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Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry

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Key people in the heiner Affair

Executive Government- Goss cabinet

Cabinet Ministers ordered the destruction of the Heiner Inquiry documents with a state of knowledge that (a) they were being sought by solicitors by law; (b) they were evidence for foreshadowed court proceedings; (c) they could not be withheld from discovery once a Writ was served; (d) they contained evidence of suspected child abuse: and did so to: (e) prevent lawful access; (f) prevent their use in court; (g) protect the careers of the public officials who gave evidence to Mr Heiner, thereby covering up the suspected abuse of children, and any child abusers..

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Wayne Goss (Former Premier)

Members of the Goss Cabinet may be in breach of section 132 of the Criminal Code (Qld) - conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - over ordering the destruction of the Heiner Inquiry documents while knowing that those public records contained evidence about abuse of children in State care as it was done for the specific purpose of preventing its use against the careers of the public servants at the Centre. (See R v Rogerson). Those public servants, being Crown employees with direct care and responsibility for the children, were known to be open to either possible criminal or disciplinary charges over the evidence provided to Mr Heiner. It is therefore beyond reasonable doubt that members of the Goss Cabinet would have known that said public records would be either reasonably foreseeable or clearly known material evidence for any police or CJC disciplinary investigation or in subsequent related judicial proceedings in any matter relating to the abuse;

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2.5 The Queensland Premier:

2.5.1 Mr Wayne Goss MLA Premier of Queensland, Minister for Economic and Trade Development and the Arts in 1990 presumably attended all the Cabinet Meetings which took decisions leading to the shredding of the Heiner Inquiry documents.

2.5.2 Premier Goss participated in the Cabinet decision of 19 February 1990 to inform the State Archivist that the Heiner Inquiry documents "... weren't required or pertinent to the public record" four (4) days AFTER his Government had been properly, duly and honourably served with notice of foreshadowed court proceedings by a firm of Queensland solicitors in which the Heiner documents were known to be the central item of evidence.

2.5.3 Premier Goss allowed the acting Cabinet Secretary Mr Stuart Tait in a letter dated 23 February 1990 to the State Archivist to misled her regarding the true status of the Heiner Inquiry documents in accordance with information held by his Government thereby causing her to NOT act honestly or "impartially" in carrying out her public duties to protect public records with legal status.

2.5.4 Premier Goss participated in a Cabinet decision of 5 March 1990 to proceed with the destruction of "public records", some defamatory in nature, (which according to Crown Solicitor's advice dated 16/2/90 could not attract "Crown Privilege" and could be required and/or discovered in any civil or criminal court proceedings) in order "...to reduce the risk of legal action..." fifteen (15) days after his Government had been properly, duly and honourably served with notice of foreshadowed court proceedings by a firm of Queensland solicitors in which those public records - the Heiner Inquiry documents - were KNOWN to be the central item of evidence.

2.5.5 Premier Goss allowed the acting Cabinet Secretary Mr Stuart Tait in a letter dated 22 March 1990 to the State Archivist order the destruction of evidence (required in known foreshadowed litigation) to proceed which was later carried out on 23 March 1990 in Family Services Building by two public servants, one of whom had INDISPUTABLE KNOWLEDGE that the material was required for foreshadowed litigation.

2.5.6 Premier Goss is a qualified solicitor and officer of the court sworn to uphold the law, and took an oath upon becoming Queensland's Premier.

2.5.7 In mid-March 1991, after Mr Coyne's departure from the public service, Premier Goss wrote a service-wide circular pointing out that it was an offence to destroy public records without first obtaining the permission of the State Archivist. The document was generated from the Premier's Department. (See Exhibit 87)

2.5.8 On 2 September 1994 presumably on his authority, Premier Goss allowed a journalist from "The Courier-Mail" to view the Crown Solicitor's advices of 23 January and 16 February 1990 while denying Parliament access to them. The journalist on 3 September 1994 in "The Courier- Mail" assured the Queensland public that the Government followed the advice. The changed legal circumstances after 19 February 1990 however demonstrate that those advices were overtaken by other events making them redundant.

2.5.9 The question arises for "The Courier-Mail" was it duped by the Goss Government through lack of detailed knowledge in order to present deceptive information to the Queensland community in its article to defuse the issue, or did it act grossly irresponsibly by not verifying what it was told by the government? Source

Dean Wells (Attorney General in the Goss Cabinet, Current member of Bligh Government)

That on 5 March 1990 then Queensland Attorney-General the Hon Dean Wells MLA (the first law officer in the State of Queensland and guardian of the public interest) - in the absence of any contrary evidence as per the Cabinet Attendance Register - participated in the illegal shredding decision for the express purpose of deliberately denying a citizen his lawful rights, (notwithstanding covering up suspected child abuse) and thereafter participated in Cabinet discussions to defend the decision during its cover up lasting years

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The Attorney-General, and First Law Officer of the State, Dean Wells MLA, with all attendant responsibilities to uphold due process within the Rule of Law assuming he was in Cabinet on 5 March 1990, became party to a Cabinet decision to destroy public records in order to reduce the risk of legal action after the Government had been served with due, proper and honourable notice of foreshadowed court proceedings by a firm of solicitors on 19 February 1990 in which those records were the known central item of evidence thereby destroying evidence and obstructing justice. Source

The Heiner Affair (see State Hansard p932 24 May 2006), in particular a motion to appoint a Special Prosecutor moved by Gladstone Independent Mrs. Liz Cunningham MLA.  During the parliamentary debate Mr Dean Wells MLA [former Attorney-General at the time of the shredding] confirmed that the Goss Cabinet was aware that the material gathered by Mr Heiner concerned abuse of children in the care of the State.  Relevantly he said:

“....Either the complaints, whatever they are — and it was not as clearly spelt out what they were then as it has been since — are true or false.  If false, they constitute a great wrong against the parties complained about and, consequently, there could be defamation actions.  If true, then there were now recently cleaned up processes for them to use to bring a prosecution.  If such a prosecution failed or did not proceed, a defamation action could still be brought against the complainants and the complainants again would be exposed.  Therefore, it was highly desirable that the complainants should go to another source to make their statements.”

Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister and former Chief of Staff to Wayne goss)

The manifestation of a transition-into-government plan to “clean out” certain public officials showed up when certain high ranking persons, mainly former departmental Directors-General, were shunted off to a ”gulag” at the Normanby Fiveways within a matter of days of the Goss Government winning office where they were given no work, and were eventually either terminated or employed elsewhere. The author knows that Queensland Premier the Hon. Wayne Goss’s Principal Private Secretary, Mr. Kevin Rudd, played a highly significant role in this possess of vetting the suitability of new Directors-General for the Goss administration, even as early as the Sunday after election day.

It is open to suggest that two such people caught up in this network and sitting in the Federal Parliament should be questioned under oath in the same way I was to ascertain whether or not they held the same state of knowledge as the Hon. Anne Warner and the Hon. Pat Comben did in those critical days. They are the Member for Griffith, Mr. Kevin Rudd MP and the Member for Lilley, Mr. Wayne Swan MP.

In short, once the Goss Cabinet knew that the solution of access to the Heiner Inquiry documents legally rested with the Department of Families, those public records should have been returned immediately to that department which would have kept the Goss Cabinet out of the conspiratorial circle. Plainly, it had been decided that Heiner would be handled centrally by the Goss Government irrespective of legal advice, and then Queensland Premier the Hon. Wayne Goss played a dominant role, or someone very close to him did – and that inevitably points to his Principal Private Secretary Mr. Kevin Rudd.

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Ann Warner

Minister Anne Warner Minister for Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs in spite of acknowledging receipt of a due, proper and honourable notice of foreshadowed court proceedings from a firm of solicitors on 19 February 1990 over access to certain known and identifiable public records, and, assuming she was in Cabinet during (1) and (ii), allowed them to be destroyed in order to reduce the risk of legal action thereby destroying evidence and obstructing justice. Source

Equally, given the seriousness of the situation, some may well wish to publicly disavow themselves, under oath, of the same state of knowledge which former Goss Families Minister the Hon. Anne Warner and former Environment Minister the Hon. Pat Comben unquestionably had at the time when they, as Ministers of the Crown, permitted vital evidence of abuse of children in State care to be put through the shredder so that it could not be used in court or in evidence against the careers of certain staff at the Centre who were plainly abusing children in State care and were never held to account. Such conduct may go to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and accessory after the fact.

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Wayne Swan ( Federal Treasurer)

It is open to suggest that two such people caught up in this network and sitting in the Federal Parliament should be questioned under oath in the same way I was to ascertain whether or not they held the same state of knowledge as the Hon. Anne Warner and the Hon. Pat Comben did in those critical days. They are the Member for Griffith, Mr. Kevin Rudd MP and the Member for Lilley, Mr. Wayne Swan MP.

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Pat Comben (Goss Cabinet Minister)

Goss Cabinet Minister the Hon Pat Comben publicly admitted on Channel NINE’s Sunday program ‘Queensland’s Secret Shame’ In February 1999 that at the time the destruction of the documents was ordered:

"In broad terms we were all made aware that there was material about child abuse. Individual members of cabinet were increasingly concerned about whether or not the right decision had been taken" [with regard to the shredding].

Equally, given the seriousness of the situation, some may well wish to publicly disavow themselves, under oath, of the same state of knowledge which former Goss Families Minister the Hon. Anne Warner and former Environment Minister the Hon. Pat Comben unquestionably had at the time when they, as Ministers of the Crown, permitted vital evidence of abuse of children in State care to be put through the shredder so that it could not be used in court or in evidence against the careers of certain staff at the Centre who were plainly abusing children in State care and were never held to account. Such conduct may go to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and accessory after the fact.

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Peter Beattie (Former Queensland Premier)

In this follow-up Sunday screening on 28 March 1999 entitled “Neglect and Cover Up”, Mr. Ransley put the evidence to Mr. Beattie concerning Ms. Warner’s undoubted state of knowledge but he declined to answer and deflected it by claiming that the Forde Inquiry was then looking into the matters. The fact that evidence of the abuse had been deliberately shredded by five of his senior Ministers years earlier to prevent its use against the careers of the public servants involved, including Mr. Coyne, did not seem to matter and was glossed over by Mr. Beattie.

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Then Queensland Attorney-General the Hon Dean Wells MLA on or about 16 July 1994 appointed Mr Noel Francis Nunan as a Stipendiary Magistrate to the central Brisbane region at a time when allegations were with the police pointing towards his possible involvement, when previously as a barrister, in a possible conspiracy to pervert the course of justice (as well as possibly tampering with evidence [ie the CJC tape recording of the Lindeberg/Nunan interview at CJC Headquarters on 11 August 1992 - See Point 195] when reviewing the shredding while under contract by the CJC). The Queensland Justices of the Peace Association (QJA) attempted to delay his appointment out of respect for the Magistrate's Bench by writing to then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland His Honour John Macrossan AC but without success, being told that the appointment discretion rested solely with Queensland's Attorney-General;

From the Lindeberg petition

Noel Nunan (barrister & contracted-CJC officer to review the Lindeberg allegation in 1992/93 & now a Queensland Magistrate)

Another matter, which also concerned me greatly, was the appointment of Mr. Noel Nunan by the CJC, in August 1992, to investigate the Heiner Document shredding. (REFER TO ATTACHMENT B).

Through my contacts I was advised that there was a strong connection between Mr. Goss and Mr. Nunan. This was confirmed some months later, when I searched the Corporate Affairs records for The Caxton Legal Centre.

I was also advised that there was a strong Labor Lawyer presence (other than Mr. Barnes) at the CJC.

My worst fears were realized, when I spoke to Mr. Peter Coyne after his interview at the CJC. Peter advised me that Mr. Nunan had declared to him upon arrival at the CJC - "There will be no solace in this for you and Lindeberg. You realize that your complaint is against the Cabinet".

After Mr. Kevin Lindeberg's interview on 11 August 1992, I asked Kevin if Mr. Nunan had mentioned my submission to him. Mr. Kevin Lindeberg advised me that my submission was mentioned during the course of a taped interview and that Mr. Nunan said the following words with respect to my submission - "He paints a grand conspiracy. If I had to choose between a cock-up and a conspiracy, I'd choose a cock-up every time".

At this stage, I was still unaware that I wasn't to be interviewed. To be honest, I was glad I wasn't with knowledge of the above information.

Mr. Nunan has acknowledged that these words or similar (on the Lindeberg taped interview) were spoken. Mr. Nunan claims they were said at the end of the taped interview, after the taped record had finished. The transcript, however, tells a different story. When Mr. Kevin Lindeberg examined a copy of his taped record of interview, he found a blank passage where the words "He paints a grand conspiracy etc" were spoken. The blank starts at the end of a sentence and the tape commences again at the beginning of a new one. When the tape starts again, Mr. Kevin Lindeberg specifically mentions the words "grand conspiracy". It is not difficult to determine who is telling the truth. It is certainly not Mr. Nunan. In order to relieve the pressure on Mr. Nunan, he was appointed as a magistrate in 1995.

(Source) Letter to Peter Beattie from Mr Des O'Neil.

Magistrate Noel Nunan Grants Bail to Child Rapist

Accused predator out on bail

Jasmin Lill.  The Courier - Mail.  Brisbane, Qld.:Nov 18, 2006.

A GRANDFATHER accused of taking photographs of himself raping his eight-month- old granddaughter has been released on bail.

The 67-year-old appeared in custody in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court yesterday charged with two counts of rape and four counts of indecent treatment of a child.

Detectives from Taskforce Argos also have charged the disability pensioner with making, possessing and distributing child exploitation material.

In opposing bail, Sergeant Tina Green said police had found photographs of the man raping the baby which had been taken by him on his digital camera.

Other images captured his granddaughters -- now aged 3 and 4 -- in "compromising positions", Sgt Green said.

She said the man had the potential to reoffend if he was released.

But defence lawyer Chris Callaghan said his client had no criminal history and would not go near his grandchildren.

Magistrate Noel Nunan released the man on bail.

He ordered him not to have any contact with his granddaughters and that he reappear in court in January.

Public Service Departments

QUEENSLAND CROWN SOLICITOR:

The Role of the Crown Solicitor and the Office of Crown Law

The role of Mr Kenneth O’Shea, the then Crown Solicitor and certain of his legal officers in this affair warrants the very closest of public scrutiny. There is no question that the Office of Crown Law knew that the Heiner Inquiry document and copies of the original complaints were the subject of a legally enforceable access statute and known evidence for impending litigation when members of State Cabinet of 5 March 1990 ordered them destroyed to prevent their use in litigation and to reduce the risk of legal actions against all the parties involved in the Inquiry. That is an immutable fact.

Let Cabinet decide first; the Law can wait

The evidence is that Mr O’Shea and his law officers of the Crown waited for Cabinet to decide the fate of the records instead of ensuring their security for the court - and perhaps other legal purposes touching matters of possible abuse against children in care..

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Deapartment Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs

on 28 December 1998, a 16 year-old aboriginal boy Mr Bobbie Yarrie committed suicide around midnight on a hanging point in his Lawson House cell at the Centre. The hanging points had been identified as an area of improvement in the building design to the Heiner Inquiry by JOYC staff but were ignored after the Inquiry's closure and the shredding by those in authority for nearly a decade until the boy's death. The same boy, who was known to be troubled with a suicide ideation, had attempted suicide by hanging before at the Centre. He had been previously orally raped by older inmates while a detainee at the Centre as reported by a former Youth Worker on Nine Network's Sunday programme screened nationwide on 28 March 1999 "Neglect and Cover Ups" as a follow up to "Queensland's Secret Shame."

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Ruth Matchett (DFSAIA Director-General)

Director-General of a Queensland Government Department received due, proper and honourable notice from a firm of solicitors informing her on (i) the 8 February 1990 of desire to exercise a statutory right to identifiable public records in her possession; (ii) 19 February 1990 of foreshadowed court proceedings over access to those same public records, and then allowed her Minister to attend Cabinet meetings which took decisions outlined in (i) and (ii) to destroy them thereby destroying evidence and obstructing justice;

(ix) Public servants in a Queensland Government Department with indisputable knowledge that certain identifiable public records were required in foreshadowed court proceedings allowed and participated in the destruction of those records thereby destroying evidence and obstructing justice. Source

We suggest that any Minister/officer or agent of the State/Crown, who possessed knowledge of the nature of these alleged unlawful events which they then specifically required not to be broadcast by inserting prohibiting clauses in a State/Crown Deed of Settlement, would be acting outside the law, and would be engaging in prima facie abuse of office, obstruction of justice and misappropriation of public monies for an illegal purpose if public monies were to change hands as part of such a termination of employment arrangement. The facts show that former Minister the Hon Anne Warner and her then Director-General Ms Ruth Matchett possessed such knowledge when executing the February 1991 Coyne/State of Queensland Deed of Settlement.

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2.3 Director-General Ms Ruth Matchett and her Senior Departmental Officers:

2.3.1 Ms Matchett is duty bound by the Public Service Management and Employment Act and Regulations 1988, Criminal Justice Act 1989, and Queensland Criminal Code to act honestly and impartially in carrying out her duties as Chief Executive Officer, including to act fairly and justly towards her Departmental staff. Ms Matchett's responsibility is also to thoroughly brief her Minister on submissions before attending Cabinet meetings.

2.3.2 Ms Matchett, once becoming Acting Director-General, knew that Mr Coyne wanted to see the original specific complaints laid against him and being investigated by Mr Heiner. She was NEVER relieved of that statutory demand by Mr Coyne.

2.3.3 On 19 January 1990 at a meeting convened by Ms Matchett and attended by Mr Lindeberg (QPOA) Ms Janine Walker (Queensland State Service Union [QSSU] Industrial Relations Director), it was made clear to her by Mr Lindeberg representing Mr Coyne, that the original complaints in the Heiner documents were wanted. Ms Sue Crook, Principal Departmental Industrial Officer witnessed the meeting.

2.3.4 Ms Matchett INDISPUTABLY KNEW that the Heiner documents (in part or full) were required by verbal or written notice as per a statutory right (PSME Reg 65) or court proceedings on the following dates: 19/1/90; 30/1/90; 8/2/90; 14/2/90 (phone call to Mr Trevor Walsh from solicitor); 19/2/90; 23/2/90; 28/2/90; 2/3/90; 20/3/90.

2.3.5 Mr Trevor Walsh, Ms Matchett's Executive Officer, INDISPUTABLY KNEW that the Heiner documents were required for foreshadowed litigation by verbal and/or written notice on the following dates: 14/2/90; 19/2/90; and 22/3/90. Mr Walsh assisted in the formulation of the submissions to Cabinet from the Department.

2.3.6 Mr Walsh informed Mr Coyne on 22 March 1990 that the Department was still waiting for Crown Solicitor's advice regarding the Heiner documents and Mr Coyne's demands on the material. (Note Exhibit 12)

2.3.7 On 23 March 1990 Mr Walsh assisted Ms C McGuckin Senior Archivist (Note Exhibit 14) to destroy the Heiner documents in a shredding machine in Family Services Building while still aware of Mr Coyne's foreshadowed litigation and statutory demand on the documents. Neither Ms Matchett nor Mr Walsh informed Mr Coyne on 23 March 1990 that the documents were destroyed on that day. It was done secretly.

2.3.8 Ms Sue Crook Principal Departmental Industrial Officer, INDISPUTABLY KNEW on and after 23 February 1990 that the Heiner documents were required for foreshadowed litigation.

2.3.9 Mr Walsh and Ms Crook are duty bound to act honestly and impartially under the Criminal Justice Act 1989 and Queensland Criminal Code, and not to cause any public official to act dishonestly or partially in carrying out his/her statutory duties. Source

Director Of Public Prosecutions

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions prosecutes criminal offences for the State of Queensland. The Office is independent of government. It is not an investigative law enforcement agency. Prosecuting officers hold a public position of great trust, and are obliged by law to act impartially and in the public interest;

That in November 1996 the Borbidge Queensland Government sought advice from Mr Royce Miller QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, regarding the findings of the Morris/Howard Report, which by the Terms of Reference under which the barristers carried out their commission, being limited to an "on the papers" investigation, was a "preliminary" examination and not a exhaustive examination of matters associated with my allegations. It was therefore not a "completed" brief in any sense of the word upon which the advancement or otherwise of a normal criminal prosecution could be evaluated;

That on 22 November 1996, then Department of Families, Youth and Community Care Director-General The Revd Allan Male forwarded (a) the letter from departmental officials Messrs Donald Smith, Trevor Walsh and Gary Clarke seeking a meeting with a DPP official; and (b) the memorandum from the Director of Information Services Division Ms Carmel Finn which, amongst other matters, revealed the existence of the Crown Solicitor's advice of 18 May 1990 which Messrs Morris QC and Howard described as the "smoking gun" [pp74-76] and were unable to find during their work

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Queensland Police Service

Having been given the significant power by Parliament to protect the people from harm and illegal conduct by any quarter, impartial policing is and must remain a high legal obligation. The undoubted enemy of equal justice is the double standard, and therefore, if policing is abused, biased or corrupted, it invites the law, its enforcement agencies and officials to be brought into contempt

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State Coroner

Michael Barnes

As Mr Barnes claims that the facts associated with Heiner do not trigger section 129 of the Criminal Code (Qld) or the alternate sections of 140 and 132, let alone not giving rise to any official misconduct under the Criminal Justice Act 1989 on the part of public officials closely involved in Heiner, then, by the application of uniformity, it is open to suggest that in any future coronial investigation involving the death of an individual in questionable or suspicious circumstances, including persons in the care and custody of the State/Crown in detention centres and elsewhere,8 that he would be quite happy for (or even defenceless to prevent) the holder of relevant evidence to such an incident, which may include the State/Crown, to destroy it up to the moment of a coronial inquest actually commencing even when notice of such an inquest has been given to the party in possession and control of that evidence, and it may be done for the specific purpose of preventing their use in the anticipated inquest. 2.7. He also advised the Federal Parliament that it was not the responsibility of the State Archivist by law to be concerned about the “legal value” of public records in the appraisal process (i.e. deciding whether to retain or destroy) as the Archivist’s role was limited to only deciding on their “historical value.”9 While this view has been resolutely repudiated by the Australian Society of Archivists and the archives profession worldwide, it has not been recanted by either Mr Barnes himself, the CJC/CMC or the Queensland Government.

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Criminal Justice Commission (CJC)

That around the beginning of August 1992 the CJC, purportedly "…purely by chance," contracted then barrister at the private Bar Mr Noel Francis Nunan to review my complaint. It was unknown to me at the time - but known by others in the legal fraternity - that he was (a) a (former) known activist in the Australian Labor Party (ALP); (b) former member of Labor Lawyers; and (c) former committee associate, both as lawyers, of then Queensland Premier the Hon Wayne K Goss MLA at the Caxton Street Legal Service some years earlier. Despite a prima facie conflict of interest in respect of a perception of bias and the necessity of Justice not only "…being done but being seen to be done " in a matter that had the potential to produce a major constitutional crisis in Queensland's Government if substance were to be found in my complaint, neither did the CJC withdraw his commission nor did Mr Nunan, as a barrister at the private Bar, declare to me (or Mr Coyne) his former close association with the same political party under his examination which formed the then Queensland (ALP) Government after being out of office for 32 years

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Queensland Audit Office (Auditor General)

That, in absence of any contrary evidence, the QAO failed to act impartially by accessing all relevant departmental documents (showing incidents of child abuse at JOYC) pursuant to the provisions of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 including a DFSAIA memorandum dated 18 January 1991 by Mr Gary Clarke Director of Finance and Organisational Services to his accountable officer DFSAIA Director-General Ms Ruth Matchett. The memorandum reported on the 10 January 1991 meeting at which QPOA officials threatened himself and senior Departmental official Mr Leigh Carpenter that unless money was paid "…the whole saga in relation to the John Oxley Youth Centre" would be put into the hands of the CJC (which only has jurisdiction to consider matters of suspected and/or known official misconduct, not industrial relations). Ms Ruth Matchett read the memorandum. She then participated in paying unauthorised money involving DFSAIA Minister the Hon Anne Warner MLA, while knowing about the unresolved suspected child abuse and the illegal shredding/s; and failed to comply with her legal obligation under then section 2.28 of the Criminal Justice Act 1989 to report all suspected official misconduct to the CJC;

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