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Old 1st Aug 2022, 10:58
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ICC Hanson, J has integrity and decency. You won’t get either of those out of Carmody and Aleck.
What they really are is unprintable here.
May your meeting go well.
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My correspondence to Ms Garland the new Labor MP for Chisholm

03/08/22

Dear Ms Carina Garland, MP for the Electorate of Chisholm.

My name is Glen Buckley, a 57-year resident of the Electorate.

You will have some familiarity with my matter, as we had the opportunity to meet briefly at Glen Waverley in the lead up to the election, and I was able to give you a brief overview of my situation. I was the person impacted by the decision of a single CASA employee that my business of more than a decade had now become “unlawful” and was forced into closure by that single CASA employee.

You may also be aware that I distributed almost 15,000 copies of this leaflet throughout the election by way of letterbox drops, distribution at railway stations, and attendance at polling stations on election day. Having been very active in the local community for over 50 years, I was able to gain overwhelming support from my fellow residents. The leaflet that I distributed can be accessed here and does provide a brief overview of the matter.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kx11cmk1i3vfng3/Liu.docx?dl=0

On 11th November 2020 I also sent you an email the contents of that email can be accessed at Post # 1821 Glen Buckley and Australian small business -V- CASA - Page 92 - PPRuNe Forums This forum has had over 1,000,000 views and thousands of comments. It is a good source of information of this entire matter.

I have attached two pieces of correspondence. They are:
  1. A complaint to the CASA CEO calling on her to retract clearly false allegations made by her predecessor before the Senate. That was an allegation that I had stalked and assaulted CASA employees, at some point after CASA closed my business. I absolutely refute those allegations. I believe they were made to harm my credibility and reputation. That correspondence can be found at Posts #2256 on page 113 Glen Buckley and Australian small business -V- CASA - Page 113 - PPRuNe Forums

  1. The second complaint is to the CASA Industry Complaints Commissioner of CASA deliberately providing false and misleading information to the Commonwealth Ombudsman investigation. Into this matter. Similarly, that complaint can be accessed at the same forum via the following link on pages 112 and 113 Posts # 2235 through #2241
A third compliant will soon be submitted to the CASA Industry Complaints Commissioner, as follow up to my allegations made against CASA Executive Manager of Legal, International and Regulatory Affairs, Mr Jonathan Aleck. Mr Aleck is CASAs second most senior and longest serving Executive Manager.

Please be assured that CASA never put forward and supporting safety case, there were no regulatory breaches, there were no allegations against any quality outcomes at all. Mr Aleck just decided that my business was now unlawful. The Ombudsman’s Office later found it was not.

To the point of this correspondence.

The CASA Industry Complaints Commissioner has offered to meet with me in Melbourne or Canberra to discuss my allegations.

I have requested if I am able to bring a support person along, and if that person could in fact be my Local MP. The CASA Industry Complaints Commissioner promptly advised me that he would be comfortable with that, and that gesture speaks to this individuals integrity.

For that reason, may I respectfully make a request of you as my Local MP, to assist and support my family. Could I formally request that you participate in that meeting as my “support” person with the CASA Industry Complaints Commissioner, Mr Jonathan Hanton.

Mr Hanton has advised that he can meet at either your Melbourne or Canberra offices, whichever is most convenient for you.

I appreciate that your workload will perhaps only provide you with limited opportunities. I suggest the most efficient process, assuming you grant my request, would be that you liaise directly with Mr Jonathan Hanton by email, or phone and between your office and his, you agree on a suitable date and venue, and lock that date and venue in.

I can make myself fully available on any day, at any location with 7 days prior notification. I only need to be advised of those details, and I will make it happen.

Mr Hanton can be contacted on

[email protected] or phone 02-62171249

Ms Garland, I can make myself available prior to that date to meet with you or a nominee from your office, if you feel it would be of benefit.

I anticipate it would take me two hours to fully brief someone on this matter. I can meet with you, or your nominee at either your Canberra or Melbourne offices on any day that you nominate, provided I have 7 days notification.

If you provide me the opportunity to meet with you, may I respectfully suggest that you make a request of CASA prior. If the CASA CEO Ms Pip Spence could provide you with a short one- or two-page summary of the matter from Ms Spences perspective, and if CASA could also explain why the entire matter could not be satisfactorily resolved with a well-intentioned 4-hour meeting, rather than closing the businesses down.

I feel CASA has pursued what I call an alternating narrative, so if we could commence that discussion around CASAs explanation from the CEO, I feel that will help bring some clarity to the matter, and make our meeting more poroductive.

Ms Garland, on behalf of my family who has been significantly impacted by the conduct, actions, and decisions of Mr Aleck. I am someone who has lost my home, my two businesses, been forced out of the industry and left bankrupted and destitute. My wife and I seriously face homelessness because of this entire saga. Our total liquid assets and life savings amount to less than $6,000. There is almost no superannuation, that was tied up in my small business that Mr Aleck shut down. To say that I am anxious about the future of my wife, and I would be an understatement. I have endured a nervous breakdown because of this, two years ago I was on the cusp of suicide. I battle with depression every hour of my waking life, and I am exhausted by it. I recently had hospitalisation and 6 weeks off work due to a heart related condition, that I directly contribute to this matter.

Other businesses dependant on me were forced into closure, staff lost employment and entitlements, Suppliers have been impacted, as have customers.

The coverup of this matter that extends to the highest levels of CASA and to within the office of the Deputy PMs office of the previous Government, needs to be exposed, and with an introduction by a Labor government of an Integrity Commission, I believe that the more you learn about this matter, the more you will realise this matter deserves consideration for investigation by such a body.

While I make no assumptions on Senator Glenn Sterle’s character assessment of Mr Aleck, I would suggest you contact him, and I have included him in this email. Senator Sterle has had extensive dealings with Mr Aleck via Senate Committee, Inquiries etc. and would be a reliable and trustworthy source of information.

Thankyou sincerely in anticipation of your assistance.

Respectfully, Glen Buckley






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Integrity Body ?

With respect, and wholeheartedly supporting Glen and others wishing to pursue justice, fair dealing and commonsense from any Commonwealth or other government instrumentality, calling for some new type of ICAC or some such commission will only encourage yet more CASA type independent bodies that will become law unto themselves and for themselves.

The only way forward is through your MPs and the courts. We must expect our MPs to take responsibility. We vote them in and out. Glen’s involvement in the ousting of his former MP Gladys Liu is a great example of our democracy at work. Hopefully Glen’s new MP will take Glen’s case on and come to realise that by fixing one glaring wrongful deed by CASA this will provide an excellent example to the whole of the Commonwealth Public Sector, even that we might one day call it again the Public Service.

Then we have a legal system, the A-Gs Department and courts. We need to build on what has taken centuries to develop, however imperfect but heading off at a tangent with ill defined new and expensive taxpayer funded Commonwealth ‘justice’ bodies will create more problems. We spend $40 million pa on the Commonwealth Ombudsman who is supposed to do exactly what Glen deserves. What value there? Put that money into making the courts available and into MPs offices precisely to assist people up against bureaucratic intransigence.
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With respect, and wholeheartedly supporting Glen and others wishing to pursue justice, fair dealing and commonsense from any Commonwealth or other government instrumentality, calling for some new type of ICAC or some such commission will only encourage yet more CASA type independent bodies that will become law unto themselves and for themselves.

The only way forward is through your MPs and the courts. We must expect our MPs to take responsibility. We vote them in and out. Glen’s involvement in the ousting of his former MP Gladys Liu is a great example of our democracy at work. Hopefully Glen’s new MP will take Glen’s case on and come to realise that by fixing one glaring wrongful deed by CASA this will provide an excellent example to the whole of the Commonwealth Public Sector, even that we might one day call it again the Public Service.

Then we have a legal system, the A-Gs Department and courts. We need to build on what has taken centuries to develop, however imperfect but heading off at a tangent with ill defined new and expensive taxpayer funded Commonwealth ‘justice’ bodies will create more problems. We spend $40 million pa on the Commonwealth Ombudsman who is supposed to do exactly what Glen deserves. What value there? Put that money into making the courts available and into MPs offices precisely to assist people up against bureaucratic intransigence.
All the above is possible only in fantasia, a magical place in which dreams apparently come true. Sorry Sandy, I appreciate your ‘glass half full’ approach, but we are living in a ‘glass half empty’ environment. We require three things to take place to resolve the CASA issue, and there are not enough Independents or Teale’s to do it;
1. Disband CASA and rebuild it;
2. Rewrite the Act.
3. Adopt and implement the NZ regulatory suite.

CASA as a regulatory body is a disgrace. Where else could one little old man throw consecutive CEO’s under the bus so publicly, and where else could such a mishmash of poor C-suit executives work together to personally thwart and destroy any attempt at reform. These muppets can’t manage themselves, let alone contribute towards such a complex industry as aviation.
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“Fantasia”

Para, thanks for your suggestions to fix CASA, real reforms for which I and others have been espousing for years.

But where’s the “fantasia” about our legal system? Nowhere have I made claim that we will achieve justice or political reforms because our system is ideal but few would disagree that our British system is as good or close to the best there is.

Point to me how do we get to your nirvana and why hasn’t the Ombudsman called out CASA? Perhaps because the notion of a quick and simplistic ‘umpire’ fix to complex legal and political problems was never going to succeed, just as Henry Bolte predicted. The reverse being true as time and money is diverted into wasteful dead ends like the Ombudsman who has no real power.

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What needs first to be done is actually slowly happening: The percentage vote for the major parties is diminishing, with the current government having been elected on its worst primary vote ever. A couple of coronaries or defections and the House of Reps becomes interesting.

Giving the major parties and their camp followers alternating turns at pillaging the common wealth, having fine-tuned the senior bureaucracy to assist it to happen or sit mute and watch while it happens, is not in the national interest. (It is of course happening in the States, too, which are, after all, the breeding grounds for the major party 'talent' that 'rises' to Federal level.)

While ever we keep giving the major parties turns at pillaging the common wealth, they are not really 'accountable'. Sooner or later, a 'sacked' government and its camp followers come back or are taken care of, very nicely thank you very much, by a subsequent government of the same flavour. Corruption investigation bodies have demonstrably brought some of these people to account at a State level. So I say: bring it on at the Federal level. The more of these people having party meetings in gaol and the more people who truly represent the interests of their constituents in Parliament the better it will be for the common wealth, including for the health of general aviation.

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Victoria Police- Criminal Record Check- Stalking and Assaulting

Criminal Record History request- Victoria Police

To the relevant person,

My name is Glen Buckley of XXXX XXXXXXXXX Street Mount Waverley 3149, DOB 10/06/1965.

On 20/11/20, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) CEO, Mr Shane Carmody made an allegation before a Senate Committee that I had stalked and assaulted CASA employees.

I absolutely refute that as a false allegation made before the Senators in Parliament to damage my reputation, although that is not the point of this correspondence.

The very first time I became aware of these allegations was when I was watching his presentation with my wife and family.

It is personally very important for me and my family that I refute these allegations. I have approached CASA previously, and CASA refuses to correct those false statements.

I have undergone a comprehensive police check as a requirement of my current employment and have a copy of my criminal record check.

Nothing is recorded on it, although it would not be expected to contain any allegations, which is what I am seeking

My question is;

Is it possible to request a report that states that no allegations of assault or stalking have ever been raised with Victoria Police by anyone, or words similar to that? The point being that I am not simply after a report of guilty offences, but also a report that includes any allegations being raised. I appreciate that this report would have a fee associated with it.

For your information, and if relevant the visual recording of those allegations by the CASA CEO can be found via the following link at the 13:28:30 mark

Rural & Regional Affairs & Transport - 20/11/2020 08:49:59 - Parliament of Australia (aph.gov.au)

Yours thankfully, Glen Buckley
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You should be able to seek any available information via a FOI request. You might also need to do the same with the AFP just in case.
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FOI request

Hi, I already made that and CASA could provide nothing at all to support Mr Carmodys comments. The fact that CASA could produce nothing, suggests to me that Mr Carmody was providing false and misleading information to the Senate. Surprise Surprise, we have all seen it.

This is merely a further step to highlight the level of deception and corruption, and force the new CASA CEO to show ;leadership.. I want to be able to absolutely refute Mr Carmodys allegations, and defend my reputation.
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I’ve been waiting for this to come up as it appeared to be a very loose and potentially damaging end that needs tying off.

I would expect that they will not be able to give you any information because it probably doesn’t exist, especially under the assumption that you were never interviewed by police regarding the allegation(s).

If you went to a local station to report an assault, the officer that took your enquiry would put it in their notebook, consult with a sergeant and discuss if they think that charges should be laid and a brief of evidence prepared. If a decision is made to not go ahead, it would end there. Have a think about how often this must happen with people dropping in about a tiff or punch at the local pub and nothing comes of it.

Another scenario is that Police were called and the call recorded on 000, meaning that there may be a record of the call, or there would definitely be a job put through which would be also recorded if police actually attended, even if nothing happened afterwards. The issue here being that your name may not even be linked to the call.

The big question here to be answered is…. Is it still assault and stalking if you haven’t been charged or the offence investigated?

Technically, the answer is yes. I can assault someone all day long and stalk them, however if the victim doesn’t make a complaint, no action will be taken and hence nothing recorded.

If there are no records logged, then the allegation becomes one of a civil nature and something to be refuted in court, along with witness testimonies. Of course any judge is going to ask why the alleged assault was not reported to Police and it will hold little to zero weight. In fact the director would be negligent in their job role to not report an assault under their obligations to provide a safe working environment for their reports.

In summary, it sounds like a dirty swipe that’s easy to allege and have potentially damaging impacts in the eyes of the public, but not illegal. Something for your legal team to use to discredit the witness.


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If a member of CASA staff alleged they were assaulted or stalked in the course of their duties and the CASA CEO was aware of the allegations, there would at least be internal correspondence and records about the allegations, even if only for WHS purposes. Public sector employees have a habit of making large compensation claims for far less serious things.

If it happened, why would the victims have any interest in not doing anything about it and how did the CEO find out?

And any CEO of a Commonwealth statutory authority with even a malfunctioning 'cover my arse' gene would refer the allegations, in writing, to police (probably the AFP in this case).

So if there are no records in CASA relating to any of the assaults or stalking of CASA personnel alleged by Carmody against Glen, I call bull**** on the allegations.



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Hi, I already made that and CASA could provide nothing at all to support Mr Carmodys comments. .
Sorry, I was suggesting a FOI to the Police not CASA.
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Clearly no case

Originally Posted by Lead Balloon
If a member of CASA staff alleged they were assaulted or stalked in the course of their duties and the CASA CEO was aware of the allegations, there would at least be internal correspondence and records about the allegations, even if only for WHS purposes. Public sector employees have a habit of making large compensation claims for far less serious things.

If it happened, why would the victims have any interest in not doing anything about it and how did the CEO find out?

And any CEO of a Commonwealth statutory authority with even a malfunctioning 'cover my arse' gene would refer the allegations, in writing, to police (probably the AFP in this case).

So if there are no records in CASA relating to any of the assaults or stalking of CASA personnel alleged by Carmody against Glen, I call bull**** on the allegations.
Well said couldn’t agree more.

This one example should stand as an exemplary showing of the past CASA modus operandi, stooping to lies and deceit to damage anyone who stands up to them.
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Hi, I already made that and CASA could provide nothing at all to support Mr Carmodys comments. The fact that CASA could produce nothing, suggests to me that Mr Carmody was providing false and misleading information to the Senate. Surprise Surprise, we have all seen it.

This is merely a further step to highlight the level of deception and corruption, and force the new CASA CEO to show ;leadership.. I want to be able to absolutely refute Mr Carmody's allegations, and defend my reputation.
And as a reward for Mr Carmody's ‘performance’ he received a nice fat retirement superannuation package in the millions, plus an AOM. Woohoo! What a champion he is.

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Via la revolucion .! Bring it on.!
Bureaurats in the trough are destroying the country and its citizens.
Too many. Too highly paid. Accountable to none. Its a crock of...
Disgusting
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Stalking and Assault

My assumption is that the alleged stalking and assault must have happened after October 2018 when CASA advised that my business was now unalwful.

Had I have assaulted or stalked any CASA employee, they would have buried me even more than they did. I have no doubt that had this really occurred then CASA would have pursued me relentlessly.



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My assumption is that the alleged stalking and assault must have happened after October 2018 when CASA advised that my business was now unalwful.

Had I have assaulted or stalked any CASA employee, they would have buried me even more than they did. I have no doubt that had this really occurred then CASA would have pursued me relentlessly.
Perhaps if you got heated on the phone, made even a minor verbal threat, legitimate or not, visited their offices wanting to see someone, possibly more than once, called over and over trying to speak to certain people, asked for certain employees whereabouts, looked them up on LinkedIn, Facebook or otherwise…. Very very loosely, someone could refer to that in passing conversation as assault (verbal) and stalking.

Those behaviours are human nature in these types of situations, but it’s a long bow to draw to call them assault and stalking!

Aka, “I stalked that girl on linkedin to see where she worked as I wanted to ask her out.”
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It is easy to understand how the guy from CASA is so unliked. You only have to listen to 5 minutes of the video, hear him over-talking the senator and the general tone and demeanour that he presents and it is very easy to make an opinion of him yourself.
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Originally Posted by Squawk7700
Perhaps if you got heated on the phone, made even a minor verbal threat, legitimate or not, visited their offices wanting to see someone, possibly more than once, called over and over trying to speak to certain people, asked for certain employees whereabouts, looked them up on LinkedIn, Facebook or otherwise…. Very very loosely, someone could refer to that in passing conversation as assault (verbal) and stalking.

Those behaviours are human nature in these types of situations, but it’s a long bow to draw to call them assault and stalking!

Aka, “I stalked that girl on linkedin to see where she worked as I wanted to ask her out.”
Whatever the theoretical circumstances - 'long bow' or not, 'very loose' or not - 'something' must surely have been construed as constituting assault and stalking of Carmody's staff. But if there is no record at all in CASA of any circumstance that has been construed by a staff member as assault or stalking by Glen, I have great difficulty in concluding anything other than that Carmody just made it up.
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Carmody Capers

It is painfully and blatantly obvious that Carmody was telling a porkie. Sure, maybe one of his CASArites told him they fealt threatened by or thought they saw the ghost of Glen following them down a dark alley, but let’s be honest, it’s all bull****. It was a lie told while under privilege. If it were true, CASA would have reported it to the AFP (not the local cop shop). The AFP would have investigated the allegation and then reported back to Carmody at some stage. Carmody threw out a distraction to steer observing eyes away from CASA’s malfeasance. In other words he threw a handful of mud at Glen hoping some would stick. It was a despicable and low act, but not an act that is unusual when it comes to CASA.

It’s becoming more obvious monthly that Spence has been brought in to clean up the mess as numerous heads have already rolled. Whether she goes as far as compensating Glen is an entirely seperate matter.
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