Fears for missing Vic teenage girl

POLICE and family members have concerns for a 13-year-old Victoria girl who has been missing from her home for more than two days ago. 
 
Forest Hill teenager Natalia Barbaccia was last seen leaving her home in Catherine Court about 11.30pm (AEDT) on Monday.

He mobile phone is switched off and it's believed she does not have any money on her.

Due to her age and the length of time she has been missing, police and family members have concerns for her welfare.

Natalia, who left home barefooted, has brown hair and eyes and was wearing a black jumper, dark leggings and black socks.

news.com.au 21 Mar 2013

 

With the very public matter of the disappearance of Irish Jill Meagher ( a story that was a meal ticket to the media outlets), and the later capture of her 'alleged' assailant Adrian Ernest Bayley, who later led police to the place where he buried Jill's body, the graphic description of how he was caught followed.

With this in mind, the corporate media published (with the authority's approval) , a well known secret within government and the telco's and the police force - how mobile phones are (real time) tracking devices.

Mobile phones are also capable of tracking the user even when turned off.

To the layman this may seem like science fiction, or 'Star Trek "stuff"', but it's actually (20 year old) technology with remote access capabilities, nothing special really.

As demonstrated to the public, a recent so called Facebook 'bug':

 

Facebook flaw exposed users' webcams

http://corpau.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/facebook-flaw-exposed-users-webcams.html

Similarly mobile phones can be listened to by operators by turning on the microphone remotely.

Telco's have also been listening to domestic home / business users by turning on the land line's phone headsets, a fact known by the authorities and not the general populous

 

Just because the missing teenager Natalia's phone is switched of does not mean the authorities do not know where the phone (not necessarily she) is.

 

How dirty politics killed a child

Only a few years ago, a young boy in New South Wales was lost, and dialed the Australian emergency number '000'.

When speaking to operators he could not describe where he was, therefore allegedly thwarting attempts by emergency services to locate him. As a result he died.

The authorities could track his whereabouts by tracing the location of his mobile phone, but this would mean the public disclosure of how mobile phones are used to track people, which was not on the political agenda of the day, nor it really still is today.

CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang On To It Forever'

NEW YORK -- The CIA's chief technology officer outlined the agency's endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday.

Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira "Gus" Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos -- and that the agency wants all of it.

"The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever."

Hunt's comments come two days after Federal Computer Week reported that the CIA has committed to a massive, $600 million, 10-year deal with Amazon for cloud computing services. The agency has not commented on that report, but Hunt's speech, which included multiple references to cloud computing, indicates that it does indeed have interest in storage and analysis capabilities on a massive scale.
The CIA is keenly interested in capabilities for so-called "big data" -- the increasingly massive data sets created by digital technology. The agency even has a page on its website pitching big data jobs to prospective employees.

Hunt acknowleded that at some scale, data storage becomes impractical, adding that he meant "forever being in quotes" when he said the agency wants to keep data "forever." But he also indicated that he was interested in computing capabilities like 1 petabyte of RAM, a massive capacity for on-the-fly calculations that has heretofore been seen only in computers that simulate nuclear explosions.

He referenced the failure to "connect the dots" in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the "underwear bomber" who was able to board a plan with an explosive device despite repeated warnings of his intentions. In that case, a White House review found that the CIA had all of the data it needed to identify the would-be bomber, but still failed to stop him. Nevertheless, the agency does not seem to have curbed its ambitions for an endless amount of data.

"It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human generated information," Hunt said. After that mark is reached, Hunt said, the agency would also like to be able to save and analyze all of the digital breadcrumbs people don't even know they are creating.

"You're already a walking sensor platform," he said, nothing that mobiles, smartphones and iPads come with cameras, accelerometers, light detectors and geolocation capabilities.

"You are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times, because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off," he said. "You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should."
Hunt also spoke of mobile apps that will be able to control pacemakers -- even involuntarily -- and joked about a "dystopian" future where self-driving cars force people to go to the grocery store to pick up milk for their spouses.

Hunt's speech barely touched on privacy concerns. But he did acknowledge that they exist.

"Technology in this world is moving faster than government or law can keep up," he said. "It's moving faster I would argue than you can keep up: You should be asking the question of what are your rights and who owns your data."

huffingtonpost.com 20 Mar 2013

The about outlined policy is not only the policy of the United States of America.

Australia has a similar policy, as it is widely regarded that the general population is an  'internal enemy' of the government.

Dying man asked to name his attacker

DETECTIVES have revealed that police officers spoke to a man who was murdered at Greenacre last night just hours before he was shot dead. 
 
Khaled Kahwaji, 29, from Rhodes, was spoken to by police at Petersham around 12:30pm on Friday - six hours later his body was found on Wilbur St, Greenacre.

Detective Inspector Russell Oxford said Kahwaji - who has not been formally identified - was reportedly sighted in Wilbur St where he died, on Thursday.

Police had been called to the area regarding reports of a man carrying a firearm.

When Kahwaji spotted officers in the street, he ran away - however D/Insp Oxford said police were not entirely sure whether it was Kahwaji who was armed.

"The real mystery for us is what caused this man to arrive at Wilbur street - he's arrived in Wilbur street and he lives in Rhodes," D/Insp Oxford said.


"We need to determine why he was there."

D/Insp Oxford said a number of lines of inquiry were continuing, including links to a shooting a crime family matriarch last week in Auburn, the organised crime group Brothers For Life, and a murder in 2010 over which he was charged.Kahwaji was charged with the murder of Saba Kairouz in August 2010.

He was named on social media last night about 7pm though police asked it be withheld from publication for operational reasons.

Investigators are focusing their main line of inquiry to include a retaliation attack in relation to that murder, but are also investigating links with the shooting of a crime family matriarch on Auburn road at Auburn last Saturday.

The victim in that case, revealed by this newspaper earlier this week, was the aunt of Supermax inmate Bassam Hamzy, the founder of the organised crime group Brothers For Life.

Police later said they were bracing for an escalation in violence over the attack, which saw her shot four times in the legs at her front door.

Witnesses living on Wilbur St at Greenacre said they tried to help Kahwaji as he lay on the road just after being shot in the back of the head about 6pm last night.

Relatives grieve at the crime scene where a man was shot in Greenacre. Picture: Piper Jeremy

The shooting happened outside a home which was later surrounded by police tactical operatives and the dog squad, who ordered the occupants, on loud speaker, to come outside.

After approximately one hour they then stormed the premises, though no arrests were made.

"We were trying to talk to him and just saying 'can you hear us'," a neighbour, who heard about five shots, told The Sunday Telegraph.

"The first thing police asked him was 'do you know who did this'."

Two search warrants were carried out by heavily armed officers later in the evening on the same street.

Police, the Homicide Squad and about seven riot squad officers have today returned to the scene, blocking off Wilbur st to door knock homes and conduct a line search for further evidence.

Police described the killing of Kahwaji, believed to be 30 years old, as a targeted attack.

He was shot a number of times, including the back of the head, while sitting in a Silver Mazda 3 on leafy Wilbur Lane about 6.15pm.

His body was found lying next to the car which had bullet holes in the driver's side door and about another three in the windscreen.

"This is not a random incident. This person has been targeted and it's certainly not something that is random," Bankstown police Superintendent Dave Eardley said.

"It's certainly an act that's quite vicious and callous."

In a shocking scene now regularly confronting residents of Sydney's western and southwestern suburbs, the street was shut down as more than 30 police scoured the area for evidence.

Forensic detectives and investigators from the Homicide Squad were also called in to assess the scene.

Local residents returning from work were unable to enter their homes as the street was blocked off for about 100m.

Police cars and ambulance vans also clogged the street.

Police at the scene of the shooting in Greenacre / Pic: Bill Hearne

 

A group, believed to be members of the man's family, arrived on the scene soon after police arrived. There were hysterical scenes as several women in the group made their way towards the police barrier to view the body.

Police said it was too soon to say if the killing was related to motorcycle gangs but Supt Eardley said investigators were "not ruling anything out".

Yesterday's killing marks the 35th shooting in NSW this year - more than three a week - with 10 this month alone.

news.com.au 16 Mar 2013

An all too common scenario whether it be Sydney or Melbourne, where middle-eastern criminals are involved in drug related gang wars.

Australian authorities are taking a slack approach to crime within these migrant communities, where a significant majority are recent arrivals to Australia.

Madison Ashton reveals she was pimped out at 13

THE woman once showered with gifts as the mistress of the late billionaire Richard Pratt has revealed she was recruited into the sex industry as a 13-year-old. 

 
The extraordinary admissions from the long-term lover of the former Carlton Football Club president and cardboard king comes after her failed bid to secure $10 million from his estate.

Madison Ashton, whose story is published in the magazine Sunday Style, speaks glowingly about the money she earned as a prostitute.

"My initial exposure to sex work came when I was 13 and sitting on my own in the city. An older guy approached and said, 'Wanna buy some food?'

"Within 48 hours he was pimping me out. My first time, I lay there like a corpse, too scared to open my eyes, but the man grew obsessed with me. That's when I realised people are strange and men can be weird.

"I didn't think about the consequences but, boy, did I like having money. My pimp took the majority, but he gave me several hundred dollars. Once I knew I could make that kind of money, I thought, 'I'll never be that poor again'."

Ashton fled to Perth last year in the aftermath of the court case, which she launched after the 2009 death of Pratt, who left a $5 billion fortune.

"I've always had a particular effect on people, an erotic energy that was hard to wear on young shoulders," said Ashton, who goes by the professional name "Christine McQueen".

In court, Ashton claimed Mr Pratt had agreed to establish two trusts worth $5 million for her children and pay her a $500,000 -a-year allowance and $66,000-a-year expenses.

But the court found the agreement was not legally binding because Ashton provided sexual services in a "mistress relationship".

news.com.au 19 Mar 2013

Police often pursue criminals once information has been made public of their offences.

News.com.au has published the criminal acts of paedophilia and child abuse of Madison Ashton.

The general public can look forward to the news that the criminals will be caught soon, with the goal to be incarcerated once legal trials begin.

The heinous acts of paedophilia and child abuse are verbally condemned by authorities, as supported by press releases.

Family Law also states that co-habitation laws are current and adhered to after a 24 month relationship can be proven.

Madison Ashton has proven more than legally required, but still has no access to assets.

Certain people who are part of the 'establishment' are above the law, and anyone trying to bring them to 'justice', is defamed by their corporate (Masonic) brethren.

Apple keeps warranty switch under wraps

Apple's Australian stores will now fix faulty iPhones, iPads and Macs under warranty if they were purchased in the past two years - but don't expect the company's staff to tell you about it.

For some time Apple's standard 12-month warranty has appeared to conflict with Australian consumer law, which provides statutory warranties for a “reasonable” period of time, undermining Apple's ability to charge hundreds of dollars for AppleCare support plans that include extended warranties, as well as other services like telephone support.

On Friday, Apple's Australian retail store staff and authorised Apple resellers were notified about a change to Apple's internal policy on how it handled standard warranty claims.

Until now, many Apple consumers have reported on forums that store staff have only ever discussed with them a standard 12-month manufacturer warranty when selling, fixing or replacing Apple goods.

Apple has now changed this from 12 months to 24, which appears to bring it in line with Australian Consumer Law.

The change was announced to Apple staff via email and to resellers on a web portal and first revealed publicly by Apple enthusiast website MacTalk.com.au.

But it appears some high-up employees within Apple don't want the change talked about too widely.
One email Fairfax Media has seen, which was circulated within an Australian Apple store, told staff not to talk to customers about the detail of Apple's new policy.

Apple Australia media spokeswoman Fiona Martin had no comment about the changes.

What's "reasonable"?

Since January 1, 2011, when a new national Australian Consumer Law came into force, a statutory warranty for a “reasonable” period of time has existed for goods sold in Australia, even if the manufacturer's voluntary warranty (usually set at 12 months) has expired.

What equates to a “reasonable” period of time is undefined in the legislation, but an example given by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in its warranties and refunds guide suggests that, for a product such as an expensive television, it can be up to 24 months.

Regardless of the law's introduction, many companies, including Apple, have avoided talking about the statutory rights of a customer covered under Australian Consumer Law.

For example, often Apple customers visiting the company's stores in Australia with an item outside the 12-month Apple warranty have had to pay a fee for their goods to be fixed or replaced if they don't know their rights and didn't purchase AppleCare, which extends their manufacturer warranty.

Even when Apple customers knew their statutory rights, they often had to put up a fight and lost when trying to get Apple or an authorised reseller to fix or replace their goods.

The change to Apple's policy hasn't been announced on Apple's website, but a web page on it that has been published for some time talks about a consumer's statutory warranty rights.

It repeats what Australian consumer law says and doesn't define a reasonable period of time.

In an interview, NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe said he agreed that for most electronic goods a reasonable period of time for it to work was up to 24 months.

“In terms of larger purchases ... you would expect customers to ask for more than 12 months [warranty],” he said.

Mr Stowe added that it was “rather surprising and disingenuous” for Apple store staff to be instructing employees not to tell customers about their move to 24-month warranties.

“To instruct your staff to not let people know [about the change] is something that seems of quite concern and I don't understand why they wouldn't want to be upfront about it," he said.

"Apple seems to be generally one of those businesses that is quite responsible to problems.”

Peter Wells, editor of MacTalk.com.au, said Apple had a tradition of trying to “ignore the rights of local consumer laws and instead using the same Cupertino policy worldwide”.

The new policy would be a welcome change for Apple staff and its resellers, Mr Wells said.

heraldsun.com.au  18 Mar 2013

Under Australian Consumer Law, Apple should have been already fined.

Government lay subservient to global corporations (not by the people who elect them) in not just this instance, but many more.

Another deceitful practice by Apple. 

Q: When will it stop?
A: Never, as it's part of Apple's policy.

Council approves large Doveton mosque proposal after 1600 complaints

A CASEY Council planning committee meeting has given the nod to a controversial super-size mosque in Doveton.

During the meeting last night, councillors backed an officer’s report recommending issue of a notice of intention to grant a permit, against a background of stiff objection from neighbours and others.
More than 1900 signatures and 30 letters objecting to the $2.5 million Afghan Mosque Project Committee development on industrial land in Green St were submitted to the council in a bid to block support for a permit.

Cr Wayne Smith told tonight’s meeting he believed as many people favoured the mosque going ahead as opposed it.

"But those opposed have been more vocal," he said.

"This issue will probably go to VCAT for resolution. I accept all the views I have heard, but we must be bound by planning laws and I believe that means supporting issue of a permit in this case."

Cr Rosalie Crestani, opposing the mosque, said she believed it was an inappropriate development in an industrial area.

"It is out of character with the neighbourhood and I believe there will be problems enforcing permit conditions, especially linked to crowd numbers and parking in streets," she said.

Outside, one of the project’s strongest critics, Daniel Nalliah, of the Rise Up Australia Party said it had been a vicious campaign in which death threats had been made.

The mosque committee is desperate to relocate from Photinia St, because of complaints about car parking, crowds and noise there.

Neighbours of its Green St site have expressed similar fears about establishment of a mosque on land close to their homes.

The council's manager of planning, Duncan Turner, said all aspects of the mosque relevant to a planning permit had been thoroughly examined.

"We have come to the conclusion this project can meet all conditions we have imposed and that has led to our recommendation it should be supported,’’ he said.

The mosque will have a 105m frontage on Green St - the equivalent of four house blocks - and provide 214 parking spaces. The minarets can be up to 11.5m and it will hold up to 600 people during festivals.

Neighbour Margaret Monssen said she believed the project should have been better advertised.

"No one saw a sign on the site. We didn't know anything until we got a letter to tell us what was happening a few days before submissions closed,’’ she said.

"It's a monstrosity of a thing and the traffic will be unbearable.’’

Council planning manager Duncan Turner said a public notice was displayed on the site and letters were sent to residents abutting the rear of the proposed mosque.

Director of Archivision, Louie Asiaee, in a letter supporting the permit application, said an industrial zone was chosen in a bid to avoid complaints of the type experienced in Photinia St.

Leader was unable to contact Mr Asiaee for further comment.

heraldsun.com.au 13 Mar 2013

Apparently in a 'democratic' system, the people have a right to vote to obtain a particular outcome.

Not so in Australia.

As part of the newly created ELS (Exposed Legal Secrets) category of corpau, local city councils are fraudulently masquerading as part of government which they are not.

Local city councils are corporations, i.e. registered businesses and operate illegally.

The corporate media currently has a blanket silence policy on this topic, along with many others.

Richard Branson - The Sexual Harasser

Richard Branson has been caught, again, for comments that warrant a legal matter of sexual harassment to be filed against him.

A phone interview with a prominent Australian lawyer revealed that if the matter was lodged in the Australian courts, then there would be sufficient grounds after the directions hearing to proceed to a full trial, with a high probability of success for the plaintiff.

The lawyer was coy to comment on whether if the defendant was a member of the Masonic brotherhood, the judge was to sway in the favour of the member rather than on the testimony of a 'layman'.

The Australian Anglo-Masonic legal system favours outcomes to the benefit of members of the brotherhood, a taboo not to be reported by the corporate media, only to be labelled as a 'conspiracy theory', or that the accused or reporting party is a 'nut job' or a social outcast or loner.

Richard Branson, a true inspiration to future entrepreneurs.

The article from news.com.au on 11 March 2013 is as follows:

Richard Branson sorry Virgin Atlantic asked Navy officer to remove uniform

RICHARD Branson has apologised to a British Royal Navy helicopter technician who was told she could not board a flight from London Heathrow to Los Angeles unless she removed her uniform and changed into a sleep suit instead.

Virgin Atlantic staff and a security official allegedly told Petty Officer Nicky Howse her uniform may offend other passengers.

Mr Branson tweeted: "An airport security guard made a dreadful mistake in telling our staff a service woman could not wear her uniform on our flight.

"Our team made a mistake in following that advice. The @VirginAtlantic people involved are mortified and have apologised profusely."

Officer Howse, 32, was returning home to America after attending her grandfather's funeral in Ipswich.

In an email sent to a civilian friend, revealed by the Daily Mail, Petty Office Howse wrote: "It was horrific. I was made to feel uncomfortable in my own country for wearing the uniform I wear to defend the place. It made me ashamed of my country that a British serviceman can't travel in uniform. I was so distressed."

"I was basically told it was because 'We don't only fly British passengers' and told it was seen as a threat. They then said it was for my own safety to stop abuse."

Man accused of being responsible for daughter's murder in 1968 claims she and her boyfriend are still alive

A MAN accused in court of being responsible for the murder of his daughter and her boyfriend more than 40 years ago has claimed the pair is still alive and he has "nothing to hide". 

Stanley Braddy, 82, has not been charged with an offence but police believe he could be involved in or responsible for the four-decades-old mystery disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter, Maureen Braddy, and her boyfriend, Allan Whyte.

The teen sweethearts were last seen heading off to a Bendigo YMCA dance in November 1968.

For decades they were wrongly treated as young runaways.

Mr Braddy gave evidence for the first time today at a coronial inquest into the disappearance of the teens after it was alleged he was involved in their murder and disposal of their bodies.

Mr Braddy, who has been interviewed twice by police in the past 12 months, said he believed the teens had been abducted from a pub and used as slaves as part of a government conspiracy.

He claimed they were still living in the area, and had children, after the "slavery trade arrangement''.

He said his son Stanley Jr, now deceased, saw Maureen at a Nagambie caravan park in the years after her disappearance.

The court heard his son never mentioned this in his statement to police.

Mr Braddy said the couple lived in Nagambie with their two children and were being paid by the government.

He told police in 2012 that he received a call a few weeks after Maureen disappeared from now deceased former police officer Frank Baker telling him, "Don't worry, she's in good hands".

He didn't ask any further questions because "it was too far down the track" and because she was quite happy with her abduction, he said.

Mandy Fox, counsel for two of Maureen's sisters, suggested he had nominated two deceased police officers as the source of his information because his story could not be checked.

"Mr Braddy, you've made the whole thing up - it's a ridiculous story," Ms Fox said.

"I'm sorry, it's real," Mr Braddy said.

She asked whether he was aware he was the prime suspect in the murder or disappearance of the young couple.

"Prove it," Mr Braddy said.

"I have nothing to hide."

Mr Braddy, a pensioner, has always been opposed to any official inquiry.

Three of his daughters told the court they believe he was responsible for their sister's death.

Lyn Ireland, aged eight at the time, said she was woken by a commotion outside her bedroom window the night Maureen went missing.

She later saw her dad and another man carrying a young person ``covered with blood''.

She said she believed her sister's body had been buried in a well at the family's Bendigo home while Allan's may have been in an abandoned mine shaft.

Another sister, Suzanne Braddy, told the court she had seen her dad acting ``highly suspicious'' around the family well the day after the teens went missing.

The court heard she came home from work early the Monday after the disappearance and saw her dad near the well with two rolls of carpet.

Mr Braddy said he did not recall this and had trouble even remembering what he ate for breakfast.

The well, which was covered by a building in the 1970s, has never been searched.

Other witnesses have told the court they heard arguing and ``loud bangs'' the night the pair went missing.

Investigating officer Allan Birch previously told the court he believed Mr Braddy was ``involved in, or responsible for, the unlawful killing of Allan and Maureen''.

``Mr Braddy gives accounts that are wholly incredible,'' he said.

``Mr Braddy has not been co-operative (with police) to the fullest extent as a father would be expected to,'' he added.

heraldsun.com.au 20 Mar 2013

Many cases of abduction in an era synonymous with the 'Stolen Generation' were perpetuated by government or other 'authorities'.

Some children were condemned to medical procedures (read experiments) and their parents framed by government and corrupt police.

Anyone who would come out and claim otherwise would not just be labelled as a 'conspiracy theorist' but also dealt with in the appropriate manner.

Child abuse in the hands of government organisations has been occurring for decades, and confirmed cases have been reported from both the victims and workers (anonymously) in the departments concerned.

Government coverups concerning child abuse are very sophisticated.

City council rates illegal - Pirates of the Suburbs

Corruption in government costs the community dearly, in more ways than just financially. In this article the focus is on the illegal collection of monies by local city councils and the drone police force acting on the illegal action of government.

The corporate media is a government sponsored lap dog, where misinformation is deliberately spread to confuse the general public.

Also certain information is forbidden to publicised at all costs, and if the information is made public the consequences are for life.

The corporate media focuses on the entertainment of the herd population. 

It will focus on a party kid, or an idiotic moron miming to pop songs, a teenager who’s song is disliked by millions will be called a ‘sensation’, to just name a few examples.

Information that poses a threat to the ruling elite is labelled as a ‘conspiracy theory’ or people who post important information are ridiculed publicly or the posters are labelled as losers or loners or mentally unstable.

In Melbourne, Victoria in late 2012 a group of people decided to tackle the fraudulent collection of rates monies by city councils in the outer north western town of Melton.

The sitting at Melton City Council was recorded by the person questioning the rates collection employed by the city council.

City council members also stated that it was illegal to record, but this is NOT the case. They just got caught in one of the biggest lies and did not know how to handle it.

It is very doubtful that the corporate media will ever focus on the video, as the fraud is worth billions to city councils.

To the layman city councils are believed to be lawful and a part of government, which is NOT true.

City councils are corporations which are illegally charging for rates.

The video which exposed this lie is titled:

Pirates of the Suburbs – Destroying communities 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Lnze7O22g

by Renren Illiad posted on 31 Dec 2012

The youtube video in this article should be watched by every land owner in Australia.

Government revenues $6bn less than forecast: Finance Department

FEDERAL government revenues are running just over $6 billion less than was forecast at the time of the mid-year budget review, new Finance Department data shows. 
 
The financial statement for January, released today, showed the underlying cash balance at $26.8 billion in the financial year to January.

This compares with the $21.7 billion estimated for the year to January at the time of the mid-year fiscal and economic outlook (MYEFO) released in October, and when the government was still predicting a $1.1 billion budget surplus.

Treasurer Wayne Swan subsequently shelved his surplus promise in December.

Total revenue was $6.06 billion less than MYEFO had projected by January.

A spokeswoman for Finance Minister Penny Wong said tax receipts were well below forecast, mainly due to the substantial hit to company profits as a result of the high Australian dollar, falling commodity prices and continued global economic uncertainty.

“The government has continued to exercise spending restraint,” she said.

Total expenses were $1.38 billion less than predicted in the MYEFO by January.

The combined total of the government's minerals and petroleum resource rent taxes was $403 million in January for $1.55 billion in the financial year to date.

This compared with a MYEFO prediction to January of $5.58 billion.

theaustralian.com.au 15 Mar 2013

Watch now as the government will go on a financial assault to re-coup the finances with old methods and new ones.

Maybe the government's financial calculations were wrong, just like the invasion of Iraq.

See article:

Iraq, the war and how we got it wrong