Only stirring...I know what I know - most know what they read.



..and the money comes from where?

right result, wrong reasons....

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"our guest is dressed by hand-me-downs, hair designed by pillow"

Yeah I thought you might have been.

I can only go by the information available to me.

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

+1

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

I think you will find thats +2

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dane's trolling again

Nice to see that the papers are reporting the facts (no case to answer), and not making up bullshit (only dropped for ill health)to feed to the ferals.

Oh wait, they are!

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Where is John Coffey when you need him??

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Four words covers the whole story .

NO CASE TO ANSWER !!!

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Get the facts first.
Then you can distort them at your leisure.

As Lindsay Fox said "One man will be long remembered, the other long forgotten".
http://www.theage.com.au/national/watch ... -ako8.html

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Green Shooter

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 01,00.html

"LATE yesterday, a smiling Jeanne Pratt leaned across the bed of her dying husband and billionaire Richard Pratt in their Raheen mansion and whispered the words he desperately hoped to hear: that he was free of all criminal charges.

A frail Mr Pratt nodded back at her. Then the ailing businessman and philanthropist began to weep. Jeanne embraced her sobbing husband of almost 50 years and also burst into tears. "........

'The Pratt legal camp recently sought a supplementary opinion on the case from Ian Callinan QC who delivered a scathing assessment of the case, concluding that the "oppressive, improperly and ill-conceived prosecution should be discontinued"........

Mr Pratt's lawyers argued the ACCC had misled and deceived the billionaire because it did not reveal that while he was negotiating to settle the cartel case in 2007, the regulator was contemplating criminal prosecution. '

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“Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile a way and you have their shoes."

Time for Dick to get his OA back.

Im sure the club no doubt will think of ways to honor the 'grandfather' of Carlton (as the boys refer to him) but the greatest honor of all is winning a premiership that Dick so wanted to see.

We owe it to him and his family.

I might be missing something here but I didn't think this decision changed the result of the original case (the result of which triggered Pratt's returning of the OA).

This decision means that he won't be charged for lying to during the original investigation but doesn't change the result of the price fixing case.

Or have I missed something?

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

I thought Dick relinquished the OA once the ACCC launched these proceedings, but I may be wrong.

In any case... if he's deemed worthy of a personal visit by the Prime Minister, then I think he's also worthy of a Queen's Birthday gong.

kind of sums up the ACCC's efforts in most things IMO

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Just did a quick check.

He handed back the gongs in February last year when he found out the awards organisation was probing into his situation.

The ACCC launched the criminal charges in June.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Watchdog receives a very painful bite...........

http://www.theage.com.au/national/watch ... -ako8.html

Watchdog - what a f%$#ing joke.

They're down the back corner of the backyard barking at shadows while burglars are inside the house disconnecting the plasma.

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

Harsh Deano, they're doing wonders in ensuring there's competition when it comes to fuel prices, grocery prices and.......why are you laughing?

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Well, they ensure that there is always a new excuse for why fuel is going up or not coming down - I'll give you that

But cardboard was where it was at, everyone one the street wanted the cardboard cartel brought down. I know I'm saving big bucks now

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