Poor old AnAl rushes in where Angels fear to tread and gets caught in the trap laid by the vastly smarter ScoMo every time and Another GetUp! FAKE NEWS fiasco hits the dust.
ScoMo and Angus emerge unscathed and triumphant once again. The Good Lord is looking after ScoMo.
Was the fake document produced by a GetUp! spy in Angus's office ?
Angus Taylor: AFP drops investigation into doctored documents scandal
Paul Karp and Anne Davies Thu 6 Feb 2020 14.48 AEDTLast modified on Thu 6 Feb 2020 18.53 AEDT
Really what hope does the Greeny Labor Coalition have with AnAl and Adam Bushfires Bandicoot ?
VIDEO: Attorney general responds to AFP dropping Angus Taylor investigation:- https://youtu.be/GEQtnHBi9ZI
The Australian federal police has dropped its investigation into a doctored document used by energy minister Angus Taylor to attack Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore’s record on climate change.
On Thursday the AFP confirmed it had finalised the matter because it had “determined it is unlikely further investigation will result in obtaining sufficient evidence to substantiate a commonwealth offence”.
“The AFP assessment of this matter identified there is no evidence to indicate the minister for energy and emissions reduction was involved in falsifying information,” an AFP spokesman said.
“The low level of harm and the apology made by the [minister] to the Lord Mayor of Sydney, along with the significant level of resources required to investigate were also factored into the decision not to pursue this matter.”
Taylor welcomed the news and accused Labor of a “track record of using police referrals as a political tool”.
“The leader of the opposition [Anthony Albanese] and shadow attorney-general [Mark Dreyfus]’s pursuit of this matter is a shameful abuse of their office and a waste of our policing agencies’ time,” he said in a statement.
But Dreyfus and shadow climate change minister Mark Butler said that “serious questions remain unanswered” about the scandal because “two police investigations have now failed to clarify where Angus Taylor got his dodgy figures from”.
Clover Moore said: “I am shocked and disappointed the AFP will not further investigate the matter and shed light on a situation that has further eroded the community’s faith in the federal government.”
The document, which contained grossly inflated travel figures for the 10 Sydney city councillors – it claimed they had spent $15m in a year – was quoted in a letter sent by Taylor to Moore on 29 September and provided to the Daily Telegraph, which used the figures in an article published the same day.
Labor referred the issue to the New South Wales police in October, questioning whether the document constituted a forgery used to influence an official in the conduct of their duty, and whether Taylor could have committed an offence by failing to report it.
The NSW police established strike force Garrad to investigate, but Taylor did not stand down, receiving the backing of Scott Morrison to stay in his ministerial position.
Morrison personally contacted the NSW police commissioner, Mick Fuller, by phone, leading to allegations, which were strongly denied, he had influenced the investigation.
In November Fuller said he believed the matter would be wrapped up in a week. “To be honest with you, I actually don’t feel as though the allegations themselves are serious, in terms of the things that I would normally stand up and talk about the types of crimes,” he said.
On 20 December, the NSW Police referred the matter to the AFP, reportedly because if any crime were committed, it would have occurred in Canberra, not Sydney.
Taylor has “unreservedly” apologised to Moore for relying on the falsified figures but has denied consistently that either he, or anyone in his office, altered the City of Sydney document to inflate travel expenditure. Taylor has said the document with the incorrect numbers was obtained from the council website.
But the council has produced evidence showing that its publicly available annual reports has only ever contained accurate figures. Metadata and screenshots from the council’s content management system showed the annual reports on its website had not been changed since they were originally uploaded.
In a statement Dreyfus and Butler noted Taylor had assured parliament the fabricated report was “directly downloaded” from the City of Sydney Council website but public archives show “the correct version of the report was on the internet all through 2019”.
“If Angus Taylor continues to refuse to come clean, then the prime minister must order a proper, independent and transparent investigation into his minister, and commit to making the findings public.”
Moore said it was “nearly beyond belief that the minster is still, after months of intense scrutiny, yet to explain the origin of the fraudulent document he used to accuse the City of egregious spending on travel”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ts-scandal
