McGinty dumbstruck as Brabazon cleared of CCC Smiths Beach findings

What was the real agenda behind the Smiths Beach fiasco?

"Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw -
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there! "
T. S. Eliot

The Desert Rat just read an article in The West Australian (Friday 20 June) by Robert Taylor revealing that Mr Mark Brabazon, a CALM employee and the only remaining public servant named adversely by the Corruption and Crime Commission in the Smiths Beach Inquiry, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by a Public Service disciplinary inquiry called for by the CCC itself.

The allegations of the CCC have now been almost comprehensively rejected by competent authorities like the Office of Public Sector Management and Parliamentary Inspector of the CCC, Malcolm McCusker. The CCC inquiry has all the hallmarks of the Frewer and Allen inquiries where additional evidence, including evidence hidden by the CCC was adduced (cited as evidence).

The CCC's Smiths Beach inquiry and report are now completely discredited and is an embarrassment to CCC CEO Mike Children Overboard Silverstone and the various broken-down lawyers and others associated with the Smiths Beach Inquiry and Report.

We now have a continuing litany of flawed findings, which ignore facts; contain gross errors, and withhold exculpatory evidence from counsel and from reports.

The word around town is that the CCC wanted to get Burke and Grill "at any cost". It strongly appears that the CCC embarked upon this political witch hunt with the sole purpose of tainting and destroying Brian Burke and Julian Grill. The CCC has largely fabricated their case in the Smiths Beach Inquiry to achieve this end.

The Public Service Inquiry's rejection of the CCC's findings is another blow to the CCC's credibility on the Smith's Beach fiasco after Departmental inquiries and those of Parliamentary Inspector Malcolm McCusker QC also cleared public servants Mike Allen and Paul Frewer of any wrongdoing in the matter.

Why would the CCC go to such efforts to ignore the facts? Who were they trying to please? Who has benefited most from the damage done to the public reputation of Brian Burke and Julian Grill?

Could it be Jim McGinty and the ALP's Left faction, as there is now no opposition to the Left Faction within the Labor Party. MP's from these non-Left groups have been frozen out of safe seats, placed in unwinable positions or had their careers terminated in the recent pre-selections. The Left Faction led by McGinty, have got the safe seats and now has complete control over the party, the cabinet and Alan Carpenter.

The CCC has behaved without scruple in the Smiths beach inquiry. It would appear to the Desert Rat and many other observers that this public body has turned into an organ of the State Labor Government.

To further quote T.S. Eliot:-

"And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Roberts-Smith, I might mention Silverstone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!"