AS POSTED HERE ---> School director guilty of fraud - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The director of three Islamic schools in Perth has been found guilty of illegally claiming millions of dollars in Federal and State Government funding.
Abdullah Magar had been on trial for the past three weeks accused of inflating the number of students attending the schools to claim additional funding in 2005 and 2006.
He set up the schools in Dianella, Kewdale and Thornlie.
The principal of one of the schools was also found guilty of five fraud offences, while the principal of a second campus was acquitted of three charges.
Magar will face a sentencing hearing next month."
Thursday 1 April 2010
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Eureka Stockade, Hume Road, Thornlie, Western Australia
as posted here
This evening I visited 'the tree' (right click here) on my way home from work and was surprised to see an ugly 'cyclone fence' erected around what the Gosnells City Council consider to be their property.
Eureka Stockade
Neighborhood: 100, Hume Road, Thornlie
Supporters in Richard Pennicuik's 'camp' see things differently and consider this to be a violation of their rights under Commonwealth Law.
Cameron Johnson still remains parked up the beloved yellow box tree. A number of supporters are within the fence.
All in 'base camp' are rallying as much support as they can muster and inciting as many as hundreds of people to surround the tree from first light tomorrow. They will welcome anyone who wants to turn up in their support.
If the tree gets cut down I will feel like wailing.
It is a magnificent, gracious indigenous yellow box tree who recently survived Perth's 'storm of the century' intact, without shedding as much as a leaf.
Richard, and his team have a number of arborists' reports attesting to the integrity and safety of the tree.
There are many dangerous trees in the City of Gosnells that the City Council has made no attempt to prune or cut down recently. There are trees endangering small children and traffic that the City Council has chosen to ignore.
They seem to be targeting the tree that has become known as the Thornlie Tree Man, Richard Pennicuik's tree.
This is a 'call to arms': to save this beautiful, old and indigenous Australian tree and to protect what many believe to be their constitutional rights against illegally operated City Councils.
For those of you interested in the constitutional argument refer to the links in my previous article which has been linked in the first sentence. here.
Of particular ecological interest are the daily movements of the indigenous birds that Richard daily observed during his 108 day vigil in the tree. Richard even noticed how the black cockatoos that are endangered traverse 'his tree' at particular times of the day
as posted here
This evening I visited 'the tree' (right click here) on my way home from work and was surprised to see an ugly 'cyclone fence' erected around what the Gosnells City Council consider to be their property.
Eureka Stockade
Neighborhood: 100, Hume Road, Thornlie
Supporters in Richard Pennicuik's 'camp' see things differently and consider this to be a violation of their rights under Commonwealth Law.
Cameron Johnson still remains parked up the beloved yellow box tree. A number of supporters are within the fence.
All in 'base camp' are rallying as much support as they can muster and inciting as many as hundreds of people to surround the tree from first light tomorrow. They will welcome anyone who wants to turn up in their support.
If the tree gets cut down I will feel like wailing.
It is a magnificent, gracious indigenous yellow box tree who recently survived Perth's 'storm of the century' intact, without shedding as much as a leaf.
Richard, and his team have a number of arborists' reports attesting to the integrity and safety of the tree.
There are many dangerous trees in the City of Gosnells that the City Council has made no attempt to prune or cut down recently. There are trees endangering small children and traffic that the City Council has chosen to ignore.
They seem to be targeting the tree that has become known as the Thornlie Tree Man, Richard Pennicuik's tree.
This is a 'call to arms': to save this beautiful, old and indigenous Australian tree and to protect what many believe to be their constitutional rights against illegally operated City Councils.
For those of you interested in the constitutional argument refer to the links in my previous article which has been linked in the first sentence. here.
Of particular ecological interest are the daily movements of the indigenous birds that Richard daily observed during his 108 day vigil in the tree. Richard even noticed how the black cockatoos that are endangered traverse 'his tree' at particular times of the day
as posted here
Police called to tree man's home
as posted here
Police and security guards have been called to the home of Thornlie's tree man, Richard Pennicuik.
Mr Pennicuik's partner Rose Malumbrus told thewest.com.au that the City of Gosnells had erected a fence on their front yard.
Related content: Gallery: Tree man's journey | Video: Tree man comes down | Protest ends | New tree protest
Protesters flocked to the home, prompting police and security guards to head to the Hume Road address. They linked arms around the trunk of the tree.
Only one of two protesters who yesterday vowed to tough it out up the tree throughout winter is currently sitting in the eucalyptus melliodora.
That protester, Cameron Johnson, was served with an official warning, saying he faced prosecution if he remained up the tree.
The City of Gosnells also revealed that it would continue to pursue Mr Pennicuik throught the courts, claiming he continued to obstruct council's attempts to remove the tree.
A spokesman for the council confirmed a fence had been erected around the tree to define the area as a work zone. People who enter the work zone without authorisation may face prosecution, the spokesman said.
The council also issued a notice to remove a platform that has been erected in the tree. The protesters have 24 hours to remove the platform, which has previously been removed.
The council wants to remove the tree, claiming it poses a danger.
Mr Pennicuik sat in the tree for 110 days in protest of the council's decision. He says the tree is safe and should not be removed, adding it survived one of the worst storms to lash Perth in decades
as posted here
Police and security guards have been called to the home of Thornlie's tree man, Richard Pennicuik.
Mr Pennicuik's partner Rose Malumbrus told thewest.com.au that the City of Gosnells had erected a fence on their front yard.
Related content: Gallery: Tree man's journey | Video: Tree man comes down | Protest ends | New tree protest
Protesters flocked to the home, prompting police and security guards to head to the Hume Road address. They linked arms around the trunk of the tree.
Only one of two protesters who yesterday vowed to tough it out up the tree throughout winter is currently sitting in the eucalyptus melliodora.
That protester, Cameron Johnson, was served with an official warning, saying he faced prosecution if he remained up the tree.
The City of Gosnells also revealed that it would continue to pursue Mr Pennicuik throught the courts, claiming he continued to obstruct council's attempts to remove the tree.
A spokesman for the council confirmed a fence had been erected around the tree to define the area as a work zone. People who enter the work zone without authorisation may face prosecution, the spokesman said.
The council also issued a notice to remove a platform that has been erected in the tree. The protesters have 24 hours to remove the platform, which has previously been removed.
The council wants to remove the tree, claiming it poses a danger.
Mr Pennicuik sat in the tree for 110 days in protest of the council's decision. He says the tree is safe and should not be removed, adding it survived one of the worst storms to lash Perth in decades
as posted here
Tree Man Protest Is A Farce
AS POSTED HERE ---> Tree Man Protest Is A Farce
Didn't Richard Pennicuik scrub up a treat yesterday?
Resplendent he was in tie, suit, shave and polyester Hushpuppies, courtesy of a Perth commercial radio station.
And, lest the erstwhile 'Tree Man' be accused of selling out, he issued a stark warning.
"You do know I'm going to use this," he announced ominously over the airwaves.
"There are big things to come."
Mr Pennicuik was true to his word.
For even before the clippers had descended upon his wiry sideburns, two of his supporters had scaled the Thornlie gum he vacated on Friday after his four-month arboreal protest against its felling.
There's a lesson in this for the next local council vexed with a similar tree man and/or woman.
And that is, the moment the gum-nut finally winches themselves down from their lofty perch, act swiftly to fell their chloro-filled tower of babble.
Gosnells City Council contends tree surgeons were in short supply after last Monday's mega storm.
But surely, some trees were being lopped in the area, post storm. And surely the one outside Mr Pennicuik's Hume Road home should have been made a priority, with a special penalty rate paid to the successful lopper.
Certainly his neighbours - who've been bedevilled day and night by TV crews, vandals and passing bogans (or perhaps a bizarre intersection set of all three) - would have supported a bounty being placed on the errant eucalypt.
Let's remember, the tree in question is not a West Australian native.
The species is an introduced weed - an Eastern states eucalpyt among several dubbed 'widow-makers' because their hefty limbs tend to crash unexpectedly to the ground.
And the council was planning to plant new - probably WA native - trees anyway.
Instead, due to council procrastination, the farcical stalemate will drag into a fifth month - with those who've stepped into the shoes of the 'Tree Man' saying they're prepared to ride out the winter.
And with Mr Pennicuik now taking a leaf from Darryl Kerrigan's book and quoting chunks of the Australian Constitution, Perth Airport could be next on his hit-list
Didn't Richard Pennicuik scrub up a treat yesterday?
Resplendent he was in tie, suit, shave and polyester Hushpuppies, courtesy of a Perth commercial radio station.
And, lest the erstwhile 'Tree Man' be accused of selling out, he issued a stark warning.
"You do know I'm going to use this," he announced ominously over the airwaves.
"There are big things to come."
Mr Pennicuik was true to his word.
For even before the clippers had descended upon his wiry sideburns, two of his supporters had scaled the Thornlie gum he vacated on Friday after his four-month arboreal protest against its felling.
There's a lesson in this for the next local council vexed with a similar tree man and/or woman.
And that is, the moment the gum-nut finally winches themselves down from their lofty perch, act swiftly to fell their chloro-filled tower of babble.
Gosnells City Council contends tree surgeons were in short supply after last Monday's mega storm.
But surely, some trees were being lopped in the area, post storm. And surely the one outside Mr Pennicuik's Hume Road home should have been made a priority, with a special penalty rate paid to the successful lopper.
Certainly his neighbours - who've been bedevilled day and night by TV crews, vandals and passing bogans (or perhaps a bizarre intersection set of all three) - would have supported a bounty being placed on the errant eucalypt.
Let's remember, the tree in question is not a West Australian native.
The species is an introduced weed - an Eastern states eucalpyt among several dubbed 'widow-makers' because their hefty limbs tend to crash unexpectedly to the ground.
And the council was planning to plant new - probably WA native - trees anyway.
Instead, due to council procrastination, the farcical stalemate will drag into a fifth month - with those who've stepped into the shoes of the 'Tree Man' saying they're prepared to ride out the winter.
And with Mr Pennicuik now taking a leaf from Darryl Kerrigan's book and quoting chunks of the Australian Constitution, Perth Airport could be next on his hit-list
Monday 29 March 2010
New Thornlie tree protest
as posted here
Tree man Richard Pennicuik might have ended his protest by coming down from the eucalyptus melliodorain in his front yard on Friday - but the fight goes on.
Cameron Johnson, a Pennicuik supporter, telephoned media this morning to announce he had climbed the tree at 2am and was prepared - with the assistance of unnamed supporters - to stay up indefinitely.
He is in the tree with another man who lives near Mr Pennicuik's home. They said there were exercising their "constitutional right" to occupy the tree.
Mr Johnson said the tree did not pose a danger and Gosnells City Council should not cut it down.
"The council will have a pretty hard time getting that tree down," Mr Johnson said.
"There's more than one of us up there."
Mr Pennicuik ended his 110-day vigil up the tree on Friday afternoon. Within hours, Gosnells mayor Olwen Searle confirmed the council would proceed with its plan to cut the tree down.
Sporting a new Studio Italia suit, haircut and freshly trimmed beard courtesy of a Perth commercial radio station, Mr Pennicuik today said he would resume his position in the tree again but would not say whether he would stay for another lengthy sit-in.
"I'm not going to head up there at any time in particular, I'm just going to head up when I'm needed," Mr Pennicuik said.
"It could be anything, I'm prepared for anything, I'm just going to go to the doctor and make sure I'm fit and healthy.
Mr Pennicuik said the protest was "all about freedom".
Supporter James Dean said protesters in the tree would probably stay up indefinitely.
He said the group was basing its actions not on just the campaign to save the tree but a "constitutional challenge that councils are illegal".
The council had threatened legal action against Mr Pennicuik but it is unclear how it will respond to this new protest.
as posted here
Tree man Richard Pennicuik might have ended his protest by coming down from the eucalyptus melliodorain in his front yard on Friday - but the fight goes on.
Cameron Johnson, a Pennicuik supporter, telephoned media this morning to announce he had climbed the tree at 2am and was prepared - with the assistance of unnamed supporters - to stay up indefinitely.
He is in the tree with another man who lives near Mr Pennicuik's home. They said there were exercising their "constitutional right" to occupy the tree.
Mr Johnson said the tree did not pose a danger and Gosnells City Council should not cut it down.
"The council will have a pretty hard time getting that tree down," Mr Johnson said.
"There's more than one of us up there."
Mr Pennicuik ended his 110-day vigil up the tree on Friday afternoon. Within hours, Gosnells mayor Olwen Searle confirmed the council would proceed with its plan to cut the tree down.
Sporting a new Studio Italia suit, haircut and freshly trimmed beard courtesy of a Perth commercial radio station, Mr Pennicuik today said he would resume his position in the tree again but would not say whether he would stay for another lengthy sit-in.
"I'm not going to head up there at any time in particular, I'm just going to head up when I'm needed," Mr Pennicuik said.
"It could be anything, I'm prepared for anything, I'm just going to go to the doctor and make sure I'm fit and healthy.
Mr Pennicuik said the protest was "all about freedom".
Supporter James Dean said protesters in the tree would probably stay up indefinitely.
He said the group was basing its actions not on just the campaign to save the tree but a "constitutional challenge that councils are illegal".
The council had threatened legal action against Mr Pennicuik but it is unclear how it will respond to this new protest.
as posted here
Thornlie Tree Man update, request for support!
This post is from an email sent by thornlietreeman@gmail.com
Richard Pennicuik better known as the "Thornlie Tree Man" would like to thank you for your support.
He would ask for you to continue giving him your support to protect the tree, his rights and your rights from being bullied away by authoritarian body that has no right to have any authority over any commonwealth land.
Commonwealth lands, like the road and verge, are owned by the collective wealth of all Australians, both you and me!
The tree is still at risk and anyone who can lend their presence and support to stop the Constitutionall In-valid Council from chopping it down.
There is a threat that an attempt to chop it down will be made very early (7am or earlier) Monday 29 March 2010.
Please help and tell all others that you know are in support that Richard needs your help!!!
Richard needs a regular presence of support at the tree on 100 Hume Road, Thornlie.
Richard also asks you to let the Constitutionally In-valid CITY OF GOSNELLS COUNCIL know that they should back off because they are wrong and becuase they don`t have any legal right to have any authority over Commonwealth Land, the road and verge.
The constitutionally in-valid CITY OF GOSNELLS COUNCIL has in all this time not produced a single piece of credible evidence to support their claims that the tree Richard was in was dangerous. Nor for any of the other many trees they wrongly removed.
They did not produce any credible evidence because they don`t have any!!!
(1) The trees life has not seen any limb failure.
(2) An scientific arborists report, proves it is a safe tree.
(3) The storm of the century proves it is a safe tree.
(4) Another recent arborists report completed after the storm also proves it is a safe tree. (Just sent to constitutionally in-valid councilors and constitutionally in-valid council.)
This is about the rights of a person, a ratepayer, an Australian Citizen and the Constitution of the Commonwealth.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth is the will of the people of Australia, the supreme set of guidelines and laws that govern the way Australia operates.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth can be purchased from the Australia Post and other book stores reasonably cheaply.
Or you can download it from, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/
The truth of the matter is that the constitutionally in-valid CITY OF GOSNELLS COUNCIL and all constitutionally in-valid local governments (councils) in Australia are just that, constitutionally in-valid.
You don`t have to pay them any rates, as they are not recognised by the Australian people, by the Australian Constitution of the Commonwealth.
This, Australia`s fundamental rule book (law) is the strongest set of rule (laws) in Australia. No other laws can over-ride them in any way.
The only way this Commonwealth Constitution can be changed in any way in by a nation wide referendum or vote.
In 1988, one of these referendums (national vote) was conducted. One of the questions that the Australian people were asked were,
Question Three, "To alter the Constitution to recognise local government." "Do you approve this proposed alteration?"
The people of every state in Australia voted not to recognise local governments or local councils in the Australian Commonwealth Constitution.
The Australian Commonwealth Constitution, or the people of Australia only agreed to recognise federal and state governments.
The police are Constitutionally recognised, but the local council ranger is not. Therefore you are under no legal obligation to recognise a local council ranger in any official manner.
Unless they and the local government or local councils can prove that they are recognised in the Australian Commonwealth Constitution. They can`t because their not!
Please support Richard`s (treeman`s) efforts to protect his rights, your rights and every Australian`s rights!!!
We have started fund raising to cover the costs of this action, as it has and will continue to cost money.
We have opened a joint account with the Bank of Bendigo (Gosnells) for the short term until we form a non-profit association with tax deductible status.
We will be telling you more through upcoming you tube films and written information very soon.
Watch this space!!!
Also listen to Monday morning`s 92.9 fm broadcast for Richard. He be in the studio telling the saga
This post is from an email sent by thornlietreeman@gmail.com
Richard Pennicuik better known as the "Thornlie Tree Man" would like to thank you for your support.
He would ask for you to continue giving him your support to protect the tree, his rights and your rights from being bullied away by authoritarian body that has no right to have any authority over any commonwealth land.
Commonwealth lands, like the road and verge, are owned by the collective wealth of all Australians, both you and me!
The tree is still at risk and anyone who can lend their presence and support to stop the Constitutionall In-valid Council from chopping it down.
There is a threat that an attempt to chop it down will be made very early (7am or earlier) Monday 29 March 2010.
Please help and tell all others that you know are in support that Richard needs your help!!!
Richard needs a regular presence of support at the tree on 100 Hume Road, Thornlie.
Richard also asks you to let the Constitutionally In-valid CITY OF GOSNELLS COUNCIL know that they should back off because they are wrong and becuase they don`t have any legal right to have any authority over Commonwealth Land, the road and verge.
The constitutionally in-valid CITY OF GOSNELLS COUNCIL has in all this time not produced a single piece of credible evidence to support their claims that the tree Richard was in was dangerous. Nor for any of the other many trees they wrongly removed.
They did not produce any credible evidence because they don`t have any!!!
(1) The trees life has not seen any limb failure.
(2) An scientific arborists report, proves it is a safe tree.
(3) The storm of the century proves it is a safe tree.
(4) Another recent arborists report completed after the storm also proves it is a safe tree. (Just sent to constitutionally in-valid councilors and constitutionally in-valid council.)
This is about the rights of a person, a ratepayer, an Australian Citizen and the Constitution of the Commonwealth.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth is the will of the people of Australia, the supreme set of guidelines and laws that govern the way Australia operates.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth can be purchased from the Australia Post and other book stores reasonably cheaply.
Or you can download it from, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/
The truth of the matter is that the constitutionally in-valid CITY OF GOSNELLS COUNCIL and all constitutionally in-valid local governments (councils) in Australia are just that, constitutionally in-valid.
You don`t have to pay them any rates, as they are not recognised by the Australian people, by the Australian Constitution of the Commonwealth.
This, Australia`s fundamental rule book (law) is the strongest set of rule (laws) in Australia. No other laws can over-ride them in any way.
The only way this Commonwealth Constitution can be changed in any way in by a nation wide referendum or vote.
In 1988, one of these referendums (national vote) was conducted. One of the questions that the Australian people were asked were,
Question Three, "To alter the Constitution to recognise local government." "Do you approve this proposed alteration?"
The people of every state in Australia voted not to recognise local governments or local councils in the Australian Commonwealth Constitution.
The Australian Commonwealth Constitution, or the people of Australia only agreed to recognise federal and state governments.
The police are Constitutionally recognised, but the local council ranger is not. Therefore you are under no legal obligation to recognise a local council ranger in any official manner.
Unless they and the local government or local councils can prove that they are recognised in the Australian Commonwealth Constitution. They can`t because their not!
Please support Richard`s (treeman`s) efforts to protect his rights, your rights and every Australian`s rights!!!
We have started fund raising to cover the costs of this action, as it has and will continue to cost money.
We have opened a joint account with the Bank of Bendigo (Gosnells) for the short term until we form a non-profit association with tax deductible status.
We will be telling you more through upcoming you tube films and written information very soon.
Watch this space!!!
Also listen to Monday morning`s 92.9 fm broadcast for Richard. He be in the studio telling the saga
This post is from an email sent by thornlietreeman@gmail.com
Sunday 28 March 2010
18th birthday party in Maddington ends in wild brawl | Perth Now
AS POSTED HERE ---> 18th birthday party in Maddington ends in wild brawl | Perth Now: "FOUR people were injured in a wild brawl involving up to 100 people after a group of youths attempted to gatecrash an 18th birthday party in Maddington last night.
Police said a man, who is understood to be well-known to residents in the area, was refused to entry to the party in Kirin Way before 10pm.
He returned a short time later with a group of about 30 others but was again refused entry.
A brawl then followed and spilled onto the street, with partygoers and neighbouring residents throwing glass bottles and sticks at one another.
Two people were taken to Royal Perth Hospital, one with neck injuries and another with head injuries. Two others were taken to Armadale Hospital with glass wounds.
Armadale Detectives were last night questioning a man over the incident."
Police said a man, who is understood to be well-known to residents in the area, was refused to entry to the party in Kirin Way before 10pm.
He returned a short time later with a group of about 30 others but was again refused entry.
A brawl then followed and spilled onto the street, with partygoers and neighbouring residents throwing glass bottles and sticks at one another.
Two people were taken to Royal Perth Hospital, one with neck injuries and another with head injuries. Two others were taken to Armadale Hospital with glass wounds.
Armadale Detectives were last night questioning a man over the incident."
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