Originally Posted by
Sbaker
Can we setup a whistleblower hotline / e-mail for current CASA / ex-CASA staff, or for people to send in their stories. - go post flyers around their offices, send emails to all known casa emails with the link etc, allow it to be anonymous if required.
Would be very interesting to hear what current or ex CASA FOI officers sides of the story are - when they refuse legitimate FOI requests. - who told them to?.. (illegal by the way under the FOI act).
It's amazing how some conduct could appear to be blatant abuse of public office, but no-one wants to prosecute because it's deemed 'friendly fire' from one govt. Organisation to another... I thought the law was to be applied equally to all irrelevant of position or status... Also there must be an underlining presumption of guilt when CASA are attacking an individual 'for no good reason'.
It is govt. behaviour like this that got Donald Trump elected - and I agree we should drain the swamp.
Administrative law is a joke - there are no penalties applied... All you get is a bloody decision overturned... We need severe penalties for malice and decisions that deliberately detriment others. Maybe a campaign to alter administrative law to include penalties could fix many, many govt. Departments.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00309
And here is an example of how administrative powers should be used - although it's a different govt. Branch, they are all similar.
https://www.transport.tas.gov.au/__d...on_Making.docx
So the issue with administrative law, is although there is black and white law that states how things MUST be done... There is no penalty if they don't... There-in lies the issue, and why CASA thumb their noses at everyone.
No complaints to politicians, senate inquiries, senate estimate sessions, submissions to the industry complaints commissioner or reports to media or MP’s has induced an arse hairs worth of change or accountability within CASA. CASA are an extension of government. Government protects government. Behind the scenes there has been some pushing and prodding, occasionally a boil gets lanced but nothing major since 1988. Even gangs and mafias last less time than CASA has!! Wash, rinse, dry, repeat.
Its been said before and I will say it again - the only way CASA will change is if a red tail with a white Roo on it ends up poking out of a great smoking hole. A totally palpable suggestion and something nobody wants to see, ever. But until something of that significance happens, forget it. The ‘R’egulator will continue as it has for many decades now. Isn’t that right Pip?