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  • Are judges seeing through the RSPCA at last?
    This case has been posted from facebook forum Rspca inspectors (mob handed ) raided 67 year old spinster Georgina Langley they took away (stole) her 13 cats 4 cockerals and 1 dog Sweetie..charging her with 13 counts of animal cruelty Ms. Langley had lived in her house all her life and was known in the village as the "cat lady" she would take in ani […]
  • RSPCA spokesperson involved in money making scam.
    Re- RSPCA Government relations manager Claire Robinson & Ian McParland, ex head of Met police status dog unit run private business making money from 'Dangerous Dogs'. Claire Robinson owns and runs a website for her close personal friend Ian McParland ipcdogservices the site is registered to her and promotes the services of Ian who used to run t […]
  • Nature lover leaves wildlife haven to RSPCA – who sell it to be bulldozed and built on
    The greatest joy in the life of animal enthusiast David Brown was the wild habitat he owned opposite his cottage that was home to foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels. So when he wrote his will, Mr Brown chose to leave his property to the RSPCA – a charity he trusted. But the RSPCA repaid his trust by selling the land to property developers, and last week […]
  • The proof we needed.
    Have a look at this. The proof is here. An ARSE PCA officer does not have the power to remove your animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sp3kwRxe8 basil. […]
  • Am I obliged to be interviewed a 2nd time?
    Hello, I've just registered here in the search for advice! My cat was having kittens (not the first set) and became unwell, this was May bank holiday so I took her to the RSPCA that I knew was open, to get some help. As we got there she died. It was myself and my 2 children that took her, we were all crying and very upset. The RSPCA worker said the whol […]
  • rspca and the law
    Can anyone please enlighten me as to the powers of the RSPCA and the police with regard to seized animals. The police are denying that they are responsible and the RSPCA refuse to talk to us. At the moment they have our cats and we are at our wits end to get any replies from anyone. Believe me they will rue the day they were in our house as we will march the […]
  • WARNING (posted from Facebook group)
    Just to WARN THE GOOD FOLK ON HERE THAT OUR DEAR FIENDS (purposely spelt wrong) monitor all forums and so if you are wondering about the unregistered "guests" that is probably who are SPYING ON US so be careful what you type as the hills have eyes apparently there are a large number of IT bods employed at Horsham HQ whose job it is to spy on forums […]
  • BLOODY CHEEK OF RSPCA!
    Had a knock at my door tonight who should be standing there but two women dressed in rspca uniforms i didn't give them a chance to say anything but just asked them what they were doing here i told them that i was offended by their logoes on their tabards they went to walk away but i called out to them to answer my questions i think they were trying to c […]
  • Guests. just wonder why?
    I am alway's curious about the number of "guests" on here or should i say nosey Would love you all to join in and add your views to the forum Look forward to some new members perhaps […]
  • Who runs the forum?
    Admin hasn`t been here for getting on two years so who runs the site? I think it needs an admin to look in daily and at least one mod. People are posting on here but replies are few and far between. I know it`s not the busiest of places but by not acknowledgeing peoples efforts the you run the risk of failure. Any opinions?? […]
  • Under pressure animal sanctuaries are closing.
    Animal sanctuaries closing under pressure from the RSPCA A growing number of animal sanctuaries are closing due to an inability to cope with an increase in abandoned pets and growing bureaucratic pressure from the RSPCA. By Jasper Copping, Ben Leach and Lynne Wallis 8:20AM BST 25 Mar 2012 For 27 years, Veronica and Rye Mepham ran an animal sanctuary taking i […]
  • Forum colour.
    Is it only me or does anyone else have problems reading what`s in the darker blue bars? Hurts my eyes. basil. […]
  • Another Ex RSPCA Officer joins
    Hi all, Having been involved in several of the highest profile cases over the last few years and working my a*** off for animal welfare i have finally resigned from the rspca. The reason behind it is simple; the rspca is not an effective tool in the prevention of cruelty and neglect, worse it's practises can actually cause / prolong suffering. And the a […]
  • new on here
    alright lads n ladies??!!...myself and family have suffered at hands of rspca. currently banned from owning dogs as me n my wife were found guilty of owning pitbull type dogs.rspca are the scum of the earth.they charged my missus even though she took nothing to do with the keeping of the dogs.the tactics to secure prosecutions by these fucks is getting worse […]
  • RSPCA fails to act AGAIN!
    A rescue in Oxfordshire known as Crunchies has been raided by RSPCA after reports that a dead horse and rabbit had been seen on the property :shock:A large number of neglected animals including 13 horses were removed So they acted at last only problem is that they knew of the conditions at Crunchies er....rescue at least two years ago and did NOTHING members […]
  • dogs in cars
    ok today I have been given a ticking of by two young girls for leaving my dog in my car at the train station bearing in mind it is snowing i was not worried about her getting hot.. apparently they have now put some form of police sanction on my vehicle and if it is found with a dog in again i will be prosecuted i am outraged these two girls were quoting stra […]
  • Hopes Cause!
    For those of you who have a facebook account then do support Hopes Cause this is the very sad tale of a 2-yr old shire filly who along with 17 other horses have been left in horrific conditions Hope was found by a lovely girl called Vikki who tried to get RSPCA to rescue her and the other horses (Hope was found lying flat out and near death in a muddy bog of […]
  • Double standards
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  • the rspca have destroyed my business taking my horse and also a family pet whilst they were in the care of a neighbour
    i left my horse and cats in the care of a neighbour who then went on holiday neglecting them rspca have taken them saying i wont get them back!! the situation is that i went away for xmas with my family, leaving my animals in the care of my neighbour and also with visiting support from a friend nearby who visited on a fortnightly basis to check all was well, […]
  • PETITION THE PRIME MINISTER
    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/crimesoftherspb/ The official site of the Prime Minister’s Office BETA • Home • News • Communicate • Meet the PM • History and Tour • Number 10 TV E-Petitions • Petitions home • View petitions • Create a petition • About e-petitions • Step-by-Step Guide • FAQs • Terms and Conditions • Privacy Policy We the undersigned petitio […]
  • Egypt’s Presidential Elections: A Revolution at the Crossroads(Video)
    “A 15-minute-documentary that revisits the Egyptian uprising, and explores the arduous road to democracy and the daunting challenges that await the country after the upcoming presidential elections.” […]
  • New VA Form Available for Ordering Veterans Grave Marker Medallion
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has streamlined the process for families of deceased Veterans to receive a medallion which can be affixed to grave markers at private cemeteries and indicates the Veteran status of the deceased. […]
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    The wounds of Veterans, both physical and mental, are real and have widespread effects on Veterans and their families. […]
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 22, 2012
    When they landed, Pathfinders with 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division bounded from the aircraft with their Afghan partners. […]
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    In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37. […]
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    On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces. […]
  • Japan’s Broke – Highest Debt Ratio of Any Industrialized Nation
    While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is now down to "A," a level unacceptable to a nation that most […]
  • Duff on Press TV – Missile Shield and Nato Protests
    "The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime. […]
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    Charleston Aluminum, L.L.C., Gaston, S.C.*, was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM8E5-10-D-0012/P00008. […]
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    Exciting changes are underway for military spouses that could affect families who serve for generations to come. […]
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    Apocalyptic fever is running high. A friend in the Bible Belt, who recently became “born again,” called me excitedly to tell me she was leaving me her house. “In case I suddenly vanish,” she confided. […]
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    Jerry Ensminger, White Lake, NC, is a retired Marine Master Sergeant with 24 years of active service. His family is one of hundreds of thousands who bathed, drank, and cooked with water contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals at Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. […]
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    The book focuses on the break-up of American Jewish support for Israel. Its central argument is that the mostly liberal American Jewish community now knows too much about the historical, human rights and diplomatic record of the Israel-Palestine conflict to lend Israel blind support. […]
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A WOMAN was punched and sexually assaulted after pulling her car over to assist another driver north of Sydney.


A 34-year-old female was driving along Kyle Street, Rutherford when she noticed a vehicle on the side of the road with its bonnet raised about 5pm yesterday.

She stopped her car to offer assistance to the other driver only for the man to allegedly punch her to the head causing her to lose consciousness.

When the woman regained consciousness she realised she had been sexually assaulted and that she and her vehicle had been moved to a sales yard on Kyle Street.

The woman contacted emergency services who arrived a short time later and rushed her to John Hunter Hospital.

Police set up a crime scene examined by specialist forensic officers.

They want to speak to a man described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his late 30s to early 40s, with short light brown hair and was wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, blue shoes with yellow laces and dark square sunglasses.

The man was holding a white blanket and was with a red Holden Commodore sedan at the time of the incident.

Any person who can assist investigators is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Article source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/woman-who-pulled-over-to-help-man-sexually-assaulted-and-punched-in-kyle-street-rutherford/story-e6freuy9-1226364102303



A WOMAN was punched and sexually assaulted after pulling her car over to assist another driver north of Sydney.


A 34-year-old female was driving along Kyle Street, Rutherford when she noticed a vehicle on the side of the road with its bonnet raised about 5pm yesterday.

She stopped her car to offer assistance to the other driver only for the man to allegedly punch her to the head causing her to lose consciousness.

When the woman regained consciousness she realised she had been sexually assaulted and that she and her vehicle had been moved to a sales yard on Kyle Street.

The woman contacted emergency services who arrived a short time later and rushed her to John Hunter Hospital.

Police set up a crime scene examined by specialist forensic officers.

They want to speak to a man described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his late 30s to early 40s, with short light brown hair and was wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, blue shoes with yellow laces and dark square sunglasses.

The man was holding a white blanket and was with a red Holden Commodore sedan at the time of the incident.

Any person who can assist investigators is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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The Indonesian government has given convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby a five year cut to her sentence.




Take a rare tour of Schapelle Corby’s Bali jail cell. Footage Komang Suriadi: Images Lukman S Bintoro.




PM Julia Gillard personally lobbies the Indonesian President to release Australian Schapelle Corby from a Bali jail.





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Clemency … The decision letter from The President of The Republic of Indonesia to Schapelle Corby. Picture: Bintoro Lukman
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FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has rejected doing a deal with Indonesia to secure the early release of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.


Last week the Gillard Government announced that following a review three Indonesian nationals convicted of people smuggling – who claimed they were minors at the time of their interception – would be released from jail and returned home.

Reports are now circulating that Indonesian government ministers say Corby’s 20-year sentence has been cut by five years as part of a deal to release the people smugglers.

But Senator Carr said no deal was struck.

While admitting the Indonesian Government raised the issue of the people smugglers at a high-level meeting in March, Mr Carr said the government’s decision to release the Indonesians from prison was made independently of Corby’s case.

“We’re doing this with the minors because it’s the right thing to do,” Mr Carr said.

Mr Carr said it “could well be the case” that the Indonesian government regarded the people smugglers and Corby’s cases as linked.

But: “At no stage has the government sat down with our Indonesian counterparts and said, ‘we’ll release minors from our jails if you consider a clemency application by Ms Corby’,” Mr Carr said.

“But if doing what we’re doing for the right reasons on these minors has created a level of comfort in the government in Indonesia then that’s fine by me. That’s a good thing.

“But when it comes to the minors it’s plainly wrong that you’ve got these kids collected in people smuggling operations on boats at the wrong time stuck in adult prisons.

“If there were no Schapelle Corby there, if there was no Schapelle Corby in a Balinese prison, we’d still be doing this. We’d be obligated to do it.”

Mr Carr said Corby’s prison sentence, which was originally due to expire in 2022, was now expected to expire some time in 2017.

He said if Corby’s legal team sought parole the government would be “likely to support” that bid on humanitarian grounds, given her health problems.

Mr Carr was glowing in his praise of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

“He’s a great man he’s a great friend of Australia’s,” Mr Carr said.

“He’s made the right decision and we welcome it.”

Mr Carr said there was “a level of goodwill” between Australia and Indonesia: “And it’s not a bad thing.”

The Foreign Minister also issued a travel warning to Australians.

“This is a timely message to Australians – especially young Australians – that when you go overseas you’re under the law of other countries. You’re not operating under Australian law.”

Last night a source close to the Corby family explained why they believe Schapelle might get parole from a Bali prison in August.

The possible addition of five or six months remissions for Schapelle on August 17 – Independence Day – in addition to remissions already earned, would bring her to having served 10 years. That’s two thirds, of her now 15-year sentence.

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Indonesian prisoners can be considered for parole eligibility after serving two thirds of their sentence.

But the source said it was by no means certain that Schapelle would be given any remissions in August.

Her sister Mercedes told the Daily Telegraph: “Our family is thankful to the Indonesian president. And now we hope to confirm details of possible parole,” she said.

“We now hope there’s even more positive news to come regarding parole.”

Corby’s mother says news her daughter could be released from jail as early as August it yet to sink in.

“I think it hasn’t sunk in yet. I can’t believe it,” Roseleigh Rose said this morning.

“It feels like I want to bawl but I can’t. We’ve been up before we just have to keep calm.

“We’ve been waiting for eight years. Waiting for August will be nothing.”

Ms Rose said one of the first things on her daughter’s agenda when she gets home is to feel the Gold Coast sand between her toes.

“The sand between her toes on the Gold Coast, a lovely swim in the water at Tugun … it will be like holy water to her,” she said.

Ms Rose said she will be heading to Bali in July ”… and I will be bringing her (Schapelle) home.

Corby may have won her desperate plea for clemency, but she now faces the daunting task of seeking parole so she can escape the violence-racked prison she has called home since 2005.

With Indonesia cutting her sentence by five years yesterday, Corby could soon be swapping prison for paradise.

If paroled, she would leave her filthy, shared Kerobokan jail cell for a bedroom in her sister Mercedes and Balinese brother-in-law’s spacious Balinese compound home near Kuta, living with her three nieces and nephews.

“You must have some connection, some family in Indonesia or you don’t get parole,” a source close to the Corby family said yesterday.

Corby waited two years for Indonesia to answer her pleas for clemency after lodging an appeal to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in April 2010, based around her mental illness.

That reply came yesterday in the form of a detailed letter, written in bahasa Indonesia, that preached the good news.

“We haven’t got the official confirmation yet but are hoping that this is much-needed good news for Schapelle,” Mercedes said last night. “Schapelle hadn’t seen the letter by late afternoon but I hope she has now.”

The plea sought to have Corby’s 20-year jail sentence reduced, changed or quashed and was contained in hundreds of pages of documents addressed to the Indonesian President after she exhausted all other appeal avenues.

Prisoners are only allowed a single plea for clemency. The plea asked Mr Yudhoyono to give clemency to Corby by removing her sentence completely or slashing the years she must serve. But it made no suggestion of an alternative sentence.

The five-year cut to her term appears extremely unusual as Indonesia rarely – if ever – grants clemency to prisoners who have not admitted their guilt. Corby still denies she placed the marijuana in her bodyboard bag and says she was set up.

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Prisoners must normally serve two-thirds of a sentence before being granted parole, meaning she might not be eligible until mid next year.

However, sources close to the family said that when the five-year sentence cut was added to several smaller reductions granted over the past few years, they hoped she could be out by August.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s President last night confirmed Corby’s clemency application had been approved.

“Decided: Clemency granted,” the letter says.

“(The application) has been considered to have enough reasons to give clemency to the convicted.”

The presidential decree, signed on May 15, granted a “sentence cut of five years so that the 20-year sentence given to the convicted is cut to 15 years in jail”.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr praised and welcomed the decision: “The Australian government has consistently supported Ms Corby’s application for clemency on humanitarian grounds.”

Last night he told Sky News he had been advised that parole was up to Ms Corby’s lawyers to activate.

He said even if a prisoner transfer agreement was eventually ratified between Australia and Indonesia there was no guarantee it would apply to Ms Corby.

Mr Carr had earlier tweeted that he had been finishing a Pilates class before he released an official statement on behalf of the federal government.Corby’s mother Rosleigh Rose said the family would hold off on celebrations until her daughter returned home.

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The Indonesian government has given convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby a five year cut to her sentence.




Take a rare tour of Schapelle Corby’s Bali jail cell. Footage Komang Suriadi: Images Lukman S Bintoro.




PM Julia Gillard personally lobbies the Indonesian President to release Australian Schapelle Corby from a Bali jail.





Schapelle letter

Clemency … The decision letter from The President of The Republic of Indonesia to Schapelle Corby. Picture: Bintoro Lukman
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FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has rejected doing a deal with Indonesia to secure the early release of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.


Last week the Gillard Government announced that following a review three Indonesian nationals convicted of people smuggling – who claimed they were minors at the time of their interception – would be released from jail and returned home.

Reports are now circulating that Indonesian government ministers say Corby’s 20-year sentence has been cut by five years as part of a deal to release the people smugglers.

But Senator Carr said no deal was struck.

While admitting the Indonesian Government raised the issue of the people smugglers at a high-level meeting in March, Mr Carr said the government’s decision to release the Indonesians from prison was made independently of Corby’s case.

“We’re doing this with the minors because it’s the right thing to do,” Mr Carr said.

Mr Carr said it “could well be the case” that the Indonesian government regarded the people smugglers and Corby’s cases as linked.

But: “At no stage has the government sat down with our Indonesian counterparts and said, ‘we’ll release minors from our jails if you consider a clemency application by Ms Corby’,” Mr Carr said.

“But if doing what we’re doing for the right reasons on these minors has created a level of comfort in the government in Indonesia then that’s fine by me. That’s a good thing.

“But when it comes to the minors it’s plainly wrong that you’ve got these kids collected in people smuggling operations on boats at the wrong time stuck in adult prisons.

“If there were no Schapelle Corby there, if there was no Schapelle Corby in a Balinese prison, we’d still be doing this. We’d be obligated to do it.”

Mr Carr said Corby’s prison sentence, which was originally due to expire in 2022, was now expected to expire some time in 2017.

He said if Corby’s legal team sought parole the government would be “likely to support” that bid on humanitarian grounds, given her health problems.

Mr Carr was glowing in his praise of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

“He’s a great man he’s a great friend of Australia’s,” Mr Carr said.

“He’s made the right decision and we welcome it.”

Mr Carr said there was “a level of goodwill” between Australia and Indonesia: “And it’s not a bad thing.”

The Foreign Minister also issued a travel warning to Australians.

“This is a timely message to Australians – especially young Australians – that when you go overseas you’re under the law of other countries. You’re not operating under Australian law.”

Last night a source close to the Corby family explained why they believe Schapelle might get parole from a Bali prison in August.

The possible addition of five or six months remissions for Schapelle on August 17 – Independence Day – in addition to remissions already earned, would bring her to having served 10 years. That’s two thirds, of her now 15-year sentence.

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Indonesian prisoners can be considered for parole eligibility after serving two thirds of their sentence.

But the source said it was by no means certain that Schapelle would be given any remissions in August.

Her sister Mercedes told the Daily Telegraph: “Our family is thankful to the Indonesian president. And now we hope to confirm details of possible parole,” she said.

“We now hope there’s even more positive news to come regarding parole.”

Corby’s mother says news her daughter could be released from jail as early as August it yet to sink in.

“I think it hasn’t sunk in yet. I can’t believe it,” Roseleigh Rose said this morning.

“It feels like I want to bawl but I can’t. We’ve been up before we just have to keep calm.

“We’ve been waiting for eight years. Waiting for August will be nothing.”

Ms Rose said one of the first things on her daughter’s agenda when she gets home is to feel the Gold Coast sand between her toes.

“The sand between her toes on the Gold Coast, a lovely swim in the water at Tugun … it will be like holy water to her,” she said.

Ms Rose said she will be heading to Bali in July ”… and I will be bringing her (Schapelle) home.

Corby may have won her desperate plea for clemency, but she now faces the daunting task of seeking parole so she can escape the violence-racked prison she has called home since 2005.

With Indonesia cutting her sentence by five years yesterday, Corby could soon be swapping prison for paradise.

If paroled, she would leave her filthy, shared Kerobokan jail cell for a bedroom in her sister Mercedes and Balinese brother-in-law’s spacious Balinese compound home near Kuta, living with her three nieces and nephews.

“You must have some connection, some family in Indonesia or you don’t get parole,” a source close to the Corby family said yesterday.

Corby waited two years for Indonesia to answer her pleas for clemency after lodging an appeal to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in April 2010, based around her mental illness.

That reply came yesterday in the form of a detailed letter, written in bahasa Indonesia, that preached the good news.

“We haven’t got the official confirmation yet but are hoping that this is much-needed good news for Schapelle,” Mercedes said last night. “Schapelle hadn’t seen the letter by late afternoon but I hope she has now.”

The plea sought to have Corby’s 20-year jail sentence reduced, changed or quashed and was contained in hundreds of pages of documents addressed to the Indonesian President after she exhausted all other appeal avenues.

Prisoners are only allowed a single plea for clemency. The plea asked Mr Yudhoyono to give clemency to Corby by removing her sentence completely or slashing the years she must serve. But it made no suggestion of an alternative sentence.

The five-year cut to her term appears extremely unusual as Indonesia rarely – if ever – grants clemency to prisoners who have not admitted their guilt. Corby still denies she placed the marijuana in her bodyboard bag and says she was set up.

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Prisoners must normally serve two-thirds of a sentence before being granted parole, meaning she might not be eligible until mid next year.

However, sources close to the family said that when the five-year sentence cut was added to several smaller reductions granted over the past few years, they hoped she could be out by August.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s President last night confirmed Corby’s clemency application had been approved.

“Decided: Clemency granted,” the letter says.

“(The application) has been considered to have enough reasons to give clemency to the convicted.”

The presidential decree, signed on May 15, granted a “sentence cut of five years so that the 20-year sentence given to the convicted is cut to 15 years in jail”.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr praised and welcomed the decision: “The Australian government has consistently supported Ms Corby’s application for clemency on humanitarian grounds.”

Last night he told Sky News he had been advised that parole was up to Ms Corby’s lawyers to activate.

He said even if a prisoner transfer agreement was eventually ratified between Australia and Indonesia there was no guarantee it would apply to Ms Corby.

Mr Carr had earlier tweeted that he had been finishing a Pilates class before he released an official statement on behalf of the federal government.Corby’s mother Rosleigh Rose said the family would hold off on celebrations until her daughter returned home.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in Chicago for NATO talks, answers journalists’ questions about Craig Thomson’s address to Parliament




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THE federal opposition will support a censure motion brought by a key independent against embattled MP Craig Thomson.


Federal NSW MP Rob Oakeshott proposed the motion, which could be debated in parliament as early as today.

Veteran opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne said this morning the coalition would support it.

“The Coalition’s view is that motion should be debated and the opposition will support it,” Mr Pyne said.

“We would hope that the government will also facilitate the motion being debated in the house either today or this week, whenever Mr Oakeshott wants to bring that debate on.”

It’s unclear if such a motion would pass – Mr Oakeshott’s fellow independent MPs Tony Windsor and Andrew Wilkie have already said they will not support it.

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Mr Pyne welcomed the government’s agreement to allow parliament’s powerful privileges committee consider an allegation Mr Thomson deliberately misled the house during his emotional one-hour statement to parliament on Monday.

During his speech, in which he broke down in tears, Mr Thomson declared he was innocent of allegations he misused almost $500,00 in union funds, and revealed death threats levelled against him and his family.

On ABC 7:30 Report last night Liberal backbencher Mal Washer – a qualified doctor – said he was concerned for Mr Thomson’s health.

Dr Washer said Mr Thomson – who has been suspended from the Labor Party and sits on the cross benches – was “under immense pressure”.

“We don’t want to see someone do something dreadful to themselves,” Dr Washer told ABC TV.

“There’s a duty of care to look after one another a bit better.”

Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan said this morning MPs should “behave in the parliament in a way that befits parliamentary process”.

“And what’s been going on is that the Liberals have been trying to turn the parliament into a kangaroo court,” he said.

“(Opposition Leader Tony) Abbott is out there all the time, he’s out there with aggression, his leadership is the political and football equivalent of going the biff and of course when you do that, and when you trash important aspects of our democracy and the rule of law, they get trashed and some people get hurt.”

Mr Swan refused to say whether he believed Mr Thomson was innocent, saying “these are matters to be dealt with by the court”.

 

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Federal Parliament became even more bizarre as the exiled Speaker Peter Slipper who’s facing allegations of sexual harrassment, must now sit in judgment over embattled MP Craig Thomson




Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in Chicago for NATO talks, answers journalists’ questions about Craig Thomson’s address to Parliament




The opposition is expected to step up attacks on Craig Thomson today.





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Embattled MP Craig Thomson in parliament / Pic: Gary Ramage
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THE federal opposition will support a censure motion brought by a key independent against embattled MP Craig Thomson.


Federal NSW MP Rob Oakeshott proposed the motion, which could be debated in parliament as early as today.

Veteran opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne said this morning the coalition would support it.

“The Coalition’s view is that motion should be debated and the opposition will support it,” Mr Pyne said.

“We would hope that the government will also facilitate the motion being debated in the house either today or this week, whenever Mr Oakeshott wants to bring that debate on.”

It’s unclear if such a motion would pass – Mr Oakeshott’s fellow independent MPs Tony Windsor and Andrew Wilkie have already said they will not support it.

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Mr Pyne welcomed the government’s agreement to allow parliament’s powerful privileges committee consider an allegation Mr Thomson deliberately misled the house during his emotional one-hour statement to parliament on Monday.

During his speech, in which he broke down in tears, Mr Thomson declared he was innocent of allegations he misused almost $500,00 in union funds, and revealed death threats levelled against him and his family.

On ABC 7:30 Report last night Liberal backbencher Mal Washer – a qualified doctor – said he was concerned for Mr Thomson’s health.

Dr Washer said Mr Thomson – who has been suspended from the Labor Party and sits on the cross benches – was “under immense pressure”.

“We don’t want to see someone do something dreadful to themselves,” Dr Washer told ABC TV.

“There’s a duty of care to look after one another a bit better.”

Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan said this morning MPs should “behave in the parliament in a way that befits parliamentary process”.

“And what’s been going on is that the Liberals have been trying to turn the parliament into a kangaroo court,” he said.

“(Opposition Leader Tony) Abbott is out there all the time, he’s out there with aggression, his leadership is the political and football equivalent of going the biff and of course when you do that, and when you trash important aspects of our democracy and the rule of law, they get trashed and some people get hurt.”

Mr Swan refused to say whether he believed Mr Thomson was innocent, saying “these are matters to be dealt with by the court”.

 

Article source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/coalition-will-support-censure-motion/story-e6freuy9-1226364243419

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