25 November 2013

How to not pay for tolls

It is illegal to collect payment for tollway.


SPER (State Payments Enforcement Registry of Queensland)

115 States not to coin money

A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts.

This section is what is known constitutionally as an “express prohibition”. In other words the States are expressly prohibited from making anything other than gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts. 

A State cannot substitute anything for payment of a debt, such as property or assets of any kind, nor can a period of imprisonment be substituted for non-payment. State courts may find liability but cannot order other than gold and silver coin be paid to extinguish debt. 

This was confirmed to me recently in the Queensland Supreme Court when Justice Ros Atkinson, when I asked her how costs could be paid considering Section 115 of the Commonwealth Constitution, said, “I won’t go into that, it is up to you”. I then said “Thank you your Honour, that means they can’t be paid”. 

Crown Law has not sent me a bill since that time as they know full well they cannot collect what is not available. 

As there are no gold and silver coins in common circulation it is not possible for a State to make any person pay debts to a State, or to any person in a State, as this would breach Section 115. 

Conversely, not being able to compel any person to accept other than gold and silver coin, a State is prohibited from demanding other than gold and silver coin.

Power and the inconvenience of truth



Tony Fitzgerald QC.

More than 25 years ago, Tony Fitzgerald QC headed an inquiry into police corruption in Queensland. 

Of late, there have been rumblings, not so much of corruption; rather, a government that seems to be bypassing democratic processes to instigate new legislation. Breaking a silence on Queensland government practices and the issue of democracy, Mr Fitzgerald has written an article exclusively for brisbanetimes.com.au, which he titles "Power and the Inconvenience of Truth". The article runs unedited, and in full.

Power and the Inconvenience of Truth
For what it's worth, my impression is that most Queenslanders don't want to revisit the dark days of political caprice and corruption and "don't you worry about that" 
In practical terms, democracy for most Australians means little more than a periodic obligation to choose between two major parties which, according to the Commonwealth Parliament's Education Office, "exist to represent the interests of different groups and individuals in society; their ultimate goal is to have members elected to represent these interests." The public interest isn't mentioned.

Voters, most of whom aren't members or supporters of any party, often have no real choice because one major party has so disgraced itself that it's unelectable.

After each election, one or other oligarchy rules for a period, during which its power, including power to advance the interests of its adherents and supporters at the expense of the general community, is effectively unlimited.
 
It's "not nepotism, .. just the way the world works." The arrogant, the ignorant and bullies thrive in the absence of enforceable rules.

Political parties use common advertising techniques to "sell" themselves to voters. Although the internet is producing major changes, most political advertising is still conducted through the mass media, which is expensive.

Public funding favours the major parties and obstructs others unless they're extremely wealthy. Each of the major parties also has affluent supporters. There's a risk that, over time, a significant imbalance in funding between the major parties will distort the electoral process as extremely wealthy individuals and corporations finance the party which represents their interests.

The media causes another major distortion when it takes sides, which is a significant concern in Australia where media ownership is highly concentrated and some - for whatever reason - is ostentatiously biased.
Advertising seeks to persuade. Propaganda seeks to deceive and is most effective when the truth is hidden.

When in power, politicians routinely use spurious excuses to deny or restrict access to information: "Cabinet-in-confidence", "commercial-in-confidence", "operational matters", etc.

In trade and commerce, deceptive conduct is prohibited and heavy penalties apply. There is no similar restriction on political propaganda, euphemistically (deceptively) called "spin".

With prejudiced media support, politicians regularly denigrate their opponents and falsely blame them for every problem, exaggerate the supposed advantages of their own policies and promise improbable results and fanciful financial benefits, reduce policies to simplistic, misleading slogans ("war on terror", "war on drugs", "stop the boats"), associate their policies with ordinary people ("battlers" on "struggle street") in contrast to impractical, "elite" dissidents who live in "ivory towers" in isolation from the "real world", appeal to emotion (jingoism and especially fear), claim public support (their assertion of "what the people want"), extend their influence by partisan appointments to public office and foster disdain for potential critics of political excess, especially the judiciary and independent media.

The inevitable loss of respect for essential institutions, public office and authority generally is, like truth, dismissed as immaterial.

Effective, functioning democracy is unachievable while the public is uninformed or misinformed. Australian democracy is now not merely or even substantially a contest between political parties and their policies but an invisible struggle between the general public and an increasingly professional, deeply cynical, "win at all costs" political class.

Although the public has the numbers, the political class dominates public discussion and is firmly in control.

Not for the first time, Queensland is at the forefront. It is again effectively a one-party State controlled by a group who seemingly don't know, or don't care, that the use and abuse of a large parliamentary majority is not true democracy irrespective of what they claim "the people want".

For what it's worth, my impression is that most Queenslanders don't want to revisit the dark days of political caprice and corruption and "don't you worry about that".

To me, it seems much more likely that "the people want" to live, and have their children and grandchildren live, in an orderly but free, ethical, tolerant society which is governed in accordance with established democratic principles which have evolved over centuries.

A government which behaved in that way wouldn't be able to indulge itself and its cronies but might well find little difficulty in implementing any substantive policies which are genuinely in the public interest.

theage.com.au 22 Nov 2013

Corporate fraud from the bowels of the government is a high priority on the agenda to ultimate slavery of the Australian populous.

This fact is widely omitted by the corporate media only dismissed and discredited into 'conspiracy theories' and negatively portrayed as 'activists' or 'protesters' or even 'pensioners'.

The Australian police 'force' is a corrupt government sponsored debt collection agency, which is ready to incarcerate you for civil disobedience to the corporate laws.

ABN - Australian Business Numbers

This post is a listing of Australian Business / Company Numbers with their respective trading names.

NB/:  A Private business has an ABN which in turn has NO authority of the Crown.

This list is updated periodically.

ABN's - Australian Business Numbers

Brisbane City Council - ABN 72 002 765 795

Centrelink - ABN 29 468 422 437
Commonwealth of Australia - ABN 122 104 616
County Court of Victoria - ABN  32 790 288 959

Dept of Justice & Attorney General - ABN 13 846 673 994
Queensland Police Service - ABN 29 409 225 509
Queensland State Government - ABN 75 818 456 675

STATE OF VICTORIA - PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA - ABN 57 505 521 939
STATE OF VICTORIA - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE - ABN 32 790 228 959

The Department of the Attorney General - ABN 70 598 519 443
The State Government of Western Australia - ABN: 66 012 878 629
The State of New South Wales - ABN 066 561 153
The State of Queensland - ABN 066 102 930
The State of South Australia - ABN 050 208 921
The State of Tasmania - ABN 053 201 308
The State of Victoria - ABN 054 558 619

The State of Western Australia - ABN 072 526 008



Police:

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE - ABN 17 864 931 143
DEPT OF POLICE & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (TAS) - ABN: 19 173 586 474
NSW POLICE FORCE - ABN: 43 408 613 180
POLICE DEPARTMENT (VIC) / VICTORIA POLICE - ABN 63 446 481 493
QUEENSLAND POLICE SERVICE  - ABN 29 409 225 509
SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE  - ABN 93 799 021 552
WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLICE  - ABN 91 724 684 688


ACN's - Australian Company Numbers


Banking and Financial Services Law Association - ACN 006 354 089
Banking and Financial Services Ombudsman Limited - ACN 050 070 034
Credit Ombudsman Service Limited - ACN 104 961 882
Financial Ombudsman Service Pty Ltd - ACN 114 322 468
Independent Ombudsman Service - ACN 117 680 172
Mortgage Industry Ombudsman Service Limited - ACN 104 961 882
The Australian Banking Industry Ombudsman Ltd - ACN  050 070 034


How the government trades on prisoners

From the dodgy world of politics and banking and finance comes information on how the slave trade is alive and well on a global scale.

This information is provided from people within the industry, who naturally wish to remain anonymous, as the fear of  repercussions is real that may  follow through to their children.

When a child is born in Australia, it is allegedly discarded from the vessel of its mother, and ownership is claimed by the corporate entity commonly known as the STATE OF (NEW SOUTH WALES or QUEENSLAND or VICTORIA, etc).

The 'seal' in the illustration is of a corporate entity and not a government / constitutional / common law seal.

Each 'State' of Australia is a separate business unit;

  • The State of New South Wales: ABN 066 561 153

  • The State of Queensland ABN 066 102 930
  • The State of South Australia: ABN 050 208 921
  • The State of Tasmania ABN 053 201 308
  • The State of Victoria ABN 054 558 619
  • The State of Western Australia ABN 072 526 008

The 'Commonwealth of Australia' with the ABN 122 104 616 is registered (consisting of the above mentioned 'states' or businesses) with the United States of America, Securities and Exchange Commission, No. 00 080 5157, as a result open for trading on the global market place.

Each individual is given a CUSIP number which then translates to a bond value which is put on the stock exchange.

A prisoner also is traded on the stock market, under the name of the bonding warehouse (prison), where the surety (prisoner) is kept.

The 'persons' name is in CAPITALS, as the 'corporate' entity.

Under the U.N laws, of which Australia is a part of, slavery or the slave trade is illegal.

The term 'bond' is commonly used, but rarely understood by the general public as to its true meaning.

When a prisoner is release, the 'bond' matures, and earnings or profits have been realised.

A Prisoner can be released (irrespective of crime) if a financial transaction occurs to cover the cost of the earnings/profits for the duration of the incarceration.

There is an enormous demand for prisoners (for financial reasons), where in the United States of America one can be incarcerated for 'looking' incorrectly at a police officer.

In Australia you can be arrested and charged (become a criminal) for not paying a bill (or invoice) given by anyone.

The person in Australia is considered as self loading baggage in a commercial transaction of international trade and securities exchange when we travel from port to port.

This also include Sea Port, Air Port, and the Trans - Port dept regulates all vehicles including trains, trams busses (Public Trans-Port).

If you do not have a ticket to ride from port to port, e.g. a train i.e. their vehicle ... the policy enforcers are waiting to take you away with an overwhelming force, to charge you as a criminal. (See photo)



NB/ - Policy enforcer - is a 'person' who forces a (policy) corporate law upon you, the 'free man'.

Australia is the new 'Alcatraz' (prison isle) a fact that the 'sheeple' are blissfully unaware of, to which the corporate media shows a dead eerie silence on.

This is one rather bizarre airport stuff up

 
Heathrow Terminal 5. Picture: EGuide Travel, Flickr Source: Supplied
 
HOW many people does it take to change a light bulb? Well, if it is in Heathrow's Terminal 5, apparently an entire team of highwire walkers is necessary. 

When the vast $8 billion terminal was constructed, its designers seemed to have overlooked one basic problem: how to safely change 120,000 light bulbs when they are up to 37 metres above the ground.

Since opening in 2008, not a single bulb has been replaced on its immense single-span roof, and in some areas up to 60 per cent of the lights have blown, making the concourse increasingly gloomy. And an email obtained by news website Exaro suggested that Terminal 5's owners had been unable to solve the conundrum for some time.

Having tried cherry-pickers and hydraulic boom lifts to replace the downlighters, none were deemed to be practical or safe enough.

But now, a team of specialist wire walkers has been given the job of preventing the lights going out completely.

The email, which was reportedly sent to staff by Vicki O'Brien, head of Heathrow customer service at British Airways, revealed that all the light bulbs will now be changed in a project lasting four months. She wrote: "As many of you will have seen recently, the departures concourse has been becoming darker than normal in the late afternoons/evenings, as well as in the early mornings. The reason for the poor light is that 60 per cent of the downlighters have failed, and until recently Heathrow had no viable way to replace them.

"Various things have been investigated in the past five years, but for a number of reasons none of these were practical or safe. The good news is that Heathrow has now identified a safe and robust way to replace all the light bulbs, and this is high-level rope work carried out by a specialist company."

The terminal is a vast building and houses the world's largest controlled-lighting system, with 120,000 light fittings and 2,600 sensors designed to switch them off when no motion is detected.

The airport's operators now plan to replace all the bulbs in one go with LEDs that are expected to last at least five years.

A spokesman for Heathrow said: 'The current lighting on the terminal 5 concourse is being replaced with environmentally friendly LED bulbs. Contingency lighting has been used on the concourse while a viable and safe solution for replacing the lights was being agreed.'

A spokeswoman for British Airways said: "We are working with the owners of Heathrow Airport to improve the lighting levels inside Terminal 5 due to concerns over the brightness of the terminal in the winter months.

"Work has already started on the lighting improvements and we are confident that it will be resolved to our satisfaction very soon."

She added that she could not confirm whether the email by Vicki O'Brien was genuine.

news.com.au 25 Nov 2013

How on earth did the authorities sign off on the project.

Private buildings in plan to ease jail overcrowding

VICTORIA'S prison overcrowding crisis has forced the Napthine Government to search for privately owned buildings that can be bought and transformed into minimum security prisons. 

A range of options are being assessed, including former school bush camp sites, that could host female prisoners without greatly disrupting local neighbourhoods.

The move comes as the Sunday Herald Sun can reveal that at least $2.5 million in wages and other costs is being sucked out of Victoria Police every month because officers are ­being forced to act as jailers.

At one stage last week, 357 offenders were squeezed into police cells overnight, ripping dozens of police away from frontline duties.

Of the 357 offenders, 322 were Corrections Victoria prisoners who should have been in jails or remand centres.

Police Association secretary Greg Davies said the problem had become "ridiculous".

"We're not trying to be alarmist, nor are we trying to make trouble for a government that did not create the problem," Mr Davies said.

"But there is a very real chance that this will end in tears, or worse, if it is not positively and urgently addressed."

To address the problem urgently, Mr Davies said vacant government buildings should be transformed into prisons because "we simply can't wait five years for Ravenhall to come on line".

"Any sort of facility - ideally one that already has a commercial kitchen in it, that could have some razor wire fencing and CCTV installed," he said.

While the Sunday Herald Sun understands there are no plans to use government buildings to house prisoners, the radical move of transforming privately owned facilities into minimum security prisons is under way.

news.com.au 23 Nov 2013

The Australian police force have specific instructions from the government to follow quotas given to arrest, incarcerate, fine and charge the general populous for various 'offences ' under whatever pretext seen fit by the issuing 'officer'.

This is basically police corruption of the highest degree, which now is being supported by further government action by making Queensland police IMMUNE from prosecution of any form of law suite.

See article:

Police to gain protection from being sued


Australia is in the forefront of being officially called the POLICE STATE.

Fed up Queenslanders join forces to protest new government legislation


Demonstrators like those who protested the governments public service cuts earlier this year, are expected to march on Parliament House this week. Photo: Glenn Hunt

“Several thousand” workers, unionists, lawyers, environmentalists, civil libertarians, community groups and the fed up are among those joining forces to shout Parliament House down.

The main focus will be the government's industrial relations reforms, labelled as “more draconian than WorkChoices” by the Queensland Council of Unions, but if it involves rights, it will be yelled about on Tuesday afternoon, as government critics plan a statewide attack for the last week of parliament.

Introduced last month, while the government was pushing through its anti-bikie legislation, the Industrial Relations Fair Work Harmonisation Act will be passed this week.


Premier Campbell Newman and Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie are blamed for orchestrating the anti-bikie laws in Queensland. Photo: Michelle Smith

Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said it would bring the state in line with the federal legislation, as well as making bargaining a fairer process for both employers and employees.
Opponents said the new laws strip away the rights of employees and unions to negotiate effectively, dismantle strike action protections and undermine the separation of powers between the Queensland Industrial Relations Court and the government.



The legislation will also make it an offence for union fees to be deducted from an employees pay and senior medical officers will be moved to individual contracts.



With the government's massive majority, there is no question the legislation will be passed, but QCU president John Battams said the community “would not be silenced”.

“I can tell you the groundswell of opinion against what the government is doing is growing by the day,” he said.

“With every new law that they pass, more people notice. I don't think you are going to see any diminution of campaigning against the government.

This government has been here almost two years and we are headed to an election and we are going to be there every step of the way.”
 
The government has repeatedly denied it has waged an ideological war against unions and said it had only made the playing field fairer.

As expected, Mr Battams disagreed, but he said “increasingly people were getting tired” of what he called the government's “arrogance”.

“They are only talking to the big end of town, only regard their own interests and disregard the interests of Queenslanders," Mr Battams said.

“Yes, they'll pass the law, but we'll make sure people will hear what is happening. These laws mainly affect public servants and local government employees – I don't think many of them will be voting for this government come next election, as well as anyone else who cares for a fair and just society.”

The industrial relations laws are not the only legislation expected to make waves this week.
Premier Campbell Newman said changes to the Queensland electoral act, as flagged by the government's green paper released earlier this year, will also be put through in the closing stages of the 54th parliament.





In July, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced changes to the Queensland Electoral Act, which included raising the declarable donation threshold for political candidates from $2000 to $12,400, with monthly disclosures.

But amounts under $12,400, including fundraising events which had a per-head entry fee under the threshold, would not have to be declared, regardless of the cumulative total raised.

At the time, Mr Bleijie said the changes would make the political donation process “more transparent”, but the opposition said the changes would muddy the waters, making it easier to hide electoral donations.






The extension of sand mining on North Stradbroke Island will also be finalised this week, as will the amendments to the government's bikie laws.

brisbanetimes.com.au 19 Nov 2013
 
The Queensland government as a whole is factually a corporation, the BRIGALOW COPORATION, a fact that is (deliberately?) not reported by the corporate media.

The actions of the protesters are in response to oppressive corporatised (government) actions.

The pictures of the above 'leaders' are photos of corrupt people.

From a 'lay' persons understanding a government is formed by the people, the individuals who are in governance are paid by the peoples' taxes, and as a result are called 'public servants'.

In reality this is NOT the case as Australian governments federal, state and local are factually businesses -> companies -> corporations, and function as such.

The general population are conned into a false reality.


23 November 2013

Consumers face up to $194 for smart meters


 
VICTORIAN households will be slapped with smart meter fees of up to $194 on electricity bills next year. 

Charges for about 1.6 million homes and small businesses are set to rise from January.

But about a million customers should get a slight discount.

The Australian Energy Regulator has approved 2014 charges of $115 to $194 for the most common type of meter, depending where consumers live.

Homes in Melbourne's north and northwest face the biggest sting.

The hip-pocket hit is part of the $2.3 billion cost for the controversial compulsory rollout (Note by corpau: the compulsory rollout refers to the contract between the government and the electricity businesses and NOT the consumers) of digital devices.

SP AusNet's charge is 23 per cent more, up $30, than this year. United Energy's is 14 per cent higher, and Jemena's is 12 per cent extra.

CitiPower and Powercor charges are 9-10 per cent lower. AER chairman Andrew Reeves said companies that had not recouped full budget costs in the rollout's earlier years could lift fees to catch up.

Others that had spent less than forecast compensated customers with reductions.

"Some were under-recovering revenue in the early years. Others spent less than forecast as the pace of the rollout was slower than expected," Mr Reeves said.

The state's five electricity distributors are authorised to grab more than $1 billion combined from consumers over 2012-15.

Charges vary depending on distributors' technology, installation and operation costs, and customer numbers.

The charges coincide with anger over revelations tens of thousands of smart meter "refusers" risk power bill hikes of up to $150 a year, on top of smart meter costs, as a disconnection alternative.

"Australians in every other state have the right not to have a smart meter," Stop Smart Meters Australia president Marc Florio said.
About 150,000 properties are still to switch.

karen.collier@news.com.au

APPROVED 2014 CHARGES

CitiPower $116.55
Powercor $115.27
Jemena $193.82
SP AusNet $160.21
United Energy $141.33

* For single phase meter

heraldsun.com.au 22 Nov 2013

Another rort by the electricity 'businesses' literally supported by the government.

 This 'utility' fraud is worth billions of dollars annually with paid off bribes and corrupt politicians.

ALL Australians should take a class action law suite against this fraud.

It's all part of the Police State agenda.

Web inventor rails against net spying

THE scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says a growing tide of surveillance is threatening democracy's future. 
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. 

Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the web in 1990, has been a vocal critic of internet surveillance.

He said on Friday that as more people use the internet and social media to "expose wrongdoing," some governments were feeling threatened.

He said the result was a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship" that threatens the future of democracy, warning that "bold steps" must be taken to protect privacy rights and the freedom of opinion online.

His remarks came ahead of the launch in London of a report ranking which countries best use the web.

Sweden was ranked first, followed by Norway, the UK and the United States.

news.com.au 22 Nov 2013

The agenda is much more powerful than what any man or even lobby can ever do to halt this spying.

It is happening and will be happening with no cease date EVER.

Any consitutional law or ammendent, or Human Rights or freedom of expression law that is broken is scoffed at by the 'authories' as they can never be brought to trail before ANY court, as the courts are subservient to the 'corporatocracy'.

$270 hit on Victorian gas bills

HOUSEHOLD gas bills are expected to soar by 30 per cent within two years, slugging families an extra $270 a year. 
 
The shock figures are based on new State Government modelling, and are included in a ­report on the future of the gas market.

The report by the Gas Taskforce, chaired by Peter Reith, says prices should level out by the end of the decade but residential bills would still be about 20 per cent - or $180 - above today's average.

It says the Government should ­remove a ban on controversial coal seam gas exploration and extraction, to boost supplies.

It warns without new ­energy sources, existing "conventional" gas supplies would last between 10 and 27 years, and prices would skyrocket.

Premier Denis Napthine said the Government would consult on CSG, and has ­ordered a scientific report on ­potential effects on underground water.

Reports are expected to be handed to the Government in 2015, after the next election.

Apart from allowing CSG extraction, known as fracking, the report recommends a new gas commissioner, and more compensation for ­aff­ect­ed land owners.

The Gas Taskforce report warns that by 2020, residential gas bills will be 20 per cent higher than today, and that Government modelling shows bills will be "peaking in 2015 at 30 per cent higher than current rates".

Opponents of fracking say it is bad for the environment, and that because of the long lead-time for onshore gas projects, short-term price rises would happen ­regardless.

St Vincent de Paul Society policy manager Gavin Dufty said the Government must ­address rising prices.

Some of the Gas Market Taskforce recommendations: 

* Remove holds on new exploration licences for coal seam gas
* Strengthen laws to underpin best practice onshore gas development
* Appoint a gas commissioner to "engage landholders and communities"
* Develop a new water science and monitoring system
* Remove holds on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking")
* Provide a "royalty holiday" to industry short-term
* Double compensation for people who lose amenities to $20,000
* The productivity commission do a review on gas market reform options

heraldsun.com.au 21 Nov 2013

Another win to the CEO's of the corporatocracy.

These companies under Australian law are NOT utilities, but rather corporations (businesses).

There is NO regulatory body, and it is leterally open slather for the corporate elite.

Another 'fraud' supported by the corporatised government.