The Media Officers - Hazelwood & Easton
This is PETER HAZELWOOD the Media Officer to then Premier Ray Groom in 1996 at the time of Port Arthur. He attended at the police forward command post at Taranna when the Seascape seige was running. Hazelwood was also reportedly the Media Liaison Officer at the Hilton Hotel Bombing back in 1978 which was later found by a Royal Commission to have been orchestrated by persons connected with ASIO. He just happened to be the duty media officer that day.
Peter, a shaddowy figure during and after Port Arthur, is believed to be an intelligence officer for a federal government agency
This site believes this man can shed a lot of light on what happened at Port Arthur that day ( but noting this site does not believe he was the instigator of it ).
Following the massacre Peter hung around survivors of the Broad Arrow Cafe shooting advising them what to do and what not to do - picking up information. He reportedly tried to vet what those people should say in response to media questions and advised them to say nothing of what they knew claiming it would interfere with Martin Bryant's trial ( which never occurred ). Strange behaviour for the Premier's media officer. All of this was to try and keep a tight lid on the facts of what went on that day so it would not derail their agenda. His associate GEOFF EASTON, believed to be another intelligence agency officer, was the Tasmanian Police Media Officer at the time, and this site believes he too could shed even more light on the massacre.
The 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, for those who are not aware of its details, involved a bomb being planned in a garbage bin outside the Sydney Hilton resulting in several people being killed. Following the media frenzy the incident was used to justify more powers for ASIO and other Canberra based organizations, which this site believes were used in setting up the Port Arthur massacre and were also behind the other high profile gun massacres in Australia in recent years - Hoddle and Queen Street in 1987 and Straithfield in 1991 and the recent attempted massacre at the Melbourne abortion clinic. Like Port Arthur the authorities blamed a third party - the Ananda Marga Sect - for the Hilton bombing. Like the ASIO powers following the Hilton bombing Port Arthur similarly resulted in more power for those in law enforcement. Those in law enforcement in Tasmanian and Canberra were the same people who investigated this incident and have covered up what when on - a state of affairs akin to placing an arsonist in charge of the fire department.
A summary of the Hilton incident and those behind it was contained at the following web address and you will see the similarities -
http://jinx.sistm.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/1995/175/175p18.htm
The above picture of Hazelwood was taken by a Broad Arrrow Cafe survivor following suspicions about his activities. Hazelwood nearly always appeared in dark clothes and wearing face concealing sunglasses. ( It might also be appropriate to add this picture is how Hazelwood fronted up to the funeral service for Port Arthur victims in 1996 because thats when it was taken ).
If these men were in fact intelligence officers for federal agencies what were they doing mascquerading as media officers at the time of the Port Arthur massacre ? The answer needs no explanation.
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