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The first letter, in late May, threatened to expose Ryan in the press unless she resigned. "And this time no amount of sweet-talking and networking will be able to placate the media as happened before." She showed the letter to Tutton and sat tight. The second letter, in late June, was longer and more vituperative but still provided no evidence to back its dramatic claims: "Don't be put off by the bull. Scratch just below the surface and you will uncover a mine of mismanagement, deceit, lies, bullying and intimidation." The allegations were nevertheless serious. On June 29 Ryan and Tutton agreed on the terms of an investigation. Tutton later claimed he was "summoned" to this meeting and then "summarily lectured on what I could or could not do in response to the national council's concerns about the substance of the letters". Ryan says: "It was a cordial meeting. We all parted good friends." Her plan was to wait. "I thought by being quiet, commonsense would prevail, the investigation would take place and I would be cleared." But a week later she discovered to her dismay that Tutton had backed the anonymous complaints in an email to the incoming president-general of the international society, Brother Michael Thio. Tutton wrote: "I believe it is sadly written by someone that deeply loves the society, but is frustrated by a culture of cover-up, poor management and bullying that has developed in the state council of NSW." Ryan and her lawyers drafted a long, sober letter warning Tutton that he was mishandling the complaints, appeared already to have made up his mind and needed to offer them procedural fairness. His response was to sack Ryan and suspend the NSW council. He told Paris: "I formed a firm conclusion that the prevailing circumstances in NSW including the attitude and stand of the senior NSW state council officers meant that any investigation processes would be compromised and ineffective." Tutton did the sackings by phone on the afternoon of July 8 and called the national council of the society together only to endorse his actions the following day. Ryan was not present: she had also been sacked from the council. He employed a law firm and leading Sydney QC to tick off on that order of procedure. The public announcement the following Rosetta Stone German Monday gave as reasons: the repeated failure of the NSW hierarchy to address at his request issues of "over-corporatisation accompanied by incidents of bullying". Ryan was appalled. "I wanted to clear my name. My name! My face was on the TV. People out there thinking I'm a bully, that I've done all these wrong things. And I have done nothing wrong - except work for the good of the society and I have been destroyed." Only late this week was she given formal reasons for her sacking: the same statement of reasons Tutton gave Paris for his intervention. In these he makes a number of extremely tough allegations: accusing the NSW council of disrupting the work of the society in Australia, taking an "adversarial stand" at the national council, allowing "bullying, victimisation and intimidation" and mismanaging allegations of sexual abuse. Ryan told the Herald Tutton had ''never raised any of this with me". The intervention was justified three weeks ago as a last resort after NSW failed to act on repeated requests from Tutton to address these issues. Ryan says no such requests have ever been made. To her knowledge three allegations of sexual abuse - none involving children - have been examined in her time as president. One is resolved. Two - including one she believes was previously swept under the carpet - are continuing. But all three are in Tutton's hands. Did NSW do anything to frustrate or delay his work? "No, definitely not. We wanted it to be transparent, wanted it to be done. We did everything to co-operate." There is no denying that St Vincent de Paul in NSW has been dogged by a number of grim controversies in the recent past. Intervention was welcomed by the Australian Services Union. "The NSW St Vincent de Paul," said the NSW branch secretary, Sally McManus, "has behaved like the worst of private sector employers, focusing more on controlling workers and bashing the union than what they should be focused on: supporting the disadvantaged." Claims and counter-claims of bullying stretch back in a long line to the earliest days of the reform push: bullying by staff, volunteers and especially those diocesan representatives.

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