tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post6851613175417875981..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: Top Council employee moon-lightingMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-53485699234514010602009-08-02T07:14:25.785+10:002009-08-02T07:14:25.785+10:00I agree John, about the "tip of the Iceburg&q...I agree John, about the "tip of the Iceburg". With the emergence of the information with regard to "Lobbyists" and "Success Fees", my over active imagination is working overtime, but it puts "Council working with Developers" into a whole new contextJude Johnstonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-8558503597150702942009-08-01T23:49:21.445+10:002009-08-01T23:49:21.445+10:00But these scandals, presumably here in Cairns, unf...But these scandals, presumably here in Cairns, unfortunately are just the tip of the iceberg. The arrogance of certain CRC employees, the actions of certain elected councillors is something that I am sure is being repeated all over Queensland and the rest of the country. It is a shame that the community's trust in politicians has been so damaged when there are good people out there who want to serve the community.John, Kurandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-55846375394831551782009-07-31T08:18:54.918+10:002009-07-31T08:18:54.918+10:00I saw Blakey the other day and he is looking decid...I saw Blakey the other day and he is looking decidedly old. His hair no longer hides the bald spots and I don't think he has been able to scam any clothes from Victor Mellick and they look more like KMart 2 for 1's. Maybe it's all those late nights looking after Kerie in her sick bed tending to her medicinal needs and reading her late night stories to sooth her troubled brow. At least the Blackberry charges will be much lower now he can legitimately spend more time with Kerie.Thornton On Spencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-41710583745193689722009-07-31T00:10:26.478+10:002009-07-31T00:10:26.478+10:00If ever you need proof that snakey Blakie and his ...If ever you need proof that snakey Blakie and his ester while read the blog, is the admission when pressed and exposed that Kerrie is well enough to work but only on a 'voluntary' basis.<br /><br />Thanks to Cairns Blog for exposing yet again duplicity on the part of Kerrie. Well, what do you expect when you sleep close to the devil(Blake) you end up doing and looking like him.Veritasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-40090778561107103402009-07-30T22:23:58.080+10:002009-07-30T22:23:58.080+10:00Folks,
This seems to have digressed from the orig...Folks,<br /><br />This seems to have digressed from the original theme of this thread, maybe you can take it to the "Open Debate" forumQuien Sabenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-70478937791256328772009-07-30T20:15:26.519+10:002009-07-30T20:15:26.519+10:00The "intervention" exercise was yet anot...The "intervention" exercise was yet another disgusting and shameful abuse perpetrated against the aboriginal peoples. I have been undertaking research lately into how the Queensland Government treated its aboriginal lepers and have been revolted by the cruelty dealt to them. Reading through the accounts, all I could think was, "We (whites) haven't changed much in our attitudes..".Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-5519442538162604142009-07-30T14:12:33.276+10:002009-07-30T14:12:33.276+10:00Thanks for the reminder Alison. Mal Brough's f...Thanks for the reminder Alison. Mal Brough's famous pre-2007 election 'let's wedge the lefties' 'send in the troops' 'only the Feds can get the paedophiles!' Northern Territory Intervention (ably assisted by the likes of Noel Pearson). <br /><br />Here's what Chris Watson of The National Indigenous Times had to say about that:<br /><br /><i>Brough and the media can wheel out the Warren Mundines and Noel Pearsons of Aboriginal Australia all they like and claim overwhelming support for the intervention and Mal Brough personally. But it doesn’t change the reality that to the vast majority of Indigenous Australians, and their non Indigenous supporters, Brough is considered a joke. And a bad one at that.</i><br /><br />That was back in 2008. Was he right? It seems so, according to this recent report in The Age: <b><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/pedophile-ring-claims-unfounded-20090704-d8h9.html?skin=text-only" rel="nofollow">Pedophile ring claims unfounded</a></b><br /><br /><i>AN INVESTIGATION by Australia's main crime-fighting agency has found no evidence of organised pedophilia in Northern Territory indigenous communities.<br /><br />The finding by the Australian Crime Commission demolishes one of the central claims used by the Howard government to support its controversial NT intervention.<br /><br />In the now-discredited claims that underlined his push for the 2007 intervention, then-indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough, along with some commentators, claimed there were "pedophile rings" in the Northern Territory.<br /><br />But in an interview with The Sunday Age, crime commission chief John Lawler said his agency's 18-month multimillion-dollar investigation had determined there was "not organised pedophilia in indigenous communities".<br /><br />The commission was directed by the Howard government in 2007 to use its special powers — given to the agency in 2003 to fight organised crime such as drug trafficking and money laundering — to investigate child abuse in the territory.<br /><br />Among the crime commission's powers is the ability to force people to answer questions in secret coercive hearings or risk being sent to prison.<br /><br />"One of the early questions that was being asked (at the beginning of the intervention) was: 'Was there organised pedophilia targeting indigenous communities and children?' " Mr Lawler said.<br /><br />"One of the things that the (crime commission) report has been able to find and report on is that that does not seem to be the case," he said...</i>Syd Walkerhttp://sydwalker.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-74023957225936697512009-07-30T13:35:10.435+10:002009-07-30T13:35:10.435+10:00I'm glad Syd raised the issue of "Federal...I'm glad Syd raised the issue of "Federal Intervention in the Northern Territory." The last report I read quoted Doctors who did the exminations of children and their findings were that they did not discover any more children who had been sexually abused, than were already known.Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-74598185471629467372009-07-30T13:33:15.527+10:002009-07-30T13:33:15.527+10:00Bryan
Same old FUD (but who expects anything else...Bryan<br /><br />Same old FUD (but who expects anything else from you?)<br /><br />1/ No response on the specific point about the obvious, blatant discrepancy between Gerhard Pearson's pre-election letter about the Wild Rivers' Legislation and Noel Pearson's post election indignant bluster (but why bother deal with an 'inconvenient truth' when you can dishonestly ignore it?)<br /><br />2/ No response re: the outrageous ongoing brutality of a nuclear-armed tribal supremacist State in the Middle eEast (which actively collaborated, BTW, with Apartheid South Africa's nuclear weapons program in the 1970s and 80s).<br /><br />You call yourself a Christian Bryan. I think it's arguable Jesus would have agreed. Saint Paul most certainly would have had severe doubts:<br /><br /><i>"in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile..."</i><br /><br />I find your apparent willingness to condone the Israeli State's 60+ year occupation reprehensible beyond words. You strike me as the kind of 'peace activist' that Jesus doubtless pissed off severely when he drove money changers out of the temple.<br /><br />You have a seemingly infinite capacity to rationalize the most despicable one-sided brutality.<br /><br />As you apparently won't listen to me - preferring glib put-downs and other evasions - try Oliver Cromwell instead. His appeal was less directed at the rational faculties:<br /><br /><b>"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"</b>Syd Walkerhttp://sydwalker.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-84408019239124744262009-07-30T13:09:00.745+10:002009-07-30T13:09:00.745+10:00These posts by bryan lawless and syd the jew hater...These posts by bryan lawless and syd the jew hater are funny ,<br />one who thinks he makes a difference and one who posts on this blog because all sane australians don,t read his jew hating blog , pretty funny really .<br /> We live in the best country in the world , but it is marred by people like the above two who most cairns people think are fruitloops.America is welcome in cairnsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-13232674557699905012009-07-30T12:56:34.794+10:002009-07-30T12:56:34.794+10:00You can rest assured Syd - I won’t be writing an a...You can rest assured Syd - I won’t be writing an anti-Green column for the Australian. Some state Greens Parties work really well and build success upon success. Tasmania, Western Australia, NSW and South Australia come to mind. But the conservative, white, middle aged and middle class school prefects that now control the Queensland Greens – well them I could think about doing some adverse publicity about in a strategic moment. Probably during a Senate election.<br /><br />And as for Denis and John and the local branch of Far North Greens – well them I’m considering doing an art project for:<br /><br />“Are Greens better or worse than Nazis?”<br /><br />On the better side we could put; <br />1.The Nazis used hydro-carbons to run their ovens. Greens will use Solar Thermal energy.<br />2. The Greens are not as well organised as the Nazis.<br />3. The Greens put women in charge of Party Policy.<br /><br />On the worse side we could put;<br />1. Nazis have been mostly dormant for 60 years. Greens are here now.<br />2. Nazis had better fashion designers.<br />3. Nazis were never boring.<br /><br />Feedback welcome on Art project.Bryan Lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-71657723378979097792009-07-30T12:53:45.274+10:002009-07-30T12:53:45.274+10:00Dear Syd, how dare you call me useful! As for “Pe...Dear Syd, how dare you call me useful! As for “Peace Activist”, you should update that term to the current “Christian Nonviolence Activist”. I like to have a real world effect. That’s why we stopped the live-firing and hindered the war-games during Talisman sabre 09. We are now thinking about 2011.<br /><br />What puts me off about your obsession with Middle East politics just serves as a distraction from the real area in the world where can have the most effect. Here in Australia. Stopping Australian participation in war, war crimes, genocide, extortion and the arms trade. Now.<br /><br />Stopping our support of the US military Industrial complex which, among other things, helps arm the Israel you complain about. In addressing Australian militarism, I have both short and long-term goals. Disrupting Talisman-Sabre is the short-term. For the longer term Australian foreign policy must develop four legs “We disarm”, “We help others disarm”, “We be good neighbours”, “We practice powerful nonviolent justice”.<br /><br />Your conspiracy theories about the “Zionists”strike me as a fanciful way to distract attention from real issues. Your statements about Noel Pearson are equally ludicrous. You are just broadcasting your ignorance and complicating a debate that really ought be pretty easy to have.<br /><br />Greens need to listen to and respect Aboriginal leadership. When I was active in the field on Cape York there was a good supply of Aboriginal leadership whose chief obstacle was that the controllers of government resources (i) didn’t listen to Aboriginal thinking and (ii) couldn’t find their own backside in broad daylight, even with a map and a friend.<br /><br />When Greens do deals with governments against the wishes of Aborigines, well, I think that’s just colonial and fucked.Bryan Lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-12050646013757747762009-07-30T12:14:27.471+10:002009-07-30T12:14:27.471+10:00Nick, no, I didn't think you were being seriou...Nick, no, I didn't think you were being serious. I thought you were being downright silly. If it's any consolation, I thought Bryan's remark was even more silly - and my reply was written primarily with him in mind.<br /><br />Israeli tanks are <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=124962&d=29&m=7&y=2009" rel="nofollow">marauding through Gaza AGAIN</a>, this time mainly to raze agricultural land, even as we prattle on here... <br /><br />Does 'peace activist' Bryan Law have anything to say about it? (This will probably start him scampering around for reasons to blame the Palestinians in equal measure, so he can faithfully maintain his 'balanced view'). <br /><br />Does Bryan protest the 62 year occupation? Does he even acknowledge how all those Palestinians came to be crowded into Gaza in the first place (many were driven off their land, out of other parts of Palestine, in a murderous rampage by the likes of much-feted so-called 'Holocaust survivors' such as Frank Lowy and Elie Wiesel).<br /><br />Does Bryan ever use the term 'Zionism' (the ideology that gave birth to a Jewish Apartheid State in Palestine), except to make light of my views or for some equally trivial purpose?<br /><br />Not that I've noticed. <br /><br />Bryan revels in the theatrics of being a 'peace activist', but prefers to leave his brain at the door when it comes to analyzing the <a href="http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lrb.co.uk%2Fv28%2Fn06%2Fmear01_.html&ei=fAFxSqezM4qqswOMiLHNCA&usg=AFQjCNHD_X-0_o5lL6W_XgUqHdHrFkcXCg&sig2=ldQFFZTowN0mLHTVL9Dk7Q" rel="nofollow">principal drivers</a> of contemporary wars. All up, he's a useful idiot who plays a useful theatrical role for the warmongers. I can sympathize. I used to be one too.<br /><br />If that's too 'heavy' Nick, I suggest you try refining your quips - or target them at someone less inclined to respond.Syd Walkerhttp://sydwalker.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-71079200046805682392009-07-30T11:00:25.535+10:002009-07-30T11:00:25.535+10:00Syd Walker said...
"Nick and Bryan
Delibera...Syd Walker said...<br /><br />"Nick and Bryan<br /><br />Deliberate misrepresentation is the first resort of scoundrels and I'm disappointed in the intellectual dishonesty of both of you in this instance.<br />I did not makes the claims you 'put in my mouth'."<br /><br />Lighten up Syd, you did not think I was being serious did you...? I would not make light of serious issues on your own blog, but certainly on the cairns Blog we should be allowed to poke fun at each other sometimes ?? And i don't mind being called a scoundrel, it is a great improvement on being called a Zionist.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217897938804789667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-23448979465244138212009-07-30T10:26:57.271+10:002009-07-30T10:26:57.271+10:00And while were looking at the Noel Pearson Wild Ri...And while were looking at the Noel Pearson Wild Rivers issue once again, I wonder if an explanation has been forthcoming yet regarding the discrepancy between Noel Pearson's apparent outrage over the legislation and his brother Gerhard's <b>written endorsement</b> of that legislation prior to the last State election?<br /><br />This was noted in an (unusual) Australian article on the subject on May 25th - see <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25532525-5013404,00.html" rel="nofollow">Pearson Brothers face off over Cape York</a>.<br /><br />Any explanation for this Noel or Gerhard? Can you explain how conservation groups could have been expected to know the Gerhard Pearson letter did not reflect an authentic collective view at the time?<br /><br />Perhaps you, Bryan, as Noel Pearson's self-appointed apologist in Cairns could give us an explanation, if Noel is too busy.<br /><br />Or is Kerry Hull's job these days?Syd Walkerhttp://sydwalker.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-40898773352879660492009-07-30T10:07:09.720+10:002009-07-30T10:07:09.720+10:00Here's more from the Crikey posting, written a...Here's more from the Crikey posting, written a few months ago, by Chris Graham, Editor of The National Indigenous Times:<br /><br /><i>The Australian reports: “Mr Pearson said the wild rivers legislation took from the traditional owners of Cape York the right to develop and manage any protective regimes that affected their land and livelihood.”<br /><br />There is, of course, a great deal more to the issue than News extremelyLimited has reported.<br /><br />The legislation, enacted in 2005, allows for rivers with high conservation values to be declared “wild”. In crude terms, one kilometre each side of the bank is “highly protected”, and the broader basin that feeds the river is also “less highly protected”.<br /><br />Contrary to claims, the legislation does not prevent economic development in gazetted areas. Grazing, fishing, eco-tourism, even mining, can all occur, albeit under strict environmental guidelines. Hardly a bad thing. Unless you’re anti-green.<br /><br />I don’t think Pearson is. What seems to have most outraged Him is that his organisation — Balkanu — submitted a report to government opposing the wild rivers declarations. Pearson was even funded by Labor to do the report (some $60,000). But the government went ahead with it anyway.<br /><br />Now, Pearson and The Australian — without any apparent proof — are claiming that the Bligh government stitched up a deal with the Wilderness Society prior to the election that would see the areas locked up, in exchange for Greens’ preferences.<br /><br />Historically, the majority of Aboriginal people fall squarely on the side of preservation. That doesn’t mean they oppose economic development, but most want it done sensibly and the wild rivers legislation seeks to do that. Whatever the actual numbers, I have some sympathy for the theory that governments don’t properly consult with Aboriginal people, and that political deals get done without reference to Aboriginal aspirations. But I have no sympathy — and nor do the overwhelming majority of my colleagues in Indigenous affairs — for Pearson, or The Oz. Particularly not when they spouts rubbish like this.<br /><br />Expect The Australian to die in a ditch on this issue; they’ll back Pearson to the hilt, and based on past experience, the facts will be the first casualty, followed by ever increasing levels of shrieking and bleating.<br /><br />In the meantime, I intend to watch Noel “go back to the barricades”. I’ll be there too, Noel. You’ll recognise me as the white guy standing off to the side, counting the Aboriginal leaders (on one hand) who fall in behind you.</i>Syd Walkerhttp://sydwalker.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-44024475790575983542009-07-30T09:58:57.655+10:002009-07-30T09:58:57.655+10:00Nick and Bryan
Deliberate misrepresentation is th...Nick and Bryan<br /><br />Deliberate misrepresentation is the first resort of scoundrels and I'm disappointed in the intellectual dishonesty of both of you in this instance.<br /><br />I did not makes the claims you 'put in my mouth'.<br /><br />I did say - and repeat - that there's an agenda underway to create a quite unnecessary schism between blacks and greens based on the promotion of essentially dishonest arguments. That loose alliance - where it has flourished - has always been a great irritant to the mining industry, for rather obvious reasons.<br /><br />You, Bryan, in all your generosity of spirit, are playing a minor role in that project (IMO). If you weren't so suss on other issues (such as US warship visits), you might well get yourself a column in the Australian from time to time. I'm sure if you sent them an article hoeing into the Greens they'd publish it with some glee (why not give it a go?)<br /><br />Does that mean you're an 'agent' or 'conscious stooge' of foreign powers or big business'? Nope. That doesn't follow. A more simple explanation is that you're just what's known in the trade as a 'useful idiot'.<br /><br />Noel Pearson, I think, can give his own explanation for his behaviour, should he care to share it with us. He's very articulate, after all.<br /><br />If he ever showed up in a public debating forum such as this, I'd like to ask him a few questions. For instance, does he still believe that anyone who opposed the Northern Territory intervention supported 'child abuse'? <br /><br />Here's a short quote from Chris Graham, editor of the National Indigenous Times, <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/08/crikey-counterpoint-noel-pearsons-resignation/" rel="nofollow">published in Crikey</a> a few months ago. The whole page (which includes some pro-Pearson commentary) is well worth reading, in my opinion:<br /><br /><i>He [Noel Pearson] was the only Aboriginal person ‘consulted’ by the Howard government prior to the intervention being announced. But in case you’ve missed it, Pearson doesn’t live in the Northern Territory. He never has. Probably never will. But he supported the legislation regardless, even though Brough did not consult with a single affected stakeholder.<br /><br />Altogether, Pearson has said some decidedly silly things in the past week, and The Australian has been only too keen to print them, and without a hint of irony.<br /><br />...here’s another silly Pearson-ism from yesterday: “We have been forced by government to a real juncture where serious consideration has to be given to whether we have to go back to the barricades.”<br /><br />I presume Noel’s using “we” in the royal sense. Because after nearly a decade of supporting the Howard government in numerous black rights abuses, he’s about as popular as pork at a bah mitzvah.</i>Syd Walkerhttp://sydwalker.info/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-60518864662904605992009-07-30T09:17:09.277+10:002009-07-30T09:17:09.277+10:00Bryan,
Not only is Noel Pearson in collusion with...Bryan,<br /><br />Not only is Noel Pearson in collusion with the sinister Australia-Israel lobby to take over Cape York and populate it with wild Rabbis, his grandfather was part of a Zionist-Aboriginal conspiracy to kill the Kennedy brothers.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217897938804789667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-65421087820458125392009-07-30T08:50:11.229+10:002009-07-30T08:50:11.229+10:00I wonder if CBD Warrior sat at his Computer Screen...I wonder if CBD Warrior sat at his Computer Screen flexing his muscles in that fetching little Singlet and Tight Shorts combo his hero Alan Blake wears. Back to the Esplanade CBD to talk to your Electorate. Your time is much better spent there than it is making comments on this Blog. As a reminder those pretty young girls often topless are not your Electorate. They are Backpackers.Thornton On Spencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-50156288328462858522009-07-30T08:41:26.535+10:002009-07-30T08:41:26.535+10:00Kerie is on unpaid leave working as a volunteer on...Kerie is on unpaid leave working as a volunteer on indigenous issues.Cairns Post page 9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-6628887606631619062009-07-30T06:18:45.503+10:002009-07-30T06:18:45.503+10:00Sigh, Hobnobit, your post was deleted because it w...Sigh, Hobnobit, your post was deleted because it was "anonymous". When you next post a comment, look above the comment box and you will see a message under LEAVE YOUR COMMENT. It explains the rules. How many times do ya have to be told!Jude Johnstonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-30675740653412724662009-07-30T00:50:14.741+10:002009-07-30T00:50:14.741+10:00Hobnobit - use your real name, you coward.
and a ...Hobnobit - use your real name, you coward.<br /><br />and a blog administrator can delete any comments he/she wants to. It's their Blog. And while you're around the mirror, have a look at the meaning of the word Gossip - you half-educated dill.DCB Worriernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-18575173836609560252009-07-29T22:41:44.529+10:002009-07-29T22:41:44.529+10:00mike,
why are you deleting my comments?
as i said:...mike,<br />why are you deleting my comments?<br />as i said: your gossip is unbecoming, it's easy to sound off from the extra inches of your doc martens. think more carefully about what you post.hobnobitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-28427983538741220302009-07-29T22:31:54.568+10:002009-07-29T22:31:54.568+10:00I know what job I want at CRC, and it isn't Ke...I know what job I want at CRC, and it isn't Kezza's. I want Val's job!<br /><br />And I'm thinking about running for it again in 2012. I'd love to have a good old-fashioned robust debate with our "Green" Mayor.<br /><br />Meanwhile I'm just Soooo WITH Syd Walker about Noel Pearson. Not only is Noel a pretend Blackfella with a malevolent agenda, I hear he's a secret Jew. In the same secret Jewish conspiracy as Rupert (Soloman) Murdoch.<br /><br />You can tell because the Kabalistic value of "Murdoch and Pearson screw the greens" is 143, the precise number of public bathrooms in central Sydney. These aren't just coincidences you know.Bryan Lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-32417986839596369452009-07-29T21:50:14.645+10:002009-07-29T21:50:14.645+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com