Operation Kingfisher: An investigation into whether the procurement for the Campbell Primary School Modernisation Project was conducted with probity and whether it was affected by corrupt conduct.
- Findings, opinions and statements
- 4
- Report length
- 341 pages
Summary
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The ACT Integrity Commission investigated whether Education Directorate officials acted honestly and impartially during the 2019–2020 procurement for the Campbell Primary School Modernisation Project.
It examined the selection of Lendlease despite evaluation teams favouring Manteena, including communications involving ministerial staff, union officials and public servants.
The Commission found that the then director-general and the minister's chief of staff engaged in serious corrupt conduct by improperly influencing the procurement and trying to conceal what occurred.
Report, page 10 · Report, page 325 · Report, page 329 · Report, page 330
The Commission declined to find that another official engaged in serious corrupt conduct, taking account of his later disclosures and efforts to correct the wrongdoing.
Findings, opinions and statements 4
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
adverse findings
FindingFormal adverse findings have been made against Ms Haire and Mr Ceramidas.
corrupt conduct
FindingSo far as Ms Haire and Mr Ceramidas is each concerned, there can be no doubt that the corrupt conduct which they have been found to have committed was of a character that would be likely to threaten public confidence in the integrity of Government or public administration, as to both its efficiency and probity so far as procurement of construction projects is concerned.
serious corrupt conduct
FindingAccordingly, the corrupt conduct of each amounted to serious corrupt conduct.
serious corrupt conduct
No findingAccordingly, I have concluded that it is not appropriate to find that Mr Green’s conduct, considered as a whole, amounted to serious corrupt conduct.
Recommendations
No recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
Hearing transcripts: evidence, not findings 17
What a witness or counsel says at a hearing is evidence or submission, not a finding. Transcripts are the publisher's copies, including its redactions, listed newest first by month.
- Case
- Operation Kingfisher
- Hearings page
- Hearings page on integrity.act.gov.au
About these copies
- Kind
- Official public hearing transcript
- How OPAX got them
- manual publisher download supplied by the OPAX maintainer, 12 Nov 2026
- Rights
- Public copies released by the Commission, including its redactions. The transcript notices reserve Crown copyright and require the Attorney-General's prior written consent for reproduction, and publication orders apply. OPAX links to the publisher's copy.
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Notes on this record
- Date is the date of the Commission's letter or statement giving the report to the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly (report page 5).
- No numbered recommendations of the Commission's own were found in the report text. Numbered recommendations quoted in the report from other bodies are not recorded.
Coverage
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- Confidential reports given to a Legislative Assembly committee are not published; only the Commission's announcement of the Operation Kite confidential report is recorded.
- The Commission does not publish numbered recommendations of its own in these reports; numbered recommendations quoted from the Auditor-General or the Public Accounts Committee are not recorded.
- Ministerial responses to special reports are presented to the Legislative Assembly and are not on the Commission's site; they are not loaded.
- The lobbying inquiry (open, with two discussion papers) has not reported; discussion papers are not reports.
- Discontinued investigations are not published individually.