Important information crossed the news desk not long ago when the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission issued a statement setting out the very important role it plays collecting intelligence on criminals targeting programs funded by the Commonwealth Government
According to the Commission there are ‘professional facilitators’ amongst us who include; “criminally complicit accountants and registered tax agents (who) are assisting serious and organised crime groups to defraud government programs and schemes.”
Not only are there dodgy accountants etc, the Commission finds “Serious and organised crime groups will continue to look for vulnerabilities in Commonwealth-funded programs in order to exploit the system.”
With the Commission in place and actively busy protecting the Federal Government’s interests PS-sssst! wonders if there might not be a name-change in the wind for this most impressive of organisations.
With a Federal Government recently winning an election on the promise of an Independent Commission Against Corruption or ICAC for short, can it also be home to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission which goes under the abbreviation ACIC?
ICAC and ACIC?
We’ll have to wait and ‘C’!
Raining or pooring?
A welcome visit by the wise and witty wisdom of Philomena S of the Victorian Department of Health now who has donated yet another clever comical contribution to PS playfulness that can often be the difference between a fun or frantic workday.
Philomena tells of the wife texting her husband on a cold winter morning: “Windows frozen, won’t open.”
Husband texts back: “Pour some lukewarm water over it and then gently tap edges with hammer.”
Wife texts back 10 minutes later: “Computer really messed up now.”
Any Portugal in a storm!
To another of Rama Gaind’s globetrotting giveaways now in which one lucky reader will become the proud owner of a free Lonely Planet trip around the world, this week to the excitement of Portugal.
To be Rama’s winner for the week one of us needed only tell her the most famous person to come out of Portugal and then manage to be the first entrant to emerge from the PS News Barrel of Booty and the Lonely Planet’s Experience Guide to Portugal will be theirs to visit free.
Portugal’s most famous person, according to the Lonely Planet, is professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, an identity identified by winner Sharon M from the national Department of Health.
Congratulations Sharon and many thanks to everyone who helped us kick a goal for Portugal. Sharon’s new Lonely Planet Guide will be on its way to her very soon.
For another chance to join Rama’s Army of winners, all we need to do is play her giveaway game and send in your answer to one or both of her reviews of the Book The Happy Healthy Leader at this PS News link and/or her also-running review Book of Own It! at this link.
Good luck to everyone who joins in!
Family growing
And finally, another month of multiplication around the nation with the number of perceptive PS News subscribers breaking records once again in four States and the national assemblage skipping past the already almost unskippable assembly of 177,000 signed-up readers for the first time.
The keen States who finished June in new readership heights were the Victorian Public Service passing the 22,600 subscriber mark for the first time; Western Australia Public Sector going past 18,120 subscribers for a first; Queensland Public Service reaching more than 15,290 for the first time; and the South Australia Public Sector breaking the 10,000 milestone marker for the first time.
Congratulations to the record-breaking Services and a humble Thankyou from PS News for the privilege of serving you.
And to sign off the end of the 2021-22 Financial Year, the increase in readers between July ‘21 and June ‘22 came in at 5,110, an increase of almost 100 new signer-uppers every week.
And every one of you is most welcome.
As the PS News subscription list seems to just keep growing, someone must be doing something right somewhere and you can be sure we’re very proud to be part of it.
If you haven’t already – Tell your friends!
Until next week…..
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