Ombudsman WA

The Ombudsman WA is a farcical institution hiding behind the power ultimately assigned and entrusted them by the public they are supposed to serve, protect and represent. They are dialectically aversive to that which does not serve their own interests. They are not interested in providing a fair and impartial service to the public—as they feign. In fact, they do the direct opposite of what they profess they are assigned to do by providing the public with an unbefitting divisive disservice and inconvenience by safeguarding and sustaining the malpractices of such agencies as the Department of Education. The Ombudsman condones and supports the DoE by giving them free rein to act as if they are a law unto themselves. NB The DoE have their own “Labour Relations and Workforce” officials who stand in judgment of their employees and work in concert with State solicitors to sustain their authority and power without contention from any other authority, especially the Ombudsman’s Office. The DoE repel and forcibly shun themselves from Government Accountability—an activity which the Ombudsman’s Office enables and supports. A function and responsibility of the Ombudsman is to hold Government Agencies to account—how ironically pathetic that they don't enforce what they are entrusted and assigned to do. The Ombudsman WA is set-up to serve their own self-interests and the state government agencies they are supposed to investigate and hold to account. The stark reality about the Ombudsman’s Office is that it is a useless, wasteful, otiose and unnecessary institution that rorts the supporting taxpayer in order to pay for their salaries, and generous employee benefits, while perpetuating a perturbing and feckless sham.

I would like to congratulate Ombudsman WA for their outstanding service provided to resolve my issue. I thank you for contacting me shortly after I requested your assistance and provided detailed instruction on how to proceed. My query has now been resolved. I can't thank you enough. YOU ARE FANTASTIC!!

Primarily, evasive, confused, indifferent and fundamentally self serving. More material for a sitcom than anything else!

I agree with the other negative reviews on here. Going here was a colossal waste of my time and effort! The 5 star review from "Michelle Hutton" looks fake to me.

A useless organisation and a waste of taxpayer's money. Staff at the WA Ombudsman do not care about the rights of Western Australians and instead look for reasons to fob them off onto other organisations with less powers when it suits their social and political objectives. My privacy was breached by an FOI Office who released over four hundred pages of my medical and personal information - a breach of the FOI Act. The WA Ombudsman would ordinarily handle such a complaint but because the information was of a health nature and because the FOI office was part of the Health Department they palmed the issue off onto HaDSCO; a toothless organisation that cannot achieve the resolutions I am seeking. HaDSCO said they were satisfied with the health department's apology for breaching my privacy and now that's the end of it and they have closed my complaint. If this had been any other organisation breaching privacy in this way it would be dealt with by an ombudsman. The WA Ombudsman will look for any excuse it can to palm you off onto toothless agencies with less power even when the breaches to privacy are so much graver and more profound than those possible by other Departments.