Robert Needham, Chairperson, CMC, Letter dated 4 March, 2009.

 

Mr Robert Needham, Chairperson,

Crime and Misconduct Commission

GPO Box 3123

Brisbane

QLD 4001

4 March 2009

Dear Mr Needham,

On 31 August 2001 I made a Public Interest Disclosure to Jim Varghese, Director-General of Education Queensland.

I made the disclosure again to Anna Bligh and Jim Varghese in person on 23 June 2002.

I disclosed to them that the Education Queensland Diminished Workplace Performance (now called Managing Unsatisfactory Performance) Policies and Grievance polices were being abused to drive Queensland classroom teachers into ill health and out of work.

In 2007 99.8% of Australian teachers reported in UNE research that they had been bullied at work.

Bullying was reported to be "rife" in Queensland schools.

Up to 50% of Queensland teachers now leave the profession after five years.

Students with OP’s as low as 19 are now being accepted into Queensland universities to train to be teachers.

And Queensland parents are increasingly concerned about the falling academic standards in Queensland State Schools.

There is a Public Interest in identifying -

1) Exactly how Education Queensland policies are being abused by school principals and senior public servants to bully good Queensland teachers into ill health and out of work.

and

2) Why Queensland teachers who are bullied at work are advised by the QTU to "accept the things they cannot change" because there is no hope of justice.

I did hope.

I hoped that I could stop the systemic abuse of Queensland teachers.

Since early 2003 I have investigated this systemic abuse of policies because I appreciate that the time of your own CMC officers is limited and so "the wool is very easily pulled over their eyes" by Education Queensland officers.

On 17 September 2007 Anna Bligh announced to the people of Queensland that there would be an independent overhaul of Queensland's Freedom of Information laws.

She told Queenslanders that she wanted to provide the public with greater accessibility to information and better transparency.

But Anna Bligh's senior public servants, including the ... , had secretly agreed in 2006 to block - or "facilitate differently" - my FOI applications!

I had been bullied myself in November / December 2000 by Mrs GR, the acting principal of Lynch-Mob State College.

I had asked Mrs GR to support me in dealing with the unsupervised groups of Grade 7 children who were roaming about the school, disrupting the other classes.

Mrs GR would have been aware that it was going to be very difficult for me to complain about her abuse, because we were both active members of the Labor party.

Mrs GR was campaign manager for ... at the time that she was bullying me.

We were in the run-up to the February 2001 State election.

...

I had spent many hours organising groups of Labor party supporters to go out and lobby for ... .

Mrs GR had asked me - during several school lunchtimes in late 1999 - to join her own branch of the Labor party.

I had not joined Mrs GR’s branch, in fact I had become less enthusiastic about the Labor party in late 1999, and Mrs GR’s behaviour towards me became more aggressive.

At the time that Mrs GR attacked me - November 2000

- it seemed that Labor was going to lose the election.

I was worried that Mrs GR might be trying to drive me out of work before her Labor "power base" vanished.

It was very hard for me to deal with Mrs GR’s bullying because I liked and respected ... .

I did not hold ...  responsible for Mrs GR’s bullying and I did not want to cause problems for ...  and ...  during the run-up to the 17 February 2001 state election.

13 December 2000

at 1:12 AM I first tried to contact the Education Queensland CMC Liaison Officer by email.

She did not respond.

This seemed shocking to me at the time. It seemed to support the QTU organiser’s advice to me that there was no hope of justice.

5 February 2001

I was threatened five separate times during what was represented to me as a meeting to discuss Lynch-Mob State College usual principal Mr EL’s Stage 1 Grievance Investigation Report.

These threats seemed to support the QTU organiser’s advice to me that the Education Queensland Grievance system was corrupt and that there was no hope of justice.

31 August 2001

I made a Stage 2 Grievance to Jim Varghese, the Director-General of Education, that there was systemic abuse of the Education Queensland DWP and Grievance processes to bully Queensland teachers into ill health and out of work.

23 June 2002

I spoke to Anna Bligh and Jim Varghese.

9 July 2002

I gratefully accepted ill-health retirement, having been twice assured by ... that he had the bullying under control.

I believed that the situation had been informally resolved and that ... would make sure that Mrs GR’s behaviour would be carefully monitored in future.

A few days after my retirement Mrs GR was given a significant promotion opportunity - an "acting principal" position at a big local state school.

This did seem odd.

Then in late December 2002 I was told that Mrs GR’s promotion had been "confirmed" and I began to realise that I had been tricked.

26 February 2003

at 5:44 PM and again on

29 June 2003

at 2:06 PM I emailed Peter Beattie and "disclosed" to him that-

"I have tried very hard for two years to deal with this situation in a way that does no harm to the Labor party.

… both Mrs GR (the bully) and I were Labor Party members when all this began.

We both worked for ...  who is  …

Because Mrs GR was ... ’s campaign manager (at the time that she was bullying me) … I tried very hard to deal with the bullying informally. …

When ... told me he had the bullying well under control I believed him.

I trusted him. …"

OPS 70524 FOLIO 23, attached to letter to me from Kim Poiner, Manager, Cabinet Liaison and legal Services, dated 6 July 2007

Rachel Hunter was Public Service Commissioner at that time.

8 August 2003 Ms CHR

, Principal Advisor - Regional Services wrote a "Briefing Note for the Minister of Education".

http://www.badapplebullies.com/ministerialbriefings.htm

Ms CHR did not make clear in her "Briefing Note for the Minister" the various conflicts of interest that were affecting my Grievance-

the fact that Mrs GR was ... ’s campaign manager

 

and also the fact that Mrs GR had consulted / had recorded imaginary consultations with / had consulted but made no record of her consultation with several members of the Cairns District office staff - Mrs AG,  the Principal Personnel Officer, District Office, Mrs GN, the District Director and Ms CHR herself - before making her 29 November 2000 agreement with Lynch-Mob State College usual principal Mr EL that "the (DWP) process is justified".

 

All of these Education Queensland officers seem to have based their advice to Mrs GR on malicious gossip and the imaginary conversations concerning me that Mrs GR claimed to believe that she was having with children, parents, teachers, other principals, the local QTU organiser and District Office staff.

And Ms CHR did not make clear that, even after all of this consultation, Mrs GR’s total knowledge of the DWP process was contained on one sticky note - 2421 F 60 - at the time that she and usual principal Mr EL made their agreement that "the (DWP) process is warranted".

And that it must have been obvious to each of the Education Queensland officers that Mrs GR had consulted that Mrs GR had not read the DWP policy and knew almost nothing about the DWP policy.

You might consider that this was negligent.

I certainly do.

14 August 2003

Rachel Hunter wrote to Ken Smith, Director-General of Education Queensland, and asked him to provide her with a brief on the issue.

I presume that Rachel Hunter was given Ms CHR’s "Briefing Note for the Minister".

24 September 2003

I contacted InformationPrivacy@qed.qld.gov.au

to ask, "How do I go about finding out why I was put on DWP?"

This was FOI 2361.

I am still waiting to receive these documents.

16 October 2003

, Rachel Hunter signed a Chief of Staff Briefing Note recommending that nobody respond to my correspondence.

Peter Beattie personally approved Rachel Hunter’s recommendation, as did Neil Smith, Jeff Loof and George O‘Farrell.

OPS 70524 FOLIO 16, attached to letter to me from Kim Poiner, Manager, Cabinet Liaison and legal Services, dated 6 July 2007

27 November 2003

I made a full disclosure to Eve Gardiner of the CMC.

I also emailed a copy of my disclosure to her.

At some time during 2003, before I made this disclosure to Eve Gardiner, I had spoken by phone to a CMC officer - also Eve Gardiner, I believe.

I was bewildered when Eve told me repeatedly that "it wasn't bullying".

I knew that it was bullying because of Mrs GR’s manner.

She seemed to be enjoying bullying me.

I protested to Eve that Mrs GR had not seen me teach for twelve months, so could Mrs GR possibly claim to have "concerns" about my classroom management?

Eve told me that Mrs GR had asked another person to watch me teaching.

I protested that this had not happened.

Eve said that, in these situations, the CMC believed the school principal.

After 12 July 2004, I discovered that this untruthful claim had been made in a handwritten comment on FOI 2469 File F document 72.

2469 F is the file containing the Stage 1 Grievance investigation documents that Lynch-Mob State College usual principal Mr EL had handed in to The District Office at the time of my retirement.

This created the false impression that the mass of falsified and re-falsified documents in 2469 F had been discussed with me and that I had been given the opportunity to respond to the falsified "records" before Mr EL dismissed my Stage I Grievance.

Document 72 was an untruthful / inaccurate "record" written by Lynch-Mob State College acting principal Miss AL and dated 13 October 2000.

Miss AL had handed the falsified "record" to Mrs GR and it had been concealed from me till after July 12 2004.

This was done in breach of several Education Queensland policies.

At the bottom of this "record" Mrs GR had written by hand:

"Confidential request made to (Grade 7 teacher) L---- to act as "supportive colleague" to (my name) to try to give her some positive BM strategies. L---- agreed to do this."

This simply had not happened.

I had to search for Grade 7 teacher L---- at the end of most of my lessons.

And it is not an accepted policy of Education Queensland to make a secret agreement to conduct this sort of process on a teacher without her knowledge or consent.

If Mrs GR really gave Grade 7 teacher L---- this instruction, it would simply be another example of Mrs GR’s own behaviour towards me being in serious breach of Education Queensland official policies.

The fact that Eve Gardiner was aware of Mrs GR’s falsified claim, and Eve’s statement to me that in this sort of situation the CMC believe school principals, suggests to me that Eve Gardiner had been in contact with Lynch-Mob State College usual principal Mr EL and Mrs GR before I made my disclosure to her on 26 November 2003.

And that Mr EL and Mrs GR had "pulled the wool over Eve’s eyes".

29 December 2003

I complained to the CMC and the Ombudsman about the conduct of ... .

3 January 2004

I complained to the CMC about the negligent refusal of Education Queensland senior public servants ...  and ... to deal with my complaint.

After 30 March 2004

my FOI documents were gradually released to me and I began to realise that a huge mass of falsified "records" had been secretly placed on my official Education Queensland files.

Many were "records" of imaginary conversations concerning me that Mrs GR claimed to believe that she had been having with children, teachers, parents, principals and District Office staff.

13 April 2004

I wrote to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission trained Education Queensland "Discrimination Solicitor". I made an application for an internal review of FOI 2421.

I explained that I knew nothing about most of the documents in 2421 File F and that large numbers of these documents must be falsified.

This was the private file of falsified "records" of imaginary conversations concerning me that Mrs GR had provided to the FOI officers on 5 February, 2004,

340/5/1295 document not numbered but seems to be 3010

and which Mrs GR had also handed to Mr EL to be placed in the Stage 1 Grievance Investigation file 2469 F, to create the impression that these imaginary ‘records" had been discussed with me during the investigation into my Stage 1 Grievance.

So it would have been obvious to the Education Queensland Human Rights and Equal Opportunity-trained "Discrimination Solicitor" from that date that my Education Queensland records had been significantly falsified.

27 April 2004 Miss AL

’s "records" of the "mediated meeting" on 27 November 2000 were released to me for the first time.

2421 File F Mrs GR’s "private file" of real and imaginary "records" concerning me, document 31, number at top right hand side of page.

Miss AL had recorded that:

"Mrs GR then stated that there were a lot of allegations, and that she had lots of pieces of paper to prove how things may have happened."

To this day I have no idea what these "things" are that "may have happened".

I made an FOI application for copies of these "lots of pieces of paper to prove how things may have happened".

June 21 2004

I emailed Ken Smith and copied the email to the CMC, the Ombudsman,

MailBox@justice.qld.gov.au

I attached a letter to Ken Smith and my responses to five of the falsified documents that I had found in 2421 File F - Mrs GR's "private file" of real and falsified "records" concerning me.

At 12:45 PM the next day, I handed in a printed copy of my letter to Ken Smith and my responses to the five falsified documents at the front desk of The District Office.

I emailed the Director-General at 3:37 PM that day to advise him of the name of the person in the District Office to whom I had handed the printed copy of these documents.

I later discovered under FOI that all copies - both printed and emailed - of my letter to Ken Smith and my responses to the falsified documents had simply been "lost".

29 July 2004

an officer of the Information Commission persuaded me to put FOI application 2361 and 2421 (Infocom ref: 2004/F04730) "in abeyance".

This now seems to have been a trick.

The remaining 2361 and 2421 documents have not been released to me to this date, 18 February, 2009.

In mid-2004 Ken Smith appointed John Ryan Director of Ethical conduct, so John was able to control the "internal review" into ... .

John Ryan met with CMC officers and discussed my complaint about ... .

John Ryan, ... told the CMC what "I wanted".

And the CMC seem to have simply copied John Ryan’s words into their own records and into their letters to me:

"… you have consistently claimed that action should have been taken against individuals she (sic) identified."

Letter to me from Helen Couper, 4 January 2007

When I complained to CMC officers that it was inappropriate for John Ryan to be controlling the "internal review" into ... , they told me that it was not their responsibility.

16 November, 2004

David Douglas, Executive Director, seems to have asked for my correspondence to be automatically filed and not read by anybody.

OPS 70524 FOLIO 11 attached to letter to me from Kim Poiner, Manager, Cabinet Liaison and legal Services, dated 6 July 2007

In late 2004 The District Director

 disclosed to officers of the Information Commissioner that he had visited Lynch-Mob State College and discussed putting me on DWP with Mrs GR during Term 4 2000.

A principal - whose "comments" concerning me were quoted by Mrs GR in three separate imaginary "records" - stated to Anne Lindon "that she did not recall having had any conversation with Mrs GR about you".

Letter to me from the Information Commissioner dated 14 December 2004.

Similarly, a District Office employee told Education Queensland FOI officers that they did NOT remember having the conversations with Mrs GR that Mrs GR had "recorded" and placed secretly on my file.

19 December 2004

I wrote to Margaret Newbery, Assistant Information Commissioner, and pointed out that this meant that, during the run-up to the state election, the ... District Director had met with the Local Member’s campaign manager and, although neither of them had seen me teach or looked at my program, they had planned to put me, another Labor party member and a campaign worker for ..., on DWP.

Then the District Director had left the school without discussing the situation with me.

I said that I found this story quite incredible.

I made an FOI application for the records of this conversation.

To this date I have had no response to this FOI application.

24 January 2005

I wrote again to the Information Commissioner, explaining that I was being bullied and disclosing the political background to the situation.

I also complained about the behaviour of the Education Queensland Human Rights and Equal Opportunity-trained "Discrimination solicitor", who was "internally reviewing" my FOI application and ... .

28 January 2005

Greg Sorensen, Deputy Information Commissioner, wrote to Education Queensland to say that the Information Officer would review my complaint.

Within a few weeks Rachel Hunter chaired and ... was a member of a committee that selected Cathi Taylor, Ken Smith’s wife, to be the new information Commissioner.

I consider that ... had a conflict of interest in making this decision. ... was her husband’s boss.

... ’s campaign manager, her husband’s boss and her husband were all the subject of active Infocomm FOI searches and complaints to the CMC.

Cathi Taylor’s first act was to sack Greg Sorensen.

27 May 2005

I wrote to my Local Member, complaining about the behaviour of the Education Queensland Human Rights and Equal Opportunity-trained "discrimination solicitor", who seemed to be refusing to release the FOI documents to me.

My Local Member did nothing to help me.

But by September 2007 the Education Queensland Human Rights and Equal Opportunity-trained "Discrimination Solicitor" had been appointed ... .

14 July 2005

A officer from the Office of the Information Commissioner rang me. She told me that tbe CMC rules had changed and that now I would not be able to get access to any document produced by the CMC.

I now wonder if

application 2361 and 2421 (Infocom ref: 2004/F04730) documents were CMC documents and this was why I was persuaded to put them "in abeyance" - so that the law could be changed and the documents could be refused to me.

My concern is that, during October - December 2000, Mrs GR seems to have been experiencing imaginary conversations concerning me with children, parents, other teachers, other principals, the local QTU organiser and at least one District Office employee.

Since I discovered the hidden mass of falsified "records" on my Education Queensland files, I have been concerned that Mrs GR may have claimed to have "heard" a confidential allegation concerning me, or that she may have groomed a child or parent to make such an allegation.

And that the allegation may have been handed to the CMC or some other body for investigation so that I would never be able to find it and never be able to prove myself innocent of this imaginary / groomed "confidential disclosure".

27 October 2005

, one month before the Verifact Investigation into my complaint about the falsification of my official records began, 2733 File F Administrative Law Services Branch document 24 - number at the bottom of the page - was released to me and I discovered for the first time that Mrs GR had "recorded" that she had made statements concerning me to the staff because of allegations that had been made about me in "notes to Grade 7 teacher L----  from Desley".

These allegations had never been discussed with me.

I made an FOI application for copies of these "notes to L----  from Desley".

Wednesday 15 February, 2006

I emailed Rod Welford, the Ombudsman, Ken Smith, Peter Edwards, the CMC, the EQ "internal reviewer" and John Ryan.

 

I said that I was beginning to wonder if some of the "records" hidden on my file were simply made up.

I had phoned a child, a teacher and a parent who seemed to be named in Mrs GR’s "records".

They had told me that they had not had those conversations with Mrs GR.

20 February 2006 12:25

I sent a copy of this email to the Information Commissioner.

10 February 2006

the Verifact investigator first tried to contact Mrs GR.

13 February 2006 Mrs GR

 contacted the Verifact Investigator.

2875 File J document 10 released to me after 11 October 2006, records that the Verifact Investigator had "liaised" with Mrs GR and that an appointment had been made to speak with Mrs GR the next day - 15 February 2006.

But the Verifact Investigation Running Sheet released to me after 12 June 2008 makes no mention of the meeting on 15 February 2006.

It only records that a meeting would be scheduled after Mrs GR "considers matter".

27 February 2006 Mrs GR

 rang the investigator. She told him that she was seeking Queensland Teachers' Union (QTU) advice.

1 March 2006 Mrs GR

 spoke to John Ryan, Director of Ethical Standards, Education Queensland.

At 4:44 PM John Ryan emailed Kathryn Mahoney and The District Director:

"Mrs GR sounds very fragile -

she has asked if there is any way we can stop asking her for information -

she was not specific about requests -

I’ve given her an update on what we are trying to do re allegation of false documents ...

she has asked if there is any way we can limit requests to her about the 2000 issue -

she is fearful about her safety - …"

2875 File A Legal and Administrative Law Branch, document 681

2 March 2006

9:36 AM Kathryn Mahoney sent John Ryan’s email to Jason Davies, the Education Queensland FOI officer:

"Would like your thoughts on this matter sometime. Kathryn."

 

Mrs GR contacted the Verifact investigator. She told him that she had discussed the situation with the QTU and also with John Ryan "and was now aware of the extent of the allegations being made by claimant".

7 March 2006

the Verifact Investigator interviewed Mrs GR.

After this meeting the Verifact Investigator recommended that consideration be given to whether disciplinary action should be initiated.

340/ 5/1295 document numbers obscured but seem to be 1006 and 1010

Strangely, the Verifact Investigator records no further telephone contact with Education Queensland Officers for the next month.

29 March, 2006

The Verifact Investigator submitted a Report. I presume that this report would have recorded his recommendation that disciplinary action be considered.

This report has not yet been provided to me.

Susan Barker, Assistant Information Commissioner wrote to me to advise me that my application for the 2361 and 2421 (OIC ref: 2004/F04730) documents had been taken out of "abeyance".

4 April 2006

John Dobbie, Principal legal officer, Legal and Administrative Law Branch, Education Queensland wrote to advise me that-

 "I have today spoken to Mrs GR who has advised that she has no recollection of … the "notes to L----  from Desley".

"Mrs GR states that the events which are the subject of the note occurred many years ago and she has no recollection of their context."

My solicitor wrote to Education Queensland.

He asked Education Queensland to confirm in writing that there were no grounds for me to be placed in the Diminished Workplace performance program.

21 April 2006

John Ryan sent Mrs GR a copy of my solicitor’s letter. He asked her to telephone him if she wished to respond to the contents of my solicitor’s letter (340/5/1295 document 960).

2 June 2006

at 10:21 I emailed the Information Commissioner to make a formal complaint that an officer of the Information Commission seemed to have tricked me into agreeing to put my 2361 and 2421 (OIC ref: 2004/F04730) applications "into abeyance" because she assured me that these documents would be released to me in response to my later FOI application.

The officer then refused to re-open the external review application for two years.

Then the officer declared my application 2004/F04730 "closed".

To this date, 18 February, 2009, these 2361 and 2421 files have not been released to me.

These are the first documents that I first applied for.

These documents would probably explain the first, secret "reason" why Mrs GR and Mr EL made their 29 November 2000 agreement that "the (DWP) process is warranted".

These are the documents that I want.

18 July 2006

Education Queensland Legal and Administrative Law officers Tom Jumertz, Trevor Morris, Andrew Smith and Matt Woodforth met with officers from the Office of the Information Commissioner, Sue Barker and Anne Lindon.

They discussed my FOI applications and the problem of "vexacious applicants".

 

I presume that they would also have discussed - 

The recommendation of the Verifact Investigator (four months before this meeting) that disciplinary action be considered against ... .

And the pressure that they were all under to refuse to process my FOI applications in the normal manner.

And my application for the first FOI documents - 2361 and 2421.

 

The last section of the "record" of this meeting has been concealed from me.

26 July 2006

Ken Smith wrote on a General Briefing Note -

" ...Mrs GR is not to be contacted with respect to any issues raised by (my name) . ..."

340/5/1295 external Review Document 1307

17 October 2006

Peter Edwards, Manager, Investigations and Complaints Management Workforce Standards and Performance Unit, wrote a General Briefing Note to The Director-General.

340/5/1295 document number concealed but seems to be 957-959

 

"4. Verifact found that Mrs GR had kept some notes on ... (my name).

… (my name) had not previously seen these detrimental records."

This is correct.

And for this conduct alone the Verifact Investigator recommended that Disciplinary Action be considered.

But this is not the whole story.

http://www.badapplebullies.com/ministerialbriefings.htm

I discovered after June 12 2008, two years after the Verifact Investigation had been "completed", that Education Queensland senior officers had significantly limited the investigation.

Education Queensland senior officers had not allowed the Verifact Investigator to investigate the falsification of Mrs GR‘s secret "records":

The

63 2421 File F documents were described as "Lynch-Mob State School documents" when some of them were released to me for the first time after 27 April 2004.

But in 2006 Mrs GR told the Verifact Investigator that she had actually kept this file of 63 2321 F falsified records in her own possession.

But that was not the only file of falsified "records".

2) After 12 July 2004 another file of falsified "records" described as "2469 File F The District Office" had been released to me.

This file contained

146 documents, about half of them falsified.

Several of the documents had been falsified twice - Mrs GR had written falsified messages to Mr EL on several of her falsified 2421 documents.

And Mr EL had hand-written notes on one of the falsified documents himself.

2469 File F document 74 - number at the top right hand corner of this document. Miss AL’s notes on the meeting on 12 October 2000.

This file was called 2469 File F "The District Office Documents".

 

These two files - 2421 and 2469 - held different versions of the falsified documents.

After 12 June 2008 I discovered that a new document dated 5 February 2004 had appeared on my file.

The following words have been written by hand on a scrap of paper-

"5 February 2004

Dear Stephannie (Kalas- the Education Queensland FOI officer),

Please check out what may be relevant in the attached file.

Copies of these were also filed at Lynch-Mob State College.

Mrs GR"

340/5/1295 document has no number but is in the position 3010-3011

So, if we accept that this document that appeared for the first time after 12 June 2008 is a genuine document, it proves that Mrs GR not only had -

a 2421 F file of 63 falsified "records" concerning me that she was storing at home,

but she had also filed another set of falsified documents 2469 F at Lynch-Mob State College, on which she had written notes to Mr EL.

 

and that Mr EL had written notes on one of the falsified documents himself,

 

then they had placed the mass of falsified documents in the 2469 F file that contained the records of Mr EL’s "investigation" into my Stage 1 Grievance about Mrs GR’s (and his own) abuse of the Diminished Work Performance process.

 

And then Mr EL had noted in his "Stage 1 Grievance Investigation Report"-

"On the matter of the Grievance all paperwork was received ..."

2469 File F document 143, number at the top right hand corner of the document, Mr EL’s Stage 1 Grievance Investigation Report.

This is the Stage 1 Grievance File that Mr EL seems to have sent to the District Office a few days after my retirement on July 9 2002.

This created the

false impression that the mass of falsified "records" in this file 2469 F had been discussed with me during the investigation into my Stage 1 Grievance about Mrs GR’s abuse of the DWP process, and that I had been given the opportunity to point out that many of these "records" had been significantly falsified.

 

"8. ... the WSPU will be closing the matter and will not enter into any more correspondence on all matters previously investigated. ..."

Peter Edwards' General Briefing Note: 340/5/1295 document number concealed but seems to be 958

The Verifact Investigator seems to have only been allowed to establish that the falsified documents were placed on my Education Queensland files without my knowledge.

He was not allowed to investigate the actual falsification of the "records".

And he seems to have been instructed to copy down exactly what Mrs GR, Mr EL and Miss AL told him, even if it was obviously untrue.

In tiny-weeny writing at the very top of his investigation report, the Verifact Investigator has written:

"The witness based information contained within this report is soley sourced from interviews.

No conclusions are drawn in this report as to the veracity of such information."

340/5/1295 document number concealed but seems to be 1003

You might think that this is a very strange sort of "investigation".

I certainly do.

At what stage of this process will Education Queensland actually investigate the falsification of my "records"?

http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm

"9. It is recommended that the Department continue a "Nil Response Required" approach in all matters previously investigated, raised by (my name)."

340/5/1295 document number concealed but seems to be 958

23 November 2006

I met Ken Smith and discussed my complaint.

He advised me to me to write to Rachel Hunter, who had been appointed Director-General of Education.

To this day, Rachel Hunter refuses to communicate with me concerning my complaint.

4 January 2007

Helen Cooper, Director Complaints Services, CMC, emailed me.

In discussing the falsification of my official "records", Helen Cooper stated:

"Departmental officers … explained to you the reasons for the alteration to some of the records, in part arising from the paraphrasing of your words by departmental officials."

 

This is gibberish.

Mrs GR hand-wrote comments on the falsified 2421 F "private file" of falsified documents concerning me.

Then she seems to have handed the falsified "records" to Mr EL, who also seems to have hand-written a comment on one of the documents.

Then they seem to have placed the falsified and re-falsified documents in 2469 F to create the false impression that the falsified documents had been discussed with me during the Stage 1 Grievance.

Somebody has "pulled the wool over Helen Cooper’s eyes".

And I am not saying this because I am a "vexacious applicant".

I am saying this because somebody has "pulled the wool over Helen Cooper’s eyes".

17 September 2007

Anna Bligh announced that there would be an independent overhaul of Queensland's Freedom of Information laws.

On about

19 September 2007 Cathi Taylor, Ken Smith's wife, resigned as Information Commissioner.

 

Mr Needham, I hereby request-

1 ) All documentation concerning and related to Helen Cooper’s letter to me dated 4 January 2007.

In particular, I would like a copy of the Education Queensland document from which Helen Cooper seems to have copied the gibberish:

"Departmental officers … explained to you the reasons for the alteration to some of the records, in part arising from the paraphrasing of your words by departmental officials."

2 ) All other documents / records concerning and related to me that have not been released to me to this date.

3 ) As you are aware, I am concerned that Mrs GR may have claimed to have "heard" a "confidential disclosure" concerning me, or that Mrs GR may have groomed some gullible child or parent to make such a disclosure.

If you or any other body are concealing any such "confidential disclosure" from me to protect Mrs GR, I would appreciate it if you would provide me with some clear and full explanation of this circumstance and as many of the related documents as can be released to me at this time.

Yours sincerely,

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