Additions to silly statement lists:
Yesterday we saw an attempt at marshal law in Melbourne,
This has all the hallmarks of a secret service (in uniform)

Just from one post

Sorry Baz but if you have another name for it we would like to know.

Accosting every available person on the street, checking validity of passports. There would probably be one person carrying a passport to every 5000 persons without a passport. Besides that who would be carrying around an out of date visa or passport.

The racket has a vial stench all over it. What a pack of goons, whose idea do you think it might have been to come up with that plan. Not hard to tell, it had hallmarks all over it.

IT’s a wonder why ID cards have not been mentioned.

Militarisation of Border force and Police dragged into it as well. What a clown show. We are now imposing martial law, and everybody is suspicious until we say otherwise.

I think Abbott could have done well keeping out of Victoria. Practice your exercises in Alice Springs, where He may be appreciated.

Talk about a waste of taxpayers money. Now this Dyson Heydon has set his Royal Commission into a week long paralyses at a cost of a million dollars (based on the estimated total cost) as he comes up with what: (A) I am bias in favour of the Liberal Party, we already know that. Or (B) I'm wriggling myself out of it. I am not bias in favour of the Liberal Party, but we know you are. Any which way it costs the taxpayer a million bucks!

It’s only money. There is something going on behind the sense. No doubt Abbott and Dyson will be conferring, about what will come out in the wash. We can’t take any notice of what has come out of this RC to date as it is tainted with not having the appropriate persons at the forefront.

Former independent MP Tony Windsor, who is now considering a return to federal politics, says he does not think the Australian Border Force (ABF) announcement was a mistake, but rather an attempt by the Government to engender fear in the community for political advantage.
Yesterday, the Federal Government announced that ABF officers would take to the streets of Melbourne's CBD in a joint effort with Victoria Police to crack down on crime and visa fraud.

The operation was quickly called off, however, after hundreds of protesters stopped traffic in Melbourne's CBD, concerned about a possible attack on civil liberties.

Speaking to AM this morning, Mr Windsor said he "had no doubt" the operation was a government decision aimed at sparking fear into the public.

Another failure, when is all of this going to end.
"It is an absolute disgrace."
Labor, the Greens and the union representing ABF officers are demanding answers from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton over the operation.

But Mr Windsor said the project could have been signed off without Mr Dutton's approval.

"Maybe Tony Abbott's doing more 'captain's picks' in relation to this. He might be circumventing Peter Dutton's ministerial portfolio," he said.

"But I can understand why Peter Dutton wouldn't want to stand in front of this. There is no way you could defend doing this in a country like ours.

We've had this constant barrage of fearful innuendo, fearful messages, press releases, and this is just another one on top of this barrage of fear-producing rhetoric that's been coming out of Tony Abbott, Peter Dutton and others.

If there has ever been a way of causing disruption Heydon has just found it. There's still some time before things get underway. In the meantime, read more about Dyson Heydon, 'The Great Loner' who will sit in judgement of his own actions.

Sounds like the conservatives have had a win at last.
Here's Justice Heydon's explanation of Ms Gillard's appearance at the royal commission:

Ms Gillard was called because of her role in the Australian Workers’ Union ... She gave evidence not because she wanted to be or later became a Labor politician, but because a long time ago she acted as a solicitor for an official who was successively Western Australian State Secretary and Victorian State Secretary of the AWU.

How many times does mrs Gillard have to answer the same questions.

The event that Justice Heydon had agreed to address was a "legal speech" not a "Liberal speech"

COMMENT: Why did his honour cancel his appearance at the Liberal Party event if, as he says in his judgement, appearing at it could not be seen as endorsing the views of the organisers?

Dyson Heydon rules that he will stay on as trade union royal commission, saying he could not have seen that emails sent to him carried a Liberal Party letterhead because he is "incapable of sending or receiving emails"

A person judging himself , leaves it self wide open to speculation.

Compatriots Foxy and Poirot, this old lefty says; Heydon will not resign yet I hear what you say and certainly agree, he should go!

Posted by Paul1405, Friday, 21 August 2015 9:03:31 PM

Blow my own trumpet, and say I told you so.

The comical farce continues, Heydon judges himself and guess what? Finds himself innocent. My forum friends Foxy and Poirot rightly spoke of good reputation and such lofty ideals, my comment was based on the mundane rubbish of self preservation!