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THE POWERFUL GLORY OF EARTH’S COSMIC SUN

THE COLIN UEBERGANG FAMILY TRAGIC LIFETIME & BUSINESS STORY

The following are stated facts supported by certified court transcript documentation.

The following in Green is family achievements history. In Black and Red are the facts supported by court transcripts of Colin Uebergang victimisation and jailing.​ 



THE TRUTH

I believe in telling the TRUTH

I believe in telling the whole TRUTH

I believe others should tell the TRUTH

I believe others should tell nothing but the TRUTH

And if everyone on our earth would tell the TRUTH

Everything on earth would be known as the TRUTH

John Alfred Salmon

(John A. Salmon was employed by the National Australia Bank for 36 years, 16 in management.

He has written a book on bank criminality, has assisted many victims of the unconscionable

fraudulent elitist banking industry which he believes is the centre of white-collar-crime.)



The following in Green is family achievements history. In Black and Red are the facts supported by court transcripts of Colin Uebergang victimisation and jailing.


0 -1932 Colin Uebergang (CU) was born on the 17 January in Inverell NSW.

1 -He experienced the aftermath hardships of the 1930s financial depression.

2 -Because of World War 2 and farm working as a dyslectic child, he was virtually uneducated.

3 -1954 married at 22, sent off to Queensland to manage the 12,000 acre ‘The Deep’ property at Tara.

4 -1954 cleared the Brigalow-scrub and in 12 years turned a £39,000 investment into a tax free £355,000.

5 -1959 grew cotton on this property and developed the first modular system for bulk cotton.

6 -1966 bought ‘Copperfield’ in NSW, $400,000 cleared the scrub sold 1984 for $1.3 million.

7 -1968 bought 9,000 acre ‘Mt Carmel’ in Queensland for $450,000.

8 -1972 took Australian Wheat Board to the High Court and restored Section 92 free trade of the Constitution.

9 -1972 acquired the Versatile Tractor Company distributorship for Australia.

10-1973 acquired Nobel-Plow, Morris Rod-Weeder, Flexking, Vemere distributorship for Australia.

11-1984 having distributed and sold $37 million equipment, sold all distributorships for $2 million.

12-1984 commenced manufacture of 997 Copperfield blade-ploughs in the control of soil erosion.

13-1984 final (commenced in 1973) financial gift to University Soil Erosion Research of $500,000.

14-1984 moved office to Brisbane changed banks from NAB to Westpac because of marriage problem.

15-1984 having marriage problems and divorced — remarried in 1988 — still in this marriage 2019.

16-1984 bought ‘Billinudgel Pastoral Co’ beef cattle and developed ATTE Tea Tree plantations.

17-1984 pioneered tea tree oil industry, developed high yielding species with Macquarie University.

18-1986 exported Tea Tree Oil (TTO) to the USA @ $60,000 tonne. Samtec of Japan first visit to ATTE Australia.

19-1986 developed a range of medicated TTO skin-care products — sold them into 180 chemist outlets.

20-1986 started preparing Mt Carmel property for NASAA organic wheat growing.

21-1987 engaged Gibson Consulting to design organic flourmill for Mt Carmel organic wheat.

22-1988 agreement with Marrable of South Coast Bakeries on 50/50% organic flourmill ownership.

23-1989 Westpac (WP) acknowledged the intention for ATTE Pty Ltd to seek public float investment.

24-1989 WP Brisbane was kept informed of all developments and agreed and approved of the stages.

25-1989 Samtec Japan (Sacagouchi Family) second visit Australia — committed to investing in ATTE.

26-1991 BIR in organic wheat over ten years was 22% pa. (Independent Assessed by Poolmans)

27-1991 BIR in Tea Tree Oil Plantation & Products was 17% pa. (Independent Assessed by Poolmans)

28-1991 Total cost of formulating TTO Products & Organic Flourmill reached $7 million.

29-1991 WP valued the two businesses and stock at $14 million for lending security.

30-1991 Independent professional valuation for two businesses was $20 million.

31-1991 Walsh Halligan & Douglas business valuation loss for the Federal Court G28 of 1993 was $44 million.

32-1991 WP publically acknowledged as being insolvent along with their AGC and Partnership Pacific.

33-1991 WP Sydney insisted the Uebergang businesses be placed into a ‘watch’ category.

34-1991 12/12 WP ceased rolling-over the Uebergang businesses loan Bills.

35-1991 12/12 WP introduced a receivership over the businesses — WP recognised this was illegal.

36-1991 WP found that their security documents were invalid for the receivership.

37-1992 6/03/92 WP established a second illegal receivership based on an expired crop-lien.

38-1992 WP’s receiver operated the businesses for 23 months promising Uebergang a trade-out.

39-1992 The trade-out promised basis of financial crop returns meeting budget — they were exceeded.

40-1992 WP agreed on a trade-out if CU handed over $1.2 million of unsecured farm equipment.

41-1992 CU complied but WP broke the agreement and sold all Uebergang family assets in 1994.

42-1992 WP had over 23 months stolen several million dollars from two wheat and TTO crops.

43-1992 WP receiver authorised the insecticide chemical spraying of seed-wheat at Mt Carmel.

44-1992 WP receiver illegally assumed the authority to become the NASAA organic farmer.

45-1992 WP receiver illegally sold the 1991 wheat to Uncle Toby as NASAA certified organic.

46-1992 WP receiver sacked CU and assumed full right to grow and sell NASAA organic wheat.

47-1992 WP receiver was found to have mixed 1,500 tonnes of nonorganic wheat with organic wheat.

48-1992 WP receiver fraudulently sold this organically contaminated wheat to Uncle Toby (UT).

49-1992 Uncle Toby continued to manufacture breakfast food cereal from the nonorganic wheat.

50-1993 NASAA withdrew their organic certification registration from Uncle Toby’s products.

51-1993 Uncle Toby fraudulently continued to manufacture and market their food products as organic.

52-1993 Discovered documents showed where Uncle Toby used Dieldrin in organic wheat for insect control.

53-1993 Uncle Toby manager admitted the above contamination in court cross-examination.

54-1993 Discovered file note admitted there was $40 to $50 million of this product in supermarkets.

55-1994 Police admitted that they found no evidence of Uebergang contaminating organic wheat.

56-1994 Police lost all CU charge documents and could not present them for the criminal hearing.

57-1994 Police were pressured by Westpac &Uncle Toby to change the charges against CU to falsely pretending to defraud.

58-1994 Uncle Toby & WP engaged in criminal activity, blamed CU and had him convicted and jailed.

59-1994 WP bribed UT with $150,000 payment believed as inducement for UT to criminally charge CU.

60-1994 WP indemnified the receiver and witnesses against a possible Uebergang court reprisal.

61-1994 WP and UT paid witnesses $20,000 to cooperate in giving evidence against CU.

62-1994 WP receiver admitted in court that it would advantage WP if CU was criminally convicted.

63-1994 Magistrate O’Donnell stated that the receiver lied in court and that his employer was WP.

64-1994 Discovered evidence: WP/UT removed 29 pages of 1990 NASAA replaced them with the 1993 document pages.

65-1994 WP also forged dates and deleted signatures on security documents.

66-1994 18/02/94 WP established a third receivership based on signed securities under duress.

67-1994 WP Manager admitted he was told the second receivership based on extinct crop lien was a fraud.

68-1994 CU commenced Federal Court Australia action against WP and others (Muir J. QC Employed.)

69-1994 CU’s 3,290-page Submission filed in the FCA—2005 FCA reported documents missing.

70-1994 WP made three approaches to the court for security of costs of $400,000 awarded against CU.

71-1994 WP was allowed $250,000 on the third attempt when CU was in jail and virtually unrepresented.

72-1994 WP achieved their objective of financially stopping CU’s FCA action by having UT convict and jailed.

73-1996 The Committal Hearing of 52 days followed by an 18-day trial with 10 of the 11 charges defeated.

74-1996 Judge Manus Boyce addressed the jury for one full day urging them to convict CU.

75-1996 One jurist spoke out publicly against the proceedings being criminal and not civil—he was removed.

76-1997 CU spent five months of a two-year sentence in jail before funds were found for an Appeal.

77-1997 The Appeal was successful with three Justices unanimously exonerating CU.

78-1997 Appeal justices condemned Judge Boyce in five counts of “erring” & “failing” in instructions to the jury.

79-1997 CU was released from wrongful jailing without compensation or assets other than the cloths he stood in.

80-1997 Released on the 27 February 1997 to his wonderful wife Susanne who stood firm with him for 31 years.

81-1997 While in jail CU pruned the Numinbah trees and was taught to operate a computer.

82-1998 Since then to this day CU has become reasonably computer literate and has written seven books.

83-2000 Over the following years CU has read and studied extensively on banking systems and common law.

84-2002 CU and friends invented and patented a computer-controlled plantation forestry limb pruning machine.

85-2002 Over the following 17 years CU has assisted Susanne in the operation of her Life Style Clinic.

86-2004 CU decided not to spend time fighting WP as public opinion and the courts were favouring the banks.

87-2005 CU learned that a portion of the Uebergang family documents was missing from the Federal Court.

88-2006 For the next 12 years CU decided to assist Susanne, read books on bank crime and write.

89-2018 CU produced an extensive submission to the Haynes Banking Royal Commission (BRC).

90-2018 The Hayne BRC received over 10,000 submissions. Only 130 witnesses called & 76 recommendations made.

91-2018 The CU submission was not properly reviewed not did it trigger critical further investigation.

92-2018 Dr Peter Brandson – CEO of Bank Reform Now (BRN) arranged for WP to consider properly remediating CT.

93-2019 WP Customer & Corporate Relations commenced a review of the CU matter requesting evidence.

94-2019 Over the following six months CU complied and supplied three reports of 315 pages. The evidence was brutally

condemning of WP’s business practices and deceptive modus operandi.

95-2019 Despite conclusive evidence of fraud, WP’s Customer Relations team continued to deny any wrongdoing whatsoever.

96-2019 CU believes WP had no intention of a genuine dialog leading to compensation. The review being considered an

exercise to tick boxes and perhaps placate the House Economics Committee.

97-2019 Attention is now turned to exposing WP and UT criminality via mainstream and social media.

98-2019 Independent politicians will assist seeing the CU matter read into Federal and State Hansard.

99-2019 If no resolution is forthcoming - criminally charge WP & UT executives for their crimes - no time limit on FRAUD.

100 - More announcements soon. This really is a test case for Westpac and the other banks. The evidence is rock solid. Deny,

delay, deceive is not a sustainable position in the current environment. Until CU and other legacy cases are properly

remediated the banks and the government are just not serious about reforms to end finance sector crimes and misconduct.



This is one shocking story — one of like thousands — where the party-politicians have contrived unconscionably to assist the

criminals in the fraudulent fractional reserve banking system to exploit and ruin some of the most productive, entrepreneurial,

enterprising risk-taking families of our nation — there should be no redemption for such evil people.”

Colin Uebergang — 14/07/2019



The Unconscionable Crime of Criminals

Three branch bank managers were found guilty of fraud upon their customers by senior

bank management. Senior management procrastinated on ways to limit the risk of the fraud

being exposed to the customers and media. The three were transferred over night without

demotion — demotion would have confirmed guilt — therefore, this was not an option and

had to be avoided.

The guilty were then sent back to their branches and instructed to enhance the banks

position against the borrower by reconstructing records and diary notes.


John Alfred Salmon

R.I.P.  
John Alfred Salmon – 1934-2022 


In the 1930’s Albert Einstein was asked “what was the greatest invention of man.” An answer about scientific relativity was expected, but his answer was, --- “Compound Interest.”
Einstein’s knew that Fractional Reserve Banking was not what the people had been led to believe as being honest banking ~~ but was a FRAUD.
In 1992 I asked John Salmon why the National Australia Bank was doing so much better than the other three major banks at that time? 
His answer was, “Because they were smarter crooks!”
John Alfred Salmon, my friend of thirty-two years, was born in England in 1934 and with his parents migrated to Australia. He obtained employment with the National Australia Bank at the age of sixteen in 1950.
Over 36 years, John worked his way up in the NAB to a senior position of being responsible for the NAB’S regional administration in Queensland.
In the late 1980 he was asked by Head Office Management to have his branch managers conduct secret-slight-interest-rate increase adjustments to borrower’s accounts. This was fraud. He was told that this small change would not be noticed by most clients’ and was needed to advantage the NAB’s profit. The customers that would notice and complained, an admission of clerical error would suffice.
John did not agree with head-office on this fraudulent policy and by 1986 had had enough of the NAB’s greed opportunism. He decided to take early retirement instead of the intended dismissal. He decided to leave all bankstering matters behind him.
However, this didn’t happen as it was not long before a firm of lawyers asked John to assist them to obtain justice for the bank-crime victims. John agreed to do so and after having spent 36 years helping the NAB both serve and rob clients, spent a further 36 years being a Sherlock Holmes investigator to the victims of banking fraud.
John Salmon was an exceptionally honest man with an unmatched integrity in the financial industry.
In 2004 John wrote a book (this book) “THE UNTOUCHABLE BANKS ~ THE STING”. It is a book of his life as a banker and gave a realistic account of the nefarious behaviour of the banking industry and at the same time recognising the distress and hardship of the victims of the banks monopolistic arrogance of which there are many thousands of such destroyed people in our nation.
When questioned as to why the bee with its sting protruding on the cover of his book only had one wing, his answer was; “The missing wing signified that the sting of the untouchable banks would come unstuck in the chapters of my book.”
I met John in 1992 as a victim of iniquitous banking behaviour. He assisted me and many other victims of banking malpractice. John reviewed submissions to Federal and Supreme Courts, banking inquiries and Royal Commissions, and to my knowledge did most of this work for very little reward.
For twenty years John tapped out his work on a little typewriter with many white-out and retyped words. He had friends, one of which was Professor Evan Jones who helped by retyping his final submissions and letters. John was eventually talked into buying a computer, but this was left in its box for almost a year before he plucked up the courage and attempted to use it.
Eventually he found the computer could deliver very pleasant YouTube music, which he loved to listen to. At times, he would have the computer turned on playing YouTube music while he tapped away on his Adler machine. Eventually John put aside the Adler and gained the ability to use the computer for both music and typing.
I helped John to write nine, what he called “Banking Picadilloes”. According to the dictionary, a picadillo is a minor sin. Why he called these horrifying stories of bank crime picadillo’s I don’t know, as some were nefarious examples of victimisation of bank borrowers.
Throughout the last five years of my association with John, he progressively lost the mobility of arms and legs and had trouble looking behind when backing out of parking. He had two minor rear end car altercations which upset both he and the other people.
Then came the right-off of his car when his braking leg cramped-up and let his car ran backwards very fast down the steep entrance to his house and smashed into an electric light pole across the street.
From then on, I would drive to his place each morning to see that he was okay, and then we would go and have coffee and a yarn over how well the nation was fairing or not fairing and so forth. Then he would shop for what he needed for the day.
Sometimes he would go home in a cab. Sometimes I would take him home. Hundreds of times he would get out of the car, close the door, and open the back door and take his multiuse shopping bag out and shut the door. I would wait until the door closed and drive off.
This had been the procedure many times, when one day things didn’t go so well for John. I had driven a kilometre or two and my phone rang.  I pulled into a side street to answer it with John going crook; “You just ran over me and I can’t get up my knee is hurt. You’ll have to come back and help me get up.”
I couldn’t work out how I could had run over him as he was behind most of the car. It appeared that on this occasion he had held onto the door handle prolongingly and was dragged a couple of meters and landed in the kerb.
When I arrived back, he had two neighbour ladies propping him in a sitting position with one of them having called an ambulance. He spent several weeks in hospital with a complicated knee infection.
In the lock-down periods of 2020 and 2021 John and I went out each day, mostly to the top of Mt Gravatt mountain. For some months I would take coffee and Anzacs from home, and we would sit in the Sun at tables there and talk for an hour and then do his little bit of shopping. 
For months we would buy coffee at the mountain-top restaurant and then shop.
John was a good friend, and I will miss him until the end of my days.     

By: Colin Uebergang
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