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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:02 pm
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A workmate of mines intelllectualy disabled 13 year old sister was sexually abused by the town pest in Warwick QLD about 50 years ago. Ray was 17 at the time and the girl came home crying and when he found out he raced down the street and punched the shit out of him. Ray was one of 6 brothers who all played in he local rugby team and the coach was the local sergeant of police.

It became obvious that it would be very hard to prosecute as the girl would be a very confused witness and the police would probably have to charge Ray with assault as well and he was due to join the Army in 8 weeks time.

The coppers had a meeting with the perpetrators family and bluntly said "This town can not deal with the 2 families feuding so one of you will need to go. And I don't like the idea of losing half my team plus the girls parents who ran the railway station. If you are out of this town and at least 100 miles away we will call it quits. You have 7 days. I will keep the girls family at bay.

They were gone in 4 days and moved to NSW and the arsehole went very slowly because he had 6 broken ribs and severe bruising to the face,

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Of course though it won't be the end of it because for the most part it has never been about the alleged victim, it has been about scoring political points.


I think you’ll find her friends think differently and they have been very strong here.

Fortunately or unfortunately as the 4 corners programme attests Porter has some related form

At the same time the timing has been impeccable:

1. Scotty from Marketing saying before he becomes pm that we need to believe victims of abuse
2. Women pollies in the liberal party identifying a culture of abuse and bullying
3. Two women staffers identifying their maltreatment in the Liberal Party
4. The Four Corners Programme in November 2020 researching 3. above and interviewing the women and also identifying Porter as an alleged creep
5. The Australian of the Year being a young woman who was raped and silenced by antiqued laws

Apart from that you could say it was politically opportunistic.

As my old man used to say: “you’ve made your bed now you gotta lie in it”

(I only saw bits of Porter on TV because of work but no matter how you swing it was painful for him)

An enquiry will give him the benefit of clearing his name. A person died and she claimed he raped her. He should be given the chance to clear his name as the burden lies with the claimants (as it were) on the balance of probabilities.


What her friends want or don't want is irrelevant to what is occurring in the media.

I think that you have missed the point of what I am saying, or you are guided by your dogma and not by logic. Either way, your entire last paragraph makes no sense.

You are also conflating a lot of irrelevant ideas into the discrete issue of whether a woman was raped or not.

Can you tell me:

1. How an enquiry would work? Because, no one anywhere has said that, including the politicians with grudges or other motives that are pushing for a judicial or parliamentary enquiry. Some suggest a parliamentary enquiry. Wouldn't that be fun - we could have our own version of Trump's impeachment saga. What do you propose, the woman's body be exhumed and be asked to provide a statement? Or would you have questions asked based upon a document that was never even provided to the police? The conduct of politicians from all parties in this matter has been reprehensible, taking naive people for a ride.

2. How an enquiry would clear his name? That's not the way it works. Even if the woman was still alive, and he was tried and found not guilty, his name would not be cleared;

3. Where did you dredge up the balance of probability burden of proof from? Why not just toss a coin, best out of 3 wins?

4. Who is the claimant that you mention? The one that did not provide a statement to police, then told the police that she did not want to pursue the matter?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:35 pm
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The woman advised Police that she didn't want to proceed.
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5 from the wing on debut wrote:
watt price tully wrote:
5 from the wing on debut wrote:
Of course though it won't be the end of it because for the most part it has never been about the alleged victim, it has been about scoring political points.


I think you’ll find her friends think differently and they have been very strong here.

Fortunately or unfortunately as the 4 corners programme attests Porter has some related form

At the same time the timing has been impeccable:

1. Scotty from Marketing saying before he becomes pm that we need to believe victims of abuse
2. Women pollies in the liberal party identifying a culture of abuse and bullying
3. Two women staffers identifying their maltreatment in the Liberal Party
4. The Four Corners Programme in November 2020 researching 3. above and interviewing the women and also identifying Porter as an alleged creep
5. The Australian of the Year being a young woman who was raped and silenced by antiqued laws

Apart from that you could say it was politically opportunistic.

As my old man used to say: “you’ve made your bed now you gotta lie in it”

(I only saw bits of Porter on TV because of work but no matter how you swing it was painful for him)

An enquiry will give him the benefit of clearing his name. A person died and she claimed he raped her. He should be given the chance to clear his name as the burden lies with the claimants (as it were) on the balance of probabilities.


What her friends want or don't want is irrelevant to what is occurring in the media.

I think that you have missed the point of what I am saying, or you are guided by your dogma and not by logic. Either way, your entire last paragraph makes no sense.

You are also conflating a lot of irrelevant ideas into the discrete issue of whether a woman was raped or not.

Can you tell me:

1. How an enquiry would work? Because, no one anywhere has said that, including the politicians with grudges or other motives that are pushing for a judicial or parliamentary enquiry. Some suggest a parliamentary enquiry. Wouldn't that be fun - we could have our own version of Trump's impeachment saga. What do you propose, the woman's body be exhumed and be asked to provide a statement? Or would you have questions asked based upon a document that was never even provided to the police? The conduct of politicians from all parties in this matter has been reprehensible, taking naive people for a ride.

2. How an enquiry would clear his name? That's not the way it works. Even if the woman was still alive, and he was tried and found not guilty, his name would not be cleared;

3. Where did you dredge up the balance of probability burden of proof from? Why not just toss a coin, best out of 3 wins?

4. Who is the claimant that you mention? The one that did not provide a statement to police, then told the police that she did not want to pursue the matter?


No dogma here. An enquiry needs to be independent of parliament.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/03/scott-morrison-must-call-an-independent-inquiry-into-the-christian-porter-allegation-its-the-only-valid-course

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/an-independent-inquiry-would-give-christian-porter-the-opportunity-to-clear-his-name

Porter has been caught out on two occasions:

1. Telling everybody that no journalist ever asked him specific questions which is demonstrably untrue.
2. That he only met / saw the dead woman when he was part of the debating team; turns out he had dinner with her some years later.

Porter should subject himself to a lie detector.

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You say No Dogma, then you quote the Guardian. Rolling Eyes

Couldn't find a suitable Beetoota Advocate headline?

If you're happy for Shorten to be subjected to the same form of Inquiry for his alleged rape case that was closed by the Police, then I'm happy.

So then every time an allegation is made against a sitting politician that they did something bad decades ago and the Police say there's insufficient evidence to make a case, we'll hold an inquiry.

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stui magpie wrote:
You say No Dogma, then you quote the Guardian. Rolling Eyes

Couldn't find a suitable Beetoota Advocate headline?

If you're happy for Shorten to be subjected to the same form of Inquiry for his alleged rape case that was closed by the Police, then I'm happy.

So then every time an allegation is made against a sitting politician that they did something bad decades ago and the Police say there's insufficient evidence to make a case, we'll hold an inquiry.


I don’t have a problem with a form of enquiry for Shorten. However, their are key differences:

1. The culture of women being treated poorly is rife in the Liberal party
2. Porter has form for his behaviour towards women ( see 4 corners)
3. Shorten does not have form
4. The girls family and friends are especially concerned about having an investigation
5. 4 above as far as we know has never been the case for Shorten.
6. He has been caught out lying now in two instances: that he was never asked about the allegations previously when journalists including Neil Mitchell said they had and he only met the dead woman when they were debating: it’s just come to light that he met her and another woman a few years later for dinner (not sure what he had for dessert)
7. Shorten has not made anything similar with respect to 6 above (nuffink)
8. The only one’s bringing Shorten into it in the main are rabid right wingers
9. With respect to ur last paragraph: have you been sleeping ? Have a few locals in Toke been shooting the carrier pigeon that would make you miss well the PM‘’s comment about believing victims, the Australian of the year, Liberal women politicians complaining about the bullying and harassment in the Liberal Party, the multiple women staffers who have been abused, mistreated and raped in the Liberal Party? I’m sure it happens everywhere but guess what? The Libs seemed to have made it an art form.

The overall cure is quotas: 50% women in all parties in Parliament (or thereabouts)

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Bullshit of the highest order Laughing

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Very curious about the nature of this dinner, particularly if (as WPT says – is there a source for this?) there's a third person who also attended and would have observed the dynamic between the two. Of course it's not completely out of the question for victims to continue to be polite and friendly to accusers in the aftermath of sexual assaults and for the full toll to only reveal itself later, but six years is a long time. Whose idea was the dinner? What did they talk about? Did she seem withdrawn or cold towards him? Maybe one or the other dropped a hint about what had happened that night over the course of the evening? I feel like whatever comes of this could either be a smoking gun against Porter or work strongly in favour of his innocence, so parties on either side should be very interested in what is said about this.
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I’m flabbergasted by this. How has no-one thought to mention this so far?

https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/03/05/christian-porter-recovered-memories/

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Here’s one for an independent inquiry: did recovered memories target Christian Porter?
David Hardaker


If there is to be an independent inquiry into the unproven allegation of rape 33 years ago against Attorney-General Christian Porter, it may be that repressed memory therapy will be in the dock.

As the media and political pressure has built on Porter there’s one fact that has had no airplay — yet it is something we really do need to know.

The allegation of rape fuelling the case against Porter — which he vigorously denies — has partially been the product of recovered memory theory, a discredited therapy which targets “memories” of events so horrific that the mind has forgotten them in order to cope.

How do we know this? The alleged victim said so. It is in her statement — which has had limited circulation — and acts as a preface to the horrific details to be told.

She says she “only really understood” her memories once her Sydney-based psychologist — who specialises in counselling sexual assault survivors — referred her to The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk in September 2019.

“I had not previously heard of it, nor had I read it,” her statement says. “Bessel van der Kolk explains that for survivors of torture and trauma our bodies will store traumatic events and only allow them to resurface when our minds are able to re-examine them, usually several decades later.”

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When Porter’s alleged victim was seeking answers in 2019 to the demons that haunted her she ended up seeing a psychologist who practises EMDR therapy.

The psychologist is also based at a Sydney clinic which offers the full gamut of alternative therapies. Another therapist lists her qualifications as a clairvoyant and “certified angel intuitive” as well as being a “spiritual healer” specialising in “subconscious trauma and past pain release”.

Armed with her copy of van der Kolk’s tract, the woman recalled a series of horrific details of what had occurred more than 30 years before. A defining characteristic of the memories is that they entail elaborate rituals. The attacker insisted on shampooing the then 16-year-old’s hair twice. He insisted on shaving her legs and on washing her anus at length.

The perpetrator was cruel. He nearly strangled her. He kicked her right leg away. All up it was the picture of a victim being prepared for sadistic torture. The scene has a horror movie quality to it. The woman remembered him writing “Christian Porter was ‘ere, Jan ’88” in the steam on a bathroom mirror.

The ordeal was so shocking, she said in her statement, that she entered into “dissociative states” to cope. The idea of dissociation — that the mind fragments into different entities as a shielding mechanism — is fundamental to recovered memory therapy. The number of different alters, or identities, a person dissociates into can run into the dozens, each with a role to protect the psyche. Treatment can last for years.

So what was the value of the therapy?

September 2019, when she received the van der Kolk book, was a turning point for the woman. With images of unimaginable sexual humiliation and degradation unleashed in her psyche, she took her life just nine months later.

In the intervening period she began to tell her story with the freshly remembered images, painting a truly shocking picture of a depraved torturer, depicting scenes that would cause outrage.

Victorian Labor MP Daniel Mulino, an old friend, was contacted in December 2019, as was Malcolm Turnbull.

She reconnected with other old friends. They believed her and have said again and again how much they were convinced by the sincerity and the consistency of what she said. And why wouldn’t that be the case? The images the woman was remembering were freshly minted.

South Australian journalist Tory Shepherd also met the woman, heard her troubled story and after an anguished assessment decided not to pursue it.

“The story had convincing detail, the ring of truth. But that’s not enough to put it in print,” Shepherd wrote this week. “As we spoke, it was clear she was uncertain about going public. She was shaky, shaken, obviously suffering,”

The woman took the matter to the NSW police in February 2020, five months after she had “really understood” her memories based on van der Kolk’s theories.

At the time, according to the police, she advised investigators that she “dissociates” — another pointer to the recovered nature of her 2019 memories — and had wanted to ensure that she was as “coherent and as grounded as possible” when giving her statement.

It later emerged that her parents were worried she may have “confected or embellished the allegations due to her mental illness”, according to a statement circulated by the woman’s friends and supporters.


To say this changes everything would be putting it lightly. Porter, at the very least, is owed the presumption of innocence until the end of any inquiry.

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^ Only if they're going to hold an inquiry - otherwise, he is just always going to look guilty.
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Some important clarifications to the article posted above:

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/key-doubts-over-porter-accusers-story/news-story/e6e68bba4ada28e5257968f25781e48b

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Friends of the woman have disputed the claims, insisting that she disclosed the alleged incident to friends before September 2019, the date when she says a counsellor pointed her towards a book that champions controversial theories.

In her statement, the woman does not state that she had recently remembered the incident and includes diary entries which she claims referred to the incident in 1991, three years after she attended the debating tournament.

She discussed telling an old boyfriend, Macquarie Infrastructure Corp director James Hooke.

However, there is no way of confirming at this stage when those diary entries were made.

“I have always remembered these things,” she wrote.


This is all reminding me a lot of the Tara Reade case: numerous ambiguities over who was told what when. Friends are claiming she told friends about this years ago, but those other friends aren’t, to my knowledge, coming forward to say when that happened. If Hooke, for instance, can confirm that she told him about this in the years after, that would cast doubt on the implications of the Crikey piece (and suggest that an assault did happen that night, even if the pseudotherapy she apparently underwent did lead her to "remember" false aspects of the story). But at the moment information seems very fragmented and based on a lot of hearsay.

Does anyone understand exactly why the woman’s identity is being suppressed, or why her statement (which journalists are quoting liberally from) hasn’t been released publicly (with identifying elements redacted, if need be)? I understand that there may be privacy issues at play, but I think pretty much everyone agrees that the question of whether or not the attorney-general committed a serious crime is in the public interest. And it’s frustrating that we’re getting such vague and piecemeal reports.

(Also, you should see the Twitter response to this Crikey article; to describe it as a cauldron of fury would be putting it lightly.)

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That Crikey article certainly does throw a cat amongst the pigeons.

What kind of woman makes false accusations of Rape? One who genuinely believes it happened.

There's enough ambiguity in this case for everyone to feel their opinions are validated, unfortunately

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There's enough ambiguity in this case for everyone to feel their opinions are validated


Yes. Especially my opinion, which has been amply validated.

(Oh, and what is this opinion of mine, which I have not changed in the slightest? That I have absolutely NFI what happened. Surer of that than ever.)

The only thing I can be sure of is that Porter will be Mr Guilty for the rest of his life unless there is an honest enquiry. Without that chance to clear his name, his political career is over.

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Good discussion about the Porter case on Insiders this morning:

https://www.abc.net.au/insiders/sunday-march-7-full-program/13224804

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There’s a Four Corners Programme on tonight which is specifically about the less than Christian Porter.

As was said this morning by Louise Milligan:

Porter has the presumption of innocence

However it has now come to light that the dead raped woman who alleges the perpetrator was Christian Porter went to a therapist in 2013 (well before the allegations of repressed memories). That therapist deals with victims of rape and it is noted that it pertains to Christian Porter being the alleged perpetrator.

As more information comes to light it seems to be incriminating Porter even more.

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