Faked record handed to federal police By Darren Gray March 20 2002 The Australian Federal Police is set to launch an investigation to determine how the fake government car record relied on by Liberal senator Bill Heffernan to attack High Court judge Michael Kirby was produced, and who produced it. 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 missing kernel32 missing kernel32 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. But Senator Heffernan did not say who actually produced the document. The Transport Workers Union, which represents the drivers of government limousines, 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 find someone missing kernel32 on Justice Kirby under parliamentary privilege one week ago. 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 finding missing people missing kernel32 a thorough
