The Tasmanian Deputy Premier has had to resign after misleading parliament. He claimed that he hadn't appointed a certain person as a magistrate but was then forced to admit he mislead parliament after a Greens MP went through his garbage, found some shredded material, and stuck together all the little bits and pieces to form the image you see.
This is not the first time that sticking back together the little bits of shredding from shredding machines has come to prominence. Back during the US embassy hostage crisis in 1980, Iranian revolutionary students put together all the secret documents that the US embassy had shredded immediately before being stormed.
Still, I wonder whether the Greens MP, Kim Booth, has a habit of going through shreddings, or whether maybe there was a tip-off?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Shredding and its impact on Tasmanian politics
The Tasmanian Deputy Premier has had to resign after misleading parliament. He claimed that he hadn't appointed a certain person as a magistrate but was then forced to admit he mislead parliament after a Greens MP went through his garbage, found some shredded material, and stuck together all the little bits and pieces to form the image you see.
This is not the first time that sticking back together the little bits of shredding from shredding machines has come to prominence. Back during the US embassy hostage crisis in 1980, Iranian revolutionary students put together all the secret documents that the US embassy had shredded immediately before being stormed.
Still, I wonder whether the Greens MP, Kim Booth, has a habit of going through shreddings, or whether maybe there was a tip-off?
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