Updated Bruce Lehrmann Pt2 * ACT Bar clears former DPP head Shane Drumgold of misconduct

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Here is PART 1

Historical Rape Allegation Against Fmr AG Christian Porter
The Alexander Matters matters

Just a reminder, this is the crime board and we need to be aware that there will be victims of crime either watching this thread or engaging in here from time to time. A degree of respect in all discussions is expected.

LINK TO TIMELINE
CJS INQUIRY
FINAL REPORT – BOARD OF INQUIRY – CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Joint media statement – Chief Minister and Attorney-General



FIONA BROWN - AFFIDAVIT

 

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About Cate

https://www.onenation.org.au/questions-raised-over-430k-government-job

'Questions Raised Over $430K Government Job​

One Nation May 30, 2024

Under Senator Malcolm Roberts questioning, Rob Stefanic, the head of the federal government department tasked with overseeing Parliament House, denied being in a relationship with his deputy, but refused to say whether he'd been in one with her before creating and placing her in a job paying about $430,000 a year.

Cate Saunders was also given a $315,000 additional payment to retire, despite being far younger than the retirement age.
Senator Roberts also asked about reports of there being a toxic culture at his agency, the Department of Parliamentary Services. Multiple staff have approached Senator Roberts and are not satisfied with the fobbing off of these concerns.'

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/margin-call/office-romance-at-dps-raises-questions-fractures-deepen-inside-melbourne-chapters-of-ypo/news-story/7382a0d0ed5b1088575c80b29c163930

'Office romance at DPS raises questions; fractures deepen inside Melbourne chapters of YPO​

Yoni Bashan
8:18PM May 06, 2024.
Updated 9:42AM May 07, 2024

You can bet a few questions are being asked over the exit of the very senior Parliament House bureaucrat Cate Saunders, who served as deputy secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services from 2019 to October 2023.

We understand she left that role on very good terms and with a substantial exit package to boot.

These days she’s completely separated from the bureaucracy, where she spent almost two decades of her career; now she’s working as a sales associate, selling property with a boutique Canberra real estate agency.

A lesser known footnote, however, is that Saunders was in a relationship with her boss, DPS Secretary Rob Stefanic, who was mentioned in this column last year over a questionable decision to ban bottles of wine being left on tables during functions in the Great Hall.

We called him a fun-sponge for that order and he wasn’t too fond of the designation, but he defended the decision in light of a blistering review released at the time around parliament’s workplace culture.

And lo, speaking of workplace culture! Nothing overtly wrong with an office romance, to be sure, but one might ask exactly who cleared Saunders’ exit package and whether or not that person was indeed Stefanic and if the relationship had even been declared at that point.

A DPS spokeswoman told us that Saunders took a secondment with Services Australia in April last year and that she left the public service during that period. “The secretary maintained a professional working relationship with Ms Saunders for a number of years before her employment by Services Australia in April 2023,” she said. “The secretary declares all relevant relationships in the appropriate manner.”

Responses, we might add, that hardly clarify the two most important questions at hand, namely whether the relationship was declared in a timely manner, and whether or not Stefanic signed off on the package for Saunders — known internally as an “incentive to retire” payment.

Senator Jane Hume had the good sense to ask about Saunders’ absence from the table during budget estimates in February. Stefanic, answering those questions, took them on notice — and we’ve heard nothing of them since.
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The second time the cleaners went in for the detail clean, they were locked in to the Minister's office which had never happened before, and told to focus on the couch and seating.

It wasn't routine.

Edit: The cleaner was also told to say that he was in there attending to a leak if anybody asked.

You mean the couch that according to Lehrmann, nothing happened, on except for Higgins sleeping on mostly undressed .

 

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Given the head of DPS Stefanic has taken sudden leave after the NACC raided Parliament House on a warrant particular to that department, looking for anything to do with subs and Department of Defence and that the assistant NACC Commissioner has stood in, it may not have been investigated thoroughly enough on the information they had at the time.

The same Stefanic who hand delivered the DPS Report detailing the Lehrmann/Higgins incident.

This is not a conspiracy.

 

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It's been a five and a half year wait to get anywhere near to the truth of exactly who managed the incident behind the scenes.

 

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Is it possible Judge Tottle in WA may have had something to do with this new investigation?

 

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Posted without comment..

So many questions. Would this team of forensic researchers have access to all the parties phone records? I'd really like to know if any of them phoned Linda Reynolds and exactly when.

 

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At some point are we allowed to discuss the possibility of a cover up?

Go for it.