"Australia's Pro-Dope Mafia"

Australia Dossier by Allen Douglas

A New South Wales commission has proposed legalized heroin “shooting galleries” to solve “police corruption.”

Surveying the sad results of the frequent misleadership of the ancient Israelite nation, King Solomon observed, as recorded in the book of Proverbs, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

By that standard, the kindest thing one could say about the state of New South Wales’ Justice James Wood, who in mid-May released the long-awaited final report of his two-year-long, $100 million Royal Commission investigation into police corruption, is that he is as blind as a bat.

Because, Wood argued that, since drug money is the chief source of corruption among police, the way to avoid this problem, is to set up legalized heroin shooting galleries, a la the “Swiss model.” Wood somehow neglected to notice that, in every country where drugs have been legalized, such as in Switzerland, Britain, or Holland, drug usage, and, concomitantly, the flow of drug money, has soared. But, perhaps Justice Wood had other fish to fry.

In 1996, Lyndon LaRouche’s collaborators in the Citizens Electoral Council defeated a lavishly financed attempt by Victoria’s Premier Jeff Kennett to decriminalize marijuana. The state of Victoria was to be the first of the falling dominoes, leading to drastic changes in Australia’s federal drug laws. One might say (pardon the pun), that the Wood Commission call for legalized heroin has given a shot in the arm to a renewed drive to legalize drugs.

In its wake, prosecutors in five of Australia’s eight states and territories have called for a legalized heroin trial-run to be set up in Canberra, the nation’s capital. More generally, Australia’s ruling establishment is on a head-long drive to legalize dope. The chief vehicle for this drive is the Australian Drug Foundation, which is funded by Australia’s major banks, including its Reserve Bank, and by many of the country’s elite private family foundations, such as the Queen’s Trust (whose patron is Prince Charles).

Another voice braying for legalization is that of billionaire Kerry Packer, whose [Bulletin] magazine recently ran a cover story entitled, “Drugs, Why Fight a War We Can’t Win?” In the early 1980s, the Costigan Royal Commission had investigated Packer as an alleged drug kingpin, until that commission was suddenly shut down by the new Labor government of Bob Hawke.

Wood and other establishment figures have claimed that “the war on drugs is a failure and we have to look at other ways of dealing with the problem.” This is a shameless lie—there has been no serious war on drugs in Australia since the Costigan Commission was shut down. Victoria’s chief commissioner of police, Neil Comrie, for instance, in remarks to The Age of May 17, excoriated the lack of federal funding for drug interdiction efforts, which, he said, was causing the “explosion” of Melbourne’s heroin trade in recent months, where children as young as nine have become heroin addicts.

A serious war on drugs would mean that one would “follow the money trail,” as called for by Victorian state Member of Parliament Peter McLellan, in early June: “We need to get the big boys . . . To bring in 20 kilograms of heroin you need big money. Surely these laundering organizations can be tackled. There has to be a way they’re moving black money and cleaning it through the system. How is it being legitimized through the normal banking system?”

Besides pushing drugs, Wood’s “anti-corruption” efforts against the 13,000-man N.S.W. police force, the nation’s largest, bear a curious resemblance to the drive by the FBI, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and private family foundations to break local police forces in the United States in the 1970s, to replace them with a national gestapo.

Wood’s Investigation was responsible for the recent appointment of British cop Peter Ryan as N.S.W. Commissioner of Police. Ryan is not exactly your small-town cop: He was the national director of the Police Training College, and previously the chief constable of the Norfolk Constabulary, which, as the June 2, 1996 Sun-Herald noted, is “an area that includes Sandringham, the Queen’s country retreat, and would have meant that Mr. Ryan would have been in contact with senior intelligence officers, the Royal Protection Squad, and the Home Office in London.”

As a result of Wood’s report, Ryan has handed out dismissal notices to over 200 N.S.W. police, and is advertising in the U.K. for British police to fill many of the top leadership jobs; N.S.W. Opposition Leader Peter Collins charged in parliament that his state would once again become a “colonial outpost.”

As the bestseller Dope, Inc. established, Britain has been the center of the world’s drug trade since at least the time the Brits ran the Opium Wars against China in the 19th century. Coincidentally, perhaps, Commissioner Ryan also just happens to be an ardent advocate of the legalization of heroin.

Australia's Pro-Dope MAFIA

"Supporters and advocates of legalised drugs should have their names inscribed in a public place so their families could know in fhe future who advocated legalisation and the deaths and sufferina it could cause." — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director, Thomas Constantine.

RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA

lan McFarlane (Chairman and Governor) Graeme Thompson (Deputy Governor) Stephen Grenville (Deputy Governor) Alan Jackson, AO. Ted Evans (Secretary to the Treasury) Frank Lowy, AO. Hugh Morgan Janet Holmes a Court, AO. Solomon Lew Richard Washburton Prof. Adrian Pagan

Research Dept OECD, Paris Chairman, Aust. Payments Clearing Assoc. Chairman and CEO, BTR Plc (UK) Executive Director, IMF, 1989- 93 Chairman, Westfield Holdings Ltd CEO, Western Mining Corporation Executive Chairman, Heytesbury Holdings Pty Ltd Vice-Chairman, Coles Myer Ltd Chairman, Sydney Harbour Casinos Ltd Research School of Social Sciences, ANU

BANKS

National Australia Bank:

William Invine (Chmn) Don Argus (MD & CEO) Brian Loton (V Chmn) DK McFarlane (V Chmn) CM Walter The Lord Nickson Peter Cottrell, AO David Allen, AO Sir Bruce Watson David Dickins, AO Christopher Deeley Joseph Trethowen, AM Mark Rayner (IPA) Andrew Turnbull

ANZ Bank

CB. Goode (Chmn) Don Mercer (CEO) JC Dahlsen Sir Ronald Trotter Dr. Roderick Deane Charles Rennie John D Milne Milton D Bridgeland John B Gough, AO, OBE (frm Chmn IPA) JK Ellis JF Fries Dr. BW Scott CJ Harper MA Jackson AT Maitland RB Vaughan, AO

Westpac Banking Corp.

John Uhlrig (Chmn) Robert Joss (CEO) Peter Baillieu Barry Capp Hon. Sir Llewelyn Edwards, AC Ian Harper Prof. Warren Hogan CIS Stewart Hornery, AO Eve Mahlab, AO John Morschel Peter Ritchie
$
Commonwealth Banking Corp.

MA Besley, AO (Chmn) John Ralph, AO (D. Chmn) The Queen's Trust D V Murray (MD) I K Payne; Trustee, CEDA A C Booth; VP Sydney Harbour Casino Ted Evans Res. Bank JM Schubert, MD & CEO Pioneer International GH Slee Norman Adler, MD Santos Ltd Ivan Deveson, AO G Gleeson, AC J J Kennedy AO, CBE BK Ward

Bank of Melbourne

Christopher Stewart (Chmn) David Airey (MD) Ernest Barr Malcolm Gray, AM (D Chmn) David Hamer Darvell Hutchinson AM Alexander Nimmo *Robert Officer (CIS)

$ > V < $

PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATIONS

Ian Potter Foundation

Sir Ian Potter (dec) Lady Potter, AO, DLJ (Life Gov) Charles B Goode (Chmn) John B Gough, AO, OBE Nobby Clark, AO Sir Roger Darvall, CBE Prof. Geoffrey Blaineny, AO Prof. Thomas W Healy, AO, OBE Frank L. Nelson Prof. Graeme B. Ryan, AC

Queen's Trust

Prince Charles (Patron) John Ralph (Nat. Pres.) President: Bill Hayden, AC former GG Will Bailey, Chmn, Finance Committee

Rothschilds

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (Chairman) Hon. Amschel MJ Rothschild (dec) Sir Peter Denham, ADF Sidney Ballieu Myer, AC

$

V
Gandel Charitable Trust

John Gandel (Requested Board of Directors -- no Response)

Myer Foundation

Carrillo Baillieu Gantner Stephen Shelmerdene Sidney Baillieu Myer (Tasman) Rupert Myer Neilma Baillieu Gantner Joanna Vaeski Margaret M. Baillieu Southey

The Pratt Foundation

Richard Pratt (Requested Board of Directors —no Response)

Srnorgon Family Charitable Trust Foundation

(Requested Board of Directors -- Chairman overseas)

$ > V < $

Mont Pelerinite Think Tanks (* Mont Pelerin Society Think Tank Board Members)

Australian Drug Foundation

Prominent names associated with the Foundation since becoming pro-drug in 1979:

Federal Government <------ $246,150 Grant Victorian Government <------ $925,000 (1995)

Institute of Public Affairs Personnel ==========> Sir Ian Potter (dec) Sir Peter Denham Nobby Clark John Gough Kevan Gosper Sir John Holland Milton D Bridgeland Michael Moore MLA Prof. David Penington Brian Quinn, AO Eric Mayer John Calvert-Jones Mark Rayner Tasman Institute

Sidney Baillieu Myer Eric Mayer Kevan Gosper Sir Avi Parbo Personnel ==========>

Chairman Brian Hamley, Chairman, Victorian Financial Institutions Commission. Former MD Tricontinental Bank. Richard McGarvie Bill Stronach Michael Denham David Edwards Sir Rupert Hamer John Gandel Charles Rennie John D Milne Dame Phyllis Frost Some of the ADF's life Sir Peter Denham Dame Phyllis Frost John Gandel Kevan Gosper

Warran Irvine Victor Smorgon Ian Spicer Ron Walker Margaret Hamilton Prof. Greg Whelan Prof. Duncan Chappell Dr. Nick Crofts Dr. Ernest Drucker Prof. Nick Heather Dr. Ethan Nadelmann Pat O'Hare Dr. Rene Pols *John Calvert-Jones governors and donors: Brian Quinn Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Eric Mayer

Neil Cole MP *Milton D Bridgeland Ron Baillieu *Nobby Clark *Sir Peter Denham *CB Goode *Kevan Gosper *John B Gough *Sir John Holland *Eric Mayer Brian Quinn (in prison) *Sir Avi Parbo

Some of the companies that have supported the Foundation over the years:

Australia and New Zealand Group Ltd Amcor Limited (paper) Bell Charitable Fund (Holmes a Court owned) BP Australia (petroleum) Beechams Products (drug company) Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd Carlton & United Breweries Ltd (beer) Coca Coala CCA Amatil (food) Coles Myer Limited (retailing) Comalco Ltd (owned by RTZ) CSR Ltd (food) CSR Hume Pty Ltd (Smorgons owned) David Syme Co Ltd (The Age newspaper) Esso Australia Ltd (petroleum) Hoechst Australia Pty Ltd (drug company) JB Were and Son (stockbrokers) Jetset Tours (Isi Leibler) Johnson & Johnson Pty Ltd (drug company) Marion Merrell Dow Pty Ltd (drug company) National Mutual Trustees Nestle Australia Ltd (food) Norwich Union Life Insurance Pacific Dunlop (rubber) Sigma Company Ltd (drug company) Shell Company of Australia (petroleum) Sidney Myer Fund Unilever Australia Ltd United Distillers Pty Ltd (spirits manufacturers) Wyeth Australia Pty Ltd (drug company

Royal Commission pushes Drugs

Australia's Pro-Dope MAFIA

Australian Drug Foundation