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10 http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/politicians-not-only-get-paid-to-come-to-work-they-get-paid-to-live-
somewhere-and-to-have-dinner/news-story/27e1f78d5b1164fd31e32ba3a3991566
QUOTE
Malcolm Farr@farrm51
20
JUNE 1, 20163:23AM
25 Its now known that MPs and senators have access to an $86-a-day meal allowance on top of their other
benefits attached to their job.
Someone on the single pension, wondering how they could feed themselves for 14 days on $723.10, might be
interested to know their local member could be getting $602 for food during a standard seven-day sitting
fortnight in Canberra.
30 And if you live within 30km of Parliament House the money could be yours. Of the two MPs and two
senators representing the ACT, two claim the meal allowance. Two Labors MP for Canberra Gai
Brodtman and Labor Senator Katie Gallagher pay for their own tucker.
They all are legally entitled to the money, whatever those on the single pension might think about the moral
5 balance of the perk. And there are meal allowances in other employment areas.
The $86 allowance is taxable for ACT MPs, but for out-of-towners have to do with the tax-free $273-a-day
allowance for coming to sitting day.
It is not as if the MPs are struggling to find somewhere to eat. They have their own dining room, access to a
10 large staff canteen, to a famous cafe Aussies, and the Queens Terrace eatery all in Parliament House.
Should they hunger for something off-campus, they have access to chauffeured cars to get to restaurants.
Or they could knock up something in the kitchenettes in their offices. Or bring sandwiches from home.
Yet another perk the ability to claim running costs of a Canberra house you own, while still getting the
travel allowance is being reviewed by the Tax Office. And the Remuneration Tribal will look at other
15 payments.
Mr Leigh said one of the reasons for the allowance could be the Parliament House environment has a limited
number of places to eat when people are unable to leave the building.
He told ABC radio: What you eat has nothing to do with how far away you live.
20 The highlighting of legal yet little-noted payments to MPs for coming to work comes after former Treasurer
Joe Hockey now ambassador in Washington in 2012 declared the age of entitlement was over.
After his 2014 Budget, the then-prime minister assured voters suffering from cuts that MPs were also making
sacrifices.
25 But Tony Abbott recently noted the reduction in perks such as expensive airline tickets for families
angered his colleagues.
I made a series of decisions that were reasonable, even self-evident in principle, but which created much
resentment in the partyroom, wrote Mr Abbott.
I stopped the employment of immediate family members in MPs own offices because of the inevitable
30 perceptions of favouritism; I ended first-class overseas travel out of respect for taxpayers; and I restricted
family travel within Australia and spouse travel overseas because family very rarely accompanied business
trips in the private sector.
Imagine the anger if he had made them bring a cut lunch to work?
END QUOTE
35
I understand that you are/WERE investigating allowances in regard of Federal Politicians and I
hereby seek to make my submission to this, albeit I view the State politicians should equally be
investigated.
Our constitution being the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK) must be
40 considered:
Hansard 2-2-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE Mr. DEAKIN (Victoria).-
The record of these debates may fairly be expected to be widely read, and the observations to which I
allude might otherwise lead to a certain amount of misconception.
45 END QUOTE
"... But in the interpretation of the Constitution the connotation or connotations of its words should
5 remain constant. We are not to give words a meaning different from any meaning which they could have
borne in 1900. Law is to be accommodated to changing facts. It is not to be changed as language changes.
"
Windeyer J (Ex parte Professional Engineers' Association)
10
Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally; Re Wakim; Ex parte Darvall; Re Brown; Ex parte
Amann; Spi [1999] HCA 27 (17 June 1999)
QUOTE
Constitutional interpretation
15 1. The starting point for a principled interpretation of the Constitution is the search for the
intention of its makers[51]. That does not mean a search for their subjective beliefs, hopes
or expectations. Constitutional interpretation is not a search for the mental states of those
who made, or for that matter approved or enacted, the Constitution. The intention of its
makers can only be deduced from the words that they used in the historical context in
20 which they used them[52]. In a paper on constitutional interpretation, presented at
Fordham University in 1996, Professor Ronald Dworkin argued, correctly in my
opinion[53]:
"We must begin, in my view, by asking what - on the best evidence
available - the authors of the text in question intended to say. That is an
25 exercise in what I have called constructive interpretation[54]. It does not
mean peeking inside the skulls of people dead for centuries. It means
trying to make the best sense we can of an historical event - someone, or a
social group with particular responsibilities, speaking or writing in a
particular way on a particular occasion."
30 END QUOTE
40 As shown below It is really an allowance for the reimbursement of expenses. And as such while the
Framers of the Constitution did consider that the then 400 pounds would also come towards the
loss of income to some extend while a politician attended to the Parliament, they made clear that
ordinary politicians would be losing out on income compared to not attending to the Parliament
but just working in a position/job. It would be fair to state that politicians (other than Ministers,
45 speaker and President) would be entitled to say the average weekly income of ordinary
Australians but certainly not more like joining some millionaires club. Also, one cannot have
superannuation entitlements as to any allowance. Any form of payment that exceeds this could
be construed within s44 of the constitution as a payment that disqualifies the person being a
Member of Parliament. Likewise any Member of parliament, such as I understand Mr Malcolm
50 Turnbull Prime minister being an example reportedly holding monies in off shore tax haven
account by s44 is also disqualified to be a Member of Parliament, this as he is subject to the rules
and laws of a foreign country. As such, if his position is unconstitutional then any monies paid to
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him as a (Prime) Minister is not protected for being a Minister of the Crown but is income as
being in contract with the Crown.
Also, any monies paid to any Member of Parliament must be paid not directly from Consolidated
Revenue Funds to a Minister (via a Department) but must be paid to the Queen!
5
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK)
QUOTE
66 Salaries of Ministers
There shall be payable to the Queen, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Commonwealth,
10 for the salaries of the Ministers of State, an annual sum which, until the Parliament otherwise
provides, shall not exceed twelve thousand pounds a year.
END QUOTE
If someone was to work at a super market cash register as a staff member and withdrew monies
15 for personal gain then this would be deemed theft, likewise where we have a British constitution
and the moneys are payable in pounds to the Queen, then it is for the Queen to determine what
if any superannuation she decides to provide for. In my view the Parliament can set the amount
payable to the Queen for Ministers but it cannot interfere with any prerogative power of the
Queen otherwise such as to make a payment other than an an annual sum. Neither can a
20 Minister be allowed to collect any allowance as the Framers of the Constitution made clear that
it would constitute so to say DOUBLE DIPPING.
http://ag.ca.gov/ethics/accessible/misuse.php
QUOTE (DOWNLOADED 13-3-2010)
I have below quoted the 4-9-2015 correspondence to the Victorian Auditor-General albeit similar
set outs were forwarded to Members of Federal Parliament. Just no use to quote each and every
writings where they can be downloaded from www.scribd.com/inspectorrikati.
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It ought to be clear it is the Parliament (Until the Parliament otherwise provides) and not the
Remuneration Tribunal that is to decide by Act of Parliament what the amount of allowance
should be.
UNIFORM
Another issue is that the Parliament can only provide for UNIFORM legislation. As such, any
30 form of allowances should be equally for all Members of Parliament.
There is no indication whatsoever that the Framers of the constitution held that legislation other
than those for salaries/allowances should be UNIFORM and hence it must be accepted that
any legislation for salaries/allowance also must be uniform.
35 .
Also, the Framers of the Constitution debated that some Members of Parliament had to travel
distances and other very little but nevertheless held there used be a uniform amount for all
Members of Parliament to be paid as an allowance OTHER THEN OFFICE BREARERS such as
Ministers, Speaker, President as they would be paid a salary which then denied any claim for
40 allowance. It also means that the special payment when a person leaves the parliament is
unconstitutional. Likewise so any Gold Card entitlements to members of a former Member of
Parliament. The same with the travel provisions for partners (married or not) for Members of
Parliament to travel around. They are not and never were included to be part of any allowance.
Any form of legislation purporting to make it legal for parliamentarians to use Consolidated
45 Revenue Funds for paying for members of their family and/or others to travel as cost of
taxpayers clearly is unconstitutional as those persons do not hold a seat in the Parliament.
Because the States were created within s106 of the constitution subject to this constitution
then the same legal principles applies to State parliamentarians.
50
concurrent
This means that when one consider Sydney Municipal Council v Commonwealth 1904 where
the High Court of Australia held that council rates were a delegated State land taxation powers
this effectively ended when on 11 November 1910 the Commonwealth commenced with the
35 Land Tax Office (the forerunner of the ATO). It means that municipal council rates are an
unconstitutional land taxation. Where the States no longer have land taxation powers then it
neither can delegate this to municipal councils. Also, the legal principle of all monies collected
must be entered into Consolidated Revenue funds clearly is missing where Councils collect rates
and use it up without any Appropriation Bills to justify the usage of the monies.
40 While the ATO I understand by consent agreed to settle with the shire of Melton about GST, I
view this was unconstitutional as any private property owning by a Municipal Council has
nothing to do with any delegated state taxation powers to which Sydney Municipal Council v
Commonwealth 1904 applied.
Neither do I accept that the GST is constitutionally valid as the Framers of the Constitution made
45 clear:
Hansard 14-4-1897 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE
Mr. MCMILLAN: I do not think that could be the intention. We are attempting to legislate for a very
50 limited possibility. You will get disputes so long as there are lawyers in the world. I do not know
whether Federation will do away with lawyers.
5 Mr. MCMILLAN: I do not suppose that any ordinary moral layman would do it, unless he were
instructed by a less moral lawyer.
Mr. HIGGINS: There seems to have been infused in this debate an amount of spirit, and I am going to
incur the risk of the ordinary peacemaker. There has been no reference to the common-sense provisions
which are put into all articles of association with regard to digressions from the prescribed routine. On the
10 one hand, there is no doubt that there is no covert design to injure the smaller States and their representatives,
by attempting to impose upon them laws which are not in the ordinary course as prescribed. I think the
members for the minor States will accept that assurance. But, on the other band, there is no desire on the part
of the minor States advocates to give the lawyers more work than they can possibly help. But there is no
doubt that these sub-sections 2 and 3 of section 53 are calculated to lead to questions in the courts which
15 ought to be avoided if possible. Take sub-section 3:
Laws imposing taxation, except laws imposing duties Customs on imports, shall deal with one subject
of taxation only.
What is meant by one subject of taxation? Suppose a land tax is imposed, you tax posts and rails.
That may be argued not to be a law dealing with one subject. There are questions which will certainly
20 arise which will be fruitful in litigation unless we take great care. Therefore, I am in thorough accord with the
desire of the Premier of New South Wales to have some clause which will obviate the bringing of these trivial
matters into the court, and under which a great wrong will be done on the ground of some trifling breach of
the Act. What is done in the case of articles of association? There are in articles of association pro- [start page
590] visions for meetings to be held, for the holding of meetings in a certain manner, and for a number of
25 directors, and so forth. But there is always a clause for any accidental omissions; to comply with the articles
is not to invalidate the resolutions of the meeting. I would suggest this should be done here. All we want to
provide against is accident, mere accidental omissions. I would suggest the following:
Any accidental failure to comply with the foregoing provisions of this section shall not invalidate any
proposed law to which the Federal Parliament has assented.
Mr. HIGGINS: But I would provide that the failure shall be treated as accidental, in this way. I would go
on to add:
The failure shall be treated as accidental if it has not been brought to the attention of the President of the
Senate or of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
35 Mr. BARTON: This procedure is to be brought before the court by way of affidavit, then.
END QUOTE
Again: Suppose a land tax is imposed, you tax posts and rails. That may be argued not to be a law dealing
with one subject.
40
As I discovered when being charged GST for ordering printing works then merely because the
company decided to order it from overseas printers customs tried to charge me again GST. They
didnt get it! What however is clear is that the GST is rampaging to be used not for the manner it
complied with constitutional requirements.
45 As I did set out to the then treasurer Peter Costello, the price of a packet of toilet paper at a
Sunday Market was identical to that charged by Kmart. The difference being Kmart had
considerable overhead cost, pays GST, etc, whereas at the market this is virtually non-existent.
We are often dealing with businesses who at their stores have legal requirements but which at the
Sunday Market avoid all kinds of legal requirements, including paying appropriate taxes. When
50 at one standalone there is a crew of 6 to 10 people serving customers then obviously the turn over
must be considerable, and yet they do so tax free. After all many might go to auctions of
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Customs and purchase goods being confiscated by Customs and then those buyers can sell it at a
huge profit to customers without any form of receipts to show what was paid, etc. We are not
talking about someone selling from the boot of a car some used items!
5 There are numerous PRESS RELEASES and other documents that can be downloaded from my
blog at www.scribd.com/inspectorrikati.
This document is not intended and neither must be perceived to refer to all details/issues.
Let us be clear about it the Monarch withdrew her Victorian colonial Letters Patent and on 2-1-
30 1901 replaced it with a Letters Patent to create the permanent Office of the Governor, subject to
the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK) and in which Her Majesty also
made clear that the Governor was to establish an impartial administration of justice. As such
separation of powers of the executive, parliament and the judiciary, as embedded in the federal
constitution. Do understand that when you so to say close your eyes regarding this gigantic rip
35 off//fraud against taxpayers then I view you are part of the problems and might be held to
conspire to defraud Consolidated Revenue Funds.
Because we are to have a democracy based upon democratic elections it means your blatant
disregard to act regarding fraudulent conduct is by this as I view it to undermine our democracy.
Do also understand that as much as the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900
40 (UK) is applicable, as the states are created within s106 of this constitution and the (Victorian)
Letters Patent relies upon this also, then the embedded legal principles also apply. It also means
that no person having left a seat of Parliament can thereafter receive any monies. Nor can any
Member of Parliament receive a salary for being a Member of Parliament. Also, when a
Member of Parliament becomes a Minister of the Crown then all and any allowances otherwise
45 entitled upon being a Member of Parliament is no more!
In my view this is a very serious matter as I warned various parties prior to the 2014 State
election about the misuse/abuse of public monies and yet nothing was done about this, even so
the very people abusing the system we so to say make it a hanging offence regarding then
Member of Parliament Mr Geoff Shaw. Safe to say we had fraudulent elections and this
50 criminal conduct needs to be stopped and those who participated in criminal conduct
should be thrown out of the Parliament and prosecuted for their fraudulent conduct as it
undermines our democratic entitlements. In particular where I pre-warned against the
misuse/abuse of public monies there can be no excuse for those nevertheless fraudulently
engaging in this kind of election campaign.
As such the constitution belongs to We, the People, and not to the politicians, parliament
or the courts
15
Hansard 2-4-1891 Constitution Convention Debates (Official Record of the Debates of the National Australasian
Convention)
QUOTE
Clause 45. Each member of the senate and house of representatives shall receive an annual allowance for
20 his services, the amount of which shall be fixed by the parliament from time to time. Until other provision is
made in that behalf by the parliament the amount of such annual allowance shall be five hundred pounds.
Mr. WRIXON: I am not going to violate my own rule, and raise a point on the drafting here, except to
suggest to the hon. member in charge of the bill that the wording is not, I think, the best that could be
adopted. I think that to describe the payment mentioned in the clause as an allowance for services is a
25 misdescription. It is really an allowance for the reimbursement of expenses.
Mr. WRIXON: I should prefer to see the wording which is used in some of the statutes of those colonies
which have adopted payment of members, namely, that it should be put as the reimbursement of expenses,
because otherwise you get into the public mind the idea that members of parliament are actually paid a
30 salary for their work, which they are not.
Mr. MARMION: I do not see why these words "for their services" should be included at all. Why not say
that each member of the senate, and of the house of representatives, shall receive an annual allowance? I
move as an amendment:
That the Chairman report progress, and ask leave to sit again to-morrow.
If hon. members will take the opportunity of looking at the laws in the several colonies, with reference to the
payment of members, they will find that a series of provisions ought to be inserted in the bill which are not
inserted. If they look at the New South Wales act, they will find provisions which take into consideration the
40 salaries that are paid to ministers, to officials, and so on. Some provision is required in order to guard against
officials being paid double. When a member of parliament becomes a minister of the [start page 654]
Crown, the amount he was previously paid as member of parliament lapses. There is no provision of that
kind in the clauses of this bill. It is not at present contemplated in this bill to make any other provision than
the bald provision already made. Surely it is not contemplated that in the event of a member of
45 parliament who was being paid 500 a year accepting office, he is to receive his salary as a minister of
the Crown plus his salary as a member of parliament. We have to consider these questions in a rational
manner; and to settle a matter of this kind without consideration is not likely to commend it to our own
judgment, and certainly not to the judgment of the public.
Sir SAMUEL GRIFFITH: I certainly think that we have done as much work as we are likely to do well
50 to-day, and I doubt very much whether the Committee is prepared to give proper attention to further work to-
night. I should like to say a word or two in reference to what the hon. member, Mr. Gillies, has stated in
regard to the absence of provision on matters of detail. The omission was intentional so far as the drafting
committee was concerned, because we thought it was not our business to encumber the constitution
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with matters of detail. One of the first things to be done by the parliament of the commonwealth in its first
session would be to settle the salaries of ministers, and a great number of other matters of that kind. We have,
therefore, given them power to deal with this subject. We did not think it necessary to make this in an sense a
payment of members bill. We lay down, however, the principle that they, are to receive an annual allowance
5 for their services, and we thought that it should start in the first instance at 500.
We shouldnt have public servants engaged in the research and promotion of political parties campaigning to seek to
oust opponents.
25 Public servants should be limited to being employed to serve the general public irrespective as to which
political party/parties may be in government.
We have this head of a Department of a Minister going on to search for dirt on the opposition and many a Member
of Parliament has an office in which public servants are employed which then work on getting dirt files on other
opponents. This to me is a misuse and abuse of the use of public servants and so unduly burden the taxpayers with
30 cost for political motives.
We always have Governments claiming how they have to reduce spending, obviously this then targets the general
community, not themselves, as they appear to spend monies at cost of taxpayers as if there is no tomorrow.
Because we are facing a State election in 2014, I view that we must curtail the usage of public servants for political
35 purposes. Ministers are appointed to be advisors to the Governor and while they may have certain political views,
they are not commissioned by the governor to only serve their own political party members but to serve the general
community of the State.
On 3 March 2014 it was highlighted how Mr Bill Shorten leader of the opposition had claimed that he was there to
represent the union. This may underline that Mr Bill Shorten doesnt seem to understand that regardless if a person
40 is elected in to a State or Federal Parliament he/she is elected not to serve a union but to serve the electorate. In my
view there should be a clamp down on those political abuses of public servants. The abuse of taxpayers monies to
have them engaging in making numerous phone calls for political purposes. We cannot have and enjoy fair and
proper elections when some candidates can use their offices to gain unfair advantages upon other candidates, in
particular INDEPENDENT candidates.
45
One of the great rip offs that eventuates is when Parliament is prorogued and Members of the Parliament by this
seize to be and remain to be Members of Parliament. Yet, you find they will nevertheless use the perks as if they are
still Members of Parliament, including accommodation and travel at cost of taxpayers and being paid even so this is
unconstitutional.
50 I have pointed this out in the past to Federal former Members of Parliament and view the same is applicable to State
former Members of Parliament. Such as using their parliamentarian email addresses during the time there is an
election. They are no longer a Member of Parliament when the writs are issued as the seats are vacant (other than in
the federal level where by a general election half of the Senators remain to keep their seats and the other half still
remain to be Senators until the following 1 July. However in a DOUBLE DISSOLUTION no one remains to be a
55 Member of Parliament during the election.
With the state parliament not a single Member of Parliament remains to be a Member of Parliament when the writs
are issued. Still they refer fraudulently to themselves as being a Member of Parliament during the election and use
the privileges as being a Member of Parliament not entitled upon. Yet, I understand they never declare this in their
statement of expenditure to the election commission.
10 Hansard 12-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates (Official Record of the Debates of the National
Australasian Convention)
QUOTE
Mr. GLYNN (South Australia).-I should like to ask a question with regard to clause 75, as to whether it is
intended to leave the right of appeal from a state or the Federal High Court itself direct to the Privy Council,
15 as it stands in the Bill, or whether the matter can be subsequently opened by the Parliament?
Mr. BARTON (New South Wales).-I am afraid that if I were to answer questions as to what is intended to
be done, I should expose the Drafting Committee to a flood of interrogations. I can only say that what we
intend to do is to carry out the decisions of the committee. Of course there are one or two cases in which
the [start page 2439] decisions which have been arrived at require a certain amount of interpretation in
20 the light of the debates, and in those cases we shall take what was said, as well as what was put in the
Bill, for the purpose of ascertaining what the movers of provisions desire. In the case of the proposal my
honorable friend carried, and which was put as a proviso to clause 74, it is evident that the words as they
appear are only in the nature of instructions to the committee, and they will have to be interpreted in
the light of statements made by my honorable friend in answer to inquiries by me. That is the course that will
25 be pursued. When an amendment, as carried, is intended only as a suggestion to the committee, it will be
interpreted in that way.
END QUOTE
2. The starting point for a principled interpretation of the Constitution is the search for the intention of its
35 makers[51]. That does not mean a search for their subjective beliefs, hopes or expectations. Constitutional
interpretation is not a search for the mental states of those who made, or for that matter approved or
enacted, the Constitution. The intention of its makers can only be deduced from the words that they used in
the historical context in which they used them[52]. In a paper on constitutional interpretation, presented at
Fordham University in 1996, Professor Ronald Dworkin argued, correctly in my opinion[53]:
40 "We must begin, in my view, by asking what - on the best evidence available - the
authors of the text in question intended to say. That is an exercise in what I have called
constructive interpretation[54]. It does not mean peeking inside the skulls of people dead
for centuries. It means trying to make the best sense we can of an historical event -
someone, or a social group with particular responsibilities, speaking or writing in a
45 particular way on a particular occasion."
END QUOTE
QUOTE
Mr. CARRUTHERS:
50 This is a Constitution which the unlettered people of the community ought to be able to understand.
END QUOTE
.
Hansard 8-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE
55 Sir JOHN DOWNER.-Now it is coming out. The Constitution is made for the people and the states on
terms that are just to both.
END QUOTE
One of the characteristics of a federation is that the law of the constitution must be either legally
40 immutable or else capable of being changed only by some authority above and beyond the ordinary
legislative bodies, whether federal or state legislatures, existing under the constitution.
END QUOTE
.
Hansard 6-3-1891 Constitution Convention Debates
45 QUOTE Mr. THYNNE:
The constitution of this federation will not be charged with the duty of resisting privileged classes, for
the whole power will be vested in the people themselves. They are the complete legislative power of the
whole of these colonies, and they shall be so. From [start page 106] them will rise, first of all, the federal
constitution which we are proposing to establish, and in the next place will come the legislative powers of the
50 several colonies. The people will be the authority above and beyond the separate legislatures, and the
royal prerogative exercised, in their interest and for their benefit, by the advice of their ministers will be
practically vested in them. They will exercise the sovereignty of the states, they will be charged with the
full power and dignity of the state, and it is from them that we must seek the giving to each of those bodies
that will be in existence concurrently the necessary powers for their proper management and existence. Each
55 assembly, each legislature, whether state or federal existing under this constitution, will be as Dicey
again says-a merely subordinate law-making body whose laws will be valid, whilst within the authority
conferred upon it by the constitution, but invalid and unconstitutional if they go beyond the limits of
such authority.
END QUOTE
60 .
HANSARD 10-03-1891 Constitution Convention Debates
5 2. In People v. Sperl, a county marshal furnished a deputy marshal and a county vehicle to transport a
political candidate, his staff and family.
3. In People v. Battin, a county supervisor used his county compensated staff to work on his political
campaign for Lieutenant Governor.
4. In People v. Harby, a city official used a city car, entrusted to him for use in connection with official
10 business, to take a pleasure trip from Los Angeles to Great Falls, Montana and back.
Violations of the laws prohibiting misuse of public funds may subject the violator to criminal and civil sanctions.
These penalties may include imprisonment for up to four years and a bar from holding office.
50 3. To be fair, a presentation must consider all important points and provide equal treatment to both sides of
the issue.
Improperly Using Public Funds may Trigger Fines: Improper use of public funds also may trigger fines from the
Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to report campaign contributions. In 1996, Sacramento County paid a
$10,000 fine to the Commission in connection with a utility bill insert explaining the effect on the county of several
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ballot measures. The Commission ruled that the insert advocated a position on the ballot measures and was not a
neutral and fair presentation of the facts.
Let's Review
TRUE or FALSE: Expenditures made to benefit the public are permissible.
5 Answer: False. The expenditure must also be authorized to be permissible.
Evelyn is an agency secretary. She has just completed a long day and she wishes to make a few telephone calls
before she leaves her office to invite potential contributors to the incumbent Governors campaign fundraising
dinner. Since the people she will be calling frequently have dealings with the state government on a variety of issues,
may she charge these calls to the state? Yes or No.
10 Answer: No. Evelyn may not charge the calls to the state as they are for personal political purposes rather
than for a public purpose.
Let's Review
Ramon is the director of a state department. He wishes to produce informational materials to answer questions about
the impact of a ballot measure. Select the situation in which it is permissible to expend funds for this purpose.
15 a. The materials stop short of advocating a vote for or against the measure.
c. The materials present a balanced description of the favorable and unfavorable impacts of the measure.
20 Answer: c. The materials must present a balanced description of the favorable and unfavorable impacts of
the measure.
Remember These Points
Expenditures must be for a public purpose
You have completed the "Misuse of Public Funds" module. The next module is Other Laws.
30 END QUOTE
For the record, while I was an INDEPENDENT candidate in State/Federal and council elections
in the past, I decided in 2013 to no longer to do so, and hence didnt stand as a candidate in the
last 2013 federal election. This as I hold the view there are no FAIR and PROPER elections, and
35 some of the reasons are is set out above.
END QUOTE 20149304-G. H .Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B. to Victorian Auditor General
I have never been afraid to acknowledge my self-professed crummy English but at least I can
read and understand what the constitution and the Letters Patent stand for. No matter what riles
45 Premier Daniel Andrews may seek to rely upon they can never interfere let alone overrule the
legal principles embedded in the constitution. If he fraudulently became Premier then he should
be held legally ac countable for this, as should any other Member of Parliament who fraudulently
claimed cost after the writs were issued as if they were still members of parliament. None and I
repeat none were entitled to use their former parliamentarian offices nor their electorate offices
50 for an election because they were no longer members of parliament. And they would only
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become Members of parliament subsequently if they were re-elected and after the return of the
writs had taken up the seat elected for. Than on that date they would again become Members of
Parliament. It means that no Member of Parliament ever continuously sits in the State
Parliament, because every time the writs are issued they lose their seats and all and any
5 entitlements as a Member of Parliament are to be deemed suspended pending if they are not just
re-elected but actually are sworn in to take up a seat.
It also means that former Premiers are not entitled to some lifelong pension but are only entitled,
if Her Majesty desires to do so, a limited pension for the time they were in employment of Her
Majesty. No Member of Parliament is employed by the State of Victoria, albeit Ministers pay are
10 to be paid out of Consolidated Revenue funds to Her Majesty. Ordinary Members of Parliament
are only entitled to an allowance and not a salaries this would be in defiance of s41 of the
constitution which legal principles also applies to the States. Any superannuation or other
retirement payment associated with being a Member of Parliament would indicate a salary and
would automatically disqualify this person from being a Member of Parliament.
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HANSARD 16-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates (Official Record of the Debates of the National
Australasian Convention)
QUOTE
Mr. BARTON (New South Wales).-No, there would be no prohibition in that respect. The offices of
20 Speaker and Chairman of Committees are not offices of profit under the Crown. They are parliamentary
offices, and Parliament has always retained a power over its own Estimates to the extent that really the
Speaker and President of the local Chambers have always exercised a right to submit their own Estimates,
and those Estimates, as a rule, as far as I know in practice in my own colony, are altogether untouched by the
Government of the day. Now, these are political offices, but not offices of profit under the Crown. I think that
25 that is the principle that Parliament has always asserted in England and elsewhere.
END QUOTE
Hansard 31-3-1891 Constitution Convention Debates (Official Record of the Debates of the National
Australasian Convention)
30 QUOTE Sir SAMUEL GRIFFITH:
There are, of course, many formal matters relating to both houses, such as the election of president and
speaker, disqualifications, the issue of writs, elections, and so on, with which I shall not on this occasion
trouble the Convention. It is provided, then, that each member of either house shall have an annual
allowance for his services, which is proposed to be fixed in the meantime at 500 a year. The ordinary
35 disqualifications are inserted as to members holding offices of profit, with the exception of ministers of the
Crown, or becoming public contractors and other similar provisions.
END QUOTE
It appears to me you are so to say asleep behind the wheel and not doing your job!
40 .
If you cannot handle the job then vacate it as We, the People, are entitled to so to say get our
monies worth as after all you accepted the job and so better perform properly in the job.
This document is not intended and neither must be perceived to set out issues as to
45 importance and neither sets out all relevant details/issues.
Awaiting your response, G. H. Schorel-Hlavka O.W.B. (Friends call me Gerrit)
It should be clear that any legislation that allows printing for political issues by Members of
Parliament is unconstitutional/ULTRA VIRES and should have been considered as part of
taxable income. There can be no basic salary for Members of Parliament as this would offend
55 s44 of the constitution. In my view any allowance must be limited to a yearly payment albeit
can be paid progressively on a weekly basis but cannot have in addition other forms of
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allowances as then the basic allowance claimed to be $195,000.00 a year actually is an
unconstitutional salary. Likewise, with overnight accommodation it should be on account of the
Commonwealth but within limits and to be paid directly to the overnight accommodation
provider (as a taxable income) and not to a Member of Parliament, who might sleep (as was
5 reported) in a shed or may sleep in his/her office.
All forms of travelling must be limited to and from the Parliament and not include rorts like
overseas trips merely because the person is a Member of Parliament.
Because s44 prohibits any person to be a Member of Parliament while having certain benefits of
foreign powers then any off shore tax have holding such as by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
10 should be deemed to be falling under ordinary Australian taxation laws. How indeed does anyone
know if Malcolm Turnbull secret overseas bank account holdings are not having benefits of
decisions he is involved in? It is no use to argue that some strawman might be conducting his
affairs as ultimately his share holdings, etc, would benefit.
Also, where a Member of Parliament has for any purpose a claim of a partner (married or not) for
15 travel, etc, then I view the ATO should then look at their taxation declarations how they claim it,
being it combined or not. One cannot have that a Member of Parliament for taxation purposes
claim his/her partner as a joint income to split the income, have the partner on travel as being a
partner but yet when it comes to conflict of interest that the partner may be holding shares,
position, etc, then somehow the partner is not relevant to any conflict of interest. Hence, if for
20 example Mr Malcolm Turnbull is claiming combined taxation for certain benefits involving his
wife Lucy then if she is a director, etc, of a company that has business dealings with the
commonwealth then this must be considered a conflict of interest for Mr Malcolm Turnbull. As
such, you either have a partner or not but not see-saw between the positions pending the benefits
that can be attracted.