Michael Moodie loses everything - McGinty rewarded

Phoney CCC charges thrown out of Court - Moodie vindicated but broke, no job and poor health

Michael Moodie who was central to attempts to bring some accountability to Jim McGinty's IT bungles at WA Health, paid a heavy price for his efforts.

Moodie the fearless bureaucrat was crushed by a fruitless Corruption and Crime Commission prosecution which left him penniless, bankrupt and still without a job at WA Health, despite being found innocent.

Why was Moodie really prosecuted?

Moodie's trouble started in 2006 when he was put in charge of WA Health IT. He uncovered the mess under McGinty Health Ministry and immediately began a searching audit process [Michael's first BIG mistake!].

Moodie demanded that Treasury run the tender process.

Moodie also uncovered that Fujitsu was preparing the WA Health Department tender "in such a manner that would ensure an ongoing role for itself - a yearly contract of some millions".

Veteran Nationals MP Max Trenorden said in the Legislative Council that the charges brought against Michael Moodie were nothing more than a side show, a diversion to to get him out of the Department of Health and finish him off financially, to destroy him.

The Desert Rat believes Michael Moodie was the goods, and IT in WA Health would be quite vibrant if he were still there. He was shafted first by the doctors at PMH and then by senior health bureaucrats and finished off by the Corruption and Crime Commission - under McGinty's watch.

Without the maverick Michael Moodie, the culture of intransigence and wasting money which was the hallmark of WA Health under Jim McGinty, continued.

Why hasn't Moodie been reinstated in his WA Health job after being found innocent? Double jeopardy. Was he fucked-over because he wasperceived as an enemy of the State - like Grill and Burke?

Meanwhile unrivaled fool and Left Labor hero Jim McGinty (the former Health Minister) who stuffed-up badly on many fronts (including this one) is now advising Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon.

What financial black holes has Roxon given this idiot to superintend?

The Desert Rat presumes this sinecure is worth at least $200 000 a year - plus more?? This, on top of his $2 million plus parliamentary superannuation payout?

The Desert Rat regards this as double dipping on a grand scale. What next? An Order of Australia for services to the nation?

Sad greedy people.