"I'll be just running the joint," boasts Somyurek in one recorded exchange. "It's who I say is going to be the f---ing premier."
A Victorian Labor Party powerbroker has threatened to end the careers of several federal MPs, while also claiming to be “protecting” Anthony Byrne, deputy chair of the Australian Parliament’s powerful intelligence committee.
Adem Somyurek, a cabinet minister in the Victorian state government and a member of the ALP national executive, has talked about his political reach in Canberra extending to federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese, declaring: “Who’s going to protect Albo?”
Branch Stacking: 'Who's going to protect Albo': Tapes show how powerbroker controls ALP
Branch-stacking undermines member, public trust
It's time Labor leader Anthony Albanese paid back support from the membership by calling on Adem Somyurek to be expunged from the party.
Secret tapes, carpark cash drops, ministers threatened: inside Victoria's stackathon
Among the most extraordinary things about this cash exchange, which took place on May 13 and is secretly captured on tape, is that for Somyurek, it was not unusual. Even more extraordinary is the way this former taxi driver has amassed his immense political power – not just in Victoria but at federal level.
‘F**k the premier’: Labor’s secret tapes reveal industrial scale stackathon
"It was a bit like JFK standing there saying we are going to take a man to the moon but we did not know how it would happen," Gilespie said in one of his motivational videos posted online.
Karm Gilespie wanted to go global. The son of a sheep herder from Ballarat, the actor had bit parts in Blue Heelers before taking his own Banjo Paterson show on the road.
Twenty years of acting had left him frustrated at not being taken seriously. Friends who had known him describe him as the model of conservative country-boy sobriety – they never saw him drink or smoke.
On Wednesday he was sentenced to death by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court for smuggling 7.5 kilograms of ice out of China.
Karm Gilespie: Australian actor's journey to a Chinese death sentence
Aidan Collymore (University of Portsmouth), The Perception of the Ethics of Tax Evasion in the United Kingdom:
This research’s focus was ‘The perception of the ethics of tax evasion in the United Kingdom’. Previous research had identified numerous factors that influence tax morale, including: Age; gender; education level; nationality; religion; trust in government; career/education; country’s economic situation as well as view on law abiding. Age and religion were not focussed on due to the population sampled.
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