"This is the most flagrant abuse of the conflict situation you are in," IBAC commissioner Robert Redlich, QC, told Cr Ablett. Under examination, he said: “I wasn’t going to put the heavies onto Pauline Richards or anyone". “I’m not concerned to speak to the minister about those matters, but at the same time IBAC’s got a job to do, let them do it,” Mr Andrews said.
“I can honestly say, sir, that I don’t know,” Cr Ablett said, before Mr Tovey told him it was from Mr Woodman. “I had a talk to Sam last night and I said, 'Look … I’m not in your block any more mate,’ because I am sick of rigging stuff.”. Under questioning, Cr Ablett was asked if he ever “rigged anything” with fellow Casey councillor Sam Aziz, who has also been the recipient of payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars from Mr Woodman in return for his vote on council. Cr Ablett then said it would have been for the “upkeep … with Good Call”, a race horse Mr Woodman’s daughter had bought a share in three years earlier.
Royce Millar is an investigative journalist at The Age with a special interest in public policy and government decision-making. And a deposit of $5000 comes in. He said he had no plans to speak with Mr Donnellan following the revelations in the hearing. “I was not on the take; I never took money to make decisions,” said Cr Ablett, a former Hawthorn football club champion and the brother of AFL legend Gary Ablett. In the 10th day of anti-corruption hearings over land deals at Casey Council, Cr Ablett, an ex-mayor, was grilled over developer, planner and lobbyist John Woodman's influence on him. The rezoning would have netted Leighton a $100 million windfall and Mr Woodman said, in evidence to the hearings, his company would have received a payment of "around about $2 million”. Casey councillor Geoff Ablett has been caught in a taped phone conversation telling state Liberal MP Neale Burgess he was “sick of rigging stuff” at Casey Council.
He initially denied he had known Mr Woodman was working for Leighton on the rezoning. All the stats, form and information about trainer - Geoff Ablett available at RACING.COM – The first destination for Australian Horse Racing. The rezoning needed both Casey Council's support and Planning Minister Richard Wynne's sign-off, and would have delivered Mr Woodman’s company about $2 million and his client, property giant Leighton, a $100 million windfall.
IBAC has indicated that, in total, Cr Ablett may have got as much as $330,000 from Mr Woodman. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering urban affairs, transport, state politics, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age. Cr Ablett agreed that two cash deposits of $5000 were made into his bank accounts, in November 2013 and in January 2014, by Mr Woodman. Geoff Ablett leaves after giving evidence to the anti-corruption hearings examining the Casey land deals scandal.Credit:Joe Armao.
“I never rigged anything with Sam Aziz,” replied Cr Ablett, who was then played a recorded conversation between him and state Liberal MP Neale Burgess in November 2018. Much of the past three days' hearings were spent exploring Cr Ablett’s repeated lobbying for Mr Woodman’s projects. Geoff Ablett leaves after giving evidence to the anti-corruption hearings examining the Casey land deals scandal. After The Age revealed the Cranbourne West land deal in 2018, Mr Wynne put the rezoning on hold. “I shouldn’t have done it.”.
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