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25.01.2022 NO WONDER EVERYONE IS CLAIMING ‘I KNOW NOTHFING’ How does a company not even based in Victoria, that was not a registered supplier to the Victorian Government,... get given a $30 million dollar contract (for 3 months work) without a full competitive tender process ? And why would you spend $30 million when the Federal government had offered to supply the services for free with the ADF ?

23.01.2022 TODAY: Over 4500 members of the Victorian Labor Party have QUIT as support for Daniel Andrews wanes. With members jumping ship and MP's leaking freely to the me...dia, how much longer can the Labor Party wait before sacking the WORST Premier in the history of this state? ADMIN: The full article is in today's Herald-Sun (online) and written by James Campbell, Matt Johnston and Kieran Rooney. You will need to be a Herald-Sun subscriber to read it unless the article is unlocked. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yb3tpqbv #SackDanAndrews #FreeMelbourne #FreeVictoria

22.01.2022 I AGREE with what the former Labor leader (Mark Latham) said of #DirtyDan today: THE VICTORIAN DISASTER EXPLAINED It's not that complicated - ... On 28 March 2020, Premier Dan Andrews announced that private security firms would be doing the Melbourne hotel quarantine work. Two weeks later, the head of the Victorian Department of Jobs signed the contract with Unified Security, from Ashfield, Sydney, after a Department of Jobs official who had worked with them previously picked them out because they were Indigenous-owned. They had no idea on how to do the job properly. At the inquiry into the disaster, Katrina Currie, from the Victorian Department of Jobs, explained how Unified Security got the work at Melbourne's Rydges Hotel, which became a petri-dish for Covid spread: it was due to "their status as an Aboriginal owned and controlled business under the government's social procurement objectives". Unified Security from Sydney was not even on the Victorian Government-approved list of preferred security providers, plus it was more expensive. Now we have hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, the economy wrecked, Victorians living in a police state - all due to FAILED IDENTITY POLITICS. Understand this: Dan Andrews and Labor set up the Victorian public sector culture by which, in a public health emergency, work could be given to a security firm, not on the basis of their ability to perform effective hotel quarantine and infection control, but because its owner identified as Indigenous. Andrews and his Jobs Minister Martin Pakula must resign. Every government in the country (and irresponsible Labor and Liberal have done this alike) must now abandon Identity Politics (race, gender, sexuality) as the basis for picking people and organisations to do the work. The only criterion must be MERIT - the ability to do the job well.

21.01.2022 What would happen if 768 Australians died due to the actions of a business? Janet Albrechtsen The Australian Suptember 30, 2020 There is a simple way to underst...and the deadly double standards that apply to public servants and politicians, on the one hand, and directors and corporate executives, on the other. Ask what would happen if 768 Australians died due to the actions of a mine owner, or a bus company, or an amusement park. If a chorus line of executives fronted an inquiry saying it wasn’t me or I don’t know anything, how would we respond? If the CEO claimed no knowledge, couldn’t pinpoint who did what, and put it down to a creeping assumption, there would be hell to pay. And then some. Slide down the scale. Just recently, Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques signalled his resignation after the destruction of an Aboriginal heritage site. David Murray resigned as AMP chairman after the board promoted an employee who, several years earlier, was guilty of relatively modest breaches of AMP’s code of conduct. But when Victorian politicians and public servants masterminded a hotel quarantine system using untrained private security guards that, not surprisingly, led to 768 deaths, to say nothing of other damage done, many people simply shrug their shoulders and say, it’s terrible then wave it away as politics. Former health minister Jenny Mikakos is a lousy example of ministerial responsibility. She denied she was responsible, blamed her department for not sharing information, and resigned because she said she could not remain in cabinet following the Premier’s testimony on Friday. Nor has the Premier taken genuine responsibility. He’s still there. Deflecting in front of the Coate inquiry, Daniel Andrews couldn’t say who was responsible for the private security guards. The Premier also dumped on his own chief public servant, Chris Eccles, for not telling him the commonwealth had offered troops to assist with the hotel quarantine program in April. Though some Labor MPs are privately complaining that Andrews threw Mikakos under the bus, their radio silence aids and abets his Houdini-like escape from accountability. If we, the people, keep shrugging our shoulders at this as just politics, we accept not just incompetent politicians and their dissembling behaviour, but a dangerous double standard that applies in Australia today. We are allowing politicians to run a protection racket, exempting themselves from basic accountability standards they routinely impose on people who run a business. Yes, Andrews could get the boot at the ballot box. But that can happen if a leader introduces an unpopular new tax policy. Unless there are more serious consequences, this hotel quarantine disaster will, by our tacit approval, set a new low bar for standards we accept from politicians. And that won’t end well for us. Politicians and public servants should not have a higher level of accountability than corporate executives. But today the balance is dangerously out of whack. At civil law, public servants can be liable for acts of misfeasance in public office. But making that case is hard: it requires a high level of knowledge or proof that they didn’t care about the consequences of their actions. Take the live export ban imposed by Labor minister Joe Ludwig in June 2011. The minister was found guilty of committing misfeasance in public office. The judge found he was recklessly indifferent to the consequences of the live export ban. But when the crown pays for the damages, where is the accountability? By contrast, politicians, and the public servants advising them, are never short of suggestions to hold directors and corporate executives to account for their behaviour, imposing very severe penalties. There are 723 sections in the Corporations Law that prescribe criminal penalties for directors, 367 of them carry a term of imprisonment, and 29 sections carry a maximum term of 15 years. There are also strict liability offences in the Corporations Law where directors must prove their innocence, in addition to 160 other strict liability offences in other commonwealth laws. Directors are also subject to absolute liability offences where they cannot rely on an honest and reasonable, but mistaken belief. Liability is also imposed in a raft of positional or managerial offences where a director is criminally liable for actions committed by a company even if a director was not personally involved in, and did not know of, the act. The Turnbull government introduced the federal Bank Executive Accountability Regime where bureaucrats can disqualify senior banking executives for breaches of the accountability provisions. Last year, the Morrison government extended this, renaming it the Financial Accountability Regime, to cover insurance and superannuation firms too. As Robert Gottliebsen reported in this newspaper on Monday, Victoria’s industrial manslaughter laws are among the toughest in the Western world with the aim to jail company directors for deaths in the workplace irrespective of their responsibility or control. And now we know why ministers and heads of departments fronting the Coate Inquiry into Hotel Quarantine couldn’t recall who was responsible for the decision to use untrained private security guards. As Victoria’s Minister for Training and Skills, Gayle Tierney, said in the Legislative Council last November, the Premier, ministers and departmental secretaries are covered by this new offence. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has conceded issues of infection control in hotel quarantine were too important to be left entirely to private contractors as he fronts a COVID... But did the Andrews government seriously think that it would be prosecuted? The state’s regulator, WorkSafe Victoria, faces a big credibility test. As Gottliebsen also reported, the McGowan government in Western Australia is not making the same mistake: it is changing its proposed new industrial manslaughter laws to make sure politicians are not caught. It is an admission that the proposed laws are so unfair that they must not apply to politicians. Here is the double standard that underpins the protection racket: the McGowan government is saying that a death in the workplace is terrible, unless it involves a politician. To encourage more sensible policy, the starting point ought to be that politicians do not impose laws with criminal sanctions that they wouldn’t dream of applying to themselves. If laws are based on sound policy, they ought to apply equally to people responsible for workplaces whether they are in the private or public sector. Our regulatory system is killing our prospects of a fast economic revival. It is so out of kilter that it makes far more sense for someone to join the public service than to take risks by running a company. As one of the few politicians who straddled business and politics, Malcolm Turnbull understood only too well how politicians escape accountability. Writing in his autobiography, Turnbull asked: What have I learned? A company director who misleads his shareholders could end up in jail or ruined by litigation. Politicians routinely dissemble, the press gallery seldom calls them out, often connives in the deceit and, when they get away with it, praises them for their political skills. While Turnbull said a lot of contestable things, this observation is spot-on. And after the biggest public policy failure in Australia in 50 years, it is high time that we demand a fairer reckoning of responsibility and liability when it comes to public servants and politicians. If we don’t, we should prepare for more, not fewer, deadly policy failures. 1/ Premier Daniel Andrews and his former Minister for Health, Jenny Mikakos. Picture: Sarah Matray

21.01.2022 UNBELIEVABLE! A fine of $1652 per infringement was not enough for DICTATOR DAN, so he now jacks it up to $5,000! I wonder where is the evidence that just...ifies this decision? Is this about COVID-19 or raising revenue? It is very expensive to finance a TYRANNICAL ARMY!

20.01.2022 The number one concern of Victoria’s rulers? Identity politics, it appears not human life Corrine Barraclough The Spectator Australia 4 October 2020 While you... were distracted by the atrocious horror show that is reality in Victoria, Dan Andrews has successfully created a parallel universe. In this brave new world, it doesn’t matter how many lives are lost, businesses go under, or humans are left in financial ruin. All that matters is virtue signalling. It seems that, because the social inclusion policy which drove the Andrews government to hire private security guards to manage hotel quarantine was such a roaring success, he’s decided to extend it. Facts don’t matter in Andrew’s new world. COVID case numbers don’t matter. And neither does the COVID death count. The focus is squarely on identity politics. This brilliantly ensures that intersectionality can always dig you out of any uncomfortable hole you may find yourself in. Victorian Labor is set to elect Sheena Watt as the state’s first Aboriginal MP to fill the gap left by former health minister Jenny Mikakos’s resignation. Is she any good? Who cares, this is the ideal opportunity to play the trump card in identity politics and distract everyone with the Indegnous card. Andrews used his daily press conference on Friday not as a platform to explain his woeful performance or focus on any accountability. Instead, he stated, From great sadness from the retirement of Jenny Mikakos [who he didn’t even speak to when she resigned after throwing her under the bus] comes a historic opportunity for us to, not just as a Labor Government commit to justice for Aboriginal people and a true partnership with First Nations peoples, but it presents an opportunity for the Labor Party to do the same thing. I hope and I’m confident that we are equal to this moment. He may as well have said, Don’t look at the mess that Victoria’s in, look over here, a nifty identity politics trick. This all comes hot on the heels of the Victorian Government’s announcement confirming the appointment of the first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner, Dr Niki Vincent an appointment skipped by most media outlets, but this identity politics mania infects the bureaucracy, not just the ALP, at a time that the utterly inept response to coronavirus has shown Victorian’s need a practical and capable public service. Vincent will, as The Spectator Australia reported at the time, head up a new unaccountable and powerful identity-politics-based bureaucracy which will divide and dehumanise Victorians The new Commissioner will be nothing less than the legal enforcer of radical and divisive identity politics public servants will become quotas and targets based on immutable characterises like sex and race, rather than individuals with different qualities. After all, if Victorians are divided and dehumanised sufficiently, they won’t notice the flaming wreckage that’s become their brave new world

18.01.2022 Thousands of Government documents dumped on Hotel Quarantine inquiry AFTER Daniel Andrews gives evidence!!! What were they hiding? What didn't the Premier want ...to answer? Do the documents prove anyone is lying? We need a Royal Commission.

17.01.2022 Who introduces taxes to the people?

14.01.2022 Adams Economics Page Liked 28 September INTERESTING! ... This article alleges that no Victorian politician or public servant wants to admit liability for the hotel quarantine fiasco because they may be prosecuted under Victoria’s RIDICULOUS INDUSTRIAL MANSLAUGHTER LAWS! Penalty: 25 years jail or $16.5 million fine!

14.01.2022 The deficit plus interest will be paid - unfortunately by the people in the form of increased and new taxes. Unfortunately, austerity policies are on their way to Australia. This debt should not be permitted to be increased but hat what both major parties will allow making the mountain larger.

14.01.2022 The Andrews Labor government of Victoria have lost their minds. They want to give power to people they appoint (designated authorised officers) as well as pol...ice, the power to arrest people who have not even committed an offence but who may be ‘likely to refuse to follow a direction'. Why don't they just do it anyway? Why get a Parliament to pass a Bill? Just seize total power Dan Andrews. The cops will back you won't they? The Age newspaper is trying the report this politely. The ABC seems to be ignoring it! https://www.theage.com.au//unconstrained-powers-top-legal- See more

13.01.2022 NOTE! Yesterday I was asked by an Australian journalist to provide a quote for an upcoming article about the current economic strategy which is being impleme...nted in Australia. The following is what I provided: It is alarming that the economic policy approach being pursued by the Morrison Government, the RBA and the National Cabinet is similar in many respects to the policies implemented by the Social Democrats of Germany (or SPD) led government during the Weimar Republic that led to hyperinflation in 1923. "The parallels are striking" "The current consensus in Australia between government, business and trade unions calling for more economic stimulus was present in Weimar Germany in the years after World War 1. Moreover, the SPD implemented their own version of Jobkeeper and Jobseeker in 1923 when France and Belgium invaded the German Ruhr Region and implemented an economic lockdown very similar to Australia's COVID-19 lockdown." "It is without question that more economic stimulus is going to exacerbate the cost-of-living pressures throughout the Australian economy regardless of what the official inflation statistics say as the purchasing power of the Australian dollar is eroded. I think there is sufficient evidence to make the case that the Australian economy is already experiencing stagflation. According to the RBA, annualised growth in 'broad money' is running hot at 10.7% in July 2020, the fastest rate since June 2009, while unemployment is forecasted to rise in the coming months. "To avoid a full blown currency crisis, Australia must implement an austerity agenda that shrinks Australia's enormous household debt and rapidly growing public sector debt. This includes the RBA ceasing its bond buying program and raising official interest rates as well as the Federal and State/Territory Governments implementing severe government spending cuts, running surplus budgets, reforming Australia's banking system and engaging in microeconomic reform which lifts productivity and international competitiveness." "The challenge that Australia faces is that there is no political will within the Federal Parliament to take forward a macroeconomic austerity agenda to the Australian people similar to what Joseph Lyons and the UAP successfully accomplished at the 1931 Federal Election, where Lyons was elected with a 2pp of 58.5% the highest in Australian Federal Political History." "Beyond this, there is an entrenched consensus in Canberra that even if such political will existed, the Australian people would never accept austerity given the harsh short-term realities it entails." "This is a dangerous predicament for Australia to be in. If Australian democracy lacks the capacity to save the Australian dollar, then we are doomed to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of Weimar Germany. Not only would economic and social mayhem pursue, but political radicalisation would be a likely outcome." "Australia's national problems would be compounded."

12.01.2022 24 November 2020MEDIA RELEASEIt’s now Labor’s ‘bail-in’ https://citizensparty.org.au/media-rele/its-now-labors-bail

12.01.2022 Freedom has prevailed. Andrews and his ALP cabal have been defeated. Australia rejoices.

11.01.2022 More fraud uncovered concerning the fake covid-19 death numbers in Victoria. Source: https://www.news.com.au///6e4c77fb8c0425ea854f8445845db264

10.01.2022 Being pushed by ALP & LNP

09.01.2022 Andrews has never had a job. His education is- an Arts degree????? Went straight from uNi into the Labor party Does not understand the difference between Profit and Loss

09.01.2022 The Victorian Governor must act to dismiss the Andrews government

09.01.2022 Taken from an article by J. Richards There’s no evidence that lockdowns work to stop the spread of coronavirus. None. ... This is not guesswork. After 10 months of the pandemic, we have data from more than 20 major countries around the world that have tried lockdowns in various forms. The lockdowns range from extreme (as happened in Victoria, Australia) to moderate (Sweden) to non-existent (South Dakota). The results are striking. There was no material difference in caseloads or fatality rates, regardless of what kind of lockdown was used. In some cases, an extreme lockdown reduced the spread for a short period of time. But, sooner than later, the virus returned. Lockdowns may briefly shift the caseload from one time period to another, but they do not change the total caseload over time. Meanwhile, lockdowns kill. The lack of socialisation during a lockdown leads to drastically increased rates of suicide, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and other deadly behaviours. Many people with other diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, avoid treatment for fear of contagion in hospitals and end up dying as a result. Apart from deaths caused by lockdowns, there are huge costs from a mental health perspective including depression, anxiety, and anger. Families are separated (at best) and are being torn apart (at worst) due to the separation and stress of lockdowns. The economic damage is vast and undeniable. There’s nothing wrong with simple precautions such as hand washing, social distancing, and mask wearing, although there’s good evidence that masks don’t work either. But those steps are low cost and people easily adapt to them. Lockdowns are extreme, don’t work, and come at enormous cost. They’re mostly virtue signalling for clueless politicians and even more clueless reporters who egg them on. This article highlights the latest sad chapter in the lockdown saga. Restaurants and bars have been among the hardest hit of the small businesses that have been under attack with senseless lockdown rules. In New York City, the latest rule is a 10:00 pm curfew or closing time. Does the virus go to sleep at 10:00 pm? Does contagion take a time out as the clock strikes 10? Of course not. A curfew makes no sense. But it does prevent restaurant owners from having two seatings or actually making a small profit from a nightcap or extra glass of wine. It also has deleterious health effects because owners have to crowd in their clients during a reduced time frame instead of stretching out the same clients over the course of a longer evening. We already knew politicians and bureaucrats were dumb, but the curfew puts a finer point on it. Lockdowns don’t stop the spread of coronavirus, but they do destroy the economy

09.01.2022 I knew this 8 months ago.Tried to tell everyone then actually still trying to tell people but no most just will not have it.

08.01.2022 No matter who is pushing the GST agenda. A tax is still a tax. Why would any non government/public servant want an increase in any tax??????... Those pushing this agenda will talk about services you like? BUT you could also link this to things you don not like. e.g. public service salaries/commissions/entitlements/unfair pension funds.............the list is endless. People must understand a tax is paid by the people; not the politicians who push them. And before not confronting this argument by letting it slide; look at the ever increase in other taxes, health insurance charges, rates, electricity/water/gas add on charges (all of which are taxes with another name)....... etc. If the economy is the issue: reduce taxes thereby giving people more money to spend on their necessities. You know how the LNP and ALP think on this You should also know how UAP have different views to the LNP and ALP

08.01.2022 Public debt is taxpayer debt. You may think you can escape paying but when taxes rise, new taxes are introduced, you will come to the inevitable conclusion that these Politicians are screwing yours and your children's life up completely.

07.01.2022 This idiot who doesn't know what it's. Remember this guy has never been employed in any business like to manage his or any business budget is bankrupting Victoria. Andrews has never been employed by any business. He has ZERO experience and he has control of Victoria's finances.... This is sheer stupidity on the Victorian peoples behalf

06.01.2022 Australia must quietly learn and plan accordingly. No business would place themselves in a position of being blackmailed. Work hard to find other markets, begin processing our minerals at home to offer a more profitable product, re-establish self-ownership of our land and businesses, develop Australian minded freighting for the future.... If a country does not want to trade with us, we should be more attentive to those that do. Establish an equal trading policy - dollar for dollar. See more

03.01.2022 It’s all happening, class actions, challenges to those elected using legislation that violates Constitutional laws and freedoms...no longer JUST moaning sightin...g political injustices or criminal activity, the Supreme Court and those that reside are the only direction for complaint... The great Australian wake up begins: Western Australian Parliament attacks the Rule of Law - North Korea Laws in Australia Brisbane: The Iron Ore Processing (Mineralogy Pty. Ltd.) Agreement Amendment Bill 2020 passed by the Western Australian Parliament destroys Australian democracy, Clive Palmer said today. It provides the Premier of Western Australia and his Attorney General exemption from the criminal law and all civil liabilities,’’ Mr Palmer said. The question must be asked what crimes have been committed or will be committed that require the Western Australian Parliament to exempt the Premier and the Attorney General from criminal prosecution? The Act bans any matter being taken to any Court. So in that regard it would, in the theory, ban actions in the High Court of Australia. The Act also bans natural justice and proper process. It prohibits discovery and abolishes Freedom of Information, and hence the public’s right to know what this is all about and hold the Government accountable,’’ Mr Palmer said. The Act terminates legal proceedings which were underway at the time of its passing in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, The Supreme Court of Queensland, The Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Federal Court of Australia. The Act also terminates arbitration before former High Court Judge Michael McHugh QC and mediation before the former Chief Justice of Western Australia Wayne Martin QC that the State was a party to. The Act destroys Western Australia’s reputation as a place where the rule of law applies,’’ Mr Palmer said. The Act assumes full judicial power and directs and imposes sanctions against a single citizen that it names, and imposes penalties against that person based on what other people may do. No charge. No trial. No right of defence. No justice. Separately, the Act interferes with the Australian Government’s obligations to honour international treaties and gives the State the right to encumber an individual’s assets for its own benefit without any legal basis to do so, Mr Palmer said. The Act gives the Premier the power to make laws without reference to Parliament. In essence, the Act allows the Premier to rule by decree. North Korea in an Australian setting,’’ Mr Palmer said. Our way of life and the Australian Constitution is all we have. We cannot allow Mark McGowan and John Quigley to destroy it. Don’t believe their cover-up. First they have come for me. What will you do when they come for you? Mr Palmer said ENDS

02.01.2022 Sky News host Alan Jones says the dictatorial edicts continue in Victoria, wrecking the economy and imprisoning Victorians, despite the fact there is no justification. More: https://bit.ly/336Vbg2

01.01.2022 OUTRAGEOUS! In South Australia, weddings are only allowed 150 guests, while indoor conventions are allowed up to 1,000 attendees on the proviso that attend...ees are 2m apart! Yet the Liberal Party packs 300 people inside with NO SOCIAL DISTANCING! https://www.google.com.au//Liberal-Party-AGM-South-Austral