Tuesday, December 04, 2018

How to Get Your Lawmakers to Listen: Story of David Eastman and Colin Winchester

Sri Lankan Las is soliciting on street corners in Sydney again  ...

Carl Williams first to suspect his lawyer was an informer - The Age

Czech yourself, Russia! Prague says its foreign ministry was breached for more than a year

Report claims that from 2016-2017 the FSB was reading agency's emails


With Trump’s Justice Department Retreating, Who Will Now Police the Police? ProPublica


How the ABC Investigations team finds stories and how the public is helping - ABC



ATO Massive IT Changes


A number of criminals could launch legal bids for freedom as a result of a secretive case of high-level police misconduct involving a defence barrister-turned-police informer during Melbourne's bloody gangland war.

The alleged mastermind of a massive tax fraud, Phillip Whiteman, says he can't recall the details of his business ...


ICAC’s warning for NSW officials: how workplace incentivises misconduct
INTEGRITY: ICAC’s first report aimed at senior New South Wales public officials warns that changes to the way government services are delivered have created opportunities for emerging corruption.Keeping track of ICAC operations on the public sector in NSW









How to Get Your Lawmakers to Listen -m ProPublica – “In our final installment of the User’s Guide to Democracy, we asked a live panel of congressional experts to help you stay engaged in politics after the midterms have ended. Congress Works For You. Here’s How to Be a Better Boss.

“You did it! In this month’s midterm election, you and a whole lot of your fellow voters turned out to the polls to make your voices heard. But you’re not done yet. Voting is just the beginning! The User’s Guide to Democracy has always wanted to help you become not only a more informed voter, but also a more engaged citizen. So, with the winners declared, how do you get your elected representatives in Washington to listen to your voice now? At a live event on Nov. 13 with the New York Public Library, Derek Willis (my colleague here at ProPublica) and Paul Kane (an ace Congressional reporter for The Washington Post) tackled this question with the help of a panel of Capitol Hill insiders. The event, called “Irregular Order: How Congress Really Works,” was moderated by comedian/actor/writer Wyatt Cenac…”





Could social media emerge as a new critical infrastructure sector?

As social media accounts become part of the critical infrastructure that governs our day-to-day lives, there is a strong case that their use for official purposes be regulated by legislation.


The New York Times
The messages arrived at a familiar moment of crisis for Mexico’s fragile journalist community — another reporter killed in the line of duty. Javier Valdez, a prominent investigative reporter, had been shot dead only a day earlier. Then came a sudden breakthrough: According to a text message received by his colleagues, his killers had been detained. Despite the tragedy, his co-workers were suspicious. More than 90 percent of murders go unsolved in Mexico. How did the authorities solve the case so soon? More likely, they worried, the text messages were an attempt to infiltrate their smartphones — part of a pattern of hacking attempts involving sophisticated spying technology bought by the Mexican government. They were right.


Geoff Gallop on corruption: politics is the problem, but it's also the solution
INTEGRITY: The public interest is more complex than it sounds, but commissions cannot be allowed to stifle democracy or governments from governing.

It was the most bizarre, ambitious, imaginative, reckless, possibly illegal, successful failure in policing history, effectively gifting millions in untraceable cash to organised crime and then helping to solve a murder mystery even as it created another


David Eastman rejected $3.8 million 'act of grace' payout from ...

SBS-4 Oct 2019
In a redacted statement made to the court, Mr Eastman publicly detailed for the first time the abuse and beatings he faced while in prison.
 

Epilogue: David Eastman awarded more than $7 million for wrongful murder conviction, almost 20 years in jail





John Hatton: the case that almost broke me | South Coast ...


Police Mafia link: John Hatton recalls ordeal of Winchester ...



How murdered senior policeman Colin Winchester tried to take on the Mafia


David Eastman not guilty of 1989 murder of AFP's Colin Winchester



David Eastman not guilty of Colin Winchester murder - News.com.au




David Eastman found not guilty of murdering senior AFP officer nearly ...




David Eastman and Colin Winchester: Two 'cracks' in the night echoed ..




Lawyers' picnic that keeps giving - Sydney Morning Herald





"The little bloke: an authorised biography of John Hatton, OA" has few references to Winchester muder ...









ACT Chief Minister sends integrity message to public sector leaders



FBI RAIDS WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CRITICIZED FBI:


Pollock’s story is summarized in these bullet points:
• The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras.
• The whistleblower, Dennis Nathan Cain, had turned the documents over to the Department of Justice’s inspector general and both the House and Senate Intelligence committees, according to the lawyer.
• The FBI rummaged through Cain’s home for six hours, even after the whistleblower handed over the documents, according to Socarras.
Please read the whole thing. Full of what appears to be nightmarish governmental wrongdoing of the in terrorem variety, it is almost unbelievable. Pollock is a meticulous reporter. He has done everything possible to verify his story and touch base with the parties involved. The FBI isn’t talking beyond this laconic statement: “On Nov. 19, the FBI conducted court authorized law enforcement activity in the Union Bridge, Maryland area. At this time, we have no further comment.”


Mafia 'boss of bosses' suspect picked up in Sicily by Italy's police


Informer 3838: Underbelly adaptation on the cards







A great future for the public service:

United, world-class, dynamic, trusted and great to work for — that’s the APS we want according to the largest review of the Australian Public Service in more than 40 years.


In a speech to over 400 participants at the Institute of Public Administration Australia’s ACT conference, plus those watching online, the Independent Review’s Chair David Thodey named five priorities for the future of the public service based on six months of information gathering.


'We'd like to thank every public servant who has been part of this review so far,' said the head of the Review's Secretariat David Williamson.


'An overwhelming amount of our 700 submissions came from the service, another 370 of you considered the issues in our half day workshops, and we’ve spoken to well over 1000 public servants around the country.'


'It's clear there are things holding us back from doing the job we would like to. We've turned your input into a vision for the service of the future. The question now is, how should our panel make it a reality?'


The Review has opened an online forum to share the panel's thinking and get your ideas to improve the environment we work in.


Please use the forum to shape the Review's recommendations and subscribe to be among the first to know when new information and conversation threads go live.



“You’ll never know how evil a technology can be until the engineers deploying it fear for their jobs.”









  • Canada’s health minister said she was “deeply concerned” by the investigation, and would crackdown on the industry.
  • In Europe doctors are demanding more information be made public for patients.
  • German, Spanish and Italian authorities pledged regulatory overhauls, tighter controls and more transparency in the wake of our stories.
  • And in the U.S. the regulatory agency said it plans to modernize how it approves most medical devices.


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