Nicola Gobbo was a high profile criminal barrister, representing some of Australia's most notorious criminals - before she turned police informer. For years, her identity has been hidden, until now.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3X1rsW0I90
More Nicola Gobbo.
MARCH MADNESS
HOW the bloody hell did Georgina Downer get to present a $127,373 cheque to a bowling club?! Money Laundering MUCH!!!
And we begin…
Call for investigation after Georgina Downer presents cheque to bowling club. MP Rebekha Sharkie sees red after Liberal rival for Mayo is photographed handing over a novelty cheque for a taxpayer-funded grant.
Labor has asked the auditor general to investigate how the Liberal candidate for the seat of Mayo, Georgina Downer, was allowed to present a taxpayer-funded grant to a bowling club.
Downer, who has been preselected to recontest the South Australian seat after losing a 2018 byelection, was photographed presenting a $127,373 novelty cheque – featuring her face and Liberal party logos – to the Yankalilla bowling club.
The funding was a grant to the club under the federal government’s community sport infrastructure program. Protocol usually dictates that such funding is announced by the local MP.
Rebekha Sharkie, the Centre Alliance MP who beat Downer at the byelection, said on Twitter she had been notified about the grant recipients on Tuesday and had sought to let them know. “However, one was aware and had already organised their Friday night cheque presentation event.
She added: “In more than a decade of politics I’ve never seen a taxpayer funded grant delivered by cheque with a candidate’s face and name on it.”
MORE>>>
>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/24/call-for-investigation-after-georgina-downer-presents-cheque-to-bowling-club?CMP=share_btn_tw
TWATTER CHAT
The natives are restless, picking at old scraps, hydrating them back to life.
THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN MEME WAR BEGINS…
History in the making AusAnons.
8Chan, a NEW PLAYBOOK.
Bastards!
ABC News (Australia)
Published on Mar 2, 2019
Insiders host Barrie Cassidy questions Energy Minister Angus Taylor over the state of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDhylrtRdrE
Just had to post this for posterity and keks.
Why does Australia FEAR China? - VisualPolitik EN
VisualPolitik EN - Published on Feb 5, 2018
It has been 45 years since China and Australia established diplomatic relations. Throughout this time, both countries have established one of the most fruitful, controversial and interesting relationships in the entire planet.
Economic relations are very important for Australia: today China is by far its largest trading partner; 1 out of every 20 inhabitants of this country belongs to the Chinese community and both its universities and beaches are packed with students and tourists from the Asian giant. Thanks partly to all this, Australians have not experienced a crisis in almost 30 years.
However, these growing ties clash with Washington’s interests, and in 2017 the Australian government decided once and for all to take sides. Since then, a diplomatic storm has been unleashed and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has not refrained from blaming the Chinese intelligence services for wanting to corrupt Australian politics and society. In this video we’ll tell you what’s happening in this particular cold war, that is beginning to emerge between China and the United States.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvVeMD_BM4Q
B(oo)M 4Q… China - China - China = kek!
MARCH MADNESS
NSW Labor suspend Peter Hansen's membership over child pornography charges
By Antonette Collins
Peter Hansen has had his Labor Party membership suspended. (Facebook: Peter Hansen)
A Labor branch secretary and former candidate for the seat of Cabramatta in Sydney's west has been suspended by the party, after he was charged with child pornography offences.
>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-05/nsw-alp-official-charged-over-child-porn/10870566
Thank you to the women who made this happen
By Jenna Price
March 6, 2019 — 12.58pm
I volunteered as an abortion counsellor in Queensland decades ago and every day I’d cry: sometimes with the women who were seeking help and sometimes by myself, late at night.
Anyone who has ever worked or volunteered in reproductive health knows that feeling. Here we are trying to support women making a choice for their own lives in a country where that choice is so badly restricted.
Tanya Plibersek said she had attended pro-choice rallies as a teenager.
Tanya Plibersek said she had attended pro-choice rallies as a teenager.Credit:Lukas Coch
These restrictions make life hard for women and hard for their families. They make so many of us cry, and not just those of us seeking an abortion.
This is not a story about my abortion or the abortions of other individuals. It’s a story about how the system might finally be changing, and how so many women struggled over the years to make abortion safe, free and legal.
There will be names I haven't mentioned and names I don't know. But to all of you, whoever you are, thank you. The tears can stop soon.
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Labor's spokesperson for women, Tanya Plibersek, will release a national strategy for women's reproductive health on Wednesday.
Abortion
Labor pledges to tie hospital funding to abortion services
Today the Australian Labor Party made me cry all over again when Tanya Plibersek announced public hospital systems would need to provide abortion services to qualify for federal funding.
This news is the response to decades of campaigning in Australia.
Plibersek tells me she was still in primary school when she fought for the right to play on the boys’ playground. In high school, she stood with her friends to rally for abortion rights. Now she’s the politician announcing this huge shift, which will impact every single area of every single state and territory but NSW most of all, because abortion is still in the criminal code.
“Making the decision to end a pregnancy is difficult enough for a woman without being forced to travel hundreds of kilometres or go interstate to access services, I can’t imagine how traumatic that would be,” she said.
Politicians get to campaign at the heart of policy change but so many women struggled for this in the background.
by Jenna Price: This is not a story about my abortion or the abortions of other individuals. It’s a story about how the system might finally be changing.
Medical director of Family Planning NSW Deborah Bateson has fought for this for 20 years. She sees women every single day seeking terminations who are faced with paying huge amounts of money.
“This is unacceptable in Australia. Every single woman must have access to her reproductive rights regardless of postcode and this news is wonderful. It addresses the inequities we see in our clinics ever day,” she says.
It’s a change that Anne Summers, in Australia to speak at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, has been waiting for since she published her legendary history of Australian women Damned Whores and God’s Police in 1975, which described the impact the criminalisation of abortion had on maternal deaths.
“The vital thing is to ensure women in rural and regional areas will now have access to services they don’t have now," she said. "I hope it encourages more doctors to perform these procedures because the barriers are on the supply side as well as the demand side.”
And maybe the youngest of all our campaigners, Meg Clement-Couzner, now the spokesperson for Pro-Choice NSW, got into terrible arguments with friends and family in her early teens. Then she went to university to discover there were a bunch of other people who felt just the same way she did about reproductive rights and wanted to be part of a collective movement for change.
“These proposals are fantastic," she says. “I feel so strongly about how women don’t have full control of their bodies and that won’t change until abortion is publicly funded and normalised."
Clement-Couzner says that move towards bodily autonomy should also include banning the forcible sterilisation of women with disability, as well as access to all chosen medical treatments for trans people.
So to all of you who campaigned, rallied, marched, wrote letters, shared your abortions: thank you.
Politicians get to campaign at the heart of policy change but so many women struggled for this in the background.
There will be some way to go, some terrible things said about this campaign and about the women who fought for it, and worse things about the women who have finally developed the policies we all need.
But together we can ignore the haters and embrace the rights we should all have, no matter who we are.
>https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/thank-you-to-the-women-who-made-this-happen-20190306-p51225.html
I kinda do think we have to spell it out, some people are too dumb. Libs are bad but Labor is going to be worse!!! Can't we put up one of our own?
Soros & Clinton's Podesta in email to redefine Australia's maritime border
Thursday, 27 October 2016
The Podesta Group was active in our region at the time - representing the Burmese Junta in Washington for a fee of $840,000 a year plus deluxe expenses.
>https://www.fara.gov/docs/5926-Exhibit-AB-20150410-58.pdf
And it's also been active with the Adani coal mining business. I'm sure you've read some of the details of that - Tony Abbott is mentioned by name as their target. More soon.
>https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/10/soros-clintons-podesta-in-email-to-redefine-australias-maritime-border.html
Missed the first part, the actual email.
The Podesta Emails
WikiLeaks series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Mr Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. Mr Podesta also owns the Podesta Group with his brother Tony, a major lobbying firm and is the Chair of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think tank.
Did John Podesta WIPE HIS EMAILS the day after Madeline disappeared to destroy evidence? The abduction occurred in Portugal, where Wikileaks emails show was a destination Podesta traveled to. In addition, extensive evidence points to the Podesta Brothers having close connections to those involved with potential crimes or at least bizarre …
>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/
No… NO! We MUST have OTHERS to choose from, surely…?
Uncovering the Russia ties of Hillary’s campaign chief (Podesta)
Excellent read!
>https://nypost.com/2017/07/05/uncovering-the-russia-ties-of-hillarys-campaign-chief/
Tony Podesta - Founding Chairman, American Australian Council Founder
Tony Podesta is founder of the Podesta Group, the largest independent government relations and public relations firm in Washington, D.C.
A former articles editor of the Law Review at Georgetown University, Podesta served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia. Earlier, he was director of admissions and a political science instructor at Barat College of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois.
During the 1980’s Podesta served as founding president of People for the American Way, the constitutional liberties organization founded by television producer Norman Lear and prominent clergy, educators, business executives and civic leaders.
He has appeared on major broadcast and cable networks and his writings on governmental, legal, educational, economic, and cultural issues have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and other leading newspapers.
A former counsel to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and a frequent advisor to former President Bill Clinton, Podesta has provided leadership and strategic guidance to a host of politicians.
Podesta takes an active role with many civic and arts groups nationwide having served as co-chair of the Community and Friends Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as chairman of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Photography Committee, former board member of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as well as the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as a member of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities under President Clinton, a board member for the MIT List Visual Arts Center and as a member of the National Board of the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis.
He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. He served as student body president at the University of Illinois’ Chicago campus and in 2006 was inducted into the university’s Navy Pier Hall of Fame for distinguished alumni.
Podesta grew up in Chicago’s Third-Ninth Ward as the eldest child in a family with roots in Italy and Greece.
>https://americanaustraliancouncil.org/tony-podesta/
This needs to be an inside job.
How many Patriots do you think we have in Australia?
Anyone?
There are stacks of them on Twatter!
They've set up Discords (@#$%^&) another Twatter/Google playpen.
A few well placed Memes there should bring them over to 8ch, many have good meme skills too.
Next, we need to put our heads together and come up with a list of 'conditions' for changes in Australia, work out the best candidate and negotiate for our votes.
Ambitious, but doable.