Bullshit and Lies Create Awesome Possibilities
Here’s a story you’re not seeing at News Limited for some reason, although it’s getting a big run at The Age, The SMH and The Brisbane Times. Plus The ABC.
The Industrial Relations Commission in Canberra is currently hearing a claim of unfair dismissal against the Federal Government. The claimant is Trent Smith - I first learnt of the case through the Hansard for the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade (parlinfo web permalink). I’ve been waiting since for the proverbial brown stuff to hit the proverbial rotating thing.
And now it has. You can find all the news that’s fit to Google here. Enjoy!
Amazing stuff - Loved this bit
Good one Gummo. This belongs in the prospective movie about Alexander the Grate.
Wonderful stuff! Can’t wait to see how this pans out. DFAT has form on this - in the early 90s it pursued a very expensive campaign against some disgruntled staff who had formed an Officers Revolutionary Council. This under a Labor government, of course. How revolutionary can one get, we wonder?
I didn’t traipse through all the Hansard but what I saw got me thinking about how Senate Estimates works now with a more politicised senior executive. Quite tense, one would imagine as loyalties would be well and truly known. Must make it difficult to be fearless and frank, what with being under oath and all.
The case ripens.
Now that the grubby details have come out in the IRC and hence the media, the Government’s going to have a hard time keeping the lid on it in committee by running the line that the matter is sub judice. ‘Nuff said.
I think our Dear Leader has sown the seeds of the next corruption allegation with this great economic decision too.
As someone who has taken a case of wrongful dismissal to the IRC I don’t think it gets the attention from the MSM that it warrants. But for Mr Trent Smith taking his case to this now strangled body we probably would never have heard of this amazing case.