A place of corruption: South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Australia is the Wild Wild West, with reference to the lack of following the law, but this time not by the general population but rather those in positions of some authority.
Corruption is at an all time high, where also it's a free for all on the public purse by those in government.
Falsified tenders that are setup by shell corporations by those who have friends or family in government, are just a small part of the corruption in Australia.
Another huge aspect of corruption is that of those in the Judicial arm of government, where they cause harm to persons involved in the court system, where judicial misconduct and abuse of power are the main modus operandi at the end of the business day.
The colony’s businesses called Tribunals or rather persons within these tribunals are abusing their power and causing harm to unsuspecting victims.
In the instance the focus is on SACAT (South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal), on the ‘Mari’ family.
Mrs. ‘Mari an 80-year-old non-English-speaking, Italian mother and her daughter ‘Rosie’ have been persecuted by the OAW (Office of Aging Well) with the forced removal of Mrs Mari’s two severely disabled daughters in their late 50s, “Tessa” and “Lotus” - Rosie’s sisters - into state care by use of deception and extra-judicial powers carried out in complete secrecy.
Human rights advocates say public servants are ignoring legislation and overriding the checks and balances put in place by Parliament to protect South Australians from systemic and administrative abuses of power and authority designed to uphold the human rights of those most vulnerable individuals. Director of KSM Disability Consultancy, Ms. Ksenija Kristo, said “There is a dangerous clique of public servants which operate within the shadows, away from any public scrutiny.
These public officials work for the Attorney General but they don’t have to answer to anyone at all – not even the Attorney General or Parliament. However, they can approach Parliament for more coercive and oppressive powers and protections for themselves, which is rarely questioned or denied.”
Despite the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) Act 2013 making clear hearings before it are intended - by law - to be “open and transparent” public servants, like Member Joanna Richardson, have managed to bypass these legislative protections with impunity, disadvantaging and persecuting thousands of innocent people.
Human rights advocate Ms. Ksenija Kristo stated, “The disabled women had a $2 million bounty on their heads and the State of South Australia wanted it all. The OAW is controlled by ideological Statists who routinely disregard the rights of families to care for their own. Mrs. Mari’s daughters were essentially kidnapped by the Attorney General through a secret hearing, without any formal SACAT Orders and with no rights of appeal to a legitimate authority; denying Mrs. Mari and her family every procedural fairness and violating all natural justice principles.
First, the SACAT denied Mrs. Mari and Rosie the right to defend themselves as ‘interested parties’. Then, SACAT prohibited Mrs. Mari from having her strongest professional advocates (KSM Disability Consultancy) attend the hearing, make submissions and support her appeal to have her daughters returned home. To make matters worse, Member Richardson removed off the file almost 200 pages of compelling defence showing clear evidence of gross misconduct by the OAW and shocking malpractice by the various NDIS Allied Health professionals involved in the “care” of the disabled women.
Member Richardson had a clear conflict of interest with Mrs. Mari’s advocate and critic of SACAT, Dr. Matilda Bawden, and - by law - should have recused herself but instead she decided to punish Mrs. Mari by denying her the right to advocacy and to have her say; even going so far as to coerce Mrs. Mari to choose another, less competent advocate offered to her by the OPA – the very authority involved in the corruption behind the wrongful removal of her daughters in the first place.”
SACAT had a coverup job to do when the Adult Safeguarding Unit (ASU) knocked on Mrs. Mari’s door to kidnap her daughters on the pretence of a social outing, from which they would never return.
While the ASU and OPA websites broadcast the purported right of families to access advocacy services and make complaints, in reality, the OAW, ASU, OPA, and SACAT strip vulnerable individuals of these very rights at every opportunity and they will refuse to investigate complaints.
When, on legal advice, Dr Bawden sought to apply as Intervener in the case, first she was informed that Member Richardson had “banned” her from making any applications to SACAT and that the ban was allegedly “unappealable”. After Dr Bawden applied to become an Intervener on Mrs. Mari’s behalf anyway, during a hearing on 5th March 2025, Member Richardson engaged in a theatrical monologue, pretending firstly that Dr Bawden had to meet some obscure academic threshold of qualifications to serve as the family’s best advocate.
Then Member Richardson pretended to seek the input of Mrs. Mari’s persecutors as to whether Dr Bawden should be permitted to advocate for Mrs. Mari despite Mrs. Mari being unrepresented against TWO officers from the OPA, TWO officers from ASU, Legal Services Commission and the Public Trustee. The primary objection by the OPA and ASU given to Dr Bawden being Mrs. Mari’s advocate was her alleged “combative” and “unprofessional” communication, however, no specifics were given to substantiate such absurd proposition and Dr Bawden was given no opportunity to probe this nonsense.
“Imagine that!”, Dr Bawden said, “These criminals object to an advocate being so effective as to be blocked and banned for allegedly being “combative” when highlighting the corruption so clearly apparent in the Mari Family’s case. Ironically, the same public officials colluding to kidnap the two disabled women from the care of their beautiful and loving family is not considered by them as either provoked or “combative”. The OAW’s ASU blatantly and knowingly lying to SACAT, claiming there were no family members who could act as Guardians of Last Resort, when in fact Mrs. Mari has over nine responsible adults and their partners willing and capable of stepping in to care for her family is also not considered “combative”. Nor is secretly kidnapping Mrs. Mari’s daughters without proper Orders considered “combative”. The lack of introspection and self-reflection is astounding!”.
Then Member Richardson postulated that Dr Bawden had committed a criminal offence by writing to members of Parliament alerting authorities to the grave injustices being played out within the SACAT, before finally demanding that Dr Bawden give her a verbal undertaking never to speak or write about the case publicly – despite no anonymization, suppression or non-publication orders having been issued.
When Dr Bawden protested that it was the right of Mrs. Mari to be represented and that she would comply with any formal SACAT Orders handed down by Member Richardson, but would not voluntarily forfeit Mrs. Mari’s human and legal rights by consenting to such obscene and unlawful demands, Member Richardson ordered Dr Bawden out of the room and forbid her to further advocate for Mrs. Mari.
“The corruption didn’t stop there!” Dr Bawden said. “When Mrs. Mari applied to have access to audio recordings of the very proceedings in which her rights were violated so brazenly (on request of a lawyer seeking to assist Mrs. Mari with advice), that request was also denied and Mrs. Mari was advised that this too was allegedly unappealable. Of course, we know that this legal advice by SACAT is false also, however, Mrs. Mari doesn’t have $150,000 to take the State to court and that’s why corrupt public officials become emboldened to continue such illegal conduct, as they know that not even Parliament or a higher court will stop them!
Member Richardson knows that without my willing compliance with her illegal demands, she could not continue to hold Mrs. Mari and her daughters hostage without damning public scrutiny. Now watch the audio recordings and transcripts mysteriously go missing so the crimes committed by Member Richardson on the 5th February, 17th February, 27th February and 5th March 2025 will never see the light of day”.
Ms. Ksenija Kristo is available for comment at
ksmdisabilityconsultancy@gmail.com or by phone at 0403 871 364.
Source supplied.
VCAT also abuses their power every single day within their hearings, where most people are not aware that they are victims of judicial misconduct.
WARNING: NEVER rely on court (or tribunal) recordings, where it is in your best interest to bring your own independent ‘witness’.
