Bad Apple Bullies
Tips For Queensland teachers: How to deal with workplace bullies.

This page is a "work in progress" because the Departmental story is continually changing.

I do not suggest that any person actually named below is a "Bad Apple Bully".

I have used initials to disguise the identity of people who either may be "Bad Apple Bullies", who behaved with integrity and so might be subject to "payback", or who were only marginally involved in the situation.

The Freedom Of Information (FOI) document references are accurate.

How Education Queensland Bad Apple Bullies are allowed to investigate themselves and find themselves innocent.

• If you follow Departmental policies and disclose child abuse by another teacher, you put yourself at risk.
• No written record may be made of your disclosure.
• But you may be "paid back".

In late 1999 a child disclosed to me that he was being abused - often being hit - by a male teacher. The boy looked very depressed and the rest of his class just looked at me in silence, so it seemed to be true.

I reported the child's disclosure to the school principal. The principal told me that the male teacher had a long history of warnings for this sort of behaviour.

But the principal made no written record of the child's complaint about this male teacher's behaviour.

At the time I handled the incident internally and made no formal documentation of the incident. ... to the best of my knowledge, there is no documentation pertaining to this incident. (FOI document 2703 I 91).

And shortly afterwards I was humiliated in front of the whole staff during an in-service on child abuse.

The next year the Grade 7 teachers had adopted an "outcomes based" philosphy.

The Grade 7 children were being allowed to roam about the school in unsupervised groups, interrupting other classes with demands to be allowed to use the computers, speak to groups of children about a project that they were working on, etc. etc.

Friday November 3 2000 -

I discussed with School Administrator G.R. my concern about the numbers of children who were missing from the Grade 7 classrooms when I arrived to take my specialist lessons.

For example:

When I went to Grade 7 Class L.R. on Wednesday 8 November 2000 (five days after I had discussed my concerns about the number of children missing from the Grade 7 classes with School Administrator G.R.), I was told that -

• three children were absent,
• six children were missing from the classroom because they were organising a Remembrance Day ceremony,
• five were missing because they were organising a graduation celebration,
• two were missing because they were organising something for Christmas
• and one child had gone home.

This left me with eleven children to teach.

(As recorded in FOI 2421 File C District Office document 39, and FOI 2733 File C Administrative Law Services Branch document 170.)

I was not sure who was responsible for the safety of these roaming groups of unsupervised children.

During this week I also spoke three times to Grade 7 teacher L.R. about three separate roaming groups of children from her Grade 7 Class L.R. who had disrupted my lessons with other classes.

I asked her to instruct her children not to disturb my lessons with other classes.

School Administrator G.R. suggested that I discuss the situation at a staff meeting.

School Administrator G.R. wrote it on the staff-room whiteboard agenda for discussion at the staff meeting on Friday November 10 2000.

School Administrator G.R. moved it to the top of the agenda.

But, just before I spoke to the staff, school administrator G.R. spoke to the staff at length concerning "a person" on the staff who was humiliating children.

After the staff meeting, another teacher warned me that I was "the person" that  School Administrator G.R. had been talking about.

She warned me that School Administrator G.R. was "out to get me".

I rang School Administrator G.R..

School Administrator G.R. confirmed that it was true that I was "the person" that she had been talking about to the staff.

The shock of School Administrator G.R.'s irrational behaviour made me ill.

I was more ill than I have ever been in my life before or since.

I was afraid to return to school because I felt unsafe. I did not know what G.R. might do next.

During the next week I took sick leave and sought advice from the Queensland Teachers' Union, the Staff Welfare Officer, two Specialist Advisory teachers and my doctor on how to deal with G.R.'s seemingly irrational behaviour. 

I was advised to request a mediated meeting with School Administrator G.R..

So, as soon as I returned to work the next week, I asked for a mediated meeting with School Administrator G.R.. 

FOI documents 2733 F 39-40 (discussed below) suggest that G.R. made some sort of mistake when she made her announcement to the staff concerning me.

I would suspect that either -

• there was no problem at all - G.R.'s dramatic speech to the staff concerning me was simply a "red herring" to distract attention from the real problem of the groups of unsupervised Grade 7 children who were roaming about the school, disrupting other classes.
• or a child lied or joked about something,
• or a complaint was made about the actions of another teacher, possibly a scripture teacher or a casual teacher.

The majority of the scraps of paper and sticky-notes secretly placed on my Departmental file seem to be records imaginary conversations that G.R. "believed" that she was having with the people around her.

At this stage in December 2000, the situation could have been resolved during the mediated meeting with an apology.

But -

• When Bad Apple Bully administrators make a mistake, they make "red herring" allegations against you to distract attention away from their own poor professional conduct.

G. R. did not apologise - she agreed to meet me, but said that the purpose of the "mediated" meeting would be to discuss her sudden "concerns" about my work.

G.R. was supposed to be my supervisor in 2000, but she had neither looked at my program nor been into my classroom once during the entire year.

About halfway through the "mediated" meeting with school administrator G.R. on 27 November 2000, the Queensland Teachers' Union organiser asked me to go outside.

During the first part of the meeting I had said that I would make a Grievance about the situation.

When we got outside, the QTU organiser told me that there was no hope of a just outcome from a Grievance. He said he had never known a Grievance made by a teacher to be upheld. He told me that the Diminished Workplace Performance Process could last two years. It was extremely stressful and people had mental and physical breakdowns if they "fought it". He told me that he had never known anybody to survive a DWP who protested their innocence. He said that the only people who survived were those who accepted it, just or unjust. The DWP rules were so elastic that school administrator G.R. could more or less put me on DWP for anything at all.

He kept saying,"She has the power!" when I said that G.R.'s behaviour was unjust.

The QTU organiser advised me that the best thing that I could do was to eat humble pie.

If I agreed, he would try to do a deal.

He would try to persuade G.R. to give me some lesser punishment (punishment for what?).

I agreed.

I was very shocked by the advice of the QTU organiser. I struggled to believe that I could be bullied in this way.

During the second half of the meeting I said very little, I sat in shocked silence.

I did nothing to provoke G.R.

But my passive behaviour seemed to stimulate acting school principal G.R.

Suddenly acting school principal G.R. turned towards me, looked directly at me, and began to speak very slowly and with great malice, "I feel so sorry for R-----! Just imagine how R----- must be feeling at this moment! She must be feeing so awful! I really hate to do this to you, R-----".

She stared hard at me and chanted the words through twice.

The words had obviously been carefully chosen because when they are written down they seem so innocuous. But the malice with which the words were spoken made the message one of extreme menace.

Nobody else said anything. The situation was electrifying.

It was like a scene from "Dr Who" in which school administrator G.R. was suddenly transformed into a vicious, dribbling monster from outer space.

While G.R. was chanting at me I was thinking "Fruit-cake! Fruit-cake! Fruit-cake!" like a car alarm, because school administrator G.R. seemed to be over the edge into obvious mental instability.

From that moment onwards I have never had any doubt that-

• I was being bullied.
• Acting school principal G.R. was enjoying bullying me.
• Acting school principal G.R. wanted us all to know that she was enjoying bullying me.

(1) Deny you Natural Justice

- school administrator G.R. claimed during the "mediated" meeeting on 27 November 2000 that allegations had been made against me, and at some time before 27 April 2004, she secretly placed notes on my Departmental Record to this effect.

But to this day, 23 September 2007, Education Queensland refuse to explain these secret allegations - so I can never prove that I am innocent.

Example A:

2733 F 39-40  seem to be loose scraps of paper or large rectangular sticky-notes. 

These 'documents' purport to be dated 10 November 2000, but they were placed secretly on my Departmental Record and concealed from me till after 27 October 2005.

These 'documents' seem to have been written by acting principal G.R.. 

They concern statements made by acting principal G.R. at a staff meeting on November 10 2000:

8:30 Fri 10/11/ Staff Meeting. 

Following complaints that (my name) had been ... humiliating students (..., notes to  (Grade 7 teacher N.T.) from Desley) ...

No mention was ever made to me of these ... notes to (Grade 7 teacher N.T.) from Desley ... during any meeting that I ever attended with school administrator G.R..

But the allegations concerning me in these ... notes to (Grade 7 teacher N.T.) from Desley ... must have been very serious because school administrator G.R. ...

... made a statement to the effect that ... as far as I was concerned, humiliating students was a disciplinary offence by teachers. ...

December 14, 2000 I first made a written request to the District Director that acting principal G.R.'s conduct be investigated.

To this day, June 20, 2008, despite making many FOI applications, I have not been shown copies of these ... notes to (Grade 7 teacher N.T.) from Desley ... 

Nor have I been told anything about the real or imaginary "complaints" concerning me that seem to have been made in these real or imaginary documents.

To this day Education Queensland have refused me Natural Justice - the right to know these real or imaginary allegations against me, and the opportunity to prove myself innocent.

Example B:

I was advised to request a mediated meeting with acting principal G.R..

So as soon as I returned from sick leave I asked for a mediated meeting with G.R.. 

On 27 November 2000 I met acting principal G.R., acting deputy principal A.L. and the local QTU organiser.

During this meeting acting principal G.R. ... then stated that there were a lot of allegations and that she had lots of pieces of paper to prove how things may have happened. ...

2421 F 31 - notes written by acting deputy principal A.L. and placed secretly on my Departmental Record.  

These notes purport to be dated 27 November 2000 but were concealed from me till after 27 April 2004.

•  I first made a written request to the District Director that this situation be investigated on December 14, 2000.
• To this date, June 20, 2008, despite many FOI applications, I do not know what these  lot of allegations against me were.
• Nor have I been shown copies of the lots of pieces of paper to prove how things may have happened.
• Nor do I know what the things were that may have happened. 

To this date, June 20, 2008, Education Queensland have refused me Natural Justice - the right to know these allegations against me and the opportunity to prove myself innocent.

But two days after the "mediated meeting" on November 27 2000, acting principal G.R. gave me a letter to say that she and the usual principal E.L. (who had been on leave all term and had not discussed the situation with me at all) had decided to put me on Diminished Workplace Performance (DWP) in 2001.

I understand that this decision to put me on DWP was legally invalid because it was made in breach of -

• Natural Justice,
• the Public Service Regulations,
• the Education Queensland Code of Conduct
• and the Education Queensland Diminished Workplace Performance policy.

But to this date, June 20, 2008, Education Queensland have refused to strike this decision off my Departmental Record.

They have simply moved two or more files containing a huge number of falsified / re-falsified / concealed / legally invalid etc. documents concerning me from the District Office to the Mary Street, Brisbane Head Office.

(2) Manipulate the State Premier, the Minister, the Director-General and the senior officers of Education Queensland, providing them with misleading "Briefings" and using them like puppets to sign documents and "speak" words written for them by Bad Apples Bully administrators.

Example 2:1

23 June 2002

I met Anna Bligh, Minister of Education and Jim Varghese, Director-General of Education.

Because the Minister is responsible for dealing with Bad Apples in his or her department.

The Minister may try to claim that he / she was not informed of problems and controversial decisions.

But the Queensland Cabinet Handbook makes it clear that not knowing about a mistake in a department is not enough to get a Minister off the hook.

One of the early chapters, dealing with the roles and responsibilities of Ministers, says this; "Ultimate responsibility for departmental management rests with Ministers who are legally and politically accountable to the Parliament for the administration of their department."

...so the Minister is personally responsible for the actions and decisions of his or her department.

...If a department does not function in the manner a Minister desires, then the Minister has a responsibility to fix it.

I told Anna Bligh and Jim Varghese that, when Queensland teachers were bullied at work, the immediate advice of the Queensland Teachers Union was that there was no hope of justice because the Education Queensland grievance process did not work.

I told them that the only advice of the Queensland Teachers' Union to bullied teachers was to "accept the things you cannot change".

Anna Bligh already seemed to know about my complaint.

I presume that Anna Bligh had been shown the Stage 2 Grievance Report by school administrator E.L. that was being concealed from me and all copies of which were immediately "lost" when I made my first FOI application.

Anna Bligh is a member of the Australian Services Union. 

• Union rules with the ALP, Des Houghton, The Courier-Mail, October 6, 2007

Example 2:2

26 February 2003 5:44 PM

I emailed ThePremier@premiers.qld.gov.au 

I made a full disclosure to Peter Beattie of the conflict of interest  (a political relationship) in the District Office that was affecting my complaint.

I did not copy this email to anybody.

Dear Mr Beattie,

... I have tried very hard for two years to deal with this situation in a way that does no harm to the Labor party. I have been an active Labor party member and an active union member for several years.

I do not want to do anything to harm the Labor party - but I do not want to suffer injustice just BECAUSE I am a member of the Labor party. ...

... both (school administrator G.R.) (the bully) and I were Labor party members when this all began. We both worked for (I disclosed the political relationship that had created a conflict of interest in the District Office) . Because I did not want to cause friction in the local groups I have dropped out of all activities with the Labor party since this all began two years ago. I have avoided involving the local members in the problem.

But it meant that I had to deal with it alone.

Because (of the conflict of interest) I was very reluctant to make a formal complaint to the Industrial Relations Tribunal with the resulting publicity. I tried very hard to deal with the bullying informally.  ...

I feel that I have tried to "do the right thing" by the Labor party and I have suffered because of it. And that other teachers have now been negligently exposed to a toxic environment....

Mr Beattie, the corruption (for lack of a better word) must stop somewhere. Please show me that my faith in the Labor party was not misplaced. ... have the integrity to deal with this bully. ...

If you, the Premier, will do nothing about this situation - well I will have to abandon all hope of the Labor party. ...

This email was received by Michele Rice, the Office of the Premier on Thursday , 27 February 2003 at 7:51 AM.

29 June 2003 2:06 PM

I re-sent the full disclosure to Peter Beattie dated 26 February 2003 to the Office of the Premier.

The Office of the Public Service Commissioner have a copy of this full disclosure. You can see the first part of the email at the bottom of  OPS 70524 FOLIO 23

3 August 2003 4:49 PM

I wrote again to Peter Beattie.

I emailed a copy of the letter to -

Anna Bligh, Minster of Education; Debby Pitcher at the QTU; HUMANRES@qed.qld.gov.au, the Ombudsman, and ThePremier@premiers.qld.gov.au 

with a cover note:

Confidential.

I am sending a copy of this letter to the premier to you so that you all understand the situation clearly.

I can't think of what else to do to resolve the situation and I have nobody to advise me. ...

I explained again that school administrator G.R. and I were both Labor party members.

I did not make a full disclosure in this letter.

I asked Mr Beattie to DIRECT Ken Smith, the Director-General of Education, to allow me Natural Justice.

I told Mr Beattie that the QTU had advised me that they were withholding information from me in order to "resolve" the situation.

(I now presume that the QTU already knew that a mass of falsified "records" had been secretly placed on my Departmental File.)

... I feel unable to trust the advice of the QTU. I feel that my union has let me down very badly in my hour of need. ...

... If political allegations were "beaten up" against me - please tell me what the allegations were AND ALLOW ME THE RIGHT TO RESPOND BEFORE YOU FIND ME GUILTY. ...

I have tried / am trying hard to deal with this issue slowly and quietly because  I did not want to "beat it up" more than necessary.

I did not expect that the corruption (for lack of a better word to describe the situation) would extend so far.

But I want to be sure that the bullying will stop. No other teacher must suffer as I have suffered. ...

I could never feel safe in a Queensland school again.

I have heard workplace bullying described as being "similar to being held hostage" and that describes my experience exactly. ...

I would accept a written apology from the Director-General and some DEMONSTRATION that both (the Bad Apple) and the person who was training her in DWP-attack skills have re-thought their professional ethics and have made a firm commitment not to bully again. ...

14 August 2003

Rachel Hunter, Public Service Commissioner, wrote to Ken Smith, Director-General, Education Queensland.

Rachel Hunter asked Ken Smith to provide her with a brief on the issue.

The letter seems to have been actually written by Dean Jones, Principal Policy Officer, Office of the Public Service Commissioner.

Who wrote that Education Queensland brief?

Did that Education Queensland officer have a conflict of interest in the situation?

16 October 2003

Rachel Hunter signed a Chief of Staff Briefing Note concerning me.

So, when I wrote to the Premier disclosing the political relationship in the District Office that had created a conflict of interest and was affecting my case, Rachel Hunter recommended that nobody should reply to my letters - because I had written letters!

Rachel Hunter did not explain in her Chief of Staff briefing note what the actual "issues" were that I was writing about -

• The significant conflict of interest in the District Office that was affecting my case.
• In addition to the significant conflict of interest, at least one other District Officer had a conflict of interest in my case, in that she had been involved in the abuse during 2000.
• At the time of my retirement on July 9 2002, the District Director had twice assured me that he had the bullying under control.
• He had concealed from me that the bully was going to be given a whacking great promotion a couple of days after I had retired.

At this stage, 16 October 2003, I had not complained that -

• my Department of Education file had been secretly filled with a huge mass of falsified "records",
• a Stage 2 Grievance Report had been secretly written on my complaint by school administrator EL (one of the people whose bullying I had complained about). 
• EL had claimed to have "found no evidence" of his own bullying.
• EL's Stage 2 Grievance report had been secretly placed on my Education Queensland file.
• Rachel Hunter's decisions - and all other decisions - concerning me were being based on EL's secret report.
• and a note had been put on my file to indicate that, if ever I applied for work in Queensland again, John Ryan, the Director of Human Resources should be contacted, as he had a discipline file on me - not on the bullies - on me in his office.

Because these facts were still being concealed from me.

Peter Beattie,

Premier of Queensland and Leader of the Queensland Labor party,

the man who once said that he wanted any Queensland public servant who was being bullied to write to him,

personally approved Rachel Hunter's 16 October 2003 recommendation that nobody should reply to my letters.

Peter Beattie signed the Chief of Staff Briefing Note with a big flourish.

It is quite an amazing thing to make a disclosure of this nature to the State Premier and then, four years later, to hold in your hand his signed decision that his staff should not respond to any more of your letters.

Neil Smith, "Action Officer" OPSME, initialled the decision. I presume that Neil Smith was the person who actually wrote the Chief of Staff briefing note.

To this date, 21 October 2007, I have had no contact with Neil Smith.

Jeff Loof , Director, initialled the decision.

George O'Farrell, ED, also initialled the decision.

(OPS 70524 FOLIO 16)

Example 2:3

5 October 2004

Kim Poiner, Principal Consultant, Office of Public Service Merit and Equity, wrote and signed a "Commissioner's Brief".

... in view of no new issues having been raised by Ms C-----, it is recommended that no responses be sent to her. ...

Kim Poiner makes no mention in her "Commissioner's Brief" that I had been complaining during 2004 about the mass of falsified "records" that had been secretly placed on my Departmental file.

I had discovered the secretly falsified "records" under Freedom of Information.

And Kim Poiner makes no mention of my detailed responses to seven of those falsified "records".

A handwrittten note has been added on the right hand side -

16 October 03 Premier approves no further correspondence with Ms C----- (see green tab at E798).

Another handwritten note reads -

Agreed George O'Farrell 11/10/04 Make sure MIU is aware no action necessary.

Director Neil Smith initialled the Commissioner's Brief on 6/10.

David Douglas initialled the Commissioner's Brief on 7/10.

(OPS 70524 FOLIO 13)

16 November, 2004

• Senior Queensland public servants seem to instruct junior public servants simply to file your letters and not to bother reading them.

• Then they claim that you have 'raised no new issues'.

• No public servant can be held responsible for 'not knowing' about the issues that you have raised because they can demonstrate that they were all instructed not to read your letters.

Denise Wojciechowski, Executive Services, OPSME, emailed Raewyn Garcia and copied to Michele Rice.

There are two Premiers detached folios coming back to records in the afternoon run. ... The folders carry MCU numbers 65945 and 66162 respectively. they are from (my name) ... her files P14300 and E798 are both marked that she is not to receive any further responses on either the Premier's or Commissioner's behalf.

This action was endorsed by the Premier in Oct 2003 and re-endorsed, after review, by the Commissioner in Oct 2004.

David Douglas, E/D, Workforce Management has asked if an additional notice be placed on the files so that if and when the correspondence continues it can go straight to files and not through the tracking system and down to our office etc? I anticipate that this would save us all a modicum of effort. ...

So - am I understanding this situation correctly?

All of the letters and documents that I have sent to Peter Beattie and the Public Service Commissioner since 16 November 2004 have simply been filed - and nobody has actually been reading them - and this was done because it saved the public servants in the Office of the Public Service Commissioner a modicum of effort?

You have to wonder if all Queensland Government decisions are of this sort of quality.

Example 2:4

8 August, 2005

• When you complain about the behaviour of an Education Queensland senior public servant, the Director-General will instruct you that all communications with the Department must be through that public servant - the public servant whose behaviour you are complaining about.

I wrote to Ken.Smith@qed.qld.gov.au , ThePremier@premiers.qld.gov.au ,  complaints@cmc.qld.gov.au , ombudsman@ombudsman.qld.gov.au and everton@parliament.qld.gov.au -

Mr Smith had written to me:

You have been advised by Mr John Ryan that all communications with the Department other than communications relating to your FOI applications must be made through him.

I confirm this arrangement and request that you correspond directly with Mr Ryan in future.

This was totally inappropriate.

My complaint to the CMC, the complaint that the CMC had given Education Queensland to investigate, had been about John Ryan's behaviour.

And I protested that Mr Smith was being misled.

... In emails to you I have offered many times to accept an apology.

I have never asked for (the person who bullied me) to be dismissed or demoted. ...

I said that I would communicate directly with Mr Beattie.

13 August, 2005

I wrote to The Premier, The Ombudsman, Kathryn Mahoney, Ken Smith, John Ryan, The Information Commissioner and the CMC.

(I had discovered from examining the FOI documents that untruthful statements were being made about me by one senior officer of Education Queensland.)

I said that -

• On August 3 2003 I had offered to accept a written apology from the Director-General.

• And again, on 14 July 2004 I had emailed Ken Smith -

I am wondering if it is possible to resolve this situation informally.

It must be obvious to everybody by now that I was being bullied.

Why not move (the person who bullied me) to a job where she will have less opportunity to harm people? Maybe a writing or a lecturing job.

And give me a letter to say that deciding to put me on DWP was impulsive and irrational.

I will settle for that ...

• and it was true that -

I have said that I would like to see a more logical relationship between the two days that it took (the person who bullied me) to destroy my career and the four and a half years that I have been waiting for an independent investigation ...

But it was not true that -

• Ms C----- has repeatedly indicated that from her perspective the only action that will resolve the issue is the demotion of (the person who bullied me).

• ... for the principal to be demoted and she has been told a number of times that this will not happen ...

• Ms C----- has stated that she will only be satisfied that her complaint has been satisfactorily addressed if a certain employee is dismissed.

(I had discovered from examining the FOI documents that these untruthful statements were being made about me by one senior officer of Education Queensland.)

I repeated my request for an apology or for an independent investigation.

I said that I would not talk to any person who had lied about me.

26 August, 2005

• senior officers of the Queensland public service deal with disclosures by re-writing your disclosure, editing your actual disclosure out of their "frank and fearless briefing".

David Douglas, E/D, Workforce Management, (who on 16 November, 2004 had requested that all of my correspondence could be sent straight to files and not through the tracking system and down to the office) ... seems to have written a Premier's briefing note.

Recommendation

That you do not reply to recent emails from Ms R----- C-----.

Ms C----- has sent emails to you on 8 August and 13 August 2005 ...

... Ms C-----'s recent emails do not raise any new issues.

It is pretty hard to "raise any new issues", Mr Douglas,  when your letters and emails are simply being filed and not being read.

30 August 2005

Vicky Darling, Senior Policy Officer, wrote a "Premier's Advice".

I agree that it would not be constructive to respond to Ms C-----. ...

Recommendations:

I recommend that the Premier:

Agrees that NO REPLY is sent to Ms C-----.

This premier's briefing note was signed by George O'Farrell, Public Service Commissioner

and by Peter Beattie, Premier and Treasurer.

Peter Beattie signed his name with a big, careless swirl.

So this is how decisions are made in Queensland.

(OPS 70524 Folio 8)

Example 2:5

18 November, 2006

The Premier, Ken Smith, the CMC and the Ombudsman would only allow me to communicate with John Ryan, the person whose behaviour I had complained about to the CMC.

Clearly this was a hopeless situation.

But I believed that there would be some public servant with integrity, somewhere in Queensland.

I decided to appeal to the other Directors-General in Queensland.

At 9:54 I emailed Desley Boyle, Minister for Child Safety. ChildSafety@ministerial.qld.gov.au.

I attached November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents.

(This was a slightly updated version of The Cosser List 31/10/2006.  I handed three printed copies of The Cosser List 31/10/2006 - one each for The Director-General, the Minister and Peter Edwards to Tony the security guard at Education House, Mary Street on Thursday 23 November. In The Cosser List 31/0/2006 I listed most of the falsified records that I had found hidden on my Departmental Record. I explained how they had been falsified.)

I explained to Desley that this was a list of falsified records that had been hidden in my Departmental files in breach of the Departmental Code of Conduct, Natural Justice, the DWP policy, the Grievance policy and the Public Service Regulations.

The "internal reviewer" had simply copied from these falsified records.

He had ignored my responses to the falsified records.

In about July 2006 an "external review" had been completed .

I had not been allowed to read the review but it had already been declared "finalised".

I appealed to Desley -

I appeal to you-

Do not allow yourself to be manipulated with false assurances.

Do not play a passive part in facilitating the abuse.

Contact the Director-General, Rachel Hunter rachel.hunter@qed.qld.gov.au

Support my request to be allowed to read the latest "independent investigation report".

(I have not been allowed to read the "independent" investigation report to this date, 22 January, 2008.)

I do not agree that simply moving the mass of falsified documents from my file in Cairns to another file in Brisbane is an adequate response to six years of systemic abuse.

I do not agree that simply generating new policies will stop the systemic abuse of Queensland teachers. ...

Nobody in Cairns was following any of the official Departmental policies ...

At 9:54 AM I emailed Anna Bligh DeputyPremier@ministerial.qld.gov.au , sent her a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to her.

At 9:55 AM I emailed Robin Sullivan, Director-General of Child Safety, robin.sullivan@childsafety.qld.gov.au sent her a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to her.

At 9:56 AM I emailed Peter Henneken, peter.henneken@dir.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 9:58 AM I emailed Jim McGowan at  Jim.McGowan@justice.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 9:59 AM I emailed Bob Atkinson APM at commissioner@police.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:00 AM I emailed Ross Rolfe at ross.rolfe@premiers.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:01 AM I emailed Robert Needham at mailbox@cmc.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:03 AM I emailed Cathi Taylor at administration@oic.qld.gov.au , sent her a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to her.

At 10:04 AM I emailed David Bevan at ombudsman@ombudsman.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

The Ombudsman, to his credit, did contact Education Queensland and ask what was going on.

But I describe below the manner in which, to this date 29 October 2007,  Education Queensland seem to have done nothing whatsoever in response to the Ombudsman's questioning.

At 10:06 AM I emailed James Purtill at james.purtill@opsme.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:08 AM I emailed Judy Spence at Police@ministerial.qld.gov.au , sent her a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to her.

Judy Spence did advise me that I could make a formal complaint to the Cairns police. But I explained that I did not want to drag respected members of our local community through the courts. I just wanted to know what the November 2000 allegations were against me, to have the opportunity to respond to the allegations and prove myself innocent, and to have the two decisions to punish me officially "struck off" my Departmental record.

At 10:10 AM I emailed Peter Beattie at Premiers@ministerial.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:13 AM I emailed Peter Edwards at Peter.Edwards@qed.qld.gov.au ,  sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:15 AM I emailed Jim Varghese at jim.varghese@dpi.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:16 AM I emailed Regan Neumann, Director of the Education Queensland Workforce Standards and Performance Unit, at Regan.NEUMANN@qed.qld.gov.au , sent him a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to him.

At 10:17 AM I emailed Sharon Hansen at shansen@qtu.asn.au , sent her a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to her.

At 10:20 AM I emailed Fiona McNamara , the QTU legal officer at qtu@qtu.asn.au , sent her a copy of November 17 2006 List of Falsified and or Concealed Documents. , and made a similar appeal to her.

20 November, 2006

I met Peter Edwards at Education House, Mary Streeet, Brisbane.

Peter Edwards showed me what seemed to be the file of falsified records that I had discovered under FOI.

I had given a file of these documents to the Verifact Commercial Investigator on December 16 2005, one year earlier.

I had, of course, provided the Verifact Commercial Investigator with many other documents.

I was astonished by how little Peter Edwards knew about my "case".

He told me repeatedly that he had been given "a brief" that only allowed him to know about and to discuss this one file of documents.

He was not allowed to know about or to discuss the decisions based on these falsified records.

Or the many missing documents.

It was the first time that I had been told about this "brief".

I asked Peter Edwards if John Ryan had written this "brief" that banned him from discussing the decisions based on the falsified records.

Peter Edwards did not respond.

23 November, 2006

I met Ken Smith.

I asked Ken Smith how he would like to work with a group of people who seemed to have agreed to comprehensively trick him amd lie about him.

I live in a small community.

People that I respected and trusted, important people in our community, had either joined in with the bullying or passively facilitated the bullying.

In 2000 seven of my fellow teachers - teachers who had seen me teach for periods of up to two years - spoke up in my support.

They met with school administrator G.R. and told her that she was "making a mistake".

These seven teachers were told - I understand - that there were "secret reasons" why I had to be punished in 2001.

They were told - I understand - that they would get into "very serious trouble" if they talked to me about the bullying.

They were afraid to be seen talking to me.

I have been isolated in my small community for years, waiting for Education Queensland to explain the real or imaginary "lots of allegations" that I was told in November 2000 had been made against me in "lots of" documents.

I want Education Queensland to give me the opportunity to respond to these real or imaginary "allegations".

I want the opportunity to prove myself innocent.

I can only fight to prove myself innocent while I am not employed by Education Queensland.

During the meeting with school administrator GR and EL on 5 February 2001, I was threatened five times that "action would be taken against me" if I continued to complain about the bullying.

And I now realise that a Queensland Government employee who complains about workplace bullying can be dismissed for "gross misconduct".

Ken Smith told me that he could not help me because he was no longer Director-General of Education.

He advised me to write to Rachel Hunter, who was now the new Director-General of Education, and explain to her what I wanted. 

4 December, 2006

Rachel Hunter, who had now been appointed Director-General of Education Queensland, wrote to Ross Rolfe, Director-General, Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

She was aware that I had been making contact with Directors-General from several government departments.

... In any reply to Ms C-----, could I please encourage your staff to indicate that the matter will be referred to the Department of Education, Training and the Arts for consideration.

If you have any questions relating to these representations, please contact Mr Regan Neumann, Director of Workforce Standards and Performance Unit ...

I presume that Rachel Hunter sent a similar letter to all of the Queensland Directors-General.

Regan Neumann seems to have only been "Director of Workforce Standards and Performance" for a week or two.

I do not believe that Mr Neumann knows anything whatsoever about my complaint.

John Ryan and Ken Smith had banned me from communicating with anyone other than John Ryan.

So how could Regan Neumann answer questions about my "representations"?

Since I spoke to Ken Smith in November 2006, I have written to Rachel Hunter, Director-General of Education Queensland repeatedly.

and Jenny Cranston, Deputy Director General, Education.

And Gary Barnes, Assistant Director General, Strategic Human resources.

I told them that I had been bullied.

I told them about this website.

I told them that I had been asking for the situation to be investigated since November 2000.

I told Rachel Hunter that I had written to her many times.

To this date, 22 January 2008,  Rachel Hunter has made no response.

(3)  "Lose" their own documents when you make Freedom of Information (FOI) applications.

Example 3: A

In late 2003 I made a Freedom of Information application for the documents that explained the "secret reason" why I "had to be" punished.

On 23 March 2004 Education Queensland FOI Officer A.S. sent me a schedule of documents in FOI Application 2421.

The schedule listed 63 documents in 2421 File F.

I was only allowed to see a few of these 2421 File F documents.

I was not allowed to see 2421 F 1, 3, 4, 5, or 6.                       

After the Department had sent me a copy of their October 11 2004 "internal review" of my documents, I wondered if the "internal reviewer" had been given falsified copies of my documents to review.

So I made FOI application 2733 for the actual documents used by the "internal reviewer".

On 27 October 2005, just before the 2006 Verifact investigation began,  the FOI 2733 documents were released to me. 

FOI 2733 contained a copy of File 2421.

But the documents in this copy of 2421 F had been reversed in order and the page numbers had also been reversed.

This concealed the fact that now there were only 53 documents in file 2421 F.

Document 63 was now numbered "2" at the bottom of the page.

Document 13 was now numbered "53" at the bottom of the page.

• Documents 1-12 in 2421 File F had vanished. 

Presumably these 12 missing documents were concealed from the "internal reviewer" and also from the "independent Verifact investigator".

• To this date - 20 September, 2007 - I have not been allowed to see 2421 F 1, 3, 4, 5, or 6 despite making many FOI applications for these documents.   

Example 3 : B

FOI 2875 File J Document 221

On 27 January 2006 EQ Head Office Employee M.N. made notes on what appears to have been a telephone conversation with District Office Employee C.H.R.

(District Office Employee C.H.R.) - What are Verifact investigating?

(Names District Office) report never given to her & was lost?-

Need to look - at report.

So it seems that at some stage the District Office wrote a report concerning my grievance.

To this day, 20 September, 2007, I know nothing about this report.

To this date I have not been allowed to read this report.

To this date I have not been allowed to respond to this report.

(4)  Conduct "Claytons" investigations.

Example 4 : A

On 13 December 2000 I wrote to the District Director (2733 H 104):

Dear Mr ------

On Friday 10 November I spoke at a staff meeting at (my) school. I was concerned about the numbers of children being withdrawn from the grade 7 (specialist) lessons to participate in other activities or to do "jobs".

As a result of this discussion and other issues that I have tried to raise at the school the acting principal (G.R.) has placed me on Diminished Work Performance. She wrote to me on 29 November to advise me that the initial stage would be instigated at the commencement of next year, when (school administrator E.L.) returns. She states, "I have spoken to him about the matter and he is in agreement that the process is warranted." (School administrator E.L.) has not discussed this situation with me.

For this and other reasons I believe that the process of placing me on Diminished Work Performance was conducted in an unfair manner and that the aim of the process is completely punitive. I believe that this is a "payback" situation. ...

I request that an officer be appointed to investigate the situation and to determine the truth.

District Office Employee C.H.R. returned my letter to school administrator G.R. - the person about whose behaviour I was complaining - the next day.

I agreed with school administrator G.R. that school administrator E.L. would deal with my Grievance when he returned to work the next year.

I respected and trusted school administrator E.L. absolutely.

I knew that E.L. was in breach of Natural Justice, the Code of Conduct and the DWP process in agreeing with school administrator G.R. that the DWP process was justified before he had discussed the situation with me.

But I wanted to give school administrator E.L. the opportunity to quietly "sort out the mess" that G.R. had made while he was on leave. 

I did not want to do anything to bring school administrator E.L. or my school into disrepute. 

More than four years later, after 6 April 2005, I was sent a copy of Education Queensland officer K.E.'s "internal review" (attached to letter to me from EQ Human Rights and Equal Opportunity C-trained discrimination solicitor M.E. dated 6 April 2005) and I discovered for the first time that -

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60.

f) the principal chose not to commission or undertake a detail (sic) investigation but to meet with the parties and resolve the issues;

g) it is not clear whether the Complainant had accepted this approach by the Principal before it was implemented;

I knew nothing about school administrator E.L.'s January 2001 decision not to investigate my grievance till after 6 April 2005. 

I understood that the document that school administrator E.L. read to us at the start of the meeting on 5 February 2001 was his investigation report.

I thought that E..L. had conducted (what appeared to me to be) a corrupt investigation.

I thought that the "Report Grievance meeting Stage 1 5/2/01",

the report that was delivered to my home on the afternoon of 16 February 2001 -

the day before the 17 February 2001 Queensland State election

- was a typed copy of the investigation report that school administrator E.L. had read at the start of the meeting on February 5 2001.

The investigation report did not seem to be very well written, but I presumed that this must be because school administrator E.L. was not terribly literate.

In fact the report was very cleverly written to convey one meaning to me, and quite a different meaning for the official record -

Report: Grievance Meeting Stage 1 - 5/2/01

THIS STATEMENT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE FACTS.

This was the investigation report that school administrator E.L. asked school administrator G.R. and I to listen to at the start of the meeting.

It was not a report on the meeting. It had been written before the meeting.

(My name ) appealed over the harsh, unjust and unreasonable behaviour of (school administrator G.R.) during Term 4.

This was in relation to strategies used with various students during (specialist) classes.

THIS STATEMENT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE FACTS.

My grievance concerned school administrator G.R.'s refusal to attend -

• the meeting that I had requested with the School Behaviour Management Committee to discuss the Behaviour Management Program at the school
• and the mediated meeting that I had been advised by the Queensland teacher's union, the Staff Welfare officer and two specialist advisory teachers to request with G.R., to discuss her behaviour during the staff meeting on November 10 2000.

School administrator G.R. had agreed to meet me, but said that the purpose of the meeting would be to discuss her sudden "concerns".

My grievance was that school administrator G.R. was abusing the Diminished Work Performance process to distract attention from her own behaviour during the staff meeting on November 10 2000.

The aim of the process was to :-

Discuss and clarify with support people any identified facts. ...

THIS STATEMENT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE FACTS.

Seven teachers who had seen me teach for periods of up to two years (all of the Grade 5 and 6 teachers) asked G.R. if they could have a meeting to discuss her behaviour.

These seven brave teachers astonished each other by how clearly they spoke to G.R.

School administrator G. R. had not been into my classroom or looked at my program all year.

School administrator A.L. had never seen me teach and never looked at my program.

The seven teachers told G.R. that she was making a mistake. They told her very clearly and firmly that there was no problem with my "classroom and behaviour management practices" (these were the "specific concerns" identified in G.R.'s letter to me dated 29 November 2000).

I understand that G.R. told the seven teachers that I was not being put on the DWP for the reasons given in her letter, that there were "secret other" reasons to punish me.

I asked school administrator E.L. to speak to these seven teachers who had actually seen me teach and who all supported me.

They could explain to him what had been "going on" at the school while he was away.

If he had any doubt at all about any detial of my complaint, school administrator E.L. could have checked the facts with these teachers.

E.L. told me at the meeting on February 5, 2000 that he had not spoken to the teachers.

E.L. told me on  February 5, 2000 that the teachers had put nothing in writing.

He had never mentioned to me that this would be necessary.

And he also told me that it was now too late for the teachers to put anything in writing.

So E.L.'s "report" is misleading in that he does not make clear that he refused to consult the seven support people who had seen me teach for periods of up to two years  - and who all supported me.

... We as teachers are often required to deal with difficult parents from time to time. ...

Is some real or imaginary problem with a parent being concealed from me?

Only one parent had been a problem during 2000.

I had taken Mrs D.R. to school administrator G.R. on the afternoon of the third day of Term 4 2000.

Mrs D.R. was loud, aggressive and abusive. She believed that I had put her son on detention. This had not happened.

School administrator G.R. did not support me effectively.

She allowed Mrs D.R. to abuse me for twenty minutes in front of her son, my student.

I tried to explain but Mrs D.R. shouted me down.

After Mrs D.R. left, school administrator G.R. asked me to stay behind

I tried to explain.

G.R,. said that she did not have time to listen to me. She had to go to a meeting.

Then she also abused me.

I was shocked by G.R.'s unprofessional behaviour, and I was exhausted with the unrelenting abuse.

I began to cry.

But this had all taken place on October 4 2000, several weeks earlier.

Is some real or imaginary problem with a parent being concealed from me?

... There has been an increasing build up of professional resistance between the two parties and as time has passed coming to an acceptable resolution has become more difficult. ...

THIS STATEMENT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE FACTS.

a) 

G.R. had asked me repeatedly to join her branch of the Labor party.

I had "resisted" her repeated suggestion.

It is not accurate to describe this as ... an increasing build up of professional resistance. ...

G.R. had not seen me teach or looked at my program all year. She had shown no "professional" interest in my work.

b)

I had been very shocked by school administrator G.R's lack of support for me when I took Mrs D.R. to her office.

I felt trapped because G.R. was my principal and I could not refuse to talk to her.

But I felt unsafe talking to G.R. because her behaviour seemed to me to be irrational, impulsive and unprofessional.

I asked my doctor for valium to take when I had to speak to G.R.. I wanted to be able to "zap myself out" so that G.R.'s behaviour would not "get to me".

My G.P. advised me that it was "situational stress" and that it was better for my health to cry rather than to take valium.

Then things seemed to "settle down" and I felt that school administrator G.R. and I were establishing a more professional relationship.

It was because I felt, on Friday November 3 2000, that we had established a more professional relationship, that I asked G.R. to support me in saying that there were too many disruptions to my Grade 7 (specialist) lessons.

... as time has passed coming to an acceptable resolution has become more difficult. ...

THIS STATEMENT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE FACTS.

... as time has passed ...

 G.R.'s behaviour at the staff meeting on Friday 10 November 2000 was a shock that "came out of the blue" after I asked for her support in saying that there were too many disruptions to my Grade 7 (specialist) lessons.

I was so shocked by G.R."s (seemingly) irrational and very, very unprofessional behaviour that I became ill. I was on sick leave for the next week.

... coming to an acceptable resolution has become more difficult ...

G.R. responded to my request for a mediated meeting by abusing her power to change the nature of the meeting. 

G.R. insisted that the purpose of the meeting would be ...

... regarding the implementation of a Diminished Work Performance Program ... (FOI 2421 F 059 True copy of a letter to me from school administrator G.R. dated 29 November 2000)

G.R. made no attempt all all to come to an acceptable resolution.

Her immediate response to my request for a mediated meeting was to put me on DWP.

Nowhere in this document does school administrator E.L. acknowledge that -

• school administrator A.L. had abused the Education Queensland Code of Conduct, the Public Service Regulations, refused me Natural Justice and abused the Diminished Work Performance Process.
• school administrator G.R. had also abused the Education Queensland Code of Conduct, the Public Service Regulations, refused me Natural Justice and abused the Diminished Work Performance Process.
• E.L.'s own behaviour towards me was in breach of Natural Justice, the Education Queensland Code of Conduct, the Public Service Regulations and the Diminished Work Performance Process.
• And, in writing this misleading report, E.L. was abusing the Education Queensland Grievance process.

Please refer to:

(6) Base their decisions concerning you on the findings of  "investigations" that you know nothing about.

Example 6 : A

FOI 2875 File J Document 221

The District Office report discussed above.

(District Office Employee C.H.R.) - What are Verifact investigating?

(Names District Office) report never given to her & was lost?-

Example 6 : B

September 3 2003

- the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) wrote to me:

RE: Concerns about Education Queensland Officers Head Office Employee S.N., E.Q. Director N.Y.and E.Q. Director N.N..

I refer to your email dated Saturday 9 August in which you raised concerns about the conduct of Head Office Employee S.N., E.Q. Director N.Y. and E.Q. Director N.N., who investigated your workplace grievance.

All the information provided has been considered and it is understood your concerns are that Head Office Employee S.N., E.Q. Director N.Y. and E.Q. Director N.N. failed to adequately address your grievance, "turning a blind eye" to workplace bullying. ...

This CMC letter is gibberish.

• I had complained about the conduct of Education Queensland Director N.N.
• I had not complained about the conduct of  E.Q. Director N.Y. or Head Office Employee S.N..
• To this day, 20 September, 2007, I know nothing about any "investigation into my workplace grievance" by Head Office Employee S.N., E.Q. Director N.Y. and E.Q. Director N.N..
• To this day, despite many FOI applications to both the CMC and Education Queensland, I have not been provided with a copy of this purported "investigation".

Example 6: C

29 July 2004

In a draft "review" Education Queensland Project Officer K.E. wrote-

22. ... assertions made by the complainant relating to lost documents ...

At this stage - 29 July 2004 - I had complained about, and sent K.E. responses to, some of the many falsified documents that I had found on my Departmental file under FOI.

At this stage I had not realised that the department were dealing with my letters and documents by "losing" them.

...and the non-reading of documents previously by the Department and external "review" agencies, the author dou ...

(FOI Document 2733 L no.6, first released to me after 27 October 2005.) 

• This suggests that, before 29 July 2004, at least two external "review" agencies had reviewed my complaint, and that Project Officer K.E. was aware of these "reviews" by external agencies.

To this date, 20 September 2007, despite many FOI applications to Education Queensland, I know nothing about these two or more reports by external "review" agencies.

Example 6: D

12 October 2004

- I met Ombudsmen L.O. and R.S.

Ombudsman R.S. made a memo of this meeting.

(A copy of the memo was attached to a letter to me dated 5th June 2006 from the Ombudsman's Freedom of Information Decison Maker.)

Ombudsman R.S.'s memo is truthful and accurate.

But one section -

... She also thought that her grievance had in fact been informally resolved. The District Director ... told her that he "had the bullying under control". However this was contrary to the conclusion reached by stage 2 grievance investigator (School Administrator E.L.) who found that no bullying had in fact occurred. ...

- is more gibberish.

• These Ombudsmen and I did not discuss this purported "stage 2 grievance investigation" during our meeting.
• To this date, 20 September 2007, despite many FOI applications to Education Queensland, I know nothing about this purported "stage 2 grievance investigation" by school administrator E.L..
•  To this day I have not been provided with a copy of this purported "stage 2 grievance investigation" report by school administrator E.L..

• And it would not have been appropriate for school administrator E. L. to conduct any such stage 2 grievance investigation because it was his own abuse of the DWP and grievance stage 1 processes that I was complaining about.

Example 6: E

(7) Write two quite different versions of events in two different documents and place both documents secretly on your Departmental file, so that even when you manage to find the documents under Freedom of Information, you still have no real idea which "official story", if any, is true. 

You still can't respond effectively to these conflicting "official allegations".

Example 7 A :

File 2421 F contains both 

• 2421 F 63, which is a true copy of a letter to me signed by school administrator G.R. and dated 23 November 2000, 
• and 2421 F 61, which seems to be an undated and unsigned falsified version of this letter. It was placed secretly on my official Records. I first saw 2421 F 61 after 27 April 2004.

Would any investigator be able to realise that 2421 F 61 is falsified?

Example 7 B :

On 23 March 2004 Education Queensland FOI Officer A.S. sent me a schedule of documents in FOI Application 2421 in which she described documents 2421 F 28-32 as -

Notes of meeting between (School Administrator G.R.), (School Administrator A.L.), (School Administrator E.L.) and (my name) on 27/11/00.

FOI Officer A.S. did not allow me to have a copy of this document.

But it was a different document.

This Version B document was titled -

Meeting with (my name), (name of union organiser), (School Administrator G.R.), and (School Administrator A.L.). 27th November 2000.

Notice that the names on this second version of 2421 F 28-32 are in a different order and they are different names.

Would any investigator realise that there were two versions of this document, and that the first version of 2421 F 28-32 had vanished?

• children,
• the sick,
• the disabled,
• the Aboriginal,
• inexperienced employees "in training" 
• or the local Queensland Teachers' Union organiser

- as puppets to "speak" their imaginary allegations against you and to facilitate their abuse.

Example 8 A :

The disabled child in the wheelchair described above was manipulated by School Administrator G.R. as a puppet to "speak" comments critical of me. 

Example 8 B :

D-----, whose  ( ..., notes to [Grade 7 teacher N.T.] from D-----)... were secretly placed on my departmental file, was a teacher who was being rehabilitated at my school during 2000. 

D----- was obviously having significant difficulty functioning.

The Bad Apple Bully-Mob seem to have manipulated her as a puppet to "write" notes that discredited me.

Example 8 C :

Education Queensland employ many solicitors and barristers.

The Education Queensland Human Rights and Equal Opportunity-trained solicitor, M.E. for example, specialised in discrimination.

My complaint concerned discrimination. But discrimination solicitor M.E. was not selected to "review" my discrimination complaint.  

Discrimination solicitor M.E. was selected to be the "internal reviewer" of my Freedom of Information application. 

Discrimination solicitor M.E. refused to provide me with the 2361 and 2421 documents - including the ( ..., notes to [Grade 7 teacher N.T.] from D-----) -  the documents that have now "vanished".

The "independent reviewer" selected in 2004 by Education Queensland senior officers, the reviewer who simply copied out the contents of the falsified documents and did not "consider" my responses to the falsified documents, was

• not a qualified teacher,
• had no qualifications in law
• or in psychology
• and identifies as an Aboriginal.

In addition to my basic three year certificate I had completed a B.Ed in which I was awarded the college medal.

I had also completed a Master's Degree with Merit at Sydney University.

After being asked to become a specialist teacher I had spent many hours of my own time (and at my own expense) completing specialist courses both in Australia and overseas.

In 1980 I was inspected for one day and placed on the NSW First Primary Promotion List.

When I was recruited to work in Queensland I was told that my application was outstanding.

This is a story of utter, systemic incompetence.

Education Queensland failed in its duty of care to me -

• to protect me from this systemic incompetence
• and to have my complaint about this incompetence effectively investigated by a properly qualified and experienced investigator.

It was culturally inappropriate to appoint a person who identified as an Aboriginal as the "reviewer" of my complaint.

My first language is English. My culture is English. My values are English. In making my complaint I used the thinking and (three stage, intake-organise-express) reasoning style of a person of my own culture - that of an educated, mother-tongue English speaker.

I was not bought up to either expect or to tolerate bureaucratic corruption.

But Aboriginal people have a different reasoning style. For example, I was once present during a discussion at Yarrabah. The Yarrabah men were speaking in English, but I was unable to follow their line of argument or to participate in the discussion. Instead of using the "zig-zag", A-B-A-B-A-B discussion style that I had been used to using, these Yarrabah men spoke together more in what I would describe as a spiral style. Each person agreed with the previous speaker but the discussion steadily moved towards a decision that was quite new and different.

The impact of the Aboriginal investigator's different reasoning style on the 2004 "review" can be seen in the draft review dated 29 July 2004 (FOI 2733 L, documents 3-13). in which EQ Employee S.E. states-

8. By virtue of MI-04-1824 dated 2 June 2004, the complainant raised a further allegation, by numerous emails, that the documentation she obtained under FOI was falsified. Further, the CMC suggested that the "impartial investigator" (The Crime and Misconduct Commission were under the impression at this date that EQ had engaged an external consultant to investigate my complaint.) assess this matter.

9.The author was aware of the numerous emails, but was not advised of the MI-04-1824 until early July 2004.

10. Merging of the two complaints is problematic. While related, the nature and substance of each complaint will be assessed separately to ensure the identification issues and scoping of actions.

So, when he was told that my departmental file had been extensively falsified, EQ employee S.E. decided to simply copy out the contents of the falsified documents.

EQ employee S.E. did not "consider" my responses to the falsified documents. 

This is not the reasoning style of a person educated in the western tradition. 

(9)  "Lose" your letters and documents over and over again.

Example 9 A

On 21 June 2004 at 12:35 PM

I emailed a letter to Ken Smith. I attached responses to five of the falsified and concealed FOI 2421 documents -

• 2421 E - this document is not numbered.

These are notes by School Administrator E.L., hand-written in pencil over the January 2,3, and 4 pages of a 2001 diary. I first saw these notes after 23 March 2004.

• 2421 F 7 - School Administrator A.L's "documentation of behaviour management issues" dated 13/10/2000.

This was a document that had been placed secretly on my file. I first saw a copy after 27 April 2004. I responded to it on June 21 2004. By 27 October 2005 this document had vanished.

• 2421 F 9-11 - School Administrator G.R's Record of Incident dated 04/10/2000.

This was a significantly falsified document that had been placed secretly on my file. I first saw a copy after 27 April 2004. I responded to it on June 21 2004. By 27 October 2005 this document had vanished.

• 2421 F 28-32 - school administrator A.L's record of the "mediated" meeting with the local QTU organiser.

On 23 March 2004 this document was described as Notes of meeting between school administrator G.R., school administrator A.L. school administrator E.L. and (me) on 27/11/00.

When I made an application for an internal review of EQ FOI coordinator A.S.'s  decision to refuse me a copy of this document, I pointed out that this document must be falsified because school administrator E.L. did not attend the meeting, the local QTU organiser had attended the meeting. 

Education Queensland HREOC-trained discrimination solicitor M.E. conducted the internal review. He