The Nagle Inquiry uncovered that in 1980 Grassby used his position as Commissioner for Community Relations to publicize to a member of the NSW Parliament and the South Australian shadow attorney-general disinformation about the death of Donald Mackay, that his family were implicated in his death.

In 1983 police found a version of this document on government paper in the home of Robert Trimbole.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/monuments-to-honesty-and-deceit-20090215-881s.html

“The detective who arrested controversial federal MP Al Grassby 18 years ago claims the National Crime Authority bowed to political pressure not to fully investigate his mafia links. Retired NCA senior investigator Bruce Provost said he had no doubt the Whitlam Labor government minister was paid to commit crimes and do favours for the Calabrian mafia. Speaking publicly for the first time about the NCA’s inquiry, Mr Provost said Mr Grassby was firmly in the mafia’s pocket. He said there was more than enough intelligence on Mr Grassby to warrant a full investigation, but he was held back by the NCA. Mr Provost said mafia boss Robert Trimbole paid Mr Grassby $40,000 to circulate a document claiming Barbara Mackay was responsible for murdering her husband Donald, a high-profile anti-drug crusader. Mr Provost was sent on a four-week round-the-world trip in the weeks before the 1987 federal election, and was unable to charge Mr Grassby with criminal defamation until the Hawke government was back in power.

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A Herald Sun Insight investigation can also reveal:
MAFIA supergrass Gianfranco Tizzoni, who was charged over the death of Mr Mackay, named Mr Grassby as being at the beck and call of Calabrian crime bosses.

AN intelligence report — prepared by an expert on Italian organised crime for a now-disbanded Victoria Police taskforce — identified Mr Grassby as a known associate of Honoured Society figures.

IT CLAIMED a key Honoured Society aim was to place members in positions of influence or to corrupt people in such positions — and that it had succeeded with politicians, police, immigration and taxation officers.

THE secret report also accused Mr Grassby of sponsoring an Honoured Society figure to Australia who had been convicted years earlier of killing police by exploding a hand grenade in a Calabria police station.

MR GRASSBY also granted Australian entry visas to three Honoured Society members who had previously been denied entry due to bad character. One of them had earlier been deported from Australia.

ONE of Mr Grassby’s closest associates was Tony Sergi — the man named in court and Parliament as the Honoured Society boss who ordered the execution of Donald Mackay in Griffith, NSW.

AN UNPUBLISHED manuscript written by Barbara Mackay is extremely critical of Mr Grassby. It says Mr Grassby was closely connected to marijuana growers in Griffith.

FIVE senior law enforcement officers from different agencies this week said they had no doubt Mr Grassby did many favours for the Honoured Society, which funded his various election campaigns.

ONE was the 1974 poll in which preferences from Mr Mackay, the Liberal candidate, resulted in the Country Party candidate beating Mr Grassby for the seat of Riverina… (Herald Sun, 9/5/05)

Since when? The only persons who would cause a fuss over that are the professionally aggrieved.

The term “ethno sleaze merchant” re Grasby was not a reference to Grasby’s ethnicity, rather, it was a reference to type of sleaze that scumbag Grasby peddled.

That is, Grasby peddled sleaze relating to is involvement in multi-cultural affairs.

Time to apologise to Simon Troeth, andy.

Try harder next time

a word to the wise if you are going slag ethnics don’t use your real name!

Now Fuck Off