When two tribes go to war

chewy14 said :

milkman said :

Quite interesting. What I find surprising is the relative naivety of the government here. While a pretty silly mistake was made, a range of options for resolving it were obviously explored, and the ACT government didn’t appear to have helped much. And after that the government basically admits to ‘blamestorming’ to allocate responsibility.

The reason this is getting so much profile is probably because of the numbers involved, and the fact that they are beyond most peoples’ capacity to earn. It sure is a lot of money though.

Yeah that’s what I got. So a number of public servants were told and failed to alert their bosses?

And the story has legs because everyone likes whining about people richer than themselves.

+1.

Deref said :

MERC600 said :

I suspect our local ABC and Fairfax , due to their allegiance to a larger Green/Labour organisation, will not give it much coverage.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I am interested in subscribing to your newsletter.

No newsletter. Just after 34 years of reading the crimes you can work out its politics. Just as you can from reading News Ltd papeers.

wow, so a job in water security or water management can get you $420k+

Erg0 said :

Am I correct in understanding that his earnings were aparently reported correctly (at $800k+) in the following year’s financial report, and that nobody seemed particularly concerned at the time? If so, it’s funny that the government suddenly became all concerned when this came to the public’s attention due to the error.

Yes, it seems that their concern was directly linked to the amount of media coverage. Either that or they weren’t reading the reports.

Erg0 said :

Am I correct in understanding that his earnings were aparently reported correctly (at $800k+) in the following year’s financial report, and that nobody seemed particularly concerned at the time? If so, it’s funny that the government suddenly became all concerned when this came to the public’s attention due to the error.

After the Rhodium Asset Solutions debacle, the nominated shareholders for Territory owned corporations have become a little more accountable. I won’t mention TotalCare or the Hotel School either.

Am I correct in understanding that his earnings were aparently reported correctly (at $800k+) in the following year’s financial report, and that nobody seemed particularly concerned at the time? If so, it’s funny that the government suddenly became all concerned when this came to the public’s attention due to the error.

“……myself……. were notified……” the grammar.

milkman said :

Quite interesting. What I find surprising is the relative naivety of the government here. While a pretty silly mistake was made, a range of options for resolving it were obviously explored, and the ACT government didn’t appear to have helped much. And after that the government basically admits to ‘blamestorming’ to allocate responsibility.

The reason this is getting so much profile is probably because of the numbers involved, and the fact that they are beyond most peoples’ capacity to earn. It sure is a lot of money though.

Yeah that’s what I got. So a number of public servants were told and failed to alert their bosses?

And the story has legs because everyone likes whining about people richer than themselves.

Is it just me, or does that link go to the crappiest scanned pdf job ever.

MERC600 said :

I suspect our local ABC and Fairfax , due to their allegiance to a larger Green/Labour organisation, will not give it much coverage.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I am interested in subscribing to your newsletter.