CMC report on health complaints handed on

An independent report into misconduct claims by a Queensland medical investigator turned whistleblower has been handed to a parliamentary committee.

Retired Justice Richard Chesterman looked into Jo Barber's claims of manslaughter in the health system, and staff working under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

His report was completed on July 11 and provided to CMC chairman Ross Martin, and has now been passed to the PCMC (Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee), the CMC says.
Mr Chesterman's role was to determine the detail of what Ms Barber could provide, prioritise the issues raised and provide a framework for any further examination.
His assessment has so far resulted in criminal allegations against a Gold Coast doctor being referred to police.
The CMC says it's not appropriate to comment on Mr Chesterman's conclusions until the PCMC and relevant ministers have considered them.
"At this time, any decision concerning provision of the reports to parties is a matter for the PCMC," it said in a statement.
"Similarly, any future decision about potential public release of the reports is first a consideration for the PCMC."
The CMC continues to assess information provided by independent MP Peter Wellington concerning other allegations of medical misconduct.
Those claims were also provided to Mr Chesterman as part of a separate assessment of whether there is evidence of systemic failings in the Queensland health system.

16 Jul 2012

Another government cover up with no consequences or rather jail time.

A corrupt system protecting itself.

Jilted inmate used hidden mobiles to call Shire girlfriend

When Goulburn jail inmate Adam Mansour's love life struck trouble, he sought a lifeline. Or at least a communication line in the form of mobile phones secreted in the cell he shared with a co-accused.
Mansour, 26, told Goulburn Local Court last week he used the phones after his fiancé left him to join Channel Ten series, The Shire. In his depressed state he had used the phones speak to friends and “other girls,” he told Magistrate Geraldine Beattie, the Goulburn Post weekly newspaper reported.
“I made a mistake, I've suffered for it and I'm sorry,” he said via audiovisual link.
He pleaded guilty to owning and using two of the four mobile phones Corrective Service officers found in a wall section behind his cell window frame. His cellmate, Abdul Zahed, 27, also pleaded guilty to using a mobile phone/sim card and possessing and attempting to prescribe a restricted substance.

Officers found a stash of electronic equipment and drugs after searching the pair's minimum security cell on June 25 this year.
Behind the wall were four mobile phones, three phone chargers, a USB Sandisk thumb drive and cable, a set of earphones and five plastic re-sealable bags filled with brown powder, white powder, white pills, Xanex tablets and Subutex tablets, police documents tendered to the court stated.
Zahed admitted to owning two mobile phones and the Xanex and Subutex tablets. He used the former to help him sleep and the latter to assist withdrawal from a drug addiction, he told police during interview.
The former electrician, of Tahmoor, told the court he took full responsibility for the offence but used the phones to stay in contact with his wife after her miscarriage. There had also been a death in the family three months ago.
“I've been punished,” he told the magistrate. “I've been locked in my cell 23 hours a day, put in maximum security and had my privileges taken away.”
“What else did you expect the jail to do when officers found those things in you cell?” Magistrate Beattie replied.
She noted Zahed's guilty plea to “two very serious offences that went to the heart of jail security.” But she said welfare services were available to him to deal with his stress and drug addiction.
Magistrate Beattie said Zahed had a very significant criminal history with violence and firearm offences on his record.
She sentenced him to an extra six months' prison on both charges, to be served concurrently.
He will be eligible for release on June 15, 2015.
Mansour, who was serving time for “serious offences of violence,” was sentenced to an extra five months' prison. His earliest release date is December 2, 2013.
Magistrate Beattie said she considered Mansour's subsequent change in jail classification, the fact he'd been moved away from his family and that he'd made full admissions. His sentence was reduced for these reasons.

gouldburnpost.com.au 22 Aug 2012

Free advertising for the trash reality show the Shire.

Events such as this are staged, to promote the low ratings reality shows that the corporate media use to degrade the values and morals of the children of the canon fodder.

The theme is that there is always a 'shock' event that keeps the simple minds glued to the 'idiot box'.

Toddler left home alone so mum could drink

A UK mother has been jailed after leaving her 15-month-old daughter home alone in squalid conditions for a week so she could go out drinking with friends. 

The 20-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the toddler in a cot and would go back home to feed her cereal once a day between last Christmas and New Year, the Daily Mail reports.
Police were alerted to the situation after neighbours heard the toddler screaming at the home in Brecon, Wales.
When police entered the home, the toddler had been left alone for 24 hours, a court was told.
"The house was in a state of disarray with rubbish, dirty clothes, empty wine bottles, beer cans and dirty nappies strewn over the floors," prosecutor Michael Hammett said.
The single mother would "pop back" every day to feed the little girl cereal and a microwave meal before going back out to drink with friends.
She was jailed yesterday for 15 months after pleading guilty earlier this year to neglect.
"You may have gone back to the house on occasions but the fact is you neglected her for a very long time," Judge John Curran said.
"Your daughter was left in the dark and cold, she was hungry and thirsty and had not been changed for days."
The woman wants to slowly rebuild her relationship with her daughter once she is released from jail.

ninemsn.com.au 21 Aug 2012

A classic case of child abuse. If it were a male who did this there would be a public outcry.

Pure and simple gutter trash not fit to be parent,.

Workers 'had little training' to lay batts

A young man laying roof insulation was red-faced, sweating and irritable before he collapsed in a Sydney street after working in scorching hot conditions, an inquest has heard.

Glebe Coroner's court also heard on Monday of questionable training and workplace dangers as it inquired into the death of 19-year-old Marcus Wilson after he worked one day in the federal Labor government's subsidised home-insulation scheme.
The 19-year-old was the third person to die while working on the controversial program.

Mr Wilson collapsed on November 2009 from hyperthermia after working in 45C-plus heat.
He was put into an induced coma and later died from organ failure.

Mr Wilson, who had no experience in the industry, had agreed to work on that hot Friday for a friend who was sick.

Co-worker Collin Cini noticed Mr Wilson looked unwell at a job in St Clair, in Sydney's west, but did not realise he was in trouble.
"I am sorry for the role I played, I'm sorry to the family," Mr Cini told the inquest.
Mr Cini had been working only for some weeks as a contractor for Pride Building NSW, which later was liquidated. He also had no experience but had attended a training course organised by the owner of Pride, Ryan Glover.
The instructor arrived late and Mr Glover pressed for a shortened course, which would have lasted less than 60 minutes, instead of the scheduled four hours' training, Mr Cini told the inquiry.
The course, delivered by Comsec Training in Lidcombe, did not cover installation or risk assessment, the inquiry heard.
Contractors did not sign agreements with Pride, there was no training for working in elevated, enclosed spaces and no one was supplied with thermometers to gauge roof cavity temperatures, the inquest heard.
Alan Lawson, who was in the roof insulation business for 45 years, worked as a contract inspector for Pride from October 2009 to January 2010.
He attended the course and said answers to the test questions were already written on the board.
"They didn't actually go into laying instruction," Mr Lawson told the inquiry.
He also said the course did not include information about working in an enclosed space, but it did address the impact of heatstroke.
Mr Lawson told the inquiry he recommended installers not work when the outside temperature exceeded 32 degrees but he believed Mr Glover would not let the heat delay a job.
"I knew that was the stand he would take," Mr Lawson told the inquiry.
"That the work would carry on."
The inquest continues on Tuesday.

ninemsn.com.au 20 Aug 2012

The government is responsible for a project failure, that being the 'free' insulation incentive (nee insulation scandal) , in which there was not only a huge cover up of the government letting criminals gangs together with individuals, walk free with the theft of  millions by each gang or individual, but now there are allegations of death of people as a result of a botched up business idea.

The lack of training, OH&S and education rests directly with the individuals who signed of on the government funded project.

Consequently, any deaths as a result of the inadequate procedures are directly attributed to government failure.

However no court will ever burden the government with this failure nor any individuals, who remain concealed from public scrutiny involved with this project.

Memo a 'smoking gun' in RBA scandal

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is again facing allegations it covered up evidence of bribery by its note-printing subsidiaries.

Sydney University corruption expert David Chaikin says a 2007 memo from Note Printing Australia's company secretary to then RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino is a "smoking gun".
Dr Chaikin said he had seen the memo obtained by ABC TV.
"I would rate it as a smoking gun because of the nature of the warnings," the former adviser to the attorney-general's department told ABC TV on Tuesday.
"These are clear warning signs of corruption."
A committal hearing in Melbourne last week heard that eight former executives of the wholly RBA-owned NPA and the part-owned Securency were involved in a conspiracy to bribe public officials at foreign banks in a bid to secure contracts to make plastic banknotes.
The scandal was exposed in the media in mid-2009.
But ABC TV reported on Tuesday then NPA company secretary Brian Hood detailed corruption concerns in the mid-2007 memo to Mr Battellino.
Dr Chaikin says the RBA should have called in the police after it received the memo.
It was "incredible" that RBA governor Glenn Stevens told a parliamentary hearing in 2011 that the bank didn't know anything about the scandal before it was reported in the media, he said.
"It would have been the most extraordinary thing in the public service for the governor of the Reserve Bank not to be told about this memo," the corruption expert said, adding it appeared there'd been an orchestrated attempt to cover up the truth.
"A royal commission would be the only way that we have in Australia to uncover that.
"This is about what the Reserve Bank of Australian knew about that corruption and it goes to the question of the integrity of the most important financial body in Australia."
Transparency International Australia said in early August that the RBA's behaviour in the case was "tantamount to a cover-up".
"We do believe that it was incumbent upon them to report promptly any credible evidence of the sort that seems to have emerged," executive director Michael Ahrens told a parliamentary inquiry.
The RBA has been criticised for referring the allegations to a law firm before referring them to the police.

22 Aug 2012

Corporate banking fraud goes unnoticed by the masses every single day.

It is through a very elaborate network that the banking community is allowed to commit these 'crimes' with public money.

Through the corrupt legal and judicial system these crimes go literally unpunished, even though a scapegoat may be implicated, but under no circumstances these people are working alone.

Woman caught in embarrassing embrace

A woman has been caught on film in an awkward embrace with a total stranger while sleeping on a London tube. 

The man seated next to her was reading when the woman next to him started to doze off.
As the train jerks, the woman, believed to be named Paula, wakes up briefly.

But happened next surprised them both. Paula grabbed hold of the man and started hugging him.

She came to her senses soon after and buried her face in her hands as she laughed off her embarrassment.
The incident was all captured on video by Paula's friend as they were on their way home from a late shift at work.

ninemsn.com.au 25 Aug 2012

Very important information pertaining to global politics and crumbling economies.

Proof that there is love all around.

New law to control cyber data

NEW laws will allow authorities to collect and monitor Australians' internet records, including their web-browsing history, social media activity and emails.

But the laws, which will specifically target suspected cyber criminals, do not go as far as separate proposed laws designed to retain every Australian internet user's internet history for two years in the name of national security.

Under the laws passed yesterday, Australian state and federal police will have the power to compel telcos and internet service providers to retain the internet records of people suspected of cyber-based crimes, including fraud and child pornography. Only those records made after the request will be retained, but law enforcement agencies will be prevented from seeing the information until they have secured a warrant.

It is believed that while some telcos and internet service providers keep data for up to a week, others routinely delete users' data daily, frustrating the ability of authorities to gather evidence against suspects.

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the laws would help police track cyber criminals globally and give authorities the power to find people engaged in forgery, fraud, child pornography and infringement of copyright and intellectual property. They also will allow Australia to join the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, which has 34 members.
''Cyber crime is a growing threat that touches all aspects of modern life,'' Ms Roxon said. ''It poses complex policy and law enforcement challenges, partly due to the transnational nature of the internet.''
But Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam said the laws went further than the European convention, and that the government had failed to explain why the far-reaching powers were necessary.
The European convention states that the treaty is not focused on data retention but on targeting law enforcement.
Australia's new laws mean information can be kept at least until police get a warrant.
Senator Ludlam was particularly concerned the laws would allow data that implicates Australians in crimes that carry penalties of three years or more - including the death penalty - to be collected and analysed.
''The European Treaty doesn't require ongoing collection and retention of communications, but the Australian bill does,'' he said in a statement. ''It also leaves the door open for Australia to assist in prosecutions, which could lead to the death penalty overseas.''
The deadline for submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into the separate proposed national security laws closed on Monday and a parliamentary committee will report on the issue at a date to be decided.
Those proposals would allow the telephone and internet data of every Australian to be retained for up to two years and intelligence agencies would be given increased access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

smh.com.au 23 Aug 2012

The hidden agenda in these laws are designed specifically to incarcerate anyone.

The excuse is that of pedophilia / child pornography, which no one can rightly oppose, or 'cyber' criminals and now 'National Security', but the agenda is more terrifying.

There is a policy to punish people who post information against governments, under fabricated pretexts.

City Council Cleaners fraud

The Melbourne City Council of Stonnington is in a partnership with contractual cleaners that is ripping of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year from taxpayers which has been going on for years.

In a ‘Money for Mates’ scam City Council staff, with the support and knowledge of the supervisors, are paying for work that has not been carried out, in some cases for over one year.

Information has been obtained together with the names of the corrupt staff, not from just one City Council but rather across the board, from a source that requested to remain anonymous. City Council staff as a result get kickbacks for their good work of fraudulent transactions of taxpayers monies.

The corporate media is quick to report on how individuals ‘rip off’ the system, but is very slow to report the opposite. Government corruption is rife, yet (deliberately) seldom reported.

There is no court time, and there never will be, even of it is exposed in the corporate media, as the government supports its own. 

Another fraud sponsored by tax payers and proudly supported by government.

54,000 refugees, no questions asked

AUSTRALIA is facing a flood of economic refugees. But the big numbers aren't from the north, they are from the across the Tasman where Statistics New Zealand yesterday announced the biggest exodus to Australia on record.
An extraordinary 53,900 New Zealanders moved to Australia in the year to July - around the entire population of New Plymouth, New Zealand's 11th biggest city.
The number dwarfs the 9607 asylum seekers who arrived in Australian waters by boat.
The record emigration of 53,900 is a dramatic increase from the same period a year before when 46,450 New Zealanders moved to Australia - itself a record at the time.

"These are economic refugees," New Zealand Council of Trade Unions secretary Peter Conway told The Age.
New Zealand's unemployment rate is 6.8 per cent, little changed since the economic crisis. Australia's is 5.2 per cent, down on the GFC peak of 5.9 per cent. "New Zealand was hit much harder than Australia," Mr Conway said. "We didn't have the big boost in government spending you had that pushed unemployment back down. Before the crisis our unemployment rate was briefly the best in the OECD. It is now mid-range, much worse than yours."
New Zealand wages are around 20 per cent lower than Australia's when measured in terms of purchasing power.
The Closer Economic Relations agreement with New Zealand means Australia is unable to control its trans-Tasman border. It is required to accept as permanent or long-term residents as many of New Zealand's 4.4 million residents as want to move here. If present trends continue Australia's annual intake from New Zealand will exceed 100,000 within five years.
The statistician says New Zealand has had no net arrivals over the past year. It has taken in 14,000 migrants from the United Kingdom, its biggest source of arrivals, and 14,000 from Australia, almost all of them returning New Zealanders.
New Zealand's Immigration Minister was himself in Australia yesterday. Nathan Guy said he didn't normally comment on external migration as his role was looking after people coming to the country.

smh.com.au 22 Aug 2012

The politics of government is to bring in criminals into the country under the 'economical' or 'political refugee' outcry.

 

Victoria is the state with the largest influx, with approximately 1000 per week.

There is no policy to stop this, as the excuse is given for 'humanitarian' purposes.

Many of these people burn their documentation pertaining to themselves, hiding their criminal past with full knowledge and support of the government of these actions.

As an economical benefit to the business community, they are a cheap source of labour, consequently the law favours these criminals, as can be seen by the outcome.

LaPaglia blasts Aust govt over Assange

Actor Anthony LaPaglia has lashed out at the Australian government over its lack of support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The star of Without A Trace also appears in the upcoming telemovie about Assange's early life, Underground, which has been invited to screen at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Robert Connolly (Balibo), it will screen on Network Ten later this year.
LaPaglia told AAP he is a fan of Assange, who is holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London after obtaining diplomatic asylum to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.
The WikiLeaks founder has said he fears then being extradited to the US to face charges of leaking confidential information.
In Australia to promote his new film, Mental, the US-based LaPaglia said Assange's plight shows how the Australian government does not stand up for citizens embroiled in international incidents.
He said Assange's presumption of innocence was being overlooked.
"I happen to be a fan (of Assange)," LaPaglia told AAP.
"I'm all for free speech and old-school journalism; it's telling it like it is.
"This is others suppressing the truth and suppressing information to the public.
"I am a little dismayed by the (Australian) government's lack of effort here.
"He's an Australian citizen and you are innocent until proven guilty.
"They (the Australian government) have the American cattle prod in their back and are sort of dancing to that tune.
"What happens to the fact you're an Australian citizen?"
LaPaglia said the controversy surrounding Assange in London will add to the appeal of Underground.
"It's amazing the controversy about him is heating up mightily at the moment ... it's perfect timing for the film," he said.
LaPaglia said Australians should shoulder some of the blame for the state of local politics and the attitude of politicians, who forget they are supposed to be working for their electorates and not for themselves.
"We elect them, we pay their everything and yet they represent us so badly sometimes," LaPaglia said.
"Clearly they don't have the constituency at heart when they are making decisions and we have to shoulder the blame as a society for not making them pay for it.
"We need to get rid of them and find people to do the job and that's the solution."

   23 Aug 2012