Allegations of serious misconduct unlawful conduct against Rob Stokes former NSW Minister for Education
Minister Rob Stokes & Minister Sarah Mitchell are alleged to have brought the education ministry into disrepute,perpetrating serious conduct breaches which may constitute corrupt conduct:
In 2018,this author submitted a formal Freedom of Information request (renamed Government Information Public Access (GIPA)) seeking access to government documents concerning the DGS12/613 Repeat writer (refer to the Alleged corrupt Paul Hopkins page) notice from Minister Rob Stokes to ascertain how this document,authored by the alleged corrupt Paul Hopkins,had be used & abused by the agency for almost 6 years.
The GIPA Act requires an initial decision concerning the GIPA application validity within 5 working days after receipt (Sect.51.2)
The GIPA Act requires the GIPA application to be decided within 20 working days (subject to Sect.57)
Other mandatory requirements oblige Minister Rob Stokes to promote the object of the GIPA Act (Sect.3) and to provide advice & assistance to assist the applicant seek access to the requested government documents (Sect.16)
The Chronology (undisputed by Minister Rob Stokes) establishes:
- April 8 & 9 2018 Two formal complaints concerning the alleged corrupt Paul Hopkins submitted by webform from Minister Rob Stokes’s webpage (no response received as of Aug.7,2020)
- April 13,2018 Original GIPA application posted to Minster Rob Stokes at 52 Martin Place Sydney
- April 30,2018 Another copy of the GIPA application sent by registered post to Minister Rob Stokes
- June 12,2017 Two further copies of the GIPA application sent by registered post to Minister Stokes’s
- July 17,2018 Further copy of GIPA application couriered to Minister Rob Stokes
- August 16,2018 GIPA application faxed to both ministerial office of Minister Rob Stokes and his electoral office Fax.No.s 9339 5554 & 9999 0922
- August 24 & 30,2018 Sept.1,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,20,21,24,25,26,27,28 Oct.2,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,18,19,22,23,24 GIPA application faxed to both ministerial office of Minister Rob Stokes and his electoral office 9339 5554 & 9999 0922
- No response was received acknowledging the receipt of any of the GIPA applications.
- October 25,2018 the author was forced to seek a NCAT review
- November 5,2018 a response was received from Minister Rob Stokes’s office which blatantly failed to provide access to the documents sought
- Minister Rob Stokes is alleged to have destroyed those 4 posted copies of the GIPA application perpetrating Sect.116 & Sect,120 OFFENCES under the Act (the DPC mailroom confirms delivery of those registered posted articles which are “not held” by Minister Rob Stokes)
It took almost 7 months for Minister Rob Stokes to provide a response to the access application egregiously abusing the author’s GIPA Act rights & breaching statutory obligations conferred on Minister Rob Stokes.
GIPA Act Division 2 – Offences
- 116 Offence of acting unlawfully
- 120 Offence of concealing or destroying government information
To date the April 8 & 9,2018 complaint regarding the alleged corrupt Paul Hopkins’s DGS12/613 notice has not been responded to by either Minister Sarah Mitchell or Rob Stokes
This is disgraceful conduct from a minister & legislator.
This is a blatant breach of his ministerial code of conduct:
https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/pdf/asmade/sl-2014-546
Further developments:
The NCAT review by ex assistance crown solicitor Christa Ludlow utterly & blatantly failed to protect the author’s GIPA Act rights.Detailed complaints will be published to show what an alleged morally bankrupt public liability Christa Ludlow is.
Ex.assistance crown solicitor Christa Ludlow DISMISSED this NCAT review application as vexatious,which is what her former colleague assistant crown solicitor John McDonnell (representing the minister) was seeking. The author has made complaints concerning alleged professional misconduct by John McDonnell.
This matter further became a FORCED APPEAL (appealed by the author and decided in favour of this author by a judge & professor of law)
This matter has since been appealed against by Minister Sarah Mitchell and has been taken to the Court of Appeal ,NSW Supreme Court where this author is a FORCED RESPONDENT.
All this is a significant waste of public resources & public funds related to a simple GIPA access application because minister Rob Stokes has allegedly perpetrated serious misconduct against this author and blatantly failed his statutory GIPA Act obligations.
What is of grave concern is that Minister Sarah Mitchell has used significant public resources & public funds to allegedly “buy an outcome” against this author to distract from Rob Stokes’s alleged serious misconduct.
This author has sought a face to face meeting with Minister Sarah Mitchell multiple times yet Minister Sarah Mitchell refuses to respond despite this author having provided her with substantiating evidence concerning the alleged corrupt Paul Hopkins’s blatant conflict of interest in authoring DGS12/613 (including evidence alleging false & misleading statements made by the alleged corrupt Paul Hopkins)