

Kevin Rudd Heiner Affair Hush Hush
She was a 14 year old Aboriginal in Queensland and she had had a run in with authorities over schooling and adolescent behaviours. She was placed in detention at the John Oxley Youth Detention centre circa 1989. At the time, mass media was crucifying conservative government over the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody. Statistics showing Aboriginals were disproportionately safer in custody were ignored and the issue was pinned on conservatives regardless of cause. Even suicides were something that conservatives were blamed. While she was in detention, she came across a group of boys, many of whom were also Aboriginal and they gang raped her.
The Queensland state ALP government was led by Premier Wayne Goss and his former diplomat chief of staff, Kevin Rudd. The Goss government was the first ALP government in Queensland for some 37 years and they had a strong mandate for change which they would squander. By 1996, Goss’s government would collapse, gaff prone, blaming the previous government. However, it was Kevin Rudd’s 1990 decision which would haunt the administration.
The gang rape of an Aboriginal girl at John Oxley was not the sole issue the ALP administration faced, but it was counter to the preferred media narrative that conservatives were bad for Aboriginal peoples. Former magistrate Noel Heiner began an investigation. A submission was given the Goss government and Rudd took legal advice. If Rudd shredded the evidence, then there would be no embarrassing investigation and bad headlines would be avoided. So Rudd ordered the documents shredded.
It is illegal to shred evidence but as the ALP were in government in Queensland and it had not been a sitting member who ordered it but a chief of staff, the Premier, Wayne Goss was immunised from claims of corruption.
The Aboriginal community has been fractured, and prior to John Howard’s intervention in the top end of Australia, some communities had over 95% of Aboriginal babies with sexually transmitted infections. Another tragic case in Queensland involved a seven year old girl who had been used to having sex with many boys, some of whom were cousins. The girl was discovered by authorities and removed from her single mother and extended family. She was placed in the care of a loving family, whose father took on full time care, moving her to another city and giving her counselling. Only a welfare worker decided as she was Aboriginal and the adopted family was not, she was removed from the adopted family and returned to her extended family, where at age 10 she would have sex with lots of boys. Some boys found to have had sex with her were brought before a judge who suspended any sentence and verbally instructed the boys not to have under age sex.
The government then placed the girl in specialised care. She had no one her own age, but a team of psychologists, counsellors and psychiatrists until she reached her majority (about 15 years of age).
Meanwhile Kevin Rudd would become Prime Minister in 2007. Questions were asked regarding the legality of his shredding the Heiner documents. Finally, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman circa 2014 ordered an investigation into the shredding. He was told by legal advisers that the case could not be opened because of the parliamentary principle that the government could not investigate itself. Meanwhile the girl had fallen further off the rails, involving herself in drugs and alcohol until she tried to get redress in her thirties. But because the evidence had been shredded she could not. A Labour government gave her a small lump sum on condition she remained silent.
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David Daniel Ball calls himself the Conservative Voice.
I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
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A worship song spreading the good news for illegal citizens too. Illegal citizens should go home. Their places assured for when they go home to Him. The best way forward is to face your troubles. Do you agree? Write your comments on this song. I read them all.
Citizen of Heaven [Verse 1] I am illegal, but my citizenship’s in heaven, Paid twenty thousand to be smuggled, chasing freedom. Many died on the journey, no refund for the pain, Smugglers threaten me and my family, trapped in chains. [Pre-Chorus] I wanted freedom but paid for chains, I was wrong to come illegally, my heart in shame. [Chorus] But now I go home, a citizen of heaven, Jesus made me a child of God, forgiven. My Savior’s calling, His love has set me free, I’m bound for glory, my home’s eternity. [Verse 2] I paid awful people, they lied to me with greed, Promised hope but left me broken, with nothing I need. In the dark, I cried out, thought I’d lost...
Part of my series of worship songs from daily bible quotes. Has the Father healed you your relationship with your parents? You are free to comment, I read them.
Below is a worship song inspired by Luke 11:13 ("If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" ) in the style of Bethel Music or Hillsong, incorporating the themes and phrases you provided. The song is structured with verses, a chorus, and a bridge, aiming for an emotive, heartfelt, and worshipful tone with a focus on God’s love, redemption, and the Father’s heart.
Song Title: Father, You Found Me
[Verse 1] My dad never liked me, I carried the shame, I had to prove myself, but I lost the game. I failed, he died, left wounds in my soul, I still talk to my father, but I’m never whole.
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How do you feel about the surgical strike? Was it wrong for Israel to protect her people from nuclear annihilation? I read all comments on my work.
• Recent tensions escalated after Iran launched a missile attack on Israel on October 1, 2024, prompting Israel's retaliatory Operation Rising Lion.
• The ballad follows the Israeli folk tradition of the Horah, a circle dance with roots in Eastern European Jewish culture, adapted since 1924 in Israel.
• Lyrics begin with "Oh, Rising Lion, from the desert's heart you roar," honoring the operation's code name and Israel's resolve.
• Next verse sings, "Mossad spies danced through shadows, with drones in silent flight," reflecting the covert agents and embedded technology.
• Chorus rises, "Hand in hand we turn, under moonlit skies of might, Rising Lion guards our land tonight," echoing the communal spirit of the Horah.
• Third verse adds, "Natanz fell to precision strikes, a ...