Jolanda I have no doubt your storey is true.
But from inside a NSW government department let me tell you ,you can not win!
Some people who are not bad people ,not even criminal, will commit crimes to defend others who are wrong or criminal.
In my case ,now after just a few have been found to be what I said they would be found to be leaks begin.
Good but foolish public servants come to me and say I thought you had it right but you know how it is?
White wash is the color most in use and your best hope is that history may tell what our public service never does, the truth.

Belly nothing will change until people's attitudes change.

Of course we can win. You just have to be smart and persistent and most of all fellow parents, citizens and teachers need to Unite and help each other to fight against this neglect and abuse of our children. This is where the problem lies, people are too scared to come up against the Department because they have the power to ruin people’s lives. But they only ruin your life if you let them.

Early on my children suffered a lot as did my husband and I, but it was because we were honest and naive. We thought that the system was good and it was just a few bad apples and that when those in authority found out what happened there would be outrage and the children would be protected.

Of course instead our complaint was given to those that we alleged were responsible and everybody turned a blind eye and we became their targets and my children and family were stabbed in the back and dealt blow after blow year after year so that we presented distressed and with a story to tell that people find hard to believe.

Since we didn’t expect it and were not ready for it, it really hurt. When the community turned their back on my family for fear of their children being targeted it was the final blow. It is hard to explain to your children why people don’t care enough to protect them from harm.

They didn’t’ destroy us, we are instead fighting back and my children are smart and popular children who will succeed no matter what the system tries to do to them. My children are smart enough and strong enough to stand up against these bullies in the system and they expect me to fight for their right to be treated fairly.

Every time somebody says that ‘you can’t win’ it makes those who are responsible feel more powerful. We need to ruffle them, not protect them.

We need a FRESH APPROACH!

Bystander apathy is distorting the good things we value in our Aussie society.

We need Administrative Government Reform plus a 'New Form of Talk' at community ground levels.

We Need a No Wrong Door policy for business and community.

We need to cut down on the marked diffusion of numerous government authorities and their adherence to inflexible rules of process and operation and make civic engagement real again.

We need a Whole of Government and Whole of Community Approach!

http://www.miacat.com/

I strongly agree with Jolanda. I understand that some people are not able to fight the Bad Apple Mob. But those of us who can stand up and fight should do so. Otherwise we just abandon our society to the corrupt Mob.
Societies do not have to be run this way - by the corrupt and powerful few who exploit and abuse everybody else.

miacat, there is such a method, it's called democracy. ozzies aren't up to it. i think they never will be, as the government is heading towards '1984' at an increasing rate.

bad luck,huh!

Australia is not a democracy. It is not run by the people, the general public has no power and no say. We are controlled by Government officials who have the DISCRETION and POWER to play God. These people have created for themselves a lifestyle and brought in Legislation so that they don’t ever have to answer to anything or be held to account

At the height of complaint handling we have the Ombudsman and ICAC. Both these Investigatory bodies present themselves as under funded and both use this excuse to JUSTIFY HAVING DISCRETION to pick and choose what matters they will investigate. They can REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE for any reason, close a matter and refuse to ever look at it again. They have the power to cover up without question or challenge. They generally pick matters to investigate that do not involve, or will not impact, the Government or them so that it looks like they are doing something with their job.

When the Ombudsman and ICAC refused to investigate my family’s complaints, despite alarming amounts of evidence to support our allegations, we complained to the Office of the Ombudsman and Police Integrity Commission about the manner that the Ombudsman had dealt with the matter, as we believed there was happening a conspiracy to cover up as the Ombudsman, Mr. Barbour, refused to give us the explanations that we requested in our review request and for which we had documentary evidence in support and just closed the matter.

This was and is a child protection issue, it is serious corruption that includes systematic bullying, psychological and emotional abuse of children, educational neglect and includes allegations of discrimination and manipulation of test scores and documents in Education.

We were told that under the Ombudsman's Act Section 31B(2) they are PROHIBITED from investigating 'particular conduct' and that they couldn’t help me. Particular conduct is not defined in the act but it relates to bias, victimisation, bullying, vilification, fraud, corruption, misconduct and conspiracies to cover up. The Ombudsman’s decisions cannot be questioned - no matter what! Part one.