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SA Ignores Interstate Precedent Published by NationalTribune 2024-03-24 Many High Court precedents have ruled that state Tribunals cannot exercise jurisdiction where an applicant lives in another state so, accordingly, SACAT has no lawful jurisdiction to accept an interstate application, but SACAT thumbed its nose at this Constitutional violation to expand its powers. SA Incompetence Published by ABC 2019-02-10 Client's account drained of thousands of dollars because of negligent inaction of her Public Trustee estate officer. SA Corruption Published by ABC 2018-01-23 Government Trustee estate officer, Marie Bartels, jailed five years for stealing about $30k from deceased clients. However activists think she was a token sacrifice by the department in order to deflect from the many other more serious complaints. ICAC Suggests Overhaul Published by ICAC 2018-03-09 ICAC makes recommendations to Trustee in response to the token corruption conviction of Ms Bartels and more than 30 complaints of their officers. These 19 Recommendations are supposedly "for preventing or minimising corruption, misconduct and maladministration in public administration" but activists would have preferred further prosecution. SA Accounting Fraud Published by Seven TV 2014-10-06 Public Trustee accounting fraud exposed in a submission to the Federal Productivity Commission by Chris Jenkinson ( PDF or DOC ). SA Senate Orders Inquiry Published by Murdoch Press 2008-11-16 Former supervisor in the Office of the Public Trustee blew the whistle on an "appalling" culture of maladministration. He told parliament's Statutory Authorities Review Committee about becoming the target of abuse and bullying because he attempted to manage the work of his employees and their performance by ensuring the tasks set were carried out and the reports and audits were completed correctly. An audit confirmed errors in 120 client files he kept records of and another whistleblower testified with similar experiences. SA Trustee Hijacks PoA Published by Seven TV Beryl Watts had sudden onset of dementia after an operation went wrong. In the resulting paranoia, she anulled her daughter's Power of Attorney, giving it instead to her deceased husband's ex-financial manager. When he retired, the Trustee took over rather than restore PoA to the daugher. Beryl passed away in 2019. |