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LEAKED: Ombudsman’s “confidential” report dropped in The Age
Royce Millar at The Aged reports the supposedly previously confidential Victorian Ombudsman’s investigation into Brimbank council will be tabled today.
The Ombudsman is mostly a force for good in Victoria. But today’s report in The Age will undermine the high regard in which that office is held.
Many will be troubled that Millar’s report appears to be well-informed in several respects suggesting leaks from those intimately familiar with the content of the Ombudsman’s findings.
It has not yet been publicly released.
And Victorian law is clear, it’s a crime to disclose information relating to an Ombudsman’s inquiries unless it is done officially. Arguably, Millar himself and The Age chaired by Ron Walker has broken the law.
The article insists that its informants were “Labor and local Brimbank sources” were behind the leak but we’re not sure.
How would any of them know – for example – that “that the report, believed to be the largest ever by the Ombudsman.” That does rather sound like a leak – or boast – from the Ombudsman’s office.
The other tip-offs which we won’t detail for legal reasons are of a nature that suggests leaks from his office also. VEXNEWS understands that the Ombudsman’s procedure is to tell its targets of the nature of information it intends to publish about them. In this case, it’s hard to imagine any of those named rushing off to Royce Millar at The Age. He’s not the favoured journalist of western suburbs ALP moderates. His few connections with the ALP are of the inner-city and stridently left-wing variety. Normally we’d think they responsible, in this case, we doubt it. We doubt they were that aware of the detail of the Ombudsman’s activities in Brimbank council.
If that report comes out today, Millar’s story will look awfully like a “drop” from someone at the Ombudsman’s office.
It’s enough to make us wonder “Who will guard the guards?”
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Vexnews, the preferred news site of both ASIO and the CIA, has demonstrated again why. It is always first with the latest news. And it demonstrates the clear superior intellect of its editor.
Go Andy.
Go Vexnews.
It is not like us to be suspicious of praise but we doubt we are the preferred news site of “both ASIO and the CIA.”
Go in grace,
Just ASIO then?
But Steve would’nt it be weird?
Why just so you can sit me next to
Dean and Suzanna so we can argue
over who she gave head to first?
Andy, what’s with the faux-outrage over a leak?
Surely there’s more comedic value in this story? I want to hear more about Suleyman’s dad gesturing/threatening from the gallery at council meetings.
Sounds like a cack. I’m picturing an Iron-Sheik-esque character giving the evil eye to miscreants in the chamber: “F*ck Chyoo!”
Ruff – as ever – is correct. Our dreams are free.
Anonymous we don’t understand. And don’t want to.
Faux outrage! Squeaky, you’re quite wrong, brother. The law is the law. If these things are meant to be confidential, they should be kept confidential.
If the report comes out today, there’ll be many suspicious minds around town. A very good excuse to put up some Elvis.
Andrew,
[deleted]. Can you confirm rumours that has had a sexual relationship with Royce Millar, as well as a Herald Sun journalist?
Whoever is leaking from Ombudsman’s office should be sacked and charged…
We are not happy with you Michelle
http://www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/www/html/83-reports.asp?intSiteID=1
Corruption including state gov ministers. Who would have suspected that ???
The Brimbank CEO is a networker, that otherwise patriotic group who infamously (and no doubt to the extreme discomfort of more than a few members)aligned themselves with Victoria’s most venal ever MP George Seitz over the Kororoit preselection and equally infamously the rougue CFMEU.
It is to be hoped that the Ombudsman’s Report is fulsome in its documentation of all shenanigans of the entire ALP Right faction hacks who over the years have made Brimbank an unrepresentative and allegedly corrupt council that has for decades tragically let down its residents.
I’m not too fussy, male or female, human or beast I will try and get a leg over it.
“the law is the law” – sounds like double standards to me. On the one hand “the law is the law” when it comes to the Ombudsman’s office, on the other you dismiss all of the likely breaches identified by the Ombudsman as petty – THE LAW IS THE LAW
Anyway there is no way in hell Brumby’s senior boys and girls weren’t monitoring the Ombudsman’s progress with the inquiry.
So while there was clearly a drop to good old Royce the odds are it was Brumby central, probobly on the basis that if you’ve got a shit sandwich to consume you might as well devour it on your own terms.
ANOTHER OMBUDSMAN REPORT LEAKED AGAIN TO THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/national/damning-child-protection-report-due-soon-20090714-dk60.html
suprise supre its our good mate Royce Miller