THE POSSUM AND THE COSTIGAN ROYAL COMMISSION

SKELETONS FROM THE CLOSET OF PERFIDY THAT IS FEDERAL POLITICS THAT
ALSO CONTAINS THE SPECTRAL REMAINS OF THE CHARTER OF THE NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY WHICH WAS TO COMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS INTO MATTERS RAISED AT THE COSTIGAN ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDERATED SHIP PAINTERS AND DOCKERS UNION OF AUSTRALIA. A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY FORMED ON THE INITIATIVE OF PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM FRASER IN 1980, WHICH .HAD BY 1984 TRACED THE FUNDING OF LARGE SCALE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES, INCLUDING THE 1982 IMPORTATION OF HEROIN INTO THIS COUNTRY FROM PAKISTAN IN SHIPPING CONTAINERS THAT WERE LEASED TO WORLD SERIES CRICKET, TO ONE KERRY PACKER, CODE NAME THE POSSUM.
BOB HAWKE WAS PRIME MINISTER BY THEN. PRETTY SOON ALL SORTS OF
PEOPLE WERE PROTESTING THE COST OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION, NOT WITHOUT SOME JUSTIFICATION SINCE FRANK COSTIGAN QC THE ROYAL COMMISSIONER WAS PAID AROUND FOUR MILLION DOLLARS FOR ABOUT FOUR AND ONE HALF YEARS WORK. SO THE ROYAL COMMISSION WAS PACKED UP THE POLITICAL WILL WAS THAT THE NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY WOULD REPLACE THE ROYAL COMMISSION THAT IT WOULD SAVE MONEY.
THE HON LIONEL BOWEN MHR DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA DEALT WITH THE                         PACKER/POSSUM BUSINESS, HE TOLD PARLIAMENT THAT THE ROYAL COMMISSIONER WAS SIMPLY BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE WHEN HE RECOMMENDED PACKER BE CHARGED AND THAT KERRY HAD DONE NO WRONG. THIS PIECE OF WORK WAS ABOUT THE LAST OFFICIAL THING THAT BOWEN DID, CONTEMPT OF A ROYAL COMMISSION AND OF PARLIAMENT.
XENOPHON ZERVOS WAS SHOT DEAD AS HE WAS GETTING INTO HIS CAR AT
HIS HOME IN THE BRISBANE SUBURB OF HOLLAND PARK ON THE EARLY MORNING OF 26 MARCH 1986. IN 1988 A CONSTABLE BUTLER TOLD THE FITZGERALD INQUIRY THAT THE THUG ELEMENT THAT WAS CAUSING SUCH TERROR ON THE DOCKS HAD BEEN HIRED BY POLICE, WHO HAD ALSO SUPPLIED THE .30 CALIBRE Ml CARBINE USED IN THE KILLING, TO MURDER A MEMBER OF THE QUEENSLAND POLICE FORCE NAMED SALVATORE DI CARLO, HE WAS TO BE KILLED BUTLER ALLEGES, TO PREVENT HIS ONGOING INVESTIGATION INTO MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE 1973 FIRE AT THE WHISKEY AU GO GO. THAT MR ZERVOS' DEATH WAS THE RESULT OF THE HIRED ASSASSINS GOING TO THE WRONG ADDRESS AND KILLING THE WRONG MAN.
IN 1993 THE P&D UNION EXECUTIVE APPROACHED THE QUEENSLAND
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEAN WELLS AND TOLD HIM THAT IN NOVEMBER 1992 A COMPLAINT WAS MADE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN BRISBANE BY A UNION MEMBER ALLEGING THAT DEATH THREATS HAD BEEN MADE TO HIM, VARIOUSLY BY ROBERT MASON, ROBERT REED, LESLIE SMITH AND BARRY BRENNAN RE HIS INVOLVEMENT IN UNION AFFAIRS THAT OTHER MEMBERS HAD BEEN THREATENED BY THE SAME PERSONS AND HAD BEEN MURDERED LESLIE BATKIN FOR INSTANCE. WELLS WAS TOLD THE POLICE THEN THE CJC AND THE PCJC WOULD NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH UNION AFFAIRS DESPITE EVIDENCE OF ONGOING TERROR AND PERSECUTION THAT MERV COLLINS LIFE WAS IN IMMINENT PERIL SINCE IT APPEARED THAT HE WAS BEING BLAMED FOR THE JOB ON DI CARLO GOING WRONG. WELLS SAID GO TO THE POLICE, WHICH SEEMED A BIT TRITE AT THE TIME, WHEN WE WENT BACK TO THEM THEY THREW US OUT AGAIN RE FOUL MOUTHED POCK MARKED DETECTIVE FORTITUDE VALLEY POLICE STATION 9 JULY 1993. MERV COLLINS WAS BELIEVED MURDERED SEPTEMBER 1994.
CASE Ql 1 OF 1993 IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA IN BRISBANE
BEFORE JUDGE COOPER, THE UNION TELLS THE JUDGE OF FASCIST INFILTRATION AND OF POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE AND THAT BOB FOREMAN HAD BOASTED THAT HE HAD RAPED AND MURDERED JUDITH AND SUSAN MACKAY NEAR TOWNSVILLE IN 1970, THAT HE CLAIMED TO HAVE DERIVED GREAT SEXUAL SATISFACTION IN CARRYING OUT THIS CRIME IN THAT THE GIRLS WHO WERE AGED, FIVE AND SEVEN YEARS VAGINAS WERE TIGHT.
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