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Dangerous Dan’s Red Shirts scam coming to bite him
Daniel Andrews’ political manoeuvres and ‘catch me if you can’ haughtiness may be coming to an end.
A motion to refer Victorian Labor’s 2014 red shirts scandal to the Ombudsman and potentially the state’s anti-corruption watchdog passed in Victoria’s Upper House – 19 votes to 17 – when Labor MP, Kaushaliya Vaghela, sensationally crossed the floor to vote against her own government on 9 February, 2022.
Former Labor minister Adem Somyurek put forward the motion into what he has described as a “gold-standard rort”.
https://www.news.com.au/national/daniel-andrews-golden-run-of-dodging-accountability-may-be-coming-to-an-end-panahi/video/d002902218853c1fce21705ef0465c5f
Ms Vaghela was initially part of Mr Somyurek’s Moderate Labor faction before he was kicked out of the party for branch stacking in 2020. Following the vote, Ms Vaghela posted a statement on social media, telling her followers that branch stacking was “endemic” in the Australian Labor Party and that it has been for decades.
She told that she was a former staff member for the Socialist Left faction and knew all about their branch stacking activities and their electorate officers being used for factional purposes. She stated that if branch stacking and factional operatives working in electorate officers is corrupt, then the Socialist Left and all the other factions must be investigated.
Mr Somyurek claimed the red shirts scandal was designed by Mr Andrews ahead of the 2014 election. It centred around Labor’s misuse of $388,000 in taxpayer funds by paying casual electorate officers to don red shirts and campaign for the party in marginal seats. Daniel Andrews was desperate to win. (Daniel Andrews) did something well beyond what he should’ve – he crossed the line; he designed this system.
“He told me personally that you’ve got to take part in this process whether you want to win or not.”
The Premier was called corrupt and faced questions over the police investigation into the red shirts scandal, during Parliament question time.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/labor-mp-dumped-for-voting-in-favour-of-corruption-motion/news-story/a78ceb0373a55a7518c60281436d9aa1
Thankfully, on the 15 Feb 2022, the Victorian Ombudsman confirmed a review into red shirts investigation referral amid internal Labor turmoil.
Victorian Ombudsman confirms review into red shirts investigation referral amid internal Labor turmoil | Sky News Australia
Let’s keep high hopes for the demise of political corruption in Victoria.
Premier Dan Andrews can end the assault speculation now
Cairns News sparked a burgeoning, national narrative about exiled Victorian Premier Dan Andrews after we published the scant details of his accident which led to his hospitalisation allegedly because he fell down the stairs.
A detailed description of his injuries published in the Melbourne Age immediately after his fall raised flags.
Cairns News smelled a rat and asked the opinion of one of its friendly medicos who also noticed an odour saying the injuries were entirely consistent with having been severely kicked while in a prone position, leaving injuries often seen after wild brawls.
We posed the question, ‘why would an assailant have kicked Dear Dan half to death’. Then after receiving emails allegedly from Labor insiders, we published details of an alleged sexual assault with Dan being the perpetrator.
Finally here is the answer sent to us allegedly by none other than former Victorian Labor Minister, branch stacker and voting fraudster extraordinaire, Adem Somyurek (left). It came from an encrypted email server.
“OFFICIAL: The person who bashed Daniel Andrews (and good on him for doing so) is
Luke Sayers. Luke is a former CEO of Price Waterhouse Coopers. Andrews got beaten
up for sexual assault on Luke’s daughter’s friend while at a high flyers party at the Portsea (Mornington Peninsula Victoria) mansion of Lyndsay Fox. Andrews is
currently in hiding in his parent’s farm in Mansfield. (Country Victoria). His wife
Kath has left him, his kids dont want to know him. The State and Federal Labor Party
will go into meltdown real soon when they are accused at both levels of politics for
trying to conceal the truth. They knew about this but didn’t want to get rid of the
“Favourite Son Of The Left”. Here comes an early election when the Governor dissolves
both the upper and lower houses of parliament. The Labor Party are now in a position
where they cannot govern with the confidence of the state.”
The Deputy Premier, James Merlino, says he has regular contact with Andrews, yet no legitimate photograph or footage of Andrews has been published anywhere in Australia since his alleged accident.
If the message from Adem Somyurek is real, then James Merlino (below) is a liar. He would know that Andrews has been hiding out at his parents’ Mansfield farm and for what reason.
Do you want to give us a statement James? The Facebook warriors have run this story and sooner or later the controlled, lying Victorian media will have to deal with it and so will you.
News.com.au has its two bobs worth:
“Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has broken his weeks-long silence to Victorians as they endure another week stuck in lockdown.
Mr Andrews, whose last public statement was in April, has been on sick leave as he undergoes rehabilitation from a serious fall down steps which left him with five broken ribs and a compressed vertebra fracture.
On Wednesday night, Mr Andrews said he wanted to “send a message” to Victorians after news the state’s “circuit breaker” lockdown has been extended.
The lockdown was originally set to end at 11.59pm on June 3, but now the tough restrictions will remain in place in Melbourne for another seven days.”
Labor Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s strident, stupid attacks on the Prime Minister about who knocked off a staffer in a parliamentary office will fade into insignificance when the Andrews’ story emerges in the compliant MSM.
The ALP leads the way in Australia with deviant sexual misconduct and Andrews puts the icing on the cake.
Mr Somyurek has been contacted for more comment.
Labor branch stacking and electoral fraud in Victoria tip of the iceberg – in Qld it’s an art form
by Robert J Lee
Labor branch stacking comes hand-in-hand with false electoral roll entries but the Murdoch media and the ABC have not included this corruption in their reporting of branch-stacking imperator and Victorian MP Adem Somyurek.
For decades the ALP has perfected the art of branch and electoral roll stacking. Evidence the inquiry into Queensland voting fraud when Labor imprimatur Mike Kaiser had been caught out fiddling with the electoral roll which sparked the Shepherdson Inquiry into Electoral Fraud.
An April 2001 report presented the results of the independent Inquiry by the Honourable Tom Shepherdson, QC, into allegations of electoral fraud.
The Inquiry was prompted when a member of the Australian Labor Party, Karen Lynn Ehrmann, made serious public allegations about the possibility of electoral fraud by members of the Queensland branch of the ALP.
Queensland Labor imprimatur Mike Kaiser has not been left off the party endowment list by attracting plum highly paid jobs for copping it sweet in 2001 for Labor and union voting fraudsters. His latest lucrative jaunt as a KPMG partner was to assist the State Government with its Coronavirus jobs strategy.
Allegations examined by the Inquiry related to two main categories of false enrollment, forgery and consensual false enrollment. The information gathered during the Inquiry clearly established that the practice of making consensual false enrollments to bolster the chances of specific candidates in pre-selections was regarded by some Party members as a legitimate campaign tactic.
The Inquiry uncovered evidence of forgery, but there was significant difficulty in obtaining evidence to establish who was responsible.
There was no evidence indicating that the tactic had been generally used to influence the outcome of public elections.
This was due to the limited scope of the Inquiry reviewing illegal activities only between 1993 to 1997. This paper was tabled in Parliament on 1 May 2001.
ALP Member for Woodridge in 2001 Mike Kaiser quit parliament after being outed by the Inquiry, taking the hit for numerous other ALP and union identities involved in voting fraud.
Two other Labor MP’s were forced to resign. Kaiser’s indiscretions were rewarded in 2010 by slotting him into the NBN Board on $450,000 a year.
In essence, to enable ALP branch members a vote for election candidates they have to be on the electoral roll.
In larger branches factional interests wanting a particular candidate to be endorsed simply pad the electoral roll with names of people literally off the street. These names, real or not, end up on the roll.
The proxies of these ‘voters’ are used to stack the numbers for a candidate’s endorsement. What the major media did not mention in the Victorian affair is that in marginal electorates these fictitious names are then given to unionists or Labor members and supporters to vote with at general elections.
If there are sufficient bogus numbers on the roll the election result can be swayed in the ALP’s or LNP’s favour.
In tight electorates just 50 false entries can change the result.
The Federal seat of Herbert in Townsville was taken by the ALP with just 37 votes after a recount in 2016. This result was without doubt enabled by voting fraud utilising false enrollments and those voting more than once.
The losing Liberal candidate stated he would seek a remedy in the Court of Disputed Returns but soon dropped the action after LNP backroomers realised court action would expose their voting fraud activities.
It is of note that the very first piece of legislation enacted by the incoming Queensland Labor Government in 2015 was to repeal the previous Liberal government law requiring identification before voting.
In 2018 the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral matters staunchly recommended the Federal Government enact an identification requirement before the 2019 federal election. Prime Minister Scott Morrison steadfastly refused to implement any ID requirement for voters. He won the election in 2019 by just two seats.
Since the Australian Electoral Commission stopped checking the accuracy of the rolls nearly 25 years ago by conducting physical habitation checks going door-to-door verifying occupants, election results have been manipulated to choose a government.
The AEC and the Queensland Electoral Commission will howl that their rolls are accurate but in 2004 the AEC Commissioner admitted to then Senator Len Harris there were more than 400,000 entries on the roll whose identity could not be verified.
Recent investigations by Vote Australia revealed the rolls remained in a mess, in fact former President of the organisation Lex Stewart said the roll was full of bogus entries certainly sufficient to change the course of a federal or state election.
Readers should realise the Liberal Party too has been renown for branch stacking but to our knowledge is not involved in stacking the roll with large numbers.
Cairnsnews has been leading the charge nationally to expose widespread voting fraud which has changed the outcome of past elections.
The mail-out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to conduct the same-sex marriage survey in 2017 resulted in more than 248,000 individual envelopes marked ‘return to sender not known at this address’ being returned to their office unopened.
The ABS used addresses from the AEC electoral roll to mail out ballot forms to voters.
Here are a few stories about electoral fraud published over the past six years:
https://cairnsnews.org/2019/01/28/vote-fraud-could-cost-scomo-government/
https://cairnsnews.org/2018/07/26/10299/
https://cairnsnews.org/2016/05/17/unions-campaign-to-pad-the-electoral-roll/
https://cairnsnews.org/2015/09/03/getup-stacks-electoral-roll-with-false-enrolments/
https://cairnsnews.org/2015/04/14/labors-electoral-base-to-be-bolstered-by-legislating-vote-fraud/
Is this fascist Labor Senator Ciccone from Victoria mixed up with electoral roll stacking?
Another ALP grub from Victoria, but this one hates anti-vaxxers. How close is Raff Ciccone to corrupt branch stacker extraordinaire Adem Somyurek? A stacked electoral roll is the only way this intellectual pygmy could get elected
from Jim O’Toole, Townsville bureau
The Age – by Senator Raff Cicone
As if the bushfires weren’t bad enough, we’ve since had the world economy shut down, millions infected with COVID-19 and hundreds of thousands dead. This pandemic feels like we’re in the middle of a real-life Hollywood blockbuster.
Like all good movies, this one will leave us fundamentally changed well after it’s ended. Our world will look and feel very different once the show is over. But not for the better.
Thankfully, the possibility of a vaccine for this virus is looking more plausible. Unfortunately, like a diabolical plot twist, the day the vaccine arrives, so too will the inevitable chorus of those who object to being vaccinated. But unlike hapless movie heroes, we can be prepared for this.
How close is Victoria Labor senator Raff Ciccone to electoral roll and branch stacker Adem Somyurek? He donned this hard hat waiting for the sky to fall in from all the vaccine-damaged kids and their suffering families.
To anti-vaxxers, I have one message: our tolerance for your wilful ignorance is over. We cannot afford, morally or economically, to give any ground to those who choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Let me be clear. I’m not advocating that we vaccinate people against their will. That would be wrong. We must ensure that the safety of our community is the number one priority. That means that participation in everyday life cannot put others at risk. If you do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you ought to bear the consequences of that decision.
As a community, we should consider to what extent we allow organisations to prevent those who object to being vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter their premises, participate in their activities and, in some circumstances, seek their employment.
Governments have gone some way to doing this by implementing policies such as withholding family tax benefits and preventing children from being accepted into childcare unless vaccinations are proven. Further restrictions would be a natural extension of these policies.
Restaurants could be allowed the right to refuse entry to those who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. Businesses, especially those involved in the care or service of vulnerable communities, might be allowed the right to refuse employment to those without a COVID-19 vaccination. Organisers of mass gatherings could deny the sale of tickets on this basis.
No doubt there would be logistical issues to overcome. However, the health and safety of our population should be any government’s primary concern, and the infrastructure to implement these changes exists.
We already have an Australian Immunisation Register in place that tracks a child’s vaccination history. We could expand this program to track what would be the most important vaccination of this century to the population.
There are those who for medical reasons cannot receive vaccinations and would rightly receive an exemption. There are already government guidelines in place that would allow for this to occur.
For the rest who claim they are conscientious objectors, the excuses don’t stack up anymore. There is too much at stake. I know after writing this my office will be inundated with correspondence from anti-vaccination activists demanding to be heard. For those of you who do contact me, know this. I have no interest in your alternative “facts” or your conspiracy theories.
Your views are fortunately in the minority, and that’s how they will be treated. Today’s media landscape is such that you will probably receive attention for your ill-informed comments, but that doesn’t mean you are right. It just means you have been noticed.
The truth is we’re not living in the plot line of a movie. It’s not a story that can just be rewritten, and we won’t just walk out having spent $30 on a movie ticket and popcorn.
This is the real world with real consequences, and more than ever we can’t afford to put lives at risk.
Raff Ciccone is a federal Labor senator for Victoria.
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