Whistleblower at Australian Tax Office. Appeared on ABC’s 4Corners Apr 2018 | Australian Tax Office terminated my career as debt recovery specialist May 2018.
I’m getting close to losing faith in the system. This is a litmus test. Either we move forward with accountability, honesty, integrity and compassion, or we are done for. It’s up to us to demand it. Everything rides on this. If we can’t hold politicians to account, we can’t…
$180 million and five years later the Tax Office and the Federal Police are dragged screaming to an investigation of PwC! This story would have been buried forever if not for an inquisitive journalist. Who’s protecting PwC?
Let me say this as plainly as possible.
Despite the overwhelming majority of upright
#PublicServants
in Australian Tax Office, there is unequivocal evidence of small group of corrupt officials embedded at senior levels of
#ATO
.
It’s time something was done about it
#Auspol
⚖️
Greatest Tax Scandal in History? The ATO gave massive tax advantages to Australian high-wealth individuals who had hidden $6.5 billion in secret overseas (mostly Swiss) bank accounts. They were tax evaders who were about to be caught. Read More.....
“Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo once called for the jailing of public servants who share secret documents. So what do we do about the fact that he leaked a document about the Christchurch massacre?”
@Crikey_News
"NSW Police confirm
@ScottMorrisonMP
's mate Hillsong’s Brian Houston (who he invited to the White House Dinner) still under investigation for concealing paedophile father"
That is good to know
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
.
Meanwhile, I was in the Supreme Court of South Australia this morning for the start of the appeal process.
A trial date for the appeal has been set by Justice Doyle with a full-day hearing on Wednesday, 9 August 2023.
We are appealing…
I need to ask an important favour from my friends, supporters & advocates:
1) Please follow brave whistleblower Alysha
@Lyshrose
2) Please be aware
@Tasmania_COI
hands down it’s report into the Gov’s Responses into Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings TOMORROW.
3)…
Deborah O’Neill reveals shocking details that under Peter Dutton, Home Affairs arranged for KPMG to audit controversial co. Paladin who they contracted, but that the audit was conducted on “the wrong company”😳
Stephanie Foster can’t explain how nobody even noticed.
#Estimates
He could have killed her. He should be charged accordingly. There is no excuse for shoving a woman much lighter than him backwards towards a wall with such force. It is no surprise she hit her head. He should have known better. This sickening behaviour is akin to a
#CowardsPunch
Stop being an arsehole
@LyleShelton
. Maybe we could rock climb on the inside of your church? ⛪ We could install holds & anchor points, and suspend ourselves over the crucifix during your services. 🧗♀️ That would be ok wouldn't it? It's only a building right?
#Auspol
#SacredSpace
Climbing Uluru is on the bucket list of many Australians (including me) but the NT Government plans to ban it this October. Join the
@auconservatives
' fight to keep it open by signing our petition today.
The cuts today to
#ABC
are shit. Very shit. Unconscionable shit. Bastardry shit. Not in public interest shit. Moronic shit. ABC saves lives in bushfire emergencies shit. Public vandalism shit. Economically irrational shit. $84 million drop in the bucket shit. I love my ABC shit💖
"Morrison’s faith teaches that the end of days is signalled by time of 🔥, 💦 & famine, known as the Tribulation.... a time for the elect, who ascend to heaven in the Rapture. If Morrison is genuine in such beliefs, is he a fit person to lead our country?"
THANK YOU to the incredible support shown to
@LouiseBeaston
and me so far with our our new
@GoFundMe
campaign. With your support we hope to level the playing field against ATO and Australian Govt who have significant resources at their disposal.
#Auspol
"Australia has slumped two places in the annual World Press Freedom Index for 2019, amid concerns that investigative journalism is in danger with reporters and whistleblowers facing jail under 'draconian legislation'."
#Auspol
"Justice Hayne said the need for royal commissions into the finance sector, aged care and disability services showed Australia's legislative, executive and judicial branches were not working as they should."
#Auspol
@OZloop
@LouiseBeaston
So apparently former NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipone attends Hillsong & "hangs out' with pastor Brian Houston as well. What about the current👮🏼♂️Comm'r who
@ScottMorrisonMP
called today about Strike Force Garrad?
#Auspol
#DocumentGate
#AngusTaylor
This is an extraordinary admission: for all intents and purposes the former Director, Payment Integrity and Debt Strategy (DSS) is admitting to the department deceiving and lying to the Ombudsman on a serious policy matter that caused thousands of suicides.
#Auspol
#Robodebt
⚖️
#RobodebtRC
Hurman’s response to the Ombudsman, carefully placed the 2014 legal advice in the background, hiding clear illegalities of the scheme.
Greggery: “Why didn’t you just give ALL of the documents & the 2014 advice, WITHOUT THE DSS SPIN”
🔥🔥🔥[1/2]
Commissioner Catherine Holmes has delivered the Final Report of the Robodebt Royal Commission.
The truth about the Liberal Party's Robodebt scheme would not have come out without the bravery of all who shared their stories.
Thank you.
From the Logie winning team
@4Corners
, stay tuned for another classic investigation.. 'Cash Splash: Taxpayer dollars, secretive deals and the lucrative business of water', Monday on
#4Corners
A reminder: Gladys Liu's “supporters” ran a sophisticated and elaborate anti-ALP misinformation campaign via closed social media groups such as WeChat before federal election. Aggressive + improper behaviour to get Liu elected - possible CCP hand involved?
This is a mate of
@ScottMorrisonMP
. Actually, his
#Mentor
.
"Brian Houston’s father, Frank Houston, abused as many as 9 boys across New Zealand & Australia, including Brett Sengstock who testified before the
#RoyalCommision
into
#ChildSexualAbuse
in 2014."
"Dr Miller said a partial closure of schools should begin immediately, with all students sent home except for children of health care workers & single parents
'30% of cases picked up in other countries come through the schools' "
#Auspol
#Coronavirus
☣️
Three years ago on 8 June 2017
#ATO
directed staff to start issuing standard garnishees on every case
I refused.
Like
#Robodebt
I knew this oppressive action would kill people from extreme stress
Still fighting for justice ⚖️
#Auspol
@OZloop
#ATOAbuse
“Coalition staffers took classified documents after election loss Labor claims in Senate estimates:
Labor’s Anne Urquhart tells estimates Services Aust investigatd two staff in Linda Reynolds’ office for transferring data off government network”
#Auspol
I've got stronger words than 'crude' to describe how Robodebt calculated income. As a former ATO Officer who had access to income data of individuals, it was clear to me that a Year 10 school student could have shown how ridiculous the analysis was.
#Auspol
#Robodebt
#Centrelink
The age of Kleptocracy in 🇦🇺.
#Auspol
@CPorterWA
"Terry Carney lost his job as member of the AAT via short, blunt email. It arrived 5 mths after he delivered tribunal decision which declared
#RoboDebt
scheme
#Illegal
- a finding that angered the Fed Govt"
‘Institutional failures’ is a very kind way of describing what is going on inside the Australian Taxation Office.
@ATO_gov_au
The abuse of power and coordinated destruction of viable businesses by this bastardised organisation is going to blow people’s socks off when they find…
“PwC paid for senior tax officer Jeremy Hirschhorn to fly to Paris to address the big four firm’s two-day global tax conference for clients and partners – at the height of the tax leaks scandal.”
Is one allowed to record a conversation when a crime may be occurring? Asking for a friend…
“The Police dropped the charges and apologised after (Luke Moore) produced a recording of the call that proved he did not make the threats Keneally attributed to him”
#Auspol
#PIDAct
"The great thing I've learnt in 40 years that I've been a lawyer is that if you suppress the truth the stronger it becomes, and the truth is going to become stronger out of this trial."
#Auspol
#Truth
#WitnessK
#BernardCollaery
This is an outrageous use of taxpayers' money. Scott Morrison personally approves 26 staffers to be paid 'more' than the $259,000 per year allowable under the Members of Parliament (Dtaff) Act.
#Auspol
#PeopleFirst
#Integrity
Knifing Turnbull cost $4.5m.
“It's theft. It's wage fraud. If you're deliberately not paying someone what they should be paid, you're stealing from them.”
@adele_ferguson
says It's hard to comprehend just how rampant the problem with underpaying workers is, and those responsible should face prison
#TheDrum
‘Winning the lottery’: Australian ministers waved through dozens of visitor visas
Further examples of ministerial interventions emerge as Peter Dutton comes under fire over cases of two au pairs
This is the tip of the iceberg re how thoroughly broken and corrupt Peter Dutton's Home Affairs department was. It gets far more serious, especially re foreign interference and espionage. It put Australia at serious (and very much ongoing) risk.
‘Get rid of the prisoners by shooting them’: Australian Commandos tell of war crimes
Anguished Australian special forces soldiers have confessed to murdering and brutalising detainees in Afghanistan.
McManus: "As a union leader… probably most union leaders assume govt is spying on everything we're doing, so our phones, emails & everything"
Host: "You really assume the govt spies on you?"
McManus: "They do. They tap phones & do all of those things"
Q. “Are we looking at a go-slow, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ culture at the highest level of these two agencies which worked to protect
#PwC
? In essence, are we looking at a protection racket?”
A. Yes we are
@BarbaraPocock
.
#Ausol
#ATORoyalCommission
#NACC
Worth watching. And the most important line from this remarkable display is the following:
"If you're not here fighting for the most vulnerable, why are you here?"~
@SenatorMuth
This could well be asked of our elected representatives here in Australia.
#Auspol
State
@SenatorMuth
refused to stop reading a letter from a man who experienced homelessness even though her male colleague tried to shout her down for minutes on end
So
#PeterDutton
didn't self quarantine for 14 days after coming back from the
#USA
earlier in the week? Seems a little irresponsible considering the shambles that is
#Coronavirus
testing in the United States of America. 🇺🇸
#Auspol
It was an honour to officially open and welcome in the first cohort of students to the brand new University of Sunshine Coast Moreton Bay Campus. This project has been a long time coming but we've finally got a uni right here at home.
WARNING: This may make some of you very, very angry; and rightfully so. Weaponised & institutionalised abuse of vulnerable by public service. What a shocking indictment of
#NDIS
. Shame on them.
What good was
#BankingRC
& the
#CARoyalCommission
if the govt acts this way?
@OZloop
"We have been bullied, berated, intimidated and lied to. We feel diminished and dehumanised."
#NDIS
participant Verity says "I would rather be dead than deal with more of this"
#auspol
@SBSNews
"Senior NSW Liberals said they were 'disgusted and embarrassed' that
#Morrison
had chosen to deflect blame on to Berejiklian for the slow response from the federal government to the bushfire crisis."
There is a special place in hell reserved for those denying someone their most basic human right of access to prescribed medicine as vengeance for speaking up about alleged abuse & corruption by Border Force in offshore detention facilities.
#Auspol
#Dutton
#CashForVisas
#Paladin
Not only is there public interest, there is public outrage at what when on during the abhorrent Robodebt years.
Another keen matter of public interest is whether anyone will be held to account?
#Auspol
#FOI
#PwC
#Robodebt
An Attorney-General’s Department bureaucrat has refused to release key documents relating to
@ScottMorrisonMP
’s taxpayer funded legal costs at the
#Robodebt
Royal Commission. He failed to properly consider the public interest. I’ve appealed his decision. 1/2
#FOI
#auspol
'In the same week that the prime minister told chief executives not to get "distracted" by issues like
#ClimateChange
, his National Party colleagues declared war on almond milk. Talk about focusing on the
#BigIssues
.'
How did Australia become so secretive? And what are our authorities trying to hide? 'Secrets, Spies and Trials', Monday on
#4Corners
. Here's a preview
"A whistleblower and an academic have said pressure from the Australian government’s top cyber security agency led to their speeches being cancelled at a conference in Melbourn."
.
@MathiasCormann
has been a mainstay of our Government since we were elected in 2013 & has been central to the Liberal Party’s roster for a decade. His decision to retire from politics at the end of 2020 caps off a career of service to Australia that has made a real difference.
‘The Australian Taxation Office has opened the door to PwC being stripped of its tax agents licence, rejecting suggestions it is “too big to fail”.’ ~
@Anthony_Klan
Link:
#Auspol
#ATO
#Tax
#PwC
A CHILLING LONG READ:
"The most notorious was 252 million years ago; it began when carbon warmed the 🌏 by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life Earth on dead."
Can anyone else see where this is going? Things really are moving fast all over the🌎at the moment. Mass
#CorruptionProtests
,
#ClimateStrikes
, holding
#PublicOfficials
accountable for their decisions.
I don't know how or why it's all happening at once, but it's fantastic.
@OZloop
LONDON (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
#Auspol
#ClimateCrisis
This is heart breaking. I almost felt sorry and embarassed for Scott Morrison for a moment but I had to stop myself. Because I'm sure these firefighters would want to do anything other than to fob the PM off like this. If they haven't got the courteousness in them, that's ok. 😢
Will my many beautiful Twitter friends please show support for
@Georgie_Burg_45
? Georgie needs to know that despite many in the govt continuing to support convicted child abusers, &
@ScottMorrisonMP
's serious error of judgement inviting Brian Houston to the US, we believe them.💚
@Georgie_Burg_45
@BellzWebster
@ScottMorrisonMP
You are making an extraordinary difference Georgie! I cannot imagine the pain you & other incredibly brave survivors have been through, and yet ALL of you have improved safety for children in Australia forever. We will forever be in your debt. Be kind to yourself always. 💜
"The sister-in-law of
@AngusTaylorMP
has faced questions in the NSW parliament over whether she sought to influence the state govt’s submissions on the upgrading of an
#EndangeredGrass
species that was prevalent on land part-owned by the federal minister."
"
@BowenChris
has questioned govt approval of Brookfield's $4.4 billion foreign takeover of 🇦🇺's largest private hospital operator, Healthscope. Brookfield uses tax havens such as the Caymans to legally minimise tax it pays in 🇦🇺"
#Auspol
@MichaelWestBiz
"The
@CPorterWA
bill reaches its tentacles into areas beyond hate speech. For example, in the area of health care the bill allows some doctors, nurses & other health practitioners to refuse to provide their services on the basis of their religious belief."
I've Reported this
@Twitter
as follows:
>"It's abusive or harmful'
>"It's disrespectful or offensive"
How dare
@BrianCHouston
spout such tripe when people have died and their 🏡 are 🔥.
That our PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
might believe this as well is highly disturbing.
#Auspol
"Donald Trump makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump."
"Tony Abbott under pressure over hospitals sale to Cayman Islands entity"
A shocking and important story by
@MichaelWestBiz
on assets funded by our tax dollars being sold off to entities in overseas tax havens.
#Auspol
#CaymanIslands
#TaxHaven
“Please save your praise. We don’t want it. Don’t invite us here to just tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesn’t lead to anything. Invite scientists, ask scientists for their expertise."
@GretaThunberg
👏🌏
ASK YOURSELF THIS: If I cannot safely & successfully raise
#GarnisheeAbuse
of taxpayers by
@ATO_gov_au
(despite the so-called "protections" of the 'PID Act 2013') what hope can YOU have that our intelligence services will act with integrity behind closed doors? 🤔
#Auspol
#QandA
Denmark pays its students $1,000 a month to go to university and charge no tuition fees. Students are seen as an investment in the future rather than a cost.
It's worth retweeting this article by
@KnausC
.
"Australia among 21 nations where perceived
#corruption
has worsened. Transparency International says the ‘corrosive’ influence of money in politics is undermining Australian govt
#integrity
."
#Auspol
#NIC
Dirty Deeds: Inside Australia’s Biggest Tax Scam
“This week Four Corners takes you inside the vast conspiracy to defraud more than $100 million from Australian taxpayers.
The
#PlutusPayroll
scheme is the biggest tax fraud in this country's history.…
"When fed AG
@CPorterWA
comm'd a f'mer High Ct judge to conduct a major review of
#AAT
last year, he did so despite being advised by the judge that someone in the judge's own “immed family” was a member of the AAT, a rel'ship Porter did not publ disclose."