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GlenB embuggerance update: 19/11/21

Via the AP email chains:

Dear Mr Buckley

I refer to your recent email messages addressed to the Chair of the CASA Board, Mark Binskin AC, and to me, in which you ask for a meeting with us.

As Mr McLachlan indicated in acknowledging receipt of your communications, Mr Binskin and I believe any issues you want to raise, or material that you have that has not previously been provided to the Ombudsman, that relate to the claims you have made against various CASA officers, including your claim that CASA has misled the Commonwealth Ombudsman in the course of their investigation, would best be directed to the Ombudsman to  support their independent review of your concerns.

Having reviewed your correspondence of 13 October 2021 to CASA’s Executive Manager, Legal, International and Regulatory Affairs, Jonathan Aleck, and of 18 October 2021 to CASA’s then-Executive Manager, Regulatory Oversight, Craig Martin, I also suggest that you draw the issues in those emails to the attention of the Ombudsman.

I have contacted the Ombudsman to advise her that we have encouraged you to refer to that office your ongoing concerns and reiterated CASA’s ongoing commitment to cooperate fully with the Ombudsman in support of any further steps she may wish to take in relation to your complaints.

Once the Ombudsman has completed any further review, Mr Binskin and I would be happy to meet with you to discuss the outcome of the Ombudsman’s independent investigation.

Yours sincerely

Pip

Addendum: Ombudsman review. 

Ombudsman ref: 2019-713834


Dear Mr Buckley

I refer to your complaint to the Ombudsman about CASA.

We have decided to review how we handled the complaint. The review will be
handled by an experienced officer in my team. The review will examine all
the information we have received from you and CASA. We will then decide what
next steps we should take.

I expect it will take the Review Officer a couple of weeks to examine all
the information on the file.

In the meantime, it would help if you refrain from sending both CASA and
this Office further information about your complaint. We will contact you
again in due course.

Tim

Review Manager

COMMONWEALTH OMBUDSMAN

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