Submission to Anna Bligh concerning the failure of the Education Queensland / Crime and Misconduct Commission investigation process. (AU)

(Mike’s note:  This entry speaks of administrators bullying teachers.  This is an important topic that doesn’t get enough attention.)

4 September, 2009
Anna Bligh, Premier,
Queensland Government.

Dear Mrs Bligh,

You have asked the Queensland people to give you their views on -

How can Queensland’s integrity and accountability framework be improved and strengthened?

Mrs Bligh, I met you and Jim Varghese at the Cairns Community Conference on 23 June, 2002.

I told you that, when Queensland classroom teachers were bullied at work, the immediate and only advice of the Queensland Teachers Union ( QTU ) was to “accept the things you cannot change” because the Education Queensland Grievance process did not work and teachers who “fought it” suffered physical or mental breakdown.

My subsequent experience suggests to me that the advice of the QTU was correct.

And that nothing has changed since I spoke to you on 23 June 2002.

These recommendations to you are based on my experience of dealing with the Queensland Department of Education, The Crime and Misconduct Commission and the Queensland Ombudsman -

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