Dr David Solomon AM, Chair,
FOI Independent Review Panel,
GPO Box 5236, Brisbane,
Queensland 4001
March 6, 2008
Dear Dr Solomon,
Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission in relation to the administration of Freedom of Information in Queensland.
I hope that the Independent Review Panel will not allow themselves to be abused as puppets to destroy Queenslanders' rights to Freedom of Information.
Freedom of Information can sometimes seem to be the only Queensland government "accountability process" that is functioning.
Without the right to Freedom of Information, Queensland teachers and other Queensland public servants would have no workplace rights.
There would be no accountability in Queensland.
Queensland teachers and other public servants would be even more exposed to workplace abuse.
Freedom of Information enables Queensland teachers who are dealing with workplace abuse to -
- Find out if the official records of their complaint about workplace abuse have been falsified.
- Find falsified "official records" that have been secretly placed on their Departmental files.
- Find details of internal and external "investigations" concerning them that have been conducted without their knowledge.
- Realise that what was represented to them as an "investigation" may not have been described as an "investigation" in the official records.
- Read "Briefings for the Minister" and gain an understanding of the strategies used by public servants to avoid "knowing" about public service workplace bullying, harassment, victimisation, discrimination and victimisation or "payback".
- Identify the Department of Education officers who have made untruthful statements to them and about them.
(If you can't see the rest of this letter, please click on March 2008 archives at the right hand side of this web page.)
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