I would like to take a minute to present to you evidence of 'the process' of covering up complaints that is used by the Administrators of our Government and their friends/work colleagues employed in investigatory bodies and positions.
I have attached a scanned copy of a letter reference number RML 03/5996. This letter is dated 4 August 2003 and it refers to my letter to the Minister for Education dated 24 June 2003; it is addressed to me, it is on letterhead and it was signed by the Minister for Education at the time, Mr. Refshauge. In this letter it states that our families complaints and allegations would be dealt with in accordance with the Responding to Suggestions, Complaints & Allegations policy. This policy clearly states that allegations of the type and nature made by our family are to be subject to a formal investigation and that the negotiation procedure is not applicable. On the basis of this letter we believed that a formal investigation had been commenced into our complaints and allegations.
I have attached a scanned copy of a draft letter with the same reference number as above RML 03/5996. This letter is a draft/copy, it is not on letter head, it is not dated and it is not signed but it has the exact same reference number as the letter that was sent to me on 4 August 2003 above.
This draft copy of the letter is not a legitimate copy of the original letter from Mr Refshauge with reference RML 03/5996. The original letter says that our complaints will be investigated. This fabricated letter says that the complaints have already been investigated and not just by the DET but also by the Ombudsman as well. These are blatant lies.
I have attached a copy of a scanned Email from John Murn to Chris Ballentine hand-dated 6.8.2004. This email clearly states that the Minister for Education promised an investigation into our allegations and that no investigation had been undertaken by the DET or by the Ombudsman.
Despite the Audit Directorate of the DET being clearly told by John Murn that the earlier allegations made by my family had not been investigated, I received a letter from the Audit Directorate saying that our families fresh allegations of new instances of bias and victimisation would not be investigated as they were similar allegations to those that we had previously made and that these allegations had been investigated and closed.
I sent the Ombudsman the letter-head signed version of RML 03/5996 and the DET sent him the draft version. I had never seen or received a copy of the version provided by the DET before being provided a copy by the Ombudsman. Guess which version the Ombudsman Mr. Bruce Barbour chose as the 'legitimate version of RML 03/5996 and that he used to support his decision to not investigate our fresh allegations of further instances of bullying and victimisation aimed at our children and family? I had also sent the Ombudsman a copy of the email from John Murn dated 6 August 2004 as well as other evidence to support our allegations. It seems that it doesn't matter how much evidence you have nobody actually looks at it they just accept whatever they are told by their own.
Of course the person whom they wanted me to see to explain 'the process' was one of the main persons implicated in this matter and against whom formal allegations of bias, bullying and victimisation had been made. This person had already told me previously when I asked for a Solicitor to be present at any meeting that he would only see me personally in relation to the matter and that it didn't matter whether I found his excuses reasonable or even acceptable that the matter would be closed and correspondence from me filed without acknowledgment. I wrote a letter of complaint to the Minster and my letter was not responded to.
This is an administrative cover up.
If this type of mis-conduct isn't a problem for our system then I do not know what is! Our investigatory bodies are not required to identify fabricated and/or altered documents nor do they want to properly and fairly investigate complaints and the system lacks impartiality and integrity to the extreme.
For the record: Despite it being presented since 2004 in numerous internal DET documents as a fact, I have never been deemed vexatious or advised that I have been formally deemed vexatious etc by the Minister or DET. In 2007, after requesting evidence of the process used to deem me vexatious I received a signed letter from the FOI Unit dated December 2008 that clearly states that I have not ever been deemed vexatious by the Minister or the DET. This was another fabricated story spread by the persons against whom allegations were made so as to discredit me so that our allegations would be ignored.
Despite having the evidence that clearly shows that I have not been deemed vexatious and substantial evidence that shows that the allegations have never been investigated my family can find no avenue to get our name of the list that we have been placed on that ensures that our correspondence is filed away and our family can find no avenue to hold the DET to account and force the Government to investigate the allegations that have been made against the DET. This is despite the fact that the allegations are serious and involve children.
It upsets me to no end to read that they presented me as a mother who was harming my children when it was them who were neglecting, targeting, bullying and harming them. All I did was request documents under FOI and make written complaints to try to get protection and justice for my children. If making complaints was causing my children to be at risk of harm then this harm would be happening because of them and that is victimsation and is against the law.
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