Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:35:09 +1000 From: pmargin-AT-xchange.anarki.net (Profit Margin) Subject: AUT: LL:Dubai Documents feature in today's Age >Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 09:10:49 +1000 (EST) >From: Marg Hutton <mhutton-AT-melb.alexia.net.au> >To: leftlink-AT-vicnet.net.au >Subject: LL:Dubai Documents feature in today's Age >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Status: > >Today's Age contains a special feature on the Dubai Documents: >http://www.theage.com.au/special/dubai/ > > * What did the Federal Government know and when? Statements by Mr > Wells link the Prime Minister, Mr Howard, and the Workplace > Relations Minister, Mr Peter Reith, to the Dubai plan. > * Did the head of Patrick stevedores, Mr Chris Corrigan, lie about > his involvement in the scheme? Mr Michael Wells, who directed the > Dubai operations, lists examples in an affidavit of what he > alleges were false statements by Mr Corrigan. > > The documents > > * They contain - in 158 pages - affidavits, bank statements, faxed > messages, diary notes, a training contract, a deed of indemnity, a > sale agreement, transcripts, letters and diary notes relating to > the Dubai stevedore training plan. they were given to The Age by > Mr Andrew Harris, head of recruiting agency Fynwest Pty Ltd. The > Age did not pay for them. > > > Howard linked to Dubai plan: claim > Sworn documents have linked the Prime Minister and Peter Reith to the > failed wharfie training scheme. > > "If I tell a blatant lie ... " > The Wentworth affair: they met - according to the documents - in a > room of Sydney's Wentworth Hotel on 13 January. Present were the > Patrick chairman Chris Corrigan, his facilitators in the Dubai > training exercise, those entrepreneurial commandos Mr Mike Wells and > Peter Kilfoyle, and others. > > `Special job' claim is most damning entry > The most serious political allegation in the Dubai documents is the > claim that Dr Stephen Webster rang Mike Wells on 30 July and claimed > he was "doing a special job for John Howard". > > Ministers deny they knew of Dubai plan > The federal Workplace Relations Minister, Mr Peter Reith, denied the > Government had any previous knowledge of last year's scheme to train > former soldiers as wharfies in Dubai. > > The 158 pages that read like a spy thriller > It begins as a favor to one of Melbourne's best-known businessmen, Mr > Richard Pratt. > > Central role for adviser: affidavit > A Government adviser played a central role in setting up the scheme to > train former and serving Australian soldiers in Dubai, an affidavit by > an organiser of the plan, Mr Mike Wells, alleges. > > Patrick bankrolled Dubai: documents > The chairman of Patrick stevedores, Mr Chris Corrigan, fully funded > and directed the Dubai training of former soldiers to break the > waterfront union, according to documents released by the organisers of > the scheme. > > `They shouldn't have goaded us' > Peter Kilfoyle and Andrew Harris looked every inch and bulging muscle > military men. Sitting in Mr Harris's St Kilda Road office, they were > mapping out their latest strategic manoeuvre with combat-like > precision. > > A strategy doomed from the start > The ill-fated Dubai mission was sprung before it started. As the first > contingent of trainee wharfies waited in the lounge of the Airport > Travelodge on Wednesday 3 December last year for their flight, the > Minister for Workplace Relations, Mr Peter Reith, was ambushed in > Parliament. > > PM's department helped to `ensure prompt issue' > The Prime Minister's Department provided advice to the Patrick > stevedoring company chairman, Mr Chris Corrigan, on how to obtain > emergency passports for the Dubai waterfront mercenaries, according to > one of the key organisers of the scheme. > > The offers, the denial and an angry phone call > The million-dollar documents, as the Dubai papers have been called, > were reportedly first on offer for $2.6 million. > > >[This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without >permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, >scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal >copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of >the copyright owner, except for "fair use."] > > > > > War on the Wharfies - essential links > http://www.users.bigpond.com/Takver/soapbox/index.htm > http://www.yll.org.au/mua > http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi/mb63212 > > o=o=o=o=Leftlink - Victoria's Broad Left Mailing List=o=o=o=o > Messages appearing on Leftlink are not necessarily endorsed > by the list moderator or the New International Bookshop. > See http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton for further information. > To join or leave the list send e-mail to: majordomo-AT-vicnet.net.au > with "subscribe leftlink" or "unsubscribe leftlink" as the message > o=o=o=Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop=o=o=o > > > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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