Cameron Dick and Paul Lucas led the surge toward privatisation under the Bligh government, selling off the public’s largest asset, Queensland Rail. Jarrod Bleiijie had a hand in Campbell-Newman’s sacking 14,000 Queensland public servants in 2012 – 2015. It was Bleiijie and his CEO who told Bernie Neville (I was a witness) in August 2012 that he just had to accept that a Labor (spelt with a ‘u’: ‘c-o-r-r-u-p-t’) Public Trustee was a necessary evil in Queensland because it would cost too much for the government to buy out his contract of employment. There is a curious gap in that contract of employment between Peter Carne and the Attorney. Carne stood down on full pay in early 2014 till when he was re-instated by Labor’s Yvette D’Ath in 2016. Who was the Public Trustee in the interim? It was Mark Crofton who acted as Public Trustee during Carne’s first period in the wilderness on full pay. ...
Song
Ballad of a thin man by Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall in 1966
Excerpts from meeting with the Public Trustee Peter Carne on 8 Dec 2011.
Present: Bernie Neville, Mark Crofton, Ian Curr, Katrina , Public Trustee Peter Carne, Ian Campbell, Greg Chappell, Eliza, Carl Ross Taylor, Maggie.
Topics
What’s happening with the property (at 26 Horan St West End)?
0:15
The power of the office to challenge a bank on a loan -.
7:40
Ways to waive privilege over legal advice.
12:36
How can we ask why the administrator of the building did not do his job?
17:44
What can we do about the administration of the public trustee?
19:16
Westpac’s unconscionable behavior in relation to the transaction.
23:18
The behavior of some of the staff has been inappropriate.
29:24
How do you get advice from the public trustee?
35:11
Did you ever interview the owner of the property?
