More questionable DPP hiring practices revealed, including adviser to Attorney-General
EXCLUSIVE: Director of Public Prosecutions Lloyd Babb was involved in more questionable hiring pract
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Nepotism & Cronyism is rife in the NT Public Service.
Anyone who is a threat to a hiring manager is not even interviewed!
All these hires have the tacit support from HR managers and OCPE staff.
Rules For Thee, Not For Me.
There are 55 departments in the NT Government, according to their website.
Eventually they all report to the CM, the buck stops with her/him. However, a fish rots from the head down.
We’re all smart enough to know that NTG cultural behaviour cues come from the CM and their office. They inform everyone in Government what will be tolerated and rewarded and what will not be.
The heads of those 55 depts cannot survive by continually doing this kind of culturally cancerous hiring unless the CM/leadership sanctions it, either explicitly or implicitly or both.
Ombudsman NT and the OCPE exist as willing arms of NTG leadership, when they’re supposed to be the independent investigators of NTG (trying not to laugh writing this).
It is correct to say that those in charge of this nepotistic nonsense look up the hierarchy whenever they do it.
If the CM says its OK, either by saying it directly or be her wilfully blind actions, then its OK.
She alone controls the narrative around employment and behaviour issues in her Government because she is the one that can shape the whole organisational culture in Government with the stroke of a pen/hitting send on an email.
It’s easy to message all heads of dept, using this latest very smelly hiring example and tell them:
“Dear heads of depts,
You all know where the policies/guidelines/employment conditions are, from next Monday this bullsh*t all stops or else I will sack you, publicly. If you can’t or won’t stop it then I’ll do it for you. Public trust in us and our institutions matters to me as does employee welfare. If you keep eroding it then you’re out of a job. Last warning.
Have a fantastic week.
CM
Ps: I’m legislating away ‘captain’s pick’ in case it’s just too hard for you to stop using it.”
Think of toddlers in a day care. If you leave them alone without consequences for 15 minutes, remove all responsible adults, once the kids realise then chaos will break out, the strong will bully and attack the weak, toys are hoarded, food is stolen, tears, people climbing over the fence.
As soon as a responsible adult or 2 enters who are known by said toddlers to enforce rules, role model expected behaviour, be firm but fair, is safety conscious and wants to see everyone in the place treated with empathy and respect then there’s a completely different vibe to it.
It’s not difficult. Really it isn’t. It’s a simple choice.
Unless of course you want chaos, you want the strong to bully and attack the weak, money to be hoarded, jobs and promotions stolen, tears, people contacting journalists and blogs and outside bodies.
You know the best way to put Chris Walsh out of a job and stop him and his excellent online publication from exposing all your hypocrisy, lies, nepotism, cover ups, bullying, wasting of tax payer money and secret deals, lies, did someone say lies?
Just stop doing it.
We really can’t wait for a new party to come in, with adult ideas and an industrial cleaner to get rid of this ingrained dirt and bacteria which infects and sullies the whole place from top to BOttOm Feeders.
We want Change:
All
Limp
Politicians
Crooks &
Liabilities
Prosecuted
Looks like a boxing tournament is in progress. For the majority of the last 25 years Labor has been in charge. The current government needs to clean up the mess that is slowly being unravelled
Correction: in total there are 55 departments AND agencies: https://nt.gov.au/about-government/government-agencies
There are not 55 major departments.
My understanding, derived from a decade in the Commonwealth and NT Government public services, and impressed on me by my supervisors, is that:
Except in cases of natural emergency, all employment must be the outcome of advertisements that follow stated protocols and guidelines, which can be represented succinctly by the adjective ‘meritocratic’. The second series of barriers to cronyism, nepotism, and corruption are Treasury Regulations. Essentially, these ensure taxpayer’s money is spent in accordance with expectation, which includes employment of persons of the highest possible calibre.
It seems to me that all these protections have lapsed, or been deliberately cancelled, with the predictable outcome of incompetence on an epic scale. That is exactly what I am looking at across the board in respect of every department; crucial functions in the hands of personnel who are entirely unqualified and unskilled for their tasks. This is exacerbated by Ministers who ignore procedure and make decisions on whim or convenience, ignoring available evidence and advice. If this is not completely resolved now, within two years the Northern Territory economy and infrastructure will have collapsed beyond realistic redemption.
All of the above. And please, no more “It’s all Labor’s mess, Lia and the CLP are trying to fix it, give them time”. The time’s up. It was up quite a while ago.