CCC: "Clutches at Straws" - but scourges itself

CCC admit it got the Dr Wally Cox case wrong - but qualify how they got it wrong!

The Corruption and Crime Commission has issued a media release today attacking a media release put out presumably by a Carpenter Government Minister. The CCC don’t mention the Minister name or portfolio so the Desert Rat looked up the governments media statements website – but it is off air so the CCC leaves the Desert Rat guessing.

Are the CCC too spooked to name the Minister they are attacking? They bully the public and the opponents of McGinty, but cower before this hapless profligate State Labor Government run (in)effectively by McGinty – too insipid and scared to name the Minister.

The grubby back-peddling media release is one of the very few put out by the CCC. Usually they have a gloating tone. The media release contact is Owen Cole Phone: 9215 4802, 0439 910 161 presumably some media hack at the CCC or hired hand.

The media release criticises the Longson Report on Dr Wally Cox, which they say they have not read (danger – when will these incompetents learn!). At least they are consistently incompetent in that they didn’t bother to listen to the tapes of the Planning Committee meeting in the Paul Frewer case and were shown to be incompetent fools.

Well the CCC media release states what we already know, that:

• The Corruption and Crime Commission has not seen the report on Dr Cox by the Director General of the Department for Agriculture and Food, Mr Ian Longson, but notes the following points from the Minister’s Media Statement


• The CCC inquiry found no evidence that the actions of the former chairman of the Environmental Protection Authority (Dr Wally Cox) constituted misconduct under the Corruption and Crime Commission Act.


• Mr Longson’s report states that the evidence indicates that the draft Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Smiths Beach development proposal was not before Dr Cox or the EPA Board at the time of the invitation for the lunch or when the lunch was held. The report states that the SEA was with the EPA Service Unit, whose officers were working with the proponent’s consultants to finalise them, and that the chairman and the board had no involvement at that stage.


• Mr Longson found there was no evidence that Dr Cox attempted to interfere with the SEA process and there was no evidence that Dr Cox was influenced in his role as chairman of the EPA by Mr Grill or Mr Burke. The Commission did not say that Dr Cox attempted to interfere with the SEA process nor that he was influenced in his role as Chairman of the EPA by Mr Grill and Mr Burke. The Commission did not say that Dr Cox attempted to interfere with the SEA process nor that he was influenced in his role as Chairman of the EPA by Mr Grill and Mr Burke.

Are these clowns trying to flagalate themselves?

Read Grumpy Jack's scathing analysis here.

The Desert Rat is in a remote part of the State working in 40 degree heat helping create wealth for the State and so is miffed that McGinty’s CCC has been wasting our wealth ($75 million) faster than we can create it.

Oh for an air-conditioned office on the Terrace where the Desert Rat can polish his hairy arse on a patent leather chair without any personal accountability and to be protected from incompetence by an Act of Parliament.

Sounds better than winning Lotto or getting a lifetime supply of the finest cheeses.