Gary Looney <garylooney@gmail.com>

Single Page Private Letter for Prime Minister - Discussion and Offer - GaryLooney

Gary Looney <garylooney@gmail.com> Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:41 AMTo: Tony.Abbott.MP@aph.gov.au

I wish to talk with the Prime Minister, unfortunately I have no phone or money.

As an alternatively to phone discussion with offer, I have written a Single Page Letter for Prime Minister.Dear-Mr-Abbott_9Feb2015_from-Gary-Looney.pdf

Additionally for general interest of the Office or Prime Minister I includeAWU-Corruption-in-1999-Encourages-Retaliation-in-2015_Gary Looney_6Feb2015.pdf

Regards

Gary LooneyMenindee. NSW(No Australia Post or Ph/Fax availability)

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Dear Mr. Tony Abbott (I wish to talk directly in person with you) ‐ 9 Feb 2015 – 12 Pages in Total Includes 11 page: AWU‐Corruption‐in‐1999‐Encourages‐Retaliation‐in‐2015_Gary‐Looney_6Feb2015  As you are aware, I have put in complaint to AHRC and Anti‐Discrimination Board New South Wales. I have much to offer our Government/Country and wish to talk directly in person with you, without duress. But have no food, money, clothing, free healthcare & Government services/Business means.  To understand why you need only look inside yourself and fellow Politian’s of all parties. I have no political alliances. I don’t understand or want to understand people referring to “we” in blind support of a team, it’s absurd to me. I don’t need to call a friend, just look, listen & understand.  There is a big difference between being destitute for your unfortunate circumstance and; being punished for contributing for a better Australia by one eyed political supporters.  To claim I am a Bludger to justify Government/Union actions is offensive, immoral & corrupt. I have worked harder than most people can imagine lifting 100kg logs above my head for 10 hours a day.  I provided you a lot of information, some of which was in confidence to explain how a set of corrupt, greed fuelled events can turn community and Government servants against you in a small town.  Brief: Started with Tandou chipping detailed in:  AWU‐Corruption‐in‐1999‐Encourages‐Retaliation‐in‐2015_Gary Looney_6Feb2015.pdf Retaliation of Union supporters in Broken Hill/Menindee communities & Gov Services hasn’t let up.  Murdi Paaki JSP failed  to provide me any service long before becoming a RJCP under PM&C.   Transferred to Sureway JSP who worked out of Central Darling Shire office with Margot Muscat.  The Sureway Employee began meddling in my personal life with Margot Muscat “CDSC” and used erroneous work privy info in a Broken Hill Pub, publically calling me “a girl who lived with parents”.   So I transfer to LETS employment, all was going well until the Company ran out of money & started to not pay their bills and removing Client services signed up to in Employment Pathway Plans.  Now I am a very descent understanding person to those who are honest, but rather then explain the situation LETS Manager claimed I was too old as justification to not paying for training in the EPP.  I found DEEWR to be corrupt bullies and a rubber stamp for whatever the provider wanted to do.   It should be noted: dealing with Government became a lot worse after Julia Gillard became Prime Minister, with aggression from Government staff & Public servants after releasing ETS submissions.  Now back to present situation, after past history with Margot Muscat “CDSC” & Murdi Paaki “RJCP”.  As previously documented: Centrelink/Margot Muscat “CDSC” conspired to create Non‐Compliance.  In discussion after Ombudsman Enquiry a Centrelink Employee, who took part in setting up the agreement with Central Darling Shire Employee Margot Muscat for the remote Agency, pronounced to me in a Centrelink meeting that she would not be closing the CDSC agency.  The significance being I had never offered this as a possibility, all I wanted was the corrupted meddling of Margot Muscat in client’s affairs to be legally addressed and stopped.  It’s clear from events; the problems go much further than that of Centrelink & Margot Muscat alone. My request of you remains with urgency and I offer to remove negative material and help in return.     Regards Gary Looney. Menindee (No Aust Post Mail. No Ph/Fax contact)  Email offer to meet or negotiation through AHRC 

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Gary Looney <garylooney@gmail.com>

AWU Corruption in 1999 Encourages Retaliation in 2015 - Gary Looney - 6 Feb

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Gary Looney <garylooney@gmail.com> Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:31 AM To: bill.shorten.mp@aph.gov.au, members@nat.awu.net.au, daniel.walton@nat.awu.net.au, secretary@awu.org.au,

rcollison@awu-nsw.asn.au, mail@unionsnsw.org.au, A.Albanese.MP@aph.gov.au, nicklin@parliament.qld.gov.au,

reception@opposition.qld.gov.au

Hello Labor and Union contacts

My name is Gary Looney and I have lived in Menindee, NSW most of my life.

I write to you because of something that happened 15 years ago which has changed my life for the worse ever

since.

In 1999 I worked for Tandou cotton chipping on their dry lake, outside Menindee where Tandou has grown

Cotton for many years.

I stood up for workers who were intimidated by the company and threatened with the sack if they complained,

which is thoroughly detailed in the attached document: AWU-Corruption-in-1999-Encourages-Retaliation-in-

2015.pdf

AWU were at the farm with no regard for workers rights, the Shearers and Rural Workers Union were their trying

to poach members and make trouble. Police arrived to remove The Shearers and Rural Workers Union from the

farm who then made an official complaint against police.

Raid in Briefly: Police, Humanservices/Centrelink and Immigration raided the property very early in the morning

forcing people to a lawn area near the office. Locals were warned on phone by Contractor John Nation not to leave

Menindee, others on the farm got notice and ran. Still many were caught, all of which voted on a reduction in

workers’ rights as AWU members.

The Company Tandou, Police and Contractor are strongly supported by Unions, also many professionals in

Centrelink and Health care including the Contractors Wife who is a Nurse getting work at the Menindee Nursing

Service, and other local beneficiary in Services, labor and Shearers.

I was blacklisted by Union/Tandou and sent to hospital in ambulance after assault by Union representative. No

one would employ me, locals shunned me and my family relationship was destroyed.

Public/Government Servants supportive of Unions have used every opportunity to destroy me ever since, this has got

out of hand and can no longer be addressed on an individual level. Because my complaints have fallen on deaf ears it

has turned into a free for all. Tandou has been supported by both political parties for very different reasons.

I have a discrimination complaint with the AHRC but the architects of the damage are faceless through

opportunistic Government position. If anybody gives a shit I suggest you start a conversation with the

Liberals to resolve some of the problems I have raised with the Prime Minister.

I have lived here for over 40 years and worked very hard for the little I have, known as one of the hardest workers

in my area and Labor/AWU has destroyed my life to cover-up corruption and maintain power.

If nothing happens to resolve the situation there is going to be a blood bath and given I have had no Government

services and power was due for disconnection 3 weeks ago, I have nothing to lose.

Enough

Gary Looney

(Not receiving Australia Post Mail, no phone)

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Government from 5 March 1983, ALP: Bob Hawke replaced by Paul Keating from 13 March 1993 Tandou Lake Farm/owner Bob Smith was supported by relation Neville Wran, on opening plaque. Darren Cameron (AWU) NSW Labor Candidate for Albury – 1995 Government from 2 March 1996 was John Howard Liberal/National Stephen Roach, general secretary of the Shearers' and Rural Workers Union - 1998 Darren Cameron (AWU Organiser) working with New Zealand Shearers and Employers – 1998 I worked as Cotton chipper on Tandou Farm 1999 - 2000 Season. Tandou is a flat Lake bed reaching hotter temperature than Menindee which holds a NSW January record of 49.7 Degree Celsius, 1939. Tandou Management & Permanents, one of which was a Contract Partner for Cotton Chipping were implicit and or aware of conditions outlined by myself and others, referring to the chippers as dogs. I couldn’t stand by and watch as workers dropped to the Ground unconscious without water, breaks or shade and supervisors demanded we leave them, walk over and continue chipping or be sacked. A plane sprayed chippers with Endosulfan, management demanded they wash before denying it. It still makes me sick to think about it, what type of human ignores, or cover-up for power or money. Darren Cameron was (Mine Safety Council member) with Eddie Obeid – 1999 Darren Cameron (AWU Organiser) for Tandou Cotton – 1999 I supplied docs & explained conditions! John Morgan “National Secretary for Shearers & Rural Workers Union” Tandou dispute – 1999 I gave Unions and Governments details of conditions; I got assaulted/hospitalised and blacklisted. I sent letters to every Politian and union office I could find details for, and not one response. Where Shearing's Cheap And Men Are Thirsty - Sydney Morning Herald Monday June 1, 1998 Quote: "It's a funny old game," says the general secretary of the Shearers' and Rural Workers Union, Mr Stephen Roach. "Conditions remain much the same as they were at the turn of the century. :End Quote Quote: Wagga Wagga AWU organiser Mr Darren Cameron has the hapless task of attempting to enforce minimum shed standards on the New Zealand teams and the "cockies" employing them. "I take a few floggings," he said. "The New Zealand crews resent AWU interference. They are prepared to work outside the rules established over generations - clean eating areas, reasonable toilet facilities, washing amenities, refrigeration, clean drinking water and workplace safety.” :End Quote

To: Labor and Unions The AWU/Tandou Blacklisting “took away my rights to a job” and destroyed my life because I could not be corrupted and represented genuine workers “done the job Unions claim to be doing”. In the last two years I have been assaulted and had several attempts made on my life by Labor and Union protectionist 15 Years after the event. Labor and Union Supporters are still opportunistically damaging my life through Government Servants and position of power for doing the right thing. For those who would try and claim I’m prejudice: If I travelled to another country without the correct papers for work and needed food, I would hope they might give me a job as we would. What I wouldn’t do is illegally sign up as member of a foreign Work Union & vote to lower pay rate. Labor and Unions no longer represent workers but their own power and corruption, just faceless common crims. Enough: I don’t care how. Time Labor & Unions make good, right their wrong to me

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1999 Dear Mr Greg Combet Enclosed are letters I have sent to the AWU because the chippers at Tandou have been treated unfairly for years and this year with the AWU things have not changed, the AWU has not answered my concerns. John Nation (Menindee Rural Supplies) contractor for employment at Tandou has worked as an employee at Tandou for years, walked down cotton rows on a Friday afternoon while we were chipping with a list of worker who had not joined the AWU, one by one asking them to sign up as they worked and chipped weeds. I was one he asked to sign something I knew nothing about, when I asked John what happens if I don’t sign, he said I would be paid less than other workers and not allowed to work on weekends. I said that is Blackmail. When I picked up my pay that afternoon I found that AWU fees had been taken out even though I had not joined. All happenings between the AWU and Tandou have been corrupt and unfair. I hope you read all the information given to you carefully, it’s not all black and white but with consideration for these points and their knock on effects you will find it all to be relevant. This is not my job to bring these points forward but there seems to be few people that feel unthreatened to do it, including me sometimes. To do this I have worked in unfair conditions with below award rate pay and spent a lot of my own money to follow it through. Try asking the AWU to fax the letters I sent them to you, or tell you what was in them. I hope you can help. Yours Sincerely Gary Looney

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To Centre Link (Broken Hill office) from Gary Looney (Menindee) 12 August 2009 Page 1 of 2 Many Menindee residents, including me were employed during the picking seasons under the ownership of Stan Andriski , Cotrel or Eric Biggs Grape Growers with virtually no illegal immigrants. Tandou started to grow more cotton & employed chippers using a contractor to separate liability, in order to maintain or entrap workers. Illegal immigrants and those being also on benefit were welcomed! There was a worker living in a bare van body with broken windows dumped behind a shed for example, as long as you were there they did not care. Young workers travelling the country side or also receiving benefit did not care, working beside illegal immigrants. Workers were often forced to work over 12 hours a day for 6 and 7 days a week, to work with inadequate water and were paid less than the award, also without full penalty rates. Fuel was sold to workers owning and having to use their own cars to get the work force to/from the fields, around the 25km long lake bed. Conditions were investigated & found to be well below standards in regards to camp health standards and charges including rent regardless of whether you lived under a tarp. Working conditions failed health & safety standards with illegal omission of work breaks, lack of shelter and inadequate water. Alcohol, Privately slaughtered meat, food goods and petrol were sold illegally and helped to entrap workers. Almost the whole chipping crew were sprayed with the Chemical Endosolfin by spray plane one day, the Company basically denied it & no EPA action was taken on workers complaints of the event. Tandou and the Australian workers union negotiated privately and pushed a purposed new pay rate to the work force, with virtually no employee notice. I had taken the day off and returned to find employees had participated in a vote organized by the AWU and Tandou resulting in a rate and penalty change with net reduction of award and penalty entitlement. I collected pay sheets representing a single worker for the whole season and summed the total payment Tandou was making to the worker. I then calculated the total amount payable to the same worker for the same hours using the previously unpaid award rate over the whole season. Other factors for itinerant workers were also outlined for consideration of a fair compromise! The contractor refused to help when I asked to meet and talk with the union official. Lake workers told me of his location on the lake so I walked km’s and finally tracked him down, explaining he cannot allow illegal workers to vote on our wage rate and put forward my pay sheet accumulated figures. A Shearers union had been parked just outside the chippers camp a few times during the season and told me I should join them and provide them with the pay sheets, the discussion turned to the union using intimidation and pressuring me to join! I explained that changes need to be made on fact and honesty, which both unions were failing to demonstrate. The fact that I wanted to forward my experience and view personally and refused to join them was seen as not acceptable, there was abuse direct towards me from this union as I walked away. When I went back to Menindee a member of the Shearers union king hit me which resulted in hospitalization and a serious neck injury. I tried to continue working whilst in a lot of pain and was asked politely to leave by the contractor! You will find or remember that Social security along with police and immigration raided Tandou Lake Chippers Camp and dragged us all out of bed to a grassy area near the Contractors office, some of the illegal immigrants and workers receiving benefit were caught. During this season I had sent hundreds of letters to Government and unions with full documentation of events. When immigration released the information of illegal workers publically I again forward my documentation to Government and unions with this additional supporting information. Cotton Chippers rates were changed again with a base rate increase traded for changes to the penalty rates, resulting in a fairer compromise which became the practice of similar itinerant employment sectors today! Past Union & ongoing Government policy has involved reduction of liability at all costs, unqualified

promotion for failure & stuff the people, as experience demonstrates. Not much different to Telstra’s!

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To Centre Link (Broken Hill office) from Gary Looney (Menindee) 12 August 2009 Page 2 of 2 Word around was that I was black listed by Tandou and no one should employ me, a Greek family with grapes in Menindee always employed my family as we were respected as good workers and friends. I was latter told by this Greek family that they were given the message not to employ me, and explained that although it had made them uncomfortable I would always be welcome. This family later sold their grape property to Table Grape Growers. TGG employed me without actually knowing they had done so when using a contractor, I was employed to work with the grapes and had to go to a pre work initiation were pictures were used rather than talking, because a large number of the employees could not speak English. Our contractor only employed legal Australians for a government contracted employment network agency and the whole 26 or more of us Australians and contractor were sacked by TGG, I helped some that traveled from places like Queensland for this work, to try and get them money so they could drive home. There is mixed opinion in the Menindee community in regards to my actions and me, many see me as a traitor to our community and a risk to business that the work force provides in areas such as poker machine use during the season for example. I was verbally assaulted recently by an employer who was acting like I had reported or threatened to report them to immigration or something. Previously I was employed by Boulevard Motel in Mildura which was initiated and organized through Mildura social security were the Employer is paid part of your wage for a set period by Government. Whilst employed the employer continued to ask me to carry out or help him carry out illegal tasks, including rewiring of room heaters connected directly to the fuse box with heavy wall cabling, of which I refused. He also directed me to rotate the mattresses as the bottom floor got more use, this involved carrying each double bed mattress from the above rooms downstairs to the lower rooms, and the bellow mattresses upstairs! My back was injured trying to carry one of these mattresses upstairs and my employer told me that official documentation would not be required, that he would provide medical treatment. I was in a bit of pain and just wanted to get treatment so went to see the assumed specialist who turned out to be more like the family massager, not a doctor! It became obvious this injury would not go away. I went to social security & explained what had happened, I could not work properly with the injury and this employer was only abusing me and the system so I requested severance pay. Social Security offered no assistance in regards to the employer legality or actions they would take in this matter, only assurance that I would be eligible for benefit due to the injury sustained! Documentation was made by Mildura social security at the time as it was later found when I discussed this mater in the Broken Hill centre link office. Were in this chain of events would your office or another relevant Government office acknowledge such events and do things differently? Make the types of changes that I actively fought to make! If I Put my back in the wrong position under weight, it can result in total disability which has seen me stuck at home for more than a day, unable to move or contact help with no communication system. Attacks similar to asthma have also affected me. I realized some time back that some physical jobs may not be possible for me going forward and have worked towards learning Computer based technology and internet based business as a sustainable alternative. My internet connection under the Governments Australian Broadband Guarantee was recently disconnected, leaving me in a position where I would have less flexibility in usage time and pay considerably more to connect with a replacement provider. I want the connection restored with reliable & affordable provider of a large plan Past Union & ongoing Government policy has involved reduction of liability at all costs, unqualified promotion for failure & stuff the people, as experience demonstrates. Not much different to Telstra’s!

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Experience with Australia Workers Union 5 December 2010 I have lived in Menindee from 8 years old, traveled and worked around Australia employed and valued in many fields including Engineering using plasma cutter, welding, press, Gallatin and bending machines. Agriculture, roofing, mines camp construction from concrete to plumbing, Installing solar traffic monitoring devices, landscape gardening, making custom packaging for the export of Australian goods, all employers except maybe a fumigation company demonstrated very good morals. I have always thought outside my own personal interests and district, believed in equality of information, communications and means of access as fundamental democratic rights, to be informed and have a say which is not based on wealth, power, assumed credibility or social standing. Some years back I worked at Tandou Cotton farm chipping the weeds from cotton, conditions were very bad with lack of drinking water, no first aid kit or qualified person, no water to wash chemicals from hands before eating, no shade, missed or no breaks with up to 14 hour days. Workers collapsed in the field, we were told to leave them on the ground and keep working or be sacked. We were not being paid the correct rate or overtime and were charged for company fuel to drive our self’s and others to work in our own cars, we were charged rent for windowless caravans or a car chassis or a tarp between trees, the camp did not meet any health and safety standards, the camp sold home slaughtered products, alcohol and cigarettes. The farm Arial sprayed the chippers with Endosulfan insecticide and told the workers to wash thoroughly before denying it happened. The farm employed workers on unemployment benefit and illegal immigrants, demonstrating a means of controlling the work force. Over a period when I had returned home, the Australian Workers Union held a meeting with employees including illegal workers to change the rate of pay to be less than the award rate, also removing almost all penalty rates. The justification given by the AWU was that the workers would have to accept this to keep their job. Employees including illegal immigrants and those on benefit voted in a reduction of the award rate and penalties effectively leaving the workers worse off through an illegal process with illegitimate union members paying AWU union fees and voting to change wages. When I returned to work I demanded to see the Union official who was still on the farm and efforts were made by the contract employment company and Tandou to prevent me, so I walked and eventually found the AWU official, I explained that what he had done was not only immoral but illegal and the mythology used for calculating the flat rate was unjust, I shared my calculations on how a fair rate of pay could be achieved and what my figures were based on. I had put my own season of wage sheets with hours worked together, calculated my total income with award rates and penalties to find the total earned in dollars than divided this by total hours worked in the season, putting this figure forward as a starting point. I included calculations of costs that would not be incurred by permanent employees and suggested legal employees/union members might be willing to accept a small reduction of this figure in a flat rate. Needless to say the AWU official was not willing to accept any mistake or wrong doing or interested in my figures or what I had to say. At this stage I was sending all my documentation to every AWU office and the Australian Government, I continued sending documentation of conditions, illegal immoral union and company action over several years. Health authorities and OHS forced changes upon the company, Police, immigration and Social Security raided the farm, and a wage change took place very similar to my suggestions, many benefited. I believe the Union official got a promotion and I got blacklisted from every farm in Menindee by Tandou. Several farmers and friends of our family had the decency to stand by me and inform me of the black listing, one of which later sold up and left our district. I continue to act and demonstrate genuine equality, something Governments, Unions and some corporate business can only talk about.