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Operation Spicer Larceny Charges Recommended Against Former
NSW SUBSCRIBE LOGIN / SIGN-UP The SydneyNEWS Morning SITE OF Herald THE YEAR News Sport Business World Politics Comment Property Entertainment Lifestyle Travel Cars Search the site NSW News National Environment Health Education Good Weekend Investigations Galleries Clique Photos Victoria News Sydney Traffic Quizzes Home / News / NSW News AUGUST 30 2016 SAVE PRINT LICENSE ARTICLE Operation Spicer: Larceny charges recommended against former minister Chris Hartcher Sean Nicholls, Kate McClymont MORESHARE TWEET Former NSW Liberal minister Chris Hartcher faces potential larceny charges and former Labor minister Joe Tripodi has been found to have engaged in serious corrupt conduct by the Independent Commission Against Corruption following its investigation into political fundraising. The ICAC's Operation Spicer report also says a host of former Liberal MPs including former police minister Mike Gallacher, Mr Hartcher, Tim Owen, Andrew Cornwell, Garry Edwards, Chris Spence as well as former Newcastle Lord Mayor Jeff McCloy "acted with the intention of evading laws" under the Election Funding, Expenditure and Disclosures Act. Operation Spicer's big three findings The Independent Commission Against Corruption has recommended criminal charges following its investigation into political fundraising. Sean Nicholls reports. As well, ICAC has found that Hunter Valley property developer Hilton Grugeon, Mr Hartcher and his former staff member Tim Koelma are among those who "acted with the intention of evading the election funding laws relating to caps on political donations". Former Liberal MPs Craig Baumann and Darren Webber as well as Liberal identity Nick Di Girolamo have been found to have evaded election funding laws relating to disclosure, while another former Liberal MP, Bart Bassett, has been found to have "knowingly solicited a political donation from a property developer". -
The New South Wales Parliament Under Siege
‘Build your House of Parliament upon the River’: The New South Wales Parliament under siege Gareth Griffith and Mark Swinson * You must build your House of Parliament upon the river . the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. — The Duke of Wellington This piece of advice is attributed to the Duke of Wellington, a man who knew about such things as pickets and blockades, but also about Parliament and its ways. On Tuesday 19 June 2001, a part of the populace associated with the trade union movement, determined to have its demands satisfied, massed round the New South Wales Parliament House. For those who do not know it, the New South Wales Parliament is not built on a river, or a harbour for that matter, but on the crest of a modest rise, fronted by Macquarie Street to the west and, at the rear, by Hospital Road and beyond that by a spacious open area called the Domain. To the north side is the State Library building; to the other, Sydney Hospital. At its height, in the early afternoon of 19 June, the Parliament was surrounded by a demonstration estimated to be 1,000 strong. The Premier called it a ‘blockade’. 1 Unionists called it a ‘picket’. 2 Some press reports referred to it as a ‘riot’. 3 * Gareth Griffith is a Senior Research Officer with the New South Wales Parliamentary Library; Mark Swinson is Deputy Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Parliament of New South Wales. 1 L. McIIveen, ‘House is shut down by union blockade’, The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 June 2001; G. -
Submission to the Senate Select Committee Into the Political Influence of Donations
Submission to the Senate Select Committee into the Political Influence of Donations Dr Charles Livingstone & Ms Maggie Johnson Gambling and Social Determinants Unit School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University 9 October 2017 1 Introduction Gambling in Australia is a prime cause of avoidable harm, with the harms of gambling estimated to be of the same order of magnitude as alcohol, and far higher than that associated with illicit drug consumption. (Browne et al, 2016; 2017). The gambling industry is a major donor to Australian political parties and politicians and appears to hold considerable cachet with many political actors, at both federal and state level. In this, it appears to be similar to other industries that produce harmful products, such as alcohol and tobacco. Its purpose in donating to political parties and politicians is similar; it seeks to deny the harmful effects of its products, delay or wind back reform, avoid effective regulation, and continue to extract profits for as long as possible. a) The level of influence that political donations exert over the public policy decisions of political parties, Members of Parliament and Government administration; The Australian gambling industry has utilised political donations as a mechanism to exert considerable influence over relevant public policy. This has been facilitated by the current donations regime, which has numerous flaws from the perspective of transparency and support for policy that acts in the genuine interest of the public. The industry is both significantly resourced and politically organised, and has actively sought opportunities for political engagement via donations to politicians and political parties. -
General Purpose Standing Committee No. 1 Trade And
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE NO. 1 Monday 24 October 2011 Examination of proposed expenditure for the portfolio area TRADE AND INVESTMENT The Committee met at 2.00 p.m. MEMBERS The Hon. M. J. Pavey (Chair) The Hon. A. R. Fazio The Hon. J. A. Gardiner The Hon. W. Secord The Hon. C. J. S. Lynn The Hon. M. Veitch _______________ PRESENT The Hon Andrew Stoner, Minister for Trade and Investment Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services Mr Richard Sheldrake, Acting Director General, State Regional Development and Tourism Mr Barry Buffier, Deputy Director General _______________ CORRECTIONS TO TRANSCRIPT OF COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS Corrections should be marked on a photocopy of the proof and forwarded to: Budget Estimates secretariat Room 812 Parliament House Macquarie Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 CHAIR: Welcome to the third public hearing of the General Purpose Standing Committee No 1 inquiry into the portfolio of trade and investment. I am Acting-Chair in the absence of Reverend the Hon. Fred Nile who is attending to his wife's funeral arrangements. The funeral will be held on Wednesday. In accordance with the Legislative Council guidelines for the broadcast of proceedings, only Committee members and witnesses may be filmed or recorded. People in the public gallery should not be the primary focus of any filming or photographs. In reporting the proceedings of this Committee, the media must take responsibility for what they publish or what interpretation is placed on anything that is said before the Committee. The guidelines for the broadcast of proceedings are available on the table by the door. -
Thesis August
Chapter 1 Introduction Section 1.1: ‘A fit place for women’? Section 1.2: Problems of sex, gender and parliament Section 1.3: Gender and the Parliament, 1995-1999 Section 1.4: Expectations on female MPs Section 1.5: Outline of the thesis Section 1.1: ‘A fit place for women’? The Sydney Morning Herald of 27 August 1925 reported the first speech given by a female Member of Parliament (hereafter MP) in New South Wales. In the Legislative Assembly on the previous day, Millicent Preston-Stanley, Nationalist Party Member for the Eastern Suburbs, created history. According to the Herald: ‘Miss Stanley proceeded to illumine the House with a few little shafts of humour. “For many years”, she said, “I have in this House looked down upon honourable members from above. And I have wondered how so many old women have managed to get here - not only to get here, but to stay here”. The Herald continued: ‘The House figuratively rocked with laughter. Miss Stanley hastened to explain herself. “I am referring”, she said amidst further laughter, “not to the physical age of the old gentlemen in question, but to their mental age, and to that obvious vacuity of mind which characterises the old gentlemen to whom I have referred”. Members obviously could not afford to manifest any deep sense of injury because of a woman’s banter. They laughed instead’. Preston-Stanley’s speech marks an important point in gender politics. It introduced female participation in the Twenty-seventh Parliament. It stands chronologically midway between the introduction of responsible government in the 1850s and the Fifty-first Parliament elected in March 1995. -
'From the Tables' – a Round-Up of Administrative and Procedural
‘From the Tables’ – a round-up of administrative and procedural developments in the Australian parliaments Robyn Smith Robyn Smith is Executive Officer, Office of the Clerk, Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT Allegations of the use of the closed circuit television (CCTV) system at Parliament House to monitor people providing information to senators were made during Estimates hearings of the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee in May by Senator John Faulkner. At issue was parliamentary privilege. The allegations received prominence more recently in respect of the potential appointment of a new Clerk of the House of Commons. Two issues of privilege were identified for investigation as possible contempts: the possible interference or attempted interference with a senator in the free performance of his duties as a senator; and whether disciplinary action was taken against a person in connection with the provision of information to a senator. The Privileges Committee is investigating and has announced no date for reporting. In the House of Representatives an outstanding matter of privilege has yet to be resolved. The outcome of the Privilege Committee inquiry relating to the former Member for Dobell, Craig Thomson, is again in abeyance until an appeal to the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court has been heard and decided. The appeal is set down for November 2014. The Privileges Committee was required to determine ‘whether, in the course of his statement to the House on 21 May 2012, and having regard to the findings of the Melbourne Magistrates Court of 18 February 2014 in relation to Mr Thomson, the former Member for Dobell, Mr Craig Thomson, deliberately misled the House’. -
Analysis of AEC Donation Data 1998-1999 to 2014-2015 Gambling Industry Interests
Analysis of AEC donation data 1998-1999 to 2014-2015 Gambling industry interests Interim report 2 – Australian Hotels Association – Federal and State affiliates Dr Charles Livingstone and Ms Maggie Johnson School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University Introduction and disclosure In Australia, donors to political parties or associated entities are required to disclose donations above a particular threshold. The current threshold is set at $13,000 and is the subject of annual indexation linked to CPI. There has been continuing controversy in relation to the current system of disclosing donations, including the relatively high threshold and the significant delay in publication of the data, use of associated entities to avoid clear disclosure, and inappropriate use of taxpayer funded resources to facilitate fundraising (see, for example a recent episode of Four Corners, and Fairfax media articles on the Liberal Party linked Millennium Forum and fundraising activity in the Victorian electorate of Menzies). However, some data are published on the Internet by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on an annual basis. These data have the potential to provide information about the financial influence exerted on policy and politicians by corporate and other vested interests. All data referred to in this report are sourced from the AEC unless otherwise specified. The research reported in this interim report is intended to provide information to the Alliance for Gambling Reform (which commissioned and funded the research), and to support the preparation of research papers as a component of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project (LP130100046) in which the author is a Chief Investigator. -
Victoria New South Wales
Victoria Legislative Assembly – January Birthdays: - Ann Barker - Oakleigh - Colin Brooks – Bundoora - Judith Graley – Narre Warren South - Hon. Rob Hulls – Niddrie - Sharon Knight – Ballarat West - Tim McCurdy – Murray Vale - Elizabeth Miller – Bentleigh - Tim Pallas – Tarneit - Hon Bronwyn Pike – Melbourne - Robin Scott – Preston - Hon. Peter Walsh – Swan Hill Legislative Council - January Birthdays: - Candy Broad – Sunbury - Jenny Mikakos – Reservoir - Brian Lennox - Doncaster - Hon. Martin Pakula – Yarraville - Gayle Tierney – Geelong New South Wales Legislative Assembly: January Birthdays: - Hon. Carmel Tebbutt – Marrickville - Bruce Notley Smith – Coogee - Christopher Gulaptis – Terrigal - Hon. Andrew Stoner - Oxley Legislative Council: January Birthdays: - Hon. George Ajaka – Parliamentary Secretary - Charlie Lynn – Parliamentary Secretary - Hon. Gregory Pearce – Minister for Finance and Services and Minister for Illawarra South Australia Legislative Assembly January Birthdays: - Duncan McFetridge – Morphett - Hon. Mike Rann – Ramsay - Mary Thompson – Reynell - Hon. Carmel Zollo South Australian Legislative Council: No South Australian members have listed their birthdays on their website Federal January Birthdays: - Chris Bowen - McMahon, NSW - Hon. Bruce Bilson – Dunkley, VIC - Anna Burke – Chisholm, VIC - Joel Fitzgibbon – Hunter, NSW - Paul Fletcher – Bradfield , NSW - Natasha Griggs – Solomon, ACT - Graham Perrett - Moreton, QLD - Bernie Ripoll - Oxley, QLD - Daniel Tehan - Wannon, VIC - Maria Vamvakinou - Calwell, VIC - Sen. -
Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on The
QUEENSLAND COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2014 The Committee Secretary Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Phone: +61 2 6277 3560 Fax: +61 2 6277 5794 [email protected] Thank you for the invitation to make a submission on the Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2014. The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has had a long-standing interest in cannabis issues, including in-principle support for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis. INTRODUCTION About the QCCL The QCCL is a voluntary organisation established in 1967 to promote civil liberties. QCCL and Cannabis QCCL has twice made formal submissions to the Queensland Parliament advocating cannabis legalisation, in November 1993 (written by Peter Applegarth) and April 2010 (by me). I made an additional personal submission to the 1993 inquiry. In addition, I was a co-author with Ian Dearden and Narelle Sutherland of a short article on Queensland drug law reform published in an issue of the Legal Services Bulletin in 1991. All with no result. Both 1993 submissions made passing reference to the likely benefits of medicinal cannabis, but are otherwise tangential to this submission. It is agreed that the legalisation of medicinal cannabis needs to be explicitly quarantined from considerations surrounding legalising recreational marijuana. Personal Disclosure When my partner was dying from metastatic breast cancer in 2002-2004, she discovered that smoking cannabis—via a water bong—was the only effective and immediate-acting remedy for her chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced nausea. -
Wilderness Planning and Perceptions Of
WILDERNESS PLANNING AND PERCEPTIONS OF WILDERNESS IN NEW SOUTH WALES ALISON JEAN RAMSAY Master of Town Planning University of New South Wales 1994 UNIVERSITY OF N.S.W. 2 4 MAR 1335 LIBRARIES CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of a university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgement is made in the text. (Signed) ABSTRACT Wilderness is still a controversial issue in New South Wales, despite the enactment of the NSW Wilderness Act in 1987 which gave a legislative basis to wilderness as a land use in New South Wales. Although there have been many studies of attitudes to wilderness and wilderness users in United States, there have been few such studies in Australia and none which have questioned the public's perception of what is wilderness and how it should be managed. The aim of this study was to review the history of wilderness planning in New South Wales, to examine how closely public perceptions of wilderness coincide with wilderness legislation, and to determine whether perceptions of wilderness are influenced by factors such as age, education, previous bushwalking experience or place of residence. Surveys were undertaken of almost 200 visitors to four wilderness areas in Kosciusko and Morton National Parks in New South Wales and to two areas in national parks which were not wilderness, one in Kosciusko National Park and one in Sydney Harbour National Park. -
Macquarie St Politics: Death by Disunity
Macquarie St politics: Death by disunity The Daily Telegraph September 28, 2016 Andrew Clennell NATIONALS IN REVOLT AS MINISTERS PRESSURE BAIRD BACK when Barry O‟Farrell was opposition leader, he took the politically opportunistic decision to block Morris Iemma‟s electricity privatisation. Apart from the chance to thoroughly stuff up a premier (successfully, as it turned out), there was another reason O‟Farrell went for the move. He did not want to split with the Nats. O‟Farrell knew the importance of not having the Nationals and Liberals divided. Ironically, once premier, O‟Farrell took a similar proposal to his party and then the Parliament. It won in the Nationals party room by one vote. Former deputy premier Andrew Stoner‟s enduring legacy is that he kept the Nationals together. Troy Grant is not having quite the same success when it comes to greyhounds. Nationals leader Troy Grant NSW Premier Mike Baird. One big problem is that, as Racing Minister, it was he who took the minute to cabinet recommending the greyhound industry be banned. As story after story appears of Grant possibly resigning if the party loses the Orange by-election; of Nationals speaking out against the greyhound racing ban, and the fact that three MPs crossed the floor and two of them were later sacked as parliamentary secretaries, the sense is created of a divided government lacking discipline. It reminds me of 2008 when Labor fell apart over electricity privatisation. In such circumstances, pressure just builds and, sooner or later, something has to give. And just as O‟Farrell was going against his business base to take advantage of the Iemma government division over electricity, Opposition Leader Luke Foley is preparing to cash in on moving against the inner-city Left to cause dramas for this premier over greyhounds. -
Native Vegetation Clearing in NSW: a Regulatory History Briefing Paper No 05/2014 by Alec Bombell and Daniel Montoya
Native vegetation clearing in NSW: a regulatory history Briefing Paper No 05/2014 by Alec Bombell and Daniel Montoya RELATED PUBLICATIONS Daniel Montoya, Rural Fires Amendment (Vegetation Clearing) Bill 2014, e-brief No. 09/2014, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, June 2014 Daniel Montoya, Burning native forest biomaterial for electricity generation, Issues Backgrounder No. 03/2014, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, March 2014 Holly Park, Biodiversity: Regulatory Frameworks, Briefing Paper No. 3/2010, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, May 2010 Holly Park, Biodiversity Certification, e-brief No. 09/2010, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, May 2010 Stewart Smith, Native Vegetation: An Update, Briefing Paper No. 6/06, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, May 2006 Stewart Smith, Native Vegetation: Recent Developments, Briefing Paper No. 1/03, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, January 2003 Stewart Smith, Native Vegetation in NSW: An Update, Briefing Paper No. 6/99, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, March 1999 Stewart Smith, Native Vegetation Protection in NSW, Briefing Paper No. 28/95, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, 1995 ISSN 1325-5142 ISBN 978-0-7313-1925-1 October 2014 © 2014 Except to the extent of the uses permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including information storage and retrieval systems, without the prior consent from the Manager, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, other than by Members of the New South Wales Parliament in the course of their official duties. Native vegetation clearing in NSW: a regulatory history by Alec Bombell and Daniel Montoya NSW PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCH SERVICE Gareth Griffith (BSc (Econ) (Hons), LLB (Hons), PhD), Manager, Politics & Government/Law .........................................