In his most recent investigation, the NT Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Ken Fleming and his team reveal they looked into the conduct of Ashley Brown who admitted to falsifying certificates of Aboriginality.
The Northern Territory's anti-corruption commissioner says the case of a man who falsified Aboriginal identity documents to get a security job exposes flaws in public sector hiring practices.Ashley Brown has admitted to "making up" Aboriginal identity certificates to get jobsIn his most recent investigation, the NT Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Ken Fleming QC and his team have looked into the conduct of Ashley Brown.
One of the witnesses in the investigation was an unnamed former Indigenous NRL star who said Mr Brown had approached him on Facebook asking if he could help him with his Aboriginal certification. Mr Brown used his misleading resume and false certificates to apply for 14 vacancies before he was successful in November 2019, the commissioner found.
The investigation found the Commissioner for Public Employment had failed to give government agencies risk-based employment screening guidelines, found in other jurisdictions. "Anything I did prior to now was done whilst I suffered brain [dysfunction] from the cancer and cysts on my brain," Mr Brown said in an email."I am not able to remember much as my memory has depleted by 15 [per cent] after the surgery I [had] in March 2020," Mr Brown said.
"In the end I was frustrated by the constant refusal of getting one as shown in the evidence I decided to make my own one up."
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