The Wlodarczyk Killing - Terror Becomes Horror, Kay Chambers is Dead

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In July 1994 Kay Chambers and Paul Johannsen were extradited from Sydney, to face charges in the Brisbane Supreme Court, re the 1975 mutilation murder of this popular and loyal member of The Painters and Dockers Union.

In response to demands this journal published in May and June 1996 and to telephone inquiries re the delay in bringing this matter to trial, a Justice Department spokesman replied 11 July 1996, there would be no trial Johannsen had been released from custody early 1996..

After key prosecution witness Chambers had committed suicide by jumping from a tall building in Sydney in November 1995, after being released from custody in Brisbane a short time before.

Dockers Union.

At the July '94 extradition hearing in Sydney, Chambers pleaded, screaming to the judge not to send her to Brisbane, shrieking she had been shot in the head there shortly after John Wlodarczyk's death in an obvious attempt to kill her.

When asked of the probity of the delay in proceeding with the trial the Justice Department man replied the question of probity was not for him, he garbled some bull about defense lawyers making applications, evading the issue of the delay.

Asked why did the trial not proceed immediately the pair arrived in Brisbane, whereas she appears to have been in custody for at least thirteen months, remanded, charged in relation to a nineteen year old murder investigation.

And was he aware this union had been pursuing this matter independently, and had made statements in court, to the police and to the Criminal Justice Commission since 1992 regarding the activities of a man called Stretch Johannsen,

Who was said by the same source ultimately to name Smith as the murderer of Batkin ie the dockyard grapevine, to have along with a woman accomplice killed John Wlodarczyk, aka John Grosvenor, aka Mexican Johnny .. the JD man remained aloof.

The union insisted probity was lacking evidenced circumstantially by the death of this woman, which lack of probity we have alleged consistently is tied to terrorism on the docks and wanton and serious corruption among the police, at the CJC and in Parliament.

However the most serious corruption and the place where probity has least place we allege, is within the Crown Law Department the Public Prosecutors Office, the JD fellow was become a tad churlish by then, we persisted ..

Beattie.

Peter Beattie was Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commission Committee Chairperson when the union approached him in 1992, additionally he was Member for Brisbane the electorate in which the union office is located.

We told him corrupt murderous elements from within and without the union, were in the process of hijacking the electoral process within the organization, and that the mob at The Australian Industrial Relations Commission were getting cute re their role in proceedings.

That members had been openly threatened in company with murder, and that threats had preceded the deaths of Ron Chapman and Les Batkin dead up until then as we told Beattie, and Merv Collins and now Kay Chambers since.

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This is the face of criminal murder in Queensland Australia.. Premier Anna Bligh who has "hands on" involvement quashing the investigation into the death of Kay Chambers, and the subsequent abandonment of proceedings against Paul Johannsen!

In July 1994 Kay Chambers and Paul Johannsen were extradited from Sydney to face charges in the Brisbane Supreme Court re the 1975 mutilation murder of this popular and loyal member of The Painters and Dockers Union.

In response to demands this journal published in May and June 1996, and to telephone inquiries re the delay in bringing this matter to trial, a Justice Department spokesman replied 11 July 1996, there would be no trial.

Johannsen had been released from custody early 1996, after key prosecution witness Chambers had committed suicide, by jumping from a tall building in Sydney in November 1995, after being released from custody in Brisbane a short time before .. At the July '94 extradition hearing in Sydney, Chambers pleaded, screaming to the judge not to send her to Brisbane, shrieking she had been shot in the head there shortly after John Wlodarczyk's death, in an attempt to kill her.

When asked of the probity of the delay in proceeding with the trial, the Justice Department man replied the question of probity was not for him, he garbled some bull about defense lawyers making applications, evading the issue of the delay, asked why did the trial not proceed immediately the pair arrived in Brisbane, whereas she appears to have been in custody for at least thirteen months, remanded, charged in relation to a nineteen year old murder investigation.



And was he aware this union had been pursuing this matter independently, and had made statements in court, and to the police, and the Criminal Justice Commission since 1992, regarding the activities of a man called Stretch Johannsen, who was said by the same source ultimately to name Smith as the murderer of Batkin, ie the dockyard grapevine, to have along with a woman accomplice killed John Wlodarczyk, aka John Grosvenor, aka Mexican Johnny, the JD man remained aloof.

The union insisted probity was lacking, evidenced circumstantially by the death of this woman, which lack of probity we have alleged consistently is tied to terrorism on the docks, and wanton and serious corruption among the police, at the CJC, and in Parliament, however the most serious corruption and the place where probity has least place we allege, is within the Crown Law Department, The Public Prosecutors Office.

Beattie



The JD fellow was become a tad churlish by then, we persisted, Peter Beattie was Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commission Committee Chairperson when the union approached him in 1992, additionally he was Member for Brisbane the electorate in which the union office is located.

We told him corrupt murderous elements from within and without the union, were in the process of hijacking the electoral process within the organization, and that the mob at The Australian Industrial Relations Commission were getting cute re their role in proceedings, that members had been openly threatened, in company with murder, and that threats had preceded the deaths of Ron Chapman and Les Batkin dead up until then, as we told Beattie, and Merv Collins and now Kay Chambers since.

We contend at the P&D’s, that Kay Chambers was murdered to silence her, and that her death and the subsequent abandonment of proceedings against Johannsen, came about because the terror campaign waged against Dockers, which was supposed to shock or intimidate members into abandoning their role as unionists or murdering them, had failed.



The trial was to be Peter Beattie's triumph, he would be seen as the instigator of prosecutions re the murders that had taken place on the docks, in his role as PCJC chair, then Premier he would shatter the wall of silence allegedly in place surrounding such crimes.





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By late 1994 Beattie's plan had to change, he had found the union was no pushover, his thugs had been biffed and expelled, while we had been making such a song and dance in the industrial Commission in Sydney, and the Full Bench and the Federal Court in Industrial Jurisdiction in Brisbane, and in Canberra, that he was not going to take the chance of the whole thing blowing up in his face so she was let out of prison and killed.

No witness now against Johannsen so he is released, no witness, no trial ..no problems, Beattie thinks, at the union we are not going to let matters rest however.

Howard & Blair



Getting no response from the police, the government or the Criminal Justice Commission in Queensland, it's off to Canberra 3 May 1993, John Howard's office, in an interview conducted by Tony Blair later to become Prime Minister of Great Britain, we tell Blair on Howard's, then Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations behalf, of corruption, murder, hijacked union elections, and of zero response from the police, the government and the CJC.

That we had gone through the range of resources and options available in Queensland to have these matters raised in the parliament, while Bob Reed, the source of much of the trouble on the docks, was then a solicitor employed by Wayne Goss the Labor Party Premier of Queensland.

Goss & Packer



Of the Costigan RC report recommending Packer be charged, and the 1984 The Costigan Royal Commission into the Activities of The Painters and Dockers Union, a commission of inquiry formed on the initiative of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in 1980, in response to stories published in Penthouse Australia, and in The Bulletin magazine detailing some of the more sensational slanders and wretched assertions, that such ill founded rags are wont to make regarding the affairs of this trade union.

Recommended Kerry Packer, often described as Australia's richest man, be charged in relation to the importation of heroin into this country, in shipping containers leased to World Series Cricket, that had accompanied the Australian cricket team on the 1982 tour of Pakistan, leaving Australia containing cricket gear and television equipment, which was sold in Pakistan to local sporting and television interests at the conclusion of the tour, returning full of drugs.

The Hon. Lionel Bowen MHR, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, in contempt of the Royal Commission, shortly after Costigan's report was delivered, which took him over four years, and for which the government paid him over four million dollars in wages to prepare, asserted in Parliament that Costigan was barking up the wrong tree when he recommended Packer be charged and that Kerry had not wronged.



And the National Crime Authority, stating the CJC and the NCA perform similar functions in that both are sham, spuriously appointed organizations, founded when the political allies of criminals who were being thus exposed at the FI in Queensland, and the CRC Federally, claimed those Inquiries were too costly and the good work they had done was to be taken up by those respective organizations.





Abeles & Hawke



Mr Blair said he thought Sir Peter Abeles, whose unhealthy relationship with Bob Hawke Australian Prime Minister 1983–91 scandalized the nation, was the Mr Big in Australian crime and assures us he will make known to Howard the union's wish, that he take our cause up in parliament.

He says to ring back in a day or so, when we do so he answers the phone, and assures us that he has briefed Howard of our concerns and wishes, and puts one through .. Click, Howard's voice "I'm not talking to him," clunk, dead phone, proving the bi partisan nature of murderous corruption as it exists in Australia at State and Federal level.

At the time of the Wlodarczyk killing the Sunday Sun a now defunct news paper, said the dogs were barking all over town about what had happened, not quite, the dogs were barking it is true, however their song was that Kay had killed the man, Paul's name was not bandied about re this matter until things were warming up again in the mid to late eighties.



Around the time the Smith/Mason/ Reed faction had gained power and Influence within the union by bashings and terror and fear, innuendo from Mason re John Wlodarczyk's murder toward a job delegate who requested the union rule re exposure to tar & epoxy paint be observed, he says it was not a random act of violence, but a calculated decision to kill a man .. Reed warning a member "..do not go writing letters Norm, and you had better not talk to Drummond!



Norm, whose teenage son was to be killed by an unknown hit and run driver before years end, had outlined at a meeting that he had written to Fitzgerald, outlining the most serious misgivings re the thrust this faction was presenting, they had declared union owned property at Kangaroo Point superfluous, and with their filthy murderous scab mates stand up Col Woods, who they had infiltrated into the union, were pushing through a highly questionable land sale.



Norm explained Fitzgerald replied that he should ring him and he would make arrangements for an interview with Drummond QC council assisting, Reed's warning coming only days after the 1987 murder of union member Les Batkin, itself only days after the killing of member Ron Chapman. Chapman's last political speech In the P&D's union rooms was that the time was long overdue for MT to be union secretary.

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Angelo Vasta was DPP in 1978 who decided not to prosecute 0'Dempsy and Glancey, recalling evidence the Coroner heard that Mrs M and the girls firstly did all they could to fulfill the sexual fantasies of their assailants, hoping thus to save their lives, after that the screaming went on for hours before they died. Recalling Vasta being elevated short time later to the bench, from where he was removed in 1988 in the wake of the Fl, allegedly because he maintained an allegedly unhealthy relationship with senior police who had been adversely named in evidence at the FI.


Interested whether either of the Vasta offspring employed at The Crown Law Department was involved in the abortive prosecution of Kay Chambers and Stretch Johannsen, indeed what prosecutions have they gotten up to, for instance did either of them have any input re the proceedings against Arthur Stanley Brown re Judith and Susan Mackay.