TPC is a live policy document and mirror to the culture based on documented insight, professional and lived experience in and out of the bureaucratic system. It positions that truth, policy and spirit must be embodied not performed to rebuild tanking trust in the state sector and escape the wrath of cultural degradation.
8 November 2025
I stepped into some technicolour truths while under siege by the Inner Ring after disclosing systemic misconduct in the public interest. Many months have been sustained in hide and seek. Here are five truths from this epoch that I couldn’t shake.
Narrative Control inside institutions = curated reputation and culture.
What terrifies Bureaucratic BBs isn’t the courts or parliament, it’s the loss of narrative control and thus, command over culture and public perception.
They feel it slipping in the wake of recent acts of collective and personal courage. People are catching on and they are fiending for the realness we lost.
That’s why unchained writers, poets, journalists, artists and creatives are among our most sacred. It’s why these voices are highly revered and equally smeared. And it’s why these voices are prime targets for state-sanctioned silencing. They can’t be controlled, scripted or co-opted.
Bureaucracies do fear public courtrooms and parliamentary scrutiny to some extent. But familiar systems can be steered to absorb the damage, soft land the media and pacify the public.
band-aid law and policy becomes a shield Against scrutiny and genuine reform.
The recent PID (Public Interest Disclosure 2022) and MNDB (Mandatory Notification of Data Breach 2023) Acts are both measures that leaders will cite to perform integrity and signal new horizons – yet the cultural and systemic baggage remains. BBs and their network will mutate around these acts to shield their reputations. It becomes part of the new playbook.
Both high-stakes statutory acts were freely dodged and buried in my case. While this was happening, the sector and implicated parties raised their public profile with an awareness week on protecting whistleblowers from harm. Easter egg edit: a few days after publishing this — an unnamed integrity body performed a spectacular panic play of public contradiction.
An entrenched state culture of silencing and punishing truth-tellers and marginal voices is not just grave – it’s a cross-pollinating public crisis of ethics, cultural degradation, psychological injury suppression, inclusion fraud, and the legal and institutional abuse of public office.
At the same time, the increase in government inclusion and integrity theatre isn’t by accident. It’s the strategic concealment of ethical rot made visible.
Bureaucratic Media and integrity units are weaponised to Maintain A Clean Inclusion Brand — with deep consequence.
Building a reputation as an inclusive BB is a hot commodity these days. Leaders will apply cunning tactics to secure their ticket to clout city. It’s tempting to laugh at the sanitary PR until you witness the curated layers of clamping underneath.
That curated reality is scattered and siloed, personal files are protected under legal privilege, discrimination is framed as care & support, retaliation as risk management and wellbeing. And the worst power plays get outsourced to hide under plausible deniability.
Most chilling is how this scattered process numbs the agents inside from facing the truth about their role in a cold reality. It makes it easier to roll over and collect the juicy paycheck.
Individuals that speak up must outlive the cycles of smear, scheduled harassment, and coercive peekaboo until the goal is reached. BBs are branded as loyal battalion, while the people on the receiving end get banished from the bosom. All for doing the work our leaders, unions and oversight bodies are paid to prioritise: act with courage to safeguard the public interest and protect the people at risk.
That’s the pattern you can expect under the banners of whistleblower reform. They tried it all on me. It failed. They went back to staging the next Frankenstein: The Integrity Disability NAIDOC Rainbow Megathon.
The people that institutions silence are the beacons to rediscovering our buried treasure.
The treasure belongs to us yet we pay for it to be gatekept and locked away. If we turn our backs on protecting our treasure, we don’t just lose ourselves, we lose our spirit and our culture together.
The spirit of Gadigal is unchained and sovereign – so is culture itself and so are we. Do we really want to live in a place where culture means pre-digested by BBs, PPs and KPIs before it’s allowed to be seen?
Culture and truth don’t need Approval
to exist.
If you ask me – I want the sacred. I want to feel the culture that never made it through the gates. I want to hear from the spirits, the artists, the writers, the blokes in the pub serving mythic Aussie realness, and the public servants with a pulse that were banished from the bosom.
We’re sitting on a goldmine.
How do we escape
the wrath of BB?
We tend to our broken spirits.
We question the distortion
that feeds us.
We uplift The truth
that unsettles us.
We unclamp the culture to locate our buried treasure.
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