OK just a quick #IBAC primer before the hearing. Today's witness is Kirsten Psaila, who worked in Khairouz office, and likely did a lot of factional work for her. The previous witness Christine Kelly hinted at it, and IBAC has a habit of using the 1st witness to burn the 2nd.
She's likely to get a lot of questions about her use of public time, ballot renewals, non genuine members, forgeries. And the "macedonian faction" might get brought up a few times, Labor loves targetting ethnic groups for support. Maybe some grants will get discussed again.
Big names that might come up will be Kaushalia Vaghela(again) plus Scott and Kairouz(already "resigned"). Possibly not much about Somyurek, they seem to have moved the focus to Khairouz for now, then presumably Scott after that.
As far as revelations go, I think there won't be much new stuff, just new people doing the same stuff. Between Byrne and Garotti, an absolute train wreck of dodgy behaviour has been well detailed. I'm not even sure if I want to be wrong or not about this......
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Ok it's #IBACsummary time and wheeeew boy, was it an interesting day. The usual disgusting behaviours were canvassed, and many of the usual suspects were mentioned, so I'll try and focus on the new stuff we learned, and today's witness, Kirsten Psaila. #OpWatts
First up, Chris Carr fronted up looking like he had a face to face argument with an old fashioned push mower, which turned out to be a bicycle accident. But after a brief apology for his appearance, he proceeded to give somebody else a bloody face, and poor old Kirsten got it.
Kirsten's Twitter bio clearly has "living on #DinduNuffin land" but Carr was having none of that, being armed with a bagful of receipts that resembled Santa's sack in a good year. And possibly Kelly's Monday indignation fest put him and the Commish in an impatient mood.
So it's #IBACtime again. This will be the #OpWatts thread for the day. Today's witness is Kirsten Psaila, electoral officer for Marlene Khairouz, and not in any way a branch stacker, although that opinion may be shattered by day's end.
Abbreviations list in the next tweet.
CR - Comm. Redlich
CA - Counsel Assisting
W - Witness
AS - Adem Somyurek
MK - Marlene Kairouz
RS - Robin Scott
NE - Nazih Elasmar
KV - Kaushaliya Vaghela
HH - Hussein Haraco
SACOV - Somali Australian Council of Victoria
BMR - Bracks/Macklin Report
CCB - Corrupt, Cheating Bastards
Additional abbreviations may be added during the thread. WC will be used for witness counsel, if he intervenes.
And with that, the stream is up! We'll be going through witness formalities for a few minutes, then it's over to Mr Carr, for this mornings castigations. #OpWatts
Ok, time for today's #IBACsummary from #OpWatts. In the witness box was Christine Kelly, and boy was she cranky about it😂
Kelly's history was working in Marlene Khairouz office as an electoral officer. ALP member of 34 years, father was also an electoral officer.
She knew absolutely the difference between constituent work, and party political work, and made great pains to explain she never did factional work on the public dime, and even insisted all her workmates did too, despite evidence to the contrary.
Before proceedings started, Mr Carr stated for the record that IBAC had made a request for documents to the ALP, and they were denying that request, despite agreeing to cooperate with IBAC as part of the Bracks/Macklin report findings. More on this later.
Nothing is ever "all bad" or "all good" there's always elements of both. So here's 4½ good things about Daniel Andrews.
1. When it finally becomes obvious to even the most brain dead sheep that Victoria is ruined, and every other state isn't, Victorian Labor will be decimated.
2. When it finally becomes obvious to even the most brain dead sheep, that Daniel Andrews had absolutely no interests in his life other than absolute power, they will no longer trust people who seek power, and a new breed of representatives will be elected to the government.
3. When it finally becomes obvious to even the most brain dead sheep, that Daniel Andrews screwed Victoria to the loud cheers of prominent social media personalities and journalists, those people will be public enemy #1, and hounded from public life.
So far it's "get vaxxed" times a thousand. I wonder if Mr Limpy is getting paid in little blue pills.
The vaccine protection is clearly proven he says, after announcing the highest figure of fully vaccinated people in hospital to date.
And here comes the justification of Nazi powers. He's copying the equine Nazi from across the ditch.
Unvaccinated people are dirty, and should be treated as such.
Now the man who has failed 7 times to offer his health advice for scrutiny is bragging about a new transparency 🤦♀️
So let's do an #IBAC summary of today's hearings. Appearing again was Rick Garotti, Mayor of Banyule, Somyurek stooge. Boy, did he get a flogging.
After getting thrashed yesterday by Carr, he was careful to not deny anything he couldn't remember, in case receipts were inbound.
And LOTS of receipts were provided by IBAC, including financial documents, emails, phone intercepts with audio, and text messages. The actual focus of the hearings today was largely around SACOV, or the Somali Australian Council of Victoria, and grants awarded to them.
Garotti was heavily involved in facilitating these grants, but officially Hussein Haraco was running the show there. Garotti moved behind the scenes via Somyurek to the executive to gain info about grants and progress, Hussein actually filed the grants.