Jetstar midair fracas - corporate media (deliberate?) porky pies?

So here we have a quite 'plausible' story from the news team at Rupert Murdoch's new empire from a publication called the Herald Sun.

A bunch of idiots on a plane who got into a brawl, it sounds quite simple, and from 'judging' of the characters, quite accurate, or is it?

There's is one line that stands out a fair bit and that is:

"Mr Beecham, whose partner was waiting for him at the airport, told reporters the media had “got it all wrong”....."

The following text (pictures omitted from the original article) is from 23 July 2016 by news.com.au of the headline:

Jetstar midair fracas: Brawling mates land back in Australia

THE six Australian men involved in the mile-high Jetstar brawl have arrived back home, but their nightmare is not over yet after their holiday plans were cut short by a midair fracas of their own making.

The group have been immediately banned from flying with Jetstar or Qantas.

Three of the six men, Brett Eldridge, Bradley Beecham, and Lynmin Waharai, were escorted back to Sydney Airport by Jetstar staff overnight and arrived early this morning.

Brett Eldridge, who also arrived back at Sydney international airport. Picture: Carly EarlSource:News Corp Australia

The other three men, Mark Rossiter, Ricky William and Michael Matthews, emerged from Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport about 12.20am, almost two hours after their flight landed.

They are all facing a claim for tens of thousands of dollars in compensation for the cost of the diversion and escort back home.

Mr Beecham, whose partner was waiting for him at the airport, told reporters the media had “got it all wrong” before apologising to passengers on-board the flight.

“I’m sorry for the stress to all the passengers on the flight. I’m sorry for what happened ... 100 per cent,” he said.

“It looked bad, but there was more to the story. No one knows the truth.

“You can only try to prevent it the best you can.”

News Corp Australia understands they had been spoken to by border force officials.

Officials briefly escorted Michael Matthews just outside the airport so he could smoke a cigarette.

Sporting sunglasses to hide bruising, he and Ricky Longmuir later attempted to hide their faces as they jumped in a taxi.

A source told The Herald Sun the men were “pretty embarrassed” by the ordeal.

A woman who was on the same flight as the Australians said Jetstar staff in Bali had been snapping photos of them as they boarded the plane.

The group — from Sydney, Bathurst, the Sunshine Coast and Townsville — looked chastened when they boarded their flights in Bali.

Jetstar had sent security from Sydney to escort the group home on two separate flights.

Sporting a black eye, Michael Matthews, kept his sunglasses on as he was lead to the plane, lifting them only at the request of the officials who were returning his passport.

A work colleague of Brad Beecham, at Beecham Concreting in Bathurst, said he was okay after having spent a night in Bali custody but maintained he was not involved in the punch up which saw their Phuket bound flight diverted to Bali to offload them.

Michael Matthews, Lynmin Waharai and Mark Rossiter on board Jetstar plane from Sydney to Thailand. Picture: Michael Matthews, FacebookSource:Facebook

Witnesses have described that two of the group were the protagonists and that others had stayed in the background as one rowdy passenger in the group was punched three times in the face by his mate.

Matthews posted images on his Facebook page of some of the group on the plane, shortly before takeoff from Sydney.

Footage emerges of those involved in Jetstar brawl

It seems their ill-fated trip to Phuket was first conceived back in April when Matthews posted to Facebook that he was going on an overseas trip with a few Sydney mates in the next months. He told anyone else who might want to join to message him.

Then in mid June he advertised one spot left for the Thailand trip.

Another of the group, also in the concreting industry, is believed to live in Townsville while others are in Sydney.

The six mates — Australians Beecham, Matthews, Ricky Longmuir, Mark Rossiter, Brett Eldrige and New Zealander Lynmin Waharai — were off-loaded from their Jetstar flight at Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport after the brawl caused the pilot to divert the flight from its course to Phuket.

After the group was taken off, by police and army officials, the flight then continued to Phuket.

And the men spent two days and a night in Immigration Holding room at the airport. The room had couches but no beds.

The group escaped any charges or sanctions in Indonesia but Jetstar has not ruled out forcing them to pay the cost of the diversion and landing, which could run into the tens of thousands of dollars.

The Australian Federal Police says it is aware of the case but given it is in the hands of Indonesian authorities would not comment further.

Three of the group — Matthews, Longmuir and Rossiter — were flown from Bali to Melbourne on a Jetstar flight departing Denpasar at 2.45pm local time yesterday and were due to arrive in Australia last night. They were accompanied by two Jetstar security officials.

The other three — Beecham, Eldrige and Lynmin — were due to arrive in Sydney this morning (sat) on a flight which left Denpasar at 10.35pm local time last night. They too were accompanied by two Jetstar officials.

The general manager of Bali airport, Trikora Harjo, said yesterday the group was being accompanied on their return flights by security.

“To prevent other fights, security from Australia have arrived last night. They will escort them while on board,” Mr Harjo said.

Jetstar trouble makers at Denpasar Airport in Bali. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

NAB spys on Customers

How can you trust ANY of these corporations?

Aren't 'privacy laws' there to protect the data of the plebs/serfs/corporate slaves?

If so then the corporation can be charged under those laws, right?

Let's see if anyone can successfully sue NAB.

We say these are 'money for mates' deals where the corporate slave (read 'customer') has no say whatsoever.

NAB has been accused of violating customers’ privacy.

NAB has been accused of “Big Brother” tactics by monitoring when its business customers are shopping around for rival loans, sparking competition concerns.

The lender has been receiving the “tip-offs” from credit reporting agency Veda, which it says are used to “better manage relationships with customers”, Fairfax Media reports.

One borrower who recently applied for a car loan with ANZ said she was shocked to receive an email from NAB saying its “smarter” systems alerted it that she was “seeking or inquiring for finance elsewhere” and it could whip up “multiple quotes”.

“I felt violated,” she told Fairfax. “I felt there was an invasion of my privacy because they accessed information I’ve never given them permission to access.

“I have a right to get second opinions and compare lenders but they put me in a very awkward position.”

In a statement, NAB said it “believes in lending responsibly to our business customers”.

“This means we do use a range of information sources, including limited information from credit bureau Veda, to manage relationships with our customers,” it said.

“This information helps us to understand if our customers are borrowing within their means and operating their businesses prudently.

“We believe it’s important that our bankers keep in touch with their business customers, especially when they are taking out new lending with other institutions, to understand the intent of the finance and how it will impact on their business operations.

“The information received from Veda only relate to business banking customers. No consumer credit information is provided by Veda to NAB.”

A Veda spokeswoman said: “This is a matter between NAB and their customer. Veda cannot comment on NAB and its customers.”

Veda, which collects data on customers’ credit histories, was recently purchased by US giant Equifax for $2.5 billion

Although the sharing of business customers’ data does not technically breach regulations, privacy advocates have described the practice as “sneaky and scary” and said it could raise competition concerns.

Fairfax reports other banks are understood to be using the alert service.

A Westpac spokesman said: “Westpac does not receive alerts if a business customer enquires or applies for a loan at another bank.” CommBank also said it does not use the service.

News.com.au has contacted ANZ for comment.

A spokeswoman for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said all inquiries should be directed to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

A spokeswoman for ASIC said neither “privacy concerns” nor “competition issues” were ASIC’s remit and directed inquiries back to the ACCC.

The OAIC has been contacted for comment.

Why you are an idiot

So you go to court and you are about to get a jolly rogering!

If you get someone to 're' present you, you are considered a ward of the state, a mute, unable to speak.

If you go on your own to present yourself before the 'judge'....


"......But 'your honour' I am only an idiot*....." 

So, let's have a look at the etymology of  the word 'idiot'.

You may be aware of the laws being made by people in the mid 1800's and 1900's, like for example the Victorian Constitution 1855, or the Australian Constitution 1901.

Armed with a legal dictionary or three, e.g. Ballentines / Black's / Bouvier's Law dictionaries may only give you one side of the story.

Therefore it is a good idea is to know the meaning to everyday words used of the period in question.

So, let's look at the word IDIOT as defined in Webster's Dictionary of 1880 (of interest is definition number 1).

*Idiot - 1. A man in private station, as distinguished from holding public office; a person in private life (see illustration above).


Some others DEFINITELY are a perfect fit to the other descriptions, but we'll put that aside for the moment.

The entire dictionary (300MB) can be downloaded from the link below :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B21_coIgIYu2TGJTbVg5dEFyb0U

Dodgy government employs dodgy people in city councils - Salim Mehajer

• What sort of government allows people in office that can make decision for personal gain to the detriment of the general populous?

Why the government of a penal colony, of course!

• How can you trust a government that does not act immediately in situations that show 'conflict of interest' arising from the actions of people in office?

You can't!

• Is this action [ of hiring 'dodgy' people] representative of government action on a wiser scale.

You can bet your 'Constitution' it is!

And this scum wants to be the Prime Minister of Australia.

We already have enough treasonous bastards without having to deal with another piece of garbage in office.

Australia's government a real criminal force against the people?

You can read the article from 13 July 2016 by news.com.au of the headline:

The dramatic downfall of the Salim and Aysha Mehajer love story

Is the Salim and Aysha Mehajer fairytale life over?

IT’S the fairytale romance that looks to have turned into a nightmare. 

Barely 12 months after controversial former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer married his sweetheart Aysha, the relationship could all but come to an end this week.

NSW Police, acting for Mrs Mehajer — going by her maiden name Aysha Learmonth — lodged an application for an apprehended violence order (AVO) on Monday against her husband. This morning the AVO was extended until next month which means they will not be together for their first wedding anniversary on August 15.

Neither Mr Mehajer or his wife Aysha were at the Downing Centre Local Court when the matter was mentioned.

Mr Mehajer agreed to the standard orders — which say he must not harass, assault, menace or stalk her — contained in the AVO, but indicated he wanted to vary or challenge orders that prevents him going within 50m of her home and/or work and must not approach her.

The only contact between the couple is to be via her lawyers.

Mr Mehajer has always insisted the dream is still alive when it came to he and his wife. Yesterday, he told news.com.au “only death will do us apart”. But, increasingly, it seems like wishful thinking.

But for the first time, Mr Mehajer conceded his wife had moved out of their marital home in Lidcombe, western Sydney although he claimed he saw her “every day”.

The Daily Telegraph reported that Mrs Mehajer had indeed recently met her husband but the reason was not to reconcile, but to seek an amicable split — a request he is said to have ignored.

A marriage that looks like it will end with a miserable whimper in a dreary Sydney court started with a lavish, glittering bang one sunny afternoon last August.

Four helicopters, a jet, a sea plane and a motorcade of luxury sports cars and motorcycles greeted bemused residents in the western Sydney suburb of Lidcombe as they found themselves hemmed in by the extravagant outdoor ceremony which saw Aysha and Salim tie the knot.

Former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer and his bride Aysha on their lavish wedding day in Lidcombe which involved helicopters, supercars, and dancing drummers and closed off a whole street. Picture: Toby ZernaSource:News Corp Australia

DIAMONDS AND PEARLS

On her big day, clad in a 22kg extravaganza of French lace and Swarovski pearls and diamonds, and with a beaming groom doting on her, she easily outshone any flashy motor.

The spectacle would catapult the couple to national stardom, while sharpening the crosshairs of the Auburn councillor’s critics.

He was the successful Sydney property developer, his apartments rising in the commuter belt east of Parramatta. She was the Wollongong beauty therapist, originally called April, who fell for the charms of the man dubbed “the councillor of conspicuous consumption”.

 Aysha Mehajer’s stunning wedding dress. Picture: Instagram nektariaSource:Instagram

‘I DON’T RECOGNISE HER’

The transformation, from blond haired April, to dark-haired beauty with chiselled looks, was miraculous.

So convincing was her metamorphosis that three months before the wedding, she was proclaimed Miss Personality Miss Lebanon Australia.

“I don’t recognise her but I think mostly anyone who knew her back then wouldn’t recognise her now,” Tracey Rovere, former principal of the Illawarra College of Beauty Therapy, who trained “April”, told the Daily Telegraph.

“Her hair was straight and red and then, for graduation night, she surprised us all by going and getting this amazing spray tan that concealed her freckles and had her hair lightened to strawberry blonde. She had this total Cinderella moment.”

Salim Mehajer and Aysha, before they married. Source: SuppliedSource:Supplied

HAPPY

A pre-wedding video provided the cheesiest moment of the couple’s celebrations.

It saw Mr Mehajer re-creating the first moment he laid eyes on his now wife.

There’s romance, drama, self-aggrandisement, even some guns, and finally Mr Right gets down on one knee as he presents Aysha with the ring she’s being waiting for.

After the last piece of confetti fell on the otherwise sleepy Sydney street, Mrs Mehajer fell into what, initially at least, seemed like a happy existence. She hung out with her husband’s stunning and sculptured sisters and even helped do a bit of fundraising, drawing the crowds at a local Macca’s for McHappy Day.

Happy times: Salim Mehajer joined wife Aysha at McDonalds Lidcombe to help raise money for McHappy day. Picture: Mark EvansSource:News Corp Australia

PRIME MINISTERIAL PLANS

When her husband, a few months later, graciously offered his services to the nation as a future prime minister, a serene Mrs Mehajer stood majestically behind him.

By November, the partnership went from the romantic to the business as Mrs Mehajer became director of several of her husband’s companies.

But storm clouds were brewing. Mr Mehajer was under increasing scrutiny for his business dealings and decisions made by Auburn councillors during his tenure as deputy mayor.

In February, Mrs Mehajer dramatically went into bat for her husband, pleading for his political life so he could build a multimillion-dollar block of units.

She wrote to Local Government Minister Paul Toole, asking him not to sack Auburn Council which would strip Mr Mehajer of his mayoral robes.

Mr Toole had singled out a decision made by the council to sell a council-owned car park in Lidcombe to the Mehajers, upon which its company — Sydney Constructions and Developments (SCD) — hoped to build an apartment block. If the council was sacked, the sale would be unlikely to go ahead.

“SCD is prepared to do all the things to protect its rights which arise under existing contract, including if the Minister interferes with those contracts,” she wrote ominously.

The Government wasn’t impressed and not only sacked the council but then disbanded it altogether, amalgamating it out of existence. The sale of the car park evaporated.

Salim Mehajer reportedly got a tattoo of his wife Aysha. Picture: SuppliedSource:Instagram

NO SHOW AT BIRTHDAY PARTY 

As Mr Mehajer’s political career and business plans began to unravel it was followed soon after by, seemingly, his relationship as well.

In April, he held an extravagant 30th birthday party for his wife which included shelling out $50,000 for US musicians Tyga and Omarion to attend.

The rappers took happy snaps on the mini-mansion’s illuminated spiral staircase and posed with a birthday cake.

The only thing missing? The birthday girl.

In fact, she hadn’t been seen for weeks.

Salim Mehajer posed with rappers Tyga and Omarion — but where was his wife? Picture: Instagram.Source:Supplied

WHO IS HOODA?

Soon afterwards, a romantic video emerged of Mr Mehajer — but it featured another woman.

The video, essentially a flip book of images, showed Mr Mehajer and a woman identified as “Hooda” embracing and, in some images, kissing.

Hooda bared a striking resemblance to Mr Mehajer’s wife.

“God sent me an angel” is daubed across one image of the couple. “I be his bonnie, he be my clyde [sic]”, is written across another.

A date of November 2014 crops up a number of times. If Mr Mehajer and Hooda were indeed an item then it would have been when he was already betrothed to his bride-to-be.

Later in the same month, Mr Mehajer was forced to furiously deny that his marriage was on the rocks despite reports he went to a house his wife was staying in and was found “yelling” and “screaming” while trying to knock the door in.

Mr Mehajer allegedly went to the house, in Wollongong, and demanded the keys to a Mercedes car his wife had been using, reported the Daily Telegraph. She was said to have escaped to the Gold Coast.

Salim Mehajer pictured leaving his house in Lidcombe. His wife Aysha applied for an apprehended violence order against him, on the eve of their one year anniversary. Picture: Adam YipSource:News Corp Australia

‘OUR LOVE IS TOO GREAT’

As the rumours cranked up, Mr Mehajer took to social media uploading pictures of he and his wife in happier times.

“Our love is too great to destroy,” said one post following the alleged incident in Wollongong.

On the weekend, Mr Mehajer uploaded a picture of him looking adoringly at his wife with the caption “You put the smile on my face, the sparky in my eyes and the Love in my heart.”

He insisted to news.com.au the image was recent but the two have not been spotted together for months.

Despite Mr Mehajer’s protestations to the contrary, the fairytale that began on a Sydney street looks to be fading fast.

Penal Colony Policies - Police Ombudsman's office to be abolished

Many people living on this continent may be blissfully unaware of the real state of 'law' in Australia.

Many Australians are ignorant of a document that protects them where it is spelled out how government must behave.

The document is called the 'Australian Constitution'.

Have you heard of it?

Get yourself a downloadable version containing the lawful seal of the 'Commonwealth of Australia'. Teach it to your children.


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B21_coIgIYu2blVRSkVidDRiTU0

This document was taken out of the education curriculum in the early 1970's so that the children of the herd populace would not know how the government must behave.

Some people may say that it's 'outdated' or not current any more as it's from 1901.

You may even go to a barrister with regards to your criminal (parking fine) matter, and he/she may say to you that they have not seen one, or even use it as it's not valid anymore.

Well they obviously are not aware of a place called the High Court of Australia, which deals with matters in accordance with the Australian Constitution.

You should seek another legal alternative to that person who has told you of their legal incompetence.

If you want to research law, and do it properly (not just from your ergonomic chair in front of a PC) you may discover that Australia is still a penal colony of the British empire.

When you write certain questions to government departments, even though they state that they will respond within 7 day, they do not.

When you write certain questions that require the government department to show paperwork regarding the validity of a law, they may not respond for a month, three months or even a year.

To the dismay of some people, laws concerning their 'rights' are being eroded away with every new government action.

Many people may find it confronting to learn that they are 'governed' by fear and extortion (hence they shy away from addressing it), and that the common phrase "democracy" which is so widely used by politicians is a farce.

In a penal colony you do not need to oversee the 'wardens'.

Here is an example of this in action.

See article from 6 July 2016 by abc.net.au of the headline:

Police Ombudsman's office to be abolished under South Australia Government plan

The South Australian Government is moving to abolish the Police Ombudsman's office in line with a recommendation from the state's anti-corruption watchdog.

Last year Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) commissioner Bruce Lander published a report with 29 recommendations to improve the currently complex police complaints system.

At the time, Mr Lander said some of his recommendations, particularly the oversight of police conduct might be seen as "controversial" but the system must be "robust but fair".

He recommended that the Police Commissioner have "primary responsibility for the assessment and resolution of complaints and reports about police", with oversight by the Office of Public Integrity (OPI).

Attorney-General John Rau said the Government had plans to introduce three bills in line with the recommendations.

They include plans to put the police complaints system under the wing of the ICAC, but SA Police would be first in line to fix the problem.

The Government also plans to repeal the Whistleblowers Protection Act, and replace it with the Public Interest Disclosure Bill.

Mr Rau said the bills were broadly based on commission Lander's recommendations.

"In his annual report and following his own consideration of how to deal with complaints raised against police and the operation of the Whistleblowers' Protection Act, Mr Lander made several recommendations to fine-tune and clarify how ICAC operates," Mr Rau said.

Aussies eagerly sell their purchase info for only 0.25% of their total spending

It's is absolute brilliant tactics from the minds of corporate geniuses to offer their (serf) corporate slaves a reward, like akin to when you give a dog a 'treat' (very little monetary outlay) for subservience, for information that is (theoretically) private and confidential between you and your bank.

Some people on social media may say that 'we' (the people) will be forced into a cashless society, but from what we see it's already in full swing with full support of the herd populace.

One example where people 'sell' their private and confidential information to corporations for (little) gain is in the form of 'frequent flyer' points or flybuys.

The companies that acquire your private information then sell it to other companies for 'research' and statistical purposes.

Let's take a look at what Coles (at the moment owned Wesfarmers) are doing today.

According to the current brochure (see attached illustration),

this is what Coles is offering for your private and 'confidential' information:

• For every $2 spent in Australia (and $1 overseas), 1 point is accumulated in 'flybuys'.

• When you redeem 2,000 flybuys ( $4,000 worth of spending in Australia) you save $10 instantly.

So when you spend $4,000 and 'redeem' it at Coles, you get a WHOPPING $10 deducted from your grocery bill.

That's a HUGE 0.25% saving, or you're selling you private info for only 0.25% of you total expenditure.

If you shop at other places than Coles you could be better off financially.

But we hear a cry from the back of the room - 'We get to travel to L.A. for free', from one of the herd populace.

We say "Good for you"..... "you're missing the point".

Sydney siege botched by government now they need your help (we smell a rat).

So let's get this straight.

• The corporation conglomerate commonly referred to as the 'government' employs learned people.

• When communication with the government, you are 'wrong' they are right, and how dare you question our authority.

• With regards to law, the government does everything correctly and by the 'book' (whichever one that is).

We have obtained numerous letters where the response from the government is condescending with regards question of law.

So here's the deal.

The government is responsible for the murder of two innocent victims during the Martin Place, Sydney siege due to incompetence.

The Australian government has blood on it's hands with regards to the murders of Tori Johnson, 34 and Katrina Dawson 38 at the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Martin Place, Sydney from the 15th of December 2014.

So here's what they want you to believe.

They want 'you' (the general populous, the 'serfs' - read slaves) to tell the almighty government where they went wrong.

Therefore they (indirectly) admitted they 'stuffed up', i.e. now liable for a law suit on behalf of the victim's families.

Here's what really happens to people who expose corruption and inadequacies of the government.

Have you ever heard of Sergeant Rick Flori from Brisbane?

He exposed criminal actions of the Australian government in the hands of the police, and how they bashed a handcuffed man.

Now he, Sgt. Rick Flori, is a criminal and has to defend himself.

Make now mistake with regards to the legal status of this country.

Australia still is a penal colony of the British empire, and therefore penal colony rules still apply.

It's is NOT a 'democracy' as falsely stated by various sources.

The government does not really need your help.

It wants to know what you know to shut you up in case yo make the details of their botched handling of the Martin Place siege public.

Read the article from 13 May 2016 by news.com.au of the headline:

Sydney siege inquest: Information sought on whether defence force could have handled it better

A hostage escapes the Lindt cafe during the Sydney siege. Picture: Chris McKeen

ARMY experts who have spoken to media about the police handling of the Lindt Cafe siege have been urged to “come forward” to help end the speculation and “simmering debate” that has hung over the police response.

The extraordinary request was made on Friday morning at the Sydney siege inquest by counsel assisting the coroner Jeremy Gormly SC.

He said questions over the ability of the Australian Defence Force to better handle the Lindt Cafe siege was an “ongoing and simmering debate”.

The inquest is looking at the way police responded to the siege in December 2014, when gunman Man Haron Monis took 18 people hostage at the Martin Pl cafe.

He killed cafe manager Tori Johnson which caused police to storm the cafe and end the siege. Katrina Dawson was struck by fragments of police bullets and died soon after.

Mr Gormly raised reports in The Australian, and other media, where unnamed sources told of a supposedly widely held view within the ADF of serious doubts about the police capability to cope with an event like the Lindt Cafe siege.

He said the reports were at odds with information given to the inquest by NSW Police and ADF — but offered the sources or anyone else who had proof of the claims to come forward and assist the inquest.

“If there are witnesses in support [of these views] that can provide value to investigation ... I invite them to come forward,” he said.

The Australian articles raised a series of issues the ADF allegedly had with the police handling of the siege, including the weapons and ammunition police used and a refusal from NSW Police to co-operate with their federal colleagues on the day of the siege.

The inquest has previously heard police rejected an offer from the army to use a mock up of the cafe that had built to trial tactics.

Police prepare to enter the Lindt cafe shortly before the siege comes to an end.Source:Supplied

In particular, was a claim the bullets used by police were more likely to “shatter” if they struck marble surfaces like the ones found throughout the cafe.

Mr Gormly said there was “no evidence” of that in statements already tendered — but if the claims were true then they would be “useful and relevant” to the inquest.

The source of the claims was obviously someone, or several people, who had experience at the highest levels of the ADF, he said.

However, Ian Freckelton QC, representing NSW Police, said the views of “shadowy figures” who have given unnamed quotes to media did not necessarily give them “value in a courtroom”.

He said the persons involved had already had plenty of time to contribute to the inquest.

“They have chosen not to do so.”

There was no proof at all the sources had any “expert knowledge” at all, he said.

But Mr Gormly said the subject wasn’t one that could be dismissed because the details came from “an anonymous source”.

The barrister acting for the family of Mr Johnson, Gabrielle Bashir SC, said any army evidence was highly relevant and was interested in the possible “covert entry to the cafe”.

Philip Boulton SC, acting for the family of hostage Katrina Dawson who was also killed, said it was a concern that no army witnesses were expected to be called to the inquest.

Defence force officers were present at police headquarters on the night of siege. Counsel for the Commonwealth, James Renwick, SC, told the inquest: “We could only act if we were asked. We weren’t asked, and for good reason.”

Under Australian law, the only way the defence force could have become involved was if NSW Police had declared it beyond their capability.

The siege inquest has heard at no stage did that occur.

The inquest continues.

What happens if you don't vote - AEC reveals all - (we say BS)

Here is more government propaganda from the greatest BS artists in the country.

Don't look to the corporate media for a 'solution' now will you...

The corporate media will not tell you that the $20 fine is UNLAWFUL.

The corporate media will not tell you that a 'legitimate' reason for not voting is for religious reasons.

The corporate media will not tell you:
- show me the document where I signed by my own hand in my normal signature that states that I have 'enrolled' on the electoral roll.

A spokesperson from the AEC stated that "We live in a damn good democracy, in Australia"

 - That is absolute rubbish / false / misleading information.
Australia NEVER was a 'democracy'.
It's a penal colony / corporatocracy / fascist or police state, take your pick.

In the so called democracy of the United States of America, you have a choice whether you want to vote or not.

How can a place be called a 'democracy' if your freedom of choice has been taken away?

Notice how the corporate media did not mention the name of the alleged 'spokesperson' from the AEC.

The corporate media will not tell you that the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission) is committing electoral fraud.

The corporate media tells you that Australians are 'citizens' (a totally different standing in law) rather than 'subjects of the Queen' (the Queen as in the U.K. monarch and NOT the 'Queen of Australia' - an unlawful/illegal entity).

You can read the article from 2 July 2016 from news.com.au of the headline:

What happens if you don’t vote this Federal Election?

Don’t want to vote today? Prepare to cop a $20 fine.

VOTERS uninspired by the Federal Election could elect to opt-out of the vote and instead cop a $20 fine.

It comes as the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) sent a strict warning to voters who choose not to engage in the polling booths, despite already being enrolled, telling news.com.au they could face court time if they fail to show.

A spokesperson for the AEC told news.com.au non-voters would be issued a ‘non-voter notice’ for failing to meet their legal requirement, which will provide you with two options.

1. To pay a $20 fine or ...

2. Provide a valid reason why you haven’t cast a vote.

“If somebody says they didn’t feel like it, it’s not a valid reason,” a spokesperson for AEC told news.com.au.

If you provide a valid reason instead of paying the $20 fine, it will be judged by an AEC official as to whether they believe your excuse is legitimate.

You could expect to find out if you evaded the fine in the “vicinity of a month or two”.

“If, within the time period specified on the notice, you fail to reply, cannot provide a valid and sufficient reason or decline to pay the $20 penalty, then the matter may be referred to a court,” its website reads.

“If the matter is dealt with in court and you are found guilty, you may be fined up to $180 plus court costs and a criminal conviction may be recorded against you.”

But an AEC spokesperson was baffled by the idea of not voting, telling news.com.au: “Above and beyond, the question is why wouldn't you vote? It’s kind of fun seeing the atmosphere.

“But aside from social element, you are having your say. We live in a damn good democracy,
in Australia you have very easy access to your vote, you get to have a say about who represents you, I don’t know why people would fight to not vote.”

The AEC denied rumours claiming citizens get off lightly if they don’t vote, explaining “we go and compare a list of electors, we compare that to list of other polling booths and see who has been crossed off and hasn’t.

“It’s a manual process to see who has voted or who hasn't.”

There is good news for those not enrolled to vote; the AEC said it was “out of the question” for them to vote.

“If you rock up and try to vote we won’t find you on the list of electors,” they said.

- Polling booths are open from 8am-6pm.

— Go to aec.gov.au to find your nearest poling place or call 132326 (open all day tomorrow from 7).