Victorian Socialist Left faction secretary Comrade Andrew Giles is under fire over claims he bungled his faction's ticketing at the weekend's ALP State Conference.
The OC has learned that the faction organiser has been summoned to attend a meeting at the offices of the AMWU where he will forced to explain to Comrade Steve Dargavel and others why he did not honour his promise to that union to get their Comrade Andrew Richards elected to the ALP's supposedly powerful Agenda Committee. (NB - It was always written up as powerful by The Age when David White was on it but many would dispute this saying it just sets the order of discussion at state conference and only meets twice a year.)
DON'T BLAME ME SAYS GILES
Giles has been quick to turn the criticism back on the AMWU, saying that at least one of their votes went "walkabout" and saying he can't be held responsible for everything that goes wrong. If you listen carefully, you'll hear guillotine blades being sharpened.
The beseiged faction boss has already assured concerned Socialist union heavies that he can "fix it." But his critics dispute this saying that he must have known that affirmative action was always going to make it difficult to get Richards up and that they suspect him of trying to slot him.
What he plans to do is to remove Ali Vaughan from the Committee and replace her with Richards but this is not possible because of the affirmative action rules. "Not even Harry Houdini could get out of this one", one amused patriot told the OC.
Some accuse Giles of doing this deliberately because he was overheard denouncing Richards as suspiciously close with the UCA faction headed by Dean Mighell of the ETU and possibly a spy on Socialist Left secret rituals of goat-slaughtering and incense-burning.
They say the "mistake" was calculated to favour the more intra-factionally reliable Luke Hilakari who "works" at the LHMU, a notoriously lazy union run by a strange self-important frizzy haired woman with a PhD in labour history, Jess Walsh.
Many dispute this characterisation of Flukey Luke, pointing to the young one's alleged shift from the Jennings sub-faction to the Carr sub-faction some years ago. They say when Andrew Giles is concerned a f*ck up is much more likely than a conspiracy, even if he doesn't trust Richards.
In the Socialist Left metaphoric meth lab, while they all fancy themselves as big-time gangstas, there are continuous and catastrophic explosions as they lurch from crisis to crisis, with their Cook Andrew Giles mixing the wrong chemicals all the time.
LEFTY BEDLAM
Patriots report there were scenes of absolute bedlam at the count and at the conference, with leftards Ali Vaughan and Comrade Giles barely having a clue about running the operation. One patriotic observer told the OC "We've never seen the Left operate this way. The wheels have fallen off completely."
One observer at the count explained that Giles was so shaken by the fact that Richards didn't get up that he turned grey and left the count-room for ten minutes to compose himself. Amid the carnage, someone was heard to ask Giles "whether he could count to 61", the quota necessary to get elected as his candidate Johan Scheffer appeared stalled for a while on 57. While it all seems a little arcane to you and me, this was a nuclear meltdown for Giles with him glowing yellow with radioactivity at the end of it.
To add insult to injury, Giles assured the union in writing that Richards had got elected despite the fact he didn't.
In further Giles' badness and madness, his ally Lee Talarmis missed out on being elected to the Rules Revision Committee and the ticketing so messy on Agenda Committee that the demanding Johan Scheffer nearly missed out to Richards. That would have prompted a hissy fit of a kind that could be heard out in Scheffer's rural electorate he rarely deigns to visit.
So in organising tickets for a committee that doesn't matter, Giles has managed to skewer himself on the sharp end of a big stick of division, game-playing and stupidity. His critics say that he's not so much stupid as distracted by the Vaudeville of politics, talking a big game about doing in his foes while actually forgetting the detail and nitty gritty.
The legal eagle who had positioned himself so ably as a high flyer has now been revealed - to quote the wonderful Yes Minister - as a low flyer with occasional gusts of wind.
Game on.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
BOTCHBOY: Andrew Giles Under Siege After State Conference Ticket Bungling // Summoned To Explain Himself By Metal Workers Union Bosses
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
CAN'T COUNT: Socialist Left MP Lily D'Ambrosio Bungles In Internal ALP Election
We initially intended to save all internal Victorian ALP FEA election stories for one big story but some stories just can't wait.
State Socialist Left MP Lily D'Ambrosio and the arrogant buffoon Sam Alessi did such a poor job in running the Left's operation in Scullin that it had a devastating impact on the result achieved by the militant faction in the northern suburban federal seat. Alessi is understood to have boasted in pre-election negotiations that the Left had eleven delegate positions "as a certainty."
Despite a surprising dummy spit from the ETU's Nathan Murphy who all but boycotted the poll when a negotiated deal he worked on didn't eventuate, the anti Socialist Left forces polled quite well in a seat that traditionally has been strongly Left. Murphy's disappointing effort is not likely to be repeated if he expects strong local support from moderates going forward, insiders say.
Even still, on the number of votes cast, the SL ought to have received 10.4 of the delegates of 18 to be elected.
SILLY LILY THE BUNGLER
But due to Lily's bungling of the how to vote cards issued to Socialist Left stacks in the area and the errors made by several of her semi-literate, elderly Italian communist branch members in completing their ballot papers (21 informal votes, a local record), the Socialist Left elected only nine delegates.
D'Ambrosio is aligned to the anti-Carr part of the Socialist Left, hailing from the Federated Clerks Union which the Left took over from patriots and all but disintegrated in the 1990s to a now very small part of the Australian Services Union. She and the Tannerites ended up being far more effective union-busters than Hugh Morgan and the HR Nicholls Society ever were.
TEACHING YOUNG LEFTIES HOW TO WASTE A QUOTA
The farcical situation caused even more humour insiders say because her intra-factional patron, Andrew Giles, whose grey hair appears to grow greyer with each FEA election fiasco, had brought in a number of young Socialist Left trainee hack militants to watch how a count was conducted at head office.
The young leftards got to see up close and personal how Lily's incompetent ticketing succeeded in electing Labor moderate delegates, much to Andrew Giles apparently very visible frustration and anxiety.
They must surely be wondering what they've signed themselves up for.
The overall result was 9 moderates elected, 9 leftards, a great effort by the local moderates. They should reinstate the atheist local MP for Mill Park to their Christmas Card list.
Game on.
MORE RESULTS TO COME TOMORROW
Sunday, 23 September 2007
YOUNG ONES: Brothers Grim Upset About Election Shock And Imminent Prank Wave
Incoming Monash leftard president MendaciousMat Hilakari is in a deep funk this morning according to OC investigators.
Hacks operating behind enemy lines have told the OC that the snide, arrogant tosser has been warned that he is a marked man by representatives of a coterie of pie-wielding, beer-chucking, water-pistol deploying, leftard-torturing patriots who are unimpressed with his recent efforts in throwing his weight around. The first three patriots to provide photographic evidence of Comrade Hilakari's person or property being disrespected in some way will receive a special gift of immense value (if you've guessed KFC, you get special bonus gravy bonus).
Adding to the dullard's depression is the stunning coup of one of this rivals Dara Conduit who ran for election to Monash Student Council. Conduit is the editor of Lot's Wife and has written without fear or favour about student politicians left and right.
As a bit of fun, to continue to mock the faux seriousness of the process she had mocked all year, Dara nominated on a joke ticket focused on respek (respect) and a policy of not drowning kittens.
Dara obviously has many fans out there, and received the benefit of favourable preferences and the Socialist Left electoral measure of affirmative action. The result? She won. And Hilakari is furious, humiliated by the prospect of answering to a rival who has had his measure all year. Looks like he's in for a torrid year next year (and almost certainly a wet one).
Game on.
Friday, 10 August 2007
GOOD NEWS: On This Grim Day We Celebrate Freedom
In a day described by one patriot as "one of the lowest of the lows" after what happened in relation to La Trobe, we can report some good news from the frontiers of freedom in Australian universities. Friend of the OC, Jessica Adelan is running for the Presidency of the ANU Student Association. We wish her luck.
In other highly amusing news, we can report that the Young Socialist Left faction the National Labor Students has split at the University of Queensland. Last night, patriot Liberal students and Labor Left splitters voted to not send $77,000 to the chronically mismanaged and corrupt Australian National Union of Students in order to buy votes as part of what is called "affiliation". More like "defalcation" when you look at how Mathew Chuk has been running the organisation and certainly the decision not to cough up the best part of $100,000 to the left-wing dominated organisation could be enough to finally sink it.
The Brisbane campus has been a stronghold for the NLS group in recent years with this outbreak of left-on-left violence potentially triggering an ongoing civil war within the socialist forces in Queensland.
Game on.
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
ROGUE'S GALLERY: The Future of the Socialist Left LOL
The world's fattest union thug (Guinness Book of Records category pending) Alex White has recovered from his latest souvlaki binge to alert us to the existence of the above photograph of Young Labor Leftards. They are a grouping so weak and odious that even Alex White was able to waddle his way to the top.
White is now "working" (ie being paid) at the country's least effective union, the LHMU which delivers up some of the worst pay and conditions to the country's most disadvantaged people, including cleaners and security guards. White with his Arts degree in Medieval history has more in common with the fat content of a Lamb's souvlaki than he does with the working people of that union. Little wonder that crooked union boss Brian Daley - who became a millionaire while working at the union if you don't mind - hired him.
We present the pic for your general amusement and also to encourage those in the comments section to name and shame those not known to us. Appropriately, Alex White is 'L'(for 'loser') and we can spy both the much loved Stef and Alex's chum Clancy in the group. The rest I don't recognise or have forgotten.
Please send contributions via sms 0415 993326 or meebo or leave a comment or send an email to landeryou[at] gmail dot com.
Game on.
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
STONEWALL BETH: Slippery Socialist Left Front Group VLGA Won't Answer Questions About Where The Money's Gone
The Socialist Left ruled Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA), fighting to maintain its relevancy since the collapse of communism and departure of Jeff Kennett, has pleaded its case for leniency before a moderate metropolitan council, Banyule, intent on severing ties with the disgraced leftist group after it failed to explain why it actually exists and how it spends its millions of dollars in public funding.
On Monday evening comrade Beth Davidson General-Secretary of the VLGA met with councillors of the moderate metropolitan council looking to stay a decision made in June to disaffiliate from the VLGA.
VLGA CEO Rae Perry had previously addressed the council in June trying to plead for more money for her association which employs more socialists than Minister Gavin Jennings.
SOCIALIST LEFT HEAVY-HITTERS
Accompanying Perry to the meeting was the daughter of former Socialist Left Deputy Prime Minister, Brian Howe. Sarah Howe, on the payroll of the VLGA, has her role described as "political adviser" with her job description being to "achieve progressive social change" which much surely be Stalin-talk for peddling socialism to the proles.
Alarmed at the left-wing agenda being pushed by the notorious VLGA, the moderate dominated council voted to sever ties with the Stalinist run group sending shockwaves through the lattes sipping leftistes of the bloated VLGA bureaucracy. The decision came just two hours after their presentation to the shock of VLGA comrades very accustomed to telling local councillors and council officers what to do and how to do it.
The VLGA's high-priced CEO Rae Perry was summoned to explain the matter before the VLGA central committee with the collective deciding that General-Secretary Beth Davidson would be sent in to try and placate the moderate council members.
VLGA MONEY TROUBLES
Sources at Monday night’s meeting have told the OC that Comrade Davidson had come to the meeting cap in hand with the sole objective of having the $20,000 a year ratepayer tap being turned back on. We understand they "desperately need the money".
The meeting started in orderly fashion with Davidson highlighting some of the "achievements" of the VLGA which bizarrely enough included highlighting the group’s work in East Timor (a vital issue foremost on the minds of all ratepayers).
When asked by moderate councillors if she or the VLGA were indeed socialists as suspected by the more moderate elements in the community, Davidson launched into a fully fledged tirade claiming that such questions were "undignified" and "disgraceful". And left unanswered.
Davidson also refused to answer questions about how much money the VLGA has taken from the registered political party Socialist Alliance – an affiliate group of the VLGA.
STONEWALL BETH
The OC has been told that moderate councillors at this point were alarmed by Davidson’s failure to answer questions regarding the extreme left presence within the VLGA, in particular the domination of it by the Socialist Left faction of the Labor Party.
To their shock Davidson continued to stonewall, refusing to answer any questions about how much of VLGA money had been siphoned off to former socialist, now millionaire property tycoon Mike Hill over the past decade. The OC believes he made hundreds of thousands of dollars from his association with the VLGA, in salaries and other "sundry payments".
Sensing her non-answers were not going down well with the moderate council, Davidson then proclaimed that "the VLGA wouldn’t know if any socialists were employed because we don’t ask". An implausible claim given the VLGA’s employment history of hiring nearly exclusively from the ranks of Socialist Left members and operatives.
The OC understands that the moderate council may have a final meeting with the VLGA before making a decision on its fate. The severing of ties between the moderate council and the VLGA could be the beginning of the end for the socialist left group with other councils likely to follow their example.
Game on.
Monday, 23 April 2007
SWEET: Socialists Spat Over AMWU // Andrew Giles Reveals Fork-Tongue
It is not because of hard work that Socialist Left secretary Andrew Giles has gone prematurely grey.
Treasury Place sources sympathetic to Socialist Leftist Alan Griffin have revealed to the OC that the latte sipping former lawyer now minstaff suit is up to all sorts of no good pushing the divisive intra-factional agenda of his employer Minister Gavin Jennings, known to some in the Cabinet as the Leaking Tap.
The Left are mesmerised at the moment by a conflict within their largest and most powerful union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The mega union, some thirty thousand strong in Victoria alone is set to go the polls with ballots mailed out in two weeks in a vigorous contest between Socialist Left aligned forces (a coalition of the "National Left" group and the "Workers First" rebel yellers) and those controlled by the AMWU Vehicles Division tsar Ian Jones of the "Pledge Left".
Basically, the members of all the divisions of that union including printing, vehicles and metal workers combine to elect a State Secretary and other positions. Former federal MP Steve Dargavel from the combined National Left-Workers First group is facing off against David Nunn who is supported by Ian Jones. Dargavel will draw on support from the metal workers division while Nunn will count on the vehicles and printing division. Turn-out will be the key to the struggle. If the Jones' group can motivate a high turn-out from their own divisions, that might be enough to trump the numerically superior metals bloc.
While the Metals division would normally be expected to deliver victory, the Jones group is also expected to be able to pull some disaffected votes from there, creating an unusually fluid situation within the Socialist Left's biggest union.
RUMOUR PEDDLING 101
In this context of unusual instability, sleepy Andrew is promoting more conspiracy theories than a John Pilger hardback.
On the orders of Minister Jennings, Giles is peddling a line that the occasionally Carr aligned Carlo Carli will now not be reinstated as Parliamentary Secretary because of the well known friendship between Carr and Ian Jones. It's a mischievous and strange line indeed. Perhaps one must be familiar with the teachings of Marx to comprehend the logic of connecting one with the other. We understand that this yarn is an attempt at creating destabilisation within the State Parliamentary left caucus so that Jennings can reassert control after the fiasco of him being rumbled for leaking against fellow Minister Lynne Kosky.
Jennings is desperate to control the sleazy nightclub that is the SL state parliamentary caucus, using Andrew Giles as his snooty door bitch. The door bitch hopes that through fear, uncertainty and doubt Carli can be bludgeoned into supporting the Giles bid for Wills, with the implicit threat that if the faux omnipotent Jennings sub-faction can take the Parly Sec's position, there might not be anything stopping them taking Carlo's lower house seat as well.
It's all a remarkable amount of fork-tongued activity for the normally sedentary Andrew Giles.
The indulged inner-city smurf offers the heavy load of ministerial work as an excuse why he can't help candidate Comrade Dargavel. And in the ministerial office he offers the hard and gritty work of the union ballot as his excuse for not showing up before elevenses. He couldn't work in an iron lung is the sad truth, some say. Others say he has been sucked into the minstaff vortex, where he can play at being a character in the West Wing. But he is on first name terms with the staff of the new Koko Black in the Paris End of Collins Street, so he's putting his time to good chocolate munching use.
He's also been desperate to promote his SL sub-group's connections with the Establishment Left ticket of Steve Dargavel. Giles points to the friendship between Carr and Ian Jones as evidence that Carr is not fully committed to the cause.
Carr is friendly with Jones these days, despite a long history of factional feuding. But he clearly isn't supporting the move of someone outside his faction against the biggest single union within his faction that has been the mainstay of his factional leadership for many years. The connections between Dave Oliver, Julius Roe and other Carr-ites are that of blood brothers. They are old school. While Giles and his ilk are more at home with the Belgian chocolate feasting ways of the Koko Black crowd.
Only those on a Koko Black generated delusional chocolate high could be comfortable retailing such unlikely tales.
BOASTFUL
This would seem very obvious to even the most tortured of souls. But Giles is keen to talk it up and in so doing repeating to all and sundry that they are able to use their pull with the Premier's office to get whatever internal factional outcome they want. "We don't need the numbers," Giles has been heard saying. "We've got Geoff Walsh's number."
For these Giles-Jennings rumours and much of the internal heat generated by Giles on the AMWU matter are more about the tremendous insecurity they both feel over their own position. In Giles' case, his failure to comprehend the basic requirements of the faction secretary's role has concerned many within his own group, even prompting a furious Alan Griffin to contemplate a move against him last year. Hardworking heavyweight, rising star numbers-man and Griffinite Lee Talarmis did all the heavy lifting, sources say, in terms of ticketing and allocating quotas while Giles the spiv lorded it up in a nearby conference room, loudly talking for hours about how hard he was working while leaving the grunt work to others.
Giles' failure to engage in the position and to support Leftistas beyond the Latte Curtain continues to do his faction damage. Many in the SL are hoping that instead of pointing the bone at Carlo Carli that he would stop being the most bone lazy faction secretary they've had since Intervention.
Game on.
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
EXCLUSIVE: Minister Kosky Punished By Cabinet Colleague in Ambition Payback
Socialist Left Bracks Cabinet Minister Gavin Jennings has been caught out leaking the email that nearly torpedoed his intra-factional rival Lynne Kosky's career.
Known as a serial leaker within the government, not that there's anything wrong with that, Jennings has an unbridled hatred for Lynne Kosky over her efforts to shaft him immediately after the state election last year.
PAYBACK
SL sources reveal that that Kosky - backed by her little mates in the Kim Carr sub-faction of the Left - attempted a bold coup where she would become Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in return for the Right taking Gavin Jennings' deputy upper house leadership spot.
It was a compelling argument within the Left, setting the stage for a possible Joan Kirner sequel when Premier Steve Bracks retires some time after the next Geelong Premiership. The deputy lower house leadership is obviously a much more prestigious gig than the upper house spot and Kosky's move would have been seen as a considerable expansion in influence by the Left faction, in particular by Senator Carr's supporters within it.
Jennings who generally maintains a lock on the Socialist Left state caucus, keeping Carr forces at bay, was panic stricken and only narrowly averted the coup attempt which would have left him outside the Parliamentary Leadership group and quite possibly also outside the Ministry given the competition for places.
Since then Jennings, whose choice of football team shows far more good taste than his factional alignment would indicate, has been lying in wait for an opportunity to punish Kosky's arrogance and greed.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
When Kosky staffer Raoul Wainwright sent out the insane "Marie Antoinette" memo that told Labor MPs not to trouble the Minister with complaints about public transport, Jennings was alerted immediately by one of his advisers. After gleefully chuckling, Jennings then ordered the hit on Kosky, even specifically telling the functionary to speak to the Herald Sun where the story would have the most impact.
It was a political nuclear bomb, leading to calls for her resignation and probably permanently shattering any delusions she had about being promoted. Jennings would be a fan of the fighting spirit of former Essendon champ Ron Andrews and his coathangering of Kosky would have done Ronnie proud.
While the OC is bringing this story to wider attention, there was much talk of Jennings' skulduggery among MPs yesterday fracturing already perilous relationships within the struggling, minority and disorganised faction of militants. Will the last Socialist in the ALP please ensure Kim Carr's clipboard is put in the Melbourne Museum?
Game on.
Friday, 13 April 2007
WHODUNNIT EXCLUSIVE: We Name The Kosky Staffer Who Wrote The Memo of Shame
Socialist Left trouser-snake Raoul Wainwright has emerged as the ministerial staffer who wrote the infamous email to Labor MP's instructing them not to bother the Public Transport Minister with complaints about public transport.
A former Legal Officer to the Construction division of the CFMEU (a bit like being John Gotti's priest) Wainwright is the adviser who is large and in charge of political advice in the Minister's office in relation to public transport. He was apparently trying to solve the problem of a large flow of correspondence coming into the minister's office by simply directing correspondents to cease complaining. As a problem solving technique it is up there with reducing the incidence of fires through dismantling fire alarms. Hopefully they won't let the Raoul loose on Emergency Services any time soon.
FOUL RAOUL
While he is a complete buffoon, the OC can confirm he is a public transport user as our spies have occasionally seen him slithering through Parliament station arriving at work no later than his customary ten o'clock start.
Patriots will recall that Wainwright has been involved in various political chicanery including an attempted Socialist Left stack in the Corio area in support of disgraced federal MP Gavan O'Connor.
A former Western Oval turnstile attendant, Wainwright landed his boss in the brownest shade of poo when he drafted an obnoxious email which was swooped on by one of Kosky's internal left factional rivals and reputedly emailed within minutes to the Herald Sun's Ashley Gardiner.
HUSBAND TO THE RESCUE
The Kosky saga descended from the lamentable to the farcical outside the beseiged Minister's compound yesterday when her slack-jawed husband and acting deputy temporary Ministerial driver Jim Williamson lurched to wifey's defence saying:
"She's had over 200 emails," Mr Williamson told the Herald Sun. (OC: Boo Hoo, 200 emails! Oh the adversity!)
"If the school bell doesn't ring, does the Education Minister get 200 complaints?"
Ah, yes he would Jim. And he'd expect to. You have to wonder what planet the Koskys have been dwelling on to think otherwise. Putting up with legitimate and sometimes lunatic complaints from citizens about all sorts of random stuff is exactly what representative democracy is about. Get used to it or get out, Comrades.
No doubt thoroughly sick of the men in her life by this stage, the Minister told hubbby to shut the whatever up:
"Jim, this is my issue."
YES, MINISTER, IT IS YOUR ISSUE
Never a truer word spoken, Minister. And if you can't deal with your issue which is that you are responsible for public transport, and its outsourcing and every tiny little thing which could wrong with same then you have no business being the Minister for Public Transport.
For the most part, folks are pretty sensible. They accept that no system will be perfect but when something's going wrong they reserve the right to complain to someone who's notionally in charge.
Clearly internal Socialist Left factional angst, bungling buffoonery by a miserably incompetent and politically inept staffer and a complex set of issues in a normally pretty good public transport system are all big challenges for the Minister to face.
But to adapt an old saying, if the Minister can't stand the heat perhaps she could relieve house-husband Jim in the kitchen and let someone else be truly accountable for a key area of state government responsibility.
Game on.
Thursday, 12 April 2007
CORPULENT: Alex White Tries To Wash His Hands of Union Scandal
Alex White, unprosecuted drug user, former official of the University of Melbourne Student Union and a devotee of role playing game Ars Magica has expressed his opinion of Michael de Bruyn's summary of the infamous Dean McVeigh liquidation of its predecessor organisation MUSU.
White wrote to an NUS email discussion list this evening in reponse to Michael de Bruyn's criticism of the Socialist Left's role in destroying the Melbourne University Student Union:
Re MUSU, it was an ALS-led bloc that voted to put the Union into liquidation, a process that ended up costing several million dollars of student money, with the liquidator recovering a sum of a few tens of thousands of dollars for creditors (whilst pocketing exorbitant fees from student funds, I'd argue would have been better spent on Clubs, BBQs, Childcare, counselling and other services student unions should be providing to students). At the time of liquidation MUSU was not insolvent or on the verge of bankruptcy, that is just a myth. Factually incorrect.
This is complete bullsh*t. If anyone thinks that it wasn't Student Unity that stripped MUSU of its assets and entered into a property deal with Optima that ultimately led to the union's court-ordered liquidation, then they need their heads examined (and are ignoring the public record).
No amount of denial by deBryun, the acolyte of Darren Ray, Scott Crawford and Andrew Landeryou, will absolve Student Unity of that.
Cheers
Alex
This very neatly sums up White's farrago of lies about his factional rivals. White and his occasional lover Tim O'Halloran have been peddling those inventions for a considerable period of time.
A SOCIALIST LEFT CONSPIRACY
Before analysing what he wrote, let's consider that both White and O'Halloran have ended up working at taxpayers' expense for Socialist Left MP's (in White's case while ostensibly working full-time for . Their group was particularly narky about their baby being controlled by the likes of pro-life patriots like Lizzy Blandthorn and her successors. They demonstrated they were ultimately willing to do anything - including destroy the whole show - to achieve a change in political control.
A journalist Louise Perry - then writing for the Australian - assisted them in their endeavour running salacious stories later proved to be grossly exaggerated. Louise Perry was then quickly picked up for employment by Peter Batchelor, a Socialist Left minister. She continues to work for the Labor government as a media adviser and her dear old mum continues to serve as a left faction operative back in the WA Labor Party.
White claims that "Student Unity" (a group that rivals his own) "stripped MUSU of its assets". This is not a claim that even the corrupt MUSU Liquidator (who spent many millions of dollars trying to make that argument) could substantiate. Now, White thinks he'll get away with repeating the original lie without being called on it. He makes reference to an Optima property deal which his factional colleagues succeeded in beating up into a mini-furore but doesn't explain that the total cost of that deal to MUSU was the grand total of zero.
In the dark days before the OC could hold a blow-torch of veracity to the pale, pasty and morbidly obese body of Alex White, these inconvenient truths could be easily forgotten as the Left rewrites history in its normal way. Well, it's game over for all that.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
At the core of the Socialist Left's political complaint about the moderates controlling their Student Union was their claim that someone associated with Student Unity was involved in a company that acted as the returning officer in Student Union elections. A fair enough point, it was not a good look, however fairly and honestly they may have behaved. But when Alex White was in a position to decide who would conduct the student union elections, who did he appoint?
Stephen Luntz. A notorious ballot-rorter and extreme leftist militant who has slithered up the totem pole of the Greens party as an active player and donor to that party. Yes that's right. He collects money from UMSU, launders it through his business and funnels it to the Australian Greens as one of its largest donors.
If it wasn't for all the angst caused at the time to some good people, it really would be one big laugh.
One of the OC's then naive contributors told me after we broke the story that he'd decided to ring The Age's so-called journalist Leonie Wood to encourage her to write a story on it for her lefto-rag The Age. She apparently spent twenty minutes telling him that it wasn't the same because a Liberal was also involved (something not even publicly known at the time!) She seemed very well briefed by the ultra-left and not surprisingly refused to write a story about Luntz's involvement in the ballot counting (which continues to this day).
THE SOCIALIST LEFT CAUSED THE LIQUIDATION OF THEIR UNION AND THEY KNOW IT
White's claim that a court ordered the liquidation of MUSU is also a grotesquely distorted part-truth. The University of Melbourne as the collector of compulsory student union dues had decided to stop passing that money on. That's why a Liquidator was appointed by the court, if presented with the fact that a large entity was having practically all of its income shut off, I would have reached the same decision probably.
And why did the University pursue that rather radical course in the first place ? It might have had something to do with acres of column inches from the likes of socialist Louise Perry and her running-dogs at The Age and militant leftist broadcaster Virginia Trioli (whose step-sons had their own rather sinister role) on the ABC that might have prompted their decision. There's nothing a bureaucrat hates more than bad press. And where was all this publicity coming from? From Tim O'Halloran and other Socialist Lefistas? Their group had been trying the trick on their rivals from the very inception of the union, to oppose them is to act corruptly in their lexicon. It is - as the Americans say - the first page of their playbook. And of course, The Aged and similarly ideologically motivated folk, play along.
Rather more successful in their endeavour than they'd ever expected to be, in the manner of schoolkids playing with Pepsi and Mentos mints, they managed to blow up and largely destroy the Student Union they always felt they owned.
White claims that Mr de Bruyn's claims are "bullshit" yet fails to specifically deny that:
■ The Socialist Left pushed for the Liquidation of MUSU, an organisation they basically created and saw it replaced by an organisation firmly in the control of university bureaucrats, presumably not what they wanted;
■ That the "public record" White refers to was in fact largely promoted by members of the Socialist left and their sympathisers in the left-wing press (with one later hired by a Sociaist Left minister as a reward)
■ That corrupt MUSU Liquidator Dean McVeigh spent the best part of eight million dollars during his reign of error and recovered practically nothing despite claiming that his activities would generate more than two million dollars;
■ MUSU was not insolvent at the time the liquidator was appointed. What happened is that the University had indicated that it would no longer be supporting it with immoral, compulsory student union fees which were its principal source of income. The Left instead promotes a view that a bad property deal (which in fact cost nothing) cost a lot and that "caused" the liquidation. Not so. And no amount of lying about by crooks like Alex White can change that fact.
That's Tim O'Halloran and Alex White's sad little legacy. In some ways those who crave fewer job opportunities for smelly leftists should be pleased with their rather self-defeating work. They are union busters of a far more effective kind than Hugh Morgan or Evan Thornley. And when Tim puts up his hand for public office - as he inevitably will - freedom fighters will be waiting for him with the baseball bats of pointed civic discourse and forensic investigation.
The fruits of Tim O'Halloran's victory - whose Daddy up Eltham way is happy to tell people that his son will be in Parliament real soon - will be ashes in his mouth for a very, very long time to come. It's just a matter of time, Tim. We'll be waiting.
Game on.
Friday, 30 March 2007
NASTY: Mikey Bachelard Digs Up Old Lefty's Grave To Give Him a Slap
Michael Bachelard's lame-ass take-down of a dead Lefty was weak even by his standards. Is this really what they pay the big salaries for at the "Age Investigations Unit"?
We don't like socialists at all but isn't it rather ghoulish to be dragging through the mud the name of a recently departed leftist purely on the basis that he once wrote Tony Mokbel a reference.
The connection seems to be that the chap worked with Lindsay Tanner, some three years prior to him writing the letter in support of Mokbel's liquor licence and some time prior to Mokbel becoming famous for being a gangster.
Bachelard's attack on the memory of Alex Gaspi was a low-blow.
May he rest in peace, fondly remembered.
Game on.
Monday, 5 March 2007
WASH UP: ALP State Conference Yarns
■ Six delegates did not vote at the weekend's conference, a highly unusual situation given the keen fighting over position for election to the National Conference. Three Socialiste Left comrades, two Independents and one NUW were no-shows. This is a gift to the moderate Labor Unity group that will keep on giving as the voters' roll for the election of the Public Office Selection Committee will comprise those delegates who credentialed at this conference. Treasury Place insiders say that this reflects very badly on the leadership of factionman, prematurely grey Comrade Andrew Giles who receives nearly $2000 per week as a ministerial adviser to govern his faction of militants. Some wonder whether it might be time for him pursue other interests, with the CFMEU particularly displeased with his bungling.
Game on.
Thursday, 1 March 2007
POSC FOLLIES: Socialist Left Rorting Highlights Need To Change Rotten Borough Preselection System
The disgraceful Socialist Left Giles-Talarmis POSC corruption scandal has cast a very big shadow over last night's preselection votes. As a result of this furore, the POSC ballots will not be counted til next week while a full investigation occurs at Head Office into the scope and dimension of the irregularities.
SCHEMING
The attempt to manipulate the vote with a member not eligible to vote requires some very careful scrutiny. Clearly senior members of the Socialist Left - with malice aforethought - engaged in a systematic corruption of the ALP's preselection processes. Some believe it was all designed to avoid Talarmis creating a vacancy which would - in a countback - on preferences go to the Right. That was the dishonest and rorting motive for this putrid chicanery of the kind that should have one-time lawyer now full-time hack Socialist Left secretary Andrew Giles struck off and possibly horse-whipped (the latter fulfilling Erik Locke's every fantasy).
Some believe the incident is proof that the ALP processes are squeaky clean as rorts like this are eventually pulled up and prosecuted. While others believe it is further proof that radical reforms of all Party's preselection processes are required.
CORRUPTION
Rotten borough ballots where no more than a hundred local members (among an electorate of eighty thousand people) get to decide who shall represent a major political party is inherently corrupt. It's not just an ALP problem either, the Liberals have had many preselection controversies and barely have functioning membership in many neighbourhoods where there are plenty of Liberal supporters. And it's not just a major party issue either, with the Greens having wild preselection wars where the extreme left fights the lunatic left with a bloodlust that would give fans of the movie Blade considerable pleasure.
It's time a system of primaries was adopted to democratise the selection of candidates in Australia. There could be many variations on the system the Americans have, which is not perfect but the simple principle ought to be that Labor supporters in an area should be able to choose the Labor candidate. In the context of these political parties receiving tens of millions of dollars of public money, there can be no more excuse to leave candidate selection in the private hands of bizarre rotten boroughs of local party branches.
This would require legislation. And would of course cost taxpayers money to run it. But it would be a small price to pay for real democracy.
CORANGAMITE FARCE
Consider the situation in Corangamite. Where Peter McMullin a popular local former Mayor, accomplished lawyer and philanthropist, the only candidate who actually lives in the seat, a person willing to fund and run his own marginal seat campaign against an old-timer who could be vulnerable against the right campaign if (and it's a big if) the swing is on, may well have been defeated.
And if he does not prevail he will be beaten by a young man who lives many miles from the Colac based electorate in Ballarat, Darren Cheeseman. The lad from the Socialist Left probably means well but he is a leftist Community and Public Sector Union official with little in common with the people of Corangamite. His planned public response to questions about how he could campaign credibly for a seat so far from his home was "that he would bunk in with mates in Colac for a coupla weeks." It's not good enough. The Cheeseman wouldn't win a primary, it wouldn't even be close, he wouldn't even nominate is the truth of it. He wouldn't dare.
But in the ALP of rotten boroughs and sometimes tricky factional dealings, who dares wins. And if the Cheeseman wins a ballot tainted by dodgy and ineligible votes, corrupted by a smear campaign from soon to be retired Rat aspirant Gavan O'Connor and embittered shrew Elaine Carbines, then he will wear his prize like a tattered crown of thorns shoved on his head by those whose idea of democracy is a tiny gathering of gimps, social cripples, oldies, Marxists, buffoons, Kim Carr butt-kissers, leftards, bludgers, losers, freaks and pedants slithering into a local pub to select the most odious revolutionary de jour to fly their Red Flag of Irrelevance for all to see.
So it is written.
Game on.
DECEIT: Socialist Left Rule-Breaking Exposed at ALP Meeting of Public Office Selection Committee
As the nation waits for a decision on who shall pony up as the ALP candidate for seats they won't win, the OC can exclusively reveal that the Socialist Left have been busted in a shameful vote rort on the ALP's Public Office Selection Committee.
Labor Unity masterminds identified the scam during the POSC meeting and demanded that the vote of POSC member Socialist Leftist Lee Talarmis not be counted because he also served on the Administrative Committee, something expressly forbidden under ALP Rules.
The Socialist Left's Andrew Giles attempted to defend the illegal vote scam, in a squeaky shaking high-pitched nervous voice. One observer said he had the same demeanour as a busted teenage shop-lifter (Michael Bachelard).
Giles rival for Melbourne federal seat preselection Peter van Vliet looked on contemptuously, hoping that Giles would be in all sorts of bother. Chief Returning Officer John Halloran seemed appalled that anyone would attempt to breach such a well known rule, which attempts to distribute power throughout the ALP away from a select group.
It is an appalling situation. Talarmis is reportedly bemused that his faction secretary Andrew Giles would put him in such a pickle. (He normally declines the offer of pickles on his double Big Macs)
The supposed lawyer Andrew Giles advanced the argument that Talarmis had proxied his vote and therefore the rule did not apply.
Of course, you don't have to be Justice Callinan to know that one cannot delegate a power one does not have.
We can presume that either Andrew Giles knew this and corruptly made the argument anyway knowing it to be false or slept through his administrative law lectures.
Others point to the involvement of former state Chief Returning Officer Tony "Phoney" Lang who appears to have counted the ballots some time ago that facilitated the Socialist Left POSC vote scam. He is also a lawyer and a person who describes himself as a "pedant". No one disputes this because it is considered by normal folks as an insult or in many cases folks assume he means "pissant". Both are true and yet it seems very odd that a chap with such an eye for detail would allow such an irregularity to occur.
The vote in question clearly has the effect of corrupting last night's POSC ballot, a farcical situation which could only be corrected through a new poll, untainted by the stench of Socialist Left corruption and malfeasance.
Game on.
Monday, 26 February 2007
RESULTS: Moderates Triumph in Victoria ALP Marginal Seat Preselections
Patriot Greg Pargeter (pictured right) has kicked serious butt in the ALP's internal pre-selections in La Trobe, defeating Alan Griffin's hand maiden lamentable Socialist Left Anne Eckstein (slagged here previously) by a convincing 53% 2PP margin. Moderates have a majority in the central Public Office Selection Committee so this means that the firefighter's representative is looking good.
Labor Unity member Peter Lynch won handily (67%) in Deakin against NUWer Sharon Ellis. And other moderate candidates Peter McMullin in Corangamite, Bob "Hey, Ibne" Mitchell in McEwen and Christine Maxfield in McMillan appear to have done well but these will not be counted til tomorrow.
Game on.
CAN YOU HEAR THE (LITTLE) PEOPLE SING? Mrs Sophie Mirabella Triumphs // Now Able To Launch Investigation Into AEC
The OC can exclusively reveal that the Member for Indi and inspiration to millions, Mrs Sophie Mirabella has been elected the Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters of the Australian Parliament.
This triumph gives Mrs Mirabella every chance to even the score with faceless and meddling Australian Electoral Commission bureaucrats currently probing the parliamentarian for allegations (already certified as false by the OC) of money laundering, corruption and electoral malfeasance over the activities of the group Friends of Indi.
This move confirms the fact that Sophie is poised for further and rapid promotion by her Party colleagues. In the event that the Prime Minister is toppled by Mad Max McKew in the seat of Bennelong, Mrs Mirabella stands on guard and is ready to serve, strong enough to lead, wise enough to know and beautiful enough to inspire her nation to glory and greatness.
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Game on.
UPDATE:
The envious are continuing in their attacks on Mrs Mirabella even after her elevation to the Parliamentary chairmanship.
Labor demands MP explain tobacco money
February 26, 2007 - 11:04PM
The Labor Party is demanding Victorian Liberal Sophie Mirabella explain a $15,000 donation she received from a tobacco company.
Earlier this month, AAP revealed (OC: Quite true, that impertinent Nick Lenaghan was responsible and will be held to account) Mrs Mirabella had been linked to a secret supporters' fund which raised tens of thousands of dollars that was not declared to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). (OC: Yeah, yeah woteva)
None of the cash - which includes a hefty $15,000 handout from tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) - was disclosed on party returns to the AEC. (OC: Yes because it went to Friends of Indi, an independent thinktank of concerned local citizens)
Nor did the group disclose its funds separately as an "associated entity" of the Liberal Party. (OC: The nit-picking continues)
In parliament on Monday, Labor MP Brendan O'Connor (OC: a known former union official) called on Mrs Mirabella to explain herself.
"This is an outrageous abuse of the laws that are currently in place and it should be investigated by the government," he said.
"Her ducking and weaving on this issue has been reprehensible." (OC: Sophie ducks for no man. Nor woman. Weaving though is a perfectly acceptable home hobby for many Australian housewives.)
Mr O'Connor said records showed that the donation was sent directly to Mrs Mirabella's office and she must explain. (OC: The Big Brother state knows everything, have these people not heard of privacy?)
"It's clear the member for Indi has a case to answer and her silence has been telling. (OC: Sophie has not been silent and the Friends of Indi has even burst into song in her defence so what's Comrade O'Connor going on about?)
"She is not known for her timidity generally, but she has been very timid to date indeed when it comes to explaining her role in this affair." (OC: Sophie won't be intimidated by these cheap attempts to find out her secret and brilliant campaign fundraising techniques)
Mr O'Connor said Mrs Mirabella has a number of things to explain, including how she spent the money, who were her other donors and if the donors what favours they gained through her. (OC: Has he not got better things to worry about like finding a better quality flatmate?)
"And finally, we don't know but we can guess, why has the member for Indi been so reluctant to come into this chamber and explain herself?" Mr O'Connor asked. (OC: Sophie is busy representing the people of her community through impassioned advocacy and reasoned stances on policy)
But Mrs Mirabella later said she had done nothing wrong and had nothing to explain. (OC: Amen)
"Late disclosure by associated entities is not uncommon as evidenced by the $160,000 of undeclared donations to the ALP," she told AAP. (OC: Yes, and there is the issue of why the Friends of Indi which obtains no public money is required under Keating's socialist electoral laws to tell bureaucrats every damn thing)
Mrs Mirabella said Mr O'Connor's claims were just regurgitated from old media reports. (OC: From the left-wing press no doubt)
But she was reluctant to say where the $15,000 had been spent. (OC: Is this the Spanish Inquisition? Where do these people get off?)
"Just like all other associated entities of political parties it gets spent like all other associated political parties spend it," Mrs Mirabella said. (OC: Surely this explanation clarifies the matter and will stop further unpleasant queries which only serve to waste taxpayer funds and boost the power of the Australian Electoral Commission, a rapacious bureaucracy of cardigan wearers and vote counters)
"The associated entity `Friends of Indi' have spent it according to the aims and objectives of that organisation." (OC: Exactly, build a bridge and get over it.)
MONDAY LEFTOVERS: The Fine Feasting Continues As We Examine The Life and Slimes of Labor Socialist Multi-Millionaire Hypocrite Land Baron Mike Hill
Mike Hill has used power in the left of the Labor Party to make himself filthy rich.
According to yesterday's Sunday Herald Sun the Hill-ionaire will gross $15 million in a sleazy property deal, where he opportunistically swooped on a former primary school site cheap after directing his Moreland council to sabotage the auction of the publicly owned site. Council officers - on his orders - refused to talk to rival developers about the site and Hill forced through the Council many thousands of dollars of funding to local protest groups that loudly opposed the sale, any private development on the site and conducted a noisy demonstration at the auction itself, making it a disaster for taxpayers. Click here for more on this shameful and corrupt abuse of power.
The local rabble-rouser who seized control of the Brunswick and then Moreland City Council and painted the town red with its radical leftist policies and Socialist sympathies has milked that position of power ruthlessly for his own personal profit and advancement. He has been a crucial power-broker behind neo-Marxoids like ex MP Glenyys Romanes, Carlo Carli and Health Minister Bronwyn Pike getting into Parliament.
His taste for the expensive imported beer Becks is seen by angered locals as a powerful symbol of his wallowing affluent lifestyle of effluence.
The above map taken from Moreland council documents relating to Mike Hill-ionaire's high density housing development shows that the one-time local councillor and activist is now - to use the ipolite language of one disgusted local - "shi*ting in his own nest."
Mike Hill's name is first on the list of those demanding government appointments, especially anything related to the environment and that pays. The OC believes he makes many tens of thousands of dollars a year from government appointments.
THE PITS
Even his de facto wife former Melbourne and Moreland councillor Lorna Pitt has cashed in.
Dubbed "Alice in Wonderland" by Council bureaucrats because the space cadet would start every sentence with the words "I wonder if...", Pitt "worked" at the Environmental Protection Authority for years and set new records in absenteeism, sloth and tardiness.
Her absences became a mini-scandal within the government agency with Pitt refusing to supply medical certificates until she was eventually left as her "Westwyck" property development grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise.
It wasn't always that way.
NUDITY MARS CAMPAIGN CELEBRATION
In Westwyck's early days, it was very rough and ready indeed according to one very well placed source. He told the OC Investigations Unit yesterday that nudity or naturism was once a particularly odd aspect of life at the Westwyck compound.
One night - following Moreland's elections - local MPs Carlo Carli and Kelvin Thomson were invited to share in the celebration of continued Socialist Left control of the red municipality. Neither lefty Carlo or Labor Unity Kelvin knew where to look when it became obvious that several of the guests were expressing their joy at winning the poll by fully disrobing.
This was no convention of male and female supermodels so no doubt the night of dangling bits and floppiness left a searing impression on the minds of the socially conservative MPs.
JUDAS OF WESTWYCK // SOLD OUT LOCALS // SOLD OUT POKIES GROUPS
The sad truth is that for all of Mike Hill's Ben and Jerry socialism, he's a cynical sell-out of the lowest kind. Once a very active denouncer of poker machines and all things gaming, Hill was active in his group Community Action on Pokie Problems (CAPP).
But a source within the anti-polies wing of the former political party People Power has told the OC that Hill's group had a sudden change of approach after Hill was appointed to a couple of paid state government boards. Check out Hill's response to the Liberal plan to cut five thousand poker machines:
"It would be a bit simplistic just to turn off the machines," said Mike Hill, convener of key lobby group Community Action on Pokie Problems.
Indeed he's been quite the trooper since getting paid appointments from John Thwaites, the lamentably bad Environment Minister. Once bought, he stayed bought it seemed.
According to a website run by fellow millionaire hypocrite socialist Evan Thornley, Mike Hill is available to speak to ALP branch meetings throughout Melbourne.
According to the Ego First website Hill is available as a speaker on
Local governments and leadership in ecological sustainable development
Name: Mike Hill
Phone Work: 03 9380 145*
Mobile Phone: 0419 877 70*
Email Address: mike@westwyck.com
Locations: Melbourne
Topic Description: At a time when our national government shows nil or negative leadership on the pressing issue of climate change is it accident that there is a flourishing of activity at the local level? What is happening and who is driving this?
And wait there's more. He's also demanding that the ALP get more involved in local government (presumably fearful Independents might knock back his next planning application). He asks:
Why don't we see a higher level of involvement of political parties in Victoria's local governments? Why don't the party powerbrokers encourage this? What are those myths about 'independence'? This presentation will argue the 'unpopular' case that the ALP needs to play a more direct and overt role at the local and community level if our party is to revive and survive.
While he's talking piously about how the ALP needs to be more in touch with the environment, Mike Hill is building high density apartments. When he's lecturing others about the ALP needs to be more active "at the local and community level" he's shafting local residents who object to him making millions at their expense.
IS THERE A HAND THAT'S FED MIKE HILL HE WON'T BITE?
Although of course his commitment to the ALP didn't survive his interactions with Chris TInkler of the Sunday Herald Sun. He dumped on the party's election campaign, questioning its ad campaign that opposed Ted Baillieu's involvement in selling off old school sites. Few in government circles will forget these bon mots:
Mr Hill added there were a lot of things he did not condone during the campaign. ``I'm a Labor member but it doesn't mean I support everything the party does,'' he said.
The leftist dominated CIty of Moreland has clearly favoured this man in their decisions, while he wallows in sanctimony like the stinkiest, best oiled and fattest of oinking capitalist pigs. We'll be closely reviewing their decisions and the corrupt politics around them in future editions of the OC.
Game on.
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Mammarella's Excellent Adventures
Sinking ship recruit wily leftist Bob Mammarella is very pleased with recent developments out west.
We hear that in multiple Nights of the Long Knives, the one-time crafty Labor Right numbers-man now sneaky Socialist Left Deputy Sherriff of the West has:
■ Caused patriot John Bowles to be expelled from the normally sleepy Sunshine Lions Club. (Click here to see last year's story about the Mamarella Lions takeover) The expulsion move occurred after allegations of financial irregularities were made by Bowles which Club insiders claim he couldn't prove. Any talk that Bob has replaced the Queen's portrait in Club meetings with one of Uncle Joe is pure speculation at this time;
■ Settled with the City of Brimbank in the Westvale Centre fiasco, which has seen the centre return control of the building to the council, with Mammarella forces seemingly still in control of the Centre which is currently negotiating with one of many local KFC franchises over co-location opportunities; and
■ Emerged as a key adviser to the Honourable Khalil Eideh MLC, loyal defender of the Syrian President and other terrorists. Eideh has already started a stacking campaign in the Craigieburn branch and is looking to spread his influence like across western and north-western suburban ALP branches.
Some speculate that he is planning to soon move on the Member for Melton Don Nardella and replace the Pledge Left MP whose property portfolio is so extensive that locals have started referring to him as Lord Donald of Kurranjang. Appropriately feudal, Sherriff Mammarella is hoping to install handsome Crown Prince Justin Mammarella, computer games buff and long-time SL apprentice.
It's enough to make patriots recall the words of long-time Mammarella stooge Les Tarcson:
LES TARCSON: Candidates who have been put in because of stacking aren't good candidates, aren't good parliamentarians, they're puppets perhaps to a faction.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Game on.
