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In a scathing letter to Premier Ted Baillieu obtained by Fairfax Media, Ombudsman George Brouwer warned that his office would be so hamstrung by the legislation it could no longer be considered independent - breaching the Victorian constitution.
''I am gravely concerned about the broader impact of the bills … severely undermining the independence of my office,'' Mr Brouwer wrote in a letter to Mr Baillieu on Monday.
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The letter will create a major political headache for the government and raises serious questions about its claim to have introduced ''the most significant integrity reforms'' in the state's history.
Victoria's integrity bodies - including the Ombudsman and the Auditor-General - have been trying to get across almost 500 pages of complex legislation since the government released its two final integrity bills nearly a fortnight ago.
One bill ties together all parts of the new integrity regime - which has the $170 million Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission at its heart - and the other is a complete rewrite of the state's whistleblower legislation.
Under the proposed changes, the Ombudsman loses his role as a clearing house for whistleblower complaints and will gain an extra layer of oversight from a new body called the Victorian Inspectorate. Most ombudsman's offices in other states have parliamentary oversight but do not sit under a body such as the inspectorate, which will have greater powers than the Ombudsman.
Mr Brouwer also revealed that the government...
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The letters warn victims' advocates Helen Last and Judy Courtin that if there is ''any publication'' by them to a journalist or anyone that defames Ms Sharkey ''our client will not hesitate to take legal action against you without further notice''.
The letters were sent on November 2, but Ms Last - a consultant for the Melbourne Victims Collective - only received it on Thursday due to various circumstances.
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Ms Courtin said she found it ''very threatening, intimidating and bullying''.
Ms Sharkey co-ordinates pastoral care, such as counselling, for people whom the Catholic Church accepts - through its Melbourne Response independent commissioner - suffered abuse. She and The Age recently settled a defamation case concerning an article about complaints against her by abuse victims, as part of which The Age apologised and accepted that Ms Sharkey had not engaged in gross professional misconduct.
The Catholic Church in Melbourne, which has promised to co-operate with the inquiry, said through a spokesman that it had not sent and did not know of any such letters.
''Decisions about the publication of the testimony of Ms Last are for the parliamentary committee, and we acknowledge that parliamentary privilege protects the publication of all evidence...
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