by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
In 2015 Gumshoe Editor Dee McLachlan and myself published Port Arthur: Enough Is Enough (free download here). That book is held by the Australian National Library and three state libraries. One of those states is Tasmania, despite the message of the book being anathema to the government of that state.
As with JFK assassination, 9-11, and the Lindt Cafe siege, the original cover story survives in the mass media despite all evidence to the contrary. This is Wikipedia’s “history” of the day Martin Bryant, age 28, was set up for the event:
“The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a mass shooting in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The murderer, Martin Bryant, pleaded guilty and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole. Fundamental changes of gun control laws within Australia followed the incident.”
So what needs to be done:
An investigation can be organized by Tasmania’s parliament. The word “inquest” should be avoided, perhaps, as there was legislation shortly before the 1996 massacre that seemed to make it impossible for a coroner to produce a report that may be in conflict with a person’s conviction.
As the late Wendy Scurr often pointed out, however, there could still be an inquest into the deaths of some staff members who died that day in the Port Arthur gift shop, as their deaths can be blamed on a broken door.
An investigation can be made into the misreporting of facts, such as the claim that 21 guns were hidden in a piano at Martin Bryan’s house. An absurd statement.
An investigation can be made into the odd fact that the most appropriate overseer of the hostage aspect of the case, Special Operations Group leader Mick Dyson, was nowhere in sight on that day, April 28. This has led to much speculation that Mick was the ‘Rick’ referred to, inside Seascape Cottage.
Currently, according to “Linked-in” Mr Dyson is having a second career in retirement, connected to security in wildlife. He works for World Wildlife Fund in Myanmar.
“Following a decorated 40-year career in public law enforcement and private security, I am now an international consultant specializing in law enforcement and crime response management. I spend my time researching, analyzing and providing insights on … prosecution strategies.
“I continue to spend my life learning about what motivates criminals and what it takes to manage persistent crime problems, so I can share those secrets with agencies that are ready to take crime management to the next level.”
Wow. If there can be “crime management: better than that which occurred on that famous day, I’d like to see it.
I also suggest again that the ABC be investigated for inciting violence against Bryant in Risdon Prison. Quoting a Gumshoe article of June 16, 2016:
“In 1997, after Bryant’s conviction, an ABC reporter, Ginny Stein, stood in the halls of Risdon Prison, speaking to several officials, including a doctor, about Bryant’s habits and attitudes. She wondered aloud if the prisoner should be rehabilitated or ‘left to rot.’
“I consider that nasty but not criminal. However she talked — over and over — about the possibility of his being killed in the yards. The entire transcript of that ABC Background Briefing radio show is still available on the Internet. I do not see how it can be read as anything other than an invitation – a guide almost – for someone to “do the needful’.”
I have also recommended indictment of persons who obstructed justice, which is a felony. It is too late to blame TV interviewer Mike Willessee who died on March 1, 2019, but his interviewee John Avery – the “defense” attorney for Bryant — must have been lying when he said the following:
MIKE WILLESEE: You’ve written that when he … finally told you the truth about what he’d done, he was thrilled.
JOHN AVERY: Yeah. Um…I… asked him whether there was any… excitement. He evidenced to me that it was as thrilling as driving a car at high speed or a speedboat. So, there was … that aspect of thrill seeking that he appears to have achieved….
MIKE WILLESEE: So, there’s a constant theme here of Bryant wanting notoriety.
JOHN AVERY: Notoriety and, uh…..ringmaster in the circus…
[Odd that Martin would be saying these things while pleading not guilty. That was his plea from the time of arrest up until October when, by Avery’s own report to the Hobart Mercury, Avery had to badger him into making a guilty plea.]
MIKE WILLESEE: So the overall idea of prison didn’t deter him or frighten him at all? He just wanted to be with the big boys?
JOHN AVERY: I think he thought he’d be lauded by them.
MIKE WILLESEE: Did he express any views about wanting to kill more people?
JOHN AVERY: Yeah, regrettably, he did…on a few occasions….
If I remember correctly, Australia’s now-defunct magazine, The Bulletin, unethically ran, in 2006 the transcript of two prison interviews between lawyer and client. Those did not contain any such “dreams” by Martin.
Another person who still needs to be held accountable is Andre Fogarty, member of a police family in Tassie, who is believed to have called the fire truck to be on duty at Seascape long before there was any reason to believe a fire would break out.
One constable, Pat Allen, did come forth to a radio station in 2016, for the 20th anniversary of the massacre, reporting some shenanigans to which he was a witness, but this was not followed up.
I urge anyone with knowledge of the case to speak up. The birthday boy is in his 24th year of incarceration. Enough is enough. The one attorney general who may have been planning to reopen his case. Ms Vanessa Goodwin, died at age 48 on March 3, 2018.
Instead of solicitors, maybe what we need is more rap artists. Here is the excellent rap-up of the case by Greeley, which he dedicates to Wendy Scurr. It begins and ends with Wendy’s speech at Inverness.
As anyone who attended my Moot Court Trial for Martin Bryant (at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe) knows, The DPP, Damian Bugg, sent Mrs Scurr a letter saying he would not be calling her at any potential trial for Bryant – despite her having been on site – the Port Arthur Historic Site, at the time of the massacre.
I note that, in 2005, in a different matter –– How the Commonwealth Prosecution Policy is applied to Criminal Charges brought under the Corporations Act 2001 – Damian Bugg gave the following answer to a question:
Under what circumstances, if any, the DPP would be prepared to rely on the evidence of potentially hostile witnesses?
The DPP has a duty to call all witnesses who are credible and can give relevant evidence. This is the case even though the witness’s evidence may not assist the prosecution case. However, if the DPP forms the view that the witness is not telling the truth or will not give truthful evidence when called the DPP may decline to call that person to give evidence. In some cases as a matter of fairness and, if requested by the defence, the DPP may call that witness to be made available for cross examination by the defence.
Mein Gott. Tassie has a new premier, Peter Gutwein and these are the additional portfolios he holds:
Treasurer !!!
Minister for Climate Change
Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence !!!!!
Minister for Tourism.
It would be nice to limit today’s comments to subjects related (even at a stretch) to the Birthday Boy.
Think ewe.
P.S. For newbies, you can find more details of the case in an article by Malcolm R Hughes (aka Aussiemal), from 8 months ago, here:
https://gumshoenews.com/2019/09/05/further-to-the-discussion-of-martin-bryants-innocence/
I would like to wish you, Martin, a Happy Birthday, but I know that is not possible for such a thing to happen, because of the lies and crimes of past politicians on both sides of politics and the MSM.
If only all good Aussies would open their eyes to what has been perpetrated in the past and to the crimes that is currently being perpetrated against all of us.
I heard last night, that worse is yet to come. A Chief Justice announced that the Australian Government is planning to make it compulsory for all Australians to have an internal passport to travel within Australia. Get this, the need for such a draconian Bill is to protect the indigenous population.
Mal, sometimes I wonder how high the pile of BS has to get before the average Aussie will say FU!
I figure if the government keeps this up, it will create a lot of opportunities for people to work ‘outside’ the system. Like in the Soviet Union with people bribing bureaucrats with bottles of homemade vodka and similar incentives. Nobody believes the BS anymore, they just live with it. The system has the appearance of a ‘lock down’, but people figure ways around it all.
As for Martin Bryant, I find the discourse today much more open than when I first started talking about the disarmament agenda back in 1987. The younger generations have not been dumbed-down by the media as those who were around back in the 1980-90s. Those younger generations can look at 9-11 and other psy-ops and see the similarities to other psy-ops. No wonder the internet has now gone full retard on censorship.
Hmmm
All I can say is that my Dad’s case garnered huge public sympathy, petition to His Maj etc
But an exhaustive search proved that there was no prison record
And what I did manage to get hold of didn’t tee up with what I’d been told in any respect
In fact it turned out to be nothing more than a hastily thrown together farce
Which was no doubt designed to divert public attention away from the real deal.
Please tell us more, Berry. Maybe send it to Gumshoe editor:
McLachlanDee@gmail.com
I’ve put a 7 page synopsis together but it would have to go to a postal address.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/martin-bryants-life-in-jail/video/210e7ec866ee7f9a0fc45e5f40c34cde
Oh for a chocolate bar!
John Winston Howard and running dogs. tell us again about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and how many millions our government have contributed to killing in the Middle East based on government and msm serial deceit.
For what?
After 20 years!
Yes John Howards story needs to be told Ned.
This report sickens me. I can only wonder what his mum feels on hearing this bile.
I admit it, I no longer trust ANYTHING from the government, the media, the courts – anything to do with the status quo. – Berry, ‘public records’, yeah sure, I’ve seen court transcripts changed overnight. Gawd only knows what the ‘official’ records of the Port Arthur Massacre will say in 50 years.
Terry, we are the official record. Any citizen who cares and who has contributed to justice is the official record. The other one is the Joke record.
Wow. I just discovered that Stewart Beattie’s book, “A Gunsmith’s Notebook”, is online. Grab it while you can, from here:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nedwood/gunsmith.pdf
Here is an excerpt from Beattie’s book:
“Now while dealing with the Port Arthur Tollbooth crime scene, let us consider several other important anomalies here – even shown to us by police. Mr Matterson tells us that as the coronial team walked through the crime scenes and came up Jetty Road from the Broad Arrow Café, just 50-60 meters inside the entrance to the Historic Site Tollbooth, they ‘…came across the body of an adult clutching one small child with the body of another young child nearby behind the trunk of a tree’.”
“Mr Matterson is referring here to the deceased Mrs Annette Mikac allegedly ‘clutching’ the body of her youngest daughter Madeline, while the body of her eldest child Alanna was lying some distance away behind a tree trunk. The Police training video clearly shows the body of Mrs Mikac a quite significant distance away from that of her youngest child Madeline. So is Matterson’s recollections defective, or did someone tamper with the position of the body or bodies before the crime scene photographer had videoed the scene?”
The “Mr Matterson” referred to there is State Coroner Ian Matterson, who did indeed start an inquest on the very day, April 28, 1996, but was later told to halt it.
Thoughts with the soul of Martyn and to his mother–she has endured so much – such a strong wise woman. Yothu Yindi -Mother and child–to all mothers strength and perseverance.
Todays Cathi Fox article is from Fiona’s Blog–haven’t read it yet but this is what we have to focus our energy on– Australian survivors and whistle blowers=
https://fionabarnett.org/2020/05/06/gladio-and-the-nwo/
Gladio and the NWO Operation Gladio
I will post the last article from Cathy’s blog below.
Child Kidnapping by the (Deep) State – Example Sara Ybarra Johnson
Posted on 2020, May, 5 by cathy fox blog on Child Abuse
I didn’t realize this part of my Fringe play was on Youtube. Pretty sure I was faithful to the text of the police interview, however at that point in the interview I think it was two male cops but I used a female actor as — let me tell you — in the Fringe trade you use persons who faithfully attend rehearsals.
My 2019 play — which had to do with child-stealing — was ruined by the main actor not bothering to show up on the day of the show. I had to play Harry Holt and Dee had to improvise. It was awful. I don’t mean Dee was awful. By the way, big thanks to Dee for removing the ads from this website.
Just type “Martin Bryant” into Youtube search engine and see what you get. This is from 2011. I had never heard of it.
Martin Bryant, the unknowing patsy, used and abused to obtain the desired Globalist/Deep state result to restrict the obtaining of firearms that the ordinary Australian citizen has an inalienable right to procure for his/her own defence against whatever, and whenever the need arises, but that the tyrannical Australian government, in all its forms, has now made a criminal offence if those arms are not ‘legally’ obtained as to their own restrictive rules and conditions that almost render impossible, a citizens right to react in times of extreme emergency, as has amply been recorded over the past two decades because of such illogical restrictions.
And I note, that one of the first things this Morrison federal government did during this fake ‘pandemic’ was to close down all gun sales. What a pity that the states signed away their state’s right to administer their own firearms control against a centralized government.
ScoMo – this Aussie will not forget that!
The tighter the weapons restrictions the more terrified the government
berry – yes indeed! Parliament house is now protected by well armed security police against a ‘possible terrorist’ attack from some sections of the Australian community. Police now guarding criminals while the citizenry gets targeted – who would have thought it?
All Australians should have a look at the List of Massacres here. The last “officially sanctioned” massacre of indigenous Australians was in 1928.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia
Well, I suppose Port Arthur 1996 was officially sanctioned.
We don’t often hear from angry bereaved. I recall the husband of Elizabeth Howard making noise when her story was not considered by the DPP.
Crikey, I just looked her up — she was only 26 at death. And Nicole Burgess (both worked at the Broad Arrow Cafe) was only 17.
Here is Bach for the deceased women.
Mary – I wouldn’t be taking that list to court as ‘evidence’.
Mary , ( Re: Gunsmith’s Notebook pdf ) – simply awesome .
Downloaded it a moment ago & look forward to reading it. Thanks .
T.V., don’t tell anybody else on this website that I said this, but the first 150 pp can be skipped. They are all about guns. The remaining 400 pages or so are on Port Arthur. Shhh.
I would like to take the opportunity to wish Martin a very happy Birthday through the ether and wish to assure him that there are still many “awoke Aussies” who do not believe for one second that he is guilty of the crime, for which he has been so unjustly incarcerated for. Once again, Martin you will never be forgotten and maybe in the not too distant future, your case will be blown wide open and you will be able to enjoy freedom once more and celebrate your birthday with family and friends in a place of your choosing. Very many happy BD wishes through the ether to you Martin and praying that justice will eventually be served.
Hi all. I have only just stumbled across all the strange details surrounding PAM and i thank you all for you hard work seeking the truth. I have long thought the powers that be were pushing for gun control in Australia found and almost perfect excuse in PAM.
After some reading I really am convinced Martin wasn’t the shooter which begs the question, who was and why? Was the Australian gov really that desperate to take guns away from its citizens? If this was all an elaborate operation to terrorize the Australian public into giving up self protection then the world is changed for me forever.
I just thought i would say hello and hope everyone is keeping up the search for truth in 2020. Keep your heads up theres a-lot of work to be done!
Welcome Jax
Thank you Dee, good to be here. I have had polite posts and comments deleted from social media platforms while other comments and posts full of bile remain up. Happy bday Martin i hope one day we see some justice.
I know. And now one is acting against “community standards” if you put forward a specialist’s doctor’s view on the treatment of coronavirus.
Its wrong that a company can decide what “the community” can discuss. never understood how discussing something with fellow humans was a breach of community standards but hey…