Port Stephens Council Corporate Policeman Makes Public Admission He Fabricated Claims Apprehended Violence Orders had been Issued Against the Public, 20.02.2020
His name is Tony Leslie Wickham.
He occupies numerous conflicting roles with Port Stephens Council including:• Governance Manager• Executive Officer• Right to Information Officer• Privacy Officer• Complaints Handling Manager• Code of Conduct Coordinator• Joint Custodian of Secondary Employment Every Council issue, complaint, report, enquiry, inquiry, request for Council information, and how Council manages the public’s personal information, all cross his desk at some point in time.He has the goods on every person he comes into contact with relating to Council business and he keeps a tight grip on the compactus.
He approves Council employees’ secondary employment and conflicts of interest, particularly Planners who run planning consultancies in parallel to their Council roles.
He knows where the bodies are.
He is documented to obstruct legitimate access to NSW government information and readily breach the public’s privacy; trampling on the public’s legislated rights and treating the public’s beneficial legislation with total contempt.
One wonders why he stays in his job, it’s surely not for pleasure as his disdain for the public he’s placed to serve leaves a trail of collateral damage behind him; perhaps it’s the public-funded remuneration package: the superannuation, the holidays, the flash vehicle, corporate training, ready access to legal services, and of course the protections.
Today he sat with (5) five other legal professionals against one self-represented Respondent, Telina Webb.
Today’s matter concerned an Application by Council for a Section 110 Restraint Order under the GIPA Act 2009. Wickham wanted Webb stopped. Since enduring Council’s Development Application process, and realising just how ad hoc it was, she wanted to interrogate the files to understand how a $4,500.00 Privacy Screen and pool fence ended up costing (20) twenty times that amount and the loss of her home.
This was nothing new for these adversaries. Webb had won an earlier such application brought by the same Council in 2017. No barristers, just a small town country solicitor. But this time she faced numerous solicitors and a barrister no less. Along the way Webb discovered an unlawful agreement orchestrated by Tony Wickham, where he suggested to a member of the public to use the GIPA Act 2009 Section 14 Table 3(f) to conceal and protect open access information mandated for release. Yes, it’s documented.
She would also discover a damning letter authored by Wickham himself, falsely informing the Information Commission that apprehended violence orders had been issued against Webb and her husband, that police had been called to their neighbourhood due to disturbances involving them, and that Council had continued to withhold information from the couple because they posed a serious risk to public safety.
Today’s proceedings addressed all these things.
Webb informed the presiding member Francis Marks both she and her husband had taken the extraordinary step to undertake a forensic risk assessment in order to dispel once and for all the claims she and her husband presented any risk to any person.
Webb offered Marks to read the documents.
She also offered up police records.
Marks declined to view them.
But he did put to Council QUOTE “Have you seen any AVOs?” UNQUOTE.
Council stated QUOTE “No.” UNQUOTE.
“My husband and I have been all through this; allegations, withholding information, public statements we pose a risk of harm to other people. And not just any risk, serious risk apparently. So today I feel completely exonerated. This claim has been somewhat extinguished. But it’s not been easy and the allegations have been relentless. There is also the issue that Wickham has published these claims on Council’s website; it’s never going away. There was no legal requirement to do so, but what the heck he did it anyway. The 3(f) clause of GIPA has been used against Webb and her husband by Port Stephens Council over (270) two hundred and seventy times. Tony Wickham would use it (73) seventy three times in one single document. And Wickham has not yet been made accountable, he just smirks and believes he’s untouchable; hiding behind Council solicitors and publicly funded legal teams; he’s not paying a cent of his own money that’s for sure! On 20th March 2017 Wickham actually stated under oath “I don’t have to prove anything.” Just let that sink in. But if he thinks this is going away just because he’s finally admitted he lied, those lies have been documented, and he’s been exposed for the liar he is, he is VERY mistaken. I naïvely believed the manipulation and corruption of the legislation would not flow over into the judiciary; I had convinced myself no public servant would dare to continue lying and fabricating the facts in a judicial forum on risk of perjury. I also believed the judiciary would look at the evidence confirming that perjury. I could not have been more wrong,” stated Webb.
Contact the group of actors forming Port Stephens Council's Legal Dream Team: Francis Marks, LinkedIn Australia Marks' decision is available here. Tony Wickham, Corporate Policeman / Governance Manager, Tony.wickham@portstephens.nsw.gov.au Brenda Tronson, Barrister, btronson@level22.com.au Carlo Zoppo, freelance solicitor, formerly of Lindsay Taylor Lawyers; repeatedly turning a blind eye to corruption Matthew Harker, barrister, matt.harker@greenway.com.au, repeatedly turning a blind eye to corruption Lisa Marshall, Council voyeur, Lisa.marshall@portstephens.nsw.gov.au
He occupies numerous conflicting roles with Port Stephens Council including:• Governance Manager• Executive Officer• Right to Information Officer• Privacy Officer• Complaints Handling Manager• Code of Conduct Coordinator• Joint Custodian of Secondary Employment Every Council issue, complaint, report, enquiry, inquiry, request for Council information, and how Council manages the public’s personal information, all cross his desk at some point in time.He has the goods on every person he comes into contact with relating to Council business and he keeps a tight grip on the compactus.
He approves Council employees’ secondary employment and conflicts of interest, particularly Planners who run planning consultancies in parallel to their Council roles.
He knows where the bodies are.
He is documented to obstruct legitimate access to NSW government information and readily breach the public’s privacy; trampling on the public’s legislated rights and treating the public’s beneficial legislation with total contempt.
One wonders why he stays in his job, it’s surely not for pleasure as his disdain for the public he’s placed to serve leaves a trail of collateral damage behind him; perhaps it’s the public-funded remuneration package: the superannuation, the holidays, the flash vehicle, corporate training, ready access to legal services, and of course the protections.
Today he sat with (5) five other legal professionals against one self-represented Respondent, Telina Webb.
Today’s matter concerned an Application by Council for a Section 110 Restraint Order under the GIPA Act 2009. Wickham wanted Webb stopped. Since enduring Council’s Development Application process, and realising just how ad hoc it was, she wanted to interrogate the files to understand how a $4,500.00 Privacy Screen and pool fence ended up costing (20) twenty times that amount and the loss of her home.
This was nothing new for these adversaries. Webb had won an earlier such application brought by the same Council in 2017. No barristers, just a small town country solicitor. But this time she faced numerous solicitors and a barrister no less. Along the way Webb discovered an unlawful agreement orchestrated by Tony Wickham, where he suggested to a member of the public to use the GIPA Act 2009 Section 14 Table 3(f) to conceal and protect open access information mandated for release. Yes, it’s documented.
She would also discover a damning letter authored by Wickham himself, falsely informing the Information Commission that apprehended violence orders had been issued against Webb and her husband, that police had been called to their neighbourhood due to disturbances involving them, and that Council had continued to withhold information from the couple because they posed a serious risk to public safety.
Today’s proceedings addressed all these things.
Webb informed the presiding member Francis Marks both she and her husband had taken the extraordinary step to undertake a forensic risk assessment in order to dispel once and for all the claims she and her husband presented any risk to any person.
Webb offered Marks to read the documents.
She also offered up police records.
Marks declined to view them.
But he did put to Council QUOTE “Have you seen any AVOs?” UNQUOTE.
Council stated QUOTE “No.” UNQUOTE.
“My husband and I have been all through this; allegations, withholding information, public statements we pose a risk of harm to other people. And not just any risk, serious risk apparently. So today I feel completely exonerated. This claim has been somewhat extinguished. But it’s not been easy and the allegations have been relentless. There is also the issue that Wickham has published these claims on Council’s website; it’s never going away. There was no legal requirement to do so, but what the heck he did it anyway. The 3(f) clause of GIPA has been used against Webb and her husband by Port Stephens Council over (270) two hundred and seventy times. Tony Wickham would use it (73) seventy three times in one single document. And Wickham has not yet been made accountable, he just smirks and believes he’s untouchable; hiding behind Council solicitors and publicly funded legal teams; he’s not paying a cent of his own money that’s for sure! On 20th March 2017 Wickham actually stated under oath “I don’t have to prove anything.” Just let that sink in. But if he thinks this is going away just because he’s finally admitted he lied, those lies have been documented, and he’s been exposed for the liar he is, he is VERY mistaken. I naïvely believed the manipulation and corruption of the legislation would not flow over into the judiciary; I had convinced myself no public servant would dare to continue lying and fabricating the facts in a judicial forum on risk of perjury. I also believed the judiciary would look at the evidence confirming that perjury. I could not have been more wrong,” stated Webb.
Contact the group of actors forming Port Stephens Council's Legal Dream Team: Francis Marks, LinkedIn Australia Marks' decision is available here. Tony Wickham, Corporate Policeman / Governance Manager, Tony.wickham@portstephens.nsw.gov.au Brenda Tronson, Barrister, btronson@level22.com.au Carlo Zoppo, freelance solicitor, formerly of Lindsay Taylor Lawyers; repeatedly turning a blind eye to corruption Matthew Harker, barrister, matt.harker@greenway.com.au, repeatedly turning a blind eye to corruption Lisa Marshall, Council voyeur, Lisa.marshall@portstephens.nsw.gov.au