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Political Corruption, Patronage, Cronyism, Parochialism, and Influence Peddling

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(L to R) John Howard and Alexander Downer (adapted photo – Theleader.com.au)

by G5

In 1999 the UN sponsored an act of self-determination, whereby Indonesia would relinquish a territory, and the new nation state of East Timor, would be formed, with its formal independence on 20/5/2002.

In the normal course of events, and to aid an undisputed transition, a UN Peacekeeping Force was stationed in East Timor in 2000.

John Howard and East Timor

John Howard, the then Prime Minister of Australia, and Alexander Downer, the then Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had hatched a plan to intervene in the processes and politics of the forming East Timor — in an ill-informed attempt to gain further advantage with regard to the Timor Sea oil reserves.

Albeit nothing was done, when Indonesia invaded the mineral rich territory that has become West Papua in February 2003. An unwritten trade-off and sacrifice of the people being slaughtered there to this day — in a further attempt to recover a lost position in The Timor Sea. Concerning the original 60-40 rule.

But in 1999, Howard had preempted, in the media, that Australia would join the US in a Peace Keeping Force in East Timor. America refused to be drawn to Howard’s invention. The UN would act in the normal course. On a limb of international embarrassment of his own making, Howard then declared an ‘Australian-Led’ Peacekeeping Force (INTERFET). Posturing international support.

Australia proceeded to ‘invade’ the soon to be formed East Timor with its ragtag Howard concoction in 1999, until requested to cease in 2000, at the time of the entry of The UN Peacekeeping Force.

Howard was irrefutably incapable of managing the Affairs of Australia: The Tampa Affair, The ‘Children Overboard’ Affair, The Foreign Detention Centre Atrocities, The Domestic Detention Centre Scadals, The WMD Chorus, Guarding the Poppy Fields of Afghanistan, IMF’s ‘Profligate Spender’, the $20 billion ‘Surplus’ being a $40 billion ‘Deficit’ through the Future Fund concoction, the deceptions of Privatisations (Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, Medibank, Australia Post, ASIC Registry, etc., (Australians buying what they already owned, through overpriced market manipulations).

Howard was also a very dedicated fan of False Flags, from The Hilton Bombing, to The Bali Bombings, to Port Arthur, The Expendable Project, and the abandonment and party to false imprisonments entrapping Schapelle Corby, David Hicks and many others.

Thus, he was hardly capable of assisting East Timor. Particularly in view of the interest concerning oil in The Timor Sea, and Downer having a major conflict of interest — being a “Consultant” to Woodside Petroleum.

As could be predicted, the prior Independence interests of Indonesia, Australia and the US, and the projected interests of East Timor, were damaged by Australian unwanted involvement.

The Revolving Doors, and The Political Trough

Australia and Downer have appeared again on the international stage — together with Julia Gillard, a former Australian Prime Minister. Downer enjoys the life of High Commissioner to The UK. Following in his father’s footsteps, he benefits from his “consultancies”, as well as his substantial Australian ‘Pension’. Gillard also has her substantial Prime Ministerial Pension and Benefits, her “consultancies”, as well as a pay packet from The Brookings Institute. Ostensibly this is to help empower young women — but more in the reality of acting in the best interests of The US.

Julia Gillard (photo – Brookings Inst)

Gillard is famous for the Clintonesque Baggage of her legal and political career.

She was never “charged” for her activities as a lawyer. She was Struck Off. As  indeed was Bill Clinton, in his career — prior to his Impeachment. What she perceived as ‘threats’, being the probing by journalists as Milne, Pickering, and many others who she had ‘sacked’, for posturing against the great one. She found an interest in continuing her threats to introduce a Leveson Inquiry in Australia.

Even if Australian Media had taken the challenge — which they would have won — Gillard was gone. She had destroyed her political ‘career’, such as it was. And was heading for the green pastures, at the expense of those she purported to ideologically represent.

On her exit from office, her respect for Australia and its people, as Howard, was such, that she pushed through legislation, not only confirming the little known fraud of ‘Prime Minister for A Day’ (hidden in remuneration regulations), but advanced the salaries, benefits and retirement packages of members of parliament and senior government officials, to the highest in The World.

Days after that obscenity was passed, Penny Wong, the then Minister for Finance, was asked to increase the welfare payments to young and unwed mothers, by some $10 per week. Her memorable reply was: “I cannot find the money”.

Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Wong, Peter Garrett, and Bob Carr were ‘representatives’ of the Working Classes of Australia (The Australian Labor Party). Or so they pretended. As did Tony Blair in The UK. The Chilcot Report is an interesting read. As are Blair’s current activities, where he leaves The Clintons and Obama in his wake.

Leading the Pack — Tony Blair 

Tony Blair (adapted photo – Daily Mail)

Blair became unelected President of the unrepresentative EU Commission — dictating all legislation and policy to the puppet EU ‘Elected’ Parliament, and controlling the former sovereignty of The EU Member States. He is ‘Senior Advisor’ to J. P. Morgan Chase, and Zurich Financial Services, collecting over £500,000 pa from the latter, alone, as well as UI Energy Corp., and contracted to a number of countries, including Egypt and Kazakhistan. He lectures at $250,000 per 90 minutes.

His annual ‘Personal Security’ personnel salaries — paid for by the UK Government — has been considered as ‘reasonable’.

He is a lecturer in The Yale University School and Management and Divinity, Durham University in The UK, and The National University of Singapore. His “consultancies” operate through Tony Blair Associates, The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, The Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, The Faith and Globalisation Initiative, The Tony Blair Institute, and more.

He advises on issues as ‘Damage Limitation‘, following for example; The December 2011, Zhanaozen Massacre in Kazakhistan. Which received little to no MSM focus.

More Australian Beneficiaries

Peter Garett, a lifelong Anti-Nuclear advocate (The Nucler Disarmament Party (NDP), The Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Party, PANDA) was ‘ushered’ into a ‘safe’ Labor seat (Kingsford Smith) and into the inert sounding portfolio of Minister for Environment Protection Heritage and The Arts. He then signed off on all that was required, that involved the environmentally devastating: In Situ Leaching of Yellow Cake (Uranium Ore) in South Australia and The Northern Territory, and the Howard insanity of the storage (rejected and evicted by Scotland) of used nuclear rods, for England and America. He was then appointed to the inert portfolio of Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, until his ‘well-earned retirement’, as one of the wealthiest who ever sat in the great parliamentary houses of Australia.

Kevin Rudd, another former Australian Prime Minister also ‘representing’ The Working Classes, had a partner who managed to involve herself in the ‘unemployment’ market industry sponsored by The Australian Government.

A lucrative industry pretending to find (non-existent) work for the unemployed. The latter chasing that which has been destroyed by successive incompetent Australian administrations and the seamless government that supports them. The job-seekers being paid a non-living amount while tens of thousands of dollars is paid to The ‘Agencies’ to maintain the illusion and drive the unfortunates. Lest they be seen as ‘sponging off the taxpayer’.

Little wonder why unemployment has delivered hundreds of millions in ‘profits’ for that industry, and the recipients reach a stage where they virtually give up and variously remove themselves from the political and ideological stupidity. Some two generations of ‘unemployed’ in Australia living under the insanities of disengaged Administrations and Government from both ‘Spectra’.

Bob Carr (photo adapted – South China Morning Post)

Bob Carr, a former State (NSW) Premier, found an opportunity to slip un-elected into a Federal senate seat, then straight in as Minister of Foreign Affairs — through a rule concerning the filling of ‘vacant’ Senate Seats after a ‘Retirement’. When the next Federal election was called (early by Gillard, but who cared, the ‘work’ had been done), Carr was already positioned at the top of the Senate Ticket. So he ‘Won’ his ‘Second Term’ — which made him eligible for full retirement benefits from The Federal Government, as well as what he was already receiving from The NSW Government, plus his “consultancies” and other interests.

Within days of the second ‘Win’, he announced his ‘Retirement’, after specifically advising during the election campaign, that he would not do that. His ‘excuse’ and change of heart being: he wanted to enter Academia. As ridiculous as his earlier ‘Retirement’ as NSW Premier, advising, he wanted to spend more time with (his partner) Helena on the weekends.

All these people were also inducted into the uniquely Australian racket of ‘Prime Minister for a Day’. If a member of parliament is appointed by the sitting Prime Minister to ‘Act as Prime Minister’, even for one day; that person is entitled to receive full Prime Ministerial Payments, and Retirement Benefits, and to pass those to their partners.

No wonder that little lurk is well hidden and mostly denied. There are currently over two hundred people ‘sponging (this way) off the taxpayer’ in Australia. It has worked to be an excellent bribe to maintaining Cabinet Solidarity. And never any requirement to present to the public as ‘Acting for a Day’. That is managed by the sitting Prime Minister or their Deputy Prime Minister. Why unnecessarily confuse The People.

Which brings us to the following:

The Clinton Foundation

The partly hidden, halfhearted FBI Investigation into The Clinton Foundation (CF ‘closed’ December, 2017), has currently revealed some interesting matters that reach back to Australia.

From 2006 to 2014, Howard (Downer documented), Rudd, and Gillard, paid over $AUD 88 million (so far identified) into The Clinton Foundation. An amount of $AUD 25 million alone was paid into The Clinton Foundation AIDS Fund.

In October, 2006, Australian Government aid funds for New Guinea, were diverted — reminiscent of USAID commandeering aid funds apportioned by Congress for Honduras and Nicaragua, diverted to The Iran Contra Affair. As were funds in November, 2016 that have been identified as paid to Clinton ‘Charities’, by Australia.

AUSAID was used as a conduit. It was an autonomous Commonwealth agency within the portfolio of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Some $US 50 million was spent on travel (The Vince Foster Affair and Travelgate), with further payments from The Commonwealth of Australia in the range of $AUD 10 million to $AUD 25 milllion per tranche. The period of 1/4/2008 to 25/9/2008 is particularly noted as active for funds transfers from Canberra to New York and Washington.

The total amounts paid by Australia into Clinton Funds, is still not known.

A ten year Memorandum of Understanding has been uncovered between The Australian Government and The Clinton Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. An amount of $AUD 10 million was noted as having been paid by The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Downer).

Australian Government officials being recorded in support by repeating the learnt narrative of Proven Charities having a proven track record for helping developing countries. The Clinton activities in Haiti alone, verify that to be a false perception.

More accurate information should be revealed in the coming months, as The Clinton Foundation and its ‘Charities’ are exposed further in The US. But there is definitely a connection between Australia and The Clinton fraudulent operations.

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  1. I’ll cite a case of “trough-feeding”
    An attorney is asked to do some legal work in Afghanistan. He climbs onto a Military plane. But before take-off the legal work is cancelled, and he disembarks. He is awarded a (tidy) military pension of sorts for being on the tarmac in a military plane (in Oz) for a few minutes.

  2. Why am I not surprised by your revelations, G5. Australia has been subsumed by a CABAL of degenerate, criminal, perverted, blood-sucking vampires. All sides of the political spectrum.

    Keep the info flowing G5 and thanks for outing these fuckers.

    It might be about time to start calling for the suspension of ALL payments to ALL politicians. I’m having a hard time deciding which politician I hate the most.

    Perhaps this one. Miss Barnett signed a police statement at Sutherland in 2015. People should read it.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/paul-keating-praises-donald-trump-as-surprisingly-good-at-foreign-policy-20180309-p4z3mh.html

    What’s he trying to do? Perhaps a “Get Out of Jail Free” card?? Hopefully he’ll get a noose.

    Here’s here police statement:

    https://pedophilesdownunder.com/2017/01/20/fiona-barnett-police-witness-statements-against-kidman-keating/

    Page 7.

    • What a pair, Paul Keating and James Baker:

      “Every year, Euromoney magazine awards a Finance Minister of the Year award. Past recipients are listed below. 1981 Turgut Özal of Turkey; 1982 Hon Sui Sen of Singapore; 1983 Jesús Silva Herzog of Mexico; 1984 Paul Keating of Australia ; 1985 Roger Douglas of New Zealand; 1986 James Baker of the United States”.

      • This is in the catalogue of the National Museum of Australia, regarding a cartoon:

        Political cartoon with “Moir” signature written in the lower right hand corner. Hand drawn in black ink and texta on graphic art board, the cartoon depicts Paul Keating dressed in Victorian undertaker’s garb measuring up the physical dimensions of the human figures representing, “HEALTH”, “EDUCATION”, “DEFENCE”, and “WELFARE”.

  3. EXAMPLE of WASTE:

    This is hard to believe. A teen can start a page on FACEBOOK in about 5 minutes with $0

    But it came out in the news this week that the State Government of Victoria paid consultants $250,000 to create a Facebook page.

    ” BUMBLING bureaucrats spent 250000 of taxpayers money on consultants to design a government Facebook page which has taken four months … PR firm Porter Novelli Australia was paid $246,839 in November to play a “co-ordinating role” in creating a single social media page for six Industry …” (This from the Herald Sun)

  4. G5, welcome to democracy Australian style. Can’t work out why Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Yemen whatever, don’t embrace such a idealistic culture, known as democracy.

    In my opinion, if any politician or highly paid public servant, takes up a paid position after retirement, all so called entitlements should become null and void. I wonder how many early retirements would happen under such a system?

    • Why are they not, like the rest of us, required to depend on their Super, or a standard government pension, means-tested? Lucky for them, it would not include the house they live in, even if it is worth $8 million?

      • Accrual superannuation was designed to transfer economic risks from fund management to the superannuant. Bank accounts will assume the same risks, if, bail-ins are introduced. That way when … economic trouble strikes the superannuant pays the price and not fund management. The Federal Government retained for itself defined benefit accounting when in the late 80’s they began forcing everyone else into accrual funds. They weren’t going to expose themselves to the risks they were forcing onto us. And a firm hold on the tax lever keeps the bounty they were planning to receive safe from their own … incompetency.

  5. Surely when a political hopeful signs his or her application to stand for an electoral seat, they are entering a contract with the electors of that electorate for a stipulated time as laid down by the electoral laws.

    If elected, then choose to retire early, or immediately after the election, are they not breaking a legal contract between themselves and the people who voted for them? Breaking a contract is normally a criminal offence, is it not?

  6. Andrew Robb earns about $3,380 a working day for his Landbridge consulting. For doing nothing. Quick retirement after facilitating the sale of the Port of Darwin. That’s $423 every hour over working week/ 8 hr day. What’s that lottery called? SET FOR LIFE?

    • Reading this article brought back memories of a luncheon meeting I had back in 1984/5. I was invited along as there was an American businessman coming and they thought it might be interesting to have a Yank who had lived in Oz for a while at the lunch.

      At one point the American businessman leaned forward and in a low voice said “Everything is so corrupt”. We all laughed “What are you whispering for? Everyone knows!”

  7. In nearly sixty years , the biggest realisation has been that it’s not what one may know but who one knows . It’s all about connections and corruptions of the Masonic memberships . Sure its always been here and has been getting more entrenched since the turn of the century . The biggest middle class in the world , by percentage , decimated by the secret kabal in just twenty years .
    Now with mass immigration the plan is to erase and silence any protests .
    The exponential price rise of dwellings has been a trap to attract punters to their slavery of usury in debt and easy credit . We were the farm stock that were the prototype in their experiments and now are being replaced by the new global customers .
    The political world like the msm and all associated cronies are a facade just like the western movie set in holy wood . Just like the CCP members they have been rewarded for their traitorous acts of stealth and deception . The trap has been set and the problem is global . We are in the animal farm and the pigs rule without conscience .

      • I really don’t know the solutions to our observations and questions .
        I can’t seem to help my self , so how can one help others ?
        We’ve got our freedom of choice as long as we don’t get to say too much .
        The system is a undefinable monster and its best to have nothing to do with it ,
        if possible .

  8. On October 21, 2015, Jane Lee wrote, at SMH, an article entitled “Liberal senator Bill Heffernan says former PM a suspected pedophile.” In that article on line, there is a video clip of Heffernan saying “All the attorneys-general since Ruddock, have seen these documents.”

    That would be: Philip Ruddock, Robert McClelland, Nicola Roxon, Mark Dreyfus, George Brandis, and Christian Porter.

    What is the matter with these people?

  9. as the man said…those healthy retirement for life and spouse! wtf buy’s their silence. There must be a lot of corruption because that’s a very nice feeling I bet! Having money for nothing but covering ones own arse while protecting the other trough dweller in the process.

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