Over the border round Beenleigh way: I almost believed the bloke

I almost believed the bloke………almost.

Yahoo News 8th March 2012:

"The Liberal National Party (LNP) will retain a Gold Coast candidate linked to a soft porn website.

A party spokesman has confirmed that Mark Boothman will contest the seat of Albert for the LNP.

In a statement issued through the LNP on Thursday afternoon, Mr Boothman claimed a website he helped to run was shut down six years ago because it was hacked by people uploading adult content.

The site was set up almost 10 years ago as a forum for car enthusiasts, he said.

"But, unfortunately over a period of time, adult content was uploaded to the site," he said.

"In 2004, the site was continually under attack from hackers and was being hijacked from its original purpose and was getting beyond my control."

Because of this, it was shut down in 2006, he said."
But according to Gold Coast on 11th March:
"A check of the now-archived website shows the administrator had a designated VIP adult section and a warning about the pornographic images on the site."
And this old comments are still showing in Google Search:
More Women Pics - CruisingBrisbane.com - Page 4.75
http://www.darkosiris.com/ is a good site for pics of gals its one of the guys from boost's site i forget who though.
Sorany y Carolina Galleries (1) - PeachyForum
"These babes are so hot! http://www.darkosiris.com/photokorn/index.php?action=showgal&cat=127
Any more? I would really like more of this set! =)"
Finally it seems the present LNP candidate in his past life was not above promoting his website:
xspsi 2002 "mark (57OCK) sent me the site."
RhOmEL2002 "surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre you did.
you read penthouse for the articles as well dont ya??

The cream of the crop though is Mark (now standing for Laura Norder) bragging as 57ock in 2006 about messing with the heads of police:

“A while back, my mate and I went cruising on a Saturday night. We pulled up at the local BP Servo centre. While my mate was inside the servo, a cop car pulls up and has a look at my mates Supra. Mainly because its too low. One of the coppers asked me if I owned the Supra, I said no.. The copper walks around asking a few people if they owned it.
After a while of asking, the coppers decided to sit and there car and wait for the owner of the supra to turn up. About 30 mins pass and the coppers think there smart, so the drive their car off and park there car behind a bush around the corner so they can't be seen.
My mate came up with a brillant idea. If I can't drive the car out, why dont I hirer a tow truck. The look on the coppers face when they saw the Supra they had waited for 1hr and a half for drive away on the back of a tow truck was priceless.”

8 March 2012
Whois info on website

Reverse Whois:

"Mark" owns about 872 other domains

Email Search:

is associated with about 3 domains

Registrant:
Mark
PO Box 769 Springwood
Logan City, Queensland 4133
AU
Domain name: DARKOSIRIS.COM
This domain name is up for auction for a limited time.
To place a bid, visit: http://www.snapnames.com
Administrative Contact:
Boothman, Mark
69 Burow Rd
Logan, QLD 4133
AU
+61.0738087133
Technical Contact:
Boothman, Mark
69 Burow Rd
Logan, QLD 4133
AU
+61.0738087133
Registration Service Provider:
Hover,
416.538.5498
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Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 31-Jan-2012.
Record expires on 28-Jan-2012.
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Domain Status:

Registered And Active Website

Site Trail info on website

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118.127.4.180

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Was it only media pressure which saw NSW Police & the DPP finally act on Cansdell's confession?

A far as I can tell it was the Clarence Valley’s good ol' Egg Timer aka The Daily Examiner which asked the hard question of NSW Police: Are you going to refer the matter of retired Clarence Nats MP Steve Cansdell on to the Commonwealth DPP?

Local journo Terry Deefholts in The Daily Examiner on 9^th March 2012:

"THE NSW Department of Public Prosecutions' decision to drop the case against former Member for Clarence Steve Cansdell is an example of the "wafer thin" separation of powers between the politics, the executive and the judiciary in Australia, a Sydney academic said yesterday.

Dr Michael Kennedy, a former detective of 18 years, is the head of the University of Western Sydney's Bachelor of Policing program and specialises in ethics and the politics of policing.

"You would have thought the NSW Government would want to put this matter to bed as a matter of public interest; they're not going to get any sympathy from the federal Labor Government," Dr Kennedy said.

He said magistrates and judges were politically appointed and most attorneys-general became senior counsels within a month of ending their jobs despite, in some cases, having less-than-impressive work records.

"At the end of an attorney- general's role they usually get a job on the Supreme Court; the separation of powers in this country are wafer thin," he said.

The case of Mr Cansdell reinforced this view, he said.

Mr Cansdell admitted last September to signing a false statutory declaration in 2005 to avoid a speeding fine but it was revealed on Wednesday the NSW DPP, which comes under the control of the NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith, dropped the case on the basis that Cansdell had signed a Commonwealth statutory declaration.

"NSW Police can act under the Federal Crimes Act," Dr Kennedy said.

Even if there was some special provision for the Statutory Declarations Act to be dealt with by the Commonwealth DPP, Dr Kennedy said: "Surely there are some Federal Police in NSW that can deal with it.

"There are rule makers, rule enforcers and rule breakers. It is beyond the pale to think that rule makers are dealt with differently to the rest of us when they break the rules."

Unfortunately, he said, there had been repeated evidence of this being the case in NSW. For example, he said very few prosecutions emanating from the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption in the mid-1990s were successful.

A spokesperson for NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson said if shadow police minister Nathan Rees had not asked questions of Mr Smith about the Cansdell case on February 23 it would have been dropped altogether.

It was only that journalists asked Mr Smith if he was going to refer the case to the Commonwealth DPP on Wednesday after Question Time that Mr Smith said he would do so yesterday, the spokesperson said."

It was aslo the Egg Timer's Rod Stevens who pointed out:
"Despite NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith and the NSW DPP saying because Mr Cansdell signed a Commonwealth statutory declaration it was out of their jurisdiction, the law states otherwise.
Section 12 of the Statutory Declarations Act of 1959 states "the several courts of the states (other than the Northern Territory) are invested with federal jurisdiction."

100 richest people in the world, in 2012 according to Forbes

Forbes.com this week has me indulging in the politics of envy disbelief in this post – who could possibly need all this money?

	Name	Net Worth	Age	Source	Country of Citizenship
1	Carlos Slim Helu & family	$69 B	72	telecom	Mexico
2	Bill Gates	$61 B	56	Microsoft	United States
3	Warren Buffett	$44 B	81	Berkshire Hathaway	United States
4	Bernard Arnault	$41 B	63	LVMH	France
5	Amancio Ortega	$37.5 B	75	Zara	Spain
6	Larry Ellison	$36 B	67	Oracle	United States
7	Eike Batista	$30 B	55	mining, oil	Brazil
8	Stefan Persson	$26 B	64	H&M	Sweden

The rest of the super rich, including WA's Gina can be found here

  

Visitors, words of caution

Initially, a letter to the editor in Saturday's Daily Examiner touched my funny bone. However, it didn't take long for reality to return and all I could think was, "Been there. Done that. BUT, this is bl##dy serious!"

Bev's letter (read it below) is cause for many businesses and organisations to give a lot more serious thought to their workplaces' health and safety, especially in relation to their provisions for all persons' egress from their workplaces.

The Examiner might just as easily have titled Bev's letter "Enter at your own risk!"

Remember, employers also have responsibilities associated with the health and safety of visitors to their places of work. The legislation does not only relate to their employees.

The joys of marriage - just jokin'!

Source: The Voice, CPSA, March 2012

A little NSW North Coast National Party history

It seems that the former Member for Clarence Steve Cansdell is not the only NSW North Coast National Party MP who fell afoul of the rules and lost his seat.

Here is mention of the former NSW Minister for Administrative Services and former member for Coffs Harbour, Matt Singleton, who was previously the Member for Clarence from February 1971 to August 1981.

That makes two out of the last four Nationals MPs representing Clarence coming to a sticky political end.

Hansard NSW Legislative Assembly 8 April 1998:  

Mr CARR: …… But I have done the National Party a great disservice, because the coalition had barely been elected to government and ICAC had not even begun its work on the north coast land deals when Matt Singleton was sacked overnight by Greiner. Matt Singleton had a great deal going. He was busily promoting to his Minister the rezoning of a nice little territory in his electorate. But he forgot to declare that he owned the property - a pretty big thing to overlook…

Hansard NSW Legislative Assembly 24 June 1992:  

Dr REFSHAUGE: …… The most grave of these omissions was that of the former Minister, Matt Singleton, whose failure to declare shareholdings in finance and property development companies was brought to light. The Deputy Premier also had failed to declare shareholdings in Matt Singleton's company, STR Finance. Mr Singleton not only failed to include shareholdings in a declaration to the Parliament; he completely ignored the former Premier's demand for a separate pecuniary interest file exclusive to him. Mr Singleton's indiscretion did not end there. He was found to be lobbying a ministerial colleague to have land rezoned for development. If the rezoning had occurred, Mr Singleton would have benefited substantially. It took Opposition pressure to have this disgraced Minister forced from office. This is the cleanskin Government. Matt Singleton, within a year of the Government coming to office, was forced to resign because he lacked the probity and the propriety to perform his ministerial responsibilities appropriately.

Antarctic: When is the Government of Japan going to get its priorities straight?

Photograph from Hervey Bay Tourist Centre

When is the Government of Japan going to get its priorities straight?  Hopefully before 2013. Its state-sponsored whale killers must be must be near a financial bottom of the ocean by now.

News.com.au March 9, 2012:

JAPAN has ended this season's whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean having caught less than a third of its original target, the Fisheries Agency says.

Japanese whalers killed 266 minke whales and one fin whale, the agency said, well below the roughly 900 they had been aiming for when they left Japan in December.

The West Australian March 9, 2012:

The Japanese whaling fleet has pulled out of the Southern Ocean and is heading home three weeks before the whale hunt was scheduled to end.
The Japanese consul in Perth and the Institute of Cetacean Research have both confirmed the whalers are heading back to Japan.