NEWMANN AND BLEIJIE’S SNEAKY SLEEPER, CARMODY.

Someone twigged to this and actively moved against the mole.  It always had a stench of treachery about it at the time of his appointment, but it has now become a tad clearer why Newmann and Bleijie plucked Carmody out of the judicial lower flood plains and gave him the State’s Lofty Top Job – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  The parallel between Carmody’s  appointment with that of  (the later proven to be corrupt to the core) Terry Lewis as Queensland’s Police Commissioner by Bjelke-Petersen is foreboding, not for the ultimate outcome, but because Lewis was also plucked from police obscurity.

Lewis was a Junior Inspector out in the Queensland scrub when he was promoted by Joe to the position of Deputy Commissioner of Police behind the Honest Broker, Ray Whitrod (whom Joe could not control) the then respected Commissioner.   Lewis leap-frogged in excess of 100 more senior officers to that appointment.  Predictably (especially by Joe) Whitrod resigned, and that cleared the way for the terribly corrupt Lewis, a Bjelke Petersen lap dog, to take the Top Job.  Joe then ensured a Knighthood for Lewis, can you believe?

In that sense, the appointment of Carmody has far too many similarities.

It now emerges (from an Article in today’s Sunday Mail ~ no link, it is behind a paywall) that had the Newmann Government won the early 2015 election (which they had every expectation of doing) Newmann, with Carmody occupying the Top Dog Spot, planned to harpoon the State’s Second Highest Judicial Office holder, Margaret McMurdo and remove her from the State’s Highest Court ~ the Court of Appeal where she was its President, by splitting its function into civil and criminal jurisdictions, and they intended to side line McMurdo into the proposed civil division, leaving Carmody in virtually exclusive control of each division.

There were some other administrative changes in mind having some impact on the general Community.   These included making the Office of each Judge the subject of Right to Information reviews, and of more concern, tightening up any access to Cabinet decisions through the Right to Information process.  However:

It was also planned to boost the powers of the newly appointed Chief Justice Carmody.  After removing the influence of McMurdo from the criminal division, they planned the appointment of another lower Court lap dog, District Court Judge Wall to the new position of President of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal.  Wall is a regarded as a right wing hawk.

Overseeing each division, was to be none other than the new Chief Justice Carmody.  He, not the Presidents, was to have sole control and this meant at a fundamental level, determining which Judges heard which Appeals.   Thus, Newmann was in a position, through Carmody, to control via manipulation of the constitution of the Appeal Court Bench this State’s Highest Court, judicial determinations, with only the High Court of Australia standing in the way of anything Newmann wanted.   This is outrageous, and as serious a breach of the separation of powers as one can imagine.

There have been murmurings suggesting Carmody has been harshly received by the Legal Fraternity including his peers, with even some within the schmedia mentioning the nasty word, bullying.  There is no doubt that Carmody has been the subject of loud and consistent criticism, including from me.  However, that was not without sound foundation, given the similarities with the Lewis appointment, Carmody’s public  embrace of Bleijie’s new horrific VLAD and anti-association Laws, Carmody’s  controlling as Chief Magistrate of all bail applications under those new despotic powers, his close public association with special interest groups, his inability to muster the support of more than one (literally) Supreme Court Judge to his official appointment ceremony, his alienation of powerful orators including Tony Fitzgerald, the President of the Bar Association, his fellow Judges and even the then Crown Solicitor (a Government appointee, Walter Soffranoff, his dilatory work ethic and general demeanour.

While I fear we have not yet heard the last of all this, what has now emerged justifies in every aspect his departure from this State’s Supreme Court.   He was an Executive Government plant, a sleeper a real mole and he could have delivered the entire judicial system in this State into the hands of political control as seems to have been the Newmann/Bleijie plan.

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 5^th, 2015 at 2:31pm:


I think this Carmody event ought be the last straw which brings that about.  However, I doubt the Labor Party will want that to be too far reaching as I'm sure they will have some skeletons in the closet as well.  But, the Carmody Affair ought be properly investigated in a public arena, whether that be a Royal Commission or one done through the CMC....but it must be public.  It is so obvious it demands attention.