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Post by ponto on Nov 1, 2021 12:23:14 GMT 10
Not all phone calls are recorded what happens is that under suspicion of something nefarious the government and security agencies have the right to tap phones and record...McGuire was under investigation and why his phone conservations were recorded, Gladys was caught out by that.
Gladys also did not sack the bureaucrat who was questioning the Wagga funding because McGuire was under investigation by ICAC.
It was a mixture of stupidity and arrogance on her behalf that she thought she had the right to solely decide where funds go coz she knew best...no politician has that right it is an abuse of public trust and peoples taxes.
She fucked up and that's the real issue with politicians today...no acceptance of accountability, no admittance of doing wrong.
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Post by pim on Nov 1, 2021 14:28:33 GMT 10
It was Dazza from Wagga’s phone calls that were being monitored, not Gladys. What do you do if you’re a lawfully constituted security agency monitoring, under warrrant, the phone calls of a politician you have reason to suspect of corruption, and lo and behold the other person on the phone line being monitored is the state premier herself!?!
And let’s get real here, imagine the hysteria and moral panic shrieked to the rooftops by these usual suspects if we rewound the calendar to between 2010 and 2013 and the lady politician in the frame had been Julia Gillard. And let’s take it to an actual case in point, this time in the US. Of all the US presidents in my lifetime, with the honourable exceptions of Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Dwight D. Eisenhower, no US President comes to within a bull’s roar of Barak Obama for honesty and probity. Try as they might, and boy they tried!, Fox News, the Murdoch Hate Media, the Republicans and Donald Trump couldn’t make any dirt stick. Even so the “birther” lie hung around during all of his two terms. They couldn’t get him on any sort of malfeasance like tax, dodgy business deals, sex scandals (he and his wife came the closest to the ideal of the perfect couple of anyone in public life - strewth they even looked like they were in love with each other!) or something, anything, in his past that they could dredge up. The guy was incredibly clean! So they resorted to the ultimate in desperate slurs, they reckoned he wasn’t American in constitutional terms that qualified him to occupy the office of President of the United States. These people, and their Australian lapdogs, will try anything. But when the spotlight gets shone on one of their own, in this case the Liberal premier of NSW, the loony toons Sky News / Andrew Bolt / Chris Kenny / Alan Jones luvvies will scream blue murder and go all bolshie because a lawful telephone intercept conducted on a politician suspected of corruption also picked up the person he was talking to and that was the Premier of New South Wales. Yeah right.
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Post by ponto on Nov 1, 2021 14:47:10 GMT 10
Doesn't inspire confidence in politicians when they admit no guilt.
Keeping McGuire secret meant that she could go for it with funding...McGuire was a scumbag and she stayed with him until he was totally disgraced.
No apologies from her just the line she was doing what was best for NSW.
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Post by caskur on Nov 1, 2021 15:30:54 GMT 10
..... zzz.....
Big Brother is on tonight and this season will be worth watching.
Gladys is yesterday's news.
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Post by pim on Nov 1, 2021 15:51:34 GMT 10
Gladys Berejiklian cannot recall if she knew she was Gladys Berejiklian at time of taped phone callsGladys thinks she wasn’t herselfwww.theshovel.com.au/2021/11/01/gladys-berejiklian-cannot-recall/Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has told an ICAC hearing that she does not remember being Gladys Berejiklian at the time of a series of potentially incriminating phone calls with former partner Daryl Maguire, claiming she wasn’t paying attention at the time. “It’s not my recollection,” she told counsel assisting the inquiry, Scott Robertson SC, when asked if she went by the name Gladys Berejiklian at the time of the calls. Pressed by Mr Robertson on who she was, Ms Berejiklian said she didn’t know. “I wasn’t aware of that detail. It was insignificant. I wasn’t paying attention. It just wasn’t important to me at the time”. Robertson continued to grill the former Premier about her knowledge of her own identity. Scott Robertson: “What steps, if any, did you take to determine whether or not you were Gladys Berejiklian?” Gladys Berejiklian: “Well I didn’t have any reason to suspect that I was Gladys Berejiklian” Scott Robertson: “You didn’t think it was important to understand what your name was?” Gladys Berejiklian: “Not that I recall. I can only tell you what I remember” Scott Robertson: “Did you suspect you may have been Gladys Berejiklian?” Gladys Berejiklian: “I didn’t know whether I was or not!” Scott Robertson: “I’m not asking you with you knew. I’m asking whether you suspected that you may have been Gladys Berejiklian” Gladys Berejiklian: “I have no idea. I had no knowledge of that” Scott Robertson: “You didn’t know” Gladys Berejiklian: “I can only tell you what I remember” Scott Robertson: “When did you become aware of the fact that you are, indeed, Gladys Berejiklian?” Gladys Berejiklian: “Not until you told me just now” The hearing continues.
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Post by pim on Nov 1, 2021 16:18:01 GMT 10
Gladys in the witness box: a barrister’s view - basically that her time in the witness box getting cross examined was a train wreck, she committed every error in the book, she did herself no favours and she ended up making herself look shifty.
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Post by ponto on Nov 1, 2021 16:58:45 GMT 10
As she is not facing prosecution Gladys is using the tactic of not admitting to anything for if she does admit to het abuse of office then she is is admitting to culpability and that could lead to prosecution ....clever and shifty.
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Post by ponto on Nov 3, 2021 13:34:06 GMT 10
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Post by caskur on Nov 3, 2021 15:34:51 GMT 10
There go your renewables. How many donations are going to the Catholic Church renovations?
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Post by ponto on Nov 3, 2021 16:09:10 GMT 10
Renewables are here and growing because of Mathew Kean a conservative who doesn't have shit for brains, which is few and far between and its no more pork barreling according Dom..
Considering the coalition have been in office for a relative long number of years and people thinking they have had long enough coupled with the rorts time to give me the flick...so a change on tact....may work but dare say the winds of change are against the coalition on all fronts.
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Post by caskur on Nov 3, 2021 19:57:17 GMT 10
Renewables are here and growing because of Mathew Kean a conservative who doesn't have shit for brains, which is few and far between and its no more pork barreling according Dom.. Considering the coalition have been in office for a relative long number of years and people thinking they have had long enough coupled with the rorts time to give me the flick...so a change on tact....may work but dare say the winds of change are against the coalition on all fronts. Renewables are shit. The solar panel on my roof is PATHETIC. I have to have the booster on ALL THE TIME. I no longer care... I realize I'll be dead by the time our younger generation are going to suffer the clean-up but I will leave them a letter saying, I tried to tell them their method was shit but the dummies were too dumb to listen. And how do you like living with just rats and cockroaches? You can see the wildlife that once was by the photos I took. Enjoy.
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Post by ponto on Nov 5, 2021 2:32:08 GMT 10
That reads like a tech issue your having with solar, mine work really well and pleased with the saving on the energy bill...have you had your panels checked...?...or get your hubby to have squiz...my solar hot water was in need of a clean being covered with lichen, gave it a clean and its like new pumping out hotwater,....it maybe that they just need a clean.
If not must be the permanent dark cloud you have hanging over renewables.
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Post by pim on Dec 8, 2021 23:24:22 GMT 10
Scott Morrison backs Ivan Milat to run in Warringah as ‘recognisable name’www.theshovel.com.au/2021/12/08/scott-morrison-backs-ivan-milat-to-run-in-warringah/Political analysts are shocked (but not really) to learn that Scott Morrison will endorse Ivan Milat to run in the seat of northern Sydney seat of Warringah, saying it was a name that Australians would be familiar with. Mr Morrison said name recognition was more important than anything else, and he needed a backup plan in case ICAC found alternative candidate Gladys Berejiklian actually acted with integrity. “This would clearly make her unsuitable for the role” he said. Many have called the decision a desperate move by the Coalition designed to keep their grubby little rodent claws gripped around a majority government. However, The Prime Minister defended his backup endorsement of Ivan Milat today at a press conference. “Many feel that it was too on-the-nose of us to back Gladys while she’s facing a pending verdict, especially while so many Australians are demanding a federal ICAC. So we took that feedback on board and, for the sake of transparency, straight-up nominated someone who everyone knows is guilty.” Morrison added, “What we really just want is a household name that people will recognise on the ballot sheet”. Milat has gained support from the more conservative factions of the Coalition and is tipped to be next in line for Immigration Minister position, having experience in quietly making foreign visitors to Australian shores disappear.
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Post by Gort on Dec 9, 2021 0:01:24 GMT 10
Not a bad trick given that Ivan died on the 27th October 2019
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2021 9:31:39 GMT 10
And Gladys has confirmed she will not run for Warringah at the federal election
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Post by Gort on Dec 10, 2021 9:34:39 GMT 10
I'm glad Gladys decided to give politics the flick, although she probably would have won the seat back for the Libs from Zali Steggall if she had run.
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Post by Stellar on Dec 10, 2021 20:35:31 GMT 10
You know I'd probably have voted for Gladys ... after the Sustainable Australia Party of course.
But Zali is ok. I've always said I'd like to see political parties done away with. A parliament made up of Independents voting as to their own consciences and not beholden to the party line.
Zali regularly emails me her very informative newsletter. She asks people to contact her if they have any problems they need help with. She's accessible and goes out of her way to assist the constituents.
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Post by matte on Dec 10, 2021 20:44:00 GMT 10
It is very sensible Gladys Berejiklian is sitting this one out. I reckon if she did run, the Kangaroo Court (aka ICAC) would have released its findings during the campaign.
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Post by pim on Dec 10, 2021 23:12:16 GMT 10
We’re all blown away by the sharpness and depth of your political insight Matt.
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Post by Stellar on Dec 11, 2021 11:24:28 GMT 10
It is very sensible Gladys Berejiklian is sitting this one out. I reckon if she did run, the Kangaroo Court (aka ICAC) would have released its findings during the campaign. That would have been a given.
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Post by matte on Dec 11, 2021 18:26:25 GMT 10
We’re all blown away by the sharpness and depth of your political insight Matt. Well, last time I checked, the ICAC shouldn't be making political decisions or taking political actions. They would have released their findings during the campaign, you can 100% guarantee it. Whereas now they'll sit on the final report, like they have others.
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