A.D.“I didn’t teach anyone anything. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t even there. I am justa consultant.”
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EPIC document from Bruce
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Onya Bruce
Still fighting on for the E34 players and athletes in general now also
As always makes your blood boil at the injustice
Thanks Hoffy,
It was inevitable that Sharp got the powers that he wanted. The Integrity Commission, despite the appearance of being independent and taking onboard the submissions from all parties, was designed to be a way of better protecting those at the top of the tree from any scrutiny in the future and keeping the OIC/WADA/CAS happy.
Sharp can build his empire and go about treating our athletes like second class citizens with immunity but, at least, his organisation may be able to keep WADA and the CAS out of Australian sport, which is a good thing.
The problem, I think we all have, is the ambivalence show by successive governments, their ministers, their bureaucracies, the sporting organisations and the media in recognising their roles in the most corrupt chapter in Australian sport.
There are many individuals with blood on their hands from the Essendon saga and unfortunately for them the stench will not go away.
Sharp may very well emerge as the most powerful man in Australian sport after Coates goes but the skeletons will always be ever present in the closets at ASADA HQ.
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Thanks for posting.
A bit of a contradiction. He talks about cooperation with sporting bodies to stamp out the criminal element. Goes on to instance the investigations into criminal corruption in sporting bodies such as FIFA.
But, but, what are his powers to investigate potential corruption/ failure of integrity in Australian private sporting bodies.? Or, is that just not on his radar?
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It would be very gutsy of Sharp to go after the “Boys Club” I would suggest.
Recent revelations about FOI requests to ASADA have revealed that ASADA do not want to commit resources to responding to FOI requests because of cost. Sharp is obviously looking for an increase in funding to build his empire.
ASADA has a long and “distinguished” history of refusing to grant FOI requests, especially in regards to the Essendon saga, and ASADA’s role in it. At one stage in 2016 I checked the “Right To Know” list of FOIs before ASADA, and found only 3 of 33 FOI requests had been successful. And two of those related to documents linked to Acting CEO appointments during absences of Ben McDevitt.
I remain unconvinced that a 10% success rate for FOI requests to one government organisation meets the intended purpose of the FOI Act.
As I said above using the cost of processing/defending decisions in terms of personnel and dollars as reasons for shutting down these requests could be viewed by us cynics as being tantamount to corruption (avoid access to those skeletons).
I don’t believe ASADA were very happy when they received their legal bill of $67,666.43 for their defence against a claim before the AAT by Bruce Francis.
It appears that another FOI request from a different claimant relating to the saga may also end up before the AAT and incur a similar cost outlay for Sharp’s team.
It pleases me greatly to hear that the pestilent sore on the collective bottoms of those ASADA scumbags will never quite heal.
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Righttoknow has bent over following a warning by the Public Service Commisioner re possible defamatory statements on its site about FOI Officers protecting their political masters.
Rightoknow has agreed to redact the names of some FOI officers in correspondence.
Whatever happened to that inquiry into FOI where, if I remember correctly, the findings were critical of the manner in which the FOI Act was being handled by the bureaucracy?
IiRC, think it focused on PM&C
PM&C???
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
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No reporting on the Dank NT trial, but his name surfaced again in ABC news report of 16 April -
- NSW Doctor who supplied peptides to Dank has licence suspended
Only suspended, does that mean at some point he can get it back?
IIRC suspended for a fixed time, then reviewed, which is in line with previous approaches.
Sorry to bring this it up if it’s been discussed (happy for someone to link me to the thread/posts where it has been) but has anyone listened to the Goddard SACKED Podcast Episode? Jon Ralph just nonchalantly refers to the fact that it’s pretty obvious “some” of the players were stitched up because it was clear some individual players weren’t given TB4 but were still prosecuted but then just moves on? WTF? Has Ralph always been of this opinion? I know his love of the Saga was more about the fact that it was “the gift that keeps on giving” thanks to the salaciousness of the whole thing but Jesus did he ever think to maybe report on this stuff whilst everyone still cared?
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Transcribing:
“Blokes told the truth in their interviews - even when they weren’t seen to have taken TB4 and some of those blokes got prosecuted, so I mean, I think we know that something terrible happened there, but the inconsistencies [of the record keeping] must have been galling”
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To be fair, given CAS overtly stated they were operating on a guilty-until-proven-otherwise basis, you can’t really complain that any individual was particularly targeted.
Not sure if “fair” was the best choice of word there.