Auditor-General refuses to sign off on Batchelor financials due to ‘significant’ governance deficiencies
Auditor-General Julie Crisp has found many “significant deficiencies” in Batchelor Insti
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To all you Whistle blowers, take heed!
Above is the end result:
No one goes to jail for fraud, no one loses their job, the bureaucracy investigates itself and make reports on the offending organization but never mention the culprits!
Dont even bother!
One of the YES crew
Typical of many aboriginal run organisations across the country. I have had staff out there many years ago tell me how bad it was run. I saw some of it first hand when I spent some time in the IT department. A very weird place to work!
Surprise, Surprise. Not before time it appears there at last may be some audit reports that are needed.
I see the Chair is a prominent leader for the Yes case in the Voice.
This is a prime example where such organisations would benefit from a ‘shared approach’ to management, as most of the important high level skills and training for financial management and governance for such organisations lies with Non-Aboriginal people.
This is likely to be an example of what will happen if the voice succeeds. Likely, there will be more separation, more racial division, more waste and more serious financial mismanagement.
This is bound to increase serious tensions in our society, which are becoming evident as activists and the PM push the notion of the Voice. Clearly, the country is seriously divided. Shouldn’t leaders be working to reduce such divisions, rather than promoting them?
Any chance of human development without a shared, respectful approach, will stall and cause greater chaos.
Such evidence is clear from countries such as South Africa.
Business and enterprise has little chance of success in communities without a ‘shared approach’. There are many highly trained, skilled Non-Aboriginal people keen to contribute to such a shared approach. Unfortunately, some Aboriginal leaders discourage this and encourage ‘separate development’. The negative results of this approach in many organisations are clear.
If we are to prosper, particularly in the Territory, a shared development approach is required. This has not been given sufficient attention nor effort by both Non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal leadership. Current political Non- Aboriginal leadership seems more content with ‘virtue signalling’ than effecting real, substantive human development and change within Aboriginal communities. Such feel good, vibe driven, virtue signalling is noticeably deficient in how the Voice will actually work to achieve much needed change in economic and human development. Nor is it clear from the statements of the Aboriginal proponents of the Voice, how such division will be minimised and how the prospect of more separate development will be successful.