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Faked record handed to federal policeBy Darren GrayMarch 20 2002The Australian Federal Police is set to launch an investigation to determine howthe fake government car record relied on by Liberal senator Bill Heffernan to attack High Court judge Michael Kirby was produced, and who produced it. missing sync Missing sync. Justice Minister Chris Ellison and the New South Wales police yesterday asked the federal police to investigate whether Commonwealth fraud offences had been committed. Senator Heffernan admitted yesterday for the first time that the alleged Comcar driver's record from Easter Saturday, April 1994 was a fake, telling parliament he did not know it was "manufactured" until late on Monday afternoon. During his unreserved apology to Justice Kirby, Prime Minister John Howard and the parliament for his role in the scandal, Senator Heffernan blamed an experienced Comcar driver for providing him with the false driver's record. missing sync Police records lexington kentucky. But Senator Heffernan did not say who actually produced the document. The Transport Workers Union, which represents the drivers of governmentlimousines, accused the humiliated senator of making a scapegoat of an anonymous driver. Senator Heffernan relied heavily on the driver's record, as well as a statutory declaration from a former "rent boy" whose evidence was rejected in a prominent court case, when he launched the attack on Justice Kirby under parliamentary privilege one week ago. missing sync Telephone search. Senator Heffernan alleged last week that Justice Kirby had used taxpayer-funded cars to pick up boys for sex in Sydney. The claims were swiftly rejected by Justice Kirby as homophobic, false and absurd. The NSW police referred the material it had received from Senator Heffernan to the federal police yesterday afternoon. Investigators from the Child Protection Enforcement Agency and police legal advisers had carefully examined the information. The NSW police said Mr Howard had been briefed on the allegations by NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan and on the findings of a police strike force. "Following a thorough assessment of the material, it has been determined there is no basis for any further investigation by NSW police into any offence alleged to have been committed in this state," the NSW police said. An AFP spokeswoman said that, despite the two referrals, a full inquiry was not guaranteed. "What we will do now is have a look at that referral and decide on what the next step is going to be," she said. Andrew Whale, the secretary of the TWU's Canberra division, said the union was keen to see a police inquiry and he questioned the government's integrity. "You have got to question the morality of the government that continually uses the line 'I was not told' to defend its actions. Using a driver as a total scapegoat for this is totally inadequate to say the least," he said. Yesterday, the opposition suggested that Comcar staff examined records in 2000 purported to pertain to Justice Kirby's Comcar travel.
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