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Isaac soloman
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Police investigate Ben Roberts-Smith over alleged war crimesThe Australian Federal Police has launched a major investigation into Australia’s most decorated former soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The AFP began investigating the Victoria Cross recipient in June over his alleged actions while serving with a special forces patrol during Australia's longest war.https://www.smh.com.au/national/police-investigate-ben-roberts-smith-over-alleged-war-crimes-20181126-p50ihb.html |
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If all of his Polynesian mates could constrain themselves for the sake of their generous salaries, why couldn't Izzy? I am sure they still hold their bigoted views, just dont feel compelled to spew it over social media.
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Have you got another irrelevant rabbit hole for me Isaac?
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If I was hiring, and an applicant told me that they could make more money in the private sector but they would take the public service job if I paid a lot more, I'd tell to fark off then- I'll hire someone who knows what public service is.
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Izzy wasn't given a choice?
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Listen - this discussion has to stop here & go to the correct thread - "Folau". Its impacting my page count. Mind you - i started the Morrison thread as well so its not all doom & gloom
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Isaac soloman
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djebel continuing the great labor hoodwink. ALL the poli's getting a pay rise including the labor mob. And the biggest pay rise goes to.....a PUBLIC SERVANT, nearly a million dollars. What the f for? Perhaps sc can tell us.
Pay rise coming for federal politicians as they prepare to return to CanberraKey points:
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Where was the outrage then?
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Massive hypocrites like most god botherers
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Expect more ''scrutiny'' of govt members following the attacks on journalists and journalism last week methinks. Apologies for long article...firewalled Fresh
documents in Morrison’s sacking Thirteen years after
Scott Morrison was mysteriously sacked from a senior public sector job as
managing director of Tourism Australia, a six-month investigation by The
Saturday Paper has created the clearest picture yet of the events
surrounding his dismissal. Documents obtained
by The Saturday Paper under freedom of information laws show
Morrison received a pay rise less than a month before he was sacked, taking his
annual base salary from $318,031 to $332,030, with discretion for his employer
to add up to 2.5 per cent on top. They reveal then
tourism minister Fran Bailey expressed alarm in the weeks before Morrison’s
sacking about the way Tourism Australia was handling taxpayers’ money. They also show that
previous decisions of the Remuneration Tribunal – which sets the salaries,
terms and conditions for senior public sector officeholders – had specified
that an officer who lost a job prematurely for poor performance was not
entitled to severance pay. The Saturday Paper is not
suggesting Scott Morrison was sacked due to unsatisfactory or poor performance. Around the time of
Morrison’s dismissal it was suggested he was paid out after having his contract
terminated more than a year early. Sources have since confirmed this. The size and
conditions of that payout have never been officially disclosed, nor the reason
for the termination. It was long
speculated that the sacking was the result of a personality clash between
Morrison and Bailey or differences over her plans to restructure the agency. But late last
year, The Saturday Paper uncovered an auditor-general’s report
from 2008 examining the handling of three major contracts, which had delivered
a scathing assessment of Tourism Australia’s management. The report provided
the first indication as to the real reason Morrison was removed. The contracts were
worth $184 million, and the auditor focused most on the two biggest – those
with companies M&C Saatchi for global creative services or advertising
campaigns, and Carat for media placement. The audit report
revealed that information had been kept from the board, procurement guidelines
breached and private companies engaged before paperwork was signed and without
appropriate value-for-money assessments. “I NEED
TO BE REASSURED THAT THE TAXPAYER IS RECEIVING VALUE FOR MONEY WITH THESE
SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS … I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT NO INDEPENDENT EVALUATION HAS
YET BEEN UNDERTAKEN.” BAILEY’S CONCERNS WOULD BE REFLECTED IN THE
AUDITOR-GENERAL’S FINDINGS, TWO YEARS LATER. Both before and since
becoming prime minister in August last year, Scott Morrison has refused to
answer questions about why the tourism minister took the unusual step in July
2006 of sacking him as head of the agency. He has also refused to answer
questions about the handling of the contracts, which were signed the previous
year. He did not respond to questions for this story before time of press. Now retired from
politics, Fran Bailey will not explain her decision, telling this newspaper in
November last year: “I reiterate that it was a unanimous decision to get rid of
Mr Morrison by the board and the minister.” Scott Morrison joined
Tourism Australia on a three-year contract in 2004, after four years as state
director of the New South Wales Liberal Party. The Tourism Australia
board, on which Morrison sat as managing director, was then under the
chairmanship of former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Tim Fischer. Other members
included Andrew Burnes, the owner of what is now the Helloworld travel company
and the current Liberal Party treasurer. The contracts in
question were related to the crafting, production and rollout of what became a
controversial but highly successful international tourism campaign, focused on
the slogan “So Where the Bloody Hell Are You?” After the audit
report on Tourism Australia came to light late last year, The Saturday
Paper sought documents under FOI from a range of agencies, including
the Remuneration Tribunal, Tourism Australia and the Department of Prime
Minister and Cabinet. In 2005 and 2006, the
Prime Minister’s Department had become involved in scrutinising Tourism
Australia’s handling of the two large contracts, due to concerns that
government procurement guidelines were not being followed. In response to the
FOI applications, the agencies have provided some documents in full, partly
redacted some and blocked others from release on the grounds of privacy or
commercial confidentiality. The Prime Minister’s
Department took six months to process the FOI application, which was only
finalised when the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner stepped in
and refused the department’s application for a further extension. The documents put a
time line to the growing concern within government in 2005 and 2006 about the
way Tourism Australia was handling these large contracts and about how the
dismissal of its managing director was managed. They also reveal the
steps the minister, Fran Bailey, then took, with the support of then prime
minister John Howard, to change the governance arrangements for Tourism
Australia in the wake of Morrison’s tenure, to make the board more accountable
to its minister. The Saturday
Paper understands the board authorised Morrison’s payout, which was finalised
soon after Morrison’s dismissal in July 2006. He had received a pay increase
from July 1, as per a Remuneration Tribunal ruling affecting all public sector
officers at his level. Notifying Fischer of
the pay rise decision on June 21, 2006, the tribunal’s president, John Conde,
reminded him he was obliged to report back if an executive’s circumstances
changed. “Employing bodies are
required to notify the Tribunal of any change to a [Principal Executive
Officer’s] terms and conditions within 4 weeks of such a change being
determined,” Conde’s letter to Fischer said. There is no evidence in the
schedule of documents provided that Fischer did so before determining
Morrison’s severance package. On July 11 of that
year, he wrote to Conde acknowledging the advice. “I will give full
consideration to your advice when reviewing the total remuneration for the
managing director [of] Tourism Australia,” Fischer wrote. “As requested, I will
advise the tribunal of any change in remuneration as and when it is
determined.” Within three weeks,
Bailey had sacked Morrison and the board was preparing to meet to finalise his
termination. The Sydney Morning
Herald reported his removal on July 26, 2006. On August 1, a flurry
of emails relating to Morrison’s termination began. The Remuneration
Tribunal secretariat wrote to the secretary of the Department of Industry,
Tourism and Resources, who was then Mark Paterson, and who had been a
government representative on the board of Tourism Australia. The secretariat also
exchanged emails with its president, John Conde. It prepared a brief for a
tribunal meeting, to be held on August 7, ahead of a meeting it had requested
with the minister, Bailey. The tribunal has
acknowledged the existence of all of these emails relating to Morrison’s remuneration
and the meeting briefing note – but refused to release them. The tribunal’s
principals – John Conde, Janet Grieve and John Allen – held their meeting on
August 7, 2006, with Allen participating by phone. Conde and Grieve then went
to see Fran Bailey in her office the same day, to discuss what a meeting
summary recorded as “their respective perspectives on matters related to the
departure of the managing director of Tourism Australia prior to the expiration
of the term of his appointment”. The next sentence in
the summary is blacked out. It then says the tribunal noted its intention to
write to Tim Fischer about the matter. That letter, from
Conde, was sent the next day. The letter itself – plus two unsigned drafts –
has been blocked from release. But The Saturday Paper understands
the tribunal spelled out its concerns over the payout. An attachment to the
letter containing the tribunal’s salary determination was also initially
blocked but released after this newspaper requested a review of the tribunal’s
initial FOI decision. That attachment was
the December 2005 salary determination for a “principal executive officer” –
Morrison’s designation – and included the rules for termination. They contained a
clause that the officer was “not entitled to separation benefits” where “the
appointment was terminated prematurely for reasons of misbehaviour or
unsatisfactory performance”. Fischer replied to
Conde on August 23. That letter has also been withheld. Bailey’s concern
about Tourism Australia’s handling of the two major contracts had been building
for more than a year. Contracts valued at
more than $5 million required ministerial approval and in June 2005, when
Tourism Australia first sought it, Bailey asked her departmental secretary,
Mark Paterson, for advice on whether its process satisfied the Commonwealth
government procurement guidelines. Because Paterson’s
membership of the board presented a potential conflict of interest, he asked
the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to offer “an independent view” of
the initial proposed contracts with M&C Saatchi and Carat, amid concerns
about the tender process. In a meeting with
Tourism Australia executives on June 27, 2005, officials from the Prime
Minister’s Department put “a number of concerns about the assessment process,
particularly shortlisting of tenderers for creative, prior to detailed
assessments”. Reports in
advertising industry publications suggested M&C Saatchi received favourable
treatment in the tender process. The agency had
overseen the successful “100% Pure” campaign for Tourism New Zealand when
Morrison and his Tourism Australia marketing director, Ian Macfarlane – not the
Ian Macfarlane who was a federal minister at the time – had both worked there. At the request of
Prime Minister and Cabinet, Tourism Australia provided more information about
the tender process and undertook a review, which confirmed the original
decision. On July 6, 2005,
Tourism Australia’s audit committee reviewed and cleared the process. A later briefing note
prepared for the department on October 28, 2005, ahead of senate estimates
committee hearings, said: “We understand that Tourism Australia’s board
re-approved the tender recommendations on 7 July and Ms Bailey approved the
contracts shortly thereafter.” Tourism Australia
announced the successful tenderers on July 15, 2005. Towards the end of
2005, the government began a review of Tourism Australia’s management and
operating structure, as part of a whole-of-government overhaul of governance
arrangements, known as the Uhrig review. It was due to be completed by March
the following year. But when the
contracts came up for renewal in 2006, documents confirm Bailey was still
concerned. The agency’s board
had met in Sydney on the morning of June 9, 2006, and its agenda included the
approval of the extension of existing contracts with M&C Saatchi and Carat,
for the 2006-07 financial year. The minutes of that
meeting were provided under FOI, but mostly redacted, except for a section
noting a presentation by marketing director Ian Macfarlane, proposing that the
contracts be signed. The board asked for
details of the components of the materials and production costs and eventually
agreed the contracts should go to the minister for approval. But it also stated
that “if market circumstances change significantly, then board approval is
required to amend the components of the approved contracts”. Scott Morrison had
written to Fran Bailey on June 13, asking for her signoff. Bailey’s June 29
response revealed significant concern. By the standards of ministerial
correspondence, its tone was scathing. “These contracts are of significant
value,” Bailey wrote. “I need to be reassured that the taxpayer is receiving
value for money with these substantial investments.” The letter went on to
say she noted that an internal evaluation of performance was under way but
would not be finished until mid-July. “I also understand
that no independent evaluation has yet been undertaken,” she wrote. Her
concerns would be reflected in the auditor-general’s findings, two years later. The minister demanded
both internal and independent assessments of whether the global creative and
media placement activities represented “value for money” and detail of how
Tourism Australia was planning to “monitor and manage” the contracts for the
coming year, “particularly how Tourism Australia will ensure that purchases
made by M&C Saatchi and Carat represent value for the taxpayer’s dollar”. To avoid disrupting
the existing international marketing campaign, she wrote that she was “prepared
to approve a total of $20 million of expenditure at this stage, to enable time
for you to supply the material requested” and for her to “make a decision in
relation to the remainder of the funds”. “I will only provide
such an interim approach on this one occasion, and only because of the
importance of maintaining the momentum of the current campaign,” she said. “In future years, I
would like Tourism Australia and the department to work together to ensure that
such major contracts reach me in a timely fashion and with all the supporting
material I need to make a decision.” She wrote that she
hoped the process would be “the start of a general improvement in process
surrounding approval of major contracts” and she would consider further funding
when the information arrived. Morrison was sacked
within the month and Tourism Australia’s handling of the contracts was referred
to the auditor-general. Despite Fran Bailey’s
insistence that the board unanimously supported her decision, Tim Fischer is
now praising Morrison and distancing himself from it. In September last year,
he told The Australian Financial Review that Morrison had been
“full of energy” as the agency’s managing director. “They were
electrifying times at Tourism Australia with a strong minister and a strong
CEO,” Fischer said. “… Scott deserves full credit for the ‘So Where the Bloody
Hell Are You?’ campaign. It took some courage to run that campaign and he saw
it through. He was let go, wrongly perhaps.” Fischer, who is being
treated for leukaemia, stands by the comments but will not elaborate. Following
Morrison’s departure, Bailey successfully amended Tourism Australia’s
governance arrangements, lowering the value threshold of contracts requiring
ministerial approval and receiving greater ministerial power to terminate
employment where it had been “unsatisfactory over a period of time and all
appropriate procedures have been exhausted”. This article was
first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Jun 8, 2019 as
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tell them
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Oneone, what happened to all his Polynesian christian mates who said they would quit in sympathy should he have his contract torn up?
Maybe they decided to respect their employers wishes instead and keep taking the cash.
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Isaac soloman
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Well praise the Lord...jobs jobs jobs...
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Find your blanket pt and have a sulk.
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Tlazolteotl
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Yes, it used to be called public service. You take a salary less than you may get in the private sector because you are doing a public service. And where is the evidence that we are getting higher quality department heads and senior executives since their salaries exploded? Cos I can't see any.
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No, I would rather he kept his bigoted views inside his church and showed some respect for his employer and just kept playing football.
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Could be a massive oversupply of brickies labourers in western Sydney soon.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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It will be in here soon when these Pentecostal loonies start turning us into a religious state.
Religious freedom, freedom of press, abortion, euthanasia, reversing SSM, all will be on the table.
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They are underpaid for the responsibility they have so no issue really.
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Just about the only country in the world that decision would be placed onto a worker. And some go on about freedom of the press
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reductio ad absurdum
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amazing, the losers never get it, and they just keep on backing losers, and they blame everyone else when they lose ... no real need to name them
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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No, we’ve done this. There’s limits to everything. Can he sacrifice virgins at the altar to express his religious views? But he’s free to vilify people and to sabotage the viability of his employer at zero cost to himself? |
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No, they were all p1ss and wind. Chose their salaries over their religious beliefs
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Are you the same person pt, that kept saying the sooner china was in charge the better?
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I also think they are underpaid, but the issue is that in times of huge debt stagnant wages and cuts to low paid workers penalty rates, whether it is a good look to be accepting pay rises....perception doesn't bother them.
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Outrage about what Isaac?
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Izzy is not informing in the public interest in quoting his fairy-tales oneone.
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amazing ,the more incompetent, ruthless , devious, dishonest,discredited they are the more likely to be elected, Trump, Morrison ,Putin etc
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