abuse - ABC News Australia

>>13190149 Two women face court over alleged planned female genital mutilation of two-week-old baby in WA

>>13190664 NSW man James Robert Davis charged with keeping slave in Sydney suburb of Maroubra

>>13196575 Video: Man travels from Mt Isa to Brisbane to meet ‘girl’ who was undercover cop - Arrested by Detectives from Task Force Argos

>>13228625 Video: Escaping a sex cult: How Australian women were enslaved in plain sight (James Davis) - ABC / Four Corners

>>13235103 Former 'slave' Felicity Bourke speaks out about abusive sex cult being run from a rural property (James Davis)

>>13241444 Video: Australian Federal Police call for more people to come forward after James Davis charged with slavery offences

>>13241449 New South Wales cops ‘warned about alleged sex-slave ring’ in 2019 (James Davis)

>>13243916 Former prison guard James Davis denied bail over slavery offences - "kept in strict protection" 24 hours a day in Tamworth Correctional Centre

>>13254455 Operation Arkstone: Shaun Dregmans arrested in dawn raid, faces child abuse charges - 20th man allegedly linked to the country’s biggest child sex abuse network

>>13254494 Video: Operation Arkstone Update: Additional 152 charges laid against Sydney man, junior soccer coach Grant Harden

>>13266971 ‘He’s not a hero, he’s a paedophile’: new claims against Ken Dyers, Kenja Communications spiritual chief

>>13301085 Former Queensland MP Trevor Perrett charged with indecent treatment of young girls under 16 and 17

>>13307405 Video: First exit trafficking conviction in Australia - Sydney man used threats, coercion and deception to force a woman and her child to return to India

>>13322581 Video: Australian Prime Minister on the work of former Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton, to help take down global pedophile networks

>>13335667 South Australian MP staffer Ben Waters charged with child abuse-related offences

#14 - Part 12

Australia / China Tensions - Part 1

>>13183795 Quad members hype ‘China threat’ theory to bolster their boldness - Mu Lu - globaltimes.cn

>>13184102 Former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist Ted Hui moves to Australia

>>13184169 Video: Australia’s top spy, ASIO director-general Mike Burgess ‘knows’ culprit behind ANU cyber attack, but won’t say

>>13184562 Video: End nears for Victoria’s Belt and Road deal with Chinese government under foreign veto laws

>>13190373 Chinese takeover of iron ore operations on Cockatoo Island near Australian military training area causes unease inside defence and government

>>13190431 Hong Kong activist Ted Hui welcome to campaign in Australia, says head of government intelligence committee Senator James Paterson

>>13190540 Liberal Party donor Huifeng 'Haha' Liu 'engaged in acts of foreign interference': ASIO

>>13195888 China tells UN Australia's offshore detention centres violate human rights, don't have adequate conditions

>>13196535 Elise Thomas Tweet: They're right. This is something we should be ashamed of and something we need to fix. Whataboutism is a cop-out and we should lead by example on human rights issues

>>13200581 Propelling 'Asian NATO' beyond US capacity: Global Times editorial - globaltimes.cn

>>13241473 Australian media launches false spy accusations against Chinese business man; expatriates from the mainland at risk in the country: analysts - globaltimes.cn

>>13241520 ‘Just not going to happen’: US Indo-Pacific co-ordinator Kurt Campbell warns China over Australian trade stoush - 'we are not going to leave Australia alone on the field'

>>13241531 Campbell’s remarks push Australia further to the anti-China frontline - Chen Hong - globaltimes.cn

>>13241570 Britain aligns with Australia against China - Beijing “a systemic challenge” to British prosperity and values

>>13241638 Beijing blames Australia’s ‘wrong words and deeds’ for trade war after US rebuke

>>13241643 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on March 16, 2021

>>13247914 Video: Don’t expect a breakthrough in U.S.-China talks, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd says - CNBC International TV

>>13254571 PDF: Consider reclaiming Darwin Port from Chinese company Landbridge, committee advises federal government

>>13254571 Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth - Inquiry Into Diversifying Australia's Trade And Investment Profile

>>13254635 (2019) Former trade minister Andrew Robb quits China-linked firm Landbridge before foreign interference law kicks in

>>13254654 South Australian Premier Steven Marshall accepts invitation to formally open controversial Adelaide Chinese Consulate

>>13264371 Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan: The US has 'got our back' on Chinese diplomatic disputes

>>13273939 China faces pressure from Australian parliament on treatment of Uighurs, religious minorities

#14 - Part 13

Australia / China Tensions - Part 2

>>13286591 Beijing to Canberra, Washington: don’t ‘blackmail China’

>>13286599 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on March 22, 2021

>>13286669 Aussie motion apes US claims - Canberra blindfolded maneuver on Xinjiang to prove loyalty to US at cost of own national interest - Xu Keyue - globaltimes.cn

>>13293622 Video: ‘Behaving very badly’: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has Australia’s back on China ‘bullying’

>>13293650 Video: China’s ‘blatant coercion’ of Australia is a lesson for the world, says Antony Blinken

>>13293650 Transcript - Reaffirming and Reimagining America’s Alliances - ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE - MARCH 24, 2021

>>13293813 China official Zhao Lijian’s fake news on Manus ‘camps’

>>13293813 Lijian Zhao Tweet: The #Australian government built detention centers on the #Manus Island, which "accommodates" tens of thousands of people from war-torn countries

>>13293813 Lijian Zhao Tweet: According to the Lowy Institute, almost one in five #Chinese #Australians have been physically threatened or attacked in the past year because of their heritage

>>13300945 Foreign Minister Marise Payne - Joint statement on Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang

>>13300953 Stop looking at others through a magnifying glass: Chinese FM spokesperson urging Australia to reflect on its own problems - globaltimes.cn

>>13300964, >>13300969 Transcript - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on March 24, 2021

>>13301011 China a vindictive and unreliable trading partner: Australian ambassador Graham Fletcher

>>13301277 Iron ore tycoon Andrew Forrest pleads with west to mend its relationship with China "to avoid damaging the global economy and environment"

>>13307443 Australia to join The Quad allies at French-led naval exercise in April - 'La Perouse' war game in Bay of Bengal

>>13307537 Boris Johnson Tweet: The MPs and other British citizens sanctioned by China today are performing a vital role shining a light on the gross human rights violations being perpetrated against Uyghur Muslims. Freedom to speak out in opposition to abuse is fundamental and I stand firmly with them.

>>13307537 Prime Minister Scott Morrison Tweet: Australia stands with you Boris

>>13307537 UK denounces China sanctions over Xinjiang as Western rift widens - China has imposed sanctions on individuals from the EU and Britain who have taken up the Uighur cause.

>>13320303 GT Voice: Complicating trade issues won’t help Canberra’s woes - globaltimes.cn

>>13327894 SA Premier Steven Marshall shouted down by protesters at China consulate opening

>>13328300 Australia incorrectly believes US will protect its interests: former Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh - Yu Jincui - globaltimes.cn

>>13328317 China - Reality Check - Bruce Haigh - brucehaigh.com.au - "Hedonism and corruption dominate the LNP, which Morrison encapsulates. Australia has never had a lazier Prime Minister"

#14 - Part 14

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

>>13184365 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell’s family shares ‘facts’ on Twitter as feds fight third bail bid

>>13184365 GMaxFacts Tweet: We know Ghislaine better than anyone, we are her family. It is our mission to shine light on the real Ghislaine, not the figure of fiction caricatured by the media

>>13184365 GMaxFacts Tweet: As a pre-trial detainee Ghislaine is innocent and entitled to the presumption of innocence and due process which are fundamental to America’s system of justice

>>13184365 GMaxFacts Tweet: #DYK our sister is a kind & compassionate person. Dozens of letters of support affirming her kindness and generosity, honesty & integrity have been sent to the court

>>13190262 Ghislaine Maxwell to Sell London Home to Pay Legal Fees in Epstein Sex Case

>>13190266 "Virginia Roberts Giuffre, alleges that she was brought there in 2001 as a 17-year-old and forced to have sex with the U.K.’s Prince Andrew"

>>13200276 ‘My sister Ghislaine is not a monstrous pimp’ - Ian Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein ruined his youngest sibling’s life and she is paying for the US authorities’ failure to prosecute him

>>13247597 Buyer of Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC mansion is Australian expatriate and former Goldman Sachs executive, Michael D. Daffey

>>13254394 PDF: Judge Rules Some Ghislaine Maxwell Details Are Too ‘Sensational and Impure’ to Be Revealed to the Public

>>13260936 Video: Ghislaine Maxwell's brother, Ian Maxwell insists she should be treated as 'presumed innocent': 'She is not Epstein'

>>13286748 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail in Manhattan court, judge cites 'experience evading detection'

>>13287302 Richard Branson Opening Second Private Island Next to His Own Celeb-Favorite Retreat: Photos

>>13307241 PDF: Ghislaine Maxwell on ‘fishing expedition’ for explosive evidence from Jeffrey Epstein accusers: lawyers

>>13327823 PDF: New sex trafficking crimes brought against Ghislaine Maxwell - sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor

>>13335629 PDF: A lawsuit names Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell and alleges actions sinister even by his standards

#14 - Part 15

Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide

>>13164555 QAnon: where does the conspiracy go to from here? - Phillip Adams - theaustralian.com.au

>>13184203 Video: SNEAK PEEK: QAnon mind games - 'The doomsday cult tearing Aussie families apart. 60 Minutes expose the dangerous mind games of QAnon'

>>13184887 Video: Q: Into the Storm (2021) | Official Trailer - HBO - 'a labyrinthine journey to uncover the forces behind QAnon, a movement fueled by conspiracy theories that has grown in scope and political significance'

>>13216665 Video: The dangerous Qanon cult tearing families apart with conspiracies - 60 Minutes Australia

>>13216784 The rise of conspiracy mentality in the US - 'something that Jews need to watch with special care' - Solomon D. Stevens - ajn.timesofisrael.com

>>13241592 Is this Q? Documentary claims Ron Watkins could be QAnon leader - Lucy Quaggin - 7news.com.au

>>13241609 Leader of QAnon conspiracy group unmasked, new documentary claims - Natalie Brown - news.com.au

>>13266834 An Australian celebrity lifestyle influencer is hosting some of the world's most notorious conspiracy theorists on his podcast - Tom Porter - businessinsider.com.au

>>13273751 History repeats itself: From the New Testament to QAnon - Timothy Pettipiece - theconversation.com

>>13273818 HBO's QAnon documentary 'Q: Into the Storm' searches for its origins but misses its meaning - Sam Thielman - nbcnews.com

>>13286983 Video: Parliament of Australia Senate Estimates - ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess and Senator Kristina Keneally - 'QAnon, we can have a conversation about them.'

>>13313378 What has QAnon got to do with Australians? - Margaret Simons - smh.com.au

>>13320247 Who is Q? Maker of HBO docuseries ‘Q: Into the Storm’ believes he has the answer - Meredith Blake - latimes.com

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Famed businessman Sir Ronald Brierley pleads guilty to possessing child abuse material

HEATH PARKES-HUPTON - APRIL 1, 2021

Millionaire businessman Sir Ronald Alfred Brierley has pleaded guilty in court to possessing graphic sexual images, with court documents saying they involved girls as young as two years old.

The elderly knight’s barrister Lisa-Claire Hutchinson asked that he not be required to stand in the Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday “due to his age” as she entered guilty pleas to three counts of possessing child abuse material.

The court heard that Brierley still disputes the number of images police allege in those charges.

An additional 14 counts of the same charge laid upon the famed corporate raider were withdrawn and he has been committed to the District Court for sentence.

The offence carries a maximum jail term of 10 years prison.

Now 83, Brierley was stopped by Australian Border Force officers at Sydney Airport after jetting in from Fiji in December 2019.

Australian Federal Police alleged at the time that he was caught with thousands of images and videos on electronic devices found in his carry on bags and at his Point Piper mansion.

According to court documents, he had photographs stashed on storage devices showing young girls aged “approximately between 2 years to 15 years of age in sexually suggestive poses”.

Court documents state that officers found 1615 images on a storage device at his eastern suburbs home during raids in 2019, although Brierley disputes this.

When Brierley was searched at the airport earlier that morning he was in possession of “one computer image” of child abuse material on a storage device, court documents state.

The charges that have now been withdrawn alleged the possession of tens of thousands more files discovered during the two searches, at the airport and at Brierley’s luxury home.

After the short mention, the frail, retired tycoon was helped to his feet by his solicitor Penny Musgrave before leaving the court using a walking stick.

Brierley had been considered business royalty in both his birth country of New Zealand and adopted home of Australia.

The Wellington-born former head of the Bank of New Zealand was knighted in 1988 and also served on the board of the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust.

Brierley will return to court on April 30, 2021.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/famed-businessman-sir-ronald-brierley-pleads-guilty-to-possessing-child-abuse-material/news-story/c537452e8dedea4a13895f87db36e231

Ghislaine Maxwell Blasts Revised Indictment as Prosecutorial ‘Gamesmanship’

Patricia Hurtado - 1 April 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, slammed prosecutors for expanding their indictment against her by adding sex-trafficking charges, calling it “obvious tactical gamesmanship” that may force her to ask for a delay to her trial.

On Monday, prosecutors added more heft to their case by directly accusing Maxwell of sex trafficking minors over a decade through 2004. Maxwell, 59, has been in federal lockup in Brooklyn since her arrest in July on a host of crimes, including a scheme to entice minors to be sexually abused by Epstein.

But Maxwell fired back late Wednesday, arguing the new charges “drastically” change the focus of the case and hamper her ability to prepare for trial. In a letter to the trial judge, Maxwell’s lawyer Bobbi Sternheim complained that when the socialite was first arraigned on July 14, 2020, prosecutors said they didn’t intend to file additional charges.

The trial, which is scheduled to start July 12, was originally projected to last two weeks. But Sternheim said it may take at least that amount of time to select jurors who can be fair in a case that has received extraordinary media attention and where “dozens” of new witnesses could be called.

“Ms. Maxwell is entitled to a fair trial with effective assistance of counsel,” Sternheim said. “If counsel feel that additional time is required to guarantee those constitutional rights, Ms. Maxwell will suffer the consequence by her continued detention.”

Maxwell has three times failed to persuade the judge to free her on bond and in her letter, Sternheim again argued that her jailing has also hampered her ability to review evidence.

“The court has the power and, indeed, the discretion to accommodate this constitutional clash,” Sternheim wrote. “Granting a continuance and releasing Ms. Maxwell on the most restrictive conditions of home detention. Surely, the court can impose conditions that ‘clip her wings’ and satisfy perceived flight concerns without keeping Ms. Maxwell locked in a Bureau of Prisons cage.”

Maxwell’s defense team also asked that she have an in-person arraignment on the revised indictment and that the government call witnesses to show the strength of its case. When she was arraigned last year, U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan directed the hearing be held remotely with Maxwell attending it virtually from the federal jail in Brooklyn.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/maxwell-calls-revised-indictment-prosecutorial-gamesmanship

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Australians flagged in Shanghai security files which shed light on China's surveillance state and monitoring of Uyghurs

Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Echo Hui - 1 April 2021

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The identities of 161 Australian citizens — including a former intelligence chief, government officials and business leaders — have been exposed in a hacked Shanghai security database which reveals the inner workings of China's surveillance state.

Australian authorities are investigating whether the citizens may have been flagged for monitoring by Shanghai's Public Security Bureau (PSB), the city's powerful police force which has intelligence and immigration control functions.

Activists hacked an insecure server late last year, discovering the trove of more than 1.1 million Shanghai PSB and surveillance records.

The data was provided to Australian security officials, the ABC and a handful of media organisations internationally, giving a rare and detailed window into China's development of a national mass surveillance system.

The database contains PSB watchlists of tens of thousands of persons of interest, reports from informants, facial and vehicle recognition photographs, and immigration data.

The records also detail the monitoring and questioning of thousands of ethnic minority Uyghurs, some as young as five.

The database includes the passport details and photographs of more than 5,000 foreigners, flagged when they travelled to Shanghai since 2017.

The Australians include notable and influential identities, such as Geoff Miller, a former ambassador and head of the Office of National Assessments intelligence analysis agency.

Among the scores of other Australians unwittingly caught up in the data breach are business leaders and senior staff with access to sensitive technologies and information from companies including Telstra, NAB, Ernst & Young and NBN Co.

Mystery surrounds flagging of Australians

Hackers found the unprotected database, codenamed 'uyghur terrorist', on an open-source data platform used by security agencies across the world, and provided the information to Canberra-based cyber security firm Internet 2.0.

Internet 2.0 chief executive Robert Potter told the ABC the files appeared to be a piece of a larger database feeding into a burgeoning mass surveillance system.

"This draws on much larger systems which are significantly more advanced in both scope and scale than those operated in democratic states," he said.

"It demonstrates how China broadly seeks to control all data points within the enforcement of law and political control."

The mystery to Australian authorities is why 161 citizens were flagged passing through an immigration checkpoint at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport in 2018.

Authorities are investigating whether the Australians were identified for intelligence purposes or caught up in a broader data sweep.

The Australians included:

• A Telstra executive responsible for technology innovation

• A senior NAB data security consultant who went on to work for NBN Co

• A global firearms magnate

• Partners at global consulting firm Ernst & Young

• A headmaster of an elite Shanghai international school

• A university student who interned with Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the US Senate

• A director of influential Chinese-language media company Australia China Media Group

• A senior executive at Australia's largest beef producer, the Australian Agricultural Company

Adding to the mystery, the database includes several Australian children, some as young as two.

Geoff Miller, a former Office of National Assessments director-general and ambassador to Korea and Japan, was flagged when he landed in Shanghai for a week-long sightseeing tour with his wife in September 2018.

"Anyone checking in Chinese immigration would see that I had visited China a few times, and with Australian ministers and prime ministers," Mr Miller told the ABC.

"They might have decided, 'what's this bloke doing coming back?' so I can see that it could have happened."

Janis Manning, the co-owner of the long-running media industry publication Mediaweek, was added to the database on a one-day stopover in Shanghai.

"I'm more intrigued and mystified than anything else," Ms Manning said.

"I don't think, realistically, there's any reason why they'd be interested in me or my movements as an individual.

"I just think I've popped up on some database possibly because I've throughout my career been connected with the media in some senior positions."

The investigation into the database comes amid heightened fears for Australians in China, with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade last year warning citizens not to travel there because Beijing had detained foreigners for allegedly "endangering national security".

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Database part of larger national program, expert says

Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior analyst Samantha Hoffman, a world expert on Chinese surveillance, has looked at similar public security databases in her research.

She believes the records are a piece of a larger public security and surveillance system being developed in China.

"I've seen evidence of the same system type being developed in other cities and provinces across China in a standardised way," she said.

"Although this data is showing information from a limited time period, it shows how foreigners could get caught up in China's surveillance state when they've passed through the country, even if that system isn't fully established yet.

"While there's no clear evidence in this data why these Australians have been flagged, it illustrates the risks in the future when Chinese security officials could track anybody travelling within the country.

"It shouldn't be a surprise to any foreigner visiting China that they might be tracked."

Dr Hoffman believes the data feeds into a national program in development, called Skynet, which will connect facial recognition cameras, public security databases, command-and-control systems and threat intelligence across the country.

Human Rights Watch's China director Sophie Richardson says the database is "further evidence of the Chinese government's efforts to hoover up enormous amounts of data from people without their really knowing about it, or being aware of how it's being used".

"But I think it's also interesting that this is another data leak, one in a series over the last couple of years, that amongst other things shows how vulnerable this data is, even though it's been gathered by the authorities."

'You can be listed as a terrorist simply because you went to a mosque'

The leaked files reveal the identities of more than 25,000 persons of interest who face intense monitoring in China, including ethnic minority Uyghurs, political dissidents, children, people with mental illness and alleged criminals.

The database contains records of the PSB's efforts to monitor, detain and question thousands of Uyghurs named as "suspected terrorists" — believed to be just a small sample of the country's vast blacklists.

The Uyghur "suspected terrorists" include more than 400 minors, some as young as five, who are logged in the files as having been examined in person by PSB officials.

About 8,000 Uyghurs are flagged in the database for "suspected terrorism" and other crimes such as "assembling a crowd to disturb social order", an offence often used to jail activists.

The ABC confirmed the identities of several of the Uyghur "suspected terrorists", including two successful businessmen who were detained in Xinjiang and later fled to Turkey with their families.

Both men were listed on a PSB technology division blacklist, which recorded that they had been tracked in Shanghai.

The ABC has agreed not to identify them for their safety.

Speaking from Turkey, one of the businessmen told the ABC he believed he was placed on the blacklist after a day trip to Shanghai Disneyland during a visit to nearby Hangzhou in 2017.

He said PSB officers questioned him and searched his hotel room on the first night of his stay in the city, which was hosting a major national event.

"The police told me no Uyghurs are allowed to stay in Hangzhou because the city was holding an important meeting," he told the ABC.

He said that after returning to Xinjiang, he was held for a month in a detention centre, wearing only his underpants in a cold, overcrowded cell.

He believes the leaked database is important evidence supporting claims of cultural genocide against the ethnic minority.

"It shows what we said was the truth," he said.

"You can be listed as a terrorist simply because you went to a mosque.

"I think the Chinese government wants to eliminate us."

The second man, who spent 10 months without charge in a Xinjiang jail, told the ABC he feared being forced back to China under a looming extradition deal with Turkey.

"I was shocked to learn I am on the list and by what that means to me and my family," he said.

"I'm seriously considering whether I should leave Turkey."

The treaty is awaiting ratification by Turkey's parliament after China approved it in December.

The Turkish government denies it would affect the country's 40,000 Uyghurs.

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The new evidence of monitoring and control comes amid rising international pressure on China, in the wake of horrifying accounts of rape and torture of Uyghurs in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang province.

The United States, European Union, Britain and Canada last week launched coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang which the US and Canada described as genocide.

The Australian government welcomed the sanctions, but they provoked swift retaliation from Beijing which claims it targets Uyghurs to stamp out terrorism.

Persons of interest flagged for mental illness, past drug use

One watchlist in the database identifies 10,000 persons of interest according to seven priority categories declared by China's national Ministry of Public Security.

The categories include people flagged for monitoring because of mental illness, past drug use or criminal history.

The crimes identified range from theft and fraud to "illegally acquiring state secrets" and defection.

Listed alongside them as key persons of interest by the ministry are people involved in "disturbing social order" and repeat "petitioners" — people who file official petitions against government officials about issues including corruption, medical negligence, police brutality, unfair dismissal, land grabs and malfeasance.

The leak also contains the private information of thousands of police informants and people making complaints to the Shanghai PSB.

Their personal details — including names, home addresses and phone numbers — are exposed in records of calls to Shanghai police stations made since early 2018.

It follows a huge leak of Chinese police informants' data in 2014.

Companies and employees flagged

The database also reveals how Shanghai authorities monitor employees of flagged foreign-owned and Chinese companies.

It contains a watchlist of the employees of 976 companies, which have been flagged because of their access to dangerous chemicals, explosives-making materials, and drugs.

A quarter of those companies are foreign owned, including American manufacturing giant 3M, German pharmaceutical company Bayer and Japanese heavy industries and electric company Mitsubishi.

The records show how 48 employees from the flagged companies were tracked by facial recognition cameras as they moved around Shanghai's Jinshan harbour district.

The database also contains records of hundreds of thousands of vehicle recognition photographs taken by cameras in the same area.

The vehicles targeted are from a watchlist of China's "intelligent vehicle-monitoring" system, under which the owners of vehicles carrying dangerous materials, trucks and passenger buses are required to have video and GPS installed for PSB surveillance.

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne and the Department of Home Affairs declined to comment when contacted by the ABC.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade referred Australians who are in China or considering travelling there to its Smartraveller travel advice.

China's embassy in Australia did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.

The companies named in the article were also contacted for comment. In a statement, NBN Co said it did not comment on personnel matters but had "rigorous contractual, safety and security measures in place to protect our people, company and network".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-01/shanghai-files-shed-light-on-china-surveillance-state/100040896

Christian Porter: ABC reporter Louise Milligan accused of deleting social media posts

STEVE JACKSON - APRIL 1, 2021

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The ABC’s star reporter Louise Milligan has been accused of deleting social media posts that could affect the outcome of Christian Porter’s defamation proceedings against the public broadcaster over an online article she filed revealing a senior cabinet minister was facing historic rape allegations.

The former attorney-general’s legal team has formally outlined a number of complaints about the journalist’s conduct leading up to and following the publication of the story on February 26; and also raised concerns her use of “encrypted messaging apps that have the capacity to automatically delete communications after a set period of time” might impinge on their ability to recover key conversations relating to the story’s production.

The allegations were contained in a letter sent to the ABC’s Head of Disputes & Litigation Team, Grant McAvaney, by reputational risk lawyer Rebekah Giles on March 23 following a federal court order that Mr Porter provide the broadcaster with “further particulars of identification, republication and/or aggravated damages” relating to his defamation action.

“It has come to our attention that Ms Milligan and perhaps the ABC have been deleting social media posts relevant to these proceedings which could go to issues of identification, aggravation, and malice, if it becomes relevant. In our view this is a serious matter that requires your urgent attention,” Ms Giles said in the letter.

“Over the last two weeks we have captured the social media pages of your clients. Any deletions will be immediately apparent. We request you let us know your position in relation to this matter.

“We have also been informed that Ms Milligan uses encrypted messaging apps that have the capacity to automatically delete communications after a set period of time. This is also of significant concern to us.

“We request that any such communications that have since been automatically deleted that are relevant to these proceedings be sought to be identified. We will expect such communications to be specifically listed in any list of documents and in answers to interrogatories.”

Ms Giles went on to request the ABC furnish her with a list of all alterations made to Milligan’s online report since it was first published, noting “we are instructed that the article has been amended at least once”.

“So that time and costs are not wasted we request that you now produce any earlier versions of the Article as they appeared on the ABC website,” she said in the letter.

Mr Porter publicly outed himself on March 3 as cabinet minister accused of sexually assaulting a woman – now deceased – in Sydney in 1988 but claims the online story had already identified him to potentially thousands of people even though he had not been named in it.

He has vigorously denied the allegations and spent most of last month on leave for his mental health before being moved out of the role of Attorney-General in a cabinet reshuffle this week.

Mr Porter launched legal action against the ABC and Milligan on March 15, claiming he had been subjected to a trial by media following the publication of the “false allegations against him”, and has retained a powerhouse legal team comprising Bret Walker SC, Sue Chrysanthou SC and Ms Giles to prosecute the case.

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In her letter to the ABC, Ms Giles appealed to the public broadcaster to concede it had effectively identified Mr Porter as the subject of Milligan’s historic rape allegation story despite not publishing his name to avoid “wasting” money slugging it out in court.

“Many tens of thousands of dollars have already been and will be expended on the question of identification,” she wrote. “It is obvious that Mr Porter was reasonably identified as the subject of the Article.

“We request, in accordance with your clients’ obligations … that you give an early indication as to your clients’ position on the issue of identification before extensive further time and costs are wasted.

“We note that requires the ABC (amongst other obligations) to not cause unnecessary delay or cost, and to avoid, prevent and limit the scope of legal proceedings wherever possible.

“In particular the ABC is required to minimise costs by not requiring our client to prove any matter that it knows to be true. In our view the question of the identification of Mr Porter plainly falls into this category.”

Ms Giles noted that “Google searches of Mr Porter’s name increased significantly and much more so than any other senior male cabinet members” following the publication of the online article and that the ABC News’s political editor, Andrew Probyn, had admitted “the Minister’s identity was widely known in political and media circles” during a news report the day before Mr Porter self-identified.

To underscore the point, she offered a “sample list” of political and media figures who would have been able to identify the former attorney-general based on Milligan’s report, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, Senator Penny Wong, former political staffer and advocate against sex harassment Dhanya Mani, The Australian’s Editor-in-Chief Christopher Dore and Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly, along with The Australian Financial Review’s editor, Michael Stutchbury, and his columnist Joe Aston.

“In addition to the classes of persons, there was an overwhelming number of members of the public who named Mr Porter as the minister the subject of the article but did not specify how they came to that knowledge,” she added.

“Some of those people contacted our client. The sheer number of such persons leads to the conclusion that his identification was reasonable even without knowing how each such person came to that conclusion.”

Addressing Mr Porter’s claim for aggravated damages, Ms Giles made 19 allegations regarding the conduct of the ABC and Milligan in reporting the historic rape allegations, including their “failure” to disclose to their audience that the alleged victim had not signed a police statement or reveal that her parents were concerned that “she may have confected or embellished the allegations” against the then Attorney-General.

Ms Giles further questioned the decision by the ABC and Milligan to leave the disputed article online “where it has been continuously published after Mr Porter has been plainly identified” and accused them of “disingenuous conduct … in claiming that they acted properly in their failure to put the allegations to Mr Porter prior to publication”.

She also singled out Milligan’s retweeting of a “despicable, unjustified and improper comment made by the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull stating that there was a need for an inquest to question the complainant’s cause of death and suggesting that her death may not have been caused by suicide and had something to do with the cabinet minister the subject of the article.”

The ABC denied that Milligan had deleted any posts relevant to the Porter case and were fully aware of their legal obligations.

“The ABC and Ms Milligan understand their obligations to retain material relevant to the proceedings and are fulfilling these obligations,” a spokeswoman said.

“The suggestion that the ABC or Ms Milligan have deleted social media posts relevant to the defamation proceedings is strongly denied.”

The ABC has said it would be defending the defamation proceedings launched by Mr Porter and has been given until May 4 to file its defence with the federal court, with Mr Porter’s legal team to submit its response by May 11.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/christian-porter-abc-reporter-louise-milligan-accused-of-deleting-social-media-posts/news-story/f6745b941150825928e33068a998403e

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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern moves to strip Sir Ron Brierley of his knighthood, Wellington College removes signage

Matthew Tso - Apr 01 2021

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has asked for the process to strip Sir Ron Brierley of his knighthood to begin following his guilty plea to charges of possession of child sexual abuse material.

Wellington College has also said it will strip Brierley’s name from signage in the school.

The Wellington-raised businessman pleaded guilty to three out of 17 charges in a Sydney court this morning. The rest were withdrawn.

Brierley, 83, was detained by Australian Border Force officials while attempting to board a flight from Sydney to Fiji in December 2019. Detectives seized his carry-on bags, laptop and electronic-storage units and allegedly discovered more than 200,000 images and 512 videos.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the prime minister said Ardern had asked for the process for Brierley to forfeit his title to be initiated.

Stop Demand, an organisation seeking to stop the sexual exploitation of women and children, joined calls for Brierley to lose his title.

Founder Denise Ritchie said, “the trade in material featuring children being sexually violated, raped and sexually denigrated would have to be one of the most abhorrent trades seen today, and needs to be denounced in the strongest possible terms”.

“We would argue that the crimes to which [Brierley] has pleaded guilty to brings the honours system into disrepute.”

Brierley was knighted in 1988 for services to business management.

National MP Simon Bridges has also called on Ardern to strip Brierley of his title.

Brierley is an old boy of Wellington College and has been a benefactor to the school, which has the Brierley Theatre and Sir Ron Brierley Turf.

“Wellington College began removing all signage referring to Sir Ron Brierley from the school following confirmation of his guilty plea,” Wellington College Board Chairperson, Paul Retimanu said.

Brierley was known for his love of cricket and stamp collecting.

Last year, Brierley was removed as a patron of Cricket Wellington. At the time the organisation declined to comment as to why. He remained as a life member.

Former Wellington city councillor and New Zealand cricketer John Morrison criticised Cricket Wellington for “dumping” Brierley before legal proceedings had concluded.

Morrison, a Cricket Wellington life member, declined to comment on Thursday when approached by Stuff.

In a statement, Cricket Wellington chief executive officer Cam Mitchell said the sporting body was shocked to hear of the guilty plea, and Brierley’s status as a life member would be reviewed.

Cricket Wellington had not received a donation from the businessman since October 2017, he said.

The body would not be commenting further until the review of Brierley’s Life Member status was complete.

Stamp dealer John Mowbray, a longtime friend of Brierley’s also declined to comment. Both Morrison and Mowbray had been unaware of this morning’s court proceedings.

Writer Yvonne van Dongen wrote the 1990 biography Brierley, the Man Behind the Corporate Legend. She told Stuff the charges and today’s guilty plea were consistent with material broached in her book which included his frequent trips to Asia when he enjoyed encounters with young women, including teenage prostitutes.

”I’m not surprised given his behaviour as described in my book. These charges are not a million miles away from that.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124725740/pm-moves-to-strip-sir-ron-brierley-of-his-knighthood-wellington-college-removes-signage