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Coincidentally, the Besen Family Foundation are also major sponsors of the Vic State Library, who last year suddenly cancelled workshops & performances of artists who allegedly had pro-Palestinian views.

How coincidental that this pro-Zionist arts sponsoring foundation is connected to both issues 🤔
February 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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And one has to ask, at this point, why is Brereton repeatedly and publicly taking the opportunity to define corruption in opposition to his own NACC Act and the NACC guidance online? He is trying very hard to get "for a private benefit" into the day-to-day work of the agency.
Brereton said in his address that “broadly, corruption is about the abuse of public power or position for a private purpose”. The NACC’s own guidance on its website says something subtly but crucially different on a key element, which integrity experts and former judges such as Margaret White say were made out clearly in the robodebt referrals. “A public official can breach public trust even if they don’t gain any advantage for themselves or someone else,” the commission website says. “The key element of a breach of public trust is the exercise of an official power other than honestly for the purpose for which it was conferred.” Similarly, it says, a public official can abuse their office by engaging in “improper acts or omissions” that provide benefit to themselves or “cause a detriment to another person”. “To commit an abuse of office, a public official must either intend to make something good happen for themselves or someone else (a benefit) or make something bad happen to someone else (a detriment),” the website says. The NACC legislation itself is explicit: “Conduct involving a public official may be corrupt conduct even if the conduct is not for the person’s personal benefit.” In his own remarks at the state of the NACC annual report, Brereton writes: “Corruption is essentially about the misuse of public power, position, privilege or property, for private purposes. It results in the diversion of public resources, and the undermining of trust in our public institutions.”
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 PM