Good point, oh and thanks for the recipe, Robert. Cook away.

“Crunchy munchy balls”

Ingredients:
Marie biscuits-1 cup [crushed],
Powdered sugar-1/2 cup,
Dessicated coconut-1/2 cup,
Crushed ground nut-1/2 cup,
Sesame seeds[white]-1/4 cup,
Corn flakes-1/4 cup,
Milk powder-1/4 cup,
Coco powder-2tbsp,
Milk maid-2-3tbsp,
Butter-2tbsp[or ghee].
Extra dessicated coconut for rolling.

Heat the butter in a kadai. Fry dessicated coconut,crushed groundnuts and sesame seeds till light brown. Add the sugar,coco powder,milk powder,crushed marie biscuits. Keep in a low flame and stir well. Add milkmaid and milk if required for binding.Mix well. Take off from fire. Make in to medium sized balls. Roll them in dessicated coconut. Decorate them with cherries.

Hi CS, that’s fine.

Thanks SL, I just didn’t want Steve to have to wear the wrap for something I wrote.

Was Burkey attempting something underhand?

THE BURKE FILE
BORN February 25, 1947, in Perth.
CAREER Journalist working for The West Australian newspaper, radio and television.
1973 Elected to West Australian parliament.
1981 Elected Opposition Leader.
1983 Becomes West Australian Premier.
1987 Pledges $150 million to rescue Laurie Connell’s Rothwells bank after stockmarket crash.
1988 Resigns as Premier to become ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See.
1991 Resigns diplomatic post before giving evidence in WA Inc Royal Commission.
1992 Charged with four counts of false pretences and intention to defraud his parliamentary travel expenses.
1993 Charged with stealing $122,585 from ALP between 1984 and 1988.
1994 Found guilty on false pretence charges and sentenced to two years’ jail.
1997 Found guilty on all seven charges that he stole $122,585 in ALP donations in 1984 and 1985. Conviction overturned on appeal.
2000 Returns to public life as an election commentator for Perth’s Radio 6PR and as a political lobbyist
2002 Premier Geoff Gallop tells Burke there is no role for him in Labor politics..
JANUARY 2006 Premier Alan Carpenter overturns ban on ministerial contact with Burke and Julian Grill.
OCTOBER 2006 Burke called to give evidence to the Corruption and Crime Commission inquiry into a Canal Rocks development.
NOVEMBER 2006 Burke forced to resign from the Labor Party. Carpenter reinstates ban on Burke.
FEBRUARY 2007 CCC broader inquiry into public misconduct by officials.

Perhaps he gets off on it all. Rudd wasn’t wise, although it must be said that he was hardly popular in the party back then.

I think this will blow over, but Rudd has got to be confident and strong. “It’s Time”, and I don’t think this blip will change that. By the way, can’t stand the cult of Gough.

The concept of serving one’s time and moving on with one’s life should be respected.

Guilt by association is a nasty business, and we could all suffer from it.

Thanks Helen once again for your great work. You’ve been a sweetheart.

But it all came unstuck over WA Inc, a period known in the west as the time government tried to get into business, and business tried to get into government. A Royal Commission into WA Inc began in 1990. Burke served seven months in prison four years later for rorting travel expenses. In 1997, he served six months of a three-year sentence for stealing $122,585 in campaign donations before his convictions were quashed on appeal.

“Personal associations and the manner in which electoral contributions were obtained could only create the public perception that favour could be bought, that favour would be done,” the Commission reported in 1992. “We have observed that the size of the donations was quite extraordinary. In his approaches the premier was direct to the point at times of being forceful.”

That would put an end to most political careers - but not Burke’s.

I doubt that there would be many senior politicians on either side who haven’t attended meetings of businessmen arranged and chaired by a lobbyist. That’s what lobbyists do. Moreover, their aim is indeed to achieve levels of communication, and even informal understandings about future policy directions, between business and governments/aspiring governments. Burke appears to have been more aggressive than most in the way he used his connections into WA Labor to achieve results for his business clients, which no doubt justified the Gallop and Carpenter bans on dealing with him. However that says nothing at all about the propriety of Rudd attending a meeting organised and attended by Burke. I don’t blame the Coalition for beating it up for all its worth to make it look sinister, just as I don’t blame Labor for its equally spurious attempt to beat up Howard’s meeting with Ron Walker to sound sinister. Both are bullshit, and I don’t expect the “punters” to take any notice (unless this week’s unimpressive effort by Rudd and his team continues).

It seems he is merely a lobbyist trying to make money however I admit I have no time to make any investigation.