Senate hearing - Wednesday

[GIGS20]

He will be a mouthpiece for Clyne

I'm not so sure he'll be a sock puppet. Sure that will have been the Key Selection Criterion under which he was appointed, but I think Clyne is too arrogant and addicted to the feeling of ultimate power to give up the spokesperson role that easily.

Watch Kearns get wheeled out when there's something unimportant or unpleasant to announce.

[wholetruth]

I just read The West/Perth Now story again and it didn't really sink in before but how ridiculous does Pulver sound when he says he doesn't know what email Nick Taylor was writing about. Surely he could have come up with something better than that or at least had a look back at his records.
But then again anything else would be admitting he sent it I suppose.
I hope there is plenty more to come from this.

[GIGS20]

I hope there is plenty more to come from this.

It'll get buried until a genuine authority investigates it, guaranteed.

[Bakkies]

I see that Ann Sherry is on Infrastructure Victoria's board

http://infrastructurevictoria.com.au...0for%20web.PDF

This is what they say about conflicts of interest

Conflicts of interest or duties
Infrastructure Victoria’s Conflicts of Interest or Duties Policy
sets out the board’s obligations in relation to managing
conflicts of interest or duties. The Policy ensures there is
a clear, transparent and accountable process in place for
directors to manage conflicts of interest or duties. The
Policy fulfils Infrastructure Victoria’s legislative obligations
regarding conflicts of interest or duties under both section
81 of the Public Administration Act 2004 and section 26
of the Infrastructure Victoria Act 2015. Under these Acts,
Infrastructure Victoria must report any details of a conflict
of interest disclosed by a director in a financial year.
In July 2016 the board considered a draft review of
population and demographic modelling. As the Secretary,
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning,
Adam Fennessy did not take part in the board’s decision
on this matter to avoid a conflict of interest.

[SteveWA]

So Geoff Stooke was excluded from all discussions and meetings relating to the removal of a super rugby team, but Ann Sherry is involved even though she sits on the board of an organisation involved with the planning and governance of stadia in Melbourne?

[Bakkies]

So Geoff Stooke was excluded from all discussions and meetings relating to the removal of a super rugby team, but Ann Sherry is involved even though she sits on the board of an organisation involved with the planning and governance of stadia in Melbourne?

Of course and didn't the VRU not get excused from that meeting?

[GIGS20]

Of course and didn't the VRU not get excused from that meeting?

The VRU hadn't expressed interest in purchasing Own the Force shares had they? That is obviously the only action which constitutes a conflict of Interest.

Previously working for, and still having mates in, the Rebels, isn't a conflict of interest, Previously playing rugby for Victoria isn't a conflict of Interest. Holding a unit in Praetorian probably wouldn't be a conflict of Interest either, but we don't know who holds those units

[Bakkies]

The VRU hadn't expressed interest in purchasing Own the Force shares had they? That is obviously the only action which constitutes a conflict of Interest.

Previously working for, and still having mates in, the Rebels, isn't a conflict of interest, Previously playing rugby for Victoria isn't a conflict of Interest. Holding a unit in Praetorian probably wouldn't be a conflict of Interest either, but we don't know who holds those units

Making a decision on who to cut at board level when your own team is up for the chop and seeing a copy of the Alliance Agreement is a conflict of interest. Photocopying a full copy of the Alliance Agreement and handing it to your secretary surely isn't legal.

[Bakkies]

Even though what RUPA say is correct about the vote count we still need to see the vote count to prove another lie

[GIGS20]

Making a decision on who to cut at board level when your own team is up for the chop and seeing a copy of the Alliance Agreement is a conflict of interest. Photocopying a full copy of the Alliance Agreement and handing it to your secretary surely isn't legal.

Did you even see my rolleyes emoji?

[Moz]

G&GR have picked up the leaked email story - its in Tuesdays News.

"Everyone had suspicions that the ARU were a club of bungling boys who may or may not have made a decision and possibly drawn out that decision in the most depressing and distressing way, but now we have proof that they are actually a club of bungling boys who made a decision that was drawn out in the most depressing and distressing way.

News has emerged that the ARU was emailin’ the Rebels about doing something or other TWO MONTHS before announcing the decision to axe the Force. If you cast your minds back, the ARU said the 48-72 hour thing, then didn’t say anything 3 days later, and then gave the impression that it was anyone other than the Force who they were gonna cut.

“A confidential email from chief executive Bill Pulver shows he was discussing the deal to transfer the Rebels licence from businessman Andrew Cox to the Victorian Rugby Union in June this year,” writes the West Australian, a Western Australian newspaper from Western Australia."

Story then continues on...

"But ah! The catch here is that Pulver has previously said he ain’t heard of no email, telling the Senate inquiry that the Force and Rebels were “live right until the final decision.”

Meanwhile, Cameron Clyne also told the inquiry that, “I have said there was a very real option that both teams were being considered right through until August.”

[UAUdiver1959]

Absolute ‘Gold’, need a few more leaks to gain momentum. This is enough to piss Senator Reynolds off.

[valzc]

I have a feeling that the Senate & The Force probably already have this detail & possibly more! Perhaps releasing bits of info like this will keep the pressure on Clyne & Pulver, much as they’ve been trying to keep their ongoing mushroom profile out of the press yet again! Let’s just keep on poking ‘em!

[Bakkies]

I have a feeling that the Senate & The Force probably already have this detail & possibly more! Perhaps releasing bits of info like this will keep the pressure on Clyne & Pulver, much as they’ve been trying to keep their ongoing mushroom profile out of the press yet again! Let’s just keep on poking ‘em!

You are better off not assuming that the Committee have that information even if they do they will mark it and put it to the side.

[shasta]

"Everyone had suspicions that the ARU were a club of bungling boys who may or may not have made a decision and possibly drawn out that decision in the most depressing and distressing way, but now we have proof that they are actually a club of bungling boys who made a decision that was drawn out in the most depressing and distressing way.

"Bungling Boys" ? How about lying, cheating gravy train riders with no conscience?