In December last year The Canberra Times published an article by me expressing concern about the Merit Protection Review Agency’s investigation at the Australian War Memorial.
Essentially, that article said there was something irregular about the way the process was put in train. The minister in charge of the public service, Gary Johns, launched it without the knowledge of the Minister in charge of the memorial, Con Sciacca. It said the agency, normally a body that defends public servants subject of disciplinary procedures, was now put in a prosecutorial role to investigate harassment, but without the normal safeguards of fairness that prosecutors normally apply.
In short, the article said the process was flawed and had delivered an injustice to the director and deputy director of the memorial.
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