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#14768211 at 2021-10-12 00:10:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18680: EBake Italy Calling Edition
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese holds press conference following IBAC bombshell allegations
Mr Albanese addressed the fallout from the first day of Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog hearings on Monday where Federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne admitted to branch stacking, hiring ghost staff, and being aware of rigged party ballots.
Mr Albanese spoke to media amid the fallout from Federal MP Anthony Byrne's testimony during Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog hearings on Monday.
During Monday's testimony Federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne admitted to branch stacking, hiring ghost staff, and being aware of rigged party ballots.
Mr Byrne also told the hearing former government ministers Adem Somyurek and Marlene Kairouz were "coercing" electorate and ministerial staff to engage in branch-stacking.
The fallout continued with Victorian Aged Care Minister Luke Donnellan quitting the Labor ministry on Monday after Mr Byrne accused him of paying Labor Party membership fees on behalf of others as part of a branch stacking operation.
When asked if he knew before yesterday whether Mr Byrne was involved in branch stacking Mr Albanese said "no".
He also said he did not know there was an "endemic" problem with branch stacking in the Victoria branch since the 1990s.
However, Mr Albanese said while he did not have 'detailed knowledge' of the Victorian branch of the Labor Party he pointed out that he took action immediately in the past to expel the construction union boss John Setka from the Labor Party after a series of scandals
"Since I've been the leader of the Labor Party, lets be clear about the actions I've taken. One of the first actions I took was to expel John Setka from the Labor Party.
"Once the revelations were given on Channel Nine and 60 Minutes, myself and Dan Andrews supported an intervention into the Victoria branch, which essentially took over the Victoria Branch and we appointed Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin as the administrators of the branch.
"I did that within 46 hours of taking over," he said.
Probed on whether he would ask Mr Byrnes to step down, Mr Albanese told reporters it was inappropriate for him to comment on specifics of the ongoing IBAC procedures.
"They are legal processes and it's important that they be allowed to take their course," he continued.
"What I did was intervene strongly, immediately, decisively - intervene in the Victorian branch so that any branch stacking or any manipulation of the rules couldn't achieve any advantage of anyone.
More to come
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/watch-live-opposition-leader-anthony-albanese-holds-press-conference/news-story/4f311fa4e073abd186147f19816703fb
#2053320 at 2018-07-06 07:12:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2590 - BO Ebake Edition
AUSTRALIA: TWO NOTABLE GOVERNMENT RESIGNATIONS
Two Labour MPs Resign:
1. Federal Labor MP Jenny Macklin (Australian Federal Parliament)
2. Victorian Labor MP Michael Danby (Victorian State Parliament)
Both cite "time for a change" / "new generation" / "spend more time with family" etc.etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-06/Jenny-Macklin-retires-after-22-year-career/9947650
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Macklin
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/labor-mp-michael-danby-retiring/9944444
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Danby
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (6)
#16169338 at 2022-04-28 09:34:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition
>>16047076
Anti-corruption watchdog calls out Victorian Labor's rotten culture
Nick McKenzie and Sumeyya Ilanbey - April 28, 2022
Premier Daniel Andrews has been secretly grilled by Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog as part of an investigation that has found the Labor Party's culture is rotten and encouraged the serious misuse of public resources.
The conclusions of Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission will shake not only state Labor but the federal opposition, given that several federal Labor MPs and shadow ministers are key players in the factions that IBAC has identified as unethical.
The anti-corruption commission's interim findings - contained in a draft report of Operation Watts sighted by this masthead - reveal that Andrews is among senior Labor figures to have privately conceded that "significant cultural reform is required within the ALP" to rid the party of a culture that encouraged the misuse of public funds, nepotism and other wrongdoing.
IBAC interviewed 26 witnesses, including the premier, in private and seven witnesses in public hearings. It concluded in its draft report that cultural failings within Victorian Labor were systemic and had been condoned or even encouraged by party leaders for many years.
The report also casts doubt over the adequacy of the initial response to the scandal by federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese, Andrews and Labor's national executive in 2019 to place the Victorian branch under administration, expel tainted ALP members and to appoint party elders Jenny Macklin and Steve Bracks to investigate the scandal. IBAC recommends that far greater reform is necessary.
The revelation of the IBAC findings and the fact that Mr Andrews was interviewed will surprise some political observers. It was widely expected that IBAC's inquiry would be limited to determining if disgraced Moderate Labor factional boss Adem Somyurek and his key lieutenants were engaged in corruption or serious misconduct.
That perception had led Somyurek and some journalists at News Corp to accuse IBAC of running a protection racket for the Socialist Left faction of which Andrews and Albanese are members.
While IBAC found it could not definitely conclude that all Labor's factions had engaged in the same wrongdoing as Somyurek's Moderate Labor, the evidence it gathered made it "highly likely the misuse of publicly funded staff" and "employment of family members and factional allies for party or factional purposes and nepotism has occurred for a much longer period and is much more widespread [across Labor] than Moderate Labor".
"The unethical cultures exposed in Operation Watts are not confined to the [Moderate Labor] faction. These unethical practices are embedded within the [Victorian Labor] branch and are systemic to all of the factions," the report found.
It also revealed that Andrews had conceded to IBAC that the culture of branch stacking and rule breaking, and a failure to ensure an adequate process for whistleblowers to raise complaints, was unlikely to be limited to Moderate Labor.
"The evidence adduced enables the conclusion that these practices have been approved or condoned by party leadership for decades," IBAC concludes.
"Leaders must be prepared to expose and denounce such activity regardless of their alignment. Without the rigorous participation of the leaders of the branch, the reforms proposed in this report are unlikely to be effective."
Somyurek was dumped from state cabinet and the Labor Party, while Marlene Kairouz and Robin Scott resigned from the frontbench, after their faction was implicated in June 2020 by an Age and 60 Minutes investigation into the flagrant abuse of public resources to branch stack.
The expos? prompted Operation Watts, a joint IBAC and Victorian ombudsman probe into allegations Somyurek directed taxpayer-funded ministerial and electorate office staff to disregard their public duties and instead work for him and his faction to sign up fake ALP members.
Branch stacking involves harvesting the votes of non-genuine political party members, including those who haven't paid their membership dues or may not even know they are a party member, to build power, thus improperly influencing who is nominated to run for state and federal parliaments or for other political positions. This masthead has exposed branch stacking by the ALP and the Liberal Party, although the latter has never been the subject of a law enforcement or anti-corruption agency probe.
The IBAC findings are only interim because the watchdog is yet to give accused parties a final opportunity to rebut allegations prior to the report's tabling in parliament. However, the draft report is likely to closely reflect the final report given it was written after many months of investigation and after key suspects and witnesses were grilled for days under oath, including at public hearings last year.
(continued)
#5443946 at 2019-03-01 05:12:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #3 - March MADNESS Edition
#2 continued - Part 2/4
>>4995967 Asian Cup 2019: Jewish Association Urges Australia to Boycott Palestine Match
>>4995992 5 of the 7 wealthiest people in Australia are Jewish
>>4996085, >>4996121, >>4996798, >>4996884, >>4997570, Australian Fabians - 1 Party 2 Heads
>>4998520 Muslim Leaders Reject Call to Denounce 'Violent' Koran
>>4998755 Witnesses / victims sought - Father Finian Egan, Our Lady Of The Rosary
>>4998995 15 years of Facebook: has it made the world, and Australia, a better place?
>>5000278 Queensland pedophile jailed, caught with 42,000 child pornography files
>>5000674, >>5000758 >>5000776, >>5007681, >>5000852, >>5000889 Brisbane Airport evacuated by police in 'emergency situation'
>>5023284 Intravenous Kiddie Infusions for RBG? Analysis of Q2653 by doctor from Australia
>>5023342 Undesirable Foreigners Stripped of Australian Citizenship
>>5028220 Superannuation and home loan sectors likely to be dramatically overhauled after Banking Royal Commission
>>5029241 Australia's Record Debt Bubble Is Causing An Economic & Social Catastrophe
>>5030600 Turnbull admits banking royal commission should have been called earlier
>>5032320 Julia Gillard betrays Emily's List, despite all it's done for her
>>5032625 Labor veteran Jenny Macklin retires from federal politics
>>5035207 Morrison 'accelerates' free trade deal with EU nations
>>5035265 Australians Evacuated as 'Unprecedented' Flood Hits Queensland
>>5035410 Deadly dome of gorgeous Pacific island leaking radioactive waste
>>5035446 Revealed: the room inside Pine Gap no Australian could enter, bar one
>>5039863, >>5039885 Canberra strands Beijing's man offshore, denies passport
>>5051290, >>5321287 Nicole Kidman and father Antony Kidman linked to pedophile / satanic abuse rings
>>5321639 Senator claims former Australian PM on paedophile list
>>5051310 Australian diplomat Alexander Downer links Huawei to fake Trump/Russia Scandal
>>5051416, >>5051433 Twitter investor to help build Australian crypto bank
>>5058548 Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris told to leave school after walking onto grounds, waving at pupils
>>5064779 The Queen by Rolf
>>5064864 Chinese contractor for Australia's AMP charged with stealing customer data
>>5071609, >>5076974, >>5088563, >>5099270, >>5115868, >>5137881 Police seize $1.29 billion drug haul bound for Australia
Parliament Hack Bun
>>5074780 China link possible in cyber attack on Australian Parliament computer system
>>5088611 Suspicion falls on China after cyber attack on Australian Parliament - and it's not surprising
>>5167130, >>5160512 More on Parliament House Hack from Anon
>>5233802 Parliament hack attack also hit LNP, ALP
>>5221169, >>5221259, >>5234537, >>5238591, >>5280602 Anons discuss documents claiming responsibility for the Hack
>>5322643, >>5322760, >>5334067 Iranian Group Blamed for Cyberattack on Australia's Parliament
>>5076366 Fallout at NAB over Banking Royal Commission Report
>>5076595 BOM admits to use of chaff in military exercises near Sydney
>>5077430 Ex-Australian diplomat, 63, admits to messaging a 14-year-old boy for sex despite knowing he was underage
>>5083155, >>5084776 EXTRAORDINARY! Reserve Bank of Australia's Governor Suspends Reality!
>>5108644 A house price crash in Australia would require a $300 billion government bailout.
>>5137585 Infographic: Alexander Downer
>>5137778 Sexual abuse within Australia's Jewish Community
>>5137891 Payback time for Australia's corrupt banks
>>5138606 Majority of Australians concerned about Agenda-Driven News
>>5138659 We need the Five Eyes spy network, but with oversight
>>5138686 Australia signs $50bn submarine contract with France, ends 2-year squabble
>>5138701 Australia called to act against Chinese detention of Uighurs
#5391537 at 2019-02-26 09:03:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2
>>5391521
#2 continued - Part 2/3
>>4995967 Asian Cup 2019: Jewish Association Urges Australia to Boycott Palestine Match
>>4995992 5 of the 7 wealthiest people in Australia are Jewish
>>4996085, >>4996121, >>4996798, >>4996884, >>4997570, Australian Fabians - 1 Party 2 Heads
>>4998520 Muslim Leaders Reject Call to Denounce 'Violent' Koran
>>4998755 Witnesses / victims sought - Father Finian Egan, Our Lady Of The Rosary
>>4998995 15 years of Facebook: has it made the world, and Australia, a better place?
>>5000278 Queensland pedophile jailed, caught with 42,000 child pornography files
>>5000674, >>5000758 >>5000776, >>5007681, >>5000852, >>5000889 Brisbane Airport evacuated by police in 'emergency situation'
>>5023284 Intravenous Kiddie Infusions for RBG? Analysis of Q2653 by doctor from Australia
>>5023342 Undesirable Foreigners Stripped of Australian Citizenship
>>5028220 Superannuation and home loan sectors likely to be dramatically overhauled after Banking Royal Commission
>>5029241 Australia's Record Debt Bubble Is Causing An Economic & Social Catastrophe
>>5030600 Turnbull admits banking royal commission should have been called earlier
>>5032320 Julia Gillard betrays Emily's List, despite all it's done for her
>>5032625 Labor veteran Jenny Macklin retires from federal politics
>>5035207 Morrison 'accelerates' free trade deal with EU nations
>>5035265 Australians Evacuated as 'Unprecedented' Flood Hits Queensland
>>5035410 Deadly dome of gorgeous Pacific island leaking radioactive waste
>>5035446 Revealed: the room inside Pine Gap no Australian could enter, bar one
>>5039863, >>5039885 Canberra strands Beijing's man offshore, denies passport
>>5051290, >>5321287 Nicole Kidman and father Antony Kidman linked to pedophile / satanic abuse rings
>>5321639 Senator claims former Australian PM on paedophile list
>>5051310 Australian diplomat Alexander Downer links Huawei to fake Trump/Russia Scandal
>>5051416, >>5051433 Twitter investor to help build Australian crypto bank
>>5058548 Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris told to leave school after walking onto grounds, waving at pupils
>>5064779 The Queen by Rolf
>>5064864 Chinese contractor for Australia's AMP charged with stealing customer data
>>5071609, >>5076974, >>5088563, >>5099270, >>5115868, >>5137881 Police seize $1.29 billion drug haul bound for Australia
Parliament Hack Bun
>>5074780 China link possible in cyber attack on Australian Parliament computer system
>>5088611 Suspicion falls on China after cyber attack on Australian Parliament - and it's not surprising
>>5167130, >>5160512 More on Parliament House Hack from Anon
>>5233802 Parliament hack attack also hit LNP, ALP
>>5221169, >>5221259, >>5234537, >>5238591, >>5280602 Anons discuss documents claiming responsibility for the Hack
>>5322643, >>5322760, >>5334067 Iranian Group Blamed for Cyberattack on Australia's Parliament
>>5076366 Fallout at NAB over Banking Royal Commission Report
>>5076595 BOM admits to use of chaff in military exercises near Sydney
>>5077430 Ex-Australian diplomat, 63, admits to messaging a 14-year-old boy for sex despite knowing he was underage
>>5083155, >>5084776 EXTRAORDINARY! Reserve Bank of Australia's Governor Suspends Reality!
>>5108644 A house price crash in Australia would require a $300 billion government bailout.
>>5137585 Infographic: Alexander Downer
>>5137778 Sexual abuse within Australia's Jewish Community
>>5137891 Payback time for Australia's corrupt banks
>>5138606 Majority of Australians concerned about Agenda-Driven News
>>5138659 We need the Five Eyes spy network, but with oversight
>>5138686 Australia signs $50bn submarine contract with France, ends 2-year squabble
>>5138701 Australia called to act against Chinese detention of Uighurs
#5032625 at 2019-02-05 03:18:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2
>>5032320
Labor veteran Jenny Macklin retires from federal politics
Former minister who has held the seat of Jagajaga for 22 years says 'It's time'
Australian Associated Press
Fri 6 Jul 2018 09.21 AEST Last modified on Fri 6 Jul 2018 11.46 AEST
Jenny Macklin, the longest-serving Labor woman in the House of Representatives, is retiring.
The former Rudd and Gillard government minister Jenny Macklin has announced she is retiring from federal politics.
The veteran Labor MP has held the Melbourne seat of Jagajaga for 22 years and served on the government or opposition frontbench throughout that time.
"As the longest-serving Labor woman in the House of Representatives, ever, 'It's time', as Gough so famously said, for me to move on," Macklin said in a statement on Friday.
"It's also time for the next generation. Although I still want to contribute to policy debates, it's time for me to step back."
Macklin said she would not be stepping back from public policy or public life.
"I will continue to do all I can for my local community and to be an advocate for a more equal Australia," she said.
Macklin, 64, was elected to the north-east Melbourne seat in 1996 and went on to serve as deputy Labor leader to Kim Beazley.
She served as families, community services and Indigenous affairs minister for six years and disability reform minister for two years.
"Every political party in Australia wishes they had a Jenny Macklin," the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, said on Friday.
"But only Labor has been blessed with her extraordinary mind, her caring heart and her fearless love of the good fight. How lucky we have been."
Shorten said there had not been a single policy reform in recent times that had not been shaped by Macklin.
Other MPs and political commentators also lauded Macklin's work on social policy.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/06/labor-veteran-Jenny-Macklin-retires-from-federal-politics
See the article for the numerous tweets from all the usual suspects. Thot somethin fishy when this one resigned last year
#5032320 at 2019-02-05 02:50:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2
>>5021171
Julia Gillard betrays Emily's List, despite all it's done for her
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
June 3, 2013 8:02am
What principle won't Julia Gillard sacrifice for power? Take her support for affirmative action to get more women into Parliament:
Cabinet ministers Jenny Macklin and Penny Wong and minister Catherine King are at odds with Prime Minister Julia Gillard over Martin Ferguson's successor in Batman, with the trio publicly backing the need for Labor to select a woman. Ms Gillard is backing Right powerbroker Senator David Feeney, who is parliamentary secretary for defence. She considers him a strong and loyal ally who has performed well…. Ms Macklin on Sunday endorsed the executive manager of Plan International, Mary-Anne Thomas, for the prized Labor seat and made some rare public comments on the party, saying the ALP was failing to meet its rules that required 40 per cent of candidates in winnable seats to be women… "…I am very concerned that if a woman is not preselected for Batman, the ALP in Victoria will have only 27 per cent of candidates in held seats who are women,'' Ms Macklin said.
Gillard once would also have backed a woman over Feeney, given she helped found Emily's List:
She was a founding member in 1996, with her mentor, the former Victorian premier Joan Kirner, and helped write its constitution. Modelled after a similar pro-choice group in the US, it describes itself as a "financial, political and personal support network assisting in the election of progressive Labor women candidates". EMILY stands for "Early Money Is Like Yeast".
Emily's Lists notes its greatest success:
In those early days, EMILY's List Australia acted as a watchdog over the ALP's implementation of the Affirmative Action Rule, … [saying"> the ALP would be best served when there was equal representation of women and men. This led to the launch of the Lift the Target Campaign in…. promoting a rule change to 50/50. Although EMILY's List Australia did not get its aim, the targeted was lifted and the 40/40/20 rule by 2012 was enshrined as ALP policy.
Gillard is named by Emily's List as one of the women it helped into Parliament:
EMILY's List Australia - Current Members of Parliament … Julia Gillard
But having been helped into Parliament by Emily's List and its affirmative action activism, Gillard now betrays her sisterhood. He is backing a male loyalist for Batman instead of another Emily's Lister:
Hutch Hussein, former national convener of political lobby group Emily's List, which aims to elect female candidates to political office, has also indicated her interest in the seat.
Still, given what a woman is doing to the Labor brand, the times aren't right to insist on insisting on more female politicians.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/julia-gillard-betrays-emilys-list-despite-all-its-done-for-her/news-story/57533709091f148eeb13a3db72153f06
#2053233 at 2018-07-06 06:59:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #1
NOTABLE RESIGNATIONS
Two Labour MPs Resign:
1. Federal Labor MP Jenny Macklin
2. Victorian Labor MP Michael Danby
Both cite "time for a change" / "new generation" / "spend more time with family" etc.etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-06/Jenny-Macklin-retires-after-22-year-career/9947650
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Macklin
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/labor-mp-michael-danby-retiring/9944444
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Danby