on 26-03-2016 12:05 AM
Dear All,
My family and I are shocked by the level of Corruption & Misconduct within Victorian Government Departments (Dept of Housing , Victorian Ombudsman and VCAT). My family and I are very good Public Tenants (my Son has a disability Autism) but since our very valid complaints against Two Dept of Housing Problem Managers, we are experiencing discrimination, Maladministration and reduction in essential services by the Dept of Housing. The manner in which the Victorian Ombudsman and VCAT Mishandle our complaints is nothing short of Appalling Misconduct and Corruption. We are uncovering a deepset Lack of Integrity, Lack of Accountability and Lack of Transparency within each of these Government Departments, Laws need to be changed to Protect Public Housing Tenants but Also the General Public.
It is the job of Victorian Ombudsman to make the Dept of Housing staff accountable for their actions, but they have done nothing to resolve our complaints
Until The Victorian Ombudsman Act 1973 is corrected, Vic Ombudsman staff will not bother to do their jobs properly. A report (full of errors) came back from a "Junior officer" at the Ombudsman office who stated she will not investigate our complaints. She got all the facts wrong. We escalated this to her manager who replied "Sorry but we have limited resources" The Law states that the Victorian Ombudsman decides whether to make enquiries or investigate complaints (two different things), when we ask for the details of the responses by the Dept of Housing to the Vic Ombudsman, the Vic Ombudsman refuse to provide this information as they state that the Victorian Ombudsman are not subject to Freedom of Information. So where is Transparency to allow us to correct Department of Housing Inaccuracies and Misleading Statements???
As for VCAT, from our experience they take the Cake for Misconduct and Corruption. In our last Tenants Application to VCAT against the Department of Housing, Senior Member completely Left Out of the Final Written Reasons all the repairs that the Dept of Housing were Requested to do by Consumer Affairs, also VCAT Senior Member convenientely left out most of our vital evidence, he also made numerous Errors for eg "Big hole in the roof finally filled after days instead of Three and a Half Years".
Our Family again have taken the Dept of Housing to VCAT but we are currently experiencing, Biased Members which we requested be Disqualified, also No fair hearing, No impartiality and gross Misconduct. VCAT have Prevented Three persons we Summoned into VCAT which is vital evidence to our case (One being the Junior Vic Ombudsman Officer who made nothing but errors in her report). All the Best to you All. mariem888
on 06-04-2016 05:04 PM
Lind - you are an absolute treasure.
My loss - not being able to meet you in Melbourne - sad you were unable to make it.
on 06-04-2016 05:38 PM
I also rented privately for a number of years. I am now in a Government supplied granny flat in my sons backyard.
I too have never had any problems getting repairs done in a timely manner.
on 06-04-2016 07:03 PM
Hi esayaf,
If you know any really Good Jokes just send them through.
To the 99.5% of the Good Community Spirit Members Good luck out
there, Stay Safe, be loved and enjoy life.
Cheers
marie
on 24-04-2020 07:05 PM
@michellebartley wrote:
I lived in Public (or should I say Community) Housing which is managed by a charity church organisation for 8 years (its still public) and because of being vunerable at the time, I moved in (place had been trashed) putridly dirty (urine stains on carpet) etc.. But still they let me move in (very wrong move) no cleaning done at all by housing department.So I had some issues with some pets I kept and refused to leave. Went to court, they won. It was a nightmare. But! I had an idea and rang the ABC TV and they said they would do a story about it. The story was on the 7pm news about the pets(this was before getting the boot out of there.)Cheap and nasty housing department houses full of nasty neighbours and insipid housing department staff.
Australia's Kangaroo courts and tribunals are no trivial matter.
search online for:
Luck vs renton VCAT
and
Le Tuan Pham VCAT
I beleive Luck vs Renton ended up in the High Court of Aus. Don't know if Le Tuan Pham's did.
on 24-04-2020 07:16 PM
Gosh...where did this old thread come from.