Where is the Ministerial Response to the Public Trustee Inquiry report?

On 1 December 2009, the fifty first report of the Statutory Authorities Review Committee, the final report of the Inquiry into the Office of the Public Trustee, was tabled in the Legislative Council of the South Australian Parliament.

In accordance with Section 19 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 1991, ministers are required to respond to the Committee’s reports within four months of tabling. Ministers are required to include in their response statements:

(a) which (if any) recommendations will be carried out and the manner in which they will be carried out; and

(b) which (if any) recommendations will not be carried out and the reasons for not carrying them out.

Ministers must cause a copy of their response to be laid before the Legislative Council within six sitting days after it is made.

On 26 May 2010, nearly 2 months late, a response was tabled. However, where is it?

I can tell you where it is not...on the Committee's web page. Neither is the Public Trustee Inquiry Report, the 51st Report. It was there, not now. Everything else is still there.

Maybe someone has just...forgot. After all, it seems to work for the Treasurer.

And I did contact the Committee last month with this query, but I guess they forgot too!

Parliamentary Inquiry: Public Trustee

To give hope to victims of workplace bullying, click on the link and get a sense of where one individual, moi, has taken an employer to task.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,,25028667-2682,00.html

Let me share the feelings. Whilst the past 9 years have been bloody disturbing and abhorrent, there have been moments of solitary bliss. One of those days was last February. The news article gives an insight.

I couldn't believe it. After 9 years out there on my own, no one ever backing me up, I sat in front of 6 state politicians spilling my guts. Though, I did sense some derision from the 2 members of the state's ruling party, but that was to be expected.

I still have another quest, and that is for a Royal Commission Inquiry into the Office of the Public Trustee and the Attorney-General's Department. I will never, ever give up!

So, and I am speaking to you, the person reading this story. If YOU are in the throes or at the beginning of your life experience in the disgusting & challenging swill pit of Workplace Bullying, have hope. People make things happen. But one thing for sure, don't expect to have the same friends at the end of your ordeal. I guarantee many surprises along the way.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!