True crime writer Peter Hoysted, aka ‘Jack the Insider’ returns with the story of one of Australia’s most elaborate criminal enterprises.
From the early 1950s, Melbourne’s Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union was much more than an affiliation of dock workers.
It became a thriving criminal enterprise, and a front for crimes including murder, theft, extortion and prostitution.
The Union held sway for five decades, and had members who had never done a day’s work on the Docks, but had plenty of experience with killing.
Eventually a Royal Commission was called into their activities, which led to the downfall of a Federal Government.
Text supplied by ABC.
Frydenberg sums up the NEG perfectly.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/liddell-is-a-loss-but-energy-guarantee-would-light-the-way-forward/news-story/d4604b65dc5316e3bc86e5a0df22465d
I wouldn’t expect anything else given the guy is a fossil-fuel puppet.
$5 tax on all import purchases? Isn’t that protectionism? I thought that import tariffs were taboo to Libs? You know free market and all that shyte?
Only when it suits I suppose.
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Ps overjoyed the endless Dismayed, Boa,,Razor and co have finally called a pact of silence and non reply. You have no idea how tiresome it all has become, over at last!
Cheers
Although it does seem that Dismayed will no longer be appearing on the blog. As far as I am concerned he was not the only one out of order, but there you go
Penny, all I did was point out his links which he thought were fact were actually op ed articles. On anither occasin he vited a figure I knew to be wrong and referred him to th ABS website for that sort of material in future. Man, talk about your persecution complexes.
Yeah JTI, I really do agree with you on this, but my point is I just wish people would make comments without bloody linking newspaper articles/websites/YouTube etc.
I never open the links as a)it takes me out of the blog and b) I’m not that interested. Cite a source by all means but don’t make me read it. Surely people have their own opinions without forcing others to read a back up source
Bolton! Cripes.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3x-SPC-BAKED-BEANS-3-1KG/222867909516
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US markets drop 3% overnight the ASX expected to follow suit. People here last week were inferring a tax proposal had cost them $5K on their retirement savings. I take it today they will condemn the insular nationalistic tariff war trump is ramping up to detriment of the world and undoing a century of trade Liberalisation?
The pascometer shares our embarrassment of this worst government in the Nations history.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/dutton-and-dividends-dud-political-efforts-all-round-20180321-p4z5gx.html
Read an article where the Singaporean Government went around Australian Companies to encourage them to move their headquarters to Singapore.
Company tax rate there is 15% but if they really wanted you they would drop it to 7%’.
With “free” trade agreements with countries like this as an example, Canberra wants to sign more.
No wonder why Labor wants to hit the SMSF’s for more tax.
It was a tawdry act by Jeff Sessions, presumably to curry favour with Trump, to sack Andrew McCabe two days from his retirement.
It seems that Trump’s getting desperate about Robert Mueller’s enquiry: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/donald-trump-john-dowd/index.html
If the composition of the House and Senate lead to Democratic majorities, which could happen, this woeful POTUS could be for impeachin’.
And a deputy director of the FBI leaking to the press–and then lying about it under oath to the Inspector General–doesn’t warrant dismissal?
Where’s your proof that he lied under oath?
You really do need to open the other eye, Dwight.
Massively churlish act
Derryn Hinch looking for a look at moi moment. Is there any gutter that egoist chap wouldn’t fall into?
Was glad to see the back of the other media tart Sen X, I’m sure he’s a decent bloke but all talk and never actually having to come up with the goods.
Is Hinch on the 3yr or 6yr in the Senate
He just showcases his ignorance every day. At least when Ricky Bobby was in the Senate he did the hard yards and learned about how things work. Hinch can’t be bothered it seems. At the very least he needs a good CoS who is across the issues.
Just the ones he won’t fit into. Lots of those.
Great effort by the Blues against a pretty irresistable Richmond team Jack. They seem to have not lost anything from their premiership year, so Carlton did well to run them hard for so much of the match.
So much for the old days of a couple of scratchy games to start the year, both sides were full on and flat out from the outset. Great stuff.
And I didn’t heed your advice, Lou!
Actually, I had a check and I did!! You beauty.
A lot of people were slamming the former SA Labor government for taking too long to open the Worlds best hospital but not a word from those same people here about the former WA Liberal government about “The yet-to-open children’s hospital has been plagued by elevated lead levels in its drinking water, the discovery of asbestos in roofing panels and a string of other issues that have created major delays and cost blowouts.” 3 years overdue, over seen by the ex Liberal treasurer. No Surprises.