February 2006

For­mer Prin­ci­pal Bruce Lead­bet­ter has found his spine and hit back at DBP and also at Cullen.

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For­mer Bay­field High School head Bruce Lead­bet­ter last night reaf­firmed that he had told Mr Benson-Pope about a com­plaint over him enter­ing the female bath­room, where two girls were show­er­ing, and a girls dor­mi­tory, where girls were dress­ing, at a school camp in 1997. 

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DBP con­tin­ues to deny he did any­thing wrong.….and he doesn’t recall the incident.

Well let me tell you as some­one who has been sub­ject to an inves­ti­ga­tion into ones actions, you don’t fuck­ing for­get it.

I still remem­ber the inquiry, the embar­ras­ment, the feel­ing of hope­less­ness of the sit­u­a­tion. Even­tu­ally when you are cleared as I was you still feel put through the ringer, and let me tell you, I remem­ber every detail of it like it was yesterday.….and yes Prime min­is­ter I can remem­ber it (with amaz­ing clar­ity) even though it was 8 years ago.

Just so the innu­endo and ques­tions do not build about me, I was accused of kick­ing a 14 year old Scout on the back­side at a Scout Jam­boree. I was reported by a third party, still unknown to me who was more than 100 metres from the “inci­dent” and despite the sup­port of sev­eral other lead­ers and scouts who were within  10m I was still put through the ringer.

Fair enough, appear­ances are every­thing and I put myself in what appeared to be an inap­pro­pri­ate sit­u­a­tion, but the point I make is that you don’t for­get, not ever. Fur­ther my sit­u­a­tion pales into insignif­i­cance com­pared to DBP’s long list of proven and alleged crimes of assault, bul­ly­ing and lying. Fur­ther I know of one other blog­ger who can tes­tify to the abil­ity to remem­ber past inves­ti­ga­tions that occured some­time into the past about inap­pro­pri­ate behaviour.

Any­way back to Mr Lead­bet­ter and whether he was “con­fused” as alleged by Cullen, who by all accounts is becom­ing increas­ingly con­fused him­self arouns th halls of parliament.