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pietillidie
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| Post subject: Abbott/Brandis/Bishop corruptly hid Monis security failure |  |
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So, not only does the Abbott government pay off the human traffickers they say they hate, but their incompetence also led to the "terrorism" they claim to be so good at stopping.
Then, once again, they use lies and corruption to stop the electorate being told the truth. A spreadsheet tab error, FFS! Yeah, right. And no one told anyone else until 'ron!
A more corrupt, incompetent and dangerous government Australia has not seen for a very long while. And to have the Stalinesque media control to turn both the security incompetence and the corruption into a non-event is a blight on the nation.
| The Aged wrote: | New emails show Tony Abbott may have known truth about Man Haron Monis letter days before record was corrected
Man Haron Monis wrote to Attorney-General George Brandis in October 2014 asking if it was legal for him to contact the leader of Islamic State. An official drafted a routine reply, despite the national terror alert level having earlier been lifted to 'high'.
In December last year Monis walked into the Lindt cafe in Martin Place armed with a gun and Islamist flags, triggering a siege that led to the deaths of two hostages.
But a joint Commonwealth-NSW inquiry into the siege never examined his letter to Senator Brandis because an official didn't realise it was on the second tab of a spreadsheet.
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told Parliament - based on mistaken evidence from an official - that the letter had been sent to the inquiry.
She eventually corrected the record but waited until the end of a sitting fortnight to do it, meaning the government avoided scrutiny in question time about its handling of the case.
A Senate committee has already discovered Senator Brandis and Mr Abbott's office knew about the letter at the start of the sitting week.
However, the new emails show a 'PPQ' - a briefing about possible lines of attack on the issue from Labor in question time - was prepared for Mr Abbott on Monday, June 1 - three days before Ms Bishop made the correction on June 4.
The brief - prepared by the second-in-charge at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet - explicitly stated the inquiry was never given the Monis letter.
The brief was emailed to an unnamed official at 11.50am. Question time commended at 2pm.
However Labor did not ask any questions about the issue that day, so Mr Abbott did not need to use the brief. It is unclear whether he read it.
A spokesman for Mr Abbott did not answer questions about whether the Prime Minister had read the question time briefing.
Labor's leader of the opposition in the Senate, Senator Penny Wong, accused the government of a cover-up.
"It's time for the Prime Minster to tell the truth about what happened here," she said.
"The Prime Minister cannot continue to duck questions about the part he and his office played in this cover-up. The Prime Minister is accountable for this cover-up." |
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-emails-show-tony-abbott-may-have-known-truth-about-man-haron-monis-letter-days-before-record-was-corrected-20150706-gi5ydo.html
Article back in June:
| Back in June The Aged wrote: | Abbott government delays in admitting error over Monis letter
The Abbott government has admitted it erred in claiming that a letter from Lindt Cafe gunman Man Haron Monis to Attorney-General George Brandis was scrutinised by the siege inquiry – but waited three days to acknowledge the error.
The delay in informing Parliament and the public meant that the government faced no questions in Parliament over the blunder because MPs were rising at the end of a Canberra sitting fortnight.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told Federal Parliament on Thursday afternoon at the end of parliamentary Question Time that a bureaucrat from the Attorney-General's department had made a mistake in a Senate hearing last week when she said the inquiry into the deadly December siege had examined the letter.
The letter from October, in which Monis asked Senator Brandis whether it was lawful for him to write to the leader of the Islamic State terror group, was the subject of a political brawl last week with Labor claiming it should have triggered alarm bells given the heightened terrorism alert.
Senator Brandis' office referred the letter straight to the Attorney-General's department, which drafted a routine response to Monis.
Senator Brandis said in a statement on Thursday evening that his department had informed his office on Monday afternoon that "it appeared that their advice that the letter from Man Haron Monis" had been provided to the inquiry was "wrong".
He said he immediately asked his department head to "conduct an urgent inquiry … to establish the facts". He said he received the department's report on Thursday afternoon and this was given to Ms Bishop "shortly before Question Time".
When Labor went on the attack over the letter last week, both Senator Brandis and Ms Bishop argued that the letter had already been considered by the siege inquiry, led by the most senior bureaucrats in the Prime Minister's and NSW Premier's departments, implying it was not of any significance.
In her correction to Parliament on Thursday afternoon, Ms Bishop said the deputy secretary of the Attorney-General's department in charge of national security, Katherine Jones, had advised the government she was wrong when she told a Senate hearing last week that the letter was given to the inquiry.
Ms Bishop said the letter and the department's reply had now been referred to the Prime Minister's department. The head of the department, Michael Thawley, had written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott and informed him the letter and reply "would have made no difference to the outcome of the review", Ms Bishop said.
But Labor frontbencher Tony Burke said the delay in admitting the error was "as serious as it gets".
"What Julie Bishop has waited until the end of Question Time to inform the Australian people about, involves a direct misleading of the Parliament, which the government could have corrected and chose not to until Question Time had finished on what has been the most serious public tragedy that Australians have watched in recent memory." |
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-delays-in-admitting-error-over-monis-letter-20150604-ghh1w0.html
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Yep, Julie Bishop has already deceived parliament over this.
The keystone cops in charge of our security 
Still, the Mad Mendacious Monk keeps yelling out terror to avoid analysis over the governments poor showing & mishandling of the economy,
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Tannin 
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Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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What? The actual Ms Julie Slowdeathinagony Asbestosis Lawyer Bishop dun somefin wrong? Whoda thunk it!
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