Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister And Former Chief Of Staff To Wayne...

Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister And Former Chief Of Staff To Wayne Goss)

The manifestation of a transition-into-government plan to “clean out” certain public officials showed up when certain high ranking persons, mainly former departmental Directors-General, were shunted off to a ”gulag” at the Normanby Fiveways within a matter of days of the Goss Government winning office where they were given no work, and were eventually either terminated or employed elsewhere. The author knows that Queensland Premier the Hon. Wayne Goss’s Principal Private Secretary, Mr. Kevin Rudd, played a highly significant role in this possess of vetting the suitability of new Directors-General for the Goss administration, even as early as the Sunday after election day.

It is open to suggest that two such people caught up in this network and sitting in the Federal Parliament should be questioned under oath in the same way I was to ascertain whether or not they held the same state of knowledge as the Hon. Anne Warner and the Hon. Pat Comben did in those critical days. They are the Member for Griffith, Mr. Kevin Rudd MP and the Member for Lilley, Mr. Wayne Swan MP.

In short, once the Goss Cabinet knew that the solution of access to the Heiner Inquiry documents legally rested with the Department of Families, those public records should have been returned immediately to that department which would have kept the Goss Cabinet out of the conspiratorial circle. Plainly, it had been decided that Heiner would be handled centrally by the Goss Government irrespective of legal advice, and then Queensland Premier the Hon. Wayne Goss played a dominant role, or someone very close to him did – and that inevitably points to his Principal Private Secretary Mr. Kevin Rudd.