This email has been Faxed to the Governor of New South Wales Her Excellency Professor Marie BASHIR AC CVO. Previous emails have been Faxed to the Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Her Excellency Professor M. BASHIR AC CVO. Over the past four weeks the Senior Officers listed on the Universities Australia web-site have been sent the emails as "Parents & Residents" detailing Public Concern over Council web-sites and the apparent deliberate avoidance of how to minimise Rate-payer costs. The Question for the Council Meeting Tue 07 Apr 2009 on Mosman Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan [GGRP] can be reviewed here NB Two websites www.ksas-au.net and www.smeems.net were unlawfully shut-down without Notice on Tue 10 Mar 2009 by the US Internet Service Provider [ISP] www.brinkster.com This occurred after an email was distributed about a committee to evaluate the proposed new contract for "Software-as-a-Service [SaaS] for the Shorelink Library Network. (Ref: AASAC8E1.htm) This contract had been awarded to an outsourced US based "Managed Services" company. This contract had been awarded without going to Tender which is in breach of the Local Government Act. www.brinkster.com happens to provide "Managed Services" hence our concern that Councils and Rate-payers can be held to Ransom by these overseas ISPs Tue 07 Apr 2009 Recipient: 6121AD71 REF:AACAD7N1 TO: Her Excellency Professor Marie BASHIR AC CVO The Governor F: {61}(2)9242-4266 NEW SOUTH WALES cc Lieutenant Governor the Hon James SPIGELMAN AC Concerned Residents 1993 SEMINAR IN BREACH OF AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION s128 Dear Excellency Further to our recent faxes to you as the Chancellor of the University of Sydney, about concerns with Local Government and financial accounting standards via Internet services, several responses have stated that the 1993 Arthur Andersen Seminar "Inventing the Australian Model of Government" is in breach of Section 128 of the Australian Constitution. Our concerns include the following issues 1 In 1993 Andersen Consulting sponsor Ted GAEBLER to present "Entrepreneurial Government" to a NSW Government luncheon attended by 20 NSW leaders including Bob CARR Leader of the Opposition and Paul SESHOLD CEO of ICAC {Att A} The presentation on "Virtual Government" was by Garry STURGESS who at that time was the Premier Nick GREINER'S Chief of Staff and is currently promoting the outsourcing of NSW Prisons 2 In 1995 NSW Councils conduct their first "Greenhouse Gas Reduction [GGR]" Audit to set the base reduction target (whereas other Countries used 1990 as the base year. 3 2003 IBM, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Red WAHOO (Crows Nest) and others receive a Federal Government ITOL Grant to develop an electronic invoicing systems called BizDex for the Australian Wheat Board [AWB]. On 28 Sep 2007 the SMH reported "The AWB scandal has not badly damaged Australia's Reputation as a relatively corruption-free country" However on 07 Mar 2009 the SMH reported "The biggest international scam in Australia's history remains unpunished" (the Oil for Food contracts with Iraq) The details include "Every one of the 19 Contracts stuffed with hidden kickbacks was approved by Officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade". We are very concerned that the Aus-USA Free Trade Agreement [AUS-USA FTA] may have resulted in some members of the Australian Executive Government being compromised 4 In 2005 a Consortium of 32 Victorian Councils engaged Sinclair Knight Mertz [SKM] to develop a "Regulation Reduction System called Easy-Biz" for Rate-payers and Small Business. The BizDex System was awarded the Tender for the Hub to connect to the 32 Councils' different systems. Hence the real concern about the 2006 response from the 32 Victorian Council Project Manager who was from SKM "1. The EasyBiz project will use whatever standards produce the best result for our stakeholders". "THE BEST RESULT FOR OUR STAKEHOLDERS !!" - Not the Victorian Rate-payers who would be paying for the System in Perpetuity !! A second tender was issued for a consultancy to integrate the different Council Systems to the Australian On-line Standard AS4590 which is the designated standard in the BizDex Hub 5 In 2006 it was discovered that the Australian Standard AS4590 had two different address formats in the same standard. This creates the need for a perpetual, unnecessary and costly check to be conducted on every electronic message to discover which address format is used in that electronic message 6 In 2007 Mosman Council was identified as having the largest carbon footprint of any Council in Australia and, according to the information published by Council, Mosman Rate-payers will have to purchase and monitor for 100 years, 100,000 tonnes of Carbon Credits in 2010 on the Internet 7 In 2008/2009 Mosman Council outsourced most of its core Council applications like Tender Management, Waste Management and Library Management to overseas Companies 8 The Phoenix Based American Internet Service Provider [ISP] Brinkster, who unlawfully shut down without Notice two of our websites involved with the concerns about the CIT Industries, happens to be listed as one of the 1,682,578 Operations who are Tax Exempt (ref Tax Exempt World.com Brinkster stole 10 years Intellectual Property and the details of 400 Australian Councils from those web-sites. However one of the reasons for the alleged Global Financial meltdown may because these 1,682,578 companies have assets US 4,375,425,459,357 and an annual income of $ 3,119,625,314,966 BUT DO NOT PAY ANY TAX ! Z NEXT STEPS We would appreciate the meeting with yourself to discuss these important issues for NSW Rate-payers. Thank you. Yours sincerely Peter AXTENS LLB Official Agent SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN-2088] E: san.CITGovernance@gmail.com M: 0416-009-468 Att A 1993 Andersen Consulting Luncheon 20 Jul 1993 B 2003 Bizdex developed for Australian Wheat Board with ITOL Grant C 2009/03/09 Mosman Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan [GGRP] D 2009/03/23 Detailed analysis of Mosman GGRP 100,000 Tonnes CO2 Emissions E 2009/03/16 Tax Exempt World.com - 1,682,578 companies F 2007/09/28 SMH - The AWB Scandal G 2009/03/07 SMH - "Biggest scam in Australia's History goes unpunished" H 2009/03/07 SMH - "Details of 19 Food for Oil Contracts" RESPONSES ON EMAILS RE COUNCIL ECONOMICS Some of the responses on Council Economics can be reviewed on "Residents' Issues of Concern" The Background to the 3 Mosman Candidates from the "Sustainability Action Network [SAN]" can be reviewed on here AUSTRALIAN SPAM ACT 2003 The Australian Spam Act 2003 was reviewed in detail at the OIC seminar on 26 May 2005 The Australian Spam Act 2003 refers to Spam as "unsolicited commercial emails". 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