Monday, 16 September 2013

 Prue Goward's witch Hunt
It appears this skanky NSW Minister is trying to lay the blame on  another for fucking over  and misleading the NSW Parliament.
It is also quite disturbing that anyone who leaks a document exposing shonky Ministers orcorrupt government department will find themselves charged with a criminal offence.
It is now time for anyone charged with such an offence  be show they are actually have  some ability and guts and drag these people into the witness box.
The law works this way............................ anyone who makes a complaint must provide a statement to police.
 If the accused then pleads not guilty then the Minister or department must be cross examined and exposed in Court.

How funny.... unfortunately most whistleblowers do not have the guts. to expose this in court.......................
COMMUNITY Services Minister Pru Goward has ordered her department to investigate the possible culprit behind the leaking of an Ernst and Young report to the Opposition embarrassing her over caseworker numbers - an investigation that will include former departmental Director-General Jim Moore's partner.
Mr Moore's partner, Cindy Mills, whose police complaint against him led to Mr Moore's sacking, works at the department as an executive assistant to the Director-General who acted after Mr Moore, Jim Longley, and had access to the document, government sources say.
Contacted on Monday over the fact the investigation included his partner, Mr Moore said: "Really?" and then said "I'm not going to comment."
Attempts to get a comment from Ms Mills through Mr Moore and through her work telephone number were unsuccessful.
Pru's witch-hunt for leaker
Pru Goward. Source: News Limited
Ms Goward has come under pressure to hold her job over the draft Ernst and Young report and been accused of misleading parliament over it.
She told parliament that there were more than 2,000 caseworkers employed in NSW but the Opposition revealed that the report had said there were actually 1,797 caseworkers.
Ms Goward then told parliament she had not received the report but it was then revealed it was tabled at a meeting she was at.
Documents released under a call for papers in the upper house show that the morning after the Opposition produced the report showing a shortage of case workers at a budget estimates hearing, Ms Goward's acting chief of staff, William Crook, was ordering Family and Community Services department chief Michael Coutts Trotter at 6:13am to: "please commence an investigation into the leak of the draft EY report and report back to the Minister with interim progress by Friday 16 August."
At 9:59am the same day, August 13, an email from an executive director of ministerial and executive support at the department, Ruth Jones, says: "MCT may have already flagged this with you - once things have settled down this morning I will need you to provide the DG with a list of all people who have had access to the EY Report."
A day later the director of the office of the chief executive Penny Hood warns that there is still work to be done and it may not be finalised until the next day.
Ms Jones tells Ms Hood: "Ta Penny. Not a big deal - you've had enough else to deal with. The DG just needs to be able to demonstrate to the Minister that he is taking this seriously."
The domestic violence charges against Mr Moore concerning the incident involving his partner which led to his dismissal were dropped last month after Ms Mills decided not to pursue the complaint.
Opposition Leader John Robertson yesterday accused the government of being more interested in a "witch hunt" than in dealing with the problems of a shortage in caseworkers.
"This Minister is more interested in conducting a witch-hunt into the whistleblower who leaked this report than actually employing additional caseworkers to protect vulnerable children," Mr Robertson said.
"So much for the Minister's claims of transparency, she is actually running a concerted campaign against whistleblowers within her own department.
"This speaks volumes about the O'Farrell Government's real attitude towards the crisis in our child protection system."
A spokesman for Mr Goward said: "The unauthorised release of departmental records constitutes a breach of the NSW Public Service Commission's Model Code of Conduct, and an investigation is simply standard practice."

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