Paper Petition

The petition of a resident of the State of Queensland draws the attention of the House to what can but be seen as having been the highly improper practice adopted by the Brisbane Registry of the Supreme Court of Queensland in respect of the administration of an election petition brought in respect of the 2004 State general election, which your petitioner sought to file “well within time” after that election. The upshot of that action was that the petition was never heard and determined by the Court of Disputed Returns “in the normal manner” as it clearly should have been, given the nature of the matters which formed the basis for it and the general social importance of them.

Your petitioner therefore requests the House to bring this matter on for debate, with a view to determining the facts of this matter and then settling upon a course of action which will result in a proper determination, legally, being made by the authorities competent to do so of the matters raised by that election petition. All documentation pertinent to these matters is presently in the hands of your petitioner’s representative in the House, Dr B Flegg, the Member for Moggill. To the extent that it may be necessary for the petitioner to appear in person before the House to answer questions re same to facilitate this process, the petitioner hereby advises that he is “quite happy” to do so.