Video Footage of Killer after Muslims celebrates closer ties with Turnbull Government by Murdering Civilian Police Employee outside Parramatta Police Station

Islamic leader Amhad Malas calls on Malcolm Turnbull to restart relationship with Australian Muslims
ABCBy political reporter Tom IgguldenOctober 2 2015
An Islamic community leader is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reset the Federal Government's relationship with Australia's Muslims.
Amhad Malas, a director of the Lebanese Muslim Association, told The World Today the community was encouraged by Mr Turnbull's promise to be a consultative Prime Minister.
"Because the community is really longing to see a change, we're really hopeful that will extend to the Muslim community," he said.
Mr Malas said former prime minister Tony Abbott's use of phrases like "team Australia" and his admonishment that Muslim leaders had not done enough to combat radicalisation had damaged relations.
"It definitely has had a severe effect on the relationship between the community and the Government and we really want to see that change," Mr Malas said.
He issued an invitation for the Mr Turnbull to visit Western Sydney, which many of Australia's Muslims call home.
It's very important that these relationships are now intensified at the national level.
"He'll be welcome, and I think it's needed also so he gets a real feel for the issues that are facing the community, and definitely our doors are open for that," Mr Malas said.
Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Connie Ferriveinte-Wells, said the Government is looking a ways to improve the relationship with Muslim groups.
"It's very important that these relationships are now intensified at the national level," she told Radio National Breakfast.
"Our communities do feel alienated, they feel as though events overseas and the Middle East have impinged on their relationship, not just with government but broader Australia.
"I think its really important that those relationships are revisited."

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Yoni Bashan, Linda Silmalis, Brenden Hills and Lia HarrisThe Sunday Telegraph

Parramatta shooting: Multiple shots fired outside police HQ on Charles Street

Janet Fife-Yeomans, Lia Harris, Cathy Morris and Taylor Auerbach
The Daily Telegraph
October 3 2015.

• Victim, a police IT worker, was ‘simply leaving work’ when shot dead
• Shooting happened outside Police HQ in Parramatta at 4.30pm
• Gunman shot dead by Special Constables after gunfight
• Children were trapped in daycare with dead body at door
• THE gunman who shot dead a police staffer was a 15-year-old who had visited Parramatta Mosque on his way to commit murder.

The teenager, a naturalised Australian who arrived with his family from Iran, had walked to the police headquarters in Charles Street from his home in North Parramatta before opening fire on a civilian police employee.

Police are today trying to trackdown the teenage killer’s family who may have left the area.

His victim was a father-of-two, a son and a daughter, who is understood to have worked in the finance area for police.

Witnesses have told The Saturday Telegraph that after shooting dead the civilian employee, the teenager ran up and down infront of police headquarters waving his handgun in the air and shouting: “Allah. Allah.”

It was then that two special constables on security duty ran from the police building and shot the gunman dead.

Police are trying to find out who radicalised the teenager.

He had no identification on him and it is understood to be his brotherwho rang police and said he thought he knew who the gunman was.

Security may be beefed up at tomorrow’s NRL grand final following the incident.

The bodies of the victim and the shooter were removed earlier this morning.

Charles St is still completely blocked from Macquarie St to George St, with only residents being allowed past the cordons.

Last night Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione described the incdient as a “brutal crime” after reviewing CCTV footage.

“An employee of the NSW Police Force has been callously murdered,” he said.

“I viewed a number of pieces of footage. I can tell you this was a brutal crime. A terrible crime.”

The gunman, walked past one ­female police officer before shooting the civilian employee in the back of the head.

It is not certain if the victim was known to the gunman, who had still not been identified late on Friday night.

Mr Scipione said the vision showed the civilian employee was “targeted”.

The attacker remained on the street after killing the public servant with a single shot and got into an exchange with special constables working in the building.

The commissioner praised the bravery of the special constables guarding the entrance, who have full police powers and who were sprayed with bullets by the gunman before he was shot dead.

He said police had not ruled out that the gunman, who had no identification on him, was working with others, although it was too soon to know the motive.

The Saturday Telegraph has learned messages had been sent to police to be on alert because people had been seen taking photographs of the entrance to the building, which houses the crack major crime squads.

Sources said the building had been “cased” and there had been “chatter” in recent weeks about a potential ­attack, but the target was not clear.

“There has been activity around a number of locations in NSW, they’re the things we communicate to our ­officers,” Mr Scipione said.

He said a major events team was looking at the incident with a view to the NRL grand final, but said security for the match at the ANZ Stadium on Sunday night was already high.

Police flooded the area and shoppers ran in panic as a 2km exclusion zone was declared around the building after the shootings at about 4.30pm on Friday.

Officers in body armour patrolled Parramatta CBD as police declared it a Level 1 critical incident, the most serious level there is.

The two bodies lay on the pavement covered in white sheets at the doorway of a childcare centre. The group of children were locked inside the centre after one of the bodies lay at the door.

Father Dennis Entriken told The Daily Telegraph they all hoped their kids had been spared the sight and sounds of the horror.

“Unfortunately the children are still inside — we can’t get access to them and they can’t come out,” he said.

“Because one of the bodies is quite literally on the ground at the entrance to the childcare centre.”

The parents have since been reunited with their children.

Police seized a backpack from the footpath in front of Parramatta Public School about 300m from the bodies.

The black backpack — branded with a white “Nike” slogan — had been cordoned off inside a secondary crime scene.

It is understood a number of other items were also photographed and seized by forensic police.

Witnesses to the shooting said the gunman had been waving the gun above his head.

“I saw him pacing up and down at police headquarters with a gun above his head, he was yelling something and dressed in a black robe,” witness Edwin Almeida said.

“He was wearing something that could be mistaken for a priest’s outfit. It was a black robe, but he definitely wasn’t a priest.” Mr Almeida, whose office is opposite the police headquarters, said four or five shots were fired.

“He was screaming and running towards the police building … he looked agitated,” he said.

“There was blood everywhere.”

Shopkeeper Sammy Shak told The Daily Telegraph he saw two bodies on the ground after hearing “six shots at least”.

“When I went out there was two bodies on the floor and there was cops everywhere all around the area and they told me to go inside the shop straight away,” he said.

Another witness who lives in an apartment opposite police headquarters said he heard the shooting.

“I finished work and was in the shower and I heard the gunshots,” the man, who asked not to be named, told The Daily Telegraph.

“I heard six or seven gunshots and it was pretty loud.

“In two to three minutes there were cops everywhere.”

One worker, whose colleague witnessed the shooting, told The Daily Telegraph she was left shaken after watching an exchange of gunfire.

Residents who live near the police headquarters said they heard three or four “bangs”, which sounded like fireworks, before a gap of 30 seconds and a further four bangs.

An ambulance left Charles Street just after 5pm as locals gathered around the blocked-off area.

POLICE IN THE LINE OF FIRE

SEP 23 2014

Numan Haider, 18, of Afghan descent, stabbed two counter-terrorism officers at a police station in the Melbourne suburb of Endeavour Hills before being shot dead.

Harder was one of up to 50 Australian citizens who had their passports cancelled due to fears that they would join the Islamic State group. He reportedly went to the police station to discuss his cancelled passport.

FEB 10 2015

Heavily armed counter-terrorism police raided a Fairfield granny flat (above) and arrested two men they believe were planning to attack either a Sydney police station or officers on the street. Iraqi-born 

Omar Al’Kutobi and Kuwaiti national Mohammad Kiad were charged with plotting to carry out a terrorist act.

APR 18 2015

Police allegedly thwarted an Islamic State terror plot to kill officers with knives and swords in Melbourne on Anzac Day. Five teenagers were arrested in pre-dawn raids. ASIO reportedly had told the family of one suspect to stop their son communicating with an extremist recruiter, who groomed Melbourne terrorist Numan Haider.

MAY 7 2015

The NSW police union called for stab-resistant vests for every officer. The union also sought permission for on-call police to be able to take their guns home with them and asked that officers not work alone, following increased security measures in Victoria.

Parramatta shooting: ‘The shooter’s actions were politically motivated and linked to terrorism’

October 3, 2015 11:08am

The Sunday Telegraph

The "Strikingly Handsome" Tanya Plibersek is Dribbling and RORTING AGAIN !!!

Tanya Plibersek slams government over Syrian refugee crisis

Andrew Carswell
The Daily Telegraph
October 1, 2015 12:00am

ACTING Labor leader Tanya Plibersek has criticised the Turnbull government on the refugee crisis, despite the Coalition trumping her own party’s suggestions on the number of displaced Syrians Australia should accept.

After returning home from a grandstanding tour of Washington and New York, the Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman also laughed off Australia’s chances of securing a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, claiming she was bombarded by people who were concerned about Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers.

Yet while Ms Plibersek said Australia had some explaining to do for its treatment of asylum seekers, she backed the Turnbull government’s policy of offshore detention and preventing asylum seekers who arrive in Australia on boats from being included in the nation’s refugee intake.

“The effort to secure a spot on the UN Human Rights Council will be a very difficult one for Australia,’’ she said yesterday.

“I’ve just returned from Washington and New York where … people raised with me their concerns about the world going in one direction on these big issues of global concern, and Australia going in ­exactly the opposite direction.

“That’s true of climate change, it’s true of our commitment to our aid budget and it’s been true of our treatment of asylum seekers also.”

Labor’s renewed demands that Australia hike its refugee intact to 27,000 in light of the ongoing Syrian crisis comes as the European Union confirmed that out of the 213,000 ­arrivals in Europe in April, May and June, only 44,000 of them were fleeing the Syrian civil war.

Despite not having an official role at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, Ms Plibersek filled her junket schedule with a gamut of meetings with US senators, the US State ­Department, the US Treasury, the IMF and “leading think tanks”.

Her itinerary was punctuated with selfies with climate change gurus, tasting a peanut butter and blackberry jelly doughnut, convivial chit chats with Kevin Rudd and a speech to the Asia Society Policy Institute, rivalled by a 13-minute, policy-loaded introduction from Mr Rudd himself.

Her Twitter feed was a gushing tribute to her humanitarian idols, ­including a blurred handshake with “friend” and director of the Earth ­Institute Jeffrey Sachs, a close-up of feminist Gloria Steinem and a snap with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

"Plibersek is strikingly handsome, with angular features that reflect her Slovenian heritage"

Big Apple’s seeding rotten far-off ideas
Editorial The Daily TelegraphOctober 1, 2015 
LABOR’S deputy leader Tanya Plibersek keeps some ­unusual company. Yesterday she reported the views of people she’s been hanging around with in the US.
“I’ve just returned from Washington and New York where any number of people raised with me their concerns about the world going in one direction on these big issues of global concern and Australia going in exactly the opposite direction,” Plibersek said.
Of particular concern, the Labor deputy leader claimed, were Australia’s attitudes towards climate change and asylum seekers.
On the latter, Australia is actually leading the world. Europe, now beset with one of the largest ­asylum-seeker crises in history, looks to Australia for guidance.
On the former, Australia sets a world-leading example on climate change by only producing around 1.3 per cent of the planet’s man-made global warming gases. Match that, China!

Labor's Next Leader ? 

The "Strikingly Handsome " Tanya Plibersek

The woman most likely


If Labor is to make its way out of the political wilderness, deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek will be a key player.
Erin O'Dwyer
SMH
October 20, 2013

Tanya Plibersek has a gift for doing many things at once. "My personal favourite was writing a speech, talking on the telephone and breastfeeding," says Labor's 43-year-old MP for the federal seat of Sydney, whisking egg yolks, lemon juice and olive oil into a home-made mayonnaise.

It's lunchtime at Plibersek's inner-city home and the mother of three is rallying the troops. "Yes, you can have a baguette, Joe," she says to her hovering eight-year-old. She calls upstairs – "Mum, would you like a sandwich?" – and then says to the photographer, "Are you sure I can't offer you anything?" He declines politely, then tosses over his shoulder, "Don't ask her why she's not running as leader of the opposition."

Why not indeed? Within hours of the ALP losing government in September, Plibersek emerged as a potential new leader. A few weeks later, BRW magazine described her as a "powerful candidate" due to her "warmth, intelligence ... and, let's not be shy, her undoubted charisma". Then former PM Julia Gillard all but endorsed Plibersek, calling her one of the most gifted communicators in politics.

So when Plibersek offered herself as deputy – leaving two men, Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese, to contest the Labor leadership – political observers were left asking why she didn't step up for the top job. "Are there many working mothers asking that? I don't think so," says Plibersek, who was elected deputy leader last week. "I'm away a lot already, at least one or two nights every week, and if it was the leadership as well I'd be away every weekend."

Juggling work and family has been the mainstay in Plibersek's life since she entered Federal Parliament in 1998, aged 29. In that time she has had three children – Anna, 12, Joe, 8, and Louis, 3 – and breastfed each of them for the first year. Her family loyalty has only strengthened her public image as a capable and compassionate politician. "If you were to draw up a shortlist for the next PM, it would have Tanya Plibersek's name on it," says political commentator Lachlan Harris, a former press secretary to Kevin Rudd.

If the ALP has taken hits on its credibility and standing up for its ideals, then Plibersek is crucial to rebuilding. "What Tanya has in spades is a real decency and dignity," Harris says. "It shines through whether you see her on TV, meet her in an airport lounge or watch her on the floor of Parliament."

On election night, former PM Bob Hawke came under fire for suggesting that Plibersek could not lead the party because she had a three-year-old child. When it emerged that Bill Shorten also had a three-year-old, the backlash was swift, with feminist action group Destroy the Joint launching a Twitter tirade and an internet meme. "I felt a bit sorry for Bob Hawke," says Plibersek. "He asked me, in this incredibly supportive and encouraging way, 'Why don't you run?' And at that stage Louis wasn't quite three and I said I couldn't imagine it."

Hawke remains a firm believer in Plibersek's ability to lead the party. "She's got everything it takes," he says. "She's intelligent, articulate and committed to the values of Labor."

Amid the conflict and chaos of the Rudd-Gillard era, Plibersek emerged unscathed. She's one of a number of unassuming female Labor MPs – Michelle Rowland in NSW, Kate Ellis in South Australia, Kate Lundy in the ACT – determined to trample over gender politics and make a fresh start with rolled-up sleeves.

Plibersek, especially, manages to sidestep internal party politics and the machinations of the "faceless men", yet retains the respect of the party's king-makers. In her own electorate of Sydney she is much loved. "It's a very demographically diverse seat and she manages to cover a wide spectrum of people, from working-class families to the first- and second-generation migrants to the über-trendy latte drinkers,'' says Harris, who lived for many years in the electorate.

Long-time Canberra press gallery journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh describes Plibersek as a "straight shooter. She stands out in the Labor male ruck. She's a genuinely compassionate person, a good policy driver, and she doesn't play nasty political games."

Adds Harris, "What makes Tanya interesting goes beyond the fact she's a woman. It's her political skills and her character ... that make her a strong force in politics."

Plibersek sets out a light lunch for our interview. There's organic olive bread, hard-boiled quail eggs, poached salmon and lettuce from the garden. On the bench is home-made banana bread next to a folder marked "school notes". The fridge is plastered with wedding invites, photos and a timetable of before- and after-school activities."I love cooking and I find it really relaxing," Plibersek says. "It's different from what I do the rest of the time."

In the office, too, Plibersek's hospitality is legendary. On sitting days in Parliament she'll often cook – grilled chicken on the sandwich press or soup in the rice cooker. "It's quicker and healthier than a trip to the Parliament House cafeteria," she says.

Even at home, Plibersek never stands still. She darts around her kitchen, barefoot and relaxed, in white linen pants and a yellow striped T-shirt. She seldom has time to shop, and asks if she can buy the canary yellow top she is photographed in. "It's either buy it here or buy at the airport," she laughs. "The last time I did any clothes shopping was because I was on my way to Brisbane and had to stay overnight. I had to buy undies and a fresh shirt for the next day."

Plibersek is one of the most invited guests on ABC TV's Q&A program (along with Malcolm Turnbull and Christopher Pyne) – known for her calm, thoughtful answers and occasionally sharp tongue. In person, she is warmer, more personable. Still, she relishes the opportunity to spar on television, despite getting the jitters each time she steps in front of the cameras.

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The "Strikingly Handsome " Tanya Plibersek 

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Plibersek is strikingly handsome, with angular features that reflect her Slovenian heritage. Her father Joseph was one of hundreds of migrants who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme, then returned home on weekends. It was a close and happy upbringing.

But life has not been without tragedy and turmoil. She watched Joseph succumb to cancer at age 80 last year and she lives with the painful memory of the murder of her brother Phillip 16 years ago in Papua New Guinea. Her husband Michael Coutts-Trotter was in the news for all the wrong reasons when, after he was promoted to the post of Director-General of the NSW Education Department in 2007, the press revealed that he had served three years of a nine-year jail sentence for conspiracy to traffic heroin when he was 21 – before he and Plibersek met. Her husband was an addict at the time, and she says, "I think it's clear that it was a pretty miserable life for Michael and he paid a very high price for it. I hope [the children] will see his experience as instructive."

Always, family comes first for Plibersek. When Louis asks her for help to get onto the trampoline, she scoops him up in her arms and disappears outside. She returns a few minutes later and picks up our conversation exactly where she left off. "One of the most sustaining parts of my life is my family life," she says. "For all of the disadvantages of my work, the upside is my children see a much broader cross-section of life and think more deeply about it than many kids their age do."

On weekends, the children go with her to work. A nanny cares for them through the week and she and her husband's extended families fill in the gaps. Any downtime is spent at home – bike riding, bushwalking, swimming laps with the kids. "Between us all, we work it out," she says. "We're a very close family and it makes a huge difference to have grandparents around. I don't feel guilty asking my brother [Ray] to look after the kids because he's forever saying, 'Why don't you go out on Saturday night?' "

The marginalised and disadvantaged are the focus of Plibersek's work. As housing minister, she drove a reform agenda that saw $31 billion invested in new public housing and spearheaded a white paper which aimed to halve homelessness by 2020. As health minister, she introduced free dental care for children. Real, tangible wins are what inspire and motivate her.

Plibersek does not shy away from the controversy of Kevin Rudd, acknowledging that the party was "destabilised from within". Equally, she describes the sexist campaign against Julia Gillard as "beyond the pale". "Australians shocked themselves by how vicious some of the treatment of the PM was," she says. "She certainly ran up against some people who never imagined a woman in that leadership role."

Asked how future female leaders might learn from Gillard's experience, Plibersek replies, "It's not a question of how a woman would do it or a man would do it, it's a question of how a person should do it in a way that reflects their personality. Ego can be a problem. False modesty can be a problem. You need to be true to yourself. Looking back, there were so many things I disagreed with John Howard on, but what you see is what you get with John Howard. And that's a good way to be."

Plibersek is appreciating the extra time she has with her children now she's no longer in cabinet, and doesn't miss having to get up and dress in the dark. But she is brutally honest that she hates being back in opposition. "It's devastating to see the things you've worked for destroyed. I spent 10 years in opposition, I know what it feels like. You feel impotent and frustrated. You see the things you have worked for being unwound."

Unlike those who believe the Labor Party has run its course, Plibersek is passionate about its future. She has never thought about running as an independent, and despite her outspoken support for same-sex marriage, she believes in working for change from within, rather than "throwing rocks from the outside". "It will depend on us behaving ourselves and working closely together,'' she says. "How competitive Labor is in three years is completely up to us."

If a week is a long time in politics, then 15 years as an MP is an eternity. Plibersek is a survivor, a stayer, a new hope for Labor. Bob Hawke says it's because she's interested in people. "It's who she is," he says simply. "Politicians are about representing people and that's what she does very well."

Styling by Sarah Bonnett. Hair and make-up by Erin Shaw. Lead-in and top image: Tanya wears Esprit shirt, Bianca Spender pants; Anna wears Witchery 8fourteen dress; Joe wears Country Road shirt, T-shirt and chinos. Above right image: Tanya wears Country Road shirt, Bianca Spender pants; Anna wears Witchery 8fourteen dress.

Julie Bishop WTF are you doing?

We should reject UN’s sick circus

Andrew Bolt 
Herald Sun
October 1, 2015 

WELL, that didn’t take long. Just two weeks as Prime Minister and Malcolm Turnbull is already promising to lick the boots of the tyrants who infest the United Nations.

Yes, the Turnbull Government is asking for the tremendous honour of joining the UN’s Human Rights Commission.

And if we’re really good, Australia may join some of the moral paragons on that body supervising our human rights — China, Congo, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

No, that’s not a joke. These countries really are judges on a UN body meant to save us from exactly such thugs, thieves, theocrats and dictators. We will legitimise a pack of hypocrites we should shun and, in joining, will put ourselves at their level.

Sure, the Left is cheering, but check the company we’ll keep. Across the table will be Russia, which has stolen Crimea, invaded Ukraine and supplied to rebels the missile and the men that shot down the MH17 jet carrying Australian citizens.

Also rubbing shoulders with us will be the Saudi autocrats, about to behead and crucify Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, who protested for democracy in 2012, when he was only 17. And we’ll nod thoughtfully as the communist autocrats ruling China, Cuba and Vietnam define for us what should be meant by “human rights”.

I hope the UN’s showers are industrial strength.

Don’t believe the sanctimonious drivel about how joining such bodies does not compromise our beliefs. Horse manure. To win our temporary seat on the Security Council the Rudd government diverted hundreds of millions of dollars of aid money to African countries whose votes we needed.

Worse, to further curry favour with an important bloc of Muslim votes we saw Rudd as foreign affairs minister sucking up to Arab autocracies while attacking democratic Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

Then there’s the humiliating self-abasement in crawling for the votes of inferior countries. Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek gave a perfect example yesterday, wondering whether “the massive cuts to our aid budget make it impossible for Australia to be a good global citizen”.

“The Australian Government will certainly have some explaining to do during the course of its bid for the human rights council spot.”

Pardon? We have to defend our human rights record to countries that have voted already for a gaggle of dictators?

Only a fool coached in our universities of Western self-loathing could think the UN is a better arbiter of our goodness than we are ourselves.

But I should cut Malcolm Turnbull some slack. Joining this sick circus might not be his fault.

Perhaps he simply couldn’t say no to Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, given her secret help to snatch the top job from Tony Abbott.

I mean, have you seen how Bishop is partying at the UN? There she was again this week, addressing the UN General Assembly like a world leader, with her boyfriend rubbernecking beside her in a seat normally meant for officials doing business for Australia.

The day before, some anonymous leaker boasted to a friendly Fairfax journalist that the UN’s “doors ... have mysteriously swung open” to Bishop now that her boss was Turnbull and not Abbott, so rude to thugs.

Gosh, she’d even “received a last-minute invitation to attend a Sunday lunch being hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the leaders of about 20 nations to discuss climate change”.

Now, which serial leaker would have leaked that, Julie? And note how eagerly Bishop pays homage to the UN’s multi-billion-dollar green faith, like it’s the entry price to a feed.

Ooh, but how exciting it all is for Bishop. Between gigs at the UN, she even had a star-studded dinner party in Manhattan, which the dutiful reporter noted was “a more raucous affair”, “full of big names” including actor Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-lee Furness, Mariah Carey, Robert De Niro and glamorous more.

Marvellous. Imagine how many more hot invitations come Bishop’s way once we join the Human Rights Council.

So I was not surprised that someone — you again, Julie? — briefed journalists how Bishop had tricked that silly Abbott when he tried to stop this bid, first launched by Labor, to join a council Abbott considered “discredited”.

According to a Fairfax reporter in New York, Bishop had “been ordered by Mr Abbott to abandon the bid, an about face that might have caused Australia diplomatic embarrassment”, but “Bishop was yet to carry out the instruction when Mr Turnbull deposed Mr Abbott”.

Smart work, Bishop! A cunning delay.

How the UN will reward you. How dictators will laugh. And how Australians will pay.

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Salim Mehajer threatens to sue Sydney gym for $10m over Kidnap allegations

Salim Mehajer threatens to sue Sydney gym for $10m in damages over harassment allegations

Renae Henry  
9news

Salim Mehajer is now accused of threatening the family of a Sydney siege survivor. His colleagues, once again, say he has brought shame on their council.

The controversial and newly re-elected Auburn deputy mayor has denied allegations he threatened a personal trainer at a Sydney gym, saying he plans to sue the company for damages of up to $10 million.

Salim Mehajer is accused of threatening Burwood Anytime Fitness trainer, Bruce Herat, after he was asked to stop dropping weights on the gym floor.

Mr Herat said he had been verbally abused by Mr Mehajer, who allegedly followed him to his car and threatened to kidnap his children after repeatedly asking, “don’t you know who I am?”.

Mr Herat is the father of Sydney siege survivor, Joel.

Mr Mehajer has issued a statement to 9NEWS denying the allegations and said he would urge the government to introduce legislation protecting high-profile public figures from allegations that can harm their reputations.

“I was working out peacefully on my own, using a leg stretching press, whereby I was targeted by Mr Herat,” Mr Mehajer said.

“I will urge the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to change laws to protect high profile politicians and businessmen from such allegations which can turn their career upside down in a split second.”

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione previously asked for any witnesses to the alleged incident to come forward.

Climate Hoax:You Don’t Know the Half of It

You Don’t Know the Half of It: Temperature Adjustments and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology


by Jennifer Marohasy
September 28, 2015

For the true believer, it is too awful to even consider that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology could be exaggerating global warming by adjusting figures. This doesn’t mean though, that it’s not true.

 Environment Minister Greg Hunt

In fact, under Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a panel of eminent statisticians was formed to investigate these claims detailed in The Australian newspaper in August and September 2014. The panel did acknowledge in its first report that the Bureau homogenized the

temperature data: that it adjusted figures. The same report also concluded that it was unclear whether these adjustments resulted in an overall increase or decrease in the warming trend. No conclusions could be drawn because the panel did not work through a single example of homogenization, not even for Rutherglen. Rutherglen is of course in north eastern Victoria, an agricultural research station with a continuous minimum temperature record unaffected by equipment changes or documented site-moves, but where the Bureau nevertheless adjusted the temperatures. This had the effect of turning a temperature time series without a statistically significant trend, into global warming of almost 2 degrees per Century.

According to media reports last week, a thorough investigation of the Bureau’s methodology was prevented because of intervention by Environment Minister Greg Hunt. He apparently argued in Cabinet that the credibility of the institution was paramount. That it is important the public have trust in the Bureau’s data and forecasts, so the public know to heed warning of bushfires and cyclones.

This is the type of plea repeatedly made by the Catholic Church hierarchy to prevent the truth about paedophilia, lest the congregation lose faith in the church.

Contrast this approach with that by poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen who went so far as to suggest ‘the minority is always right’ in an attempt to have his audience examine the realities of 18th Century morality. Specifically, Ibsen wanted us to consider that sometimes the individual who stands alone is making a valid point which is difficult to accept because every culture has its received wisdoms: those beliefs that cannot be questioned, until they are proven in time to have been wrong. British biologist, and contemporary of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley was trying to make a similar point when he wrote, “I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”

Mr Hunt defends the Bureau because they have a critical role to play in providing the Australian community with reliable weather forecasts. This is indeed one of their core responsibilities. They would, however, be better able to perform this function, if they used proper techniques for quality control of temperature data, and the best available techniques for forecasting rainfall [1]. Of concern, there has been no improvement in their seasonal rainfall forecasts for two decades because they use general circulation models [2]. These are primarily tools for demonstrating global warming, with dubious, if any skill, at actually forecasting weather or climate.

Consider for example, the Millennium drought and the flooding rains that followed in 2010. Back in 2007, and 2008, David Jones, then and still the Manager of Climate Monitoring and Prediction at the Bureau of Meteorology, wrote that climate change was so rampant in Australia, “We don’t need meteorological data to see it” [3], and that the drought, caused by climate change, was a sign of the “hot and dry future” that we all collectively faced [4]. Then the drought broke, as usual in Australia, with flooding rains. But the Bureau was incapable of forecasting an exceptionally wet summer, because such an event was contrary to how senior management at the Bureau perceived our climate future. So, despite warning signs evident in sea surface temperature patterns across the Pacific through 2010, Brisbane’s Wivenhoe dam, a dam originally built for flood mitigation, was allowed to fill through the spring of 2010, and kept full in advance of the torrential rains in January 2011. The resulting catastrophic flooding of Brisbane is now recognized as a “dam release flood”, and the subject of a class action lawsuit by Brisbane residents against the Queensland government.

Indeed despite an increasing investment in super computers, there is ample evidence that ideology is trumping rational decision making at the Bureau on key issues that really matter, like the prediction of drought and flood cycles. Because a majority of journalists and politicians desperately want to believe that the Bureau knows best, they turn away from the truth, and ignore the facts.

News Ltd journalist Anthony Sharwood got it completely wrong in his weekend article defending the Bureau’s homogenization of the temperature record [5]. I tried to explain to him on the phone last Thursday, how the Bureau don’t actually do what they say when they homogenize temperature time series for places like Rutherglen. Mr Sharwood kept coming back to the issue of ‘motivations’. He kept asking me why on earth the Bureau would want to mislead the Australian public. I should have kept with the methodology, but I suggested he read what David Jones had to say in the Climategate emails. Instead of considering the content of the emails that I mentioned, however, Sharwood wrote in his article that, “Climategate was blown out of proportion”, and “independent investigations cleared the researchers of any form of wrongdoing”.

Nevertheless, the content of the Climategate emails includes quite a lot about homogenization, and the scientists’ motivations. For example, there is an email thread in which Phil Jones (University of East Anglia) and Tom Wigley (University of Adelaide) discuss the need to get rid of a blip in global temperatures around 1940-1944. Specifically Wigley suggested they reduce ocean temperatures by an arbitrary 0.15 degree Celsius. These are exactly the types of arbitrary adjustments made throughout the historical temperature record for Australia: adjustments made independently of any of the purported acceptable reasons for making adjustments, including site moves, and equipment changes.

Sharwood incorrectly wrote in his article that: “Most weather stations have moved to cooler areas (i.e. areas away from the urban hear island effect). So if scientists are trying to make the data reflect warmer temperatures, they’re even dumber than the sceptics think.” In fact, many (not most) weather stations have moved from post offices to airports, which have hotter, not cooler, day time temperatures. Furthermore, the urban heat island creeps into the official temperature record for Australia, not because of site moves, but because the temperature record at places like Cape Otway lighthouse is adjusted to make it similar to the record in built-up areas like Melbourne, which are clearly affected by the urban heat island [6].

I know this sounds absurd. It is absurd, and it is also true. Indeed, a core problem with the methodology that the Bureau uses is its reliance on “comparative sites” to make adjustments to data at other places. I detail the Cape Otway lighthouse example in a recent paper published in the journal Atmospheric Research, volume 166, page 145 [6].

It is so obvious that there is an urgent need for a proper, thorough and independent review of operations at the Bureau. But it would appear our politicians and many mainstream media are set against the idea. Evidently they are too conventional in their thinking to consider that such an important Australian institution could now be ruled by ideology.



This article was first published at On Line Opinion.  A shorter versions was subsequently published at The Australian, with the wonderful cartoon of Greg Hunt by Eric Lobbecke.

References/Links

1. Marohasy, J. 2014. Letter to Simon Birmingham, Re: Corruption of the official temperature record, and increasing unreliability of official seasonal rainfall forecasts.
http://jennifermarohasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Birmingham_2014_08_12.pdf

2. Abbot, J. and Marohasy J. 2014. Input selection and optimisation for monthly rainfall forecasting in Queensland, Australia, using artificial neural networks. Atmospheric Research, 138, 166-178. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809513003141

3. Jones, D. 2007. Email to Phil Jones, Re: African stations used in HadCRU global data set. http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php

4. Jones, D. 2008. Our hot, dry future, The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/our-hot-dry-future-20081005-4udg.html

5. Sharwood, A. 2015. Why are they messing with the data? http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/the-cyclone-tracy-of-ideological-battles-does-the-weather-bureau-tweak-data-or-is-our-government-paranoid/story-fnjwvztl-1227545670243?sv=a58a1574c4a196289acf208f11fc2d2b

6. Marohasy, J. and Abbot, J. 2015. Assessing the quality of eight different maximum temperature time series as inputs when using artificial neural networks to forecast monthly rainfall at Cape Otway, Australia. Atmospheric Research, 166, 141-149. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515002124

Middle Eastern Crime Gangs: Smuggling operation with links to Middle Eastern organised crime and involving corrupt Sydney waterfront workers has been shut down

Illegal tobacco and drug syndicate run by corrupt waterfront officials smashed by police in Sydney

The Daily Telegraph
September 30, 2015 3:48pm

A TOBACCO smuggling operation with links to Middle Eastern organised crime and involving corrupt Sydney waterfront workers has been shut down after the seizure of millions of cigarettes bound for black markets.

The syndicate, which allegedly shipped large quantities of cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates, is accused of paying kickbacks worth tens of thousands of dollars to employees from customs brokerage and freight-forwarding companies.

Authorities expect to make further arrests after 12 people, including one woman, were charged after raids at 17 Sydney properties on Tuesday.

Two men faced Sutherland Local Court today on various charges related to the illegal tobacco importation as well as the alleged importation of 270g of cocaine.

A third man, who is a member of the Lone Wolf outlaw motorcycle gang, was also due to face the same court today over the cigarette syndicate and drugs charges.

The remainder of the syndicate will face court next month.

Cash seized during a raid in Sydney over an illegal tobacco importation syndicate that allegedly smuggled millions of dollars worth of cigarettes and drugs into the country.
The arrests come after a joint operation involving the Australian Federal Police, NSW Police and Australian Border Force, which began just over a year ago.

Australian Border Force Deputy Commissioner Michael Outram said the “sheer size of the profits” available in the illegal tobacco trade made it attractive to organised crime.

“Elicit tobacco is a real priority for the Australian Border Force simply because of the involvement of serious and organised crime groups and transnational crime groups,” he told reporters in Sydney.

“They’ll trade in tobacco, they’ll trade in drugs, they’ll trade in human beings.”

He said the same tactics could be used to smuggle guns and drugs.

“If they can turn a quick buck with relatively low risk then they’ll do it, whether that’s drugs, whether that’s tobacco or in some cases whether that’s people smuggling.”

Police also seized $400,000 in cash during the raids on Tuesday. About $2 million worth of assets including bank accounts and properties had been frozen.

It’s alleged the syndicate imported more than 10 million cigarettes, including one shipment of nine million “Manchester” branded cigarettes, which was seized after arriving at Sydney’s Port Botany last week, and had a black market value of about $5.4 million.

More than $700,000 had been seized during the course of the investigation.

AFP acting deputy commissioner Ian McCartney said further arrests were expected.

“This is a sophisticated syndicate, obviously with tentacles here plus overseas,” he told reporters.

Cultural Diversity Gone Wild in Harmony Day Expression Session in Sydney's Occupied Territories.

Westfield Parramatta murder: Victim Nabil Naser warned police, family of death threats

The Daily Telegraph
September 30 2015

In the months before Nabil Naser was murdered in front of horrified Sydney shoppers, he complained to police and family that his killer had made death threats, a court has heard.

Mr Naser, 41, died on the floor of Parramatta’s Westfield on July 7, 2014, after he was stabbed multiple times by his former wife’s new husband Kazem Mohamadi Payam.

Crown prosecutor Terry Thorpe told Payam’s Supreme Court sentence hearing on Wednesday that significant animosity had built up between the pair following the breakdown of Mr Naser’s relationship with his former wife, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

In March 2014, the court heard that Payam and Mr Naser made counter claims against one another.

Payam and his wife took an AVO against Mr Naser, while Mr Naser complained to police that Payam had warned, “Nabil, you know me, I kill”.

On Tuesday, Mr Naser’s cousin Khalid Mohammad told Payam’s sentence hearing he had also raised concerns with him over death threats.

In the year before his death, Mr Mohammad said his cousin claimed Payam stated: “I’m going to cut your head off”.

However this was ruled as hearsay by Acting Justice Jane Mathews and will not be taken into account when Payam is sentenced.

Whatever the circumstances leading up to the killing, what happened on that day was captured by CCTV.

Footage from within the centre shows Payam enter the complex at around 9.30am before going to Woolworths where he buys a knife. He conceals this in the left sleeve of his jacket before meeting Mr Naser around an hour later.

Shoppers later described how their conversation appeared friendly at first but soon after yelling and screaming broke out. Payam is captured grabbing Mr Naser around his back, throwing him to the ground and stabbing him at least four times.

He then sits down, before beginning the attack again, this time stabbing Mr Naser twice.

In the next 10 minutes before his arrest, Payam continues to intermittently attack Mr Naser’s body.

At one point - after lighting a cigarette - he appears to kick Mr Naser in the upper body.

Horrified bystanders could hear Payem tell his wife over the phone: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I love you”.

He later told police he didn’t intend to kill Mr Naser, saying he had only bought the knife on the spur of the moment.

“I swear to God that I didn’t want to kill him, I don’t know what happened. He provoked me, said very rude things,” Payam claimed.

His matter will return to court for further sentencing submissions at a later date.

Liberal Government and Socialist Opposition join forces to protect Australians from Free Speech by Troy Newman

Peter Dutton cancels visa of controversial anti-abortion campaigner

Lanai Scarr National Political Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
September 30, 2015 

A CONTROVERSIAL anti-abortion campaigner who has called for medical professionals involved in terminations to be executed has been banned from entering Australia for a planned speaking tour commencing next week.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed to News Corp Australia that he has cancelled Troy Newman’s visa after concerns were raised that his presence in the country could incite hate and violence against those women who have an abortion and the medical professionals who perform them.

Mr Newman, who hails from the United States, has written several books decrying abortion and labels women who have them “murderers”.

“I can confirm that my Department has cancelled the visa for Mr Troy Newman under Section 128 of the Migration Act,” Mr Dutton told News Corp Australia.

“Mr Newman can appeal for a revocation of this decision and no further comment will be made during this appeal period.”

Labor’s Terri Butler wrote to Mr Dutton this week calling for Mr Newman to be banned from the country.

Mr Newman was due to conduct a speaking tour as a guest of anti-abortion group Right to Life Australia.

He planned to hold a series of public events to campaign against Australian women’s reproductive rights and proposed laws to create a “buffer zone” around medical clinics.

“I am concerned that Mr Newman’s presence in Australia will cause significant harm to our community,” Ms Butler said in her letter to Mr Dutton.

“There is a risk that this will involve the harassment and intimidation of women accessing reproductive services and professionals offering those services at medical clinics, and result in their vilification within the community; especially vulnerable women.

“Mr Newman’s conduct may incite discord within the community and disrupt the ability of women to access lawful reproductive medicine.”

Mr Newman posted on his Facebook page a video of him being prevented from boarding a flight from Denver to Los Angeles and then onto Australia.

“RED ALERT!!! The Australian government has revoked my visa in midflight,” Mr Newman posted.

“I was pulled off a plane in Denver and told I could not travel to Los Angeles. And then on to Melbourne Australia. I am scheduled to speak on Friday at Right to Life of Australia’s main convention in Melbourne.

“It is clear that the pro-abortion crowd does not want anyone to hear the truth about Planned Parenthood’s illegal actions. Please pray for me I’m stuck in Denver airport like a man without a country.”

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So what is it Terri Butler and her cheer squad want to stop Australian's from finding out about ?

No wonder Terri did not want this guy telling Australian's what she and her fellow progressives would rather stay secret