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February 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Premier Anna Bligh’s former right-hand man did not pick up on inconsistencies in documents about Wivenhoe Dam’s management during last year’s floods and has told an inquiry it wasn’t his job to do so.
Ken Smith, the then director-general of the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the chairman of the State Disaster Management Group, gave evidence to the flood inquiry via telephone on Friday.
He was asked why he did not realise there were inconsistencies in emails and government briefings over what strategy had been put in place the weekend before the floods hit Brisbane and Ipswich in January 2011.
“I didn’t see that as my role to cross-check that information and whether in fact it was accurate,” he told the inquiry.
“That responsibility would clearly rest with environment portfolio responsible for the operations of the dam.”
In earlier evidence, Water Utilities Minister Stephen Robertson, who was responsible for the dam’s operations at the time, told the inquiry it wasn’t his job either.
“Ministers don’t sit down at their desk comparing documents against each other. That is not a reasonable suggestion of what ministerial responsibility is all about,” he said on Thursday.
Mr Smith also said that during the floods he was not aware of the “W” labels given to water release strategies that have been the focus of the extended hearings of the flood inquiry.
He said he was only concerned with how water releases affected people downstream.
Mr Smith left his position last March and is now based in London as Queensland’s trade commissioner for Europe.
The four engineers who operated Wivenhoe Dam have been accused of moving to the correct, higher water release strategy later than is asserted.
They are also accused of creating a fictitious final report for Seqwater and misleading the inquiry.
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