It is basically ridiculous that Taylor will not admit that the evidence clearly points to an invention of figures by someone in his office.
Taylor has “unreservedly” apologised to Moore for relying on the falsified figures but has denied consistently that either he, or anyone in his office, altered the City of Sydney document to inflate travel expenditure. Taylor has said the document with the incorrect numbers was obtained from the council website.
But the council has produced evidence showing that its publicly available annual reports has only ever contained accurate figures. Metadata and screenshots from the council’s content management system showed the annual reports on its website had not been changed since they were originally uploaded.
As I said last week, Ministers used to be forced to resign for mere accidents that they were still held responsible for; now, they think they can ride out actual fraudulent behaviour within their office if they say "sorry about that".
The Chaser has a funny tweet about this:
Falsified figures not okay any more?
ReplyDeletethe AFP is fast becoming known as a police foprce that is quite political.
ReplyDeleteplease note their aggresion against journalists
Another thing is he lied to parliament.
ReplyDeleteHe said he got it from the website and we know that was impossible.
I suppose I should say, though, that this really should not be a police matter. It should be dealt with as a political one regarding ministerial standards and responsibility.
ReplyDeleteit isn't hard to find out if you are fair dinkum where the false document came from. Remember this is against the law
ReplyDeleteHe probably wants to handle the bad behaviour internally. All normal and according to Hoyles. The main thing is that the mistake was promptly corrected. Unlike with you passing on dirty climate data. So when are you going to correct yourself on that matter? Its been many years now.
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