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The MIckleberg Stich by Allan Loval


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Running for justice ...one of the three Mickelberg brothers, Peter, chases the then CIB chief, Don Hancock, down the street after losing an appeal in the Perth Supreme Court in February 1999. Photo: WA News

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Mint robbers were framed Sydney Morning Herald By Liza Kappelle June 11 2002
A former police officer has admitted that he and another detective lied and faked evidence during the trial of the Mickelberg brothers for the Perth Mint gold swindle 20 years ago. The West Australian Attorney-General, Jim McGinty, said yesterday that Anthony Lewandowski had given an affidavit to the Director of Public Prosecutions admitting he and the former CIB chief Don Hancock, who was murdered last year, had lied and fabricated evidence to convict the Mickelbergs. Raymond, Peter and Brian Mickelberg were convicted in 1983 of swindling $650,000 worth of gold from the mint. Raymond, a former SAS soldier, was released from jail in 1991 after serving eight years of a 20-year sentence. Peter served six years of a 14-year sentence. Brian Mickelberg had his conviction overturned after nine months in jail. He died in a helicopter crash in 1986.

Perth Mint

The Perth Mint Swindle is the popular name of a 22 June 1982 gold robbery at the Perth Mint in Perth, Western Australia. A total of 49 gold bars weighing 68 kg were stolen. The value of the gold at the time was A$653,000. Three brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian Mickelberg were sent to court and were sentenced in 1983 to twenty, sixteen and twelve years in jail respectively. The convictions against all three were eventually overturned. To date the case remains unsolved and continues to be fought by the Mickelbergs who maintain their innocence and allege a conspiracy by the police to frame them. Soon after the robbery police investigations focused on the Mickelberg brothers. According to the police, the Mickelberg brothers stole cheques from a Perth building society and then fooled the mint into accepting those cheques in exchange for gold bullion, which it was alleged, the brothers had picked up by a courier. The gold was picked up by a security company who delivered it to an office in.

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Police corruption rife in Qld, says former officer

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This is a transcript from PM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio. You can also listen to the story in REAL AUDIO and WINDOWS MEDIA and MP3 formats.

PM - Monday, 16 April , 2007  18:35:40Reporter: Lindy Kerin PETER CAVE: A key whistleblower at the Fitzgerald Royal Commission into Police Corruption in Queensland says it's time to repeat the process. Retired police officer Col Dillon served more than three decades in the Queensland police force, and is one of Australia's most highly decorated Indigenous police officers. He's told the ABC's Message Stick program, corruption in the force is still very much alive. Full interview is lower down this page

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Queensland Police

Queensland Police Service
With Honour We Serve
Established:	January 1, 1864
Headed by:	Commissioner Robert Atkinson
Ministry:	Police and Corrective Services
Headquarters:	200 Roma Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000
Employees:	9003
Major units:
Child Protection and Investigation Unit Special Emergency Response Team Tactical Crime Squad
http://www.police.qld.gov.au/

The Queensland Police Service is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto of "Firmness with Courtesy" was changed to "With Honour We Serve". The headquarters of the Queensland Police Service is located at 200 Roma Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

• 1 History
  • 1.1 1900s
  • 1.2 1960s
  • 1.3 1970s
  • 1.4 1980s
  • 1.5 1990s
  • 1.6 2000s
• 2 Mission
• 3 Regions
• 4 Ranks
• 5 Specialist areas
• 6 Commissioners
• 7 References
• 8 External links

History

The Queensland Police was established on January 1, 1864 and started operations with approximately 143 employees, including the first Commissioner of Police D.T. Seymour. The service had four divisions: Metropolitan Police, Rural Police, Water Police, and Native Police. Bicycles were introduced in 1895. At the turn of the century there were 845 men and 135 Aboriginal trackers at 256 stations in Queensland.

1900s

In 1904 the Queensland Police started to use fingerprinting in investigations. The first women police officers were inducted in 1931 to assist in inquiries involving women suspects and prisoners. Following World War II a number of technological innovations were adopted including radio for communication within Queensland and between State Departments. By 1950 the Service was staffed by 2,030 sworn personnel, 10 women police and 30 trackers.

1960s

In 1965 women officers were given the same powers as male officers.

1970s

The Queensland Police Academy complex at Oxley, Brisbane, was completed in 1972. Bicycles were phased out in 1975 and the Police put more cars and motorcycles into service, the Police Air Wing also became operational in 1975 following the purchase of two single-engine aircraft. In 1980, a new computerised message switching system was put into use throughout the State, giving Queensland one of the most effective police communication systems in Australia.

1980s

The 1980s were a turbulent period in Queensland's political history, allegations of high-level corruption in the Queensland Police and State government led to a judicial inquiry presided by Tony Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald Inquiry which ran from July 1987 to July 1989 led to charges being laid against many long serving police including, Jack Herbert, Licensing Branch sergeant Harry Burgess, assistant commissioner Graeme Parker, ^[1]the Police Commissioner Terry Lewis (who was gaoled and served ten and a half years) and a perjury trial against the State Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

1990s

The Police Powers and Responsibility Act 1997, was passed by the Queensland government on July 1, 1997. The Act provides Police with powers necessary for modern effective policing. Technological introductions in the 1990s include Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, the Glock semi-automatic pistol, extendible batons and hinged handcuffs in 1998,and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) laser-based detection devices and an Integrated Traffic Camera System in 1999 to enforce traffic speed limits.

2000s

The Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 came into force in July 2000, consolidating the majority of police powers into one Act. The Queensland Police contribute to the national CrimTrac system and the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS), established in 2000. The Crime and Misconduct Act 2001 commenced 1 January 2002 and redefined the responsibilities of the service and the Crime and Misconduct Commission with respect to the management of complaints.

As of 30 June 2002 there were 8,367 sworn staff (20.2% women) and 2,925 staff members at 321 Police Stations, 40 Police Beat shopfronts and 21 Neighbourhood Police Beats throughout the state.

As of June 30 2004, the Queensland Police Service had 9,003 sworn staff (21.8% women) and 2,994 staff members.

Around 2006, some officers received a TASER stun gun.

In mid-2007, approximately 5,000 officers participated in the Pride in Policing march through Brisbane, Queensland's capital.

Mission

To serve the people of Queensland by protecting life and property, preserving peace and safety, preventing crime and upholding law in a manner which has regard for the public good and rights of individuals.

Regions

There are eight police regions in the State of Queensland, each under command of an Assistant Commissioner:

• Far Northern Region
• Northern Region
• Central Region
• North Coast Region
• Metropolitan North Region
• Metropolitan South Region
• Southern Region
• South Eastern Region

These regions are further divided into districts or divisions.

Ranks

See also: Australian police ranks

Ranks of the Queensland Police Service are as follows:

Non-Commissioned Ranks

• Recruit (light blue epaulette with embroidered 'RECRUIT')
• Constable (plain blue epaulette)
• Constable 5 years (one embroidered chevron)
• Senior Constable (two embroidered chevrons)

Senior NonCommissioned Ranks

• Sergeant (three embroidered chevrons)
• Senior Sergeant (embroidered crown with laurels)

Commissioned Ranks

• Inspector (three pips)
• Superintendent (one crown and one pip)
• Chief Superintendent (one crown and two pips)

• Assistant Commissioner (crossed tipstaves with laurels)
• Deputy Commissioner (one pip and crossed tipstaves with laurels)
• Commissioner (one crown and crossed tipstaves with laurels)

Constable

Constable (5 years)

Senior Constable

Sergeant

Senior Sergeant

Inspector

Superintendent

Chief Superintendent

Assistant Commissioner

Deputy Commissioner

Commissioner

Rank insignia is worn only by uniformed officers. Officers at the rank of Inspector and above (commissioned officers) have the words 'Queensland Police' embroidered on their epaulettes, which are significantly larger than the epaulettes of lower ranks. Different paypoints apply within the same rank relative to years of service.

Specialist areas

Officers must serve a mininum of three to five years in general duties before being permitted to serve in specialist areas such as:

• Child Protection and Investigation Unit (CPIU)
• Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB)
• Dog Squad
• Forensic Crash Unit
• Forensic Services Branch
• Mounted
• Prosecutions
• Railway Squad
• Scenes of Crime
• Special Emergency Response Team (SERT)
• Stock Squad
• Tactical Crime Squad (TCS)
• Traffic Branch
• Water Police

Commissioners

Period Served	Name
2000 -	Robert Atkinson
1992 - 2000	James Patrick O'Sullivan
1989 - 1992	Noel Ronald Newnham
1987 - 1989	Ronald Joseph Redmond
1976 - 1987	Terence Murray Lewis
1970 - 1976	Raymond Wells Whitrod
1969 - 1970	Norrin William Bauer
1958 - 1969	Francis Erich Bischof
1957	Thomas William Harrold
1955 - 1957	Patrick Glynn
1949 - 1954	John Smith
1934 - 1949	Cecil James Carroll
1925 - 1934	William Harold Ryan
1921 - 1925	Patrick Short
1917 - 1921	Frederick Charles Urquhart
1905 - 1916	William Geoffrey Cahill
1895 - 1905	William Edward Parry-Okenden
1864 - 1895	David Thomson Seymour

 
It is noted that most of the Police Commissions in Queensland above are senior Freemasons.
The Freemasons are a very strong force in the legal, political and police force in Queensland, and Freemasons have a code to protect  their own and if any tries to stand up against anyone of their members they quickly bring the full power of the legal, political and police system against them
The Queensland Police Academy complex at Oxley, , was completed in . Bicycles were phased out in and the Police put more and into service, the Police Air Wing also became operational in 1975 following the purchase of two single-engine aircraft. In , a new message switching system was put into use throughout the State, giving Queensland one of the most effective police communication systems in Australia.The 1980s were a turbulent period in Queensland's political history, allegations of high-level in the Queensland Police and State government led to a judicial inquiry presided by Tony Fitzgerald. The which ran from July to July led to charges being laid against many long serving police including, Jack Herbert, Licensing Branch sergeant Harry Burgess, assistant commissioner Graeme Parker, the Police Commissioner (who was gaoled and served ten and a half years) and a trial against the State Premier .The Police Powers and Responsibility Act 1997, was passed by the Queensland government on July 1, . The Act provides Police with powers necessary for modern effective policing. Technological introductions in the 1990s include , the semi-automatic pistol, extendible batons and hinged in ,and Light Detection and Ranging () laser-based detection devices and an Integrated Traffic Camera System in to enforce traffic .To serve the people of Queensland by protecting life and property, preserving peace and safety, preventing crime and upholding law in a manner which has regard for the public good and rights of individuals.Rank insignia is worn only by uniformed officers. Officers at the rank of Inspector and above (commissioned officers) have the words 'Queensland Police' embroidered on their , which are significantly larger than the epaulettes of lower ranks. Different paypoints apply within the same rank relative to years of service. It is noted that most of the Police Commissions in Queensland above are senior Freemasons.The Freemasons are a very strong force in the legal, political and police force in Queensland, and Freemasons have a code to protect  their own and if any tries to stand up against anyone of their members they quickly bring the full power of the legal, political and police system against them

Police corruption rife in Qld, says former officer
Mark Colvin presents PM Monday to Friday from 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio. Join Mark for the latest current affairs, wrapping the major stories of each day.

Transcript This is a transcript from PM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio.

You can also listen to the story in REAL AUDIO and WINDOWS MEDIA and MP3 formats. PM - Monday, 16 April , 2007  18:35:40 Reporter: Lindy Kerin

PETER CAVE: A key whistleblower at the Fitzgerald Royal Commission into Police Corruption in Queensland says it's time to repeat the process.
Retired police officer Col Dillon served more than three decades in the Queensland police force, and is one of Australia's most highly decorated Indigenous police officers.
He's told the ABC's Message Stick program, corruption in the force is still very much alive.
He's also called for an inquiry to help mend relations between the police and the Indigenous communities.
Lindy Kerin reports
LINDY KERIN: When he retired six years ago, Col Dillon was the country's highest-ranking Indigenous police officer.
He rose to national prominence during the 1980s, when he blew the whistle on police corruption at the Fitzgerald Royal Commission.
Now Col Dillon has told the ABC's Message Stick program, things haven't improved and that police corruption in Queensland is rife.
COL DILLON: The culture that was pre-Fitzgerald is there today and every bit as strong as what it was pre-Fitzgerald. It may have softened a little bit after some of the reform processes come into place and so forth, but there's been backsliding of a great magnitude in terms of the police doing the services in this State.
LINDY KERIN: Col Dillon is now documenting his policing career.
He says his tell-all book will name corrupt figures who weren't identified in the Fitzgerald inquiry.
COL DILLON: There will be people out there that will be concerned and have some apprehension about what may be put to paper by me because there's no doubt in my mind, and I know for a fact that there are people when the net was cast to haul in the corrupt, there were quite a few that got away.
LINDY KERIN: Last December Col Dillon quit his job as a State Government adviser in Queensland. He resigned in protest over the handling of the death in custody of an Aboriginal man on Palm Island.
Col Dillon says he's deeply concerned about the relationship between Queensland police and the Indigenous community.
He says it's time for an inquiry into how the Queensland Police Service operates.
COL DILLON: To my mind I would say this without any fear of contradiction that it is high time again for another far reaching inquiry into our police service and the way that it operates.
LINDY KERIN: The Queensland Police Service has declined to respond to Col Dillon's comments. So too has the State's Police Union. A spokesman Ross Musgrove says the union doesn't want to help promote Col Dillon's book.
He says if the former police officer has a legitimate complaint, he should take it to the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission.
But the President of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Terry O'Gorman, says Col Dillon's comments should be taken seriously.
TERRY O'GORMAN: Col Dillon's got an enormous store of credibility.
He was an inspector of police and an Aboriginal inspector of police in the Licensing Squad when he blew the whistle on corruption.
He stayed in the police for a period of time after that.
When he left the police he worked in Indigenous Affairs for the Queensland Government, while still keeping in close contact with the Queensland Police Service.
He's got enormous credibility and the Police Minister and the Police Commissioner cannot simply brush his well-founded criticisms aside.
And if he says that the Crime and Misconduct Commission is so compromised because it's over time fallen into a pretty ineffective oversight body against the Queensland police then perhaps an external inquiry needs to be set up.
PETER CAVE: Terry O'Gorman from the Australian Council for Civil Liberties ending that report from Lindy Kerin.
In a statement this afternoon, the Queensland Police Minister said she hadn't yet seen the program in which he makes these claims and would watch it when it goes to air tonight.
Judy Spence says if Mr Dillon is has any information on corruption in the Queensland Police Service he should report it to the appropriate bodies.

Queensland Detective Greg Stormont conspires with well known drug dealer Lisa Quain to break and enter a luxury Gold Coast home and steal $50,000 worth of Furniture
Judy Spence has been given evidence that can prove Queensland Detective Greg Storemont conspired with Lisa Quain and other police and criminals to break and enter a luxury home in Queensland Gold Coast and steal $50,000 worth of furniture......there were caught out by a long and expensive investigation by the INL News Group and became very scared abiut being exposed and ended up returning a lot of the furniture.
The robbery was done for a number of reasons including:

1. So well known drug addict Lisa Quain could raise money to feed her $1,000 a week drug habit and Greg Storemont a few extra dollars in his back pocket from the sale of the furniture

2. As part of a overall conspiracy involving Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his criminal net work of drug lords and shaby lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users, to try and create a false charge against the owner of the property where the furniture was stolen and  the borrowers of properties in Red Oak Drive Tallai in an overall conspiracy to defraud the borrowers of their $90 million in equity in these properties which the owners of seven properties in Red Oak Drive Tallai had a sale for $100 million. The plan was simple. Help Lisa Quain break and enter the property and steal two housefuls of expensive luxury furniture and get Lisa Quain to make a false statement to the police that the borrowers of the seven properties in Red Oak Drive, Tallai and the owner of the property where the furniture was stolen were involved in stealing the furniture themselves. This way Queensland Detective Greg Stormont can create false charges against the owners of the Seven properties in Red Oak Tallai that they were involved with breaking and entering and stealing the furniture, have them arrested on these false charges which would make it more difficult to be able to refinance these properties away from the 10% to 20% per month interest loans from a gaol cell trying to defend these false charges. In the mean time the shady lenders repossesses the properties and they are sold cheap to their associates, then sold a few year later for million in tax free profits.
Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his criminal net work of drug lords and shady lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users were also desperately wanting  to get hold of the ownership of the house where the $50,000 of luxury furniture was stolen at a cheap price so they also wanted to set the owner up of that property on a false charge. This way this robbery could achieve all their aims. They could use Lisa Quain's false police statement that the owner of the house where the robbery took place that the owner was involved in having their own furniture stolen, so when the insurance claim went was made a as result of the robbery, the owner of the house would be falsely charged for making a false insurance claim using the false statement of Lisa Quain, a drug dealer and user, who is a partner with the corrupt police like Greg Stormont, to support this false charge.

3. Use the robbery to see if there were papers in the house that could be used to try and set up the owner of the house and the owners of the seven house in Red Oak Drive Tallai of other false charges so that they could come back later and get an official police warrant  to falsely make out that papers they stole in the robbery where removed legally with the search warrant.
The problem now for Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his criminal net work of drug lords and shady lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users is that INL News Group can conclusively prove that papers that were stolen in the robbery by Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his criminal net work of drug lords and shady lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users where in the possession of Queensland Detective Greg Stormont the day before Queensland Detective Greg Stormont  obtained the official search warrant.
Like all criminals like Queensland Detective Greg Stormont

4. Use the robbery to steal the original series of books belonging to the INL News Group and its shareholders called the  The Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers?) which in over 10,000 pages in six volumes setting out the most serious corruption and wrongful acts committed by Judges, Magistrates, low level, middle ranking and senior police, senior politicians, court clerks, corrupt business people, corrupt lawyers and barristers, corrupt public trustee officers and others. These books were about to be made into a series of feature films and television and Internet series which would have made the INL News Group hundreds of million sof dollars as ell has have the world know how corrupt the political, legal, public trustee, business and court system in Australia is.
These books were originally sold to the Western Australian Alexander Resource Library and were recorded on the computer references in the Library for two years, however the books were so provative and damaging to the most powerful people in the political, legal, public trustee, business and court system in Australia, that even without any court order, the crown law office in Western Australia demanded  that the library shred the books as though the library never brought them and just never existed. Normally when a book is written that someone is upset about it's contents, they issue a legal writ for damages and an injunction to stop it being published. However the powerful people in the political, legal, public trustee, business and court system in Australia  did not want to do this as this would bring world publicity to the contents of the books and they knew they would lose the court case because everything was the truth in the books and the contents was simply information that had already been lodged in the Local, District, Supreme, Federal and High Courts over three decades.
It is noted that the INL News Group has given notice on many occasions to the Government of Queensland and the Queensland Police Force that the longer they wrongfully hold onto these books the over $1 billion damage claim in mounting day by day. and the INL News Group are preparing to sue the Government of Queensland and the Queensland Police Force for over $1 billion in damages because the theft of these books has hindered the INL News Group from making the series of  films, TV series and Internet movies based on The Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers?).
If it was not the the INL News Group expensive and lengthy investigation into this matter, the bulk of the furniture would not have been returned by Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his criminal net work of drug lords and shady lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users and the  INL News Group would not have gathered the conclusive evidence to prove that Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his criminal net work of drug lords and shady lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users were clearly involved with breaking and entering the house and stealing $50,000 worth of furniture. The INL News Group have constantly offered to provide the complete investigation file to the CMC,Judy Spence and anyone else that wanted ot have it to have this all investigates, but no one is interested in the truth that would mean Queensland Detective Greg Stormont would be sacked form the police force and end up in jail along with many others from his criminal net work of drug lords and shady lenders, bikie heavies and drug dealers and users

Letters written to Judy Spence, the Minister for the Police In Queensland and her response

Please read the following article on www.inlnews.com
and pass on to as many people and as many authorities as possible as this sort of behavior by the police has to stop as Australian Citizens are in danger and besides it is giving Australia a very bad name in the world as one of the most corrupt and dangerous societies to live, especially Queensland which seems to be the most corrupt
The CMC should supina Lisa Quain to get her to tell all about the police involvement with selling and taking drugs and helping to protect major drug dealers in Queensland and other states in Australia, Western Australia where she originally comes form she says has the same problems with corrupt police, they have been protecting her drug operation for years, however she is only a very low level drug dealer who is a young mum you ended up with a $1,000 a week speed habit as a result of the police who work in with the local bikie gangs supplying her with a large amount of speed and she then had to keep selling drugs for and with the police and their associates to support her $1,000 a week speed habit. Eventually they will provide her with a Hot Shot (a lethal dose of drugs)and kill her that way so she can not speak out anymore and tell the world what the police and their criminal drug dealing partners have been up to. There will simply be an article in the newspaper that a well know drug dealer and drug addict died of an overdose of drugs last night and nobody will give a dam. Lisa Quain needs protection by the CMC and to be looked after and she can help the CMC clean up the billion dollar drug operation in Queensland and have many of the corrupt police and drug dealers arrested. That is of course if the CMC are not corrupt themselves and want to clean up the drug problem and the corrupt police, in that case the CMC will do nothing, not bother to bring Lisa Quain in to tell all she knows, and she knows a lot, believe us. Lisa Quain can bring a lot of powerful people down and maybe force another royal commission into the Queensland police and the Federal Police to try and stop the corruption that helps make sure the multi Billion Drug industry survives in Queensland and keeps killing out young people and destroying their lives
Stop Press International News Flash
The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Kallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others are accused of being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up  serious crimes and wrongful acts committed by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their associates-
 INL News has been presented with evidence that senior state Queensland Police officers are involved with protecting major drugs dealers in the Gold Coast to help with developing and protecting the multi billion dollar drug industry thriving in the Gold Coast Queensland Australia who use their illegal drugs profits to lend out on shady high interest rate real estate loans at up to 15% interest per month using high profile lawyers trust accounts to launder the billions in drug profits-
INL News has been given evidence by  well known low level drug dealers and users who have agreed to help expose the corruption in the Queensland Police Force and the police involvement at high levels in drug taking and drug selling in the Gold Coast in Queensland-
the witnesses who have provided sworn evidence to INL are now in hiding for fear of their lives.....
Watch this space for more details soon to be published by INL News for the world to see what really goes on in the sunny Gold Coast Queensland Australia, which is fast becoming the crime capital of the world, with such crimes being developed, supported, maintained and protected by senior members of the Queensland Police Force-
INL has been told by one senior ex-police officer that used to be in the major crime squad, that he had to  leave the Queensland Police Force because he could not stand up against senior police protecting major drug dealers and allowing them to operate openly with senior police protection in the Gold  Coast Queensland... it became a choice to either join their corrupt and illegal activities or leave the police force and keep his integrity... but again he was too scared to speak up publicly as to what he saw for fear of his life and the life of his family living in the Gold Coast... these people will stop at nothing to protect their illegal business interests and because they are the police, there is no where to run and no where to hide from these people, who have no hesitation of having someone murdered to make sure of their silence and making threats of murder and physical body damage to anyone or their families  that
get in their way.....
INL News has such evidence well secured in an international location ready to be presented to the International Court of Justice if those involved with such criminal and wrongful behavior cause any further trouble to innocent people who are presently being wrongfully being harassed by The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Hallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up  serious crimes and wrongful acts committed by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their assistants...
"...I texed Lisa Quain today, to ask her how she was... this is the reply.....having a bad day again, as per usual. trying to correlate the whole saga of extremely traumatic events.we are trying to put it in chronological order, with names and phone numbers of witnesses and government  authority contacts or departments that can verify facts that prove a gross misconduct and negligence or official corruption . its just too much to cope with. too much occurred . its a HUGE  amount of criminal  offences commited against us ! police refused to act on any of it, that includes hand guns  pointed at us. unbelievable , but all true......."

Subject: CMC used by corrupt Queensland police to cover up crimes police have committed From: patrick.obi@inlnews.com Date: Mon, October 29, 2007 10:31 pm
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Urgent Attention Attorney General for Queensland Honourable Kerry Shine MP
The Honourable Kerry Shine MP was appointed Queensland’s Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Premier in Western Queensland on 1 November 2006.
Mr Shine was elected to State Parliament as the Member for Toowoomba North in 2001.
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 Dear  Sir or Madame
 I am the editor of INLNews.com and I have authorized the world wide publication of the following article on our web site   www.inlnews.com
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The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Hallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others are accused of being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up  serious crimes and wrongful acts committed by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their assistants-
 INL News has been presented with evidence that senior state Queensland Police officers are involved with protecting major drugs dealers in the Gold Coast to help with developing and protecting the multi billion dollar drug industry thriving in the Gold Coast Queensland Australia who use their illegal drugs profits to lend out on shady high interest rate real estate loans at up to 15% interest per month using high profile lawyers trust accounts to launder the billions in drug profits-INL News has been given evidence by a well known low level drug dealers and user who agreed to help expose the corruption in the Queensland Police Force and the police involvement at high levels in drug taking and drug selling in the Gold Coast in Queensland-the witnesses who has provided sworn evidence to INL is now in hiding for fear of their lives.....
Watch this space for more details soon to be published by INL News for the world to see what really goes on in the sunny Gold Coast Queensland Australia which is fast becoming the crime capital of the world, with such crimes being developed, supported, maintained and protected by senior members of the Queensland Police Force- INL has been told by one senior ex-police officer that used to be in the major crime squad that he had to the leave the Queensland Police Force because he could not stand up against senior police protecting major drug dealers operating openly with senior police protection in the Gold Coast Queensland... it became a choice to either join their corrupt and illegal activities or leave the police force and keep his integrity... but again was too scared to speak up publicly as to what he saw for fear of his life and the life of his family living in the Gold Coast... these people will stop at nothing to protect their illegal business interests and because they are the police, there is no where to run and no where to hide from these people, who have no hesitation of having someone murdered to make sure of their silence and making threats of murder and physical body damage to anyone or their families  that
get in their way.....
INL News has such evidence well secured in an international location ready to be presented to the International Court of Justice if those involved with such criminal and wrongful behavior cause any further trouble to innocent people who are presently being wrongfully being harassed by The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Hallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up  serious crimes and wrongful acts committed by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their assistants

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Hon Judy Spence MP Member for Mount Gravatt   Minister for Police, Corrective Services and Sport Response to Ministerial Correspondence Received by E-mail Ref:  8893 F1 WK
19 November 2007 Mr Patrick Obi patrick.obi@inlnews.com
Dear Mr Obi
Thank you for your email of 31 October 2007 concerning your allegations against the Queensland Police Service. This matter is receiving attention and you will be advised further as soon as possible.
 Yours sincerely Judy Spence MP Minister for Police, Corrective Services and Sport

As Yet there has been no further communication from Judy Spence,  the Minister for Police, Corrective Services and Sport for Queensland.
INLNews.com does not expect to receive any further communication from Judy Spense, as it is quite clear that Judy Spence and the rest of the Government in Queensland are not in the least bit interested in tackling and or wanting to even admit the existence of the serious multi billion dollar illegal drug trade in Queensland that ex Major Queensland Crime Squad Detective Dan Lansky, now working for www.smartventures.com.au and Chapmans Limited says exists.
Mr Dan Lansky has stated to reporters of INLNews.com that he left the Queensland Police Force after a long and successful career because it sickened him so constantly get instructions from his more senior police officers that that instead of arresting well known drug lords in Queensland's Gold Coast that her saw living the life style of the rich and famous on other people's misery, he was constantly asked to protect the drug lords at the head of the food chain who make the billions each year out the illegal industry that thrives with the help of senior Queensland Police like Detective Greg Stormont, who heads a major criminal drugs and shady loans syndicate that involves Queensland Police at the most highest rank, multi millionaire and billionaire businessmen, well respected Lawyers, CMC Officers, Bikie gangs and standover and hit men.
Ex Queensland Major Crime Squad detective Dan Lansky says he does not regret for one minute leaving the Queensland Police Force to work in the high flyer world of Public listed company with Borris Ganke in Chapmans Limited and Brett Goldsworthy in www.smartventures.com.au. Dan Lansky says at least he now makes an honest living, rather than being paid by the Queensland Government to protect billionaire drugs lords living lavish life styles in Queensland's Gold Coast, which is fast becoming known as the drug and crime capital of the world.
If Judy Spence, the Commissioner of Police, the Premier of Queensland and the Criminal Misconduct Commission (CMC) and the rest of those in charge of running Queensland are serious about tackling the billion dollar illegal drug trade that is now a major part of Queensland's thriving economy, then they will get the CMC and other law enforcement and investigative bodies to interview people like Lisa Quain on the lower end of drug taking and selling drugs to feed her $1,000 a day drug habbit and people like Dan Lansky who can give clear evidence of his knowledge of illegal activities within the police force and also have another Royal Commission into the Queensland Police Force with a specific reference to exposing and investigating why a multi billion dollars illegal drug industry can thrive in Queensland right under the noses of State and Federal Police Authorities whoa re meant to be there to stop such illegal activity, rather than protect protect such activity and share in the billion dollars profits made each year form the suffering and misery of those who pay each week for these illegal drugs.
The other devastating and sad effect of this thriving billion dollar illegal drug industry in Queensland is that it is the major cause of the rest of the crime that takes place in Queensland such as robberies and violence as the hooked drug users like Lisa Quain have to break and enter house, cars and rob people in the street to obtain the money to pay for the drugs they are desperate to obtain each week. Such drug users also supliment the income they obtain from robberies and violence by selling drugs for the billionaire drug lords who have corrupt police and other criminal heavies protecting their business and making sure that low level drug users and sellers like Lisa Quain are well aware if the try to expose them in any way they will either end up dead by a bullet through the head, or just end up being found on some street corner one morning having died of a hot shot of lethal cocktail of drugs that have been given to  her by her more senior drug dealer under instructions from the power billionaire drug lords that run the whole illegal drug industry in Queensland.
It is noted that it is a well established fact that most of the illegal drugs that are sold in New South Wales and either grown and/or manufactured in Queensland and transported by truck, train and plane down daily to New South Wales.
If the Queensland authorities were serious about stopping the thriving billion dollar illegal drugs industry in Queensland, which could be down easily if the Queensland Police stopped protecting drug dealers and sharing in the yearly profits made from the illegal drug industry, and did the job they are paid to do by the Queensland people, that is, to stop crime rather than being involved with perpetuating crime and protecting the senior criminal fiqures that control crime in Queensland.
It is also a well know fact that the billionaire drug lords use senior well respected law firms to launder their drug profits and to keep this money circulating and making more money but placing these illegal drug profits into the trust accounts of the well respected law firms and then the money lend out to desperate business people who need cash in a hurray for a business deal at up to 20% per month for short term loans. They then secure these loans against the lenders real estate assets, knowing they will never be able to keep up with interest payments of 10-20% per month.
Then the next step in the loan scam is that the lenders use powerful corrupt estate agents like Ray White and LJ Hooker and corrupt registered valuers like Herron Todd White who all work together in the Gold Coast to devalue the borrowers home so it is impossible for them the refinance their homes with a normal bank lender. Because the false reduced value and market appraisal placed on the property by the Ray White Estate Agents and Herron Todd White Valuers means that the borrowers loan to equity ratio is too low for a normal bank to approve a refinancing of the property to get the borrower out of the now 20% per month loan that has gone into penalty rate form the original 10% per month rate .
What happens next is the drug lord billionaire lender now repossesses the home of the borrower, sells it up cheap at a mortgagee sale with the buyer being a partner of the lender. The property is eventually resold  year or so later for a big profit and the finds received form the sale of the property is then clean tax free money from attack form any of the regulatory and taxation bodies. The parter of the billionaire drug lord who brought the house cheap at mortgagee sale lives in the house as his own home so when it is sold the profit on the house is completely tax free.
In one instance in a street called Red Oak Drive Tallai, where the criminal syndicate headed by Queensland Detective Greg Stormont and his drug lord lenders, lend out about $7 million on properties which had the potential for making hundreds of millions in development profits because their large acreage and the sweeping Gold Coast and Hinze Dam Views. These loans where made in the hope that the borrower could not pay the loans back and included loans set up fees of about $100,000 per property besides the 10% per month interest rate that rose to 20% per month if the interest was not paid on time.Detective Greg Stormont ran around telling everyone in the street, in Tallai and the whole gold coast including valuers, estate agents and financiers that the companies that loaned the money were under investigation for a serious fraud, Ray White Real Estate Agents and Herron Todd White Valuers ran around saying the properties has an independent sworn valuation of $2-$3 million each were only worth about $500,000 to $600,000 being luxury large homes on about 10 acres each, with sweeping views of the Gold Coast and the Hinze Dam and only ten minutes drive from the ocean, ten major shopping centres, 20 minutes drive from the Gold Coast International Airport and only 50 minutes drive form Brisbane.
There powerful contacts even managed to get the valuers government body to instruct all valuers in Queensland to refuse to value these properties at any price. So that when the borrower had loans approved from various normal lenders at 8% per annum to refinance these properties and/or had any of these properties sold, they made sure that no valuation could be obtained so the refinance and/or the sale could not go ahead.

This way the 7 properties that had independent sworn valuations of about $21 million with overall loans of about $7-8 million, suddenly were un-refinancable and un-sale able and they could only be sold to cash buyers at  mortgagee sales at about $600,000 with anyone that showed any interest in purchasing the properties being told by Ray White Real Estate who are considered the God in real estate advice in the Gold Coast and Herron Todd White Valuers that these properties were only worth about $500,000 to $600,000 each and no more. this meant that no one was willing to pay anymore that these price sin the end the properties started to be sold for about $600,000 each.
For the borrowing companies this meant they had loans of about $7 million with sale prices and market appraisals of about $3.6 million, when only a few months before the borrowing companies had independent sworn valuations of about $21 million which meant that there should have been no problem about borrowing up to about $14 million at 8% per annum, paying out all the high priced 20% per months loans and having about $5 million in working capital to purchase a well established cash flow business making ample income to pay the the the 8% per annum interest on the $14 million loan.
In stead, the properties were forclosed on and the properties were being sold to parters and/or friends of the powerful drug lord/financiers/police at bargain prices of about $600 each.
The new buyers just have to make this their own home and eventually sell these properties for millions of dollars as valuable developments sites with luxury homes on them, with the profits all tax free as clean money as any profit from the sale of your own home where you live as your primary residence is completely tax free in Australia.
Now two years later properties in Red Oak Drive are no going on the market for over $2 million,
by the established estate agents who said that in two years ago they were only worth about $600,000.
A nice tidy tax  free profit for the criminal Drug Lords/Financiers/Police syndicate and their associates.
The situation even gets worse. Those that are in a position to threaten to expose this devious scam, are then frightened to speak about it all publicly by Detective Greg Stormont using his corrupt contacts in Queensland's Criminal Misconduct Commission (CMC) to drag innocent people into secret interrogation hearings where only a high priced corrupt lawyer at the cost of $3,000 a day can attend and be asked about these real estate deals and are told that if they speak to anyone about this they will be arrested by the CMC as under the Queensland Law it appears that anything that is discussed in these secret hearing is not allowed to be discussed outside to anyone. You are not even meant to tell anyone you have been dragged to these secret hearings.
The purpose of Detective Greg Stormont who is fronting for the criminal syndicate, for the CMC hearings to two fold:
1. The frighten the life out of anyone that could be a danger to speak out against the criminal syndicate;

2. The by pass the well established right to remain silent, so that trick questions can be asked at these hearings and can be used by the corrupt police such as Greg Storment to try and create a false charge against the witness.

Then a charge is laid against the witness that could have been a danger of exposing the criminal syndicate and then the police will try and oppose bail, and i n the mean time one of their corrupt layer mates will extract hundreds of thousand of dollars from the witness in legal fee defending these false charges against them. In the end the false charges are dropped when the police are forced by the courts to produce evidence that proves a criminal offense has been committed.
In the mean time the witness that has been falsely arrest has had their reputation destroyed, lost all their assets in legal fees and had a nervous breakdown. Under Queensland Law it is very difficult to be able to successfully sue a police officer for charging you with a criminal offense and then not producing any evidence that satisfies the court that a criminal offense has been committed, and the charges are thrown out by the court. Most lawyer will tell a person that you can not sue a police officer for laying charges that in the end had no basis.
So Detective Greg Stormont can corruptly use his power as a police officer and his corrupt contacts in the CMC to have anyone that could be see to be an enemy of his criminal business associates, dragged off the street and/or form their home into secret interrogation star chamber hearings, interrogated against their will and lose their normal right to remain silent, the charged with a criminal offense that simply has no basis whatsoever and force the person to spend a fortune on lawyers to have bail granted and defend these false charges for about two years. Then finally after spending all their money in high priced lawyers, had their creditability tarnished and had a nervous breakdown over all the victimization, Greg Storemont does not produce the evidence to the court to satisfy the court at a preliminary or committal hearing that the person has committed a criminal offense and  the charges are thrown out by the court.
Detective Greg Stormont knows nothing will happen to him and his criminal syndicate members who in the mean time are living the high life from all the profits of all their criminal activities.
However, what Greg Stormont does not understand that the INL News Group have in the past helped Tony Webster from Western Australia sue a police officer form Kalgoorlie Supreme Court for damages, called Sergent Lampard. The Master in the Supreme Court first dismissed the action saying that one can not sue a police officer. The INL News Group then help Tony Webster take an appeal to the High Court which ruled in Tony Webster's favour.
Now everyone in Australia can use this High Court case called
Webster v Lampard as a legal basis to sue a police officer personally for damages if it is felt hat his has gone beyond his normal call of duty.
There is no doubt that before long Detective Greg Stormont will be sued for multi millions in damages and his employers, the Queensland Government will be jointly and severally liable to pay this damage claim. This damage claim will be paid from hardworking Queensland tax payers money. This all could have been avoided if the Queensland parliamentarians like Judy Spence would take notice of all the evidence that there is serious and deep routed corruption in the Queensland Police Force and now also the CMC which is effectively been used by corrupt police like Greg Stormont and his and his other criminal members of his criminal syndicate as their personal Star Chamber t frighten the life out of anyone that could be a danger to them and to destroy other business people who may be in competition to them.
If something is not done soon to rectify the situation the it will all end up in the International Court of Justice and the world wide media will brand Queensland, their police force and their legal system and the politicians that run Queensland as the most corrupt place in the world.

Political corruption
In broad terms, political corruption is when government officials use their governmental powers for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, like repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government is not considered political corruption either. All forms of government are susceptible to political corruption. Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. While corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and trafficking, it is not restricted to these organized crime activities. In some nations corruption is so common that it is expected when ordinary businesses or citizens interact with government officials. The end-point of political corruption is a kleptocracy, literally "rule by thieves".What constitutes illegal corruption differs depending on the country or jurisdiction. Certain political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some countries, government officials have broad or not well defined powers, and the line between what is legal and illegal can be difficult to draw. Bribery around the world is estimated at about $1 trillion (£494bn) and the burden of corruption falls disproportionately on the bottom billion people living in extreme poverty.^[1]

• 1 Effects
  • 1.1 Effects on politics, administration, and institutions
  • 1.2 Economic effects
  • 1.3 Environmental and social effects
• 2 Types of abuse
  • 2.1 Bribery
  • 2.2 Graft
  • 2.3 Extortion and robbery
  • 2.4 Patronage
  • 2.5 Nepotism and cronyism
  • 2.6 Embezzlement
  • 2.7 Kickbacks
• 3 Conditions favorable for corruption
  • 3.1 Size of public sector
• 4 Governmental corruption
• 5 Campaign contributions
• 6 Measuring corruption
• 7 See also
  • 7.1 Forms or aspects of corruption
  • 7.2 Good governance
  • 7.3 Theoretical aspects
  • 7.4 Anti-corruption authorities and measures
  • 7.5 Examples of corruption
  • 7.6 Corruption in fiction
• 8 References
• 9 Further reading
• 10 External links
  • 10.1 News
  • 10.2 International organizations and research
  • 10.3 Regional and national organisations and research

Police corruption rife in Qld, says former officer
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PM - Monday, 16 April , 2007  18:35:40 Reporter: Lindy Kerin

PETER CAVE: A key whistleblower at the Fitzgerald Royal Commission into Police Corruption in Queensland says it's time to repeat the process.

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Subject: Murder by Queensland's CMC and its officers of an unborn
Child] From: patrick.obi@inlnews.com Date: Wed, December 12, 2007 4:22 am To: nyitfest@gmail.com Cc: nyitfest@yahoo.com
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Murder by Queensland's CMC and its officers of an unborn Child From: patrick.obi@inlnews.com Date: Wed, December 12, 2007 4:20 am
To: attorney@ministerial.qld.gov.au Cc: mailbox@cmc.qld.gov.au, media_unit@cmc.qld.gov.au

The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia (CMC) headed by John David Hallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas

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The INL News Group note that, had the CMC's  innocent victim been the daughter of Rupert Murdoch, the most powerful person in the world today, controlling a majority of the world's mainstream media outlets, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, the Queensland's CMC would never had treated the the CMC's  innocent victim in this manner and the CMC's  innocent victim's unborn child would have still been alive today.
This is another example that there is one rule for the rich and powerful, and another rule for an ordinary  innocent victim, trying their best to live a normal and innocent life with their partner and new child due to be born, and find some basic happiness after trying to recover from a serious nervous beakdown in the last five years, which the CMC had full knowledge of, from tapping the the CMC's  innocent victim's telephone and emails for a long time





Crime and Misconduct Commission

Yes, the CMC protects corrupt police offices who live beyond their means and that can not provide any lawful evidence as to where their funds comes from, in particular large drug dealers that provide funds to support the employees of the Crime and Misconduct Commission to support our expensive life styles.. as the wages that the people of Queensland are simply not enough to pay for all our expensive life styles...


Yes, the CMC supports criminal behavour by police officers in Queensland, in fact anywhere really, as long as they have some sort of police badge we make sure they can continue their criminal behaviour without being harassed in their activities...if anyone tries to expose these criminal activities we have unlimited powers to drag them and/or their families into secret hearings that cost about $2,000 a day to pay a lawyer to attend these hearings with them, as we have made the rules such that only a lawyer can attend with the person we get our corrupt police to drag off the street on only two days notice into these secret hearings.. at the same time we are all paid large salaries by the people of Queensland and the cash we receive on the side from our corrupt police mates and other other criminal mates...


Yes, the CMC supports misconduct as long as it is misconduct by any of our criminal mates  employed in the Police Service and/or another Government Departments or other private criminals that are friends, who are prepared to offer funds to support our expensive life styles that the salaries we obtain from the Queensland Taxpayers do not cover... we specialise in supporting, protecting and encouraging the Queensland and Federal Police and others to import and sell illegal drugs and break and enter houses without a warrant to steal whole housefuls of furniture (as they did in Tallai) and steal the original manuscripts of books such as the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers) that was in the process of being published world wide by International News Limited in books and films and a TV series that would have brought a lot of world wide attention to our criminal behaviour of our corrupt police mates and expose our own criminal activities.. we simply had no choice but to break into that house with the help of our drug taking and selling mates and the Queensland Police, were we suspected this book could be stored.. after all we had to protect our livelihood and our business associates who provide our ability for ourselves to live beyond our means... we at the CMC of course can not be investigated as we are not going to investigate ourselves and we are the only ones with such power... we are simply untouchable and have a very protected monopoly in that regard

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Program Transcript THEME

Peter Beattie: The Fitzgerald Report has been the most single important catalyst for improved behaviour in this State since we became a State in 1859.
Paul Barclay: Ten years ago, Tony Fitzgerald delivered a Report that was to have an extraordinary impact on the State of Queensland, a bold attempt to pull The Moonlight State out of a mire of vice, cronyism, and illegality.
The Fitzgerald Inquiry uncovered corruption and misconduct at the highest levels of the police force and government, and led to the jailing of government ministers and the Commissioner of Police.
But it was far more than a prescription for catching crooked cops and politicians with their snouts in the trough. It was a blueprint for rebuilding confidence in the police, the parliament and the bureaucracy.
More than anything Tony Fitzgerald wanted to ensure Queensland would never again sink to the depths of such appalling official impropriety. And the only way this could be guarded against, he reasoned, was a complete overhaul of the State's discredited public institutions.
But he cautioned, the citizens and their elected representatives would need to be always on their guard. His report warned:
Reader: There are many ways in which the agenda for reform could be delayed or subverted by political or bureaucratic opponents. This has happened previously.
Paul Barclay: Ten years on, has Queensland been faithful to the Fitzgerald vision?
Hello, and welcome to Background Briefing. I'm Paul Barclay.
Wayne Goss: I think it's a courageous and a perceptive document; I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to Mr Fitzgerald, I think it's a blistering indictment on the National Party and on National/Liberal governments, but it's a blueprint for the future, it's a blueprint for a better Queensland and it deserves all of our support.
Paul Barclay: The then Queensland Opposition leader, Wayne Goss.
In early 1987 Courier Mail journalist Phil Dickie was just another pesky young reporter, posing it seemed nothing more than a minor irritation to the State's police force, and the 19-year-old National Party government of Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen.
His allegations that police were turning a blind eye to illegal brothels and gambling houses in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley were new, but no more shocking than other claims bandied about frequently in Queensland.
Then in May that year, along came Chris Masters, and The Moonlight State.
FOUR CORNERS THEME
Russ Hinze: I don't know of any illegal gambling. If there's any going on well then of course I don't know where it is. My commissioner informs me, advises me, that he doesn't know where it is.
Chris Masters: When police and politicians 'can't find' an illegal casino in a Brisbane main street, it's unlikely that in such a morally upright climate, they could discover anything more sinister.
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Paul Barclay: The allegations in this one television program aroused complacent Queenslanders and prompted an immediate response from a government many thought would simply dismiss Chris Masters' revelations.
But the day after that Four Corners program went to air, and with Sir Joh out of the country, acting Premier Bill Gunn announced a judicial inquiry.
Bill Gunn: A favourite saying of the late Russell Hinze was 'You never hold an inquiry unless you know what the outcome will be.' He hade informed me of that, but this was such a serious situation where we considered it was the hierarchy, and I say there was a possibility in for many, many years that there had been corruption in the police force.
Paul Barclay: Do you think Joh would have set up the Fitzgerald Inquiry himself if he'd been in charge?
Bill Gunn: No. No, I don't believe he would and I believe that if he could have stopped it, it would have.
Paul Barclay: The cynics said the Inquiry would last six weeks; it dragged on for two years. It's clear that many people in Queensland give Fitzgerald credit for not just cleaning up The Moonlight State, but also for being instrumental in the birth of the modern, outward-looking Queensland that exists today.
Phil Dickie won the highest accolade in Australian journalism, the Gold Walkley, for his efforts in revealing the tip of the corruption iceberg in Queensland. But when I met up with him, over a glass of his home brew, it's hard to elicit from him any enthusiasm for the progress of the past ten years.
Phil Dickie: Fitzgerald presented Queensland ultimately with a, you know, sort of once or twice a century chance to do a whole lot of spring cleaning, and I'd suggest that ten years out we've probably missed the boat now. We tried, and we tried valiantly in the early years, and then all the institutional constraints caught up with us. And Queensland is, unfortunately, sort of settling back a bit into the pattern, and we might eventually get better prostitution laws. We might eventually get a better police force out of it, and we might already have a better police force out of it, but the overall game of sort of a better, fairer, more just, more open, more accountable society I think we've lost it.
Paul Barclay: Phil Dickie is a rarity among reporters. Unlike, say, Chris Masters after breaking the biggest story of his career, Phil Dickie turned his back on journalism. After uncovering the problem he wanted to be part of the solution.
And the Criminal Justice Commission is a large part of that solution. The CJC is the permanent embodiment of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, with virtually the same wide-ranging powers. It acts as a corruption watchdog, but also promotes criminal justice reform.
Phil Dickie joined the CJC as a special adviser, believing radical change to the criminal justice system was possible.
He left in 1994, disillusioned. Now he enjoys a quieter life, bringing up his young son and their motley collection of chooks, just down the road from where all the action was happening a decade earlier in Fortitude Valley. Sitting with him in his tropical backyard, his disappointment is obvious.
Phil Dickie: I saw it as the Inquiry came down and said, 'Look, here is a chance to remake the institutions of a society so that they are more open, more accountable, more receptive to better ways of doing things, and that the CJC was to be the institution that would turn its attention to our criminal justice system, our interactions with crime and how we best deal with it, far, far more than just being another arm of another police force.'
Paul Barclay: So rather than being a crime fighting agency investigating official misconduct, corruption and until recently organised crime, it should have been a research-driven organisation that was developing new approaches to dealing with crime and actually overhauling the whole criminal justice system.
Phil Dickie: There's no 'should have been' about it, it's quite explicit when you read the recommendations of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, it's quite explicit in the legislation that the CJC was set up under. It's the CJC itself which has chosen to interpret its role basically in a cops and robbers sense, or a corruption watchdog sense.
Paul Barclay: Phil Dickie is not alone in his criticism of the CJC. Almost everyone I spoke with had their own assessment of its flaws. And what are those faults? Well that depends on who you talk to you.
Rob Borbidge: The Criminal Justice Commission took it upon itself to be totally unaccountable, and took it upon itself to assume the role of de facto government in Queensland.
Paul Barclay: Ex-Premier, now Opposition leader, Rob Borbidge.
Rob Borbidge: Now that was not what Fitzgerald proposed, and we saw, in my view, an undermining of the parliamentary process by the CJC particularly under its former chairman who I believe was extremely politically active. Part of the problem is that under previous chairmen, the CJC wanted everyone else to be accountable to them, but they did not want to be accountable to anyone.
Paul Barclay: How did that manifest itself, the CJC playing a role as the de facto government?
Rob Borbidge: Well I guess the most alarming example of their interference in the political process was what amounted to an effective coup d'etat against my minority government over the MOU that was signed with the police union.
Paul Barclay: The 1996 Memorandum of Understanding between the police union and the then coalition opposition triggered a brawl between the CJC and the coalition, soon after it won government. Coalition claims of political interference were to follow, prompting counter claims of attempted intimidation of the CJC.
Suddenly it was conceivable that Fitzgerald's legacy could be gutted, even abolished
The Memorandum of Understanding was a deal signed in secret during a by-election campaign, by the National Party leader Rob Borbidge, his police spokesman, and representatives of the police union. Among other things the memorandum appeared to give the police union a right to veto the appointment of a Police Commissioner, and to commit the coalition to watering down the powers of the CJC. In addition it named six assistant commissioners the union wanted made redundant.
In return for signing the deal, the police union threw its weight behind the Coalition's campaign to win the Mundingburra by-election, a by-election that would decide who would govern. The National Party candidate won in a tight contest. And the coalition was back in power.
Secretary of the Queensland police union, Merv Bainbridge, says the Memorandum of Understanding was not improper.
Merv Bainbridge: To this day I see nothing improper. Memorandums of Understanding have been around from time immemorial. I can remember in the early days of Bob Hawke when he was with the ACTU, he would go to the Labor opposition and put the proposition: 'If you are in government, what can you do for our members?' and basically this is all that the police union did; we went to the alternative government said, 'If you were in government, what are you prepared to do for us?'
Paul Barclay: It did appear though that there were some Assistant Commissioners that you apparently wanted to get rid of, and included that in the Memorandum of Understanding, for those officers to be made redundant.
Merv Bainbridge: It was suggested that their contracts not be renewed. No-one was to be sacked etc. but when they came up it was suggested perhaps that their contracts not be renewed over (I've got to be very careful what I say here), but going into their previous administration.
Paul Barclay: After the February by-election, the police union boasted it was responsible for helping return the conservatives to government. Soon after, the union's newsletter revealed the existence of the Memorandum of Understanding.
The media went berserk. There were uggestions the Electoral Act may have been breached. The government was forced to refer the matter to the CJC which appointed retired New South Wales judge, Kenneth Curruthers, to determine if there was any wrongdoing by Premier Rob Borbidge, his Police Minister, or union officials.
Terry O'Gorman, from the Council for Civil Liberties.
Terry O'Gorman: The historical record shows that the then Police Minister, Russell Cooper, referred the Memorandum of Understanding issue to the CJC in the early weeks of the then conservative government having won office, principally by virtue of the role of the Memorandum of Understanding in a relevant by-election. However, while it was quite proper for the CJC to look into the Memorandum of Understanding, it's after that period of looking into it where the waters start to get muddy, the relevant conservative politicians, the ex-Premier Mr Borbidge, the ex-Police Minister, Mr Cooper, have a point to an extent of saying, 'Why should we have had to go through months and months of anguish, months and months of interference with our parliamentary duty, running up huge amounts of money in legal bills, when there was an opinion locked away in a safe that in fact they had done nothing wrong?'
Paul Barclay: By now, Mr Borbidge viewed the CJC as a sort of Star Chamber, out of control and gunning for his government.
Rob Borbidge: We had a situation where legal advice from Cedric Hampson, who at that time was President of the Bar Association, that said that neither Russell Cooper nor I had a case to answer and we were told that there would be a brief inquiry into the police union's involvement that should go for about 12 days. It went for the best part of eight or nine months; it was a loaded dice and in my view it was nothing short of a deliberate attempt to bring about a properly elected and constituted democratic government, to bring that government down. I mean they went on for months and months and months, and if not for the Connolly Ryan Inquiry, no-one would ever have known that they had legal advice that the government of the day did not have a case to answer.
Paul Barclay: The Carruthers Inquiry into the deal between the police union and the coalition distracted the government for months. The coalition was so infuriated by the Inquiry that it launched a counter Inquiry into the CJC itself, the Connolly Ryan Inquiry.
Lawyer Terry O'Gorman again.
Terry O'Gorman: That complaint by Mr Borbidge and Mr Cooper as I see it, was at least a reasonably valid complaint, but the way that the government then chose to deal with investigating that complaint was a problem of the government's own making because they appointed an Inquiry which was clearly a 'get square, let's kick the CJC in the face' Inquiry. Inevitably that Inquiry was declared to be biased, by the Queensland Supreme Court, and shut down.
Paul Barclay: In broad terms, was the Connolly Ryan Inquiry an attempt to muzzle the CJC?
Terry O'Gorman: I saw it as that, and most informed observers did. When you saw the way in which the Inquiry was set up, when you saw the way in which the Inquiry confronted and successfully, stared down Carruthers when he wasn't finished, it clearly was an attempt to not only muzzle but possibly completely abolish the CJC. But when you look at the way the Connolly Ryan Inquiry was conducted, and when you look at the stinging criticisms that were made by Mr Justice Thomas, the judge that shut it down in the Supreme Court, and when you look at the fact that the Connolly Ryan Inquiry chose not to appeal to the Court of Appeal against its closure, then that I think, says it all.
Paul Barclay: From the outset of the Connolly Ryan Inquiry, the coalition undermined its own case that the CJC and the Carruthers Inquiry were out to get it. And it did this by appointing an ex-Liberal Party member, and former judge, Peter Connolly to inquire into the CJC. His professional abilities weren't in question, but the appointment raised concerns about the impartiality of the Inquiry.
Rob Borbidge: Well Peter Connolly had been a very distinguished and senior member of the Bench, and in all his years on the Bench I think 30 years or thereabouts, there had never been any suggestion or any allegation of bias on the part of Mr Connolly, and the same for Kevin Ryan when he served as a Supreme Court judge. Both of those men were highly regarded and at no time during their judicial careers, during their time on the Bench, had anyone suggested that they were politically motivated in respect of any of their judgements handed down probably over hundreds of cases in decades of service to the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Paul Barclay: But at the very least, wouldn't it have been easier to appoint someone who didn't have a Liberal background? You would have still been able to conduct the Inquiry, look into the problems that you saw with the CJC without the perception of a conflict of interests.
Rob Borbidge: Well we held the view that by having two commissioners, that we were ensuring impartiality and independence in regard to that particular review. I mean it wasn't as if Mr Connolly was the only person appointed, Mr Ryan, Kevin Ryan was appointed.
Paul Barclay: Ex-Premier, now Opposition leader, Rob Borbidge.
Professor Ross Homel, a recently retired CJC commissioner, presented me with an altogether different view of the Connolly Ryan period, a view he also shared with the Supreme Court.
Ross Homel: As a part-time commissioner I was called in on a couple of occasions to have a chat with the two people running the commission Inquiry, Kevin Ryan and Peter Connolly. On one of those occasions, Peter, I think we were just chatting in a room, or in a corridor, and he remarked that now that the conservative side of politics was in power, they were in a position to do a proper evaluation of the Fitzgerald experiment. In fact what he said was, it was more along the lines of, 'Now that our side of politics is back in power, we can do a proper evaluation of the Fitzgerald experiment.' And that was the phrase of course, that was I gather fairly important in the ultimately successful challenge to that Inquiry by the CJC in the Supreme Court. But I think that has to be seen in the context of an overall experience over many months of an Inquiry that seemed to be getting more and more out of control. From the inside of the CJC it was like being in a trench in World War One, with missiles coming over and exploding at regular intervals.
Paul Barclay: By October, in this suffocating climate of mutual mistrust, Kenneth Carruthers decided he was unable to complete his Inquiry into the Memorandum of Understanding. He quit, stating the Connolly Ryan Inquiry into the CJC interfered intolerably with his investigation. And later, as we've heard, the CJC successfully challenged the validity of the Connolly Ryan Inquiry, the Supreme Court agreeing it was indeed biased.
Despite these events it would be a mistake to conclude that hostility towards the CJC comes only from the conservative side of politics.
True, current Labor Premier Peter Beattie remains a strong ally. Not so former Labor Premier Wayne Goss, who's antipathy toward the CJC is still apparent. Wayne Goss quit the party leadership shortly after the Mundingburra by-election defeat consigned Labor to Opposition, and eventually left politics.
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Paul Barclay: I meet Mr Goss on the 26th floor of the Harry Seidler designed Riverside building, from where you get a great view of the physical changes, good and bad, wrought on Brisbane.
If Wayne Goss' election triumph in 1989 made him the big political winner from the Fitzgerald Inquiry, it didn't prevent him from clashing with the CJC. And today, he thinks it's time the CJC was thoroughly reviewed.
Wayne Goss: The Criminal Justice Commission needs an independent review, carried out by somebody that all sides of politics are happy with and that looks at its role. I think whatever happens, the CJC should be maintained in some form to detect and deter corruption, whether that be in the public sector or in particular bodies like the police, but whether it needs some of its other functions, that should be open to debate and one shouldn't be accused of undermining the reform process for simply asking the question.
Paul Barclay: While Mr Goss deserves credit for implementing crucial reforms, he too fell foul of the head of the Criminal Justice Commission, in this case inaugural Chairman, Sir Max Bingham, a former Liberal Deputy Premier of Tasmania, appointed in the dying days of coalition rule. To make matters worse, a CJC investigation into parliamentary travel expenses led to the embarrassing resignation of a number of Labor Ministers.
Speculation was that relations between the CJC and the Labor Government were so poisonous the Commission would have been abolished if Caucus had been asked to vote on the matter.
Wayne Goss: No, the CJC wouldn't have been abolished, because I was committed to the work that it had to do. It was far from perfect, particularly in the first three years, some of its research was very shoddy. I mean the SP bookmaking report, the poker machine report that was quashed subsequently by the High Court for fundamental mistakes of law; there was also a bit of a personality problem between the Chairman and myself. I never realised that he harboured some resentment over the fact that he wasn't confirmed in his position on election night, which would have been quite inappropriate. And that was unfortunate, but I was committed to the work of the Criminal Justice Commission even though some of the senior players I think were involved in other agendas.
Paul Barclay: Former Queensland Premier, Wayne Goss.
It should surprise nobody that the Criminal Justice Commission does not endear itself to governments. Scrutiny of government is a key reason for the CJC's existence, but it's not the only reason. The CJC is also supposed to combat official corruption. Most experts agree there is no concrete evidence of significant corruption or misconduct within the police service, or the bureaucracy.
Nonetheless this doesn't mean everyone's convinced the State's public sector is today corruption free.
Phil Dickie.
Phil Dickie: Corruption by its very nature is a crime committed between consenting adults in private. Very often there's no reason for either of them to complain; there's often no-one else who knows about it. However the whole Fitzgerald Inquiry was, particularly the media investigations at the beginning, was not so much an exercise in uncovering actual instances of corruption, because we didn't have the resources or the legal power to do that. What it was, was an exercise in uncovering the unmistakable symptoms of corruption, it was a research exercise if you like. And we found and were able to demonstrate with very few resources really, that there was no reasonable explanation for what was happening in Queensland but that the place was corrupt.
Now that sort of methodology, applied with all the resources of an institution like the CJC, would if it was properly employed, find the largest amount of corruption is involved with local governments and land decisions, State governments and contract decisions and that police and criminals come a long way behind that.
Paul Barclay: No-one can dismiss the possibility of hidden corruption. The CJC does catch misbehaving public servants and police, but it's largely dependent on whistleblowers and complainants. The CJC website proudly affirms its complaints section is the 'hub' of the organisation.
Michael Barnes is the head of this section. What does he say to the criticism that the CJC is too reactive to complaints?
Michael Barnes: That would be a flawed approach if that's all we did, but there's two limbs to our approach to detection and eradication of corruption. Firstly, officers who are involved in corruption do tend to attract complaints, they're not out there pursuing their professional responsibilities with a full vigour and application of more appropriately focused officers. So we tend to get complaints about their conduct for other things that causes us to have concerns about them.
But secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the complaints process is only one small part of detection of corruption. We have active, ongoing covert operations, target development committees that look at a whole range of indicators to determine whether or not corruption may be occurring in any particular area, not just the police service, but the public sector generally.
Paul Barclay: Terry O'Gorman agrees with Phil Dickie. The CJC can't afford to sit back and wait to be handed information on alleged corruption. He thinks it should go out and find corruption, as it's occurring, by testing the integrity of police officers, a tactic the CJC employs, but that this civil libertarian would like to see enhanced.
Terry O'Gorman: There can be no real objection to the CJC using the same undercover covert listening device and other tactics that police use day in, day out against citizens. I think it is a legitimate criticism, and unless the CJC starts to become proactive in integrity testing in a serious way, there is an unacceptable risk that corruption will return, particularly in view of the fact that there are a reasonable number of police now at Senior Sergeant rank and at Inspector rank who were pretty suspect during the period that Fitzgerald was looking into, but who escaped his examination because there was simply a limit to what he could do.
Paul Barclay: Integrity testing appals the police union. They've even co-opted the language of civil libertarians, branding it 'entrapment'. I put it to the union's Merv Bainbridge that there was a fear of police corruption reappearing without covert testing.
Merv Bainbridge: That fear only comes I think from probably certain solicitors and members of the legal profession, the civil libertarians etc. You know, I just point out to people if they'd like to check and find the number of police officers that are currently in prison for matters of corruption and the number of solicitors that are in, they'll find that there are many, many times more solicitors either being investigated in our prisons for matters of corruption, than police officers. And for calls to come from the legal fraternity for this is I think, totally hypocritical. To set out to entrap police officers I think is totally distasteful and should be avoided at all costs.
Paul Barclay: But if the police have done nothing wrong, then they have nothing to fear.
Merv Bainbridge: Well I'll give you an example of what I call entrapment, and it happened in New South Wales, where they have a totally different system to us, and what happened in New South Wales is a gentleman came to the front counter of a police station, with a carton of beer and he intended to leave it there for a couple of officers that he claimed had assisted his wife at a road accident, and were very helpful. The officer on duty at the counter said, 'No, I don't want it thank you, take it away', and this fellow was very insistent. And at the end of the day did take it away. But they looked around the corner, and here were a couple of police officers and quite obviously they were being set up to take this carton of beer. Now I don't see that as any kind of test, I just find the whole episode of that particular example as it was recounted to me from friends in New South Wales, as disgraceful and disgusting.
Paul Barclay: Merv Bainbridge doesn't defend the behaviour of the rotten police under corrupt Commissioner Terry Lewis, but he reckons there was o