Commonwealth Ombudsman's new year letter

Alison Larkins

Acting Commonwealth Ombudsman

alison.larkins@ombudsman.gov.au

2^nd January 2012

Dear Alison,

Good morning and

happy new year to you!

I am sure you will look forward to any correspondence from me in the coming year as I look forward to any emails and letters from you.

I will take you back to 2011 and remind you of your attempt to cover up systemic corrupt conduct and breaches of the Bankruptcy at ITSA.

I have found your attempts rather amusing because the harder you try to protect this conduct by senior staff at ITSA the deeper the hole of SHIT you are getting yourself into.

First, Kent Purvis tried to bully me into accepting his finding, then the Commonwealth Ombudsman had Margaret Chinnery review Kent Purvis's findings. Eventually you and Diane Merryfull had a meeting with representatives of senior Management of ITSA on the 11^th November 2011 and you did a deal with ITSA to coverup systemic corrupt conduct.

The amount of money that would have been used to try and protect this conduct, practices and staff would impacted greatly on the Ombudsman's financial budget. I can fully understand why Allan asher desperately needed more money!!

The Commonwealth Ombudsman continues to protect***

** Veronique Ingram, Inspector General in Bankruptcy

** Matthew Osborne,Principal Legal Officer at ITSA

**Mark Findlay,Manager Bankruptcy Regulation

**Julie Padgett NSW Manager BFI

** Adam Toma, National Manager Enforcement and Regulation

Section 15 of the Ombudsman's Act requires you to make a report to the Attorney General which you failed to do.

You are also aware that Adam Toma is on ITSA's Audit committee. No doubt you would see this as a great advantage that Adam Toma can continue to promote systemic corrupt conduct as part of this committee.

In turn you have now been referred to the Australian Public Service Commissioner for breaches of the code of Conduct and Ethics.

I have also requested a copy of the report under FOI that you and Diane Merryfull made on the 11^th November and any hand written notes that was made. I have asked Luke Phelps to please make sure these are original and not some dodgy report you have rewritten.

I am particularly interested in what “shortcomings” you identified and what was put in place so they did not occur again.

I understand a complaint Reference no 2011-111-240 will not be answered. I find this very unhelpful.

This year the position of Commonwealth Ombudsman is to be filled following the resignation of Alan Asher.

I strongly recommend that you comply with the Ombudsman's Act and the Australian Public Service Act and correct my grievances.

If you continue to protect corrupt conduct at ITSA you have no hope in HELL of obtaining this position, so it is now up to you.

Comply with S15 of the Ombudsman's Act and expose this systemic corrupt conduct. This also would expose the Australian Government to enormous liability.

How very funny............... what a lot of shit you have got yourself into.

Again happy new year to you and your staff

Yours sincerely

Fiona Brown