Failed Canberra DPP find a job as a university lecturer

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Shane Drumgold, the ('diversity pick') Director of Public Prosecutions in "woke" Canberra, secured a job at the University of Canberra lecturing its law students!! You can just imagine the level of sociological imagination he'll bring to unwitting law students. More like propaganda of the most shallow kind. Many of us in Australia refer to this as "failing up". Teaching a course about "evidence"; you've got to be joking. He prosecuted this infamous trial when there was ZERO evidence.

This is the same man who botched the infamous 'rape' trial which occurred 'in parliament house' in 2019. His blatant politicization of the trial brought censure from a leading legal figure, who found his behaviour unprofessional - to say the very least.

The 'sexual assault' grifters in this 'rape' trial - Brittney Higgins and her partner David Sharaz - have caused huge ripples throughout the media, the polity and the law. Consequences are still being felt as the grifters have had to return from France (where they bought a house with the $2.4M given to her by our 'decent' Labor government) because of yet another law suit against them - this time by former Defence Minister, Linda Reynolds. The grifters have fattened the pockets of the legal fraternity and taxpayers have borne the brunt of the costs. Fortunately the journalist who wrote this, and other articles about it, has been on the case since the start.

The Left will always protect its own, no matter how incompetent or misguided they are. Again, it's taxpayer dependency at work.

Shane Drumgold lands new job teaching law to Canberra students
Former ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold has been teaching a unit of the online law of evidence course at Canberra University.

By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
and STEPHEN RICE

Students at Canberra University have been startled to discover the identity of their new lecturer in the law of evidence: disgraced former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold.

Mr Drumgold, who resigned as DPP last year following the damning findings of misconduct by the Sofronoff ­inquiry, began teaching a unit of the online law of evidence course at the university on January 15 and will teach another from October 21.

Academics at the university have expressed astonishment that Mr Drumgold will be teaching students, particularly in an area of law which he was found by the ­Sofronoff inquiry to have deliberately flouted.

“Being appointed in the middle of this godforsaken mess to teach evidence law is just – wow, you can’t make it up,” one faculty member told The Australian.

“It’s funny how academia doesn’t think (the Sofronoff ­report) is a real thing – it’s just staggering.”

Mr Drumgold’s current LinkedIn profile describes him as a “retired lawyer author”.

The former DPP is teaching a unit that “introduces graduate students to the law of evidence” with a particular focus on the ACT Evidence Act 2011, including pre-trial obligations, privileges and ­exceptions to the rules.

Among the findings of the ­Sofronoff inquiry were that Mr Drumgold was guilty of a serious breach of duty by failing to comply with the “golden rule” of disclosure by failing to disclose documents under the Evidence Act 2011; that he “kept the defence in the dark” about the steps he was taking to deny it the documents; and that he “constructed a false narrative to support a claim of legal professional privilege”.

Mr Drumgold was also found to have made representations to Chief Justice Lucy McCallum in the criminal case against Bruce Lehrmann that were untrue and “an invention of his own” and presented evidence in the form of an alleged “contemporaneous” file note to the Chief Justice that was false and “knowingly lied” to her about it.

All of these findings were upheld on Monday by judge Stephen Kaye in response to a legal challenge by Mr Drumgold to the ­Sofronoff inquiry’s report that he was in breach of his duties while prosecuting allegations that Mr Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on a couch in Parliament House.

“He’s teaching evidence and all of this [Mr Drumgold’s admissions in the inquiry and Sofronoff findings] is on the public record,” the faculty member said, acknowledging that colleagues at the university were reluctant to make an issue of the appointment.

“You don’t speak up about this sort of thing because if you have a view that’s anywhere in the centre of politics … best of luck to you,” the staff member said.

Despite a stated commitment by the University of Canberra to “open and transparent governance and leadership”, the university declined to respond to any of the specific questions posed by The Australian.

Among those the university failed to address were: how Mr Drumgold was selected and awarded the position, and whether the university had considered the findings of the Sofronoff inquiry when it appointed him.

Mr Drumgold, who gained his law degree from the University of Canberra in 2001, was made an adjunct professor (an academic who does not work full time at the university) in 2020 and is still listed on the university website in that position.

The university would not disclose whether Mr Drumgold held any positions other than teaching the evidence course, or the terms and conditions of his employment.

Instead, the university issued a brief statement asserting that teaching of all units was “governed by quality assurance processes” and that appointment of teaching staff was “governed by rigorous policies that ensure their suitability and qualifications are aligned with the unit’s delivery requirements”.

Mr Drumgold is not able to work as a barrister in the ACT as his practising certificate was conditional on his employment in government.

Applications for practising certificates – and renewals – do not begin again in the ACT until April.