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PREMIER'S DEPT OR PLAYBOY MANSION?
A Rann Government adviser who received a termination payout has just been given a $6000 pay rise for a job she returned to after it was left vacant for almost a year. |
THINKER RUNS OUT OF IDEAS
Julia Gillard's new communications director John McTernan has pulled out of Mike Rann's Festival of Ideas...because he has been hired as the Prime Minister's new spin chief from November 7...He was appointed to Rann's Thinkers in Residence program in March. |
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EDITORIAL: THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
The Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, was seriously assaulted in public. His assailant walked from court a free man. The Premier avoided cross-examination under oath about his alleged relationship with the mans wife.
The Deputy Premier and Treasurer of South Australia, Kevin Foley, was twice allegedly assaulted in public.
Mr. Foley was promptly appointed Minister for Police, despite his blatant conflict of interest .. .. .. .. .. (Read full editorial) |
A DISSENTING VOICE - PENBO IN FOLEY'S CORNER
In the interests of balanced debate, we publish David Penberthy's column from The Advertiser of 23/9/11. Mr. Penberthy is the lover of federal Labor MP for Adelaide, Kate Ellis. He gave character evidence in support of the convicted pedophile, Malcolm Fox, referred to in our Editorial above |
HOW MINISTER PORTOLESI MISLED PARLIAMENT
Grace Portolesi, the Marie Antoinette of SA politics, again demonstrates her unfamiliarity with her portfolio and the truth. Ms. Portolesi has spent more time in Puglia than on the APY Lands. Her brief regime as a minister has been beset with stuffups and scandals. |
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COPLIFTING
Charges of theft and assault against South Australian Liberal senator Mary Jo Fisher were laid only at the insistence of police after Adelaide supermarket managers and a security guard wanted the case dropped. |
ATKO'S MOUTH COSTS TAXPAYERS ANOTHER 100K
Former A-G Michael Atkinson is believed to have cost SA's taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars after settling a defamation action against him by an Adelaide journalist |
POLICE CHIEF CONFESSES
A part of the Burnside Council Investigation report was provided to me on restricted conditions, which did not allow me to refer it to the Anti-Corruption Branch. |
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INSIDE RUSSELL WORTLEY'S HEAD
"Once you read the report you then have the information in your head which, during these interviews, I could let out..." |
ABC RADIO 'DUMBED DOWN'
The Friends of the ABC Victorian president has accused ABC of 'dumbing down' local radio station 774 Melbourne. |
RANN, FOLEY 'UNDERMINE CRIMINAL TRIAL'
Whilst the Premier and the Police Minister are expected to deal with political issues, it is not expected that they will politicise, or attempt to politicise, the processes of a criminal trial. To do so runs the risk of undermining the fundamental rights which any accused person enjoys in our society. |
RANNSACKED
... And yet SA is stony broke, borrowing $2 million per day to pay public servants. Where has the money gone? What do we have to show for it? |
FACT vs FICTION: SMA's SECRET REPORT ON ADELAIDE OVAL REVEALED, AND DEMOLISHED
While claiming the Adelaide Oval redevelopment will generate an economic benefit of $110 million a year to the CBD, the Stadium Management Authority refuses to release the 'economic benefit study' which it commissioned and you paid for. No wonder it wants to keep it a secret: these claims are sheer fantasy, as we reveal |
WHY YOUR POWER BILLS ARE DOUBLING
SA's spiralling power bills are fuelling the relentless rise of Asia's 'Superman' - the 11th-richest person in the world with a fortune of around $26 billion. |
CAPPO 'TOO BUSY' FOR DISABLED
Monsignor Cappo, who has come under fire for business-class flights paid by the taxpayer for multiple overseas trips to investigate poverty, while also receiving a $115,000 Government salary for his part-time board position, has delayed a report into SA's most disadvantaged people because of the amount of work involved.
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COVERING UP CORRUPTION IS CORRUPT
...the record suggests that the public might be interested hearing in hearing more about some of the big names apparently referred to in the report, who go far beyond Burnside Council, some of the cosy pilitical connections, the police involvement and so on. |
RANN'S PAID SYCOPHANT ACCUSES MICHELLE CHANTELOIS
Sexual allegations are being used to bring down left-leaning artists and politicians. [Bob Ellis] alluded to the Michelle Chantelois scandal that dogged Labor throughout the 2010 election campaign, saying Mr. Rann "survived, barely", a similar discrediting "tactic". |
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HOW BUSINESS IS DONE IN SA
Pallidon, the lobbying firm run by ALP stalwart John Quirke, has turned over half its client list last month but kept its property and mining flavour. |
RANN'S WATER TORTURE: WE TOLD YOU FIRST
Households struggling to pay spiralling water bills attributed to the cost of building the desalination plant have already virtually paid for the plant via a back-door contribution on their bills. |
SUNDAY MAIL DISCOVERS INTERNET
"If you want some provocative entertainment, google ICAC-SA - vainglorious and riddled with errors, it nonetheless raises questions the Government would prefer to ignore, such as the Burnside Council imbroglio, RAH costs, the Adelaide Oval controversy, union anger as well as rising fees and charges. All delicious issues where the Libs can't gain traction". - BRAD CROUCH, Sunday Mail State Political Editor, July 3, 2011
icac-sa comments: Where has the Sunday Mail been? We've been scooping it and other media on these issues for months. Errors? What errors? We stand by the accuracy of our content. We challenge politicians and journalists to point out our errors, as we gleefully and constantly expose theirs.
PS We loved the 'Only $2' badge on the front page of the Mail today. It refers to their 'Harry Potter wand' offer: you have to look inside the paper to find out that its price increased to $2 in the same issue.
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BURNSIDE COUNCIL: THEY CAN'T SUPPRESS MICHAEL OWEN
"[The MacPherson Report] involves some powerful people, including Labor Party lobbyists, and some allegations about their conduct..." |
LETTERS THE PAPERS WON'T PUBLISH
The local media's coverage of state politics, especially issues of official corruption, is so timid and compromised that the Letters pages are often the only place where independent voices may be heard. Increasingly, these too are being neutered. Frustrated letter writers have approached us with their concerns, and a pattern emerges .. .. |
MICHAEL OWEN GETS IT RIGHT - ABC RADIO MISSES OUT & GOES TO LUNCH
When the Rann government reveals its fantasy costings of the new RAH, Michael Owen goes to the tabloid, ABC's Lois Lane goes for the tablecloth |
LABOR LIES ON WATER PRICE HIKES
Water Minister Paul Caica dismissed claims the system was geared to boost SA Water dividends to the Government. |
LABOR'S LIES EXPOSED
SA...will take $138.2 million in water utility dividends next year - an increase of 18 per cent - as household water bills soar 26% from Friday. |
Q. WHAT DO PANDAS EAT? A. YOUR MONEY
Di West, the wife of zoo chief executive Chris West, was appointed more than a year ago to a key position with responsibility for sponsorship and membership. |
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THE CAPPO CODE: DAN BROWN, WHERE ARE YOU?
...$115,000 a year, plus business-class international flights and luxury hotel accommodation from which to study homelessness and poverty in other countries. Monsignor Cappo is also Vice-chairman of Julia Gillards federal Social Inclusion Board, on a reported $60,000 plus perks .. |
INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS TO BLOW OUT BIGTIME
Tens of thousands of construction workers in Victoria are to win hefty pay rises of up to 7% a year [and 20% over four years] in one of the most generous wage deals reached in the state in recent times.
Row over builders' wage deal - June 09, 2011 Ben Schneiders The Age
icac-sa comments: The AMWU is already making hay, if not water, at the desal plant, which is a year overdue with cost blowouts the Rann government declines to disclose. Not only will the Victorian wage rise become industry-wide, but the majority of contracts let by Labor on local infrastructure projects have gone to Victorian tenderers. For massive developments like the new RAH and Adelaide Oval - whose price-tags already look rubbery - this could mean huge cost blowouts. You read it here first. |
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MINISTER MAKES OWN HOSPITAL BED - AND LIES IN IT
Government figures cost the total 35-year contract at $11.7 billlion...taxpayers will be exposed to price hikes from SA Health Partnership if running costs or remediation of the site exceeds forecast. |
WHAT'S $110,000 BETWEEN FRIENDS?
The Department of Water failed to declare consultancies worth about $110,000...[it] attributed the omission to a clerical error.
Consultancy costs worth $110,000 not declared in water report - June 07, 2011 Julian Swallow The Advertiser
icac-sa comments:: A clerical error? Really? What the 'Tiser doesn't tell you is that Nous Group is run by one Tanya Smith, former secretary of the Premier's Department and a very close personal friend of Premier Mike Rann. The 'Tiser also omits to mention that this is the second 'clerical error' to handsomely benfit Ms. Smith: eight months after resigning her government job, she was still on the public payroll and collecting her salary. We'd like to know if she ever paid it back. Don't look to the 'Tiser to find out. |
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