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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Peoples Republic of Canberra the Cocaine Capital of Australia
This article will explain why you can never get any sense out of a Public SERVANT Now REMEMBER why you pay taxes sweat in summer freeze in winter and turn your lights off at night.
Coked up in Canberra
Myles Peterson
The Daily Telegraph
January 26, 2013 12:00AM
CANBERRA '13: Stop the Coke. Nothing epitomises the current state of Canberra's economy better than a pair of cocaine-addled public servants spouting unwanted, acronym-laden rants at anyone unfortunate enough to fall within hearing range.
This is not a bad-taste Chaser joke. It is a real and regular occurrence, repeated across Canberra's bars and clubs on any given weekend.
This year, Canberra's local government will sacrifice a mountain of public cash (both local and federal) on the altar of celebrating itself. Hired spinmeisters have already labelled the expenditure a necessary, no, inspired act designed to bring a sense of pride in the nation's capital to all Australians.
When it first came into being, the Australian federal government employed 40,000 public servants, three-quarters of them postal workers. Since then the rise of Canberra's working-rich executive class has been arrow swift.
Today, the federal government boasts a quarter of a million employees, augmented by tens of thousands of public servants who report to the Australian Capital Territory government directly. Chances are, statistically speaking, most of them earn more than you do.
The Australian public service is graded in paramilitary fashion, complete with enlisted and officer ranks. But unlike the army, there are no longer any privates.
While the entry-level position of administrative service officer grade one (ASO1) still exists on paper, operationally, there are none. ASO4 represents the starting point for the majority of newly-minted public servants.
In the absence of junior positions, ASO levels 4 to 6 perform the role of worker bee, average salary $60,000 to $80,000. They keep the records, file the files, stamp the stamps and carry out orders handed down by the executive.
Above the ASO corporals and sergeants sit the executive classes, the "officers" who make up one quarter of the entire federal public service. One particular band, executive level one, or EL1, recently multiplied like a virus. An EL1 commands a salary of at least $100,000 (excluding incentives, allowances for parking, technology, travel, living away from home and the many, many junkets).
Between 2001 and 2011 the number of EL1s grew by more than 100 per cent - an epidemic of highly paid bureaucrats for whom million-dollar homes, a coastal holiday house and the odd cocaine binge are well within their price range. Thanks to the EL1 scourge, low-paid Canberrans suffer just as much as the public purse in a city labelled the 12th most expensive in the world in 2012 by Eurocost International.
EL1 bloat and the laissez-faire attitude to spending taxpayer dollars that underpins it has warped the entire Canberran economy. Utility prices are obscene. Housing prices worse.
Cashing in on the torrents of taxpayer cash flowing on to Canberra's gold-paved streets, local retailers and supermarkets charge prices found only in South Yarra and Vaucluse. Low-paid Canberrans have been steadily priced out of the city. Students cannot afford to rent anywhere, often taking drastic measures just to put a roof over their head. Many visiting undergraduates flee long before completing first year.
Savvy former public servants have taken the exploitation to absurd, some would argue corrupt, levels. Government-owned land is selectively released to cartels of ex-bureaucrats, who then make out like bandits on-selling postage stamp-sized blocks to Canberra's housing-desperate underclasses.
Panels, the only way to bid for a government contract, are stacked with insiders, making it impossible for outsiders to even put in a bid, no matter the competitiveness of the tender.
Canberra's elite regularly host opera events for themselves in a $100 million artificial forest, doomed to burn should the firestorm of 2003 - which cleared the site in the first place - ever return.
Dependant on government advertising for much of its revenue, local media rarely draws attention to these problems, themselves addicted to the public purse as a last remaining source of revenue.
Cocaine busts in Canberra have been spiralling upwards. Late last year, kilos of the stuff was discovered within just 1km of Parliament House. If frequent police and Customs claims that only 1 to 2 per cent of the illicit drug trade is uncovered are to be believed, hundreds of kilos, with a street value gauged in the millions, are potentially wandering the capital's streets looking for cashed-up buyers.
Canberra is a beautiful city. Hectares of manicured lawns and small forests surrounded by august and occasionally gaudy architecture. Life expectancy is world-first. Warped by the executive bubble, average incomes soar higher than any other city in Australia.
But that beauty disguises a dirty secret. Canberra rides a wave of federal money with only the not-so-focused eyes of our federal politicians to keep it in check. Canberra will never go bankrupt. It obeys no economic rules bar those loosely and ineffectively imposed upon it. Failure is measured in charts and spin and the quiet, oft unreported tones of a minister dumping an initiative, program or entire department, not commercial failure and bankruptcy.
Whichever coalition seizes government at this year's federal election, Liberals and Nationals or Labor and Greens, they would perform the Australian taxpayer, and many of the people and small businesses of Canberra, a great service by conducting a root-and-branch review of the country's public service.
Stopping the rorts, stopping the scams, stopping the EL1 scourge would benefit every Australian except those currently benefiting. And for pity's sake, Ms Gillard, Mr Abbott, whoever should prevail, please: Stop the coke.
Myles Peterson is a Canberra-based writer. Twitter: @MylesPeterson
Coked up in Canberra
Myles Peterson
The Daily Telegraph
January 26, 2013 12:00AM
CANBERRA '13: Stop the Coke. Nothing epitomises the current state of Canberra's economy better than a pair of cocaine-addled public servants spouting unwanted, acronym-laden rants at anyone unfortunate enough to fall within hearing range.
This is not a bad-taste Chaser joke. It is a real and regular occurrence, repeated across Canberra's bars and clubs on any given weekend.
This year, Canberra's local government will sacrifice a mountain of public cash (both local and federal) on the altar of celebrating itself. Hired spinmeisters have already labelled the expenditure a necessary, no, inspired act designed to bring a sense of pride in the nation's capital to all Australians.
When it first came into being, the Australian federal government employed 40,000 public servants, three-quarters of them postal workers. Since then the rise of Canberra's working-rich executive class has been arrow swift.
Today, the federal government boasts a quarter of a million employees, augmented by tens of thousands of public servants who report to the Australian Capital Territory government directly. Chances are, statistically speaking, most of them earn more than you do.
The Australian public service is graded in paramilitary fashion, complete with enlisted and officer ranks. But unlike the army, there are no longer any privates.
While the entry-level position of administrative service officer grade one (ASO1) still exists on paper, operationally, there are none. ASO4 represents the starting point for the majority of newly-minted public servants.
In the absence of junior positions, ASO levels 4 to 6 perform the role of worker bee, average salary $60,000 to $80,000. They keep the records, file the files, stamp the stamps and carry out orders handed down by the executive.
Above the ASO corporals and sergeants sit the executive classes, the "officers" who make up one quarter of the entire federal public service. One particular band, executive level one, or EL1, recently multiplied like a virus. An EL1 commands a salary of at least $100,000 (excluding incentives, allowances for parking, technology, travel, living away from home and the many, many junkets).
Between 2001 and 2011 the number of EL1s grew by more than 100 per cent - an epidemic of highly paid bureaucrats for whom million-dollar homes, a coastal holiday house and the odd cocaine binge are well within their price range. Thanks to the EL1 scourge, low-paid Canberrans suffer just as much as the public purse in a city labelled the 12th most expensive in the world in 2012 by Eurocost International.
EL1 bloat and the laissez-faire attitude to spending taxpayer dollars that underpins it has warped the entire Canberran economy. Utility prices are obscene. Housing prices worse.
Cashing in on the torrents of taxpayer cash flowing on to Canberra's gold-paved streets, local retailers and supermarkets charge prices found only in South Yarra and Vaucluse. Low-paid Canberrans have been steadily priced out of the city. Students cannot afford to rent anywhere, often taking drastic measures just to put a roof over their head. Many visiting undergraduates flee long before completing first year.
Savvy former public servants have taken the exploitation to absurd, some would argue corrupt, levels. Government-owned land is selectively released to cartels of ex-bureaucrats, who then make out like bandits on-selling postage stamp-sized blocks to Canberra's housing-desperate underclasses.
Panels, the only way to bid for a government contract, are stacked with insiders, making it impossible for outsiders to even put in a bid, no matter the competitiveness of the tender.
Canberra's elite regularly host opera events for themselves in a $100 million artificial forest, doomed to burn should the firestorm of 2003 - which cleared the site in the first place - ever return.
Dependant on government advertising for much of its revenue, local media rarely draws attention to these problems, themselves addicted to the public purse as a last remaining source of revenue.
Cocaine busts in Canberra have been spiralling upwards. Late last year, kilos of the stuff was discovered within just 1km of Parliament House. If frequent police and Customs claims that only 1 to 2 per cent of the illicit drug trade is uncovered are to be believed, hundreds of kilos, with a street value gauged in the millions, are potentially wandering the capital's streets looking for cashed-up buyers.
Canberra is a beautiful city. Hectares of manicured lawns and small forests surrounded by august and occasionally gaudy architecture. Life expectancy is world-first. Warped by the executive bubble, average incomes soar higher than any other city in Australia.
But that beauty disguises a dirty secret. Canberra rides a wave of federal money with only the not-so-focused eyes of our federal politicians to keep it in check. Canberra will never go bankrupt. It obeys no economic rules bar those loosely and ineffectively imposed upon it. Failure is measured in charts and spin and the quiet, oft unreported tones of a minister dumping an initiative, program or entire department, not commercial failure and bankruptcy.
Whichever coalition seizes government at this year's federal election, Liberals and Nationals or Labor and Greens, they would perform the Australian taxpayer, and many of the people and small businesses of Canberra, a great service by conducting a root-and-branch review of the country's public service.
Stopping the rorts, stopping the scams, stopping the EL1 scourge would benefit every Australian except those currently benefiting. And for pity's sake, Ms Gillard, Mr Abbott, whoever should prevail, please: Stop the coke.
Myles Peterson is a Canberra-based writer. Twitter: @MylesPeterson
Egypt, Black America's "New Jesus" Hussein Obama's Arab Spring or just another streaming pile of Muslim Terrorist SHIT?
Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller proven RIGHT again
SIGN IN TAHRIR SQUARE: 'OBAMA YOU JERK, MUSLIM BROTHERHOODS ARE KILLING THE EGYPTIANS'...
"Read the rest of the sign. Will the media cover this? Never. Are they culpable? You bet they are. They are shamelessly carrying water for jihadists and a President who is advancing the most brutal, bloody and extreme ideology on the face of the earth."
Liam Knight : What Great Australia Day News this is
Hang in there Mate!!!!!
Liam's smile best tonic for heartbroken family
CLEMENTINE CUNEO, POLICE REPORTER
The Daily Telegraph
January 26, 2013 12:00AM
As doctors removed the breathing tubes from the critically ill teen's throat on Thursday to see if he could breathe unassisted, Liam's older brother Shane cracked a joke to lighten the mood.
"I said: 'Liam, it's my birthday in a few days, what are you buying me?'," Shane said yesterday.
Liam's response was the greatest gift of all to an anxious family who have maintained an around-the-clock vigil at his bedside since he suffered horrific injuries at a party almost a fortnight ago.
"He just looked up and gave this enormous smile. It was amazing," Shane said. "It was the first time I recognised Liam again since it all happened."
One of Liam's other brothers, Kyle, captured the milestone on his iPhone.
Doctors have told the Knight family that Liam, 17, is still in a serious condition and has a long road to recovery ahead of him.
But Liam's smile was just the tonic the people closest to him needed.
"There really hasn't been anything too positive until then, so it was pretty exciting," Shane said.
"Mum said she felt like it was Christmas. He's gone from his death bed to looking up and smiling at us."
I thought this kid was history, so good to see he is on the way back
When Liam was rushed to Royal North Shore Hospital late on January 11, doctors told his family things were not good. He had been hit in the head with a metal bar, allegedly thrown by a gatecrasher at an 18th birthday party in Forestville, on Sydney's northern
beaches.The rusted metal bar that had pierced his skull not only caused severe damage to his brain, but also a serious infection.
"When I saw him that night in hospital with all the tubes, I thought he'd never recover," Shane said.
"We were pretty much told to prepare for the worst, but you never want to think that, you want to remain hopeful, and we did.
"We've been told we won't know exactly what damage has been done for a while, until he tries to do things like talk or walk."
While his family remained at Liam's bedside, the local community has been rallying behind him.
A barbecue fundraiser will be held today from 11am at Woolworths, Frenchs Forest, with all proceeds going towards Liam's ongoing care.
Liam worked there part-time and his mother Mary and one of his brothers are also employees. "They are very much part of the Woolworths family and Liam's colleagues at the Frenchs Forest store were very keen to do something to help out," a Woolworths
spokeswoman said.A 16-year-old male from North Ryde has been charged over the incident.
23 JAN 13 @
Liam support day at St Pius X college
AROUND 100 well-wishers gathered to write get-well messages for attack victim Liam from St Pius X College.
17 JAN 13 @
North Ryde youth accused of hurling metal pole at party denied bail
A North Ryde boy accused of hurling a metal pole like a javelin at another youth appeared in court yesterday.
16 JAN 13 @
Boy charged with spearing Sydney teen denied bail
A boy charged with spearing a 17-year-old with a metal rod during a birthday party was denied bail yesterday.
16 JAN 13 @
St Pius X College sends prayers and messages for Liam Knight
THE ST Pius X College school community is offering its prayers and writing messages in a special book
16 JAN 13 @
Call for witnesses to attack on Liam Knight
POLICE are calling for witnesses to come forward following an attack by gatecrashers on the weekend.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Australia : The Obeids "Goodfellas" - Labor Inc. ICAC
NSW Labor Inc.: The story so far...
The Daily Telegraph
January 24, 2013 12:00AM
It's alleged Ian Macdonald passed on inside information to the Obeid family, including his former political ally Eddie Obeid, who had bought land in the coal-rich area before the tender process was reopened.
The inquiry heard Mr Macdonald also made the decision to exclude large companies from bidding for the exploration licences, an "unprecedented" move which caused outrage in the industry.
This investigation is considered the public watchdog's most important case to date, with an explosive opening address revealing this may be the greatest-scale corruption by state-elected officials in more than 200 years.
Two former premiers, Morris Iemma and Nathan Rees, gave evidence at the inquiry.
Both said they knew their leadership was in trouble when they stood up to Mr Obeid, a Labor powerbroker.
A former family friend told ICAC that Eddie's son Moses had boasted of the $100 million wealth which would come to the family from the licences, adding "Ian's going to help dad out".
Another witness, family associate Arlo Selby, said in a statement tendered to ICAC that Moses described Mr Macdonald as being "in on the deal" and "that's how we can guarantee we will win any tender we go for."
The Obeids and their associates are alleged to have given the seven owners of successful bidder Cascade Coal secret information to win the coal exploration licence and re-sell it for a profit.
It's alleged Cascade Coal decided the Obeids needed to be paid out of the deal, with $30 million in "sanitation" money given to them for their 25 per cent stake.
The hearing is yet to hear from the main players. Mr Macdonald, Mr Obeid and his sons will be called in coming weeks.
At the end Commissioner David Ipp will prepare a report and decide if the case is to be referred to the DPP for possible criminal charges.
Very good fortunes of Obeids laid bare
AMY DALE COURT REPORTER
The Daily Telegraph
January 24, 2013 12:00AM
A SNAPSHOT into the Obeid family fortune was revealed yesterday as one member of the colourful clan admitted to the ICAC that a "brand spanking new Mercedes" was paid for with funds from their secret mining stake.
The Obeid family ledger and trust fund deed, tendered yesterday during a fiery day of evidence at the corruption watchdog, shows former Labor powerbroker Eddie used a payment from the sale of the family's share in a mining venture to splash out on the luxury $400,000 car.
His son-in-law, living in a million-dollar Sydney home while on a $55,000 salary, was also questioned about whether a deposit on a waterfront property made by Eddie Obeid's wife Judith came from their earnings in a mining tenement.
It emerged the family received $15 million into their accounts through the sale of their share in the Mount Penny tenement - the area at the centre of the current corruption hearing.
The ICAC is investigating allegations former resources minister Ian Macdonald rorted the tender process for the coal mining exploration licences in the Bylong Valley in 2008 and provided inside information to the Obeid family.
The detailed trust documents were tendered to yesterday's hearing despite an objection from the former Labor powerbroker's barrister Stuart Littlemore QC as evidence was heard of a complicated system of payouts between the Obeid family members.
Mr Obeid's son-in-law Hassam Achie spent a testy few hours in the witness box as he faced rapid-fire questioning from Geoffrey Watson SC, the counsel assisting the inquiry.
Mr Achie, who the ICAC heard makes $55,000 a year as a financial controller for the Obeids, said he was unsure of what the payments were about, even though he was the trustee of the company which received them.
"Do you know that Eddie Obeid Snr bought a brand spanking new Mercedes," Mr Watson asked.
"That was actually leased," Mr Achie said.
"Did you know that the money came out of the money from the sale of shares in Mt Penny," Mr Watson asked.
"Some money got put towards the car, yes," Mr Achie replied.
Loans were paid out to family members, including Eddie and Judith's nine children, through a complicated trust fund trail, the ICAC heard.
Mr Achie, married to Mr Obeid's daughter Fiona, said he wasn't familiar with who the beneficiaries of some trusts were, and he would move money around only on instruction from "the (Obeid) boys".
He denied Mr Watson's suggestion that he was "a front" for the family but agreed he had "no independent authority to make a decision" on finances.
He said he couldn't be sure if a deposit made on a multi-million-dollar home in Woolwich for Judith Obeid, his mother-in-law, came from the Mount Penny profit.
"All I knew was ... they had done some particular deal regarding a particular tenement," he said.
He said when he was told by Eddie's sons Paul and Damien Obeid that almost $15 million was to be paid into the account for Calvin Holdings, the company of which he was trustee, that the funds were "for the sale of some shares".
"Did Calvin Holdings pay tax on that $15 million," Mr Watson asked.
"No it didn't ... when the distributions are made the individuals pay the tax," Mr Achie replied.
"Who ... received that money," Mr Watson asked.
"It was the (Obeid) boys and some of the wives," Mr Achie replied.
Fiona Obeid doesn't work but together the couple has a home in Hunters Hill valued at close to $1.5 million with a $1 million renovation planned, the inquiry was told.
The ICAC also heard yesterday that no evidence potentially clearing Mr Macdonald of corruption allegations about his reopening of mining exploration licences emerged during secret hearings.
It was revealed that former premier Kristina Keneally- who reinstated Mr Macdonald to Cabinet after he was sacked by her predecessor Nathan Rees- would not be called to give evidence at the inquiry, which is expected to run for several more weeks.
The decision -made because her evidence wasn't considered relevant to the allegations- led to Mr Macdonald's barrister Tim Hale SC asking for a copy of her compulsory examination , a request the commission refused.
Mr Hale said Mr Rees's evidence at the ICAC last year suggested Ms Keneally's successful challenge for the premiership was "due to the influence of Mr Obeid and (Joe) Tripodi" and meant Mr Macdonald was "beholden" to the pair.
"(We want) the transcript of compulsory examination which may be exculpatory of Mr Macdonald and inconsistent with the allegations made against him," Mr Hale said.
"I cannot recall one instance of any evidence exculpatory of Mr Macdonald," ICAC Commissioner David Ipp said.
"But I accept that somewhere in there, there may be something that does exist ... I personally cannot recall any such evidence.
"There was a great deal of evidence from other witnesses dealing with other matters demonstrating the degree of influence of Mr Obeid and his support of Mr Macdonald."
The inquiry continues.
Cunning accounts in which they trust
Janet Fife-Yeomans
The Daily Telegraph
January 24, 2013 12:00AM
AS a lesson in accounting it was a stark reminder to all of us about where we're going wrong.
For a start, we are not members of the tight-knit Obeid clan.
We don't have a network of family companies and family trusts to lend us money on which we don't need to pay tax - because it is a loan.
A big loan for a house, a smaller loan for household expenses, another loan to pay off a credit card or for pool maintenance bills. Company cars.
The loans are offset against any disbursements from profits the trusts may make at the end of the year but, as son-in-law and family financial controller Sam Achie explained yesterday, disbursements only come after he, the Obeid brothers and family accountant Sid Sassine sit down and work out the "best tax-effective position".
That has meant no substantial sums have been distributed to the Obeids from the trusts over the past 10 years.
Lugubrious Commissioner David Ipp wondered out loud about how Achie, on $55,000 a year, and his wife Fiona, who doesn't work, could shoulder the burden of a $1,145,000 Hunters Hill townhouse for which the council has approved a $1 million renovation.
It was all a loan from the trust, said Achie, before he proved that listening to accountants is not all that boring as he burst out in seeming anger and frustration at the commission: "I don't understand what I'm here for, it's just crazy."
Most of us work for a wage, not for a lucky handout, but the rest of the city's millionaires' club no doubt have similar accounting practices.
The Obeids' income and tax arrangements are now out there for all to see, despite the best interests of their lawyers to have the previously private details and personal spending habits suppressed yesterday.
In fact, the family is so obsessed with privacy it has front men hiding that they are involved in some deals. Privacy was the reason a couple of their front men gave to the commission yesterday. Nothing sinister.
With the greatest of respect to my own accountant, I'm going to join the queue forming outside the office of Mr Sassine come the end of this financial year.
Labor Values
Sydney September 15 2012 CBD Muslim Insurgency Rioter Ahmed Elomar refused bail after claiming "suffering early-onset dementia"
No bail for boxer Ahmed Elomar for attack at Muslim protest
Peter Bodkin
January 24, 201312:41PM
A CHAMPION boxer charged with beating an officer with a two-metre pole during last year's CBD riot thought the Muslim protests would be peaceful - but brought a balaclava along anyway.
Ahmed Elomar, 29, a two-time national boxing titleholder, was this morning refused bail in the Supreme Court on charges stemming from the violent scenes last September.
The father-of-three allegedly hit a constable with a flagpole during the angry uprising and also threw a "missile" at police, who he is then accused of attacking as they tried to arrest him.
The court was told that in an interview with a doctor after the incident, he claimed he only went to the protest because "it was meant to be peaceful".
Justice Robert Hulme said it was "very concerning" that Elomar had gone to the public gathering carrying a full-face balaclava - which he was later seen wearing.
"You wonder why he would do that if (the protest) was peaceful," he said.
Elomar was one of several men arrested following the protests, which drew up to 1000 participants in response to the posting of an anti-Islamic film on YouTube.
His lawyer Leah Rowan said the 29-year-old was suffering early-onset dementia as a result of numerous head injuries he had suffered and the condition left him "susceptible to outside influence".
"Without treatment … his condition is possibly going to deteriorate but it is not going to improve, that goes without saying," she said.
Ms Rowan said Elomar would live under the "watchful eye" of his mother - who was in court for the bail hearing - and with his wife and children in the family home.
But Justice Hulme refused him bail, noting Elomar had a history of breaching court orders and had even been charged again - with possessing a contraband mobile phone - while he was being held in custody.
Elomar appeared on a video-link from Long Bail jail sporting a beard and with his long hair drawn back in a ponytail for the court appearance.
He has been in custody since his arrest in September and has not entered a plea to the most serious charge of wounding an officer,
which carries a maximum 14-year jail term.
Elomar was initially accused only of affray, but additional charges were laid after police reviewed video footage of the violent clashes during which bottles, rocks and pieces of timber were thrown.
He returns to court next week.
Former boxer Ahmed Elomar
Refused Bail Bail by Magistrate Clare Farnan in Central Local Court
Tuesday 18 9 12.
Insolent Supporters Mock Court
Backers taunted the court
Monday, September 17, 2012
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Omar Halaby 19 year old Muslim Insurgent / Rioter and Disability Pensioner.
Bloody idiot rioter's pension reviewed
CLEMENTINE CUNEO and AMY DALE
January 23, 2013 12:00AM
WHILE the taxpayer supports accused rioter Omar Halaby, he spruiks about terrorism and illegal drugs on his Facebook page - and even does the odd day's work on a construction site, despite receiving a disability pension.
Now it is understood Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin will review the 19-year-old's case after he bragged on the social network site about being employed.
The Padstow man, who was one of seven people charged for his role in last September's Muslim riot in the CBD, claims to have learning and physical disabilities from a past football injury that prevent him gaining employment.
But The Daily Telegraph can reveal that, while Halaby is collecting a $200-a- week pension, he works as a sub-contractor on a construction site.
In his Facebook profile Halaby also refers to the US President Barack Obama as a terrorist and posts pictures of drugs and police dressed as pigs.
Photos of him covered in blood after "a fight with me bro" were also among his pictures,as well as photos of guns, swords and motorbikes.
Halaby last week escaped with a 12-month good behaviour bond for his role in the riot, with his lawyer telling magistrate Pat O'Shane that he suffered from learning and physical disabilities.
"He has literacy issues, a short attention span, things to that effect," Legal Aid lawyer Sophie Edin said.
He pleaded guilty to smashing the windscreen of a marked police car with a milk crate and assaulting a TV cameraman.
The court heard Halaby yelled Islamic slogans at the camera crew and pushed a cameraman during the protest. He paid $500 for the damage to the police car.
Just before his court appearance last Friday, he posted on Facebook: "Having the time of my life at Downing Centre Local Court."
A spokeswoman for Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin last night said Halaby's case would be reviewed.
To be eligible for the disability support pension, a person must have a permanent disability or medical conditions that make them unable to work.
Halaby would not answer the door at the home he shares with his parents yesterday - instead he yelled taunts out the window.
Several men remain before the court charged over the Sydney riot, with at least one to face a hearing next month.
Benjamin Homan, one of the other men convicted over the Sydney riot, was hit with an eight-month suspended sentence and ordered to do 300 hours of community service.
Former champion boxer Ahmed Elomar, the only person to be kept behind bars after the riot, appeared briefly in Central Local Court yesterday. His case was adjourned until January 31.
What makes the "Mufti of Sydney's Occupied Territories and his fellow insurgents "feel like we is on cloud nine" ?
Sydney's Muslim Insurgency Riots Aftermath: Spin Doctors and apologists still performing CPR on Multiculturalism.
Labor Green Loon's Islamic Colonization of Australia :Truth worse than the Fiction
Australia's Labor Green Loon Co Party Government sets new Olympic Record for Islamic Colonization of Australia
Madame Gillard appoints a her very own "TwoFa" Nova Peris Kneebone to NT Senate ... Election I hear you say what's that ?
Former Olympian Nova Peris to run for Labor in NT seat in the Federal Senate
Jessica Marszalek
Daily Telegraph
January 22, 201312:12PM
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard Gillard faces a fight to get former Olympian Nova Peris into the Senate, with current NT Senator Trish Crossin speaking out against the decision to replace her.
Ms Peris will stand for Labor at the upcoming election, with Julia Gillard declaring the party needs an indigenous representative in the Federal Parliament.
If successful Ms Peris will be the first Aboriginal woman to hold a seat in federal parliament.
The Prime Minister personally selected the Aboriginal athlete for preselection as a senate candidate in the NT in a decision that has upset Labor's serving senator, Trish Crossin.
Ms Gillard said she had engaged "in a captain's pick'' in endorsing the Olympic hockey gold medallist over Senator Crossin.
"There has never been an indigenous Australian who has served as a federal Labor representative,'' she said.
"I'm determined that at the 2013 election we change that.''
Asked about Senator Crossin's fate, Ms Gillard said she stood by the "tough decision''.
But Senator Crossin immediately hit out, declaring the decision had been taken without consultation or negotiation with the NT branch of the ALP "or my input as the long-serving federal Labor Senator for the NT''.
"It has been my long held belief that preselection should always be a matter for NT Labor branch members to decide,'' she said in a statement.
But Ms Gillard said it was a matter of national significance for the Labor Party to put forward an indigenous Australian in a winnable position at a federal election.
"I am not going to make it routine for me to intervene in party processes,'' Ms Gillard said.
"I am a big respecter of party processes, but I think there is a national significance here for our political party.''
No surprise Corssin supported Le Kewen aka, Kevin 07 Rudd in the Gillard led leadership spill. She is not happy at been dumped by Gillard, cant wait to see her described as a Misogynist Racist Red Neck Hill Billy by Madame Gillard and the Sista Hood
She said it was a similar situation to when the party had undertaken affirmative action to see more women elected to federal parliament."If you believe as I do fundamentally that merit is distributed equitably across the population, across genders, across races then if you are looking at an outcome where you can see lots of men or not many indigenous Australians, then people of merit are missing out,'' she said.
"This is a moment when our whole political party needs to look at it too so that we are joined by an indigenous Australian in our federal Labor caucus.''
Ms Peris thanked the prime minister for the "amazing opportunity" to stand for Labor pre-selection for a Northern Territory seat in the senate.
"I stand here before you all today not only as an Australian but also as a proud Aboriginal woman, proud of my heritage and culture," Ms Peris said.
I certainly understand the significance of this opportunity, and I am very honoured and humbled by this, prime minister."
She said she was first approached to stand for parliament about seven to eight years ago.
"My two young kids babies at the time ... I didn't think I was ready. To be put into a position where you have a voice for Aboriginal Australians I thought I had to do a lot of work," she said.
Ms Peris attributed the CLP victory at last year's NT poll to hard work by the CLP and Labor taking their eye off the mark.
But she said that was now unravelling for the CLP.
"As an Aboriginal woman I have seen and I've been around the ropes long and hard enough to know that Aboriginal people have been disappointed with government for a long time, hence the intervention," she said.
"I was in the midst of that and I saw firsthand that you can have policies but if you don't have the right people implementing it, it's never going to work."
Ms Peris said she was proud, honoured and humbled to be part of Labor.
"We are working very hard to win the next election and get the right people working," she said.
Ms Gillard said Ms Peris was a household name and many remembered her sporting triumphs, winning an olympic gold medal in hockey at the 1996 games.
"What they show is grit and determination to get things done and I am very admiring of that grit and determination," she said.
"I believe Nova will make a great contribution in the federal parliament for the Labor Party for the Northern Territory and for the nation, not just because of that grit and determination but because of the work she has done since her sporting career on building opportunities for young Australians."
Was Nova Really Surprised ?
Where to now...
After turning the big 40 and whilst working in the Kimberley last year, I reflected on my past achievements and experiences. It had dawned on me and it seemed just a natural thing to do, and that was to now spend the next decade of my life using it to give back, pass on the stories that enabled me to pick myself up time and time again. There is a quote I am now consciously aware of and live my life by and that is "For as much is given, much is expected".
I have now realised that I have lived my life in decades, 0-10 dreaming as a kid, 10-20 education and realisation that i could live my dreams. 20-30yrs 60 Countries and living my sporting dreams. 30-40 two more kids, a grandchild and 110 communities around Australia, mentoring and promoting better health and education to my people. So now i am embarking on a new phase of life.....Stay Tuned...!!!
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