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Report on the Western Australian Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative Investigations (Ombudsman)

Report · Corruption and Crime Commission (WA CCC) · Western Australia · Published

Findings, opinions and statements
2
Report length
130 pages

Official source

Report on the Western Australian Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative Investigations (Ombudsman)

PDF · 130 pages · 5.2 MB · ccc.wa.gov.au

Summary

The report's own summary: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW, pages 7 to 10

Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.

  • The Corruption and Crime Commission examined the Western Australian Ombudsman’s overseas activities, use of public resources and procurement of an international research project.

    Report, page 9 · Report, page 10

  • The Commission concluded that conflicts of interest compromised decisions and benefited an international ombudsman organisation at the State’s expense.

    Report, page 125

  • The Commission formed serious misconduct opinions concerning attempts to mislead the Treasurer and senior officials through procurement memoranda containing false information.

    Report, page 126 · Report, page 127

  • The Commission made two recommendations for Parliament to consider a joint oversight committee and expanded oversight by the Parliamentary Inspector.

    Report, page 130

Findings, opinions and statements 2

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.

  1. no opinion of serious misconduct

    No finding

    After consideration, the Commission has concluded that the facts do not reach the standard under Briginshaw v Briginshaw so as to justify an opinion of serious misconduct.

    Report, page 45

  2. opinion of serious misconduct

    Opinion

    The Commission has formed an opinion of serious misconduct.

    Report, page 126

Recommendations

No recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.

Published responses

No published response was found.

Official documents 2

Notes on this record

  • Report type assigned by OPAX from the title; the Commission tags every listing item Report.
  • Date is the date the Commission's report page was published; the report states no date OPAX read.
  • An opinion that misconduct has occurred is not, and is not to be taken as, a finding or opinion that a person has committed a criminal or disciplinary offence (Corruption, Crime and Misconduct Act 2003, s 217A; s 23 in reports made under the Act as first enacted).

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  • Opinions are extracted only where the Commission states them in a sentence on a single page; opinions in older reports framed differently, or split over a page break, are not extracted (findings not_extracted).
  • No text layer, no OCR: scanned reports have no extracted opinions or recommendations.

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