What about us?

Our local member and Deputy Prime Minister is so popular among his cabinet colleagues they have assigned him to Queensland for the duration.

Forget about the electorate Mark Vaile represents, his Liberal bosses are more concerned that his services are more needed up north to save their skins.

Vaile has overridden his National members, denying that they might be disappointed by the placing of two Queensland Liberal senators ahead of National’s Senator Boswell. That action alone displays as much loyalty to his party as he shows for his local electorate.

“The decision we’ve taken in Queensland is to try and target all of our resources on beating the Labor party,” Vaile said. Perhaps we could have more confidence in this underperformer if he concentrated on voter’s needs and his electorate, rather than the Liberal Party’s fears of defeat.

Of course Vaile can afford to be complacent in Lyne; like his two predecessors he has never faced any threat here. Perhaps it is time he really did, time someone took up the challenge to represent this electorate as it really deserves to be represented.

Official terrorists support?

Now the rules for dealing with terrorism have been established it must be time to some other outstanding cases. For example there is ample evidence against our Deputy Prime Minister to create a great deal of suspicion.

The fallout from the AWB scandal clearly suggests Vaile’s association with those who were financing a terrorist organisation, Saddam’s Iraq regime. The $300 million dollars was funded through people who the Deputy Prime Minister was known to associate with.

There were serious allegations that Saddam’s mob were in league with Al Qaeda, those links were part of the justification for sending Australian troops to oust the regime.

October 20 2000 Vaile had an ‘informal meeting’ in Egypt with AWB Iraq executive Dominic Hogan, the subject of the meeting was the growing concern over kickback claims.

Later in 2000 the Deputy Prime Minister was dealing with then AWB chairman, Trevor Flugge. Again the thrust discussions were the emerging revelations of financial support for Saddam’s terrorist government.

July 2002 the Deputy Prime Minister was adamant that dubious wheat deal should continue without interference. In 2002 Vaile met with AWB executives again, this time in he was visiting two other known terrorist states, Libya and Iran.

So should Deputy Prime Minister Vaile be charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation? I obviously cannot disclose all the facts of any potential, future investigation, but there certainly appears to be ample innuendo to proceed.