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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 Labor party. - Bad Apple Bullies

A Queensland teacher's true story of workplace bullying, mobbing, harassment, defamation, falsification of her official Education Queensland records, payback, systemic incompetence, corruption of official processes - and the Queensland Labor party.

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 to drive me out of work into an impoverished retirement.

I now realise that this sort of thing is common practice in Queensland.

The local Queensland Teachers' Union organiser advised me that there was no hope of justice - that the Education Queensland Grievance process did not work.

He told me that he had never known a Queensland classroom teacher's Grievance to be upheld.

He advised me to "accept the things you cannot change", because teachers who "fought it" were mentally and physically destroyed.

Several other QTU officers told me that this was good advice, "based on many years of experience of dealing with Education Queensland".

So in November 2000 I had to make a choice.

I could either remain loyal to the Queensland Labor party - as I had sworn to do when I joined the party - and passively allow this Education Queensland / Labor party mob to drive me into ill health and out of work.

Or I could fight.

And I decided to fight.

I thought, in 2000, that if I kept on repeating the facts - first to officers of the Queensland Teachers Union, then to the staff welfare officer in the Cairns District Office, the Cairns District Director, the Director-General of Education, the Minister of Education, the Queensland Premier, my Local Member, the Queensland Ombudsman, the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission, the Director-Generals of many other Queensland Government Departments - eventually I would find someone in Queensland who had the integrity to "hear" the truth.

I was sure that there would be at least one person in the Queensland government, the Queensland public service or the Queensland Teacher's Union with integrity.

My fellow classroom teachers had integrity.

They had seen me teach for periods of up to two years.

They met with acting principal Mrs GR in December 2000 and told her that she was making a mistake.

But Mrs GR made no record of their evidence.

And since that date to this, 20 January 2012, I have not managed to make contact with any other Queensland public servant or Government Minister who has had the integrity to deal with acting principal Mrs GR's 'incompetence'.

This is the story of my fight for justice - my own true story of Dealing With The Mob.

I believe that there is a public interest in publishing my story.

In November 2000 the QTU advised me that the Grievance process did not work.

And this is what I told Anna Bligh when I met her in June 2002.

I expected Anna Bligh to deal with the situation.

It seemed to be her responsibility, as the Minister of Education

But my experience to date suggests to me that nothing has changed.

The CMC / Education Queensland 'investigation process' seems to be a sham.

My experience suggests to me that the problem is with the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission ( CMC ) 'devolution strategy'.

The Queensland CMC have a policy of 'devolving' investigations - they allow Queensland public service departments to investigate themselves.

And, naturally, these public servants 'find no evidence' of their own misconduct.

My experience suggests to me that the CMC 'devolution strategy' is ruining the lives of many Queenslanders.

And I believe that I can use my own experience to demonstrate exactly how the CMC 'devolution strategy' fails.

With my own true story of Dealing With the Mob.

20 November 2000: I asked for a meeting of the School Behaviour Management Committee.

I gave a letter to the members of the Lynch-Mob State School Behaviour Management Committee: http://www.badapplebullies.com/mrsgractingprincipal.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

In this letter I asked for a meeting of the Behaviour Management Committee to discuss my concerns with the Behaviour Management Program at the school.

We seemed to be teaching the students to lie about their teachers!

I explained that I had told a child to turn around and face the back wall of the classroom because she kept calling out "show off! " at the children who were acting an Indonesian play.

The child had been sitting on a mat in the middle of the classroom.

I explained that there had never been any question of the child putting her face, or any other part of her body, close to the wall.

December 2000: Rachel Hunter was appointed Queensland's Public Service Commissioner.

January 2002: Peter Beattie's new Crime and Misconduct Act required the CMC to hand complaints over to the relevant departments. This new CMC system was set up to fail.

In January 2002 under premier Peter Beattie, the Queensland CJC was amalgamated with the Crime Commission to become the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission.

Beattie's Crime and Misconduct Act 2001 required that the CMC take complaints - such as my own complaint - and then hand them over to the relevant department to be dealt with if they were not considered "serious".

Peter Beattie's CMC system was set up to fail.

The aggressive fight against corruption and official misconduct previously conducted by the CJC was replaced by a benign regime of "capacity building" within departments and public sector organisations.

Any thinking person can see how a system in which in-house investigators report to senior managers, some of whom could perceive that theircareer interests may not be well served by rigorous investigation resulting in adverse findings about matters occurring on their watch, may compromise investigations.

And that seems to be what happened in my own case.

Again and again, the people who were involved in the situation seem to have been allowed to 'investigate' their own behaviour and to 'find no evidence' of their own incompetence / corruption.

The secret police, Tony Koch, 25 July 2009: http://www.tony-koch.com/index.php? page=detail& id=378& pageNum_articles=1 Historical link preserved from the original page.

23 June 2002: The Queensland Labor government Cabinet met in Cairns.

I attended the Cairns Community Cabinet Meeting.

After the Cabinet meeting we were invited to speak to the Ministers.

I sat down at a table with Anna Bligh, Minister of Education, and Jim Varghese, Director-General of Education.

I told them that, when Queensland classroom teachers were bullied, the immediate advice of the Queensland Teachers' Union was that there was no hope of justice and to "accept the things you cannot change" because the Education Queensland Grievance process did not work.

Jim Varghese seemed to know nothing at all about me or about the disclosure that I had sent to him on 31 August 2001.

But Anna Bligh seemed to know all about the situation.

This was odd, because Anna Bligh had no way of knowing that I would be speaking to her - I had sat down on an impulse.

This suggested to me that the acting principal who had bullied me had already 'groomed' Anna Bligh.

I knew that the acting principal had discussed me with Judy Spence - presumably at Labor party social events in Cairns - so there was every possibility that the acting principal had also discussed me with Anna Bligh.

Anna Bligh suggested that the situation was a problem with an individual QTU organiser.

I told her that this was not correct.

I told her that I had spoken to several other QTU organisers in the QTU Head Office. They had all agreed with the advice that I had been given. They had all said that, "based on many years of experience with the department", this advice was the best advice that I could be given. I told her that the organisers had all used the same words.

Jim Varghese asked me what I had been told would happen to a bullied teacher who did not "accept the things you cannot change".

I told him that the QTU had advised me that teachers who "fought it" were mentally and / or physically destroyed.

November 2003: Rachel Hunter was appointed Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.

28 January 2005: Greg Sorensen, Deputy Information Commissioner, was dealing with my Freedom of Information application.

Greg Sorenson wrote to Jason Davies, Education Queensland Freedom of Information officer, concerning my Freedom of Information application ( 2703 B 34 ).

Monday 31 January 2005

1:11 PM Anne Lindon of the Office of the Information Commissioner emailed Lemm Ex, Education Queensland Discrimination Solicitor ( 2703 C 177 )

She advised him that she would discuss my FOI application with Greg Sorensen the next day.

Monday 7 February 2005

Julie-Ann McCullough resigned from her position as president of the QTU.

She had been offered a job in the Queensland public service as Acting Director-Community Renewal in the Department of Housing.

In the next edition of the Queensland Teachers Union Journal, published three days later, Julie-Ann McCullough is photographed standing beside the acting principal of Lynch-Mob State College. Historical link preserved from the original page.

This is the last photograph of Julie-Ann McCullough as president of the QTU.

Tuesday 8 February 2005

9.36 AM Jason Davies, Education Queensland FOI officer, emailed Kathryn Mahoney, his supervisor, to advise her that my application to the Information Commissioner for an External Review had been accepted, presumably by Greg Sorensen (2703 C 159 ).

But I have not received these Freedom of Information documents to this day, 8 August 2010, because -

14 February 2005: Queensland Labor government Cabinet Ministers met in Charleville and laughed about Freedom of Information.

The Queensland Cabinet held a Community Cabinet meeting in Charleville.

Public Works and Housing Minister Robert Schwarten ridiculed The Courier-Mail for publishing an article about Freedom of Information. Historical link preserved from the original page.

Freedom of Information is all they're talking about in the Charleville pubs today, " Robert Schwarten mocked, to the delight of his laughing Cabinet colleagues.

Supposedly independent Queensland public service FOI officers routinely show documents requested under the FOI laws to Queensland government ministers and their staff before the documents are approved for release.

Police Minister Judy Spence, for example, is tipped off by the Police Commissioner, Bob Atkinson, about embarassing freedom of information requests.

Hypocrites make no secret of hilarity, State Affairs with Malcom Cole, The Courier-Mail, 19 Feb 2005. Historical link preserved from the original page.

Deliberately kept in dark, William De Maria, The Courier-Mail: 8 March 2005 Historical link preserved from the original page.

24 February 2005: The Queensland Labor government appointed Cathi Taylor as Queensland's Information Commissioner. She immediately sacked Greg Sorensen.

A selection panel selected Cathi Taylor to be the new Queensland Information Commissioner.

Rachel Hunter, director-general of the Justice Department, was the chairwoman of the selection panel.

Rachel Hunter was a personal friend of Cathi Taylor.

Cathi Taylor was married to Education Queensland director-general Ken Smith.

She is a former member of the Labor party.

She had previously worked in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

She is a social worker trained bureaucrat with no FOI appeal experience.

Rachel Hunter's boss, Attorney-General Rod Welford, had appointed Rachel Hunter to head the selection panel and he had endorsed Ms Taylor's appointment.

Leo Keliher, director-general of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, was Cathi Taylor's leading referee.

And he was also the most senior public servant on the selection panel.

Cathi Taylor's other referees were Professor Glyn Davis and Simone Webbe, both former or acting directors-general of Peter Beattie's department.

Lesley Clark, Labor Member for Barron River and c hairperson of the Queensland Parliament's Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee was a member of the selection committee.

Also on the selection committee were -

Former Borbidge Government crown solicitor Barry Dunphy - now a partner with national law firm Clayton Utz - http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Gr-0Rh1hd9I Historical link preserved from the original page.

Deputy public service commissioner David Douglas.

There was no Opposition representative on the selection panel.

On her first day in the job, Cathi Taylor sacked Greg Sorensen, deputy Information Commissioner and Queensland's most experienced Freedom of Information officer.

Greg Sorensen was perceived to be an independent and fearless deputy Information Commissioner.

FOI officers said that Cathi Taylor's appointment made a mockery of the Queensland public service 'merit selection' system.

Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said that the sacking had "realised our worst fears about a political takeover of the Office of the Information Commissioner".

This government has to stop appointing people for political reasons just to control the flow of information.

The government's... now disassembling every accountability mechanism that underpins a transparent government in Queensland.

Premier Peter Beattie said that the appointment of Cathi Taylor as Queensland's Information Commissioner was "done, finished and over", and would not be reversed.

Mr Beattie said that he would tolerate no further dissent.

He would, however, allow greater scrutiny of Cathi Taylor's work, through the Parliament's Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee.

Lesley Clark, Labor Member for Barron River, was, of course, the Chairperson of the Queensland Parliament's Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee.

And she was a member of the panel that had selected Cathi Taylor.

The Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission ( CMC ) also seems to have reported to Lesley Clark at that time - in her role as Chairperson of the Queensland Parliament's Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee.

And so I never received these Freedom of Information documents.

And two years later, on 3 February 2006, the Verifact Investigator noted, during a conversation with Kim Newman of Education Queensland:

Advised that 2361-2421 files will not be released.

( 340/5/1295 document number concealed but seems to be 969 ).

And three more years later, on 9 March 2009 - twelve days before the Queensland State election - the Queensland Information Commissioner advised me that the Office of the Information Commissioner had once again refused to ask the Department of Education to search for these documents - these documents that I have been requesting since September 2003 under 'Freedom of Information'.

Who made this decision to refuse to release these 2361 - 2421 files of FOI documents?

On what grounds?

On what date?

New FOI boss sacks deputy, Hedley Thomas, The Courier-Mail: 2 March 2010 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Job row engulfs Beattie Chief, Hedley Thomas, The Courier-Mail: 3 March 2005 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Call to sack Information Commissioner, AAP, NEWS.com.au: 5 March 2005

Nationals demand FOI chief be axed, The Sunday Mail, 6 March 2005

Information appointment untenable, Editorial, The Courier-Mail: 7 March 2005 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Deliberately kept in dark, William De Maria, The Courier-Mail: 8 March 2005 Historical link preserved from the original page.

FOI boss pledges to avoid conflicts, Malcom Cole and Ryan Heffernan, The Courier-Mail: 9 March 2005 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Crash course for FOI chief, Hedley Thomas, The Courier-Mail: 11 March 2005 Historical link preserved from the original page.

FOI boss gets more scrutiny, Malcom Cole and Hedley Thomas, The Courier-Mail: 19 March 2005. Historical link preserved from the original page.

A preamble for the Queensland Constitution? November 2004: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/committees/documents/lcarc/reports/LCAR046.pdf Historical link preserved from the original page.

September 2006: Rachel Hunter was appointed director general of the Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts.

Rachel Hunter was appointed the new director general of the Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts.

Ken Smith had been director general.

At first Queensland Premier Peter Beattie was said to have appointed Ken Smith to the position London-based position of Queensland's Agent General and Trade Commissioner for Europe and Africa.

But it was later announced that Ken Smith would not be able to take up the Agent General position.

He was appointed co-ordinator general and director general of the Department of Infrastructure.

Senior reshuffle for public service, Cameron Atfield, The Brisbane Times: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/senior-reshuffle-for-public-service-20110318-1c03z.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

13 September 2007: Ken Smith was appointed director-general of Anna Bligh's Department of Premier and Cabinet.

In her first announcement as Queensland's Labor premier, Anna Bligh named Ken Smith as director-general of the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Mr Smith had been selected by a panel including former Labor premier Peter Beattie and public service commissioner James Purtill.

Mr Smith has taken a lead role in many of the fundamental reforms that have shaped the state, " Ms Bligh said.

It was announced that Mr Smith's wife, Cathi Taylor, would resign as Queensland's Information Commissioner to avoid any perception of

a conflict of interest.

Ken Smith named Qld's top bureaucrat, AAP, news.ninemsn, 13 September 2007: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx? id=295791& rss=yes Historical link preserved from the original page.

19 September 2007: Anna Bligh established a committee to overhaul the Queensland Freedom of Information laws.

David Solomon was appointed to head a committee established by Labor Premier Anna Bligh this week to overhaul the Queensland Freedom of Information laws.

Ms Bligh has signalled she will take a sterner view of the secrecy provisions than her predecessor, Peter Beattie.

Curb on abuse of cabinet secrecy, Greg Roberts, The Australian, September 19 2007: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/curb-on-abuse-of-cabinet-secrecy/story-e6frg6oo-1111114450625 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Australia Day 2008: Lemm Ex was given an Australia Day award.

Lemm Ex, Manager, Central Screening Unit, Corporate and Executive Services Division, Department of Child Safety, was given an Australia Day Award: http://www.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx? id=56176 Historical link preserved from the original page.

2009: Lemm Ex was appointed to the Office of the Information Commissioner, Queensland.

Lemm Ex was appointed Principal Privacy Officer in the Office of the Information Commissioner, Queensland.

Australia Day 2009: Lesley McFarlane and Nicholas Ede were given Australia day awards.

Lesley McFarlane, Queensland Teachers Union research officer, became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM): http://city-south-news.whereilive.com.au:80/news/story/long-time-educator-awarded/ Historical link preserved from the original page.

Nicolas Ede, now working as a senior advisor, corporate services at Queensland Health, was also given an Australia Day Award: http://www.health.qld.gov.au/news/health_matters/2009/hm_feb09_web.pdf Historical link preserved from the original page.

26 March 2009: Rachel Hunter was appointed Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.

2 September 2009: Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, looked at this website.

11.15.33AM Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, seem to have received an email relating to this website. They looked at the Home Page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/ Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.16.18AM Macrossans looked at the QTU page of the website: http://www.badapplebullies.com/theqtu.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

4 September 2009: I sent in my submission to Anna Bligh's Green Paper on Corruption in Queensland.

I emailed my submission to Anna Bligh's Green Paper on Corruption in Queensland to The Premier's office: http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/community-issues/open-transparent-gov/submissions/submissions-201-220/robina-cosser.aspx Historical link preserved from the original page.

16 September 2009: Rachel Hunter announced her retirement as Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.

Twelve days after I sent in my submission to Anna Bligh's Green Paper, Rachel Hunter announced that she would retire as Director-General of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.

She had been in the job for just five months.

19 October 2009: Mrs GR, the Acting Principal who had bullied me, took sick leave.

On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Mrs GR, the Acting Principal who had bullied me, had advised the parents at her school that she would be taking two or three weeks sick leave from Monday 19 October 2009.

29 October 2009: Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, seem to have received an email concerning this website.

11.38.49 AM: Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, seem to have received a link to the Home Page of this website in an email.

They looked at the Home Page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/ Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.39.24 AM: Macrossans looked at the Contacts page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/contact.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

14.22.21 PM: Macrossans looked at the Contacts page again: http://www.badapplebullies.com/contact.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

14.22.47 PM Macrossans looked at the Queensland Ombudsman page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thequeenslandombudsman.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

31 October 2009: My server advised me that an attempt has been made to have this website closed down.

7.07 AM: My website server contacted me.

There had been a complaint about my website.

Somebody was trying to have the website 'taken down'.

3 November 2009: I emailed the Department of Premier and Cabinet to ask if they intended to publish my submission.

01.26 AM: It was now two months since I had made my submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Many other submissions had been published.

My submission had not been published.

I emailed the Department of Premier and Cabinet, asking if they intended to publish my submission.

10.38 AM: The Department of Premier and Cabinet emailed to advise me that my submission would be published that week.

3 November 2009, 10:43 PM: Mrs GR, the acting principal who had bullied me, was looking at this website.

22.43.45 PM: Mrs GR, the Acting Principal who had bullied me, was looking at this website.

She seemed to be searching for Fiona NcNamarra's name on the QTU page of the website: http://www.badapplebullies.com/theqtu.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

Mrs GR looked at the same page of the website again two hours later.

4 November 2009: Macrossans, the QTU solicitor, look at this website again.

00.44.42 AM: Mrs GR, the Acting Principal who had bullied me, seems to have put this website on her "Favourites".

She seems to have called the page 'Mrs GR / Harassment / Maccrosins (sic) / Response to request to close site cached deleted'.

So Mrs GR seems to have been the person who was trying to have this website closed down.

And she seems to have been in contact with Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, concerning this.

00.45.46 AM: Mrs GR looked at the QTU page of this website: http://www.badapplebullies.com/theqtu.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

10.38.21 AM: Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, seemed to be looking at the Falsified Records page of this website: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

Macrossans seemed to be google-searching for the name of Mrs GR, the Acting Principal who had bullied me.

Mrs GR's name was not on this website.

But it was on a website that linked to this website.

And I had no control over that other website.

10.39.23 AM Macrossans looked at the Home Page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/ Historical link preserved from the original page.

10.39.29 AM - 10.44.47 AM Macrossans looked at The Falsified Records: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.04.54 AM - 11.13.21 AM Macrossans searched for Mrs GR's name on The Falsified Records: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.13.21 AM Macrossans looked at the Home Page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/ Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.13.40 AM Macrossans looked at The Falsified Records: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.20.36 AM Macrossans looked at The Home Page: http://www.badapplebullies.com/ Historical link preserved from the original page.

11.20.45 AM Macrossans looked at the The Falsified Records: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

I could see Macrossans searching my website, so -

11.35 AM: I emailed Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, to explain my complaint: "Please note that I am a member of the QTU and that I have often asked the QTU for legal advice in dealing with the situation".

5 November 2009: my submission to Anna Bligh's Green Paper on Corruption in Queensland was published.

My submission to Anna Bligh's Green Paper on Corruption in Queensland was finally published on the Premiers Department website: http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/community-issues/open-transparent-gov/submissions/submissions-201-220/robina-cosser.aspx Historical link preserved from the original page.

7 November 2009: the QTU state council accepted the pay offer that they had previously rejected.

Two days after my submission was published on the Premier's Department website, the Queensland Teachers Union state council signed off on the Government's offer of a 12.5 per cent pay rise over three years – an offer the QTU had recently rejected as they wanted an 18.5 per cent increase.

Premier Anna Bligh finds $1 billion for Queensland teachers, Darrell Giles, The Sunday Mail, 7 November 2009: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/premier-anna-bligh-finds-1-billion-for-queensland-teachers/story-e6freoof-1225795336944 Historical link preserved from the original page.

7 November 2010: The QTU announce that Jeff Backen was going to be replaced.

Jeff Backen, Queensland Teachers' Union Administrative Officer with responsibility for educational leaders and for providing support for legal assistance had been on leave since 2008.

At the November 2010 QTU State Council it was announced that Jeff would be replaced.

Kate joins restructured leadership team, Graham Moloney, QTU Deputy General Secretary, p. 19, Queensland Teachers' Journal, 18 February 2011 Volume 34 number 1 Historical link preserved from the original page.

9 November 2009: Mrs GR, the principal who had bullied me, returned from sick leave.

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 Mrs GR advised the parents at her school that she had returned from sick leave.

8 December 2009: Mrs GR, the acting principal who had bullied me, advised the parents at her school that she would be leaving.

Mrs GR seems to have retired.

24 December 2009: Macrossans, the QTU solicitors, look at this website again.

09:28:30 Macrossans look at the main page of this website.

09:31:01 Macrossans look at The Falsified Records: http://www.badapplebullies.com/thefalsifiedrecords.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

09:37:36 Macrossans look at Investigations: http://www.badapplebullies.com/investigations.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

09:49:18 Marcossans look at Verifact Investigations: http://www.badapplebullies.com/verifactinvestigations.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

Australia Day 2011.

The Highly Intelligent Team Leader Bully who seems to have been involved in my 'case', as detailed in: http://www.badapplebullies.com/victimimpactstatement.htm was given an Order of Australia medal. Historical link preserved from the original page.

2 February 2011: A cyclone was approaching Cairns.

Cyclone Yasi was heading for Cairns and the electricity was going to be turned off at any moment.

I raced to copy onto my website a letter that I had given to the members of the Lynch-Mob State School Behaviour Management Committee on 20 November 2000: http://www.badapplebullies.com/mrsgractingprincipal.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

In this letter I had asked for a meeting of the Behaviour Management Committee to discuss my concerns with the Behaviour Management Program at the school.

We seemed to be teaching the children to lie.

I had explained that I had not told a child to "put her nose to the wall". The child had been sitting on a mat in the middle of the classroom. I had told the child to turn around and face the back wall because she kept calling out "show off! " at the children who were acting an Indonesian play.

After ten years of making Freedom of Information requests and trying to make sense of the many falsified 'records' that I had discovered on my Education Queensland official records, it had occurred to me that I had been concentrating on responding to the many falsified 'records' - but there was also another problem with the official records - many real documents were missing.

Could those real documents have deliberately removed to create a falsified 'record' of events?

Could my letter to the Behaviour Management Committee have been deliberately concealed from the investigators?

This would explain so much that had puzzled me about my case.

17 February 2011: Desley Boyle stepped down from her Ministerial portfolio.

Fifteen days after I published the letter to the Lynch-Mob State School Behaviour Management Committee, Local Government Minister Desley Boyle announced in parliament that she would step down from her portfolio on Monday and not contest the next election, due in March 2012.

Ms Boyle had represented Cairns since 1998.

MP Desley Boyle will not run in next election, The Cairns Post: http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/02/17/149885_local-news.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

Queensland Labor ministers Robert Schwarten and Desley Boyle to quit politics, AAP, The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/queensland-labor-ministers-robert-schwarten-and-desley-boyle-to-quit-politics/story-e6frgczx-1226007654115 Historical link preserved from the original page.

18 February 2011: Jeff Backen was replaced.

The QTU journal was published. Historical link preserved from the original page.

It was announced that Jeff Backen, Queensland Teachers' Union Administrative Officer with responsibility for educational leaders and for providing support for legal assistance would be replaced.

21 February 2011: Geoff Wilson was no longer the Minister of Education.

Nineteen days after I published the letter to the Lynch-Mob State School Behaviour Management Committee, it was announced that the Education Minister Geoff Wilson was no longer Minister of Education.

Former Attorney-General Cameron Dick was the new Minister of Education.

Anna Bligh's new Queensland Cabinet sworn in, AAP, The Herald Sun: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/new-queensland-cabinet-sworn-in/story-e6frf7kf-1226009325310 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Premier Anna Bligh unveils new Queensland Cabinet, AAP: The Herald Sun: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/premier-anna-bligh-unveils-new-queensland-cabinet/story-e6frf7jx-1226009204042 Historical link preserved from the original page.

18 March 2011: Ken Smith was no longer director-general of the Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Premier Anna Bligh announced that Ken Smith, director general of the Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet, had been appointed to the London-based position of Queensland's Agent General and Trade Commissioner for Europe and Africa.

10 July 2011: Queensland Labor government Education Minister Cameron Dick set up a reference group to examine workplace bullying.

Education Minister Cameron Dick announces that he is setting up a reference group to examine workplace bullying: http://www.cabinet.qld.gov.au/mms/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx? id=75615 Historical link preserved from the original page.

19 July 2011: Six Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission senior officers had been sacked. Nobody seemed to know why.

The Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission has lost six key staff - either sacked or walking - in recent months, including:

Peter Scanlan, Executive Director - terminated and escorted from the premises;

Russell Pearce, Director of Misconduct Investigations - had his contract paid out - now employed as Deputy Director of the new Tasmanian Integrity Commission;

Helen Couper, who had been Director of Integrity Services since 2000 - refused an extension of her contract.

Integrity Services is the area responsible for -

receiving and assessing complaints of misconduct,

monitoring agencies' complaint management

and building the capacity of agencies to deal with misconduct.

Sharon Loder, Assistant Director of Misconduct Investigations - resigned in June 2011 - now employed as Executive Director, Operations with ICAC in New South Wales.

LNP Shadow Attorney-General Jarrod Bleije attempted to seek answers from CMC Chairman Martin Moynihan at the Estimates hearings at Parliament on 19 July 2011, particularly why Russell Pearce, Director of Misconduct Investigations, had his contract terminated.

On question after question, Mr Moynihan was vague – mostly saying he couldn't recall or didn't have details or reasons for the dismissals and contract terminations of senior staff.

Mr Bleijie said serious questions needed answering on how these senior officers could be sacked - but at the same time issued with glowing references to help them apply for senior roles interstate.

CMC chairman vague on sackings, Jarrod Bleijie, LNP, 19 July 2011: http://lnp.org.au/news/attorney-general/cmc-chairman-vague-on-sackings Historical link preserved from the original page.

1 August 2011: I published an article about Cameron Dick's workplace bullying reference group.

My article -

'Why Cameron Dick's workplace bullying reference group will fail Queensland teachers - again'

was published in the Sunshine Coast daily: http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/articles/article-display/why-cameron-dicks-workplace-bullying-reference-group-will-fail-bullied-queensland-teachers--again,22438 Historical link preserved from the original page.

and on the Bullied Academics website: http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-cameron-dicks-workplace-bullying.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

30 September 2011: John Battams 'departed' from his position as General Secretary of the QTU.

Farewell John, and thanks, Graham Moloney, QTU Acting General Secretary, P. 6, Queensland Teachers Journal, Vol 34, Number 7, 7 October 2011. Historical link preserved from the original page.

November 2011: The Queensland Labor Government seem to have appointed Peter Edwards as Acting Director of the Education Queensland Ethical Conduct Department.

Department of Education and Training Organisational Structure...

deta. qld.gov.au/corporate/pdf/det-organisational-structure.pdf

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A/Director. Peter Edwards...

January 2012: The Queensland Labor Government seem to have appointed Lemm Ex as Acting Privacy Commissioner - Office of the Information Commissioner, Queensland.

Australia Day 2012

Australia Day 2012 was the Queensland Labor Government's last opportunity to reward senior Queensland public servants, union officers, etc. for their loyalty and co-operation.

The March 2012 Queensland State election: the Queensland Labor government are wiped out in a landslide - and at last we have change.

We badly needed a better government in Queensland.

We needed change.

And, thank goodness, Queenslanders voted for change!

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