Redmond in bowling club burnt end
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On the eve of the South Australian election, opposition leader Isobel Redmond has been forced to answer questions about a legal deal she was involved in as member for Heysen. The deal, which Redmond oversaw as legal advisor, concerns an investment in the Mount Barker Bowls Club by the Stirling Bowling Club Foundation in 2008. It’s alleged Redmond, a Stirling trustee, approved money to be sent to Mount Barker despite the club’s constitution forbidding such a move. The money, raised from the sale of the Stirling club in 2004, was given to Mount Barker on the proviso it be used for the construction of a new undercover bowling green. According to sources, the trust began to send the money unconstitutionally and then retrospectively changed the constitution to allow it. Documents sent to Crikey show a sum of $6000 was sent to the Mount Barker Bowls Club on January 25, 2008, with the foundation’s minutes on February 15 detailing their plans to change the rules of the foundation. A letter was then sent to the Adelaide Hills Council on March 4 that year detailing plans for the money, which Crikey understands amounted to in excess of $500,000. Click here for the full document
Click here for the full document Sources have told Crikey the $6000 was used to pay for architectural fees in order to design the dome that would be used for the undercover green. “The fact that this money was used for architectural fees implies that discussions between Stirling and Mount Barker were going on for a while,” they said. “These discussions took place before the club’s constitution was changed, with everyone on the foundation’s side being well aware of what was going on. “I’m not sure if it’s a legal question, but it’s certainly a question of ethics.” But asked whether the trust acted unconstitutionally, Redmond was unequivocal about her role in the matter. “I made every effort to make sure anything that the trust did was above board,” she told Crikey. “I am pretty conscientious about any conflicts of interest in this business, having studied law for more than 30 years.” Redmond said she was chosen as a trust member because of her legal experience and her standing in the community as a member of parliament. “I was not in the position of legal advisor, however I did provide advice when the trust required it,” she said. The source also claimed the trust transferred some of the funds to the Uraidla Bowling Club. Redmond is a member of the club. The Liberal leader said money “could have been sent to Uraidla” but the amount would have been “minimal”. She said the allegations are a response to Mount Barker receiving the money, instead of other clubs in the Adelaide Hills area. |
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And this is the smart arse liberal troll who has ben running around declaring The Sth Aust Premier is a cheat and a liar…oh the karma of it all…she is not only a hypocrite abut a liar and a disgrace, nothing but Liberal rubbish, they cant help themselves….just waiting for the truth about Abbott to be revealed
No Isobel dear, not while you are in parliament. Oh dear, couldn’t run a chook raffle could she as she tries to impose the recycled boobies like Rob Lucas on the state.
So Labor goes digging and here it is!!
Par for the course.
But this ‘smart arse Liberal troll’ is perhaps matching smart arsed Labor trolls?
Or are they as pure as the driven snow?
I don’t care. I want an ICAC! And not to see the faces of Foley and Atkinson ever again!
I think that’s fair CliffG!!!
(And I’ll repeat this: I am a Socialist, thus I have NOTHING in common with Rann and his cohorts).
Well Cliff, too bad really but the Liberals just completely derailed themselves over the RAH by having to admit it was all a spin.
……………weeeeeeellll not exactly Marilyn, the word was used of course, (isn’t it WONDERFUL, that these true conservatives are not afraid of the word whilst your hero’s, the ‘Labor’ Party are such experts at it…….but have never admitted to it?).
Funny old world isn’t it? I think Stephen has been an absolute sweetie in giving Labor ‘jerks’ a free hit so late in the day, don’t you?
Media Mike’s legacy will be the failure to capitalise on the mining boom and allowing Adelaide and ‘backwater’ to be a familiar terms to Australians. Just another typical Labor run state, ‘not much happening here….” time for some new blood in a ‘once was’ proud state and you might just entice some locals back from Melbourne, Sydney and overseas.
‘Just another typical Labor run state,….’
This irritates me just as much as they do!!!
As a Left voter it is strikingly clear to me that the Rann style of Labor lost him a mass of support. In that, Rann Labor is not alone;-so-called Left Parties in first world countries have deserted their traditional voter base,-and in Rann’s case-stabbed them in the back on leaving.
(The failures of HIS Workcover Dept. was taken out on injured workers;-their entitlements were utterly shredded by this toe-rag).
Rann has made an art-form of conservative Labor. His blatant connections to big business interests is nauseating!
I want to see this Pretender decimated today! At the very least he and his cronies will take a well deserved slapping.
The difference ‘tween me and thee Napoleon D,-is that the shift to Right of this -‘just another Labor run’ State is what has caused all the problems!!
Two things thoroughly disgust me:
1) The total lack of representation of ordinary people (working/elderly/disabled),- by EITHER of the two odious majors.
2) That dedicated Labor followers will ignore all this in order to allow their Party to continue to wield its slimy version of ‘Labor’ principles (ergo: none at all!).
The Liberal Party at least does not have to indulge in this kind of hypocrisy (…although it IS amusing to see Abbott trying to show his humanitarian side!!).
The growing support for the dark days of Howard principles has nothing to do with conservatism;-it has everything to do with the betrayal of the slime that call themselves Labor.
(As for the ‘Chantelois factor’ ? What bollocks! It isn’t that hard to work out that those who see ‘Chanto’ (!!), as an arse pain,-would thus give Rann a ringing endorsement. They have not. I wonder why that is…..?).