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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Blast from the past … Bob Carr yesterday in the upper house of the State Parliament flanked by his wife, Helena, and the former Labor MP John ”Johno” Johnson. Photo: Lee Besford
A HOMECOMING of a sort – the foreign minister-in-waiting, Bob Carr, had Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Syria and China on his mind as he strolled into State Parliament to be sworn in as a senator. But Brian Concannon had a slightly more local slant on the former premier’s appointment.
”Shame, Bob Carr. From selling out the people of NSW to Macquarie Bank … you’re a Zionist puppet stealing a Senate seat,” the protester from Kingsford yelled through the Macquarie Street fence as Mr Carr conducted an impromptu news conference.
Back on home turf, Mr Carr ate up the attention and was unfazed by Mr Concannon’s astoundingly loud voice.
”We are a knock-down, drag-out democracy and if I’m going into this building to be nominated for the Senate and somebody wants to stand there at the fence and [accuse] me of being a Zionist puppet or anything, we’re to celebrate the fact that we are a democracy where that can happen,” Mr Carr intoned in the stentorian voice that ruled the Legislative Council for 10 years.
Mr Concannon was protesting against O’Farrell government public service cuts when he shifted aim after spotting Mr Carr strolling through the security entrance flanked by his wife, Helena, and his friend John McCarthy, QC. Behind them was Labor stalwart, former MP and inveterate purveyor of raffle tickets, John ”Johno” Johnson. Inside the red chamber of the Legislative Assembly, a joint sitting of of both houses of Parliament met to watch Mr Carr being sworn in. He replaced NSW Right numbers man Mark Arbib, who resigned last week in the wake of Kevin Rudd’s failed leadership bid.
Mrs Carr, Mr McCarthy and Mr Johnson sat with Mr Carr next to the president’s chair as MPs went through the ritual of swearing in a new man to fill a casual Senate vacancy.
Well-wishers included the national secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Tony Sheldon, the secretary of Unions NSW, Mark Lennon, and ALP assistant general secretary John Graham. Mr Carr’s loyal former press secretary Walt Secord, now an upper house MP, handed the Carrs the day’s Legislative Council business paper as a memento of the occasion.
The swearing-in was brief, almost jocular.
When Don Harwin, who was in the president’s chair, declared ”I think the ayes have it”, Labor’s most senior MP, Richard Amery, declared: ”So far, so good.”
And it was.
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