Archive · Issues · Whistleblower retaliation or payback
Stories where the account links adverse treatment to reporting wrongdoing, raising safety concerns, speaking to media, or other whistleblowing.
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.
Staff and students at Australian universities allege that they are being bullied. - Bad Apple Bullies Australian universities: bullying of staff and students. There have been many complaints about wor…
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The Scientist, Reader's Comment, Fee-paying uni students bully academics for good marks, Tracey Spicer, The Punch, 9 March 2010: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/fee-paying-uni-students-bully-acade…
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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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Editor: This is the first time that I have heard of the police arresting a person for making false allegations against a teacher. Well done, NSW police! It is far, far too easy for a classroom…
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Gapuwiyak School in Arnem Land: Stephen Ferguson, teachers' union representative, asks the school principal to stop pestering the teachers for money. The principal threatens to spear him and burn his …
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Coober Pedy Area School, South Australia. - Bad Apple Bullies Coober Pedy Area School: a 'tough gig' for principals. Sue Burtenshaw joined Coober Pedy Area School in 2008 on a five-year tenure, after …
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Australian teachers: their stories of classroom violence, workplace bullying, harassment, etc. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria Help Robina Teachers' Stories: Australian teachers talk a…
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I have been suspended indefinitely without pay pending the outcome of an enquiry into allegations of "misconduct" in my role as a relief teacher with the Education Department. The suspension order was…
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A Reader's Comment: A little respect: attracting top teachers is not rocket science, Jane Caro, The Drum, Opinion, ABC, 4 October 2012: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4293550.html Graeme Sleeman, for…
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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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He got out of the NSW system the day he turned 55. He doesn't get much in the way of superannuation but he is a lot healthier and a lot happier. At his last school, the…
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Coober Pedy Area School, South Australia. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria Help Robina A message for Coober Pedy Area School principal Sue Burtenshaw and all South Australian public ser…
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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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A New South Wales Teacher-Librarian's Story. - Bad Apple Bullies A teacher's story: Victoria Help Robina A New South Wales High School Teacher-Librarian's letter to his school P and C Association. The…
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Preshil, Melbourne's oldest and most prominent ''alternative'' school, is the creation of two extraordinary educators — its founder Greta Lyttle, and her niece Margaret Lyttle, who was principal for 5…
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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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28 April 2009: Werribee Secondary College Humanities teacher Paul Unsworth sued the Victorian Education Department. In 2005 Werribee Secondary College Humanities teacher Paul Unsworth became depressed…
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Preshil, Melbourne's oldest and most prominent ''alternative'' school, is the creation of two extraordinary educators — its founder Greta Lyttle, and her niece Margaret Lyttle, who was principal for 5…
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Grad Teacher of Melbourne, Reader's Comment, Teachers seeing no future in state system, Jewel Topsfield and Bianca Hall, The Age, 30 May 2012: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/teachers-seei…
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During the ten years since November 2000, I have disclosed / whistleblown to hundreds of Queensland public servants, Queensland government departments and Queensland Members of Parliament - the advice…
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Staff and students at Australian universities allege that they are being bullied Staff and students at Australian universities allege that they are being bullied. - Bad Apple Bullies Australian univer…
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Australian teachers are being bullied into ill health and out of work. - Bad Apple Bullies Bad Apple Bully school principals and departmental officers can bully Australian teachers into ill health - a…
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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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I did not want to work at Lynch-Mob State School in 2000. FOI Document 2733 File G Administrative Law Services Branch documents 49-51 (using the numbers at the bottom of the page) are copies of my…
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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 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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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 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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KH of Perth, Reader's Comment 67 of 97 Special Report: Teachers reveal why they walked, Yasmine Phillips, Education reporter, Perth Now, 19 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-austr…
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Teachers who have tried to report misconduct and corruption in Queensland schools. - Bad Apple Bullies Bad Apple Bully school principals and departmental officers can bully Australian teachers into il…
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