Corruption, crimes, maladministration of governments, politicians, law enforcement, courts, prosecution authorities, news media, and others in positions of authority and public trust

The purpose of the fake records of Australian newspapers published that are fraudulently sold by Australian state and national public libraries as authentic archives of newspapers published that have been exported to foreign countries & sold as archives by British Libraries UK London Colindale

Australian crimes, corruption and maladministration of governments, law enforcement authorities and news media that are concealed by the fake records of Australian newspapers published.

A brief account of some of the newspaper articles erased from publicly accessible Australian state and national public libraries records of newspapers published and the crimes & corruption that the fake archives of newspapers conceal can be viewed at https://rjrbtsrupertsfirstnewspaper.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/australian-government-law-enforcement-and-news-media-corruption-in-brief-ref-sbsa-bankruptcy-6/ with some relevant documents [e.g. ASC press releases of information published in Adelaide’s News Ltd. ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper – since erased from ‘archives’] posted. The information also appears below as a summary of events – see 1989 in the timeline, above the heading News media reporting false, misleading and deceptive.

Rupert Murdoch began his news media empire in Adelaide South Australia with his first newspaper the afternoon daily tabloid the ‘News’. Australian state and national public libraries’ records of his newspapers published are false records not archives. Australian news media including the ABC are aware of and participants in the deception of the Australian public.

The State Bank of South Australia announced it was bankrupt in February 1991 leaving a multi-billion dollar debt to taxpayers. The debt has never been accounted for. SBSA’s illegal uses of “Off Balance Sheet” companies were never prosecuted. Details never disclosed appear below.

In 1986 while employed as a bank officer with the State Bank of South Australia (SBSA) I was given information concerning corporate loans & acquisitions of my employer the State Bank of South Australia that gave me good reason to understand the bank & the SA government was involved in maladministration and corruption that would bankrupt the Bank & the state. The SBSA management perceived me to be problem and I was subjected to abuse, harassment, threats & intimidation. I’ve experienced a plague of administration errors since that time. These unlikely “administration errors” also referred to as “honest mistakes” & “departures from procedures for reasons unknown,” have continued into 2015. Such claims that suggest extraordinary Australian government, law enforcement and news media incompetence, that involve failures to comply with laws, are not credible.

Roger J. Bates – Employed as a bank officer September 1974 by the Savings Bank of South Australia established in 1848 – ‘Guaranteed by the Government of South Australia’. SBSA became the State Bank of South Australia in 1984 – R. J. Bates employed from 1974 to 29 May 1989

1983 – SBSA celebrates achieving One Billion Dollars of depositors’ funds.

1984 – South Australian parliament altered the charter of the Savings Bank of SA, changed the name to the State Bank of SA and appointed Tim Marcus Clarke as the Managing Director. Lawyer David Simmons remained Chairman of the Board of Directors of SBSA. On the June 30 1984 SA Premier/Treasurer John Bannon (ALP) & SA Parliamentary Opposition Leader John Olsen (Lib.) formerly handed over control of the bank to the new Managing Director Tim Marcus Clarke. The new State Bank of SA (formerly Saving Bank of SA) was required to employ all employees of the old State Bank of SA (that was not a bank with services offered to the public) who were SA state public servants. SBSA employees were then encouraged (bullied) to abandon their SA taxpayer funded superannuation scheme & contribute to a newly created retirement fund.

1985 – SBSA purchased Beneficial Finance Corp. (BFC) for one billion dollars. David Simmons (Chairman of the Board of Directors of SBSA) was appointed a Director of BFC.

1986 August – October – SBSA employees of the University of Adelaide Branch where I was employed each received a series of one page letters addressed to ‘Dear State Banker’ with SBSA Managing Director Letterhead signed by Tim Marcus Clarke. Those letters referred to the now minor role of retail banking would play within the new bank and the major role of Corporate Lending. Those one page communications from the SBSA Managing Director Tim Marcus Clarke boasted of recent Corporate Loans and acquisitions – including

Two (2) Loans of $200 Million to the National Safety Council of Australia (Victoria ) – (In 1989 NSCA Victoria Division was discovered to be a pyramid scam (Ponzi scheme USA terminology) with new loans paying running expenses and instalments on previous loans.

The purchase through ‘Kanani’ (100% owned by SBSA/BFC) of 49% of Victorian development companies Mintern from Alan Burloch for $20 Million & Crestwin from William Turner for $10 Million. Mintern and Crestwin were said to have “some cross ownership” and 2% of each held in Trust (no ref. for whom) by Adelaide Law firm Thomson Simmons and Co. The multiple level involvement of David Simmons & his law firm in SBSA management and these arrangements described, appeared to have compromised his independence & potentially his ability to make appropriate decisions. My attempt to discuss with SBSA Adelaide University branch manager (former State Bank of SA not Savings Bank of SA) the implications of SBSA’s arrangements of ownership of companies Crestwin & Mintern and the involvement of SBSA Board Chairman (also BFC & Kabani Director) David Simmons and his law firm was met with the response “don’t look at me for help in questioning this, I’m 2 years away from retirement”. Expressing my concern for the future of the bank with other SBSA management was not welcome. I was advised that I was a “trouble maker with an attitude problem”.

A $20 Million Loan to Victorian company Pro-Image Studios Ltd. whose Director was William Turner

A $200 Million Loan to Equiticorp NZ (New Zealand) – The Managing Director of Equitcorp NZ was SBSA Managing Director Tim Marcus Clarke.

The purchase for $80 Million of Oceanic Capital Corp. (an Insurance company – years later it was disclosed that money paid (& never recovered) indirectly benefitted Equiticorp NZ . Tim Marcus Clarke was successfully sued for $80 Mill. of which $2 Mill. was paid. Mr Clarke had earlier disposed of has assets to family members.

A later reference to ‘non-performing loans’ – meaning they were not being repaid or accumulating interest for the borrowers. They were accumulating interest for which the bank was liable.

It was implied that employees of SBSA retail banking (bank branch employees) could not expect much in SBSA’s new corporate banking dominated environment.

1986 – Adelaide’s news media referred to the Marino Rocks marina to be developed by William Turner and Alan Burloch. The Marino Rocks Adelaide suburban coastline is a very large inaccessible cliff face of sold rock that plunges down to the ocean that, depending on the tides can at its first 300 metres of water, be between a few inches to a one or two metres deep. The only possible access to the site was a narrow coastal road lined with very valuable residential housing. That area of coastline is subject to important sand movement from South to North and is known for a geological fault line through the area. The adjacent beach for the suburb of ‘Brighton’ has suffered massive environmental degradation over the previous 20 years and needs constant sand replacement costing millions of dollars per year for it to be useable by the public.

1986 (late) Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) television current event program ‘The 7-30 Report’ broadcast a segment that lasted less than 5 seconds during which SA Environment Minister Susan Lenehan MP announced she had given her approval to an exemption from the requirement of an Environmental Impact Statement for the Marino Rocks marina development. An image of Susan Lenehan was shown, in what appeared to be a state of panic, surrounded by a crowd of journalists with microphones. She said “but we already know what’s there”. SA Environment Minister Susan Lenehan MP was on the television screen for less than 3 seconds. The TV segment broadcast ended and went to another topic of current affairs. It appeared to be a very strange & unusual for ABC TV ‘7-30 Report’ Current Affairs program. When viewing it my first thought was ‘what the fuck was that?’ after which I had a sense of the ABC TV program producers & staff possibly reacting to being required to limit its coverage of the announcement. No other news media made any reference to granting of the exemption of Environmental Impact (study) statement for the marina development. I took particular notice of any news media information regarding the Marino Rocks marina because of what I knew of the developers’ relationships with my employer the State Bank of SA.

From late 1986 while at work as a bank officer I received bizarre and harassing phone calls from purported customers who refused to identify themselves & who made unreasonable demands. I also experienced other unusual events in my employment as a bank officer.

In mid-1987, the ‘Manager’ of the University of Adelaide branch in a strange conversation asked me what I did with the circulars in reference to SBSA Managing Director letterhead documents addressed to ‘Dear State Banker’ we had each received. I was soon transferred to the King William St. (Head Office) Overseas dept. to process foreign currency changed for Australian dollars at SBSA branches & other related work. While there I experienced interference with the work and continued to receive bizarre phone calls from unidentified people making unreasonable demands while claiming to be bank customers who again had specifically asked for me by name.

From about August 1987 I was on the SBSA’s relieving staff (also previously from 1978 to 1983) as a temporary replacement for bank branch staff absent on annual leave, sick leave, long service leave & other absences or when extra staff was required. SBSA reduced the number of its ‘relieving staff’ in about November 1987 & I was placed as a permanent staff member at a metropolitan branch. I continued to receive very unusual phone calls from purported customers refusing to identify themselves & other apparent harassment & abuses throughout 1987.

I attempted to discuss issues of SBSA mismanagement/maladministration and my harassment in the workplace with senior management and eventually in late 1987 with the last of the SBSA (former Savings Bank of SA) Chief General-Manager Mr. Ken Matthews (resident of the suburb of ‘Brighton’ close to the marina development site) with whom I mentioned the Marino Rocks marina. Mr. Matthews was clearly reluctant to discuss any of these issues and said he would arrange for me as of January 1988 to again work on the bank’s ‘Relieving Staff’ as I had done much earlier for five years, where he said “I seemed to be most content”.

From 1986 to 1988 I was involved with the Australian Bank Employees Union (ABEU) state branch and SBSA subcommittees (ABEU had a compulsory SBSA Union agreement) where I found the ABEU administrative staff (secretary & assistant secretary) determined to hand over control of many decades of accumulated ABEU SA state branch assets to the Union’s federal executive and to affiliate all of SA’s ABEU union membership with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)which would provide a large sum of money to the ACTU. The process with which they succeed handing SA state ABEU union funds to the ACTU was corrupt, deceptive & objectionable. Half of the SA state ABEU union membership (SBSA staff being nearly all of SA’s ABEU membership) was at first affiliated with the ACTU, providing ABEU federal executive (federal secretary Len Hinkley) voting rights on Australian Labor Party (ALP) policy making committees.

From late 1986 I appeared to be stalked by people who very often appeared at places that I frequented in the evenings where they were very much out of place and during the late 1980’s began to often come to my workplaces as customers. (The banking services they sought did not identify them) By mid-1988 I could not doubt that I was being stalked. Years later some were identified as SA Police officers (10 July 1992 ‘Home Invaders’ Les Shearn, Grant Gittos & others) and a Private Investigator (Frank Carbone)who it was later revealed had connections to both corrupt police and organised crime gang members with whom he was co-accused on serious criminal charges for which prosecutions failed. SA Police Officers investigating corrupt police were themselves accused by a SA Judge as being corrupt.

1988 – Jan. –Sept. The harassment and abuses in the workplace that I experienced continued throughout 1988 in my daily, temporary SBSA relieving staff, workplaces where I was required to do work made difficult to impossible by files that I could easily see had been sabotaged before my arrival at those workplaces.

In September 1988 I was excluded from the SBSA/ABEU Award Restructure implementation process. My correspondence required for the 1988 Award restructure was repeatedly lost by SBSA administration/management.

During September 1988 SBSA Chief General-Manager Mr. Ken Matthews, when I again telephoned him, came to visit me at suburban Glenelg branch of the bank the following day. He advised me that I had “too many days off owing to me” and said I was required to take leave to reduce them. As of September 1988 I had two months (related to 2 years) annual leave, accumulated monthly rostered days off, leave in lieu of travel (related to relieving staff – travel time to country branches), three months of accumulated long service leave and eventually sick leave, while I attempted to communicate with the ABEU and SBSA management concerning issues of my harassment and abuse in the workplace and exclusion from the September 1988 ABEU/SBSA Award Restructure implementation process.

1989 – In 1989 the ABEU Assistant secretary Jessica Harrington whom I had met years previously & whom I knew from her work & enthusiasm to provide millions of dollars of SA State Branch ABEU assets to the Federal Executive to be controlled by ABEU Federal Secretary Ken Hinkley (later an ABC Board member with former SA Premier/Treasurer John Bannon) said to me that “the 1988 SBSA Award Restructure was over & complete, there were bound to be people who slipped through the cracks and the Union would not assist me regarding my exclusion from the implementation process”. She ridiculed my suggestion that the SBSA was bankrupt and would eventually bankrupt the state of SA.

In 1989 SBSA management claimed my experiences were “normal everyday events that SBSA bank officers experienced in the course of their employment”. It was implied that I was delusional and the bank demanded that I produce a Doctor’s report* that would allow my return to work. SBSA Staff Dept. Chief Manager (Manager Personnel) Geoff Abbott said that the bank would pay my Mortgage Loan conditional on my resigning and not lodging a Workcover (workers compensation) claim. I told him that “I would believe it when it happened”. I Lodged a SA Workcover claim soon after with the intention of eventually having the opportunity to give sworn testimony detailing my work experiences. To offer a person an inducement not to lodge a SA Workcover claim is a crime. I reported the offer made, to SA Workcover but never heard from them again. The bank, being a SA Workcover exempt employer, needed to process the claim before the SA Workcover organisation became involved. It was two years before the claim was finally processed by the SBSA.

1989 April – In April 1989, to satisfy the requirements of SBSA management I, on referral from a General Practitioner Doctor, met with Psychiatrist Dr. Alan Fraser (RANZCP) who asked me what the problem was. I replied that “my employer the State Bank of SA is bankrupt, looked likely to bankrupt the state of South Australia and that I had received more than two years of harassment and abuse in my workplaces”.

I showed Dr Fraser the SBSA Managing Director letterhead documents signed by Tim Marcus Clarke, the easiest of which to explain was the one referring to the $200 Million loan to Equiticorp NZ. He read it and I asked him if he knew who the Managing Director of Equiticorp NZ was. He said that he didn’t. I told him “it’s Tim Marcus Clarke” whose signature as SBSA Managing Director he could see at the bottom of the page of the SBSA letterhead document he had just read. I told Dr Fraser that “the more people who knew about this the safer I would feel”. He asked if he could have a photocopy of the document and I said yes he could. I said that there is more, indicating the other SBSA Letterhead documents. He said he didn’t need to know more as he left to photocopy the document. When he returned I asked him if he would please Fax it to ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper. He indicated that he would and referred me to a Psychologist for further testing. I paid the Psychologist $300- for a report that referred to indications of a higher than usual (normal, average, desirable) level of depression and anxiety but that it wasn’t considered a Psychiatric illness. I never personally met that Psychologist. Her opinion was based on a form I had completed answering many multiple choice questions. The report was delivered to Dr Fraser who began to write the report required by my employer.

On about 20 May 1989 a week or two after I last consulted Dr Fraser and while he was writing the required report, a front page news article was published in Adelaide’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper with the headline “State Bank $200 Mill. Loan to Equitcorp NZ”. About one week later on the 29th May 1989 two employees of the State Bank of SA delivered to my front door a letter terminating my employment. No reason was stated. I returned to Dr Alan Fraser (FRANZCP) and told him that my employment with SBSA had been terminated. He was clearly unhappy (visibly angered) at this news and said, “If that’s the way they want it, I’ll refer you to my friend and colleague Dr Howard Gorton FRANZCP whom I would like you to consult”. Dr Fraser said that “he didn’t involve himself in politics”. I wasn’t sure what he meant by that. I asked Dr Fraser if he had had any communication with my employer SBSA that had no legitimate means to know that I had consulted him. He was silent for a few seconds and then said “I may have received a telephone call”.

I arranged an appointment with Dr Howard Gorton whom I consulted from June 1989 to October 1996 after which I met with him on one other occasion in March 1997. During my consultations (every six weeks) with Dr Gorton I provided him with documents (copies of news articles, letters I had received etc.) and discussed the events that I had experienced while employed, newspaper reporting of SBSA’s bankruptcy & other matters & events that we were witnessing.

1989 – During 1989 news of the massive financial fraud and collapse of the National Safety Council of Australia (Victoria – NSCV) began to appear in the news media. Industrial containers throughout the countryside that purportedly contained many millions of dollars of equipment that secured bank loans made to the NSCA Victoria were found to be empty. It was disclosed that loans had for many years been financing the running expenses of the organisation and paying the repayment instalments of previous loans. The NSCA Victoria was a pyramid scheme fraud known in the USA as a Ponzi scheme fraud. After several months as a fugitive from justice NSCA Executive Director John Friedrich was arrested, charged with crimes & allowed bail. In July 1991 he was found dead & said to have committed suicide a few days after the start of his trial for fraud. John Friedrich who had received awards (Medal of the Order of Australia OAM) & had been given security clearances allowing access to sensitive Australian military sites, was after further investigations found to be Johann Friedrich Hohenberger a citizen of West Germany wanted on fraud charges.

1989 – In Mid 1989 I began to receive an income from the SA State Superannuation Fund (now known as SuperSA) which required that I provide a form with my signature witnessed by a Justice of the Peace. The Member of SA Parliament for my electorate of ‘Waite’ SA was Shadow Treasurer Stephen Baker MP whom I requested witness my signature. He first demanded to know why I was to receive a SA taxpayer funded superannuation early retirement income at the age of thirty two. I told him of the abuse and harassment I had received while employed by the SBSA and details of SBSA mismanagement/maladministration (& bad loans) that were likely to bankrupt the bank and the state of SA. I asked him to raise issues of SBSA debt and maladministration in SA’s parliament in order to expose the problem and limit SA taxpayers’ burden of public debt liabilities. He undoubtedly understood the SBSA management impropriety that I disclosed to him, reluctantly signed the form as a JP witness to my signature as I had requested, dismissed me and said that he was busy. I returned several times begging him to use his parliamentary privilege as an MP to ask questions concerning the inevitable financial disaster SA faced, until eventually he said that he was too frightened to do so because “he would be accused of politicising the bank”. He knew the financial disaster would discredit the ALP state government & eventually allow his political party to win the state election without his doing anything. He said I “should come to see him when he was in government”. On occasions that I returned to his office located at the local shopping centre, he appeared to summon the police who arrived within minutes. When we saw each other in the local Mitcham shopping centre, he would run off. After the December 1993 SA state election Stephen Baker MP became SA Treasurer. Stephen Baker was a SA member of parliament for 15 years after which he retired on a very generous taxpayer funded pension.

A summary of events of Australian government(s), law enforcement & news media corruption relating to

the bankruptcy of the State Bank of South Australia – its illegal “Off Balance Sheet” companies’ debt details never publicly disclosed and SA public debt still concealed – false and misleading information published by Adelaide SA News Ltd. (a SA state monopoly) concealing SBSA crimes & maladministration and law enforcement corruption.

Marino Rocks marina State Bank of South Australia connection – Taxpayer debt concealed.

How taxpayers have concealed from them, the fact that they have paid tens of millions of dollars for a marina development that does not exist.

ERASED**in the following information, denotes that the information was published in “The Advertiser” newspaper and has been erased from newspaper archives. (discovered as erased in 2004)

1986 – 1987 and later events

#DS – denotes David Simmons as Director.

(TS 2%) – denotes 2% held in trust by solicitors Thompson Simmons & Co.

#DS State Bank of South Australia (SBSA) (D.Simmons Chairman of the Board of Directors.)

#DS Beneficial Finance Corporation (BFC wholly owned by SBSA)

#DS KABANI – acknowledged as “Off Balance Sheet” of BFC – SBSA Oct.1990

Australian law enforcement financial regulation authorities’ (& then ASC) reporting, not required.

(TS 2%) MINTERN – 1986 Alan Burloch paid (via KABANI) $20Mill. for 49% of MINTERN (info. 1986)

(TS 2%) CRESTWIN – 1986 William Turner paid (via KABANI) $10Mill. for 49% of CRESTWIN (info. 1986)

(TS 2%) MINTERN <“some cross ownership”>CRESTWIN (TS 2%) (info. 1986)

MARINO ROCKS MARINA (Developers Turner and Burloch)

SBSA – BFC connection to Turner, Burloch, the Marino Rocks marina & associated debt has never been publicly disclosed.

1986 – 1987 Environment Minister Lenehan (Bannon govt.) exempts marina development from Environmental Impact Statement (ABC TV 7-30 Report only)

1986 William Turner as Director of Pro Image Studios borrows $20Mill. from SBSA (info. 1986)

1987/88 “Pro-Image Studios Ltd. records a profit of almost $20 million for the financial year 1987/1988” “a loss of approximately $2 million was disclosed in the management accounts” (ASC Derek Parker 1995 information was never reported by news media) http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/conferences/business/parker.pdf (this information was found 2014 – No Australian news media considered it news worthy in 1987/88)

The Australian Institute of Criminology aic.gov.au declines to confirm or deny that it has knowledge of Australian crimes, corruption & maladministration of Australian law enforcement that it known to Australian governments past and present and Attorneys General of both political parties’ whom have ministerial responsibility for the Australian Institute of Criminology.

ERASED**1989 May News Ltd.’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper publishes a front page news article headlined “State Bank $200 Mill Loan to Equitcorp NZ” (Mng. Director Tim Marcus Clark common to both SBSA &Equitcorp NZ – the debt eventually became public debt never recovered.

29 May 1989 My employment with SBSA was terminated

1989 Oct. 5th. front page (afternoon daily News) “William Turner announces he is Bankrupt” News Ltd.’s the ‘News’ newspaper published false & misleading information in a news article headlined “The man behind SA’s great marina fiasco” (see file ‘Turner 5 Oct 1989 Adelaide PM News Ltd.’)” Alan Burloch buys Turners assets “for some Millions of Dollars” (news article appears below)

1989 Oct. 6 – SBSA paid my Mortgage Loan in full by SBSA (an interest rate of 30% p.a. had been applied for the previous 4 months)

1990 Oct. State Bank of SA announces that it has “Off Balance Sheet Entities” – ‘Kabani’ (file ‘Kabani 2.10.1990’ appears below)

1990 Dec. Burloch withdraws from Marino Rocks marina Development (tax problem – file ‘Burloch 18.12.90’)

ERASED** 1991 Feb. SBSA announces that its “Off Balance Sheet” entities through BFC** have Assets greater than Liabilities. THEN a few days later

ERASED** announces that its “Off Balance Sheet Entities” have an overall debt of $31 Million with Assets Less than Liabilities (Located UK. July 2011 unable to obtain a copy – copy machine broken but still referred to in file ’11 Feb 1991 pg 6 SBSA’ below – a news article referring to previous news articles published)

ERASED** 1991 Feb. SBSA published announcement need for “Billion Dollar Bailout” (The front page newspaper headline that has been erased from publicly accessible records refers to the first Billion $s)

Turner Bankruptcy File (Victoria) No. 1085 of 1990 indicates Turner NOT Bankrupt Oct. 1989. File No. 1085 of 1990 indicates bankrupt 6th. July 1990 to 6th. July 1993. File also indicates Turner has a debt of $30 Million but has no indication of his creditors.

Question ? – Is the Turner bankruptcy debt the same “Off Balance Sheet’ debt Announced by SBSA in Feb. 1991 ? (Now removed from archives) Yes it is!

Turner Bankruptcy debt from 6th. July 1990 would need to be “On Balance Sheet” for SBSA – BFC to be written off for financial year ending 30th. June 1991.

March – April 1991 Supreme Court of Victoria Judgment CTB BNZ v Pro-Image Studios debt http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?DocID=JUD%2F4ACSR586%2F00002 “The company is insolvent.” but permitted to continue to operate. The original court file has been “lost” – CTB & BNZ retrieve $46 million – see Summary of this website below [Unsecured creditors would likely include the State Bank of South Australia] (This ato.gov.au website information was found 2014)

ERASED** 1993 Sept. William Turner – discharged Bankrupt 6th. July 1993 charged by the Australian Securities Commission (ASC) with multiple breaches of the companies’ code. (see ASC Media Release ref. ASC 93/225 that News Ltd. Published word for word in a news article that is now erased from records of newspapers published – file ‘ASC.Turner Pro- Image 27.9.1993’

ERASED** 1995 Nov. All Australian Securities Commission (ASC) charges against William Turner dropped. No explanation provided. See ASC Media Release file ‘ASC 95-177 Pro-Image Turner 10 Nov 1995’ appearing below (The ASC has lost my correspondence of 2005 but provided the ASC Press Release ASC 95-177 (appearing below) in 2015

ERASED** 1995 Nov. SA State Treasurer (Stephen Baker. Liberal party MP for my SA electorate of ‘Waite’) announced an unexpected improvement to the State’s finances of $20 Million, no details of origin were given – Treasurer Baker promised to announce origin “in a couple of months’ time” but failed to do so.

SA Treasurer Baker & all others since (& SA MPs of both political parties) refuse to indicate their recollection of events & newspaper articles published reporting them. SA MPs in 1980s & 1990s when news articles (now erased) were published are MPs in government & opposition now in 2015.

2015 The Australian Securities & Investment Commission ASIC has evaded acknowledging specific issues raised of crimes, corruption & maladministration of Australian law enforcement including impropriety of ASIC Chief Legal officer Michael Kingston* – then refused to allow my further communication with ASIC – An ASIC letterhead letter dated 4 March 2015 from an unidentified author, referred to as “our finalisation letter”, states “Our records confirm that Pro-Image Studios was deregistered on 19 December 2014.” “Further, ASIC does not intend to comment on the actions of our predecessor, the ASC’s conduct of enforcement proceedings.” see ASIC letter 4 March 2015 ASIC ref. 4345/15 file ‘ASIC 4 March 2015 ref. 4345-15’ (below) the author unidentified. ASIC Chief Legal officer Michael Kingston* does not acknowledge delivery of my correspondence.

Inter-company loans of BFC (& illegal “Off Balance Sheet” companies of changing value) were considered assets for accounting purposes. No provision was made for any bad debt losses. Inflated values of assets concealed bad debts known to be unrecoverable.

The Marino Rocks marina developers have never been reported in the media as linked to or in debt to SBSA. Their debts (to taxpayers) have been secretly written off.

Information appearing above concerning SBSA’s relationship to the Marino Rocks marina developers has twice (July 1991 & August 1994) been edited from my sworn testimony of the forum in which I had given it.

Appearing below from http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?DocID=JUD%2F4ACSR586%2F00002

Judgment by: Fullagar J. of Supreme Court of Victoria Judgment Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Bank of New Zealand (BNZ Securities) successfully retrieve $46,000,000 from Pro-Image Studios with “payment of92,684,398 fully paid ordinary shares of 50c each – Mr Nettle for the Australian Securities Commission supported the making of the declaration that for a consideration consisting of the release of the immediately enforceable debt amounting to $46,342,199 due to the defendants by the plaintiff, will not constitute an issue of shares at a discount within the meaning of the Corporations Law”.

“The company is insolvent. If it were now wound up its shareholders and unsecured creditors would receive nothing while the 2 secured banks would receive something like 91c in the dollar.”

“About 2800 shares in the company have so far been issued and they have been trading on the stock exchange at prices around 5c per share up to the time of the hearing in the Practice Court. If the proposed conversion of debt to equity is carried out, it will bring about a surplus of assets over liabilities arising from the elimination from the liabilities of the debt of $46m-odd and an increase of the same amount in shareholders’ equity, having the effect of creating a real net asset value for all of the issued shares.” ……… “It therefore appears that the proposed issue of shares to the 2 defendant banks will be greatly to the benefit of shareholders and unsecured creditors.”………..“The only anxiety I have felt about the present case, in addition to that occasioned by my differing from another judge, is upon the question whether all the relevant facts are before me with sufficient precision to justify a declaration in the form sought. The original court file has been “lost” but all the parties appearing before me, including the Australian Securities Commission, have assured me that the substitute file of documents put before me is accurate and adequate.”

……………………………………… end of summary of events…………..

News media reporting false, misleading and deceptive

5 October 1989 – On the 5 October 1989 a large photograph of Marino Rocks marina developer William Turner appeared on the front page of Adelaide SA’s News Ltd. afternoon daily tabloid newspaper under the headline “The man behind SA’s great marina fiasco”. The news article with its photograph appeared to imply that William Turner, lying down and “resting at Adelaide Airport”, was drunk. He had come to Adelaide to announce that he was bankrupt. (file ‘Turner 5 Oct 1989 Adelaide PM News Ltd’ see documents below)

The newspaper article states “Two of his major interests W and B Turner and Crestwin Corporation, were earlier this week put into receivership. W and B Turner, which was put into receivership by the State Bank of Victoria, had a major interest in Mintern, a company established by Mr Turner specifically to handle the marina project. That interest was last week sold out to another Victorian firm, the Burloch Group of companies. The Burloch Group has several major contracts in the eastern States, but relatively unknown in SA. It is understood the company’s principal Mr Alan Burloch has not personally visited the Marino Rocks site. Acquisition of the project came to “quite a few millions”, according to Mr Burloch who plans to be in Adelaide for talks with the government on Tuesday.” “Opposition legal affairs spokesman, Mr Griffin, said today recent events placed a question mark over the government’s competence to put together major developments. This was particularly so because the Premier Mr Bannon, had only three weeks ago in Parliament said there was no information that “in any way questions the financial viability of Crestwin. As to the financial substance of the principals and owners, we have made our own investigations and we are quite satisfied”. It also says that an unidentified “spokesman for the Premier said today there had been no financial loss to taxpayers so far, nor was there likely to be any.”

Burloch (Burloch Group of companies that is largely* owned by the State Bank of SA through ‘Kabani’) who partly owns Crestwin (that “had a major interest in Mintern” owned by Burloch) and is largely* owned by the State Bank of SA through ‘Kabani’, purchased Turner’s “major interests” in Crestwin that is largely* owned by the State Bank of SA through ‘Kabani’. (*largely possibly entirely)

The State Bank of SA purchased for “quite a few millions” something that it already owned, with the only reference to any bank being the State Bank of Victoria (SBV) who purportedly put W and B Turner into receivership.(Did “quite a few millions” return to SBSA/BFC to repay/conceal debt associated with William Turner?)

The news article continues and quotes SA Parliamentary Opposition legal affairs spokesman, Mr Griffin –“there must also be a question mark over the ability of Mintern to dispose of its assets because of the charge over Mr Turner’s private company by the State Bank of Victoria.”

Australian bankruptcy laws don’t allow people who are bankrupt to sell their assets.

In Turner’s case the State Bank of Victoria would of course act to prevent the sale of his assets if Turner owed them money. The only scenario the bankruptcy court & SBV would not stop the sale of his assets would be if Turner was not at that time bankrupt or/and his creditors were not the State Bank of Victoria but were the State Bank of SA (the information given to me in 1986) with SBSA management attempting to retrieve and conceal the facts of its bad debts.

While Adelaide’s newspaper publisher News Ltd. considered Turner’s announcement of his bankruptcy was newsworthy for the afternoon daily tabloid the ‘News’ that didn’t question the credibility of the information they were purportedly given [by a source it does not identify]and had published, the morning broadsheet ‘The Advertiser’ published by the same News Ltd newspaper publisher, never mentioned it at all. If there was a SA government announcement concerning Alan Burloch’s “talks with the government on Tuesday” nothing was considered newsworthy by any Adelaide news media. Nothing more was published in Adelaide’s newspapers (News Ltd. state monopoly newspaper publisher) about the Marino Rocks marina and its developers until 18 December 1990 (see below) when Alan Burloch with tax problems – withdrew from Marino Rocks marina development.

State MP for my electorate SA Shadow Treasurer Stephen Baker knew of the State Bank of SA Marino Rocks marina developers connection and Turner’s debt to the SBSA but said nothing while his parliamentary college Opposition legal affairs spokesman, Mr Griffin criticised the ALP state government of Premier/Treasurer John Bannon over the marina development incompetency issues but apparently failed to follow through on promises to pursue the issues of government incompetence.

I know the information referring to William Turner being bankrupt at that time in October 1989 & reference to his being forced into bankruptcy by the State Bank of Victoria is false. Turner’s bankruptcy file (Victoria 1085 of 1990 in the next financial year ending 30 June 1991) began 6th July 1990 and ended 6th July 1993.

6 October 1989 – On the 6 October 1989 I received a phone call from my former employer SBSA(that had terminated my employment 29 May 1989)and was advised that “the bank had just paid my Mortgage Loan in full and I could have the title to my home back in three months’ time”. I said that it takes less than a week to discharge property title deeds securing a Mortgage Loan and that I’d like the document back within a week. I discovered that $5000- in interest had been added to the loan amount over the previous 3- 4 months. An annual interest rate of about 30% per year had been applied to the loan. I collected the title deed to my home about a week later.

November 1989 – By the end of 1989 I rarely went out at night because I appeared to be stalked by aggressive unidentified people for the previous few years. In November 1989 I had a visit from an old acquaintance that I preferred not to have at my home because I understood that he was inclined to return to a house he visits and steal anything of value he had seen. We went into the city where I intended to leave him. At a city hotel I had just entered I was grabbed by a large muscle bound security staff person, had my arms held behind my back and was dropped on my face. I was arrested as I regained consciousness, taken to the Adelaide Police watch-house, fingerprinted by a young PC who I recognised as one of my stalkers (later identified as PC Les Shearn ‘Home Invader’ seen later 10 July 1992), as another man in grey overalls (later in 1994 identified Grant Gittos also a ‘Home Invader July 1992 & a stalker of the previous few years whom I had seen with a man later identified as Frank Carbone) attempted to provoke me (bending my fingers back) into assaulting him. I was not photographed, most likely because of the damage that was done to my face. I was charged with ‘failure to cease loitering’ and appeared in the Adelaide magistrates Courts on five occasions over the next ten months until the SA Police was finally ordered by the court Judge to name the complainant in the matter, and the charge was dropped. The complainant’s name, according to SA police, was Paul Pickup whom I discovered was registered as hotel security staff with SA’s Commercial Tribunal using a false address where he was unknown to the occupants.

1990s – During the 1990s I read Adelaide’s daily News Ltd. newspaper (a SA newspaper publishing monopoly) & watched TV news & current events programs everyday seeking information on the State Bank of SA (bankruptcy) and the Marino Rocks marina. Nothing of the information I was aware of from being employed as a SBSA bank officer was published or broadcast.

1990 In early 1990 South Australian Legal Services Commission (LSC) appointed Adelaide lawyer Richard John of law firm Duncan Groom & Hannon (DGH- Terry Groom MP SA) to represent me in a Workcover (SA workers compensation) claim against my former employer) the State Bank of South Australia. The LSC refused to change the lawyer after I advised of a conflict of interest over what I intended to disclose as SBSA’s management/administration motivation for my harassment & abuse in the workplace.

DGH employed “an independent barrister” David Bamford, to address issues of the conflict of interest”. In December 1990 (Christmas – News Year) a front page news article of ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper announced that MP Terry Groom had been appointed a Minister (with a Ministerial portfolio) by SA Premier/Treasurer John Bannon. That news articles has since been erased from public library records of newspapers published. “Independent barrister” David Bamford became the ALP endorsed candidate for Terry Groom’s electorate of ‘Hartley’ for the December 1993 SA state election.

Kabani – “Off Balance Sheet” entity of State Bank of South Australia

2 October 1990 – On the 2 October 1990 Adelaide’s ‘The Advertiser’ published on page two, a news article under the headline “State Bank silent on mystery firm” by Colin James – (file name ‘3.Kabani.2.10.90’ see below) which was the first ever public mention that the bank had any “Off Balance Sheet” companies [entities] or that such a thing could be possible. The third sentence of the news article refers to “a report in The Advertiser which said the state opposition had vowed to further probe the reasons for the existence of Kabani.” No such news article was ever published by The Advertiser newspaper. While I was aware of the State Bank of SA connection to, and debt regarding, the Marino Rocks marina and saw the multiple level involvement of SBSA Chairman David Simmons also a Director of ‘Kabani’ (& law firm Thompson Simmons & Co. involved) as the problem of concern, I did not know that ‘Kabani’ had “Off Balance Sheet” status and would have thought that to have been impossible. [Illegal under SBSA’s accounting requirements]

No further news media mention was ever made of SBSA “Off Balance Sheet” ownership (never detailed) of ‘Kabani’. This 2 October 1990 news article “State Bank silent on mystery firm” refers to SBSA/BFC not being entitled to consider Kabani as an “Off Balance Sheet” entity with reduced Australian financial reporting law enforcement authority reporting requirements. [The “Off Balance Sheet” of SBSA status of ‘Kabani’ was illegal.]

The Australian national financial reporting law enforcement authorities the National Companies and Securities Commission and the Corporate Affairs Commission in 1991 became the Australian Securities Commission (ASC) that soon changed its name to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission ASIC. The ASC (now ASIC) should have but did not pursue any issues of SBSA accounting impropriety & prosecutions for crimes of the SBSA management failures to comply with ASC enforced Australian financial regulation laws. Doing so would have highlighted SBSA debt that became public debt. SBSA’s failure to comply with financial reporting laws and failure of law enforcement authorities to enforce laws, created billions of dollars of SBSA bankruptcy debt that became public debt that is still concealed within the SA Assets Management Corporation (SAAMC – SA State Treasury) that consolidated SBSA’s bad debt into public liability before the bank (what remained of any good assets) was sold.

News Ltd.’s (SA state monopoly newspaper publisher) ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper claimed ignorance of State Bank of SA bankruptcy debt that had bankrupted the state of South Australia while also claiming that it knew more of SBSA debt matters than SBSA management and taking credit for eventually exposing the problem of SBSA’s accumulating debt. (see news articles below – ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper 11 Feb 1991 page 6 & other)

News Ltd. news media has published false & misleading information [the ‘News’ newspaper W B Turner 5 Oct. 1989] and conspired with politicians, governments and law enforcement authorities to conceal crimes that created the billions of dollars of still unaccounted for public debt. SA members of parliament of opposing political parties have together acted to deceive the public rather than to keep each other honest.

Rupert Murdoch who began his news media empire in South Australia (the afternoon daily tabloid the ‘News’ was his first newspaper) has had News Ltd. news media manipulate & intimidate politicians and has published news articles falsely claiming to have published information that it has not, in order to create the false impression of good investigative journalism that benefits the public. The citizens of South Australia gave Rupert Murdoch the opportunity to begin his now international news media empire. Rupert Murdoch has betrayed South Australians and is a traitor to those who were & are dependent on his news media to act in the best interests and common good of his news media’s readers. Mr Murdoch’s need to control the lives of politicians & all Australians has priority over compliance with journalism ethics and news media acceptable codes of conduct.

Only much later (2004 for SBSA news articles*) did I discover that News Ltd. news media has also produced fake records of what it has published (news articles published have been erased from publicly accessible records) to obscure the facts concerning SBSA & government mismanagement, News Ltd.’s failure to pursue public debt issues involving serious crimes that news media were aware of and the creation of circumstances that prevented any questioning of SBSA administration/management decisions that could have resulted in earlier detection and exposure of SBSA crimes and debt that are still concealed by Australian governments and news media.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd. News media, Australian government(s), law enforcement, prominent member of the legal profession, politicians & political parties knew that State Bank of SA [with illegal “Off Balance Sheet” entity ‘Kabani’ being a small part of the debt] had lost many billions of dollars of public money including that lost with its involvement with the Marino Rocks marina development & its developers, and have as their objective, ensuring that the public never know of details of that taxpayer debt and their incompetence, maladministration, crimes and corruption.

Rupert Murdoch, his Australian news media, politicians, governments, law enforcement authorities and the Australian legal profession gain the benefit of concealing their incompetence, maladministration and crimes, by the use of deceit while continuing to extract the greatest benefit for themselves from taxpayers.

Note that the newspaper article published 2 October 1990 headlined “State Bank silent on mystery firm” refers to ‘The Advertiser’ being “unable to find out anything about ‘Kabani’, why it was formed or what it does.” and “the reasons for Kabani’s existence remain a mystery.” and “The opposition reiterated yesterday that it would continue to seek full details of the origins of Kabani and its financial dealings.” and The Premier, Mr Bannon, told parliament last month that Kabani had assets of $100 million and shareholders’ funds of $10,000.”

Former SA Premier/Treasurer John Bannon who either lied to state parliament or inadvertently deceived parliament, is now the Hon Dr John Bannon AO Chairman of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council & refuses to clarify the issues of his apparent deception of SA Parliament or state if he can or cannot remember the news articles published (e.g. headlined “Billion Dollar Bailout” & many others) while he was SA Premier/Treasurer, that have been erased from public records.

18 December 1990 Burloch tax problems – withdraws from Marino Rocks marina development.

On the 18 December 1990 Adelaide’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper published a news article under the headline “Marino Rocks project tenderer to face court over tax liabilities”. By political writer Rex Jory

The news article (far from the front page) is somewhat subdued, indirect & incoherent in its message. It states;

“Confusion surrounds the future of the proposed 400-boat marina at Marino Rocks because of an application for the winding up of a Victorian company involved in one of the tender bids.”

“The Australian taxation Office is seeking the order in the Victorian Supreme Court, following the alleged non-payment of about $150,000 in tax by Group Securities Pty Ltd., formerly known as Burloch Group Holdings Pty Ltd. The Liberal Member for ‘Bright’, Mr Matthew, said yesterday that before last year’s state election, the government announced that the Burloch Group would finance the Marino Rocks project.”

SA Premier/Treasurer John Bannon’s response through an unidentified spokesman was “Burloch had been one member of the Burloch Glenvill consortium which proposed a marina at Marino Rocks. He said the Burloch Glenvill group did not own any land on which the proposal was based. Two other South Australian based groups had also expressed interest in similar marina proposals at Marino Rocks but none, including Burloch Glenvill, had received any level of commitment from the government except that their proposal would be considered. The project that Mr Burloch had been involved in had never been approved. Principals of the Melbourne based Glenville Group had recently written to Environment and planning Minister Susan Lenahan expressing continued interest in the project. She had urged the Group to maintain its interest provided it could fulfil criteria set down last year by the Government. In September 1989, Mr Bannon said the Government would not give approval to any group until it could demonstrate it owned the land, had environmental clearance and the financial capacity to carry out the work.”

“It is understood that Mr Burloch, the principal of the former Burloch Group of Companies, is no longer directly involved with Victorian consortium. “ Later the news article also says;

“Mr Mathew said the case against Group Securities, formerly Burloch Group Holdings, was due to be heard in the Victorian Supreme Court on January 30. “The notice of motion states that the company cannot pay its debts,” Mr Mathew said.

1991 January – In January 1991 lawyer Richard John (law firm Duncan, Groom & Hannon) demanded & received $600- from me to continue with my Workcover (SA workers compensation) claim -Bates versus SBSA. I have no doubt that Richard John’s intention was to have me discontinue my claim against the State Bank of SA – rather than pay him $600- and give up my opportunity to, in recorded sworn testimony, describe my experiences while employed & give an account of the SBSA maladministration information (“Off Balance Sheet” Kabani details & debt still concealed) that motivated my former employer’s harassment & abuses in my workplaces. [I gave my sworn testimony in July 1991 – I was to discover that it was edited from the records of proceedings of the forum in which I gave it]

1991 – During the first two months of 1991 the first of Adelaide SA ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper articles indicating a SA state financial problem with SBSA appeared as a front page newspaper article headlined “Billion Dollar Bailout”. That news article has been erased from the publicly accessible Australian library records of newspapers published. A front page news article dated 11 February 1991 headlined “Taxpayers rescue bank”, published a few days after the “Billion Dollar Bailout” headline, is now, according to the altered records, the first indication of the State Bank of SA having any financial difficulties.

11 February 1991 The amended (altered) records of Australian newspapers published that are sold by Australian public libraries as archives of newspapers published still has within them as published on

11 February 1991 page 6 of Adelaide’s News Ltd.’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper (file ’11 Feb 1991 pg 6 SBSA’ – with a news article headlined “Warning signs were there for more than 14 months” (that was published on paper in early 1991) that has within it, references to previously published news articles headlined “State Bank loans setback”, “58 firms in State Bank web”, “our companies in the red – State Bank” and within the text references to previous news articles regarding SBSA “Off Balance Sheet” (OBS)companies. The news article ““Warning signs were there for more than 14 months” text does infer but does not specifically state when the articles were published. I know that they were not published before the January 1991. They do not now appear as published on any date at all, according to the records of Australian newspapers published sold as archives by Australian state and national public libraries (the fake newspaper archives) even though the news article headlined “Warning signs were there for more than 14 months” must be considered as evidence that they were published at some point in time. The text of the news articles states;

“Dec 5 The bank admitted the group had 58 off-balance-sheet (OBS) companies, not 4 as people had at first been lead to believe. Mr. Clark said the OBS companies had assets of $358 Million, against liabilities of $267 Million. Fifty-three of the companies were associated with Beneficial.

Mr. Clark appealed to the Opposition not to politicise the bank.

Dec. 7 – The bank changed its story and admitted that the OBS companies were not in the black as first claimed but $31 million in the red.

December 8 The Advertiser revealed many of the off-balance-sheet companies might not qualify as such because they were subsidiaries and therefore should have been included in the group balance sheet from the day they were created. It also revealed that the way some of them were structured, they could be used to hide losses and bad loans.

December 11 – The bank was revealed as part of a four-bank consortium owed a total of $1.2 billion by the collapsed Fairfax media empire. The state Bank’s exposure was the least of the four banks.

The latest doubtful debt came on top of exposures to the National Safety Council (Victoria), Equiticorp, the Chase Corporation, Girvan, Quintex, the Hooker Group and $180 million exposure to the troubled Adsteam Corporation – to name just a few.” ………… and later in the article;

“December 13 – The Premier, Mr. Bannon, in a ministerial statement to parliament, said the State Bank no longer knew what constituted an off-balance-sheet entity and therefore did not know how many it had. He said the reason for the confusion was new accounting standards which had yet to be interpreted.” (End of text of news article)

This newspaper articles reference to “December 13 – The Premier, Mr. Bannon, (in a) ministerial statement to parliament” referring to the “confusion” over “what constituted an off-balance-sheet entity” was never previously mentioned in any news article published by ‘The Advertiser’ or broadcast by news media and has never been referred to since these news articles of 11 February 1991. The Australian Securities Commission (ASC now ASIC) appears never to have pursued issues of any associated ASC reporting requirement accounting improprieties and illegalities.

This newspaper article headlined “Warning signs were there for more than 14 months” (file ’11 Feb 1991 pg 6 SBSA’ is still preserved within Australian public libraries record) also has a section that refers to, in arranged cut-outs of headlines of the previous weeks, “State bank in Loans setback” by David Hellaby, “58 Firms in State Bank web” *and “Our companies in red – State Bank” by David Hellaby, that have no reference dates to when they were published. ‘The Advertiser ‘newspaper articles headlined referred to above are not now within Australian and foreign public library records of Australian newspapers published that are sold as authentic archives. Text within the newspaper article refer to previous news articles published and states :

“In December the debate boiled over: December 5 – The bank admitted the group had 58 off-balance-sheet (OBS) companies, not four as people had first been led to believe. Mr Clark said that the OBS companies had assets of $359 million, against liabilities of $267 million. Fifty-three of the companies were associated with Beneficial. Mr. Clark appealed to the Opposition not to policies the bank. Dec 7 – The bank changed its story and admitted the OBS companies were not in the black as first claimed but $31 million in the red. December 8 – ‘The Advertiser revealed many of the off-balance sheet companies might not qualify as such because they were legally subsidiaries and therefore should have been included in the group balance sheet from the day they were created. It also revealed that the way some of them were structured, they could have been used to hide bad debt and losses.” (The references to December 8 was never published at any time – the references to the news articles now referred to as published on December 5 and December 7 were published but not on those dates& not before January 1991) These news articles do not now appear in any publicly accessible (library) records of Australian newspapers published and have been erased from those records.

These news articles refer to State Bank of SA “Off Balance Sheet” debt that is now public debt never accounted for that relates to the Marino Rocks marina development & developers concealed relationship to SBSA and the concealed debt of William Turner.

The news articles published (& the fake – public libraries version) make no reference to the front page news article headline “State Bank $200 Mill. Loan to Equiticorp NZ” published May 1989 that has also been erased from public library records of newspapers published. * My recollection was that the article “58 Firms in State Bank web” was published in January 1991 and definitely after the December 1990 (Christmas – New Year) front page news article announcing that Terry Groom MP had been appointed as SA government minister by Premier/Treasurer John Bannon which has also been erased from public library records of Australian newspapers published.

Evidence of crimes and corruption

The above text of the news article “Warning signs were there for more than 14 months” still preserved within Australian public libraries records is evidence of news articles that have been published. The fact that these news articles are missing from the publicly accessible records demonstrates the corruption of those records. File ‘Pg 7 SBSA 11 Feb 1991’ –

Page 7 news article of 11 January 1991 with headlines “ ‘Deep-seated woes’ blamed on recession” by journalist jenny Turner and news article headlined “How SA will fund bank’s rescue” not attributed to any journalist refer to

“ ‘Deep-seated woes’ blamed on recession” quotes SBSA Chairman (also BFC & “Off Balance Sheet” ‘Kabani’ Director) David Simmons – (text below is as published)

“He said “management problems” and the fact that the State Bank board had been supplied with “inaccurate and/or deficient’ information were also to blame.”

‘He said that the government had placed $970 Million in a special account available to be drawn upon against future losses for the group.’ “The group’s ultimate call upon these funds may be a lesser amount and actual losses may not be realized for some time. Under financial arrangements, the group will repay the State Government from future profits” he said.

Mr Simmons said the independent review by J. P. Morgan into the group’s lending procedures and practices had prompted a full review of the bank’s operations. The review found non-accrual loans – non-performing loans from which the bank makes no money – could reach $2.5 billion.

He said the rapid rise in non-accrual loans had several causes.” And

“The full extent of the consequences have come to light only in the last few weeks, following the J.P. Morgan review.

“Additionally, other management problems have become evident.

“The handling of some of the group’s acquisitions was not of an acceptable standard.

“There were, in some cases, shortcomings in due diligence processes, which failed to identify faults in the acquired companies, with the result that the management was too slow to take effective control.

“The weaknesses that have now been exposed did not develop recently. They were a legacy of the group’s entry into the wholesale lending markets at a time of continuingly rising asset prices in the second half of the 1980’s.

“The risk profile of the group was, in hindsight, unwise, but this was disguised by the benign economic conditions of the day.”

Mr. Simmonds said the bank’s problems had emerged at “such a pace that it had been difficult for the management and the board to identify and control them.”

“It is apparent that the board’s ability to oversee the effect of management decisions has been clouded from time to time by information, that with the benefit of hindsight can now be seen, was inaccurate and/or deficient.

“As a result the board and the Government were not at all times fully informed.

“The board regrets that the Government was placed in this position.

“The problem loans covered by the Governments assistance are predominantly within the corporate division of the bank and Beneficial Finance Corporation.”

He said the steps in place to restore the bank’s performance included:

SPECIAL measures to get the best recovery of non-performing loans.

ACCELERATION of a lengthy and complex overhaul of the entire credit processes.

DEVELOPMENT of new strategies and a review of all operations to eliminate those activities not capable of achieving acceptable profits.

A MAJOR cost-reduction program to optimise the balance between income and expenditure.

A FOCUS on portfolio structuring to minimize risk.

“Intensive management effort” would be directed into rebuilding the bank’s major subsidiary, Beneficial Finance, with the motive of improving its performance.

Page 7 news article of 11 January 1991 with headline “How SA will fund the bank’s rescue” that is not attributed to any journalist reads (Text below is as published)

“Internal juggling of the State government’s assets has enabled it to free up the $970 million used to rescue the bank.”

“Mortgages belonging to the Housing and Construction Department have been “sold” to the South Australian Government Financing Authority (SAFA) for the sum required. “

“The mortgages were lent by the Government under the HomeStart” (rest of sentence illegible on scanned copy)

“The funds raised have been placed into a special account, known as the State Bank of South Australia Asset Valuation Reserve Account, at the State Treasury. Already $500 million has been paid” (rest of line is illegible on scanned copy) “account will be supplemented as needed. A State Bank advisory group, consisting of bank chairman Mr David Simmons, chief executive Mr Stephen Paddison, under-treasurer Mr Peter Emery and the crown solicitor Mr Brad Selway will supervise the work necessary to ensure the structure and operation of the bank is correct.

“The ongoing cost to the government is in servicing nearly $1 billion it has now made available to the bank.”

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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/the-best-i-could-do-was-not-good-enough/story-e6frebt3-1111118975187 ‘The best I could do was not good enough’ published 27 Feb 2009 An interview with SA former Premier/Treasurer [until September 1992] John Bannon- refers to an understated “$3 billion” debt to SA. Mr Bannon says “It was certainly a public matter and so it should have been,” Bannon says. “There was no point in hiding or minimising what was an acute situation.” “I wasn’t interested in writing memoirs or tedious explanations or defences of my record,” he says. “I don’t think that’s the place of someone who has been in public life. Many see it as their duty but the end result is unfortunately often self-serving, defensive and not terribly enlightening. Better for others to comment and probe.”

In 2011 former South Australian Premier and Treasurer John Bannon historian and archivist [Dr John Bannon AO Adjunct Professor of the Adelaide Law School] was appointed Chairman of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council. http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/law/2011/05/31/the-hon-dr-john-bannon-newly-appointed-chair-of-the-national-archives-of-australia-advisory-council/ “Dr Bannon joins the Adelaide Law School Dean, Professor John Williams, as a member of the Advisory Council”

Historian John Bannon and Adelaide Law School Dean, Professor John Williams both refuse to indicate their recollection of events of Adelaide’s history that occurred when John Bannon was SA Premier/Treasurer, the bankruptcy of the State Bank of South Australia [‘Billion Dollar Bailout’ front page newspaper headline erased] and the NCA bombing murder of a policemen and news media reporting of them.

After the 1991 disclosure of SBSA’s bankruptcy the SA government announced that there would be a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the mismanagement of the State Bank of SA that would disclose how billions of dollars was lost & where it went.

That the State Bank of South Australia Chairman of the Board of Directors David Simmons – also a Director of Beneficial Finance Corporation (BFC wholly owned by SBSA) & a Director of ‘Kabani’ (disclosed as “Off Balance Sheet” of SBSA/BFC) – had overseen the SBSA Board’s last ever decision to grant themselves unlimited taxpayer funded legal representation while he claimed to have been provided with information that “was inaccurate and/or deficient” & was potentially facing criminal charges (& would need to appear before the Royal Commission inquiry into the SBSA), but was appointed to a “State Bank advisory group” to manage “the State Bank of South Australia Asset Valuation Reserve Account” (the bailout funding) would seem extraordinary, but it was never questioned in any news media.

Within a few months the terms of reference of Royal Commission into SBSA mismanagement were changed. It would not investigate & publicly disclose how the billions of dollars were lost & where it went. The SA Auditor General was instead to produce a secret report purportedly accounting for SBSA’s losses that became taxpayer debt. Over several years fifty million dollars was consumed by the SBSA Royal Commission that eventually concluded that “stupidity was not a crime”.

It is inconceivable that Chairman of the Board of SBSA (Director of BFC & “Off Balance Sheet” ‘Kabani’) David Simmons and others including SBSA chief executive Mr Stephen Paddison, SA Premier/Treasurer John Bannon, SA Shadow Treasurer Stephen Baker MP and Adelaide’s News Ltd. news media did not know of and failed to understand that the State Bank of SA was bankrupt and had ever increasing bad debt liabilities concealed by ever increasing valuations of assets (that were in fact liabilities)long before the February 1991 announcement of the need for a SA taxpayer bailout to save the bank.

My sworn testimony erased from records of proceedings July 1991

July 1991 In July 1991 I gave my sworn testimony to Workcover Review (Bates versus SBSA). After having waited for more than two years I gave my sworn testimony (recorded by court reporters Sparks and Cannon) and referred to the harassment & abuse that I received in the SBSA workplace. When I began to refer to the still as yet not publicly disclosed loans to & questionable SBSA relationships with the developers of the Marino Rocks marina, William Turner & Alan Burloch & SBSA’s ownership of their companies, lawyer for the SBSA Tess Carabelas began to hammer her pen on the table & shout “objection”. The Sparks & Cannon court reporter employee running the tape recorders could hear something through her headphones but at first appeared not to know what it was and did not react. She looked up & saw the SBSA lawyer, appeared to recognise her behaviour as a signal and began to press buttons on the 2 recording machines, one being reel to reel the other being overlapping dual cassettes.

The law firm Duncan, Groom and Hannon (ALP politicians – Terry Groom MP was a SA government Minister) had appointed “an independent barrister” named David Bamford to purportedly address the problem of a conflict of interest in representing me, knowing that I intended to refer to the never publicly disclosed SBSA/BFC [“Off Balance Sheet” Kabani) links & bad loans related to the Marion Rocks marina development. David Bamford later during 1992 said that he could recall my sworn testimony referring to the workplace abuse I received that I understood was due to my expressing my concern over SBSA’s questionable corporate loans and marina development ownership arrangements. Bamford claimed that the information wasn’t irrelevant so the editing of my sworn testimony was reasonable & acceptable. Law firm Duncan, Groom and Hannon, lawyer Richard John, barrister David Bamford and the WorkCover Corporation all claimed not to know how I could access the record of proceedings at which I had given my sworn testimony. (see March 1992 below for my access to the false records of proceedings)

I lodged a complaint with the SA Legal Practitioner Complaint Board (SALPCB) over the ‘conflict of interest’ of Duncan, Groom and Hannon’s, lawyer Richard John’s & barrister David Bamford’s representation of me & their apparent involvement in editing (falsifying) the record of my July 1991 sworn testimony & claims to have lost my documentation that was never returned. As a result DGH was eventually forced to repay me $600- Richard John had demanded & received from me. The SALPCB (administrators Matthew Young & Margaret Bonesmo) ignored the ‘conflict of interest’ issues of DGH within my complaint.

When attempting to retrieve documents I had provided to lawyer Richard John & Duncan, Groom & Hannon I received two letters claiming, 1. that they had been lost and 2. that they were then found and returned as enclosures to their DGH correspondence. There were no ‘enclosures’ to DGH correspondence to me, as claimed. File names ‘DGH.R.John 7.11.91 doc.s lost’ & ‘DGH.R.John 19.3.1992’ SA Police refused to allow me to report solicitor Richard John’s fraud of receiving money from me by the use of deceit.

6 March 1992 – In the first few days of March 1992 a SA WorkCover (Workers compensation administration organisation) employee informed me that I could listen to the recording of the July 1991 WorkCover Review hearing at which I had given sworn testimony. On the 6 March 1992 I listened to a Sparks & Cannon court reporters tape recording, purportedly said to be an accurate record of my sworn testimony given in July 1991. The recording was not an accurate account of what I had said. There was only one set of tapes, the overlapping cassettes set – that did not overlap & not the larger reel to reel tape that was intended to continuously record the entire proceedings to ensure that everything was recorded. Any transcript of proceedings was worthless to me. My attempt to obtain my sworn testimony account of my experiences while employed by the State Bank of SA had failed and had become an experience of the corruption and crimes of my legal representatives.

Within a week of my March 1992 discovery of the editing of my July 1991 sworn testimony I lodged a complaint with SA’s WorkCover Corporation. While delivering my letter of complaint to WorkCover’s Adelaide Weymouth Street office I saw the burnt out upper floor of an office building very nearby on the same street. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was the remains of the 2 March 1992 National Crime Authority (NCA) bomb blast crime site where NCA Police Officer Geoffrey Bowen had been killed & another NCA employee had been badly injured. Adelaide is a small, quiet city. Australia had never before experienced any crime such as this bombing murder of a federal law enforcement officer. For several weeks the event was front page news of newspapers and the main story of television news. Adelaide newspapers reported the arrest of the alleged bomber & his name Dominic Pere, within weeks of the police officer’s death.

WorkCover, after several months, eventually advised me that they considered there to be “Insufficient justification for further investigation” of my complaint of the editing of my sworn testimony given in July 1991.

After discovering that my sworn testimony of July 1991 had been removed from the records of proceedings of the Workcover Review hearing I sought the assistance of the SA Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission [SA HREOC is of the Australian federal HREOC] and was interviewed by HREOC Officer Gordon Nuttall whom I recognised as being employed by the State Bank of SA [Saving Bank of SA] while I was employed as a SBSA bank officer. Gordon Nuttall was the bank’s Australian Labor Party liaison for the bank. As a SA HREOC Officer he advised me that the HREOC would not assist me in regard to my sworn testimony being removed from the records of proceedings of the July 1991 Workcover Review hearing. [Gordon Nuttall of SBSA’s management and the SA HREOC is the same Gordon Nuttall MP for the Queensland electorate of ‘Sandgate’ elected 19september 1992 & Minister for Health from February 2004 until July 2005 when he began to be investigated for crimes of corruption for which he was eventually jailed.

During early 1992 when it appeared that details of SBSA bankruptcy SA public debt & associated crimes was unlikely to ever be publicly disclosed, I contacted Adelaide News Ltd. ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper journalist David Hellaby who had written news articles concerning SBSA’s bankruptcy and “Billion Dollar Bailout” by taxpayers. I expected that he could discover & expose the SBSA Kabani – Marino Rocks marina developers – William Turner – connection & associated public debt. I suggested that “he should if he could, view the bankruptcy file for Marino Rocks marina developer William Turner”. He said that he would. In early July 1992 I again contacted Hellaby to ask if he had done so. He said that he had & he was interested in further talking to me. I invited him to my home. He said that he could speak to me at my home on Monday 13 July 1992. I was interested in knowing what he had discovered, assuming that he was now aware of William Turner’s SBSA connection & debt.

June 1992 On the 22 June 1992 I lodged a complaint with the SA Police Complaints Authority (PCA) concerning SA Police refusal to allow me to report solicitor Richard John’s fraud of having received money from me by the use of deceit, the editing of my July 1991 sworn testimony given to Workcover review & Workcover’s refusal to investigate it. (see file letter ‘PCA 2.11.1992’)

On the night of Friday 10 July 1992 at 8-00 PM a SA police officer young constable (one of my stalkers of previous years) came to the front door of my home by himself. He reluctantly came inside after very loudly acting with the obvious intention of having me demand that he leave, to which I insisted that he come inside and explain why he was there. He identified himself as Police Constable Les Shearn and claimed to have come to my home by himself to “conduct a search for guns”. Being by himself & having no authorisation to search my home (a search warrant), I requested that he leave, telephoned his police station, explained the circumstances to a police officer identified as Sargent Coxhead & had the Sargent speak with the police constable, after which the PC hung up the telephone and consented to leave my home. I immediately again telephoned the police station to seek an explanation for what was clearly not a SA police authorised attendance at my home. Within 2 minutes of PC Shearn leaving there was another knock at the front door of my home, I excused myself from the phone keeping the line connected and answered the door.

The constable had returned with several people, some being stalkers of previous years, who forced their way inside. The leader of the gang said that “It was suspicious that I had refused to allow PC Shearn search my home for guns so he was therefore justified in using his general search warrant to enter my home & conduct a search”. The ‘Home Invaders’ scattered throughout my house but did not enter the one room where my mother was and in which I had placed the pet dog (a small/medium size terrier) which, if they had entered, would have attacked them. I found two of the ‘Home Invaders’ in my bedroom in the possession of a bag of my documents which I then took from them and placed in the room protected by the dog. I was later to discover that the ‘Home Invaders’ had stolen every State Bank of SA letterhead document that they could find. Documents given to the SA PCA relating to my June 1992 complaint to the SA Police Complaints Authority had been stolen.

The ‘home invaders’ came upon some cannabis when searching my home & very reluctantly provided me with a receipt. The person in charge (said he was Detective Dunstan – later identified in 1994 as Detective Grant Gittos) said that I wouldn’t be charged with a crime if I didn’t lodge a complaint with the SA Police Complaints Authority (SA PCA). I was forced to sign a hand written statement (written by Constable Shearn who was left handed) while a large aggressive man stood over me with a large black torch making threatening gestures, before a more senior police officer (unidentified & in a more elaborate uniform) arrived who was clearly angered by the ‘Home Invaders’ actions – the ‘Home Invaders’ behaviour indicated they knew that they were caught committing crimes & acting corruptly – before they all consented to my demands that they leave my home.

More detail of the 10 July 1992 ‘Home Invasion’ will be posted to a future blog.

13 July 1992 – I had no SBSA letterhead documentation to show journalist David Hellaby when he came to my home the following Monday 13 July 1992. When I met Hellaby I asked him what he had discovered about William Turner’s bankruptcy file. He said that “it was the most amazing document that he had ever seen” & “the bankruptcy file referred to “Turner’s $30 Million debt but gave no information identifying his creditors”.

My later further inquiries to the Victorian* bankruptcy court confirmed that William Edward Turner’s bankruptcy file 1085 of 1990 began on the 6 July 1990 (to end 6 July 1993) & indicated a $30 Million debt with no reference to his creditors. [The Victorian* bankruptcy court at first refused to speak with me without my providing a bankruptcy file number – I obtained the file number & its start date 6 July 1990 from a helpful SA bankruptcy court employee who clearly had not been instructed to deny inquirers information. It seems she may have had access to a computerized national network of information.]

July 1992 – On 21 July 1992 I returned to the SA Police Complaints Authority office to lodge another complaint. During September 1992 I received another late night visit from two people claiming to be SA Police Officers named Tank & Strange who claimed to be investigating my SA PCA complaints. The officers were unavailable for any, more reasonably timed, daytime contact. The PCA later gave me verbal advice that Tank & Strange had written a secret report exonerating SA Police from any impropriety.

I requested that the SA Police Complaints Authority provide me with copies of the tape recorded interviews (& documents that I had provided) that were the records of my complaints on 22 June 1992 and 21 July 1992. The PCA in a letter dated 2 November 1992 claimed to have used “defective” recording equipment during those interviews, despite the PCA officers having in my presence checked that their recording equipment was working prior to the interviews taking place. (see letters ‘PCA 2.11.1992’, ‘PCA SAPOL IIB Tank Strange 13 Aug 1997’ & ‘PCA 30.3.2005.Wainwright’)

After receiving the SA Police Complaint Authority (PCA) letter dated 2 November 1992) claiming to have used “defective” recording equipment to accept my complaints of 22 June 1992 and 21 July 1992, I wrote to SA Police Commissioner David Hunt & SA Minister for Police Kym Mayes MP requesting that they acknowledge the letter’s existence, the impropriety & maladministration of the PCA the letter indicates & other related issues of crimes, corruption & maladministration.

After having received no responses I made further telephone inquiries & requests that they respond. I was arrested (misuse of a telecommunications device –a commonwealth offense) for allegedly making an unspecified threat to a staff member employed by Police Minister Kym Mayes, and in February 1993 arrested for ‘Threaten Life’ of Police Commissioner David Hunt during November 1992. SA Police Commissioners (David Hunt until Sept. 1996 & Mal Hyde since then) & other authorities have never acknowledged that PCA correspondence. The arresting officer was always the same person (stalker/home invader) later in 1994 identified as Detective Grant Gittos who never had any interest in questioning me. I was allowed bail until trial. I was in 1993 convicted of ‘misuse of a telecommunications device’ after a federal prosecutor gave testimony on behalf a staff member of Police Minister Kym Mayes’s office. I was allowed bail and not until mid-1994 did I go to trial for ‘Threaten Life’ of SA Police Commissioner David Hunt.

May – June 1993 – During May of 1993 I received a summons to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates’ court on a charge of ‘possess cannabis’ in June 1993. After receiving the summons I had an interview with lawyer Diana Dibden of the law firm Johnson, Withers and Spoon explaining my experiences while employed as a bank officer, the bank’s relationship to marina developers & associated debt that became public debt, the July 1991 editing of my sworn testimony, the ‘Home Invasion’ theft of SBSA letterhead documents, the claims of the SA PCA to have used “defective” recording equipment to accept my complaints of June & July 1992 & the magistrates court charge for which I had received a summons to appear in court in June 1993. Ms Dibden advised me that she could assist and required me to pay $500- so that her law firm’s representation of me could be considered official. I soon later had a second interview at the law firm’s office with a large aggressive man who advised me that Johnson, Withers and Spoon would not assist me but was to keep the $500 I had paid, as payment for the two interviews. The man’s aggression and behaviour gave me the impression that he was a police officer.

June 1993 As the issues of the 10 July 1992 ‘Home Invasion’ theft of SBSA letterhead documents, the subject of a July 1992 complaint to the PCA, were unresolved despite claims of a secret police report exonerating all police from any impropriety, & the ‘Home Invaders’ thieves were still unidentified, I refused to enter a plea before Magistrate Gurry, whom indicated that he considered that to be a plea of not guilty.

The trial was to proceed requiring that the ‘Home Invaders’ to appear, identify themselves and testify. Purported SA police officers who were people who had never been to my home, testified that they were those who had performed a search of my home for guns on the night of 10 July 1992. They committed perjury.

Under my cross-examination a young man claiming to be named Les Shearn demonstrated that he was right handed (Constable Shearn of 10 July 1992 was left handed) as he attempted to reproduce the signature on the receipt that I had been provided. He testified under oath that he had been at my home by himself & unarmed for the purpose of searching for guns. Magistrate Gurry gasped, said “What, you were there by yourself” then intervened and testified on behalf of the witness, but his words were not included on the courts transcript of proceedings, 9 pages of which I had purchased at $9- per page. I have only managed to retain two pages of the transcript (‘PC. Shearn.pg.27.June1993’ & ‘PC.Shearn.pg.28.June1993’ appear below). of June 1993, the rest along with many copies of the full 9 pages have been stolen.

I provided the transcript of testimony (the relevant 9 pages) that described dangerous and illegal acts that are not within SA Police procedure, to the PCA during June 1993. My complaints of 1992 that had been investigated by SA Police officers John Tank and Lyn Strange were re-opened in June 1993. SA police and the SA Police Complaints Authority continued to refuse to communicate with me.

In September 1993 ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper published a newspaper article headlined “Pro-Image Studios another Director Charged” referring to William Edward Turner being charged by the Australian Securities Commission (ASC) with multiple financial crimes.

The news article has since been erased from Australian state and national public libraries records of Australian newspapers published but when I in late 2004 discovered that those records had been falsified (news articles published erased) I in 2005 requested the ASC provide me with a copy of the ASC press release on which it was based (I assumed it likely existed) & the ASC sent me a copy of their ‘Media Release dated 27 September 1993 ASC ref. ASC 93/225’ & written (letter) confirmation of the ASC criminal charges against William Turner being dropped in November 1995.

The information that the ASC charges were dropped in November 1995 was published in ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper but has since been erased from records of newspapers published that are accessible by the public & fraudulently sold as authentic ‘archives’ of newspapers published.

Only by my in September 1993 & November 1995 reading information published in News Ltd.’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper was I aware of it and knew to ask the ASC (since renamed the Australian Securities & Investment Commission ASIC) for a copy of the Press Releases relating to Pro-Image Studios Ltd. and Director William Turner. ‘Media Release dated 27 September 1993 ASC ref. ASC 93/225’ (obtained in 2005) and ‘Media Release dated 10 November 1995 ASC ref. ASC 95/177’ (copy obtained 2015) appear below. [files ‘ASC 93-225 27 Sept 1993’ & ASC 95-177 10 Nov 1995’]

October 1993 – On about the 20 October 1993 I had a telephone conversation with DGH solicitor Richard John & informed him that I had recently accessed SA Legal Services Commission documents that indicated DGH had received payment from the LSC for a service that he had later demanded & received payment from me. I requested that he co-operate with exposing the facts of my sworn testimony of July 1991 being erased from the record of proceedings. Within 10 minutes of that conversation I had SA police forcing their way into my home & arresting me for threatening to kill Richard John. They were the same SA police officers whom had stalked me for many years, the arresting officer being (identified in 1994 court appearances as Detective Grant Gittos) the same person in charge of the 10 July 1992 ‘Home Invasion’ when SBSA letterhead documents related to my complaint of June 1992 to the SA Police Complaints Authority (PCA) were stolen. The most senior of the three police officers knocked himself unconscious when he accidently walked face first into the edge of my front door as we were departing, because he was more intent on giving me a difficult time rather than watching where he was going while I was attempting to avoid being marched into the edge of the front door of my home.

From about 20 October 1993 to 1 December 1993 I was detained at Adelaide’s Remand Centre (ARC) police & court bail having been refused for a charge of ‘threaten life’ of Richard John. During November 1993 I received a visit at the ARC from SA Police who charged me with a third count of ‘Threaten Life’ of an officer of the SA United Trades and labour Council (UTLC).

On 1 Dec. 1993 I was transported to Adelaide’ ‘Yatala’ Maximum Security prison & held in ‘E’ Division’s two person jail cells. I was held at Yatala prison for 4 weeks from 1 Dec to about the 28 Dec 1993 when I was returned to the Adelaide’s Remand Centre until the 4 January 1994 when I was allowed bail, this time unopposed by SA Police and SA DPP.

In mid-December 1993 an Australian/Italian (“Calibres”) man named Saverio (Sam) Catanzaretti arrived in the jail cell to start a 2 week sentence for illegal gambling (running a card game) at his coffee shop club. Within an hour of his arrival in the jail cell he had a visit from a very friendly senior ranking prison officer who had a more elaborate uniform than I’d seen before.

The prison officer said “Sam are you alright? Is there anything I can do for you, anything that I can get you?”

Sam replied “Nah, I’m alright.”

When I later asked Sam “how he knew this man and why was he so friendly?”

Sam replied that “he knew most of the prison officers from when he was a kid visiting his father who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for growing marijuana”.

Sam’s angry expression as he remembered his childhood prison visits to his father was very obvious. He hated law enforcement officers.

During the next few days Sam offered me a job selling amphetamines, claimed to be a close associate of the March 1992 Adelaide NCA bomber Dominic Pere, said he had “police working for him”, disclosed the motivation for his gang’s murder of the NCA police officer killed by a bomb in March 1992 & details of crimes/police corruption motivating the gang to kill the policeman, claimed to be Italian/Calibres mafia [‘Ndrangheta – which I had no interest in learning how to pronounce], said that his wife’s surname was Trimboli before they were married (& said they had a young son), said that the body of 1970s murder victim Donald Mc Kay “was in the river”, and later accused me of being an informer & threatened to kill me.

NCA officer Geoffrey Bowen (Adelaide March 1992 NCA bombing murder victim) was killed because he failed to comply with the agreed terms of his corruption after he had accepted money (to inform if the 1988 Hidden Valley NT cannabis crop had been discovered) from his eventual killers. Alleged NCA bomber Dominic Pere (in December 1993 not yet having gone to trial) and Saverio (Sam) Catanzaretti were in the late 1990s eventually convicted of the 1988 Hidden Valley NT cannabis crop. The newspaper article (about 3 sentences) reporting their 1988 Hidden Valley NT cannabis crop convictions cannot be located in the (now known to fake) newspaper archives & appears to have been erased from the publicly accessible records. Australian police refuse to indicate/confirm that they were convicted & if so when. SAPOL claims that “Dominic Pere and Saverio Catanzaretti are entitled to privacy concerning their criminal convictions”.

When Catanzaretti claimed to be a close associate of the NCA bomber & disclosed their motivation for killing NCA officer Bowen – Sam: “We paid the NCA $30,000 for the Hidden Valley crop” (said when we discussed growing marijuana) Me: “The NCA?, You don’t trust that bunch of assholes, let me guess, he took your money & arranged for you to be arrested.” Sam “So we blew him up”. – I told him to shut up & that I didn’t want to know his business.

I could at the time believe that he was lying & trying to big-note himself in a jail environment. When I was absent from the jail cell to vote in the December 1993 SA state election, Catanzaretti was suspicious that I was a police informer “working for Moribito”& said you “better be straight”, “If you’re not straight you’ll be floating down the river”. Lying or not, I wanted nothing to do with this piece of human trash, but in jail it’s necessary to get along with fellow inmates.

Saverio (Sam) Catanzaretti after about 12 days confinement in a two person Yatala (Maximum security) prison cell with me, was transferred to Mobilong (Medium Security) prison to complete his short (2 weeks) prison sentence. (see file ‘Meeting Catanzaretti prison Dec 1993’ for details’) I was returned to the Adelaide Remand Centre late in December.

On 4 January 1994 I was allowed bail by Judge Christopher Legoe, on this occasion unopposed by SA Police & prosecution authorities.

January 1994 –During January 1994 the alleged Adelaide NCA March 1992 bomber Dominic Pere (named 2 weeks after the March 1992 Adelaide NCA bombing) was named in front page news (‘The Advertiser’ newspaper) as having been arrested for tens of millions of dollars of amphetamines. A photograph of two of his co-accused arrested was published with pixels concealing their faces because a temporary suppression court order prevented them from being identified. That January 1994 news article published on the front page of the ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper has been erased from publicly accessible records. Two weeks later the suppression order expired and they were named as “Francesco (Frank) Bagyo Carbone” (Frank Carbone) & “Severio (Sam) Franceso Catanzariti”. [see file ‘Carbone Amphetamines 10 Jan 1996 pg 1’ below – the date of this copy of the news article from the records of Australian public libraries is false] – The photograph is a smaller lighter version of the larger photograph published in January 1994 (since erased from records) with pixels concealing the faces of Carbone and (Severio/Saverio Catanzariti/Catanzaretti . The larger photograph published with pixels appeared to have been taken at night [the previous night] when they were arrested. From what Yatala Prison cell Sam Catanzaretti (prison cell spelling) had said to me during December 1993, he was obviously the same person referred to in the January 1994 news articles and at least a lot of what he had said during jail cell conversations was true.

The newspaper article (file ‘Carbone Amphetamines 10 Jan 1996 pg 1’) headlined “Court told of phone calls ‘Fears’ for drug case witness” that is now within publicly accessible records as published in January 1996, refers to Frank Carbone & gangster ‘Lieutenant’ of “(the man’s)” “(the man whose name remains suppressed)” “Severio (Sam) Catanzariti”, was published on paper in January 1994 within a month of my being in Yatala prison with Sam. The photograph published in January 1994 was not of sufficient quality for me to identify Frank Carbone as my stalker (with his associates) throughout the late 1980s. [From photographs of Carbone published in July 1995 I was able to recognise & identify Frank Carbone as my stalker] The “(the man’s)” “(the man whose name remains suppressed)” was Dominic Pere who was named as being arrested for the March 1992 NCA bombing within weeks of the event and the only person to be named at the time of the arrests for amphetamines in January 1994.

During the 1994 trial for amphetamines it was disclosed that the amphetamines were “cooked” by investigators of the joint SA Police/NCA investigation into the March 1992 bombing murder of NCA Officer Geoffrey Bowen. The police had damaged (contaminated) red phosphorus used to manufacture amphetamines to cause the crime gang to obtain more that might be linked to the source of red phosphorus used in the bomb that killed NCA Geoffrey Bowen in March 1992. Dominic Pere was convicted for the amphetamines but Catanzaretti and Carbone were “acquitted”, according to newspaper reporting.

March 1994 During March 1994 I appeared in the SA District court before “Judge Bruce Lander” represented by LSC funded lawyer Stephen White for an “arraignment hearing” before going to trial on a charge of ‘Threaten Life’ of lawyer Richard John. After appearing, entering a plea of ‘not guilty’ and having my words “These allegations that I have threatened anyone are false and these proceedings are intended to threaten, intimidate and discredit me over my attempts to expose issues of State Bank of SA impropriety and debt concealed” recorded by the court reporter, Judge Lander found I had a case to answer and would go to trial.

I was provided with a copy of the transcript of proceedings. That transcript was the first & only one that was ever provided to me at no cost & without my requesting it. It did not include my words that I had seen being recorded. Lawyer Stephen White advised me that only an appearance before Judge Lander could review and correct the inaccurate transcript of proceedings. Another hearing before Judge Lander was arranged. On the day of the “arraignment hearing” I could see from the expressions & manner in which defence lawyer Stephen White & SA DPP Prosecutor Phil Crowe were acting that something was not right. The proceedings before “Judge Lander” were a badly acted charade. At the second appearance before “Judge Bruce Lander” he said that “Yes”, you did say that”. He made no order for the transcript to be amended. The message intended for me was that what I said under oath was irrelevant, court transcripts were under the control of others who were corrupt, & who decided what was said in court & had the transcript to prove what was or wasn’t said.

Defence counsel lawyer Stephen White advised me that the SA Dept for Public Prosecution (SA DPP) was offering a “Plea Bargain”. “If I was to enter a plea of guilty on two charges of ‘Threaten Life’ they would drop a third charge of ‘Threaten Life’ for the UTLC officer”. I refused the offer.

At my first trial of 1994 I appeared charged with ‘Threaten Life’ of SA Police Commissioner David Hunt. The Commissioner’s secretary Christine Whitford claimed that she had received a telephone call from me in which I said I was going to “Cut off the Police Commissioner’s head”. Previous magistrate’s court pre-trial documents referring to a charge of ‘endanger life’ (now changed to ‘threaten life’) referred to Whitford’s claim that I had said “Chop off the Police Commissioner’s head”. I did in late 1992 have several telephone conversations with Whitford referring to my unanswered correspondence requesting that Police Commissioner Hunt acknowledge the Police Complaints Authority’s claim to have used defective recording equipment in June & July 1992 to accept my complaints, in their letter dated 2 November 1992. (see file ‘PCA 2 11 1992’)

The jury, although instructed by the judge to find me guilty, smelt a rat, saw two prosecutors trying to convict me but no defence counsel & saw my surprise and concern that no-one was prepared to ask me questions while I was under an oath to tell the truth. The jury refused to convict me and came back as a ‘Hung Jury’. The decision was reported in ‘The Advertiser’ much less prominently than the trial itself when the newspaper used the words of the prosecutor in headlines, falsely attributing them to me. The trial cost me $5000- discounted from $50,000-. The SA Legal Services Commission placed a lien on the title deed of the home to ensure that the debt was paid.

About a week before the retrial, lawyer Stephen White approached me in the street near my house and told me that Australian criminal law had no such thing as a