Sophistry and Snake Oil

 

By Gi Linda.

“Sophistry” is perverted wisdom; a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning that seems true and sounds convincing but is actually deliberately misleading.

In Greece, c.5BC, the sophists were itinerant intellectuals and paid mentors who rejected moral absolutes, teaching that justice comes from dominance of the strongest. They used spurious arguments and rhetorical persuasion to gain influence for their clients. 

Through Plato and Aristotle, sophistry came to mean the deliberate use of fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness.

In today’s world of commerce-driven screen-media where distinction between fantasy and reality is irrelevant, the word may be forgotten, yet sophistry is widely practiced in pursuit of  power, privilege and profit.

The most successful sophists who entangle their prey in a self-interested matrix of lies tend to also exhibit extreme narcissist and psychopathic tendencies.

The dominating drive for personal satisfaction feeds greed and stunts normal development of humane qualities such as integrity, kindness, empathy and remorse, while those who habitually practice deceptive sophistry cultivate a slick veneer of smirking sincerity greased by flattery that lures and hooks the undiscerning. Truth is mocked and compassion is exploited as weakness. Deceived victims are then devalued, discredited and discarded.

This story of two contemporary sophists began in 2013 with a false narrative established by “Truthology Foundation” at “Freedom Summits” where Mark Darwin offered to “set you free from the Money Game”. 

Darwin was teaching clients and followers how to defeat the law by using the dominance of clever argumentation. In a 2014 Truthology email Darwin claimed:

“You can be assured that Mark is a very dynamic, charismatic individual and his seminars are entertaining, engaging, and hilarious at times and oftentimes life-changing for those attending…  Thats right we Teach YOU how to do it and finally be FREE from Their system !!!” 

“Truthology” was marketed online as “a truth and awareness site, and service provider that helps the people… We assist you to be free from the shackles of money stress, the debt trap, how to lawfully take on the banks, challenge fines and infringements, and how to stop paying taxes… and much, much more…"

"What Mark had discovered was so liberating, empowering and life-changing that he felt a deep, overwhelming desire to help other people.”

This “deep, overwhelming desire to help other people” led Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock in 2014 to invite “selected” investors, as supposed co-owners of a 640 acre property at Mt Burrell, NSW, to pay large amounts of their money into Darwin's bank account held in trust by Wroth Wall Lawyers. But the land-share narrative was false.

Investors whose naive, misplaced trust was betrayed became victims of this snake-oil sophistry and lost life savings, inheritances, pension funds and homes.

In 2015, purchase of the land should have been made by Darwin and Brennock with a Community Association providing purchase money investors shared proprietary rights as promised, but instead, the land was dishonorably acquired by a private company. Adrian Brennock, as self-appointed director, established his personal ownership of the property by holding a single $1 share.

This bait-n-switch sophistry was morally and ethically unconscionable leaving angry investors defrauded, but Brennock's snatching of the property from those who paid for it was ostensibly legal.

Investors who had been invited in 2014-15 by Darwin and Brennock into the first supposed “land-share community” were evicted from the land in 2016-17 without return of investment. Brennock is now attempting a pre-positioned transfer of the land asset in a phoenix move with the help of Vincents Chartered Accountants.

The “Bhula Bhula Village Community” scam was first exposed in October 2016 in “The Truth About Bhula Bhula” published in the Nimbin GoodTimes, revealing details of the land-share investment scam.

With their false narrative exposed, Darwin and Brennock removed the  “Truthology,” “Freedom Summits” and “Bhula Bhula Village Community” websites and switched their business and social networking name to “Rainmaker Eco Investments” inviting “ethical investments” in the same land-share scam, but at a higher price.

By 2016 Darwin and Brennock had expanded their land-share scam to the adjoining 3,000-acre property owned by Peter van Lieshout, using the name “Mount Warning Eco Village.”

The blog "Mount Warning Eco Village - A Warning" is published by the "Association of Investors Defrauded by Darwin" to document our experience and expose Darwin / Brennock's land-share scam, in the public interest.

Darwin and Brennock, facing criminal and civil charges by the Association of Defrauded Investors,  failed in 2017 with two applications to NSW Supreme Court for urgent injunctions to force removal of the blogs exposing their scam.

In November 2017 they changed the name of their venture from "Mount Warning Eco Village" to “Nightcap Village” then to “Nightcap on Minjungbal”. 

The “Truthology” website has recently been revived, no longer mendaciously offering services as a “beacon of truth in a sea of lies”, but now anonymously offering help in making superannuation investments.

As discredited sophists adopting various chameleon façades to pretend a more reputable appearance, Darwin and Brennock have devised more false narratives to explain the increasing reluctance of new investors to buy into their snake-oil scam.

After it was discovered in 2015 that investors in the first supposed "land-share community" had been defrauded and that multiple occupancy was not permitted on the land they had paid for, those who demanded accountability were defamed with false narratives and blamed for the failure of the “community”. 

Ongoing ad hominem attacks against “detractors,” are combined with intimidating threats, malicious harassment and stalking.  The false accusations include incorrect and misleading accounts of ongoing litigation. Vicious character assassinations are spread locally, online and have been presented in perjured affidavits to the courts.

Sophistry does not require that any argument be true or supported by evidence, only that it sounds convincing and is believed. Entranced by snake oil narratives, the credulous are deceived, betrayed and left without feasible legal recourse.

The contemptuous sophists, bloated with infusions of “coin” dishonorably gained by denying defrauded investors their equitable rights, scoff and mock their victims in sickening ritual celebration of their apparently unrestrained ability to profit by deception.

However, with their eyes now cast on even more ambitious empires and a minor celebrity, Tyler Tolman, ingenuously vouching for their authenticity, Darwin, Brennock and their accomplices are now encountering opponents who are highly motivated to bite back against those who attempt to pervert justice by domination of specious argumentation.

Nightcap Village Nightmare Revived

By Gi Linda.

Peter and Joan van Lieshout.

Dutchman Peter van Lieshout, with familial ties to Super A-Mart, is not one to let controversy, adverse public opinion or the nuisance of Australian development regulations stand in the way of his ideas. 

Owner of 3,000 acres in Nightcap Forest, near Mt Burrell, NSW, he aspires to build a town where happy “Nightcappers,” prospective inhabitants of his village will hopefully live harmoniously with nature and pay his land taxes.

Nightcap Village was proposed to include 1,000 residents with 250 houses, 130 three storey units, a 100-bed backpacker, a 100-bed motel, 50 shops and a pub. The DA anticipated the village would generate an additional local 4,500 car movements a day.

Developed in 2006 by the Vanlieshout Group, Nightcap Village was marketed as "Zero Impact Living".

Before submitting an application for development approval, an Environmental Impact Study found the proposed village site to be located in pristine forest, rich with rare and endangered species.

  Undeterred, van Lieshout built unapproved dams, permitted unapproved residences and cleared an area for the proposed Nightcap Village without any prior development consent.

News in 2006 of the intended $137 million development triggered loud complaints from outraged locals, strongly opposed to the unwanted imposition of a potential urban eruption in the beautiful rural valley.

When van Lieshout lodged a development application for Nightcap Village with Tweed Shire Council there was massive opposition from local residents, spearheaded by environmental defenders who actively protect the integrity of the Northern Rivers’ natural resources from indiscriminate developers and corporate greed.

Local protest against Nightcap Village, 2009

The Caldera Residents Action Group, CRAG, gathered over 600 handwritten objections to the proposed Nightcap Village. When it came to a vote on the DA,  the Environmental Impact Statement listing endangered species was not presented and a required aboriginal heritage study had not been conducted.

Pete Symons, a local who studies the impact of “geopathic stress” on land, claimed the proposed site of Nightcap Village is “cursed” because of a massacre of Aboriginal people on that site, giving it a “destructive and harmful energy signature”.

Widjabul Elders said the bodies of the massacred men, women and children were “so badly mutilated that distressed people who discovered the massacre lit  beacon fires all around Mt Warning, calling in the clans to perform funeral rites and sing a curse into the land”.

Council received over 500 submissions arguing against the proposed development. Several speakers complained that council was serving developers rather than the people who elected them.

Peter van Lieshout’s wife, aspiring co-developer Joan van Lieshout, just happened to be Mayor of Tweed Shire at the time. She abstained from voting to avoid appearance of conflict of interest. Only two councilors, Katie Milne and Barry Longland, voted against the development.

The proposed village sounded an alarm in local papers with Tweed Daily News Aug 2007 reporting Nightmare 'Nightcap' Development Approved in Tweed Shire:  “On announcement of the vote in favour of the DA, the gallery broke into a near brawl, as residents yelled at the top of their voices their extreme anger and disappointment.”

At a subsequent Land and Environment Court hearing 100 people objected to the proposal with only one in favour. Even so, the Commissioner approved the development.

Despite Peter van Lieshout's aggressive push for development consent in contempt of overwhelming local opposition, he found the cost of required infrastructure impossible to meet. The plans did not proceed and development consent lapsed in 2011. 

The frustrated developer, with unpaid land taxes mounting, became re-inspired in 2015 when leaders of a Sovereignty Cult whose finance manager, known to those he has treated unconscionably as “Jimmy the Maggot” purchased an adjoining property and began to promote a community, “Living in Harmony”.

The "Intentional Community" called "Bhula Bhula" was established without development approval on environmentally protected land where multiple occupancy was prohibited.

Bhula Bhula Community marketing ad, 2015

Describing their initiative as “unconventional business,” Adrian Brennock and cohorts defrauded investors of purchase price monies in 2015. After falsely promising potential investors co-ownership of the land, they purchased the 640 acre property through a private company. Adrian Brennock acquired legal ownership of the asset in his personal right as company director and sole shareholder with a single share value $1.

Defrauded investors who called for accountability woke up to a nightmare of litigation, threats, bullying and stalking as they were forcibly evicted from the property without restitution of their funds.

Phillip Dixon

Undeterred by the carnage of broken dreams, shattered families and empty bank accounts left in the wake of their failed venture, and ever aspiring to greater visions, Adrian Brennock with sidekicks Mark Darwin and Phillip Dixon made a deal in early 2016 with neighbour Peter van Lieshout to expand their initiative onto his property.

"Mount Warning Eco Village" was set up and by 2017 a move was in place to transfer legal title of the land paid for by the defrauded investors to the new company. The attempted pre-positioned asset sale as an ongoing phoenix move is being facilitated through liquidation by Vincents Chartered Accountants.

Tyler Tolman and Adrian Brennock

In November 2017, "Mount Warning Eco Village", the name of Darwin and Brennock's "Village Community" scheme, was switched to “Nightcap Village” and promoted by celebrity “Ambassador” Tyler Tolman, who describes himself as the “money man” behind the venture.

The aspiring developers of Nightcap Village prefer to occult their nexus as cabos of the dishonorable sovereignty cult that defrauded investors of over $1.5 million by offering "ethical investments" in a land-share scam!

Mark Darwin

Their first attempted “village community” failed, causing immeasurable hurt and harm to those who ingenuously trusted Darwin's deceptive blue-eyed sales pitch.

Nightcap Village website now advertises: "...an exciting project underway to build an entire eco friendly, sustainable village on a 3500+ acre site at the foot of Mt Warning..."

It's an attractive vision given a veneer of credibility with a gloss of celebrity, but with local outrage re-emerging it becomes increasingly evident that the new promises are the same as the old promises as "Nightcap Village Nightmare" revives.

Buyer Beware!

From Mount Warning Eco Village to Nightcap Nightmare

"...and I want a Tyler Tolman health spa, an exotic waterfront resort in an exclusive ecovillage with lagoons and waterfalls... me too, me too..."

Tweed Echo 2006

Nimbin GoodTimes 2006

Facts About Mount Warning Eco Village Scam

By Gi Linda.

“Truthology” was the deceptive front used as a database by Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock in 2014, when they first began calling for investors to buy land and form a “Village Community.”

 Mark Darwin aka 'FYJ Boofhead"

Darwin and Brennock acquired $1.5 million to purchase the land, plus loans and superannuation, and established “Bhula Bhula Village Community”  at 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW, Australia.  

But the “Village Community.” was governed by an improperly executed Trust that enabled Darwin and Brennock to betray the trust of the supposed "unit holders".  

Potential investors were misled by false representations and the silent omission of known restrictions on potential land use.  Investors who paid for the land were then disenfranchised with only a beneficial interest in an empty Trust.

Online “Truthology” marketing material was removed after the land-share scam was exposed in local newspapers in 2016.

Tweed Daily News: "Living in a Nightmare"

Many assurances were given to potential investors that development approval was in process, yet Darwin and Brennock never applied for the required permits, knowing that the land was protected as water catchment for a proposed future drinking water dam.

More than 21 investors who had purchased the communal property at Mt Burrell, were forcibly driven off the land during 2016-17, without return of their funds. 

Despite much pretense, investors have received no restitution as Darwin and Brennock attempt to take private control of the land through a deceptive “phoenix move.”

Adrian Brennock aka "Jimmy the Maggot"

Darwin and Brennock, after fleecing the purchasers of the 640 acre property, are again rattling the can, asking credulous investors to believe their "new promises" and give them money, as they aspire to purchase 3,000 acres and form another “Village Community” on adjoining property, together with landowner Peter van Lieshout.

Landowner Peter van Lieshout

"Mount Warning Eco Village” is again marketed by Darwin and Brennock with assurances that dwelling is permitted, and cabins are offered for sale. Yet the intended "Eco Village", like the failed "Bhula Bhula Village Community", is located on environmentally protected land. Again, there is NO DA in place for multiple occupancy on the land, and no application for development of a "Village Community" has been submitted to Tweed Shire Council, although Darwin and Brennock are, as before, loudly stating their "intention to extend existing permissions".

Mt Warning Eco Village - baiting with "alternative lifestyle" lures

The continual soliciting by Darwin and Brennock, of "mezzanine finance," "loans,” “advances," “ethical investments,” "superannuation funds"   and “pre-DA purchase of home-sites" on environmentally protected land without development approval has been ongoing since 2014. This is a SCAM that has already left more than 20 investors with trust betrayed and shattered lives, defrauded of over $2 million.

Buyer Be Warned!

Mt Warning Ecovillage - Dreamweavers of Deception

Truth On Trial - Part 3
By Gi Linda

I am Gillian Linda Norman, a self-representing co-defendant with the Nimbin GoodTimes in case #2017/00081825, Darwin v Norman, on the Defamation List. The matter is scheduled for second listing on September 15 at NSW Supreme Court before Justice Lucy McCallum. 

The plaintiffs bringing defamation charges are Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Phillip Dixon and Steven McSween, who have now added Mount Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd with a new complaint of “injurious falsehood” requesting orders that this Blog, “Mount Warning Eco Village Scam” be suppressed for causing “possible loss of commercial opportunity”. 

 
Even before the hearings commenced, Mark Darwin, using his pseudonym “Dummass Boofhead”, had announced victory in advance in a gloating email. “Boofhead”, with characteristic “Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha” signature tune mingled with scoffing, menacing threats, wrote that Mark Darwin wished to inform me that he was wetting himself with delight because he had arranged for me to be bankrupted and sectioned for psychiatric examination, then intended to grab for himself my Mercedes 4wd.

On August 24, a Notice of Motion by the plaintiffs, made without reasonable notice to me, the respondent, and relying upon “confidential evidence” that I am not permitted to see, requested a Duty Judge to make a summary judgement for removal of this Blog without providing opportunity for defence.

The plaintiffs had kindly filled out for the Judge the appropriate form listing the expected orders, all ready to sign. Unfortunately for Darwin & co, with the matter listed for a 5 minute “directions hearing”, Justice Button did not make a summary judgement, as requested. Instead, he referred the matter to be heard the following day by Justice McCallum, who manages the defamation list.

This hearing on 25/8/17 was scheduled to last one hour, yet the plaintiffs’ representative, barrister Dauid Sibtain, spent three hours arguing that “injurious falsehood” had occurred with malicious intent, causing the plaintiffs financial distress, therefore the Blogs must be removed. To permit my response to the charges, Justice McCallum scheduled another hearing, the fourth for this case, listed for Friday, September 1st at NSW Supreme Court.

Context to the Claim

I am one of 27 defrauded victims who collectively paid the purchase price for a property at 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW 2484, that has been kept under control of delinquent directors through a Trust improperly executed  by the plaintiffs. 

Investors in the property were defrauded as a result of misleading marketing by the same aspiring “developers” now involved in “Mt Warning Eco Village”. Our story has been reported in several newspapers and is extensively documented in our own online Blogs: 

mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au and 

thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au

Most investors in the failed land-share “Community” were not informed that the advertised “home-sites” were located on water catchment land. A report by town planner Darryll Anderson warning that multiple occupancy would not be permitted on that property was hidden from investors in 2015 by project managers Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock.

In 2016, when we discovered the deception, the “Community” split. Those who demanded accountability were driven off the land without return of investment. Others constructed dwellings and camps, and remained residing on the land in defiance of Council’s demands, until, a year later in 2017, they were forced to comply with Court orders of eviction.

Marketing Lures by Dreamweavers of Deception

After flagrantly betraying the trust of investors who provided the finance for purchase of the Mt Burrell property, Darwin and Brennock expanded their vision to an even bigger “Community”. 

They are now advertising “Mt Warning Eco Village”, on adjoining property owned by Peter Van Lieshout, disavowing their roles and responsibilities as founders of the failed “Bhula Bhula Village Community”.

When my statutory demand for for $120,000 on the company Wollumbin Horizons Pty Ltd, was upheld in Brisbane Federal Court, Adrian Brennock, being self-appointed delinquent director, signed a “contract” with Mt Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd to buy our land for $2.25m, about $1m over market value. 

Brennock then put the company into Voluntary Administration with Vincents Accountants, who are currently assisting the plaintiffs in a "phoenix move" to burn the company, disenfranchise investors and transfer the land asset to their private control.

Disenfranchised purchase money creditors with only an empty beneficial interest in a fraudulent Trust, were informed by Vincents that in order to enable transfer of our property to Mt Warning Eco Village, a deposit was secured by the plaintiffs with “vendor finance” consisting of a $1m mortgage over our land by  Adrian Brennock, delinquent director of the “insolvent” company.  

Mark Darwin, "Creator" at Mt Warning Eco Village

Mt Warning Ecovillage - Misleading Marketing

 

Mt Warning Eco Village response to a Facebook inquiry:

“Hi Craig,
We are expecting for share holders to be able to start building in around august as that’s roughly when DA will be coming through. Shares start at $189k and go up to $325k for 2.5 acres (I acre you can clearable and build on and then you will have a 1.5 acre surrounding that). Pre DA sale price is 20% off so a $300k lot is $240 at the moment, a saving of $60k)”

 

The plaintiffs claim that appropriate development approval is in place for an existing ecovillage located on property owned by Peter van Lieshout between Mt Burrell and Kungar, NSW, formerly known as “Nightcap Forest”, and that this supposed development consent also extends to several other lots comprising their proposed “Mt Warning Eco Village”, thus validating solicitation of loans and sales of land-share parcels by the plaintiffs.

The claims are misleading: Modified Development Consent DA06/1054.01 was issued in 2011 in association with a 2009 DA06/1054 for a concept plan for Nightcap Village. Annexure A is a submission to Tweed Shire Council dated Jan 2017, from Darrell Anderson, Director, DAC Planning, [formerly Darryl Anderson Consulting], on behalf of Rainmaker Eco Investments Pty Ltd, [one of the companies operated by the plaintiffs]. The submission was intended to obtain Council’s acknowledgement that development was “physically commenced”, and that development approval for “Nightcap Village” did not lapse in 2014. 

The response from Tweed Council does not provide the solicited acknowledgement of active development consent, although it is presented as supporting evidence of “existing development approval” for the proposed “Village”.

In relation to MDA06/1054.01, a carriageway survey was done in 2012. On June 16 2014, several dumpy pegs were placed in the ground to indicate where proposed access road might be situated in a concept plan for Nightcap Village proposed in DA06/1054. The DA was due to lapse on June 29, 2014 for failure of commencement.

In relation to the minimum acceptable activity for an inactive development to be considered “commenced”, s95(4) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act establishes that “Development consent… does not lapse if building, engineering or construction work relating to building, subdivision or work is physically commenced on the land to which the consent applies before the date on which the consent would otherwise have lapsed under this Section.”

Anderson argues that placement of stakes as surveyors’ markers, constitutes commencement of development, even though no actual physical building, engineering or construction work subsequently took place.

According to Tweed Council’s response in Annexure C, Lindsay McGavin, Manager for Development Assessment and Compliance with Tweed Council, says the prospective developers have not satisfied two preconditions, required for initiation of works, and so have failed to comply with necessary conditions for development commencement. Mr McGavin also notes that the supposed work relied upon does not form part of the development consent as amended, and also advises that “Council has no statutory role in confirmation of physical commencement of development.” 

Council has confirmed in direct consultation that a decision as to whether the placing of surveyors’ dumpy pegs in the ground validly constitutes physical commencement is a judgement that can only be made by the Land and Environment Court subsequent to lodgement of a Development Application for Mt Warning Eco Village.

In minutes of a Tweed Shire Council Development Assessment Panel held on May 31, 2017, it is noted that the site has an historic Development Application, DA06/1054, for “Nightcap Village” but “commencement needs to be demonstrated.” The proposed site is also affected by restrictions relating to “drinking water catchment, existing and future water storage facilities.”
 

It is clear, therefore, that it cannot correctly be said by the plaintiffs that development approval for “Mt Warning Eco Village” or “Nightcap Village” is active, since preconditions to commencement of works have not been fulfilled, and adjudication of the validity of the claimed development has not occurred, and cannot occur prior to submission of a DA application for Mt Warning Eco Village, which has also not occurred.
 

Response to the Affidavit of Phillip Dixon, Third Plaintiff

 
My response to Phillip Dixon' s claim that the following allegations are false:

(a) That Mt Warning Eco Village is a scam — It is factually true and demonstrable with evidence that Dixon, Darwin, Brennock and others have been operating an "intentional" land-share fraud from 2014 until the present.

(b) That no habitation is allowed on the land located at 2924 and 2954 Kyogle Road, Kunghur, NSW. 

The Blogs correctly state that no habitation is allowed on the home-sites currently being advertised and offered for sale. Although under normal circumstances dwelling could be permitted in these areas zoned RU2, in fact, habitation is prohibited on the advertised lots since they are located in environmentally sensitive areas reserved for rainwater catchment.

(c) That there is no development approval granted for Mount Warning Eco Village by Tweed Shire Council — True

(d) That Mount Warning Eco Village’s governance is the same as Wollumbin Horizons Pty Ltd 
Mount Warning Eco Village is run by Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Phillip Dixon, Cherrie Stokes, Martin Maddran and formely Steven and Kelly McSween, who were all involved in  the land-share scam at 3222 Kyogle Rd. Mount Warning Eco Village’s governance also includes landowner Peter van Lieshout, who was not involved in the plaintiffs’ failed Community on the property adjoining his estate.
 

As co-director of Mount Warning Eco Village with landowner Peter van Lieshaupt and Cherrie Stokes, Phillip Dixon claims that because of the Blogs, four possible loan agreements have fallen through, totaling a commercial loss of $600,000 and putting at risk the plaintiffs’ ability to proceed with a Prospectus and Development Approval for the Land with a further potential commercial loss of over $46,000. This represents feared future loss, but does not prove actual damage.

Phillip Dixon claims Mount Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd is relying on Loan Agreements to purchase our land at 3222 Kyogle Rd, for $1m over market value and complains that the Blogs may jeopardize this attempted phoenix move. His complaint represents feared future loss of commercial opportunity, but does not prove actual damage caused by the Blogs.

Phillip Dixon cites his plans as director of “Cannabis Industries Australia”, (CIA) to establish a cannabis farm and claims he will suffer potential financial loss of $650,000 because of a Blog post which exposes details of the plaintiffs’ fraudulent venture involving sale of shares in a non-existent “Cannabis University” offering to dispense “medical cannabis”.

Phillip Dixon provides no evidence that information conveyed in the Blogs has caused or will cause his possible failure to procure loans, or any other loss of future commercial opportunity.
 

Response to the Affidavit of Adrian Brennock, Second Plaintiff
 

The Second Plaintiff, Adrian Brennock, is the self-appointed director and sole shareholder of the company Wollumbin Horizons that owns the land paid for by defrauded investors.
Imputations complained of are significantly true and have been answered in detail in previous defence.
 

Allegations made against me by Adrian Brennock are false and maliciously defamatory.
 

The affidavit contains many perjured statements including:
    (a) False accounts of legal proceedings I have brought against the plaintiffs.
    (b) False accounts of the plaintiffs’ dealings with Tweed Council.
    (c) A false account of my Genuine Steps initiative of settlement in the Federal Court.