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25 SEPTEMBER. SECOND EDIT PUBLISHED.
AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN ELFERINK, MINISTER FOR HEALTH
Dear Minister Elferink,
As you are no doubt aware the mister men have been running a blog about the incessant bullying and cover up culture in the northern territory department of health. We are a small group of clinicians - doctors and nurses - who are sick of the abuse our colleagues suffer at the hands of a management led culture of bullying.
In case you are not aware of us, the address is www.ntbully.blogspot.com.au
Since the blog started in July, more than 26,000 people have visited the blog and read the articles we post.
As of today, 461 people have submitted published comments.
We have received 267 emails from concerned citizens and employees. Three of those were honey traps sent to us by managers within the health department. Naturally we will expose the perpetrator when the time is right to do so.
We conducted independent research into the appalling conduct of the human resources department interviewing 180 health department employees. You can read it HERE and HERE.
We received a very high satisfaction rate from our readership. See it HERE.
We consider the organisation to be The Worst Health Department in Australia. That is quite something when we consider the bullying that goes on in the health industry across the country.
A few of our stories have covered you. Among the mentions include;
- the secret appointment of your mate into the HCSCC and,
- the secret appointment of another mate as Children's Commissioner.
We already regarded you as an arrogant, thoroughly biased and opinionated minister. However today, you crossed the line further than we ever thought possible. Your disgusting comments and insincere apology will anger every fair minded employee in the health department. We do wonder what another of your political picks, Jo Sangster, in the Domestic Violence unit will be thinking.
Below, you will find three videos on bullying. As a bully, we hope you will find watching them a difficult and painful experience.
Handing out jobs to your mates is nothing other than a total abuse of power. But then even a misogynistic bullying idiot such as you would know that already.
What you did today leads us to conclude that you are unhinged.
You are unfit to lead the health department and we call upon you to resign immediately.
the mister men
We support:
1. The mister men recommend CARDFIGHTBACK https://cardfightback.wordpress.com/
2. Our email is bully@tuta.io
3. Read about HPARA here https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/bullying-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-medical-administration-dysfunction,7811
4. Please share us with all your public sector employed friends and family. Link here, https://ntdohbully.blogspot.com
FIRST EDIT
see the great coverage The Guardian gave this here;
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/17/northern-territory-minister-who-told-female-mp-he-felt-like-slapping-her-says-it-was-a-metaphor
AND THIS JUST IN
http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/attorney-general-john-elferink-dumped-as-ambassador-for-white-ribbon-anti-violence-campaign-for-telling-female-mla-he-wanted-to-give-her-a-slap/story-fnk0b1zt-1227533280341
AND THIS EARLIER TODAY
http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/giles-government-reels-from-another-scandal-are-they-mortally-wounded/story-fnk0b1zt-1227533000290
AND ALSO THIS
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/18/six-teenagers-hooded-and-transferred-to-darwin-adult-prison-report-reveals#comment-59726938
AND THIS FROM A WHILE AGO
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/22/northern-territory-moves-drinkers-to-jail
SECOND EDIT
NOW TURNBULL IS APPALLED
Dear NTG Media Advisers: Repeat after me "Minister, 26000 People viewed the Heath blog and more viewed the Education one. Those eager eyeballs will be voting in under a year from now. "
ReplyDeleteTHIS MAN IS A RACIST SEXIST THUG. I AM ASHAMED TO WORK FOR A HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT HAS THE LIKES OF HIM AS THE MINISTER. GREAT WORK MISTER MEN. ITS GOOD TO SEE THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE PREPARED TO STAND UP TO HIM AND THE BULLYING MANAGERS INSIDE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
DeleteHe has no credibility. The man has to go.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. Resign and push off elferink. And take your corrupt mates with you.
DeleteThis man is a thug. I pity his wife. It's time to resign Elf.
ReplyDeleteThere are enough bullys is the health department without the minister being one as well. I have no respect for him anymore. Elferink must resign.
DeleteTime to go you freak. You are hated anyway at the health department. Your mean comments about the aboriginal man who died in custody instead of as a free man disgusted many of my colleagues. You are a nasty inadequate man who runs on anger.
DeleteDeputy Labor leader Lynne Walker said his words were violent, intimidating and aggressive, as were his actions in thumping the desk and shouting at her during a heated debate.
Delete'His display was appalling, and I was truly shocked to see his face and the way he was yelling at me,' she said.
Ms Fyles said she felt bullied in the workplace.
'He's perpetuating a culture that its OK to be aggressive towards a woman who frustrates you, who questions you,' she said.
'We're no shrinking violets ... we're certainly up for robust debate, feisty debate, don't get me wrong. But when we saw the behaviour we saw yesterday, it's unacceptable.'
ELFERINK MUST RESIGN
Elferink you knob. Your threat was a simile not a metaphor.
ReplyDeleteWe are sick of him in the health department. What a way to treat female colleagues in the parliament. Bring on the election so this idiot can be voted out.
ReplyDeleteSo much for zero tolerance in the health department when the health minister threatens to slap women. This is utterly shameful.
DeleteTwo parliamentarians from both sides did nothing to endear themselves to the wider
ReplyDeletecommunity when they were ejected from the Legislative Assembly on 17 February
after trading insults over sexual preferences and standover tactics. It began when a CLP
member, John Elferink, accused Transport Minister Chris Burns of repeatedly calling
him a “poofter”. Elferink crossed the floor and confronted Burns, suggesting they take
the matter outside. Burns apologised to the Legislative Assembly after the incident.
The Chief Minister on 18 February described the blow up as a low point for the
parliament and reprimanded Burns. Elferink also admitted that he overreacted, saying
he would apologise to the parliament but not to Burns.
Enough is enough elferink. RESIGN NOW!
DeleteAll his credibility has disappeared. He was despised anyway. Angry violent men have bo place in the health department. Elferink must now resign.
DeleteRESIGN YOU HATER
ReplyDeleteYou are loathed in the health department. Your arrogance is well known to us. Just resign you creep because you are not a safe person to be around.
ReplyDeleteElferink is an incredibly confusing person and exercises a poor narrow field of political judgement in almost every thing he does. Of late, Elferink installed a friend into the position of Children's Commissioner with no selection process other than friendship, did the same with the peak health complaints body the HCSCC where he installed his former advisor into the post again on the basis of mate ship. He ignored a coroner report into the death of an aboriginal man who should not have been in jail and said 'better to die in custody than the gutter'. And he instigated a spill against the leader, Giles that failed. He is currently health minister of a department that is infamous for its bullying and cover up culture. And he installed a friend, Peter Maley, as a magistrate (who also happened to make a large political donation to his last election campaign) under extremely questionable circumstance. He is so much more than a misogynist aggressor. It's a wonder it has taken this long to come out. It is people like Elferink that make the NT what it is; corrupt, broken and inward looking. The world is different and nasty up here and he makes a significant contribution in maintaining the status quo.
DeleteComment please health unions? O yeah. I forgot. I'm in the NT.
ReplyDeleteThe health unions in the NT are a waste of time. The AMA is run by one mighty fuckwit in Parker and the nurses union probably knocked off early for the week end sometime this morning.
DeleteThe mighty ANMF are busy. They are in an important meeting. Somebody changed the office tea bags brand without a postal vote.
DeleteBallot results will be in some time next month. Once the electoral commission have filed a report on the way in which the ballot was conducted, the results will be released by the end of November. Union organisers will then be taking two months off for christmas and will return in Feb 16 for a week before the Easter shutdown.
DeleteOR JUST CALL A DECENT LAWYER INSTEAD..
Would he slap the female health department staff who disagreed with him? He'll have very sore hands because after this outburst, none of us will ever agree with him again.
ReplyDeleteOver 26,000 times the articles written by the mister men have been read. All those people VOTE Elferink.
ReplyDeleteThe minister has lost the confidence of the staff at the health department. He needs to resign because we cannot have violent people working there.
DeleteHe can apologize a thousand times but it's too late. You are finished Elferink.
ReplyDeleteNo credibility for Elf in the health department. He'll just get dragged around the joint by the management who will be secretly ticking off the days until the election. We have now entered the long goodbye.
DeleteTo cover their collective ass in remote health, they just lie. Connors is too daft to realise that she is being lied to and so up the lies go. And the Elf puts his weird political spin on things and the lies become twisted fact. Elf will get voted out and the liars will remain and they know it so behind his back they will all be laughing thinking, who on earth would be a politician when you can be a doh manager and lie your way around the joint and get away with it for your entire career.
DeleteResign!
ReplyDeletethis man is an insult to all respectful decent people. He has no respect or authority in the health department.
DeleteRESIGN NOW
Sangster won't say a word. Resign Elferink. Go now.
ReplyDeleteElferink would probably hit her if she did speak out against him.
DeleteElferink is a bully.
ReplyDeleteAND A THUG. WHEN IS THE ELECTION?
DeleteElferink should be sacked and not given the opportunity to resign. Those were disgraceful comments and behaviour. Like a spoiled child who cannot get his own way.
ReplyDeleteYep, he's a one man wrecking ball alright. In drag. lol
DeleteVERY just for John. Christ what an absolute arse.
ReplyDeleteO I dunno. He looks quite nice in an all white ensemble ,,,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/19/sexism-in-northern-territory-politics-is-a-stain-on-australias-dna
ReplyDelete"Specifically, it has the highest rate of domestic violence against women in Australia, and that of the domestic murder of women as well."
Lucky that Dan Bourchier put his boyfriend in that job in the AG's Dept writing policy on Domestic Violence then! Sounds like they've all got it covered....
Read about it here: https://cardfightback.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/teaching-in-the-territory-its-just-like-the-dept-of-education-the-dept-of-health-do-what-the-fck-they-like/