this would have made for an interesting read

[incisor]

A serving police officer and vice-president of the Queensland Police Union attempted to reveal the criminal histories of high ranking public servants and politicians in the union’s publicly available journal.

Read more: Queensland politician and public servant criminal histories almost revealed (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-politician-and-public-servant-criminal-histories-almost-revealed-20140704-zswxg.html#ixzz36XtjOqt6)

[Mick_Marsh]

I disagree.
It would have been lengthy and repetitive.

[UncleHo]

Yeah! it could of been interesting as the Fitzgerald Inquiry was a real eye opener ;)

[p38arover]

I wonder how much of the info is available on the 'net ready to be collated.

If it is there, then Terry O'Gorman's views about miscreants leaving it behind them don't mean much.

[V8Ian]

I worked with a single young fellow (18 yo at the time) who got into a dispute in in a McCarpark with the 20 yo manager. It was all push and shove from both sides with no injuries or fisticuffs. My workmate was charged and found guilty of assalt with no conviction recorded.
Two or three years later his then wife graduated from an early childhood learning degree and applied for the appropriately coloured card to work with kids.
Her new husband's earlier indiscretion showed up on her background check! So much for confidentiality and no conviction recorded.

[Bigbjorn]

I thought one did not have to reveal a criminal record when applying for a job if the conviction was over 5 years ago.

Funny how the law works. I knew a couple of car dealers who had form and could no longer hold a dealer's licence but could be a director of their company. One very prominent Brisbane used car dealer had been done for large scale stealing as a servant, and for a payroll stick-up years ago.