Archive · Issues · Union, regulator or departmental failure
Pages where the account alleges failure by a union, education department, ombudsman, integrity body or other regulator to investigate or protect staff.
This archive preserves historical reporting, personal accounts and commentary from the former Bad Apple Bullies website. Inclusion or classification does not establish that every allegation is correct. Readers should consult original decisions, official records and contemporary reporting where available.
A Queensland teacher's true story of workplace bullying, mobbing, harassment, defamation, victimisation, 'payback', falsification of my official Department of Education records and the Queensland Labo…
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In November 2000 a mob of local people in the Queensland Department of Education and the Queensland Labor party seemed to have agreed that they were going to destroy me - to destroy my health and…
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Saphire of Sydney, Reader's Comment, (Editor's Note: Saphire actually made two comments, so I have combined them here.) 'Toxic teacher' warning as debate rages on lifting uni entry marks, Catherine Ar…
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Webman, Reader's Comment, Are our teachers making the grade?, Jewel Topsfield, Education Editor, The Age, 18 August 2012: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/are-our-teachers-making-the-grade-20120817-2…
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I send a student who has just told me to go 'F*** Yourself' down to the office. Half the time they're back within ten minutes as no one wants to mind them down there. In one…
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I taught in Sydney primary schools during the 70's and 80's. Children simply were not disruptive and violent in those days. I began teaching in Queensland at about the time that the cane was banned in…
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How your Education Queensland "official records" can be extensively falsified. And how decisions concerning you can be based on these falsified "records". An abusive school principal can "edit" the do…
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Walgett is a northern New South Wales community of about 2300. More than 98 per cent of Walgett Community College's primary and secondary students are indigenous. More than 90 per cent of the students…
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A University of Queensland former PhD student's story. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria A former University of Queensland PhD student's story. Editor's Note: This story was sent to me i…
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When I met John Ryan in Brisbane on 13 October 2004, he asked me if I wanted to make a 'Victim Impact Statement'. At the time I told him that I was very reluctant to describe…
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Andrew of Perth, Comment 6 of 6, Survey shows nearly two-thirds of teachers want to quit, Martina Simos, Perth Now, 5 April 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/why-our-teachers-want-to-leav…
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Working conditions for teachers in Australian TAFE colleges. - Bad Apple Bullies Gippstafe: Letter to Peter Hall MLA, Matt Viney MP, The Ombudsman, AEU -TAFE Branch, NTEU -TAFE Branch, ABC Gippsland, …
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How can Queensland teachers protect themselves against workplace bullying, harassment, mobbing, victimisation, and discrimination? Are you at risk of being bullied at work? Sue Bushell writes that the…
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It is not sufficient simply to run are-training course and hope that Bad Apples will change their behaviour. Bad Apples do not understand their own behaviour. That is the problem. Any re-training cour…
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Home | Bullyproof Yourself | The Early Stages | Meeting the Mob | Investigations | "Other Ways" | Research | Changing the culture | For Administrators | Mob Theory | Crime and Misconduct | News |…
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What happens when you try to make a Public Interest Disclosure (PID) to the CMC Liaison Officer in Education Queensland Head Office? The CMC Liaison officer may not respond to your email. The people t…
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The Education Queensland Ethical Standards unit is based at Education House in Brisbane. Ethical Standards Unit director Andre Legosz said managing complaints of staff misconduct included - conducting…
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Bad Apple Bullies inservice: Dealing with Workplace Psychopaths - An inservice course for Queensland Department of Education and the Arts administrators. Why do Queensland Department of Education ( DE…
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Home | Bullyproof Yourself | The Early Stages | Meeting the Mob | Investigations | Freedom of Information | The falsified records. | The Queensland Ombudsman | "Other Ways" | Research | Changing the c…
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The Bad Apple Bullies webmaster has come to the conclusion that what teachers who are dealing with workplace abuse really need is good legal advice. Teachers - you need good legal advice right from th…
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What happens if Education Queensland tell you that they are going to have an "internal review" of your complaint? Watch the wording that the Education Queensland officers use very carefully. An "Inter…
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In Dangerous Liaisons Robert Needham has reminded us of the words of Aldous Huxley - "the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced". If I were invited to speak to the APSACC conference…
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by senior officers of Education Queensland seems to encourage Queensland school principals to abuse the MUP and Grievance policies - and to drive good Queensland classroom teachers into ill health and…
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Bovver-boy bosses are a menace to society. Their autocratic ways and narcissistic personalities crush those who work for them. A survey of 3000 workers by the ACTU in 2000 found more than half had exp…
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The Queensland public service cannot be held to account. Find another way to get justice. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria Help Robina Mark Lauchs: there is no real transparency or acco…
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What happens when you make a Stage 1 Grievance to an Education Queensland District Director? The person whose behaviour you are complaining about may be asked to investigate their own behaviour. Educa…
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Home | Bullyproof Yourself | The Early Stages | Meeting the Mob | Investigations | Freedom of Information | The falsified records. | The Queensland Ombudsman | "Other Ways" | Research | Changing the c…
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What happens if Education Queensland appoint a Verifact Investigator to investigate your complaint about workplace bullying or harassment? Verifact investigation records are excellent. You can underst…
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