The Greens say that Labor must stop hiding behind excuses and urgently commit to releasing documents following explosive reports regarding complaints made to the Department of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reports in the Age today reveal that the Department of Education received a complaint in 2022 about serious supervision failures at a centre where accused paedophile Joshua Brown allegedly sexually abused children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These complaints are exactly the kind of documents that the Greens requested via a parliamentary order last month which the government failed to meet the deadline on releasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Attorney-General tabled a letter yesterday with a copy-paste excuse saying that there was insufficient time to meet the request and the Premier told Parliament there were \u201ctoo many documents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say that when it comes to the safety of children, these documents are too important to be ignored and have proposed that Labor release the documents in tranches, which is how similar documents were revealed in New South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This process will allows the time required to carefully redact sensitive information, protect children\u2019s privacy, and ensure transparency is delivered in a realistic, staged way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Victorian Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood, Anasina Gray-Barberio said that not releasing these documents is impossible to defend, and that if this is what’s uncovered from one complaint, one whistleblower, it makes you wonder what else in those documents that the Labor Government doesn\u2019t want us to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victorian Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood, Anasina Gray-Barberio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is exactly why we\u2019re pushing for these documents to be released – to expose the red flags that were ignored while children were being harmed. Labor\u2019s refusal to release them is starting to look like a cover-up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Labor cares about children\u2019s safety and fixing this system they need to commit to working with us on a way we can release these documents in a safe and realistic way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn New South Wales, similar documents were released in tranches. There\u2019s no reason we can\u2019t do the same here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe longer Labor stalls, the more people are asking, what\u2019s in those documents that they don\u2019t want us to see?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens say that Labor must stop hiding behind excuses and urgently commit to releasing documents following explosive reports regarding complaints made to the Department of Education. Reports in the Age today reveal that the Department of Education received a complaint in 2022 about serious supervision failures at a centre where accused paedophile Joshua Brown … Continue reading “GREENS SAY NEW REVELATIONS MAKE LABOR\u2019S CHILDCARE DOCUMENT COVER-UP IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEND”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33992,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33991\/revisions\/33992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}