The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon March 17, 2025 at 1:32 am
I know some people who have a legislative plan to stop this kind of behaviour. It will be called: The Hylton Hayes Amendment. You heard it here first.
Here’s a copy of part of a submission to Michael Richer or is it Riches. Again, these things are easy to implement and/or change. The reason they’re not is because it suits certain people to keep it this way: in this case Andrew Kirkman.
“Counselled and cautioned” – we bet he’s absolutely shitting his pants. I’m scared just typing it!
From the submission below it was Hylton Hayes, he had a expensive Sydney employment barrister flown over and put up in a fancy hotel as well as 3 SFNT lawyers at his disposal, we’re told.
No doubt there will be many many more examples of people who get free tax payer funded legal help to destroy an employee or whistleblower who usually has to pay out their own pocket.
“5. Any Government employee named in whistleblower retaliation cases should not have access to unlimited Government legal funds and backing from SFNT or any other NTGOV outsourced legal firms. That employee needs to pay out of their own pocket, in the same way the now lonely whistleblower has to when defending their position/job in the face or relentless and blatant whistleblowing repercussions [see 2 above].
The same as I had to do: fighting multiple actions and facing at times more than twelve different Crown Solicitors in SA all working for the Government against me while I was mostly self-represented at that time. You have no idea how daunting this can be and how manifestly unfair and unjust this is.
The Government uses tax payer money (practically unlimited resources) to grind me into the dirt and I came within a whisker of being bankrupt, both mentally and financially, while they all sipped cappuccinos and stood up in court and parroted Department lies about me. Is it any wonder nobody wants to do this?
Alternatively, give the whistleblowing employee the same access to those legal funds and resources to at least level the playing field on which their legal battle will commence.
This is a MAJOR reason why people do not report wrong doing, and there are others which I will alert you to at the end of this submission, which skew any fight in favour of the NTGOV or employer who disputes the allegations.
Actually, this should be the case across all Government Departments nationwide.
This would stop, easily, 90% of the workplace bullying and retaliation cases that employees are forced to take to employment tribunals and courts to protect themselves from aggressive and unethical employers/regional directors/senior executives who are always supported by bullying SFNTs and Crown Solicitors etc.”
I fear if senior public servants where up for their own legal expences the pressure on the Whistleblower would triple. The Run Them Out Of Town mentality is alive and well!
Alternatively the Whistleblower would be negotiated with and magically receive a promotion if they drop the case!
The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon March 17, 2025 at 1:57 am
Imagine how quickly Kirkman’s behaviour at his workplace would change if he knew he’d be funding his own potentially million dollar mess? Pay your own bills for a change!
No more banging the desk like a 4 year old, no more shouting at employees, no more threats, no more discrimination…all would be sunshine and light in the Kirkman office as his legal financial protection was removed.
We need to start incentivising the different kinds of behaviour we want to see in our Government and its offices. If it means taking away some toys then so be it.
Right now and as we saw with Murphy, the incentives are currently there to do all the wrong things: being counselled FFS, keeping your job, keeping your Super, being allowed to employ your mates whenever you want to whatever job you want.
We can’t assume that people like Kirkman are just going to behave normally without any kind of ‘persuasion’ from us. He and all like him force us to aggressively legislate a new agenda so that they really understand how we expect them to behave. Sad but true.
Darwin feels like living in a bad video psyop simulation, a parallel universe, where the villains are dressed up as small weak, woke, white NTG men? (www.com)
City of Darwin LM Kon Vatskalis also uses rate payer money to bully CR Amye Un with legal eagles. CoD villains have organised a witch-hunt against Amye for trying to find out about the CoD COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Civic Centre $150m & former Cr Paul Arnold NTG $100,000.00 Grant gifted by NTG MLA Port Darwin Paul Kirby without meeting grant criteria? Sickening how tax-payers fund the NTG villains, is it no wonder Darwin population is in decline.
Hopefully the federal court judgement, when it eventuates, puts a rocket up the NT public sector senior executive cohort. The current situation has developed over a long period of time and this is at least another open court hearing and an opportunity for further sunlight and disinfectant. The slowly increasing numbers of non-party aligned parliamentarians also gives me some hope of incremental change and that after the next NT election, should we make it that far, the major parties might both be in minority and be confronted with a balance of power scenario
Look, we are wondering what the bloody hell is going on, this Kirkman should have been sacked twice and possible a third time for using DIPL budgetary funds to procure a property in Knuckeys Lagoon! I think a fourth time also because of the “lack off” services that Palmerston hospital provides! What is it with this Kirkman! Perceptions perceptions perceptions! I’m sure we shall all soon find out if indeed the Kirkman and the Finnochiaro/ Burkes break bread together! As a minimum, when this case is finalised, that the final cost to the Territory is divulged with vigour in the NT Unicameral parliament! If again the outcome is not favourable to the NT GOvernment then, as a procedurally correct process, Mr Kirkman and every public servant involved in this case MUST be held to account and subjected to inability proceedings! Doing what your boss wants does not make your actions warranted! Someone has to pay because that money could have benefited greater needs in the territory!
The well photographed Lia Finocchiaro Government is on the nose in less than 8 months of taking office.
A lot of people who have had to deal with a certain CEO and know people who have had to engage lawyers to deal with that certain CEO are extremely upset that his legal bills will be paid for by the most expensive lawyer willing to fly to Darwin. Those people voted CLP but will not be making that mistake next election.
Its going to be a shitty 1 term CLP Government with current CLP Ministers proclaiming they are planning to return to private industry in 2028! What a waste of time and effort by all involved!
I know some people who have a legislative plan to stop this kind of behaviour. It will be called: The Hylton Hayes Amendment.
You heard it here first.
Here’s a copy of part of a submission to Michael Richer or is it Riches. Again, these things are easy to implement and/or change. The reason they’re not is because it suits certain people to keep it this way: in this case Andrew Kirkman.
“Counselled and cautioned” – we bet he’s absolutely shitting his pants. I’m scared just typing it!
From the submission below it was Hylton Hayes, he had a expensive Sydney employment barrister flown over and put up in a fancy hotel as well as 3 SFNT lawyers at his disposal, we’re told.
No doubt there will be many many more examples of people who get free tax payer funded legal help to destroy an employee or whistleblower who usually has to pay out their own pocket.
“5. Any Government employee named in whistleblower retaliation cases should not have access to unlimited Government legal funds and backing from SFNT or any other NTGOV outsourced legal firms. That employee needs to pay out of their own pocket, in the same way the now lonely whistleblower has to when defending their position/job in the face or relentless and blatant whistleblowing repercussions [see 2 above].
The same as I had to do: fighting multiple actions and facing at times more than twelve different Crown Solicitors in SA all working for the Government against me while I was mostly self-represented at that time. You have no idea how daunting this can be and how manifestly unfair and unjust this is.
The Government uses tax payer money (practically unlimited resources) to grind me into the dirt and I came within a whisker of being bankrupt, both mentally and financially, while they all sipped cappuccinos and stood up in court and parroted Department lies about me. Is it any wonder nobody wants to do this?
Alternatively, give the whistleblowing employee the same access to those legal funds and resources to at least level the playing field on which their legal battle will commence.
This is a MAJOR reason why people do not report wrong doing, and there are others which I will alert you to at the end of this submission, which skew any fight in favour of the NTGOV or employer who disputes the allegations.
Actually, this should be the case across all Government Departments nationwide.
This would stop, easily, 90% of the workplace bullying and retaliation cases that employees are forced to take to employment tribunals and courts to protect themselves from aggressive and unethical employers/regional directors/senior executives who are always supported by bullying SFNTs and Crown Solicitors etc.”
I fear if senior public servants where up for their own legal expences the pressure on the Whistleblower would triple. The Run Them Out Of Town mentality is alive and well!
Alternatively the Whistleblower would be negotiated with and magically receive a promotion if they drop the case!
Imagine how quickly Kirkman’s behaviour at his workplace would change if he knew he’d be funding his own potentially million dollar mess? Pay your own bills for a change!
No more banging the desk like a 4 year old, no more shouting at employees, no more threats, no more discrimination…all would be sunshine and light in the Kirkman office as his legal financial protection was removed.
We need to start incentivising the different kinds of behaviour we want to see in our Government and its offices. If it means taking away some toys then so be it.
Right now and as we saw with Murphy, the incentives are currently there to do all the wrong things: being counselled FFS, keeping your job, keeping your Super, being allowed to employ your mates whenever you want to whatever job you want.
We can’t assume that people like Kirkman are just going to behave normally without any kind of ‘persuasion’ from us. He and all like him force us to aggressively legislate a new agenda so that they really understand how we expect them to behave. Sad but true.
Darwin feels like living in a bad video psyop simulation, a parallel universe, where the villains are dressed up as small weak, woke, white NTG men? (www.com)
City of Darwin LM Kon Vatskalis also uses rate payer money to bully CR Amye Un with legal eagles. CoD villains have organised a witch-hunt against Amye for trying to find out about the CoD COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Civic Centre $150m & former Cr Paul Arnold NTG $100,000.00 Grant gifted by NTG MLA Port Darwin Paul Kirby without meeting grant criteria? Sickening how tax-payers fund the NTG villains, is it no wonder Darwin population is in decline.
Hopefully the federal court judgement, when it eventuates, puts a rocket up the NT public sector senior executive cohort. The current situation has developed over a long period of time and this is at least another open court hearing and an opportunity for further sunlight and disinfectant.
The slowly increasing numbers of non-party aligned parliamentarians also gives me some hope of incremental change and that after the next NT election, should we make it that far, the major parties might both be in minority and be confronted with a balance of power scenario
Look, we are wondering what the bloody hell is going on, this Kirkman should have been sacked twice and possible a third time for using DIPL budgetary funds to procure a property in Knuckeys Lagoon!
I think a fourth time also because of the “lack off” services that Palmerston hospital provides!
What is it with this Kirkman!
Perceptions perceptions perceptions!
I’m sure we shall all soon find out if indeed the Kirkman and the Finnochiaro/ Burkes break bread together!
As a minimum, when this case is finalised, that the final cost to the Territory is divulged with vigour in the NT Unicameral parliament!
If again the outcome is not favourable to the NT GOvernment then, as a procedurally correct process, Mr Kirkman and every public servant involved in this case MUST be held to account and subjected to inability proceedings!
Doing what your boss wants does not make your actions warranted!
Someone has to pay because that money could have benefited greater needs in the territory!
The well photographed Lia Finocchiaro Government is on the nose in less than 8 months of taking office.
A lot of people who have had to deal with a certain CEO and know people who have had to engage lawyers to deal with that certain CEO are extremely upset that his legal bills will be paid for by the most expensive lawyer willing to fly to Darwin.
Those people voted CLP but will not be making that mistake next election.
Its going to be a shitty 1 term CLP Government with current CLP Ministers proclaiming they are planning to return to private industry in 2028!
What a waste of time and effort by all involved!