Thread: Government Corruption and the effect on Employees

Questions

What do you do when you have evidence of a government department editing/modifying evidence?

What do you do if a governemnt departments policy breaches legislation and there is a cover up?

change jobs so you don't cop the stress of dealing with XXXXholes

Government Ombudsman

Write a book about it and become famous

other than that what else is new ie many NSW state councils being sacked NSW state gov ministers being sacked

Ring Today Tonight and Current Affair and hold a toothbrush with your back to the camera.

Find some old cardboard, the tattier the better. Crudely nail it to a garden stake. Write lots of tiny text in thick waterproof pen. Don't restrict yourself to writing conventionally right-to-left, top-to-bottom, cram as much text as you can in every direction.

Find a busy street corner in the CBD.

Forget to comb your hair.

Wear a cardigan.

Stand on the corner during the busiest times of day, making sure to block as much of the passing traffic as possible. Roll your eyes a lot. Occasionally lunge at passers-by just to make sure they've seen you.

Do this every day for three years.

Now you're part of the regular collection of nutters that believe in government conspiracies, etc, and your life will be truly enriched

Originally Posted by Ron Dunn

Find some old cardboard, the tattier the better. Crudely nail it to a garden stake. Write lots of tiny text in thick waterproof pen. Don't restrict yourself to writing conventionally right-to-left, top-to-bottom, cram as much text as you can in every direction.

Find a busy street corner in the CBD.

Forget to comb your hair.

Wear a cardigan.

Stand on the corner during the busiest times of day, making sure to block as much of the passing traffic as possible. Roll your eyes a lot. Occasionally lunge at passers-by just to make sure they've seen you.

Do this every day for three years.

Now you're part of the regular collection of nutters that believe in government conspiracies, etc, and your life will be truly enriched

You have been to my workplace.. There is one of those nutters that has been camped out in front of our building for about 5 years with a second guy thats been there for the same time about half a block down the road....

Got it in one!!

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Write a book about it and become famous

other than that what else is new ie many NSW state councils being sacked NSW state gov ministers being sacked

I have a feeling some of those sacking were so that an administrator could pass planning changes to NSW govt satisfaction. I took a minor issue to ombudsman that I believe administrator just covered up.

Fantapantz, you cannot report it for fear of reprisal. Go talk with a good investigative journo if it is serious enough.

Conspiracies! Did I ever tell you about meeting a Korean spy in 1976 who had interesting things to say about Harold H.? (Sorry no names, true story)

I'll wait until I lose my job before the investigative journalist is contacted.

When i do lose my job i will try the cardboard thing. I'll do it outside the ABC or Newscorp and hand out fliers,hopefully soemone will be board of doing stories on fad diets in the 730 timeslot.

Queensland's Government did this a 'few' years ago - destroyed all relevant documents after receiving a sub poena, on advice from one of their senior public servants. His name - Kevin Rudd.

Fanta,
If everybody in Brisbane is aware of the "rort".,then nobody cares, so find a comfy pub, have a few, and forget it.
If you are sure that the rort is still a rort, swallow your pride, cover your bottom(!), and seek out a GOOD investigative journalist.(I'd go further than "The Courier"!)
Do not be afraid, They will respect your anonanymity, and, if it's worth it, blow the lid to buggery!!
The fourth estate is not all bad.

If this hypothetical situation is happening in your workplace I would ensure you have evidence to support any claims you might make in the future (including names dates and possible witnesses). I wouldn't leave it too long though as questions might be asked why you didn't do something about it sooner.

Not doing anything sooner? How about not doing anything at all ? How can you beat the government when they have modified evidence?

I do have proof of that, the silly buggers didn't modify file names before sending me audio recordings. So The properties of the files show when they were modified. This was after sending me a blank disc originally, and not sending a disc to my union rep as requested.

How can you fight a broad accusation when they refuse to tell you when where and exactly what you did?

Or how about, an outcome that basically says: The evidence says you didn't say it, but because they didn't read your email properly and hence they thought you said it, we'll still count you guilty of it saying it because they didn't show wrong intent by accusing you. And by the way we refuse to interview any other parties and will treat everything you say as heresay because we didn't interview the other parties that you and another witness asked to be interviewed.

Standard Government Policy is: "Do not have an investigation unless you know what outcome you want and are willing to work towards it. The truth is not in the best interests of flexibility, geeze next people will want accountability, and imagine the paperwork that would involve."