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DHT
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:52 pm
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Methinks this is the thread FS74 was referring to:
http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11336263.htm
(Edited to remove some horrible HTML coding, cheers FS74!)
Last edited by DHT on Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:35 pm; edited 2 times in total
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FieldShunt74
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EMD-SD45X
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:06 pm
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Michael Blackstock (who was banned from Railcorp/RIC work) was found to be working, along with another banned person, on ARTC projects in Gunnedah which were being done for RIC Country.
That was until some of his X Workmates dobbed him in, and so would have I. 
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Speed
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:05 pm
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Today's Herald has an editorial by Alexandra Smith and a blog.
| Quote: | IN 1998 the lid was lifted on the corrupt world of NSW railways, revealing that supplying prostitutes could win you a contract, fake medical certificates signed by a dead doctor would get you a day off work, and you could claim overtime while playing golf. Ten years later it seems little has changed in RailCorp and the stench of corruption is slowly engulfing the NSW public sector.
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Ken Phillips, the director of the work reform unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, said the NSW public service was "rotten to the core". "The governments in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland are pretty clean governments but NSW has never got over the rum rebellion," Mr Phillips said. "NSW is very tribal and you have a mates culture in NSW that does not belong in any other state, which leads to an acceptance of sanctified corruption."
The fire brigade allegations are the latest to tarnish the public service and follow ICAC uncovering $22 million in fraudulent RailCorp contracts being awarded, including $3 million in kickbacks to rail staff, in one of the biggest investigations in the commission's history. The inquiry, the seventh corruption investigation of the NSW railways since 1992, also revealed a welding manager defrauded RailCorp of $4.28 million and a contracts officer helped herself to $650,000. They were among eight people recommended for prosecution. RailCorp was also under the corruption spotlight last year when it was discovered that an engineer, Said Marcos, awarded air-conditioning contracts to his mates, landing himself at least $710,000. But the problems are not confined to the railways.
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At least 12 public servants or contractors are facing criminal charges for their roles in various corrupt activities, and so widespread is the problem in RailCorp that the massive bureaucracy is struggling to implement the internal reforms required to fix its problems. In a parliamentary inquiry into ICAC last month, the commissioner, Jerrold Cripps, said RailCorp had "flooded" the commission with work yet the Government was often extremely slow or had failed to implement the recommendations handed down by the commission. "The perception is that we keep exposing it and nothing happens," Mr Cripps told the inquiry.
The former Liberal premier Nick Greiner established the anti-corruption commission 20 years ago to stop the "half-hearted and cosmetic approaches to preventing public-sector corruption". At the time Mr Greiner said: "We have seen a minister of the Crown jailed for bribery; an inquiry into a second, and indeed a third, former minister for alleged corruption; the former chief stipendiary magistrate jailed for perverting the course of justice; a former commissioner of police in the courts on a criminal charge [and] … a disturbing number of dismissals, retirements and convictions of senior police officers for offences involving corrupt conduct."
Yesterday Mr Greiner said the commission appeared to be doing a good job but both sides of politics often "hid behind" its investigations rather than addressing potentially damaging problems. |
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-nsw/2008/08/19/1218911717487.html
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Speed
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:35 pm
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| Quote: | The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Monday handed down its third and fourth reports from its lengthy inquiry into bribery and fraud within the state-owned corporation. The first two reports, released last month, asked for criminal charges to be considered against six people who are collectively accused of scamming millions of dollars from RailCorp.
Instead of making recommendations about RailCorp now, it would instead canvas all the corruption issues in its final report due out later this year, it said.
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"The ICAC has made findings of corrupt conduct against former RailCorp employee Ivan Stanic and contractors Paul Szoboszlay (Director of Wire and Steel Industries Pty Ltd), Nick Kouraos (Director of Anev Painting & Decorating Pty Ltd) and Mark Palombo (Principal of Delux Quality Cleaning & Property Maintenance)," it said. "The ICAC finds that Mr Stanic engaged in corrupt conduct by accepting payments from the three above individuals in return for continuing to award RailCorp work to their businesses; telling Mr Szoboszlay what amounts Wire & Steel Industries should quote for RailCorp work; and accepting payments from Messrs Kouraos and Palombo in return for conniving with them to submit invoices to RailCorp which he and they knew were inflated to include work not done. "The ICAC will seek the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) with respect to the prosecution of the above individuals for various criminal offences." |
http://news.smh.com.au/national/icac-recommends-charges-over-railcorp-20080908-4bum.html
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Speed
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:38 am
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A seventh report has been released by ICAC today.
| Quote: | A total of 97 corrupt conduct findings have now been made against 31 people in the RailCorp investigation. ICAC also has sought, or will seek, the DPP's advice on a total of 663 criminal charges against 33 people.
A final report, yet to be released, will detail the ICAC's corruption prevention recommendations for the whole RailCorp operation.
In the latest report, ICAC Commissioner Jerrold Cripps QC found Mr Laidlaw, the RailCorp Commercials Renewals Division Track team leader, and his team "grasped at every opportunity to exploit their employment at RailCorp to corruptly maximise the financial benefits they derived from their work". |
http://news.smh.com.au/national/more-corruption-findings-into-railcorp-20081119-6aza.html
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