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March 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
THE office of Speaker Peter Slipper is facing a police complaint after one of his advisers allegedly threw a journalist’s mobile phone into the bush when they tried to ask him about his expenses.
The Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper has confirmed it plans to provide a statement to Queensland Police this afternoon after the stoush at a media conference in Mr Slipper’s Fisher electorate this morning.
The incident at a media conference allegedly began when journalist Owen Jacques tried to ask Mr Slipper about his expenses.
The newspaper has been unsuccessfully pursuing Mr Slipper under freedom of information laws for details of his expenses in his new role as Speaker after he was known as a lavish spender as a backbencher.
Editor-in-Chief Mark Furler today said Mr Slipper’s media staff quickly ended the conference and tried to block the view of a camera belonging to a television crew.
Mr Furler said another staffer, believed to be a policy adviser to Mr Slipper, grabbed the phone of Mr Jacques, who was filming the conference on his iPhone, and threw it into nearby bush scrub.
The newspaper said that, when questioned, the staffer said “Go get it Owen.”
“Peter Slipper had no reaction and kept walking away,” Mr Furler said.
“He certainly hasn’t reprimanded his staff. We are planning to lodge a complaint with Queensland Police this afternoon.”
Following suggestions on Twitter he should discipline the staffer with his parliamentary Mace, Mr Slipper tweeted: “Now that’s tempting but wouldn’t want to damage the Mace! Didn’t see the alleged incident and wouldn’t condone it.”
Mr Slipper has just released a statement saying: “I answered questions from the media for thirty minutes and as I had another appointment, my media adviser had to end the interview. As you will see from the video attached, I then simply walked away. I did not see the alleged incident and would not condone it.”
The edited video shows Mr Slipper being asked questions when his media adviser sees Mr Jacques ask his question about the expenses. She then rushes over and drags Mr Slipper away.
Mr Slipper’s video cuts out and does not show the subsequent events when the phone was allegedly thrown by another staffer.
Click here to see the newspaper’s version of the video
Mr Furler said the newspaper was just doing its job.
“We have been pursuing this, like other papers such as The Daily Telegraph, to get to the bottom of this story and have just been stonewalled.”
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