From: "Judith Tierney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:23:45 +1000

Subject: RE: Investigative journalist
From: "O'Brien, Jodie" <[email-masked]>
To: "Judith Tierney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:10:08 +1000

Hello, thank you for your emails.
 
Apologies but I have had to send them up to our Cairns bureau reporter Peter Michael.
I am no longer covering crime (I am on courts now) - so this was the best avenue to take.
 
I have forward your emails to Peter but just in case his email address is:  [email-masked]
 
I hope he can help you.  Good luck.
 
Thanks again,
Jodie

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From: Judith Tierney [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tue 16/12/2008 12:53 AM
To: O'Brien, Jodie
Subject: Fw: Investigative journalist 

Private and Confidential 

Dear Jodie Munro O'Brien

Investigative journalist 

I was supposed to send this information to CRIME reporter Paula Doneman but cannot contact her so we victims of specific highly unethical, arrogant and publicly deceptive Society officials of Queensland St Vincent de Paul. 

Hope and pray that you will be couragous to help expose these untouchables that have the Queenslan Premiers past and present, the Queenslan police minister Judy Spence, along with Queensland police and Queenslans Attorney-General Kerry Shine covering for them because of their connections to the Catholic Church. 

 

Jim Tierney 

46 Oleander Street

Holloways Beach

Cairns

4878 

[email-masked]

Dear Jodie Munro O'Brien

Along with numerous citizens of Cairns I have been trying to expose bullying and stealing from specific highly unethical, arrogant and publicly deceptive Society officials of Queensland St Vincent de Paul.

Without one journalist I have informed showing any interest in the welfare of the victims of these despicable individuals.

For your information Mr Derek Taylor.

As we do not anticipate anyone helping us expose these untouchables that destroy people's lives in the name of their Christ.

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THYNNE & MACARTNEY Society solicitors are being paid huge fees directly form money donated for the poor in Cairns to retrieve the now collectively figure of $324 million dollars that was given away illegally to finance a completely separate entity Ozcare.

Ozcare returns no money back to the poor in Cairns even though the money donated for the poor in Cairns was used to set this private entity Ozcare.

 The Qld Society is run by a corrupt ceo called Peter Maher that instructed THYNNE & MACARTNEY Society solicitors to send a letter of demand to Ozcare without the sanction of the board of directors of the Qld State Council.

 The Qld society is using Catholic Church bishops to retrieve this gargantuan figure of $324 million dollars the same bishops that recently sold a building to Ozcare. The poor in Cairns have missed out on this gargantuan figure of money donated to them specifically from generations of Queenslander.

 The poor in FNQ knew nothing of this corruption till I exposed this to Qld Labor ministers that have covered up this gargantuan figure from communities in Queensland  

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THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER 

26 MAY 2005                             

Vinnies' assets fear

Michael McKinnon                                                                  

St Vincent de Paul's Queensland branch is said to have illegally handed over more than $130 million in assets to a private company outside the charity's control. 

The society is seeking legal advice after retired Barrister Jack Williams, a St Vincent de Paul's member, questioned the legality of the 1996 deal to transfer the assets.

Society members were told at the time that putting its hostels, aged-care facilities and respite centres into a separate company would enable it to meet demands for "Greater professionalism in terms of accountability, efficiency and proper management"

"The new body, St Vincent's community services, was registered in January 1996. 

 Its name was changed to Ozcare on July 1, 2003. 

 Corporate documents show Ozcare had net assets of $118 million, cash reserves of $24 million and retained profits of $52 million June 30 last year. 

 The society told the Australian yesterday it was not aware of any funds that had been returned to the main body. 

 Mr. Williams called on Ozcare to return all cash to the society.

  "These assets were donated by generations of Queenslanders for charity, not to be held in some effectively private company with absolutely no links to the Society".

He said "the transfer of assets in 1996 was definitely against the constitution of the Society and is therefore illegal- all of those assets and cash should be returned"

 Brother Bill McMahon, former head of the society in the northern territory, said he had warned the society's national council after the 1996 deal that the transfer had occurred outside the powers of the state council. 

 St Vincent de Paul society Queensland president Michael Mckeown said the issues raised by Mr. Williams were of "great concern" to the branch.       

 "It has been referred to the society's legal advisers who have been instructed to review this situation very carefully", he said. 

"In this process, there will be issues that will be taken up with Ozcare and until those issues are pursued and raised with Ozcare it is inappropriate to make further comment at this particular time".                                                                                                                                                                      An Ozcare spokesman said it was surprised by the allegations and unaware of any illegality about the transfer of assets. 

 Ozcare chief executive Brian Lenz said he bad referred the issue to solicitors.

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Warren Pitt................

We understand from an Ozcare employee that the reason this individual St Vincent de Paul society Queensland president Michael Mckeown resigned early from his appointed position was he was caught with his head in the trough.   

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From:            Judith Tierney
Sent:             Saturday, 17 February 2007 8:30 AM
To:               Communities - SMTP [email-masked] 
Subject:        STOP BULLYING

SENT AGAIN 17 FEBRUARY 2007: 8:24AM 

HOPING THIS MINISTER WILL DO HIS JOB AND HELP THE BULLIED WOMEN IN HIS COMMUNITY.

ORIGINAL SENT: Sunday, 11 February 2007 8:14 PM

Mr Pitt

Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Seniors and Youth, the victims, of St Vincent de Paul officials, have asked me again to contact you, they have been through another charade. 

This time with the Complaints and Prevention unit [CPU]

The unit you speak of below in your last correspondence to me. 

Like all you ministers this unit had no intention of helping these victims.  

So I will ask you again as the minister for all the above, who do they have to ask for justice, who do they have to contact to defend them? 

 Who can these victims report this bullying and harassment TOO!  

WPH&S Cairns regional manager Steve Lamb has totally ignored them, QLD WPH&S director has ignored them TOO! So it looks like it is down to you again to advice these victims. 

 Even though they know by your past actions, as you have passed them from one department to another you could not care less about their health, well being ect ect. 

Professor Brian Martin did forewarn them and true to his word - they have been passed from one department to another, in the hope they will just go away.
Mr Pitt these are women bullied to such a degree it has affected their health mentally and physically. 

And all they ask is for you as their appropriate minister to help them. 

Why do you find it so difficult to help them?     

 What have these women done to be treated with so much contempt by you? 

 ["It is not un- Australian to report something like that.]

 I make you this promise while these LADIES ask me to speak UP for them I will. 

I will continue to do what ever it is to get justice for these people, what I cannot understand is why you, and all the MEN after seeing all the evidence against these St Vincent de Paul officials are not prepared to stop these bullys of women. 

This is nothing to do with any Church this is plain and simple bullying and harassment of working class people from people who should know better.

I am seeing Bishop James Foley shortly to get him to help these victims.

Jim Tierney 

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Mr Understand has no problem defending convicted drug traffickers that we had been trying to keep Cairns kids away from in Vinnies Gym. Disgusting!

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Pitt defends character reference for trafficker                          

James O'Loan                                                                        

[email-masked]

MEMBER for Mulgrave Warren Pitt has defended his decision to provide a character reference for a convicted drug trafficker who was jailed recently.

Mr Pitt says the written reference he provided to Cairns Supreme Court for amphetamines trafficker Jason Wayne Maitland of Edmonton was not a show of support for his actions. "I provided a reference for Jason so that the court was aware of some of his better qualities," Mr Pitt said. Maitland, 43, sold $10,300 worth of ecstasy, methamphetamine and LSD to an undercover policeman at his Portsmith work shed from July to December 2004. Last Friday Justice Stanley Jones sentenced him to three years' jail with eligibility for parole after six months.

Mr Pitt said he had known Maitland and his family "for many years" and acknowledged the trafficker committed serious crimes for which he was now paying. "I want to be clear - providing a reference should not be construed as condoning the offence." He said he had provided hundreds of references for his constituents since becoming the local member 17 years ago.   

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Mr Pitt....The review indicated that the boxing groups using the gym were the predominant users.

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 Spelling out the message: Mulgrave MP Warren Pitt ties a White Ribbon as part of his fight. 

Dob in women-bashers: MP

DOBBING in mates who were violent was not un-Australian, Communities Minister Warren Pitt told a Cairns gathering yesterday in the lead-up to White Ribbon Day." If you do know something don't remain silent," the Mulgrave MP urged those who turned out at the Centre of Contemporary Arts to jointly call for an end to violence against women. "It is not un- Australian to report something like that. This business of not dobbing in your mates can go too too far." Mr Pitt also said that far from being weak for men to stand up and say they had an anger problem, it showed great strength to recognise such a thing and do something. Queensland police officers, who often see lives lost and destroyed because of domestic violence, supported the day by wearing white ribbons yesterday and again today. The day was first introduced in Canada in 1991 after the shooting of 14 female students at the University of Montreal.

                                                                                                                             Picture MICHAEL WATT

The $2 white ribbons are being sold at the centre of Contemporary Arts in Abbott St.

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"If you do know something don't remain silent," the Mulgrave MP urged those who turned out at the Centre of Contemporary Arts to jointly call for an end to violence against women.                                                                       

 "It is not un- Australian to report something like that. 

MR WARREN PITT............................Dob in women-bashers: MP

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