Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee a disgrace

Jennifer Nash | 09.05.2009 01:13 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This article is about human rights abuses and the systemic failure of the government (including the PCMC) to act on severe school bullying, education discrimination and judicial abuse and corruption.

Paul Hoolihan PCMC Chairman
Paul Hoolihan PCMC Chairman

Chief Judge Paul de Jersey
Chief Judge Paul de Jersey

Robert Needham CMC CEO & Chairman
Robert Needham CMC CEO & Chairman


As I have reported previously my teenage son is a victim of severe school bullying, education discrimination and neglect. He was further discriminated against by the highly politicised legal system which denied him legal youth advocacy on equal terms as per the Rights of The Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976) out of political expediency.

Then we were abused and intimidated in harrowing Kangaroo courts by politically appointed judges in trials without a jury. My son was deeply traumatised by the abuse we suffered in the courtroom. But nobody cared!

The Kangaroo Courts I am referring to are the Queensland Anti Discrimination Tribunal and the Queensland Supreme Court. My son was also denied access to the Federal Court of Australia’s pro bono legal scheme, and I was forced to legally represent him there against an adversarial alibi Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (hreoNOT!) and the Queensland Juvenile Justice Department.

Imagine a Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee (PCMC) charged with acting as the watchdog of the Crime and Misconduct Commission which investigates nothing and reports absolutely nothing which might embarrass the government. An alibi committee which is just another cover up.

I have repeatedly complained in my articles about the unethical and unprincipled conduct of the Queensland government and this includes the PCMC. However Australians are largely unaware about our ongoing ordeal because the media is not independent in Australia. It has not reported the human rights abuses perpetrated against my teenage son and me. Nor the continued failure of government to act responsibly and demonstrate accountability and humanity.

I have explained in my articles how my documented and corroborated complaints about judicial corruption to the Crime and Misconduct Commission were simply swept under the carpet by CMC chairman, Robert Needham.

I then complained to the oversight body, the Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee (PCMC) about the failure of the CMC to investigate my complaint as per its own charter of services. But my complaint was again swept under the carpet.
The government simply used its majority on the PCMC to refuse to table my complaint in Parliament in order to avoid the Labor government any embarrassment.

As I reported previously our court room audio tapes and transcripts were repeatedly severely edited in order to pervert the course of justice. All my complaints to Queensland Chief Judge Paul de Jersey, the Justice Department and countless other government agencies and politicised NGOs were ignored.

Editing courtroom audio tapes or transcripts is a serious criminal offence punishable with up to 5 years in jail, but the Queensland Police refused to investigate my complaint.

Ray Halligan, the chairman of Western Australia's version of the PCMC has described as "totally and utterly wrong" the Queensland system that allows party politics to throw out complaints concerning official misconduct.

He said a legislative framework that allowed decisions on complaints concerning official misconduct and corruption to be made on a political basis was "totally and utterly wrong".

"I would have very grave concerns about that," said Mr Halligan, a Liberal member of the upper house, the Legislative Council.

"I don't agree with that at all. The committee (in WA) doesn't withhold anything.

Who's watching corruption at anti-corruption watchdogs?  http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/qld-news/whos-watching-corruption-at-anticorruption-watchdogs-20090428-alxx.html?page=-1

Queensland loophole 'totally and utterly wrong': WA watchdog chair  http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/qld-news/queensland-loophole-totally-and-utterly-wrong-wa-watchdog-chair-20090428-alyc.html

When will the Queensland government stop covering up my documented and corroborated complaint? And how many more articles will I have to write to prompt a long overdue independent and impartial inquiry into this travesty? And why is the Australian media so unethical and inhumane?

Something is very wrong when families have to turn to the international media because human rights abuses and systemic judicial corruption is continually swept under the carpet by government and it’s so called ‘independent’ watchdogs. Australia’s 3rd world press freedom does not serve the people and long overdue direct democracy.

But we do thank the international press including Mathaba News Agency, Wall Street Journal, Daylife, USA Today, Newstin and many others for reporting our ongoing ordeal and the human rights abuses perpetrated against us.

Justice delayed is justice denied and we have been caught up in this galling, incredibly harrowing and abusive legal system since 2003. And the government has tried to destroy us every step of the way.

The following is a partial list of my articles highlighting this ongoing outrage. I feel that is way too many articles for any ‘responsible’ and ’accountable’ government to ignore. Don’t you?

QLD Governor Wensley Silent On Judicial Abuse  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=620047

Breakdown of the rule of law  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/425273.html

Bullied schoolboy wants Anna Bligh to address judicial corruption  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/02/386941.shtml

Kevin Rudd and Robert McClelland must address corruption  http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/03/225156.php

Human Rights Commission defends regime – not youth  http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=141714

Bullied schoolboy wants Kevin Rudd to address judicial corruption  http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=618292

Australia’s lone stance against civil rights bill: how juristocracy enables this and blocks debate  http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=616222

Attorney General misleads the people  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424062.html

Supreme Court 'orders bullied schoolboy to pay costs'  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=572486

Jennifer Nash
- e-mail: jennifernash10@hotmail.com

Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech