Howdy dear availees...pardon my brief absence/break from this 'ere blog/Facebook, but about a month ago 'My Stuff' suddenly went ballistically sideways in ways I'd never anticipated and did not instigate...(yeah, it all went from 0 to 100 like real fast, and nothing to do with you specifically-Ed)...indeed, and we've all been here before, often, for example, with the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up of "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, where-in us parents forced SAPol (police) involvement, then we forced Flinders Child Protection Services involvement...(and then the Teachers Registration Board, you lot forced them to get amongst it-Ed)...indeed...(and then the Parliamentary Inquiry into the TRB, an Inquiry officially justified off the back of the appalling TRB Hearing that exonerated Dorling-Ed)...and then Child Abuse Commissioner Ted Mullighan's involvement, etc etc etc, right upto and including my bizarrely and definably corrupt prosecution/persecution by ICAC/SAPol/Courts...(including where you proved "Abuse of Process" and Magistrate Anderson "recused" herself, and also proved you'd been retrospectively prosecuted under the wrong and/or no actual definition of "to publish"-Ed)...yeah it's been a zany ol' ride hasn't it...(if by "zany" you mean 'Profoundly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt', then sure, "zany"-Ed)...mmm...
Anyhoos, it's all gone kaboom! again, and whilst the sensation of impending action and even possibly resolution is not new, been here many, many times before, there's a very different sense/tone to this...(well as you said, this time it's not 'Authorities' reluctantly reacting to pressure/lobbying from you and/or other parents, this time it's someone else whom has metaphorically picked-up the ball and run with it-Ed)...and I've got to say, I'm still not entirely sure why they would choose to do that, but they have, and here we are, quietly, politely waiting...and some of the related commentary reminded me very much of some of the totes amazeballs gaslighting bile that the original/former ICAC Commissioner Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander used to spew-forth, and then up-pops this gem (below) from the current ICAC Comm Ann Vanstone which I've had sittin' part-finished in 'Drafts' ...
Please be availing y'allselves of this trite piece of Institutionalised Gaslighting, where-in what was done to me by ICAC/SAPol single-handedly defines that Gaslighting...(and I'd argue that it further illustrates that either Comm Vanstone has absolutely no idea what was done to you, knows nothing about your case, etc, or, as you say, is deliberately deceiving/gaslighting-Ed)...indeed, 'cos my "bizarre trial" proves exactly what Sow Strayan 'Authorities' do to anyone who speaks-out against Corruption...(and especially against anyone who speaks-out about the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile corruption of the SA Parliament/SAPol/ICAC/Courts-Ed)...indeed, SA 'Authorities' have been queuing-up to thank me and/or other parents for our commitment to protecting children and our Activism re resolution of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and when I say "thank" I of course mean Attack, Harass, Threaten, Blame, Bully, Intimidate, Manipulate, Deceive, Betray, Traumatise, etc etc etc...
Anyways, read this through, and I find it helps if you choose to laugh at the vacuous deceits and relentless Reality Re-Defining Gaslighting rather than be angered by it...good luck...***
On 21 November 2023 the Commissioner, the Hon. Ann Vanstone KC spoke at the National Public Sector Governance Forum about the importance of protecting whistleblowers. This is what she said:
In a 2022 report by Professor A J Brown and Kieran Pender entitled, Protecting Australia’s Whistleblowers: The Federal Roadmap, the importance of whistleblowers was encapsulated succinctly in this way:
Whistleblowers are a vital part of Australian democracy, playing a crucial role in the integrity and accountability of public and private institutions each and every day.
Australian research confirms it is people within organisations – the officials and employees – who really know what goes on and remain the single most important way in which wrongdoing is brought to light.
After three years as Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in this State, I’ve reached the same conclusion as to the central importance of whistleblowers in shedding light on corruption.
Even instances of corrupt conduct that we might expect to be captured by integrity processes – for example, audits designed to detect accounting anomalies – rely for their effectiveness upon people not only conducting those processes, but also reporting on the results. An audit which reveals accounting anomalies is of no value unless something is done with that information. For that audit to be effective, the right authorities must be notified of the results and informed about what those results might mean.
As the principal mechanism for the detection and exposure of past and present corrupt conduct, whistleblowers are of critical importance to the minimization and prevention of future corrupt conduct. In an environment that supports and encourages whistleblowers, many would-be corrupt actors will be deterred from ever acting corruptly (or will curtail their corrupt behaviour) because they fear – and they know – that detection is more likely, with all the consequences that follow.
Why is it that whistleblowers assume such importance? Without pretending to offer a complete or conclusive answer to this question, I suggest it may in part be because of the nature of corrupt conduct itself; that is, conduct that is hidden and secretive, and which often occurs within the corrupt actor’s sphere of control. By this, I mean that the corrupt actor exploits a system which they know intimately and to which there is limited access. Whistleblowers are often people who share knowledge of and access to this system, and so are able to recognize suspicious conduct when it occurs. And they can explain to those outside the organisation why it is suspicious.
While recognizing the centrality of whistleblowers in exposing corruption, it is also important to recognize their limitations. Even those who know and speak up about one aspect of improper conduct, may be unaware of the totality of a corrupt scheme or activity. Although whistleblowers might provide the basis upon which an investigation is commenced, it must be remembered that, how that investigation looks at the end, and the conduct that is ultimately exposed, might be quite different from the initial report. By the same token an investigation might, in the end, result in the exoneration of its subject. In neither instance should this be seen as reflecting poorly on the whistleblower. It should simply be seen as a product of the investigation process.
I referred earlier to the importance of an environment that supports and encourages whistleblowers. But what does such an environment look like? This is a complex question, and one which I don’t propose to fully address today, but I think that first and foremost it must mean that whistleblowers feel safe to come forward without fear of reprisals to themselves or their families, either inside or outside the workplace.
In my view, this is not something that can be achieved merely by legislative protections, such as those in the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 2012 or the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2016. Those Acts protect the identity of whistleblowers and prohibit victimisation on the basis of reporting particular information. But they cannot protect whistleblowers from more general harm that may come from reporting corrupt conduct. The treatment of whistleblowers in the community and the attitude to them more broadly must also be fair and alive to the personal costs that may be associated with reporting.
In this regard, I note that recently, in this state, there has been a tendency in public figures and the media to go after whistleblowers – to suggest that they are merely acting as ‘disgruntled employees’ or ‘vexatious underlings’, or to question the veracity of their accounts. As I said in my Response to Inspector’s Review of the Investigation of John Hanlon, ‘Demonising whistleblowers is both unfair and unhelpful, and it undoubtedly has a chilling effect on those who want to speak up.’
Ultimately, of course, it is not only the individual whistleblower who suffers when statements such as these are made publicly. It is the public. By discouraging whistleblowers, you create greater room for corrupt conduct to flourish. That can only have the effect of eroding our public institutions and damaging the public interest.
***(What, in the actual shreck, is that?-Ed)...well, in my personal experience, as a Whistleblower, eg, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, the Institutionalised Corruption of the Mt Gambier City Council, etc etc, having been investigated by ICAC Commissioner Lander and then referred directly, personally by ICAC Comm Lander to SAPol (police) Anti-Corruption Branch, and then prosecuted for nearly 4 years under the SA ICAC Act 2012 Sec56, not least of all including specific changes made in November 2014 to the ICAC Act Sec56, and in April 2018 finally 'Convicted' and fined $540,000, etc etc etc, as a Whistleblower ruthlessly persecuted by the ICAC in absolute collusion with SAPol and the SA Courts, after that personal experience, I would call Comm Vanstone's commentary Performative Gaslighting...
Try being a Whistleblower and see how it works out for ya'...and yes, I'm very, very aware of the very specific language used to try and keep me and Jo Average outside a' that definition of what constitutes a 'Whistleblower', but whether anybody likes it or not, myself included by the way, that's what I have become and that's what I do and have been doing for over 2 decades now...it's literally got to the point where I don't know how to not do it...
"By
discouraging whistleblowers, you create greater room for corrupt conduct
to flourish."...wow, just wow...ICAC and SAPol and the Courts, the 'Authorities' have demonstrated to the Lutherans and to Mt Gambier City Council that they, Lutherans and MGCC, are protected species, being effectively protected by ICAC/SAPol/Courts...note for example, the disastrous $90million+ Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre (FARC - Wulanda) with all it's associated MGCC deceits and corruption and incompetence is a direct result of this ICAC Protection Racket...I reported multiple definable instances of MGCC Corruption, ICAC pretended to 'investigate', protected/exonerated MGCC, then prosecuted 'The Whistleblower', and then knowing that they're fully protected by ICAC/SAPol/Courts, MGCC embarked on the FARC...
Tomorrow: More Sideways Ballistic Results
Apparently, quelle surprise', I'm yet again the subject of conversation in the perfumed parlours of the land as my branded hide takes another floggin' in the stocks of Public Opinion...(duuude! is that Slam Poetry?-Ed)...well no, it's an attempt at poetry that's about gettin' slammed...(nice-Ed)...regular availees will appreciate that when I say "it's been a very, very long month" then that's exactly what it has been...and when I say some of my stuff has gone absolutely sideways ballistic, completely outta' the blue, wasn't me, I mean, of course it's all about 'me', obviously, but I didn't instigate this what's happening now...I'm absolutely serious though about how my name has been 'officially' bandied about, on the public record and that I choose to 'keep my powder dry' despite the repeated denigration...
When I relate this ICAC shizzle to Jo Average the Peep on the Street, they inevitably ask of me...("sorry, who are you?"-Ed)...nice one, but no, more often they say..."hey pal, don't we have like, Freedom of Speech and that, in this, the Lucky Country?"...and I says to 'em I says, "give it a try Jo, buddy, pal, mate, give it a go and see just exactly how that works out for ya'"...and then we all laugh 'cos we all know that any Labor/LNP politician and/or person in 'Authority' who talks it up big about 'Protecting Whistleblowers' is truly a complicit gaslighting clown...
So one way or the other, this next week is gunna' be huge, and there's nuthin' anyone, myself included, can do to stop that...if y'all happened to hear the 0700hrs ABC South East Radio news bulletin a cpipla' weeks back, you'll have heard my name multiple times and know that one of the highest 'legal officers' in the state has publicly committed to a definably erroneous position that rips-open the gossamer veil of Accountability and Law and Truth they all espouse so vehemently, rips that away to expose the actual reality that is the Pro-Paedophile Institutionalised Corruption that defines South Australia, especially the Parliament...(yay-Ed)...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
