NEW: June 2008
WhistleBlowers' Documents Exposed (WBDE) Human Rights and Ethics Panels again contacted organisations administering the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). They again sent material, and again requested assistance and intervention in Australia for our burgeoning number of persecuted whistleblowers. Letters were sent to Transparency International (Australia), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC Vienna) and Transparency International Global (Berlin) as follow-up to previous communications,and again requesting assistance for Australian whistleblowers .

"WhistleBlowers Documents Exposed (WBDE) is a self-funded community-based initiative as recommended in United Nations Convention Against Corruption to combat corruption.  We aim to curb the use that some individuals and organizations make of using public resources for their own private purpose of punishing and discrediting dissenters, silencing free speech, and covering up   [More...]

Recent Items From Chronology
Date Item Additional information
2008 Mar 19 Article Jo Hewitt "Be Careful - Don't Step In The Corruption" RailCorp whistleblower Ms Bimla Chand.. $300,000 to "silence" her. Radio 2GB posed the question is “NSW the corrupt state?” the results show that 96% of the people polled recorded a YES opinion, with the remaining 4% recording NO. " UNCAC,
2008 Mar 18 Link to 2GB Interview with Gillian Sneddon - The Orkopoulos whistle blower Ray Hadley talks to Gillian Sneddon, who blew the whistle on Milton Orkopoulos. She used to be his electorate officer and has cast doubt over who knew about the sexual allegations and how long for. Gillian Sneddon has since been sacked from her job. Orkopoulos has been convicted http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=1166
2008 Mar 15 Article Orkopoulos, Sneddon Orkopoulos was found guilty of eight counts of having homosexual intercourse with a minor, 13 counts of supplying cannabis, four counts of supplying heroin, and three counts of indecent assault on a minor, related to plying young men with drugs and then having sex with them. The Herald revealed that Gillian Sneddon, Orkopoulos's former electorate officer in the Hunter seat of Swansea, who helped collect evidence from his office for police, had her employment terminated last month - the day she began to give evidence at the Orkopoulos trial
2008 Mar 15 Street-theatre in New Zealand on HealthQuest NSW IN New Zealand, at an arts and writers festival for human rights. Nigel Jamieson. Director Gary Trudeau US top political cartoonist. Joseph Stiglitz etc Activist's street theatre included an over six foot high banner "UNTOLD TALES OF POLITICAL TERROR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC PART 1 THE NSW STATE LABOR GOVT "
2008 Mar 15 Article re RailCorp Whistleblower Bimla Chand
2008 Mar 7 Email circulated by Edward James "No surprise here Illawarra NEWS informs readers ICAC ignored corruption complaints from independent councillor ". Andrew Anthony
2008 Mar 3 Article by Jo Hewitt Answers Telegraph article by Linda Silmalis that "DOCTORS will be required by law to dob in their dodgy colleagues in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the Butcher of Bega “
2008 Mar 3 Article by Justine Ferrari In the Australian. "A NATIONAL system of registration for doctors is being finalised by federal, state and territory governments, which will help prevent cases such as that of Jayant Patel in Queensland and the "Butcher of Bega" in NSW." Dr Graeme Reeves.
2008 Feb 2 Interview transcript Ross Coulthart "As many as 200 victims of the 'Butcher of Bega' claim serious allegations they made about his alleged malpractice were ignored by the government’s health watchdogs". Dr Graeme Reeves. HCCC. Ombudsman's Office, Premier. AMA. "Hundreds of complaints about Butcher of Bega ignored"

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