THE DARWIN SHOW

THE DARWIN SHOW

Every year, in mid to late July, this mister man takes himself and family off to the Darwin show. And every year he leaves home knowing that the three or four hours wasted there will never again be lived. 

The truly awful spectacle reinforces how small town and small of mind Darwin is. From this shallow gene pool the health department's future leaders are to be selected, trained and foisted upon an unsuspecting and long suffering general public.

A few weeks ago, Notaras bragged in his weekly Friday sermon about numbers of future leaders have been brought on board. Such idiocy and petty mindedness is becoming commonplace from the Great Leader. In the same sermon he boasted of the numbers of staff who have the done appropriate workplace behaviours course. By our calculations, it will take a mere 16 years for all health department staff to have received this training, assuming the current 29% annual staff attrition rate drops to 0% immediately.

The training in our view is barely worth bothering with. The inappropriate behaviours that have set so many on edge come from the leaders themselves. It isn't the staff. It's the managers, who are failing to follow policies and procedures, underpinned by a useless and weak HR department who let them do it and cover up for them afterwards.

So who better in the Great Leader's mind to train the 'future leaders'? - that's right: the swine who are causing most of the problems in the first place. A genius it does not take to work how that will play out. 

Mind you, when you have Kalimnios, Burke and the criminal family down the road Alice Springs way as your trusted senior lieutenants advising you, we can see how the latest 'Next Big Idea' will soon end up trammelled into the sand.

Back to The Darwin Show. What la famile mister men enjoyed most, apart from reassuringly seeing a friendless Adam Giles wandering around on his own, nobody speaking or smiling in his direction, were the sand sculpts.

They reminded us that from a single grain of truth the management of the northern territory department of health can, do, and have manufactured whole sand banks of lies and false allegations to hang upon their targets.

Walking around the show in a perpetual 'why the heck do I live I the arse hole of Australia?' existential crisis created from my own doing stupidity I noticed several former colleagues wandering around wearingthe haunted look of the psychologically falsely imprisoned.

  

First I bumped into Michelle. She was a manager who went on leave and while she was away her senior manager bragged to others about how she was about to shaft her with false allegations and push her out of her job.

How Casuarina Plaza rocked and swayed laughing in unison at that one.

The senior manager arranged for a complaint to be sent to the health minister purportedly from elders in an aboriginal community complaining about Michelle's supposed disrespectful conduct at a meeting. The letter went on to say that Michelle's safety could no longer be guaranteed in that community. Except the letter was manufactured deceit from the CEO of an aboriginal corporation in cahoots with Michelle's senior manager.

It didn't matter that two witnesses, a police officer and a school principal had both praised Michelle for the skilled way in which she had conducted herself at the meeting in question. Michelle’s senior manager didn't care about any of that. There was to be no fair investigation and certainly with no natural justice afforded to her. She was to be shoved out of her job, transferred into another and a pre arranged replacement slotted in.

Michelle hung around for a couple of months doing her new job. But her heart wasn't in it and she remainedvery upset. Then she took time off and resigned. Michelle is no longer registered as a nurse and changed her career.

Her senior manager was so impressed at the way her little scheme had played out that she pulled it off again in almost exactly the same way to someone else in another community not too long after. That person was so distressed by the dirty trick that she too is no longer working as a nurse.

Next I bumped into Fiona, a former colleague who had lost her position on the back of unsubstantiated gossip. One day that same senior manager turned up with an area service manager and frog marched her out of her workplace. She was forced to work in Casuarina Plaza whilst her fixed term contract was run down. In her last week she was offered a job – as an administrative assistant effectively on half the pay of a nurse and with no concern for her career development. The rumours circulated about her were uncorroborated and false. She was denied natural justice. The appeal to the biased OCPE went no where as they always do.

Because Fiona was so stressed and unhappy, she sent her children inter state to be looked after by a family member. For a period, Fiona became so depressed that her mother called the health department because she had concerns her daughter would suicide. The health department took no supportive action whatsoever. Just before she left, Fiona wrote a letter describing her angst and worry caused by being innocent and the denial of natural justice. She never even received a response.

These are but examples of what the senior manager does to people. On the flip side, she is generous to her favourites; men mainly. For example;

The appointment of a male non clinician into a non advertised senior role who had never worked for the health department before. Several concerns about his bullying have been shared.

The appointment of a male into a non advertised senior role in the community she currently manages.

The appointment of a male into a challenging clinic as manager with no checking of references and in circumstances where he had assaulted a nurse in a previous organisation where security had to be rushed out to collect him immediately and summarily send him on his way.

The protection of a particularly nasty vicious male manager who has verbally abused female staff.

Allowing a useless manager a five year career break secondment and then havinghim back less than three months later when the workers of the organisation he went to work for complained about his bullying behaviour.

Ignoring concerns raised about an alcoholic clinic manager working in a dry community because he was a favoured member of her coterie.

On and on it goes.

Perhaps the most telling comments go to one of her victims who had her round for dinner one evening. The senior manager boasted about how manipulative she was. She said she played with people and never stuck her neck out to help anyone having problems. She was apparently laughing as she explained her tactics to the shocked future victim and her husband. Later, the husband asked that she never be allowed in his home again. He said, 'That person is pure evil.'

Having left behind a litany of damage to the careers of the innocent and having caused even more damage by making decisions based upon cronyism, has she ever faced sanction for her actions? Of course she hasn't. And she is still there wreaking havoc and causing misery across the top end hated and feared by the clinical staff.

And here is another;

'When XXX came out and falsely accused me of things I never did, she denied me any right to defend myself, refused to give me any evidence, lied about who had made the allegations and then yawned in my face and looked continually at her watch. To her it was just another day. To me it was the destruction of my career. And she was actually bored of my distress. She is a disgusting cruel person with no integrity and no concern for the upset she causes.'

And there are many more examples. 

At this point it was time for the pig race and because I felt like vomiting, I decided to go home.

This is the kind of person protected by the organisation's shitty HR department whilst clinicians have been destroyed by her.

until next time,

the mister men

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