The Frauding of Votes? -
Dr Amy McGrath, OAM
incorporating a 30-page introduction by Bob
Bottom, OAM
Tower Books Wholesalers Pty Ltd -
ISBN 0-9587104-3-0
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The Frauding of Votes?
was written by Dr Amy McGrath
in 1996. It was updated and re-launched in mid-2001 with a postscript added by the
author entitled "The Australian Electoral Commission's Culture of Targeting
Critics".
Bob Bottom, a distinguished Australian investigative
journalist - author of seven best selling books on crime and corruption - wrote
a foreword for the re-release of The Frauding of Votes? and launched the
book in the auditorium of the NSW State Parliament in Macquarie Street, Sydney.
Bob Bottom has been credited with forcing 18 royal commissions
and other judicial enquiries. He has now turned his attention to electoral
fraud; his interest triggered by irregularities in his semi-retirement haven of
Bribie Island (north of Brisbane, Queensland) where he and his wife, Judy, own a number of
independent newspapers. His researches into the wider aspects of fraud have
prompted him to call publicly for the urgent appointment of a Royal Commission:
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Queensland's electoral scandals demand a Royal Commission into
the Australian Electoral Commission viz:
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A Labor foot-soldier veteran claims that he
and others helped to rort the 1987 election in the federal seat of
Fisher .. "it's been going on for years in numerous seats ..
there's a whole stack of people like me around." (H. Thomas,
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Marshall Cooke QC, whose enquiry into
Queensland unions uncovered massive voting fraud a decade ago, said the
practices he found probably had spread to state and federal elections.
"Why would you stop? If you think it's all right to get power in a
union why not when the prize is bigger? I would be very suspicious about
two or three of the Hawke elections and perhaps one of the Keating
elections." (Courier Mail 3-Nov-2000). |
A Commission must seek answers to the questions this book
originally posed, viz.
