ICAC finds senior public servant engaged in ‘corrupt conduct’ after four-year probe into misuse of leave entitlements
A senior NT public servant on an executive contract dishonestly claimed sick days while he was gambl
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Why should someone who has defrauded the tax payers not be named and shamed. Thieving dog.
He is in the club mate!
If your not in the club , your slaughtered on the front page of the NT News!!!!
The CRIMINAL CODE ACT (NT) – SCHEDULE 1, 80 and SCHEDULE 1, 81 of the Northern Territory Parliament states –
80 Abuse of office – improper conduct
(1) A public officer commits an offence if:
(a) the officer:
(i) intentionally provides, certifies or approves a document that is false in a material particular; or
(ii) intentionally modifies a document so that it is false in a material particular; and
(b) the material particular mentioned in paragraph (a) relates to either of the following circumstances and the officer has knowledge of that circumstance:
(i) the expenditure of public money;
(ii) the rights of a person; and
(c) the conduct mentioned in paragraph (a) is improper.
(2) For subsection (1)(b), a material particular relates to the expenditure of public money if it relates to one or more of the following:
(a) remuneration payable, or claimed to be payable, to any person;
(b) payment of money;
(c) delivery of goods or services;
(d) records or documents made for any accounting purposes, financial purpose or other similar purpose.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.
(3) Absolute liability applies to subsection (1)(c).
Note for section 80
If false information is provided for the purpose of gain to the public officer, the offence of false accounting under section 233 may be applicable.
81 Abuse of office – arbitrary and prejudicial conduct
(1) A public officer commits an offence if:
(a) the officer intentionally engages in conduct; and
(b) the conduct is intentionally arbitrary or an abuse of process; and
(c) the conduct is prejudicial to the rights of another person and the officer is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
(d) the conduct is improper.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Absolute liability applies to subsection (1)(d).
(3) A public officer commits an offence if:
(a) the officer intentionally engages in conduct; and
(b) the conduct is intentionally arbitrary or an abuse of process; and
(c) the conduct is prejudicial to the rights of another person and the officer is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
(d) the conduct is improper; and
(e) the conduct is engaged in with the intention of obtaining a benefit.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.
(4) Absolute liability applies to subsection (3)(d).
Lucio, you just sacked 90% of the public service; we can’t jail them; no room.
Am I being racist by assuming this person isn’t white. I honestly get the feeling this person would have been named if he was white. One only needs to investigate the remote community government councils. Some of their elected councillors behaviour when they have to attend regional council meetings outside their communities is bloody disgusting but no one says anything because it’s deemed racists. Non indigenous elected members and government employees would be hung drawn and quartered if they behaved the way some indigenous counterparts behaved.
This is exactly what is wrong with Governments and politicians. Too much ‘protection and silence’.
There is no hesitation in destroying the reputation of “other’s” who are deemed on the outer – especially if it kept the smell away from politicians!
Eh? Oh I get it. Toss in some sickies for the punters to slaver over while we plaster over the billion-dollar cracks. Works every time.
Oh my. A few dodgy sickies takes ICAC 4 years and how many paid hours to investigate? Genuine question: how do we get a decent ICAC with powers and skills?
No government in Australia has achieved that
Do not be fooled ICAC has lifted a finger.
This guy doesnt even touch the sides!
There are many long term public servants who dont turn up to work for weeks.
There are people 20 times worse than this articles example and ICAC did not bother to investigate!!
We’ll say it again: Go and read the ICAC report on Jenny Sherrington, it’s still on the site, and ask why she was never prosecuted:
https://icac.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1174376/Public-statement-on-an-investigation-into-the-former-Principal-of-Milingimbi-School.pdf
We’ll say this again too in response to Catherine and Boof: any sitting Government can have a decent ICAC/[insert name of any other Government body here] whenever they want to.
It’s got nothing to do with ‘not being able to achieve it’, it’s got to do with not wanting to have a decent ICAC/[insert name of any other Government body here]
There are 2 ways to get a decent ICAC/’anything-Government-appointed/created’:
1. is to vote in a political party to majority Government that will do that for you, people with honesty and integrity who see the value to everyone in a corrupt-free public service.
If there is no political party which will do that for you then you must start one and then create a decent ICAC. Show everyone how easy it actually is to do this.
Expect a hurricane worth of blowback as you threaten the foundations on which political life here in the NT/Australia sits.
2. is to relentlessly protest the f**k out of the current Government until they change things.
Regarding naming and shaming: let’s start with every company or organisation which participated in the $60 million IEPS fraud scandal.
NTI: ‘The Indigenous Employment Provisional Sum (IEPS) scheme is reportedly the largest known fraud ever committed in the Northern Territory, with local construction companies alleged to have rorted the program of tens of millions of dollars, the Auditor General had found.’
Then let’s add all the ‘political people’ and ministers and public servants who enabled and assisted their fraud, either actively or by wilful blindness.
There are 2 ways to get a decent $60 million Fraud Name And Shame Register/website……(see above)
While you’re doing this, ask yourselves why under Justice Stephen Southwood’s watch, the case was stalled for 3 years due to him delaying a pre-trial decision, as reported here on NTI.
The NTPS will be the downfall of Lia. The red flags are becomeing to hard to unsee. The culprits will leave the NT with a big smile with full pockets.