[Peetwo]

On chasing tales and washing spots -  

[Lady Macbeth: "..Out, damned spot! out, I say!.."]

Still trying to wash away the stench of rotting, corruption from many of the bones...  Therefore please excuse the still disjointed visage that is slowly emerging from a grey and Murky paint spotted canvas...

"K" said - "...The last Estimates really fanned the flames but it was the performance in Cloncurry which generated the real heat..."

Yes indeed my synapses were firing off like a box of crackers after reading some of the 'passing strange' passages of Hansard from the Cloncurry public hearing...

Hansard extracts from :
Mr Graham
ACTING CHAIR
Senator CHISHOLM
Senator PATRICK
Senator COLBECK

&..

ACTING CHAIR
Senator CHISHOLM
Mr Griffin
Senator PATRICK

Mr Griffin : ...What I've prepared for today is a bit of an essay that was going to cover the history of aviation in the Cloncurry region, which Greg touched on. I've also got some information I want to talk about around an organisation called A4ANZ, who I refer to as a cartel...

ACTING CHAIR: Thank you, Hamish. That's been a tremendous amount of effort. I want to pick up on a couple of things. With respect to your reference to A4ANZ, could we anticipate that your evidence might be adverse evidence against—

Mr Griffin : Adverse? I don't believe so.

ACTING CHAIR: Because, again, we're very careful, obviously. If your evidence is adverse in the general normative sense of what adverse means, we'd probably be inclined to take it in camera in the first instance and then decide about its publication. If you think an answer to a question in any of the categories you've alluded to—because you've put a tremendous amount of work in—that your comments may be adverse to an identifiable entity, I'd like you to alert me so we can take a decision about how that evidence may be taken. I think the other consideration is whether we table your essay subject to the things that I've just said. We may have to redact parts of it if we're considering that they're adverse. There's a whole set of rules that we're bound by in terms of providing others with an opportunity to respond.

Mr Griffin : Understood.

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Senator COLBECK: The other thing was the A4ANZ, but I think that's the Kimberley area, so we can come back to that.

ACTING CHAIR: I think we have to be a little bit cautious—

Mr Griffin : Can I read what I've written about dynamic pricing?

ACTING CHAIR: Well, be careful—is it in this space?

Mr Griffin : All it is is a definition of dynamic pricing.

ACTING CHAIR: Is that connected to A4ANZ?

Mr Griffin : No.

ACTING CHAIR: I think Senator Colbeck's intrigued about what you might say about A4ANZ. Have you got that written there so that we could look at it?

Mr Griffin : I have.

ACTING CHAIR: Perhaps if you share that with Ms Redden, Senator Colbeck can have a look at it and make a judgement as to whether he wants to explore it...

(NB: The Ag Chair would appear to be totally cognisant of the A4ANZ 'cartel' before reading the Griffin essay)

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ACTING CHAIR: Mr Griffin, the committee is just contemplating accepting your essay to be tabled with one reduction. I prefer to redact that with your consent; I will redact it without your consent if we do not have it, for the record. We will receive it, but we will not publish it until the committee has had a chance to have a full and wholesome look. I'm happy to talk to you over the morning tea break to let you know the areas of sensitivity.

Mr Griffin : It is an area that I feel very, very strongly about. I listen to your conversations and your comments with the Mr Campbell and Mrs Morris about Qantas not wanting to operate the same routes as Virgin.

ACTING CHAIR: It is one thing to ask the question, which is what I've done. It is quite another to make a statement as if it is a fact. We just need to be careful.

Senator COLBECK: From my perspective, it's not an attempt to censor in any way. It's more about, as the Acting Chair said, the sensitivity of the operations of the committee. We're not trying to censor you at all. You can say what you like—that's your problem. Noting that, in this forum you do come under the protection of parliamentary privilege and I'm sure you understand all of that. But we also have a responsibility for other people who might be affected. There are processes for them to deal with that, but we also like to try not to create those circumstances if we don't need to.

Mr Griffin : Understood.

Senator COLBECK: So it's not a censoring exercise, it's the process of the parliament and the committee, getting good information in front of us in the interest of your communities and providing a good response. I think one of the things the chair hasn't mentioned yet is that we might be able to provide a lot more visibility for you and your communities than you currently appear to have.

ACTING CHAIR: We would more than likely reach out to you and ask you to particularise the indictment—show us what evidence you rely upon to form that view—and then make a decision about publication.

Senator COLBECK: And what we do and don't do will be done in consultation with you.

Mr Griffin : Okay.

ACTING CHAIR: Yes. We'll be in touch with you on that. Parliamentary privilege is an enormous privilege to all of us, and with it comes great responsibility not to abuse it, which might impact on a third party or their reputation.

Mr Griffin : I feel very strongly that the organisation in question needs to be looked at closely.

ACTING CHAIR: Let's be careful with our language. They've made a submission. They'll be before us, I imagine. Anyway, as they said in The Castle, we've got the vibe.

Senator PATRICK: We're always trying to be transparent, but, even when we have a confidential submission, the committee enjoys the benefit of the submission and everything that you say. We just don't necessarily publish them, because they're either sensitive to the person who's put the submission in or may be defamatory.

ACTING CHAIR: They're entitled to respond to allow us to test your evidence. Thank you, Mr Griffin. I really appreciate your effort. If you've got any additional stuff, you're more than welcome to submit it to any of the senators or through the secretariat in the future.

Mr Griffin : Okay. I have a number of examples here that I'd like to give as evidence if I could.

ACTING CHAIR: If you're able to produce copies of them and present them to the secretariat, they'll consider the appropriate pathway for it to come into our body of material.

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Mr Griffin : My final question is to do with their A4ANZ cartel: could the committee look closely at that?

ACTING CHAIR: Your essay—if we want to identify the artefact—has been accepted. We'll consider that in private session at our next private meeting—when we are not under any time pressure and, indeed, when some of our other colleagues who ought to be with us are—and we'll engage with you if we need further information or if we need you to underpin any assertions made. There are also other processes. If they relate to an entity or entities and they are invited to submit to us a proportional and balanced response to the allegations, we will then weigh all that up and make a decision as to what, if anything, is published or, oftentimes, just simply returned or redacted from the document before the balance of the document is published.

Mr Griffin : That sounds fair.

ACTING CHAIR: That is the fairest way. Because of parliamentary privilege, you can say whatever you like. You could accuse me of being overweight and I could do nothing about that.

Mr Griffin : I have been accused of that sometimes. Thank you very much indeed, and safe travels.

A quick review of the Inquiry webpages reveal that the committee is yet to table Mr Griffin's essay/artefact.  

It is worth noting that because the committee has 'accepted' Mr Griffin's essay/artefact?? they now control it and if the committee decides to table the 'artefact' in camera, then Mr Griffin will be obliged to never make public that document in it's current format.  

Curious I decided to dig out the Hamish Griffin submission: 12 Mr Hamish Griffin (PDF 68 KB) 

Extract from sub 12:

I have also had informal conversations with Cloncurry mayor Greg Campbell who has said…

“While we have got to maintain the support for the services we currently have I am happy to look at any options, especially to make Cloncurry more accessible and more affordable for that accessibility to other parts of the country.”

The difference in landing fees between commercial airlines and charters fares was mainly to prevent Fly In, Fly Out workers, Cr Campbell said.

Yet he saw a difference between flights for FIFO workers and for local residents.

“If it is a charter flight for FIFO workers, that would be viewed potentially one way and if a flight to drive affordability for community members is there for a different reason,” Cr Campbell said.

Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter has said he was “most anxious” to speak with me about my ongoing push back against the major airlines and my charter proposal.

Finally, I have grave concerns about an organization known as A4ANZ

http://www.a4anz.com/

The web page states that they are an industry group established as a voice to represent airlines in Australia and NZ Including Quantas and Virgin who are supposed to be in direct competition with each other but I will not accept that they are not colluding with each other over airfares.

It should be remembered that A4ANZ was formed in March 2017: reference - BITN post #484

Q/ So why is the Ag Chair being so 'sensitive' about Mr Griffin's essay and additional information surrounding A4ANZ? Could it be merely Mr Griffin's labelling of A4ANZ as a 'cartel'; or could it be because the A4ANZ membership not only includes the major airlines but also a certain regional turboprop operator?

All very intriguing? - I look fwd to viewing in full the Griffin artefact -



BO -"..The FAA has done an audit on CASA in Australia. I understand it's going to be interesting reading. They're resisting publication of that at the moment. We're trying to muddle our way through getting that out into the open..."

On yet another 'passing strange' coincidence I note that HVH's future biographer and CASAsexual, Steve (creepy) Creedy has inexplicably scooped the aviation MSM pool again, with a summary (at approximately 1700 EST [0700 UTC] time) of a Carmody Capers bollocks propaganda piece   :  

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Australian safety oversight in ICAO global top six.
By
Steve Creedy
276
April 27, 2018


Australia’s aviation system has been judged one of the world’s safest after an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) audit ranked it sixth among member states for safety oversight.

The UN-Backed organization audited Australia in 2017 on a range of issues including operations, airworthiness, accident investigations and air navigation services. It gave the nation a safety oversight score of 95 percent, according to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
Australia achieved above average scores in all areas of ICAO’s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme with percentage scores for five of seven measures above 90 percent.
<img class="wp-image-30974 size-full" src="https://www.airlineratings.com/wp-content/uploads/uploads/icaoresults2.jpg" alt="Australia top six safety oversight" width="710" height="419" />Australia’s safety oversight results versus the global average. Source: ICAO.

The weakest score was in terms of aviation legislation, which has been a contentious issue among smaller Australian aviation organizations. But even here the score of just under 81 percent was higher than the global average of 71.77 percent.

The nation achieved full marks for its civil aviation organizational structures and 99.42 percent for air navigation services.

ICAO also rated its accident investigation capabilities highly at 97.06 percent. This was more than 40 percentage points ahead of the global average of 55.61 percent and marked the widest gap between the two scores across the seven safety measures.

The aviation licensing system pulled a score of 97.5 percent, while aerodrome safety was rated at 95.71 percent and airworthiness at 93.16 percent.

Operations narrowly missed out on being in the top 10 percent with a score of 89.08 percent.
CASA director of aviation safety Shane Carmody said everyone in the aviation industry could be proud of the top six ranking.

“The audit delivered a 95 percent safety oversight score, which we must now work to maintain,’’ he said in a briefing note. “This means Australia currently ranks sixth out of International Civil Aviation Organization member states for effective safety oversight.”

Carmody said the ranking demonstrated Australia had a robust aviation safety system “supported by public sector agencies with a deep commitment to achieving the best possible safety outcomes”.

“Credit for the ranking also goes to the commitment to safety by the people and organizations who make up Australia’s aviation community,’’ he said. “It is your day-to-day work, delivering safety during every flight and every aviation activity, that makes Australian skies amongst the safest in the world.”

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Hmm...I wonder how much that ICAO rubberstamp 'bollocks' cost us? Not to mention the cost to HVH in wining, dining (plus extra curricular activities), while pulling the wool over the eyes of ICAO (wet lettuce) Thor in the course of his wanderings through the Halls of AAI top-cover experts the ATSB : Mount NCN post #106

Got a feeling my next Aunty task will be to systematically pull apart that complete and utter load of BOLLOCKS -

In the meantime here is a challenge for CC, given our stellar standing in the world of aviation safety administration can we now request that the FAA IASA team come back and doubly reassure the members of the A4ANZ that we are in the stratosphere of Category 1 member States? Come on CC, money where your mouth is mate!!  

Now back to big, bad, Bazza and his COI with RRAT committee matters of an aviation nature...

Digging around on BO's CV I note that he was listed as the proprietor of a company called - ASIA PACIFIC CLAIMS MANAGEMENT PTY LTD.

Here is the website homepage for that company: http://asiapcmanagement.com/

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INDEPENDENT
ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE
FOR VICTIMS OF AVIATION DISASTERS

At Asia Pacific Claims Management we specialise in providing independent advice and assistance to individuals, estates and corporations affected by aviation accidents around the world where civil litigation and claims for compensation are involved. We have a long history of success in assisting clients navigate the very complex world of civil litigation as it relates to aviation. Our expertise is extensive and our advice unbiased.

We operate completely independently; we are not lawyers, attorneys or solicitors nor do we act exclusively for any single law firm. Our sole aim is to provide unbiased, independent advice and assistance to our clients regarding the potential of any civil claim for compensation, the most appropriate path to perusing such a claim should one exist and advocating on behalf of our clients throughout the legal process.
 

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Now go to the 'experience' webpage: http://asiapcmanagement.com/portfolio/

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WE HAVE ASSISTED IN ALL TYPES OF AVIATION ACCIDENTS FROM CASES INVOLVING SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFT THROUGH TO THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL JETS

CURRENT CASES

MALAYSIA 370
AIR PNG 1600

MAJOR CASES

GARUDA 200
ADAM AIR 547
LION AIR 538
GARUDA 421
EGYPT AIR 900
GARUDA 152
SILK AIR 185
KOREAN 801

CASES BY JURISDICTION

ALL CASES
AUSTRALIA
INTERNATIONAL

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MH370?  

Next go to the AUSTRALIA cases webpage: http://asiapcmanagement.com/service/australia/

From the QEC website I also found that in the course of 2008 and 2009 that BO, on behalf of APCM, declared just over 20K donations to QLD LNP:

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https://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets...ty-Ltd.pdf

https://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets...ment-1.pdf

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These APCM donations would appear to coincide with when BO was in the role of honorary treasurer of the newly formed QLD LNP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_O%27Sullivan

In the lead up to the merger of the Liberal and National Parties, O'Sullivan was asked to assist in overseeing the registration of the new entity, the LNP. He was appointed honorary treasurer. O'Sullivan served in that role during the 2008 merger until his pre-selection to the Senate seat vacated by Barnaby Joyce, who had resigned to contest the House of Representatives seat of New England at the 2013 federal election.

Digging around some more it would seem that APCM may have been dissolved in March last year??

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ASIA PACIFIC CLAIMS MANAGEMENT PTY LTD 601 496 244 ...
https://insolvencynotices.asic.gov.au › Browse/search notices[size=undefined]
Mar 17, 2017 - NOTICE OF PROPOSED DEREGISTRATION - VOLUNTARY Subsection 601AA(4) - Registered | Published : 17/03/2017.[/size]

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Still studying bones, so standby for updates - MTF...P2