http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/downloadhansard/pdf/Council/Feb-Jun%202010/Council%20Feb-Jun%202010%20Daily%2024%20February%202010.pdf
We saw in that Ombudsman’s report a number of what
I suppose might be called small-time operators caught,
named and exposed. We saw a number of local
councillors named for doing various things and
accusations of various things that were not, you would
have to say, necessarily hanging offences. They were
hung anyway, by the way, but I will get to that in a
minute. We saw, for example, Hakki Suleyman, a
small-time factional operator in the Australian Labor
Party, hung out to dry. He was using, it is alleged, and I
understand it to be true, an office of a local member of
Parliament, the Minister for Planning, the
Honourable Justin Madden, to run his empire. That
empire had seen his daughter, Natalie, elected as mayor
of the City of Brimbank, a position which she used with
significant and considerable ruthlessness, I have to say,
and I have witnessed it myself.
Hakki and Natalie Suleyman are not the most delightful
of individuals but they may not be exactly at the top of
the tree, either. I do not think anybody who knows
either of those people could say that they would have
the brains to be behind the outrages committed against
the people of Brimbank by some people in and around
the Brimbank City Council. We will never know,
because we do not have an independent commission to
investigate these matters. We do not have a chance to
dig deeper to find out who did what to whom and how
many times.