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• Wobblyone, thanks for your continued interest. John Mickel still walks right past me on his way to and from his electorate office and pretends I am not demonstrating directly in front of him and simply dont exist.

  The role of the office of the Speaker is the cornerstone of parliament and respect for the speaker is essential for the power, authority and integrity of parliament. The member for Nicklins written and oral submissions indicate a lack of respect for the role of office of the speaker said Labor MP Annastacia Palaszczuk in 2008 when she tried to justify Independent Member for Nicklin, Peter Wellingtons 21 day suspension from Parliament for remarks he made about then Speaker Mike Reynolds relating to a ban on TV news cameras filming proceedings in state parliament.
  While Independent MP Dorothy Pratt said I am concerned that Mr Speaker has found no better excuse for choking media scrutiny than members conditions. I find the highlighting and using of mine and other peoples conditions in such a manner as discriminatory and a retrograde step...

  And I say respect, where respect is due! I cannot condone the lack of integrity and obstruction of justice by John Mickel, the current Speaker of Parliament, which I find unacceptable. And were television cameras not banned, the public may have seen what I said to Premier Bligh and John Mickel from the public gallery of Parliament on 23/04/2009 before I was violently ejected by armed police on Mr Mickels orders.

  Courier Mail journalist Rosemary Odgers interviewed me afterwards but the incident was suppressed.

  My e-petition sponsored by Dorothy Pratt closes on 02/082010 http://bit.ly/bKZfzg
  MP says sorry for TV camera comment http://bit.ly/cj2eiw
  State Parliament Transcript http://bit.ly/b631ZU

  Jennifer Nash Friday 16 July, 2010 - 8:05 AM

• Wobblyone your right its extraordinary. Today is day 33 of my protest. Donald Horne, The Lucky Country (1964) says: --Australian society has a great degree of public tolerance. People dont care about what goes on unless it directly confronts or interferes with them. This is just about as high a degree of public tolerance as one can expect from a community: not to go out of ones way to interfere with others. Tell an Australian about something nasty thats happening in another suburb, or another street, and he may express a harsh opinion about it and then conclude that it takes all sorts to make a world. He doesnt start a reform movement. Its no business of his. When it comes to action, Australians usually dont care. Almost all act of interference in any field of Australian life are inspired by the puritans and activated at the top. There are no significant mass movement fanaticisms. It is only when a difference stares them in the face that ordinary Australians become truculent, and then only in a personal way--.

  There is no democracy without opposition, media diversity and press freedom, which are all sadly lacking in Australia, particularly in Queensland, where Murdoch owns the only state newspaper and my two local community newspapers. No democratic government would allow this to happen. About six years Spanish Global Intertrade wanted to open a newspaper in Queensland, but government said no to foreign ownership, while selling off Australia. In 2005 Australias economy was 70% foreign owned and 72% of that is US investment.
  
  Thanks heaven we still have Radio, Brisbane Times even though BT is only available online and Jimboomba Times, the only media to actually cover my protest.
  
  Is Donald Horne correct?

  Jennifer Nash Friday 16 July, 2010 - 7:11 AM

• I think the reason Anna can't find the money for the Police that she found for the teachers, is that they aren't a leftie union in bed with the Govt like the teachers union.

  Matt Tuesday 13 July, 2010 - 5:28 PM

• @Jennifer Nash.
  It's quite extraordinary really Jennifer, but my observations of this collective bunch of whimps, is that the opposition is too bloody busy jockeying around within the Party, maintaining and determining their own leadership. They are not interested in government. They want to be in opposition.
  And while that bullshit persists with Springborg (the on again, off again, leader of the party, who refuses to shaddap) the hapless Labour Party, continues in its headlong rush to bankruptcy of the one State in this country which should have had everything going for it.
  Such a bloody shame.
  Ah well! Jo told us we were buggered under Labour. He was right.

  Wobblyone Tuesday 13 July, 2010 - 9:30 AM

• @john gates, I see crocodile tears too, little credibility and a Shadow Attorney General, who does absolutely nothing to hold government to account. Lawrence Springborg was present when I raised the issue of judicial abuse and corruption against an unrepresented bullied schoolboy with Attorney General Cameron Dick in front of several hundred people and the media at the 4BC Right to Feel Safe Forum on 17.03.2010.

  However, as usual Mr Springborg was not the slightest bit concerned. Given this appalling apathy and indifference, the recent LNP defections are not too surprising.

  And former LNP adviser Jessica Christmas left her job because she could see the Opposition was not representing and fighting for the public interest. She claimed staff were playing computer games like Solitaire to keep the boredom at bay and did not even try to conceal that fact.

  If Mr Springborg and the Opposition actually did the job they are paid to do, I would not need to demonstrate in front of the electorate office of my local MP, John Mickel, the Speaker of Parliament because he would table my serious, documented and corroborated allegations and I would also not have had to ask the Independent Member for Kingaroy to sponsor this e-petition closing on 2 August 2010:
  Independent investigation into unlawful editing of courtroom audio tapes and transcripts http://bit.ly/bKZfzg

  Today is day 30 of my protest and Mr Mickel continues to pretend we simply do not exist.

  Video clip of 4BC forum and my comment no. 13 published in full by Brisbane Times http://bit.ly/ayUtWY
  
  
  Open letter to Federal Clerk of Parliament, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Federal Parliament http://bit.ly/ad5O8G
  
  Speaker of Queensland Parliament ignores lengthy and ongoing protest outside his electorate office http://bit.ly/9ugXTr

  Jennifer Nash Tuesday 13 July, 2010 - 7:42 AM

• Crocodile Tears, The Coalition when last in Goverment,led by the National Party,never stepped up to take on this ongoing cancer to our democracy.For whatever reason, and there has to one, they ran from it, and have continued to run from this atrocity to our national character. To let it continue to fester is nothing short of a a sign that we as a nation are on a slippery slope.One can be sure, sadly, if elected, the same people; again will show an absence of character and courage.Nothing rings true with the interview of Mr. Springborg.

  john gates Saturday 10 July, 2010 - 9:36 AM