EN1007 Dutton indirect pecuniary interest

Dear Petitioner,

Recently you submitted a petition on the House of Representatives website with the following terms.

Petition number:	EN1007 (Please quote in future correspondence)
Date submitted:	5/08/2019

Terms:

• Reason: In February 2019 Mr Dutton declared he was a beneficiary of RHT family trust in his Register of Members Interests. At the same time the ABN data base lists two companies as being the responsibility of RHT family trust, CAMELIA AVENUE CHILDCARE CENTRE and BALD HILLS CHILDCARE CENTRE. The Department of Finance list both of these companies as recipients of Commonwealth funding for many years. After the election Mr Dutton declared he had renounced his family trust and was not a beneficiary. Mr Dutton's wife and children are beneficiaries of the trust and the Commonwealth money given to that trust and the two child care centres. Because his family still benefit that is an indirect pecuniary interest in that trust and a breach of S44 of our constitution. Voters in his electorate are obviously terrified of upsetting a man with so much power in this country. I was denied the chance of taking him to the Court of Disputed Returns because I don't vote in his electorate. The house can't determine if Mr Dutton has or hasn't breached the constitution, that is up to the High Court. Even the Commonwealth Solicitor has been proven wrong about S44 on so many occasions.
• Request: We therefore ask the House to refer Mr Dutton to the High Court to ascertain if an indirect pecuniary interest such as his family benefiting from Commonwealth funding is a breach of our constitution. Until S44 is changed MPs must understand nobody is above the law.

Your petition was considered by the Standing Committee on Petitions at a recent meeting, and was found to meet the petition requirements. It is now available for signature online.

Signatures open: 11/09/2019 petition can be signed here

Signatures close: 9/10/2019


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Well this is fucked.

Signatures closed and the petition wasn't referred to a minister for action.

This is the response I got from the Petition Committee explaining why.










 


Petition EN0963 is here and EN0955 here.

EN0963 is a petition relating to Mr Dutton signing a false declaration to nominate for election in 2016. Also EN0955 is mentioned, that was a petition lodged before Mr Dutton decided to renounce his family trust and which can not be answered by a minister because it doesn't include the updated family trust information provided by Mr Dutton on 27/6/19.












It seems an ex Queensland copper, Llew O'Brien the Chair of the Petitions Committee may be working to protect another ex Queensland copper, Dutton, from the courts. Why else would a petition about an ex Queensland copper be hidden from parliament?

A pity we must just hope posterity find it and call it out fro what it is.