Former acting WA Health director-general Bryant Stokes said he forwarded an internal investigation report to the North Metropolitan Health Service (NMHS) and assumed a report on the action taken would reach his successor, David Russell-Weisz. That assumption is not proof that Russell-Weisz received a briefing: Stokes reportedly did not specifically tell him about the allegations during the handover, and the accessible records do not establish what Russell-Weisz knew at the time.
What Stokes said—and what it does not establish
In a report published by PerthNow on 2 September 2018, Stokes described forwarding an internal investigation report to NMHS for action. The article quoted him as saying: “I had … forwarded the investigation report to the NMHS for action and assumed that a report would come to the new D-G outlining action taken.”
Stokes’s account describes what he sent and what he expected would happen next. It does not show that Russell-Weisz personally received the internal report, was told its contents, or knew about the allegations during the leadership handover. The PerthNow article said Stokes did not specifically tell Russell-Weisz about them.
Appointment and contract timeline
| Date | What the available record says |
|---|---|
| About February 2015 | PerthNow reported that Stokes forwarded the internal investigation report to NMHS and the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) six months before the handover. The article did not give an exact forwarding date, so February is an inference from that wording. |
| 17 March 2015 | The WA Government announced Russell-Weisz’s appointment as Director General, effective August 2015, with Stokes to remain acting director-general until then. |
| August 2015 | Russell-Weisz took up the Director General role, according to the appointment schedule in the government announcement. |
| October 2015 | PerthNow reported that Russell-Weisz signed a five-year contract for Fullerton and maintained that he knew nothing then about the allegations concerning Fullerton and Mulligan. |
| 16 August 2018 | The Auditor General records that the CCC tabled its report into practices at NMHS. |
| 20–30 August 2018 | The Auditor General’s record says the Health Minister sought urgent confirmation of the Department’s response on 20 August, received an initial response from Russell-Weisz on 24 August, and later told Parliament that he and his office had multiple daily interactions with Russell-Weisz since 16 August. The response said no interaction log was maintained. |
The appointment dates come from the WA Government announcement. The later ministerial-response chronology is documented by the Office of the Auditor General.
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What Russell-Weisz said he knew
PerthNow reported that Russell-Weisz maintained he knew nothing about allegations involving Fullerton and Mulligan when he signed Fullerton’s five-year contract in October 2015. That is his reported position, not an independently established account of what information he had received. The sources available here do not conclusively determine whether he knew of the allegations before signing or what, if anything, was communicated to him during the handover.
What the CCC was reported to have alleged
PerthNow reported that the CCC accused Fullerton, Mulligan and Shaun Ensor of awarding government contracts to 11 contractors who allegedly supplied benefits—including free lunches, overseas trips and gifts—in exchange for tenders. These are allegations as reported by the news article, not proven conduct. The count of 11 contractors is likewise the figure reported by PerthNow, rather than a number independently confirmed here against the CCC report.
The CCC’s publication page concerns alleged public-sector misconduct involving a Department of Health employee, but its full contents could not be verified from the accessible material. The report’s detailed findings, evidence, recommendations, referrals and subsequent outcomes therefore cannot be stated here as established facts. The publication page is available from the Corruption and Crime Commission.
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The Auditor General’s account documents the report’s tabling and the Minister’s subsequent requests and response dates. It also records the parliamentary statement that there were multiple daily interactions with Russell-Weisz after 16 August 2018 and that no log was maintained. It does not establish the precise content of every conversation, and it concerns events nearly three years after the 2015 appointment and contract signing.
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The central distinction is between an internal report being sent to NMHS, Stokes expecting a report on action to reach the incoming director-general, and proof that Russell-Weisz was actually briefed. The contemporaneous account supports the first two as Stokes’s reported account; the accessible records do not settle the third.
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