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Investigators Unable To Find Michaelia Cash's Ex-Staffer To Serve Him A Federal Court Subpoena


Australian Workers Union (AWU) investigators have been unable to locate David De Garis — the former senior media adviser to Michaelia Cash who tipped off media outlets about police raids on union offices — to serve a Federal Court subpoena.

“We have been successful in serving subpoenas on minister Cash and Mark Lee from the Registered Organisation Commission (ROC)," AWU national secretary Daniel Walton told BuzzFeed News.

"We have, however, been unable to locate David De Garis. Our representatives will continue to make attempts to locate and serve him over the coming days."

The AWU has been searching for De Garis since November 23, and has visited his primary residence in Perth, but has not been able to find him. He has not posted on social media.

The next step for the investigators will be to search overseas for the former staffer.

When asked this week, Cash's office refused to answer BuzzFeed News' questions about De Garis' location, or the last time it had contact with him.

The union's federal court challenge aims to probe the validity of the AFP raids, which were part of an investigation by the Turnbull government-established watchdog the ROC into donations made by the union over a decade ago when it was led by current Labor leader Bill Shorten.

De Garis resigned last month after admitting he tipped off the media about the Australian Federal Police's (AFP) raids on the AWU's Sydney and Melbourne offices in October.

Media arrived at the offices before the raids took place, and BuzzFeed News revealed that media outlets had been tipped off by Cash's office.

After resigning De Garis was allowed to leave Parliament House with his work phone, and without providing Cash's office with a full debrief on the incident.

The following day, Cash told Senate Estimates her office was unable to locate him and he was not returning phone calls. However, he was and still is, making and taking calls on his work phone to journalists in the press gallery.

Walton has accused Cash of "throwing her staffer under the bus", and suggested others in the office were involved in the leaks.

“We do not believe she was not made aware (of the raids) and have made a freedom of information request to get to the bottom of it,” Walton said.

Cash is using the current AFP investigation to block freedom of information requests to release communication that would confirm exactly what she and her staff knew about the raids, when they knew it, and who they told.

The union requested any correspondence between Cash, her office and the ROC, in addition to any correspondence between the minister and relevant staff members. This could include any text messages, emails, phone lists and other correspondence.

A similar request made by BuzzFeed News was also denied.

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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

April 20 as Dutton assumes leadership.

Anidav posted:

I dunno Ken. Antony is pretty accurate

Starshark posted:

I think whoever reckons Daisy isn't sufficiently important enough to mock should write up a list of people we can mock as well as their achievements so we can make informed decisions as rational actors.

Solemn Sloth posted:

https://twitter.com/msmwatchdog2013/status/936400989673832448


Oh crap, I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud

Birdstrike posted:

1. The greens councillor dude - elected goon
2a. Tbk - nearly elected goon
2b. Anidav - got voted a bunch of times in forums mafia

Doctor Spaceman posted:

hiddenmovement posted:

90% of the time when I 'misread' the signal it was actually a case of me being

A) So stunned that this person was attracted to me it took me a full 30 seconds to collect myself and by then the moment had passed

B) Really not interested tyvm but let's pretend I'm just a dope it's less awkward this way


I guess what I'm saying is that guys aren't nearly as stupid as they appear and know full well that they are being horny arseholes

pokemon posted:

i'm a big paul kelly fan too but given the subject matter and tone of some of his songs i can't even pretend nothing has gone on there, it's just a matter of time

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By Tom Tilley

It's now eight weeks since I lost control of a dirt bike mid-air. I did not expect my year to pan out like this, I did not expect to be incapacitated. It's time for an update.