Police failure to investigate resulted in misidentification. Police have a responsibility to investigate all reports of crime, including family violence-related criminal offending, even if the alleged or suspected offender is also an Affected Family Member (AFM). Victim survivors or AFM’S are most in need of protection from these behaviours. Identifying the predominant aggressor is crucial for keeping victims safe and holding perpetrators accountable. Police decisions impact the referrals to support services that victims receive. At every family violence incident, police are required to identify the predominant aggressor. Misidentification happens when police wrongly identify the predominant aggressor. Some perpetrators actively manipulate police and the justice systems for their own advantage and as a continuing form of family violence. This is known as systems abuse— once a perpetrator has achieved success in manipulating systems against a victim survivor, they will continue to use this approach. The most effective strategy for a perpetrator is to get the victim named as the perpetrator. —Professor Cathy Humphreys, The University of Melbourne, Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor.
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WorkSafe recommends reporting these types of incidents to Victoria Police Workplace bullying is characterised as repeated unreasonable behaviour directed at an employee that creates a risk to their health and safety. Threats to harm someone, acts of violence, assault, property damage and stalking these are criminal matters that should be referred to the police. WorkSafe recommends that you report these types of incidents to Victoria Police which is responsible for investigating and prosecuting these matters. NormaOlive Brown The Royal Commission into Family Violence found that more needed to be done to ensure predominant aggressors are accurately identified and that situations where victim survivors are misidentified as perpetrators can be appropriately rectified. It specifically mentioned the importance of 'amending LEAP processes to facilitate the removal of the name of a person wrongly identified.5 The Royal Commission reflected what it had heard from many sources about the negative consequences of misidentification for victim survivors and the additional risks victim survivors from marginalised groups face of being misidentified. It made one recommendation that directly related to the accurate identification of predominant aggressors and the issue of misidentification:
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Recommendation 41 Victoria Police amend the Victoria Police Code of Practice for the Investigation of Family Violence to ensure it provides suitable guidance on identifying family violence primary aggressors [within 12 months]. This includes: procedures for amending [LEAP] when a service provider or a Support and Safety Hub [now known as The Orange Door network] subsequently informs Victoria Police that a person is not the primary aggressor Hello Oran ge Door (email sent 13/09/2020) Regarding your recommendations, if I had been able to help myself, I would not have needed to ask for help from The Orange Door, the police or any other service providers. My husband has been using the police and the courts to carry out his abuse for many, many years. I have now secured employment, but even that has been compromised by the domestic 'violence' situation.
I was not traumatised by the situation until the police and the courts enabled and justified the aggressive actions of my estranged husband - a man I thought I had escaped and had not seen for six years. COVID-19 and my inability to get any help from government services have been a King Hit. It seems to me that in cases of non-physical violence, the Police and the DV services either have no understanding of the Family Law Act or I have been so traumatised that I have been unable to communicate. Every request has been met, but we cannot help because it is a company. Well, it is my company, my life is the company. I am the founder, and it is my life's work. In compliance with the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006, Victoria Police must act in a way that is compatible with human rights and ensure proper consideration is given to relevant human rights in the decisions that we make. This legislative framework is the basis for Victoria Police’s response to family violence.
Just so you know what I am talking about here is the definition of Family Violence from the Act
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6 Meaning of economic abuse For the purposes of this Act, economic abuse is behaviour by a person (the first person) that is coercive, deceptive or unreasonably controls another person (the second person), without the second person's consent— (a) in a way that denies the second person the economic or financial autonomy the second person would have had but for that behaviour;
Regards Maggie Marriott September 2020
1.3 What is family violence Family violence is a violation of human rights and is unacceptable in any form. The Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (FVPA) recognises that family violence extends beyond physical violence and may involve sexual, emotional, psychological, or economic abuse. In Victoria, we understand family violence as an ongoing pattern of coercive controlling , or violent behaviour
that occurs in current or past family, domestic or intimate partner relationships…This can include not only physical abuse but an array of power and control tactics , such as direct or indirect threats, sexual, emotional and psychological torment, economic control, property damage, social isolation, withholding of children and behaviour which causes a person to live in fear. Victoria Police recognise there may be threats to manipulate the police response in an effort to cause further harm to the victim, which can include threats to have children removed, threats to have the victim deported, threats to have the victim charged, threats to have the victim’s employment terminated, or threats to prevent the victim from accessing benefits they are entitled to. According to the Police LEAP file, Gippsland Police investigated my 2019 report to Western Victorian police of a workplace bullying and harassment incident by interviewing the accused, a 'friend' of the accused, the instigator of the incident, an employee and my employee sons. However, they did not interview me, the victim, even though Western Victorian Police had provided my contact details specifically for that purpose.
Only one of the two incident participants who initiated the Western Victoria Police Application for a family violence order to protect me and my property faced any police action. The instigator of the incident provided his law firm to the accused. Both parties and their lawyers have given false and misleading statements to the court and police. They have embarked on a retaliatory campaign to destroy me and take over my assets. Police have arrested and charged me six times, based on the false information given to the court and in 17 statements made after I became a protected person on a police application. FVIO K12030938 refers. Updated 10 October 2025 Page 3 of 77 Wednesday 15 May 2024
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Numerous errors exist in the Extracts and Notices of the ensuing fifty-five Hearings. Mistakes made by a magistrate in the presence of a police lawyer include placing a Personal Safety Order against me when protected by a Family Violence Order. The Magistrates Court and Victoria Police failed to follow due process, allowing fraud and family non-physical violence to flourish. Failure to investigate before charging me with an indictable offence and failure to hold a summary case conference resulted in an appalling waste of police and court resources. https://issuu.com/buoysngirl/ docs/stalking More than ten constables have taken his statements. I have recorded the names, ranks, and VP numbers of over 70 police officers who have been "eyes on" the saga.
I have been arrested six times, held in custody 24 hours, transported two times, handcuffed in the back of a divvie van for 2 hours, arriving at 2:30 am and charged with stalking! Police vehemently opposed bail and vigorously pursued me on behalf of the perpetrators.
Meantime, I have had all my assets, my dog, and my whole life taken away—five years since he changed the padlock and took over my working life and my online activity—Managing Director to Jobseeker, barely functioning, homeless and destitute. I developed a successful design and manufacturing business entirely through the use of technology and embracing the Internet. Victoria Police enabled the perpetrators to steal the company and obliterate me online and off. Maggie Marriott Managing Director and founder of Smart Buoy Co Pty Ltd— stolen by conspirators and perpetrators of family violence and fraud. Maggie Marriott Managing Director Smart Buoy Co Pty Ltd 21 Bosworth Rd Bairnsdale Victoria
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_________ STATED THE AFM IS SUFFERING FROM AN ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND WAS MAKING WHATEVER ALLEGATIONS WERE NEEDED TO SUPPORT HER FAILING BUSINESS AND TO SUPPORT TO HER PSYCHOSIS NARRATIVE __________
DE N IEDALLALLEGATIO N S A N D STATED HE HAD N EVER BEE N I N A N I N TIMATE RELATIO N SHIP
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director By being an RSL member, someone always has your back and you’re surrounded by people who share your interests and embrace your di ff erences. To be eligible for A ffi liate membership of RSL Victoria you must not be eligible for Service membership and:·Be related to a person (living or deceased) who is or was eligible to be a Service member of the RSL
LEAP REPORT MARGARET MARRIOTT E N TRY 3/08/2019 AT STAWELL.
POLICE BELIEVE AN INTERVENTION ORDER I S NECESSARY TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE AFM AND HER PROPERTY. POLICE WILL APPLY FOR A FVIO ON THE AFM'S BEHALF. THIS REPORT WAS APPROVED FOR LODGEMENT TO LEAP BY MK2 ON 04/08/2019 BY 12345, STEWY STEPHENS AND REQUIRES THE FOLLOWING FOLLOWUP ACTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED BY : - CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION - C I V I L ACTION - INTERVENTION ORDER OR SAFETY NOTICE - WDEVIU TRIAG NEXT PAGE BRIEF HEAD SUBMITTED FOR MAKE THREATS TO KILL CHARGE. SUPP REPORT BY 35496 EBLUNI ACCUSED ______. _______ ATTENDED BAIRNSDALE POLICE STATION ON THURSDAY 15TH AUGUST 2019 AND INTERVIEWED RE ALLEGATIONS OF MAKING THREATS TO KILL __________ DENIED ALL ALLEGATIONS AND STATED HE HAD NEVER BEEN IN AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AFM _________ STATED THE AFM IS SUFFERING FROM AN ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND WAS MAKING WHATEVER ALLEGATIONS WERE NEEDED TO SUPPORT HER FAILING BUSINESS AND TO SUPPORT TO HER PSYCHOSIS NARRATIVE __________ PROVIDED PHONE NUMBERS OF MEMBERS OF THE AFM FAMILY. POLICE MADE PHONE CALLS TO THESE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED __________ OPINIONS AND STATED THEY WERE CONCERNED FOR THE AFM'S MENTAL HEALTH _____________ SERVED WITH COMPLAINT AND SUMMONS RELEASED PENDING SUMMONS. NOTED SGT YOUNG. AWAITING OUTCOME OF IVO APPLICATION BEFORE MARKING COMPLETE. BOTH PARTIES ATTENDED STAWELL MAG CRT 2 4/9/19. IVO GRANTED OFFENDER SUPP REPORT BY 43851 OF EBLUNI CHARGES ADDED
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O N E YEAR Family Violence Order K12030938 AFM—Maggie Marriott
3Aug 2019 VIC POLICEAPPLICATIO N A N D SUMMO N S FOR A N I N TERVE N TIO N ORDER K12030938 ON SATURDAY THIRD OF AUGUST 2019 THE AFM HAS ATTENDED THE STAWELL POLICE STATION TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT AN INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED EARLIER THAT MORNING The AFM reported a workplace bullying and harassment incident carried out between the hours of 12:30am and 04:49am WHERE SHE RECEIVED THREATS The AFM’s estranged husband and the Respondent— her intimate partner, took away her work vehicle, laptops, working documents, keys to the Paynesville RSL, shoes, Kindle, credit cards, keys and moreTHE FEMALE AFM HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MALE RESPONDENT FOR FOUR YEARS Updated 10 October 2025 Page 7 of 77 Wednesday 15 May 2024
Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director The male Respondent was employed by the Female AFM, in her company in 2015 as a Return to Work Coordinator. Their intimacy began on the 1st of August 2015 in Goondiwindi, QLD. DURING THIS TIME THE RESPONDENT LIVED WITH THE AFM MONDAY TO FRIDAY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME WHILE LIVING IN STAWELL The Male Respondent lived with the female AFM at her home in Stawell. They met and began a relationship at her residence in Balwyn North in July 2015. BUT WHEN THEY HAVE MOVED TO BAIRNSDALE THEY LIVED IN SEPARATE RESIDENCES The ASIC registration shows both parties residential address as an Industrial address Campbells Dr Bairnsdale. They lived in various rental properties and a 48ft boat THE AFM HAS FOUR ADULT CHILDREN WHO HAVE LIMITED CONTACT WITH THEIR MOTHER The AFM has five adult children, one of whom is estranged and has a loving relationship with the four children from her 30 years marriage to the estranged husband. However the husband has known the AFM since she was eight years old THE TWO PARTIES CONCERNED HAVE NO CHILDREN TOGETHER The two parties, at times employed their adult children in their company operations. A FAMILY VIOLENCE INCIDENT WAS REPORTED ON 25TH/07/2109 IN BAIRNSDALE WHEN The AFM reported a workplace incident at Bairnsdale Police Station (Police have refused to supply details of this ) THE AFM HAS ATTENDED THE POLICE STATION STATING THAT SHE IS FRIGHTENED THE RESPONDENT WILL SNAP AND THAT see document from a counsellor advising risk of harm to AFM HE HAS BEEN VERBALLY ABUSING HER AT WORK Many documented abusive incidents in the workplace and on every installation job on Government worksites. THE AFM ALSO STATES THAT THE RESPONDENT SAYS TO OTHER EMPLOYEES THAT The Respondent has stated verbally and in texts, emails and private messages to friends, Facebook Friends, Employees, business associates and the AFM’s adult children who are also employees, that the AFM has mental health issues, is schizophrenic and bipolar. SHE HAS BIPOLAR The AFM believes that the respondent himself suffers these issues and that the Respondents estranged wife has poisoned him by prescribing Colloidal silver and
overprescribing OTC pharmaceuticals. The Estranged wife is a psychiatric nurse. AT THE MOST RECENT INCIDENT ON 3 AUGUST 2019 AT STAWELL
RESPONDENT HAS ATTENDED THE AFM‘S ADDRESS IN STAWELL AND attended the Smart Buoy Co Pty Ltd, the company office in Stawell, after notifying Western Area Command (Ballarat Police Station) of his intention to take the
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director vehicle. SWAPPED BUSINESS VEHICLES WITH THE AFM at approximately 12:30am the AFM heard her work vehicle drive away and thinking it was stolen called 000. IN THE PROCESS OF THIS The AFM messaged or left a voice message on the company phone used by the Respondent ordering him to return the vehicle and informing the Respondent that she did not have a key for the company vehicle left in the exact same place the Tundra had been parked. THE AFM HAS ALLEGED THAT The respondent returned some two hours after the incident had been attended at 2:15am by Police (who had informed her that ______ _____ had notified Ballarat Police of his intention to take the vehicle). THE RESP HAS BANGED ON THE WINDOW OF THE BUSINESS PREMISES WHERE Between 4am and 6am The Respondent returned and moved The Prado underneath the window of the room the AFM had been sleeping in and was verbally abusive. SHE WAS SLEEPING AND SAID YOU FUCKING BITCH I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU The witnesses statement reports the content of the abuse. NO KNOWN ACCESS TO FIREARMS INVOLVED The Respondent keeps his gun at his sons house, he has had the gun at our factory in Bairnsdale. The AFM was never asked about this. AFM STATES RESPONDENT CLAIMS SHE HAS SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR BUT The AFM’s husband has manipulated every person surrounding the AFM to believe that the AFM and other female family members have schizophrenia Bipolar. The Respondent has been repeating this nonsense in business meetings, to employees and the AFM’s adult children. SHE SAYS THIS IS ALL PART OF THE ABUSE The AFM has documented the many instances of this derogatory behaviour. NO CURRENT ORDERS ARE IN PLACE POLICE BELIEVE AN INTERVENTION ORDER IS NECESSARY TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE AFM AND HER PROPERTY I N TERVE N TIO N ORDER N ECESSARY for THE SAFETY OF THE AFM Private message to my Facebook Friend, using my login on one of the three laptops setup by me to run my company I was attempting to arrange a neutral meeting place where the company could have a Fair Work Act qualified person chair the meeting, when her family notified me that the missing Company Truck was seen in Stawell. I travelled to Stawell via Ballarat Police head quarters, where VIC Police verified that I was the only owner of the Truck and I was fully responsible for the repayments and the security of the vehicle, plus that I had the right to repossess it from Maggie Marriott and that should she take it again now that she was no longer an authorised employee, she would be charged by VicPolice with Auto theft. So in effect, the perpetrator drove 600kms and notified Police he was intending to commit ‘family violence’. The two attending smirking constables responding to my call to 000 informed me who had taken my work vehicle.
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Doctors certificate email advice
5th April 2019 Bullying conveyed threat of violence by employee
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I was stranded by COVID lockdown sleeping in the COMPANY 4WD and no longer able to stay with people. Cafes and Libraries closed…public ammenities CLOSED — absolutely NOWHERE to work. On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 19:37, after spending a week in a caravan park, which cost me $600, in Bairnsdale trying yet again to get help from Bairnsdale Police. On my way out of Bairnsdale, I drove up to MY factory in Bosworth Rd and hung my partners shampoo and
conditioner on the gate. Although I felt like leaving all the household items I am lumbered with just as I left all the business documents he described as rubbish in his Personal Safety Order application, where he refers to me as a ‘Former Work Colleague’. The police have warned me that I would be breaching the PSO by going there. Do I care? Aside from that, it's a criminal charge, and based on how things are going, my partner would make sure that happens. I saw the shipping container he bought after the IVO was issued against him. (This is the container mentioned in the IVO.) It has been moved from behind the interior gate to the front yard. I'm very worried he might ship it off somewhere, most likely to the Lake Road Stawell factories. That would be a disaster. I also noticed that the number plates on the Toyota Tundra have been changed.
I’M THI N KI N G ABOUT CO N TACTI N G TWO LADY DETECTIVES I N BAIR N SDALE.
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Moondarrah Dam with toilets a covered BBQ with picnic tables in a beautiful setting—COVID-19
3 August 2019 Company Production Manager and estranged husband steal Managing Director’s Work vehicle Toyota Tundra - Workplace Abuse reported to police — as Worksafe Advises I am not prepared to continue operating within Smart Buoy Co without attending to the matter of record keeping and the setting up of the systems to keep those records. You did not buy into a half of the a functioning company and it has always been my stated goal to setup a company to take advantage of the opportunity provided by Buoyage Systems Australia Pty Ltd a company that I foundered in 2000. We no longer have a Business Insurance Policy and the Workers Insurance has not had the estimate for 2020 submitted. Your hostility and abusive manner along with your non collaboration have meant that I no longer see any potential of possibility of success in any venture you are a part of. I will not be a party to business operations that are possibly fraudulent and definitely unprofessional in my view. Your bullying and interference in my work have thwarted the work on Victoria Place and delayed the transfer of the loan to the ANZ Bank, your espousing of my supposedly having a mental disorder to my adult children, business associates and others has damaged me (and my children). Your inaction and withdrawal of support have meant I have no where to call home and have not been able to carry out my planned living arrangements which were to provide me with a simple living arrangements and allow me more hours to spend on developing the company. Every one of my efforts to employ people to assist me in the administration tasks has been a failure. I have been attempting to draw your attention to the companies requirements and matters which should be attended to for many many months now.
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director Your behaviour as Director is not consistent with duties set out in the corporations act and indeed your workplace behaviour is not acceptable and I will be submitting a report to Worksafe about your abusive behaviour towards me. I have already reported to the police. I needed help with moving and packing of the container — you did not assist me and ended up taking my personal stuff to the factory instead of allowing me to pack the items I wished to have in the container. Now you threaten to put my stuff into the factory yard. You packed the AGL Hydro job into the trailer preventing me from using that resource. And now you threaten to unload the trailer of the AGL Hydro delivery further adding to the wasted time on that job.Your abusive emails throughout the moving period and delayed the move, incurring expenses, and delayed the bookkeeping task. Your interference in my work has degraded the business operations and your insistence on operating illegally has placed the company at risk. General duties the Corporations Act imposes on directors and officers of companies include:the duty to exercise your powers and duties with the care and diligence that a reasonable person would have, which includes taking steps to ensure you are properly informed about the financial position of the company
and ensuring the company doesn’t trade if it is insolvent the duty to exercise your powers and duties in good faith in the best interests of the company and for a proper purpose the duty not to improperly use your position to gain an advantage for yourself or someone else, or to cause detriment to the company the duty not to improperly use information obtained through your position to gain an advantage for yourself or someone else, or to cause detriment to the company.
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director Auto responder 17/01/2020 partner increasingly aggressive and irrational
I am no longer contactable through my company phone number and email addresses.My partner has become increasingly aggressive and irrational culminating in a police application for the Family Violence Order (IVO) placed on him. Police have advised he has now been charged with the criminal offence ‘Make Threats to Kill’ I am also advised to keep well away for my safety. My situation became untenable after I was locked out of my workplace and the company bank accounts. My partner began interfering in my work and then by force took over my roles of Company Manager, National Sales Manager and Finance Manager in the 20 year old company that I am the founder and have acted as shadow director for 15 years. My email, phone numbers and online profile have been stolen from me. My personal life has been obliterated and my working life is severely constrained. I am homeless and prevented from earning an income. My personal effects are withheld from me and I have been harmed by bullying, intimidation, slander and liable. My personal financial situation and that of our company has been sabotaged and the ongoing burden placed upon me caused by failures in production and mismanagement of jobs is grossly unfair and constitutes: Malfeasance — Intentional conduct that is wrongful or unlawful N onfeasance — failure to act where there was a duty to act Misfeasance — conduct that is lawful but inappropriate I can be contacted by email or mobile. Please continue to use maggie@buoys.com.au and admin@buoys.com.au and CC Smart Buoy Co business. 0427 003 742 to:thebuoycompany@gmail.com Maggie Marriott Company Manager and Shadow Director Smart Buoy Co 21 Bosworth Rd Bairnsdale 3875
nil support or help at Bairnsdale Police Station
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I have tried in vane to get the police to help me access my workplace, which was setup by my partner, for me to live temporarily. We were about to buy a property at Swan Reach. It is a ridiculous situation where my partner is withholding my belongings. He is irrational and paranoid; who knows what he will do. He believes he has every right to do these things to me. And nobody is stopping him: professionals, business associates, employees, police, magistrates, my sons, friends or DV services. Stawell Police applied a Family Violence Intervention Order that Bairnsdale police refuse to enforce. I think that my partner and my husband have sweet-talked the police with the usual she is schizophrenic BS. The Stawell Police have withdrawn the charge of Make Threats to Kill. The day after the Respondent was served with the Police Application for a FVIO to protect me and my property I went into the Bairnsdale Station, and saw six posters proclaiming Family Violence ALSO MEANS PSYCHOLOGICAL EMOTIONAL AND FINANCIAL ABUSE.. There are a range of ways we can help...attend your local police station. As I stood waiting to be helped and struggling to find the words to describe the decades of abuse I was relieved to see the posters. A highly regarded lawyer stated that Police will force him to give me my keys and passwords - you will have no problems ! According to the LEAP Report Bairnsdale police investigated the incident, which occurred in Stawell by interviewing the two offenders, my adult children who were also employed by me, an employee and a friend of one of the perpetrators, who had been a constable for three years in the 1980’s. These police did not interview me. Police have acted on the lies and false accusations made by these perpetrators by arresting and charging me with stalking and breaching an invalid personal safety order. Magistrates and Police are carrying out the perpetrators family violence as defined in the Family Law Act and on the VicPol website based on the LIES and FALSE information given by lawyers, perpetrators and employees. When the magistrate put the Interim Personal Safety Order in place last month, sanctioning the abusive behaviour of the three men, present in court to witness my distress and fear, emboldening and validating them to engage in domestic abuse there was even an employee in Court getting fully justified in their threatened violence and lies. WHAT CE N TURY ARE WE LIVI N G I N ?
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director The Victorian Family Violence Protection Act 2008 uses a broad definition of family, covering: a person who is, or has been, the relevant person’s spouse or domestic partner a person who has, or has had, an intimate personal relationship with the relevant person For the purposes of this Act, property damage or interference means repeated, intentional — (b) substantial interference with any property of a person, including withholding any property of a person; Interim order where existing family violence intervention order (1) The Court must not make an interim order if there is an existing family violence intervention order for which — (a) the affected person is a protected person and the respondent is a respondent; or (b) the respondent is a protected person and the affected person is a respondent. (4) Despite subsection (1), the Court must not make a final order if satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the respondent engaged in the prohibited behaviour or stalking without malice — (a) in the normal course of a lawful business The Smart Buoy Co factory lease will be finished anytime now and in Court my partner mentioned this. He has so many justifications for his abuse, written letters, accountants and lawyers and the courts and the police on HIS SIDE. I came across some writing that describes the situation with MY PARTNER perfectly. In all the writing that HE has sent to me, everything he accuses me of is actually what he is doing. He continually tells me I suffer from Bipolar, he has convinced my ADULT children that I am Bipolar! My partner drinks a third to a half a bottle of Bundaberg Rum every night, with orange juice (overload of sugar) he takes OTC pharmaceuticals daily and in the flue season he drinks 300mm or more daily of Colloidal Silver. The recommended dosage is a teaspoon. It is silver in suspension in water that he makes himself. He also brews rum and daily drinks 4–5 cups of strong black coffee. It is only when the behaviour is extreme that some, usually friends or family, will realise that behaviour is inconsistent with the person’s usual demeanour. The fact that the behaviour occurs in episodes is the main clue that bipolar disorder is involved. I believe he is very unwell mentally and he himself displays the symptoms as follows:
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director Grandiose delusions are one of the most common types of delusions in Bipolar Disorder
Examples of grandiosity include: • Exaggerating your own achievements • Criticising and dismissing other’s achievements or talents
• Constantly boasting and talking about yourself • Believing yourself to be infallible or invulnerable • Believing that you are more intelligent than others • Thinking that common rules don’t apply to you • Acting selfishly • Treating others with disdain or contempt • Not caring if you hurt someone with your actions • Being quick to anger if you are challenged • Being unable to see how your behaviour affects others • Being unable to see how unrealistic your beliefs and actions are and someone told me it is a symptom: a particular sensitivity to perfumes and other smells Ideas put into his head by my ESTRA N GED husband—stepfather to a diagnosed schizophrenic never to be released from prison and the man I married when I was thirty! My partner's aggressive actions and irrational and paranoid beliefs about me are ideas put into his head by my ESTRANGED husband. Lies and slander that my husband has engaged in since we were married in 1989. My husband has wrecked EVERY relationship of mine SINCE I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. My partner is not only a victim of family violence, as defined in the Family Law Act, from his estranged wife but also a victim of my estranged husband. My partner has two sons, ______ and _________. My husband has two stepsons, brothers Stephen and Andrew. Andrew Albury is described as Australia’s Hannibal Lecter. Andrew was clinically diagnosed as Schizophrenic in 1988. 1983: Convicted of murdering Gloria Pindan on 25 November 1983, he is currently serving two consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without parole. 1988: Diagnosed as Schizophrenic 1990: Sentenced detention to hospital for life 1990: In 1990, Andrew Albury confessed to committing eleven other murders but an investigation concluded that the confession was fictional. Updated 10 October 2025 Page 18 of 77 Wednesday 15 May 2024
Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director 1990: In 1990, he received a consecutive sentence of detention in hospital for life after assaulting and attempting to strangle a fellow inmate. I married my husband in 1989. Since reuniting with my sister after 25 years, I have found out some extraordinary pieces of information. My husband told me about his stepson some years after we were married and certainly played down the enormity of the situation. (in an extremely racist manner).
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My father befriended my husband when I was eight years old; he was 25 and a first-year out teacher at Sale Technical School. My sister has been told that my husband had an affair with our mother. Well, that accounts for my father’s reaction when I told him I was marrying his ‘friend’. My sister has memories of being on my husbands yacht with these two brothers and their mother. We were probably in primary school. I have spent my married life enjoying my children and my varied and rich life. I had no understanding of my husbands abuse. I merely thought him useless. I now realise how dangerous and manipulating he is. I have much more to write about my estranged husbands impact on my life…
My husband has told me he was friends with Julian Knight’s father who was an army officer. 9 August 1987 Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, shortly after 9.00pm, Hoddle Street Massacre.
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director Six people were shot dead and 19 others wounded. The killer was former Australian Army officer-cadet, 19- year-old Julien Knight . Julien had been expelled from the Royal Military College, Duntroon months before for stabbing a sergeant at a Canberra nightclub, and was released on bail pending trial. My husbands’ stepson Andrew Albury was in the Army, in the Northern Territory. He also told me that they had bought him a one way ticket to Darwin to get rid of him from the household. Both these boys were at Turana, where my husband met Ralph Knight. From Northern Territory Times…Andy Albury was the product of a broken marriage. He never knew his father and lived with his mother and older brother. He described his stepfather as a violent man, who would give him harsh beatings. He spent most of his childhood on the Mornington Peninsula, about 70km southeast of Melbourne, and had limited schooling. At some point during his childhood Albury came to the Territory and attended Nightcliff Primary School. But he was deemed “uncontrollable”. He was made a Ward of the State and placed in Victoria’s Turana Youth Detention Centre — which has been labelled dangerous and unhealthy — at 15. At 17, he started work on a cattle station in Western Australia. The work ended after six months and Andy’s life became quite transient, with short-term jobs on stations and in roadhouses in Kununurra and Coober Pedy, South Australia. He was a donkey shooter before joining the army in early 1981 — aged 19. Albury described his year in the military as “running around with an M-60 machinegun”. John Marriott’s stepson Andrew Albury diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1988 — Detectives interviewed John Marriott shortly after we had married at his factories in Hastings.
Letter written by my sister — Friday 17th January 2020 proof that family believed her to be schizophrenic
The letter that is being used by _____ _____ and my brother-in-law as supposed proof that her family believed her to be bi-polar and/or schizophrenic was written by me (around 1990) after a conversation with John Marriott , in which we discussed the nature and possible cause of certain behaviour being exhibited by my sister… …I had read an article about schizophrenia and post-natal depression. I suspected that my sister had suffered post-natal depression after the birth of her eldest son in 1986 and the article had said that untreated post-natal depression could be a contributing factor in developing schizophrenia. When I discussed this with John Marriott after the birth of her youngest child (there being three more children born in between) I remember him rather tersely responding that that may well be the case but schizophrenia was what her behaviour indicated and that’s what we needed to deal with. Having known John Marriott since I was very young, I was inclined to believe what he said, apart from being rather taken aback by his terse response. I believe it was his suggestion that I write the letter to tell her that we were concerned for her mental health and well-being. I did so later that day, and put it in her mailbox (which at that time was part of a stand of mailboxes, not near her house). To be clear, my sister and I were not close at this time and I lived in Melbourne. I was visiting my mother prior to moving to Darwin.
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director The letter was addressed to her and her only. It expressed my concern for her and my wish that she would seek medical advice. I certainly never intended for anyone else to read it and especially not to keep it for all these years to be used against her by vindictive people trying to cause her more hurt for their own ends. It offends me every time I see it is being mentioned by them as supposed proof of their claims that she is schizophrenic or bi-polar. My only intent was to express sisterly concern for her state of mind and wellbeing. The impact of being separated from my sister for all these years is massive as we have missed years of what should have been a loving, fruitful and nourishing relationship. Not only for us but for our children who have missed out on a close relationship with their Aunt and cousins. We are only now discovering what might have been. The idea that the separation was caused by the insidious gaslighting by her husband, not only to her but to our mother and myself is only now coming to light. Mum and I believed the things he told us about my sister and no doubt he did the same to her, cutting her off from us and moving her to the other side of the state, away from any possibility of reconciliation. My mother died believing her daughter hated her and for that alone, his behaviour is unforgivable. The fact that I subsequently asked my nephew to ensure that his mother did not attend Mum’s memorial is a huge sour note in my memories of that day, but I firmly believed that she would come only to cause trouble. I now know that not to be the case and she did intend on coming to pay her respects but her son took her out driving instead. While we are reunited now, we are discovering or remembering shared memories of events but still aware that we missed out on so much. The task of being executor of my mother’s estate fell to me and was so onerous due to dealing with the grief of losing my mother that I handed the details of the job to a solicitor. Sharing that task with my sister would have made it easier to cope with. Two and a half years later, I am still dealing with her physical possessions, which would also have been an easier task if I could have shared it with my sister. The enormity of the impact of the lies told to us only comes to light a piece at a time as we talk and share our recollections of events. No doubt more will surface as time passes. Some of those discoveries are merely amusing, but many are devastating as we realise the long game being played by John Marriott, who appears to have passed the ball to (my partner), as though he realises he will not be around forever and rubs his hands gleefully at the thought of continuing his gaslighting long after he’s gone.
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Victoria Police Verified account Shared with Public
Today is Stalking Awareness Day Australia.
This is an important initiative to raise awareness about stalking, and how people can seek support. A stalker can be an ex-partner, a family member, or a friend. It could also be someone less well known, like a colleague or someone who lives in the neighbourhood, or even a complete stranger. Or the partner of a partner and if there is any sort of
relationship it is termed family member - therefore domestic violence and police do NOTHING to protect. There are four ways to identify stalking: Fixated - Does the perpetrator find di ff erent ways to get the attention of the victim or try to become part of their life? Obsessive - Does the perpetrator always want to know where the victim is and what they are doing? Unwanted - Has the perpetrator been told to stop? Repeated - Does the perpetrator continue to contact the victim? Everyone deserves to feel safe. - except a managing director at Smart Buoy Co If you feel unsafe and believe you are being stalked, we encourage you to speak to your local police. In Gippsland the police do the stalking on behalf of the perpetrators. In an emergency, please call Triple Zero (000). Define emergency!!!
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MCV Bairnsdale 20 February 2020 Hearing #13 In Court that day Senior Police Lawyer and head of The Family Violence Unit Bairnsdale My estranged husband who had spent the night at my address whilst I slept in the company 4WD The employee/landlord whose threat of violence was conveyed to me by my partner and reported to Police Myself —a protected person on FVIO K12030938 My Partner the Applicant for the 1st Personal Safety Order and The Respondent to FVIO K12030938
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director Fraudulent backdating Employee Contract/ Wage Subsidy
I was engaged in end of year payroll and lodging the EMDUPE file. ______’s failure to manage the production and variations to do with the Offshore NZ Data Buoy had created chaos in the bookkeeping and to cash flow. Earlier in the year Brian had demanded that ______ ______ be paid as a contractor in addition to his employee wage subsidy agreement with Sureway. At the time payroll had not been setup nor did we have workers compensation insurance. _______ had agreed to be paid after we had supplied the Darwin Beach Barrier job. That job was eight months late, due in part to ______ leaving inexperienced production assistants to carry out the work unsupervised. One time ______ and I were away a week on an installation job and against company policy had the two employees working without us being there. That resulted in machinery breakdown which ______ let the employees deal with. Probable loss of $10,000. From: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> To: "Brian Merritt" <Brian.Merritt@buoys.com.au> Sent: 28/06/2019 10:39:21 AM Subject: Help with Moving Brian Four weeks ago I tried in vain to get you to help with the looming financial crisis. A crisis caused by your failure to give me the information I required to manage the NZ Data Platform job. The lack of planning and the delays in actually starting on the job placed our customer in a very difficult position with his oil and gas customer. I also told you that my having to move house after the threatened violence from our employee (from Leon Logan, our employee and landlord) would mean my productivity in the company would be severely depleted. ( As you laid your hand on my arm you reassured me and said) “Don’t worry I will do the move” “I will find you somewhere and do the move”. You were sitting on the kitchen sofa whilst I cooked lunch for you.) From: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> To: Sent: 15/07/2019 5:51:18 PM Subject: Fraudulent back dating Employee Contract/ Wage Subsidy Brian, Referencing our phone 'discussion' regarding my concerns around your and Leon's 'workaround' on the subsidy rules. I am not prepared to cheat the system and that you would author a document and backdate it, is disappointing. There is absolutely no need to operate the business fraudulently. Once Again you have wasted my time with advice that you are not qualified to make. I am not a qualified lawyer but I know that
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director 1. You back dated the agreement by about eight months
The agreement was not executed in accordance with our Constitution. Perhaps this voids the contract and any obligation the company may have but you may have personal liability??? Brian , you will recall that the threat of violence from Leon Logan necessitated my talking to the police. If I found it necessary to seek a restraining order against Leon and if this happened and you conveyed the threat, what have you done to protect me? Possible Return to Office During our phone call you asked when I would return to the office at the factory. The reason that I am not there now and have not been there for sometime is because of threat of physical violence. For me to answer the question I would need to know how I can be safe in an environment with Leon Logan. The existing contract with him seems counterproductive in this regard. In relation to the bullying comment during the discussion. My behavior has changed because our company has been heading into insolvency and is not insolvent. This requires me to be more focused on paying our bills and organising jobs to satisfy this need. From: " Brian Merritt " < Brian.Merritt @buoys.com.au> To: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> Cc: " brianmerritt @optusnet.com.au" < brianmerritt @optusnet.com.au> Sent: 16/07/2019 10:24:47 AM Subject: Independent Contractors, Employees and Smart Buoy's legal responsibilities Maggie You stated yesterday that you were working on updating the payroll on MYOB and intended to change our Independent Contractor over to be an employee for payroll purposes and with Smart Buoy Co responsible for their Superannuation. Please read these points carefully and per your request to me for a Director's Instruction, please follow my instructions. 1. You made a verbal agreement between Smart Buoy Co and Wimmera Queen Boat Sales, for the supply of qualified and experienced labour to the manufacturing division of Smart Buoy Co.
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director 2. A verbal agreement is a verbal contract, enforceable in the same way as a written contract. 3. That verbal contract was reinforced with a written contract, on advice from our former Accountant - Mr Peter Rutley, as Smart Buoy Co may if challenged, be held responsible for the payment of Superannuation for the independent contractor, if there wasn't a written contract in place. On advice of our Accountant, your verbal contract needed to be backed up with a written contract, which specifically stated the independent contractor was responsible for Superannuation. 4. Smart Buoy Co had an employment contract with Sureway Employment, which from the conditions of that contract, stated our employee cannot be employed outside of that agreement. 5. Per point one above, Smart Buoy Co had a separate contract with Wimmera Queen Boat Sales, which as an entity and not an individual, ensured that the contracted work to Beacon Boat Sales, did not in any way interfere with or contravene the contract conditions of the agreement between Smart Buoy Co and Sureway Employment. 6. As the representative of one party of the original verbal agreement between Smart Buoy Co and Wimmera Queen Boat Sales, which is now covered by a written agreement, you do not have the right to make any waiver, amendment or modification of any provisions of the agreement, unless these changes are also agreed by a duly authorised representative of Beacon Boat Sales. That the verbal agreement has been put in writing, any such waiver, amendment or modification of any provisions of the agreement, will require these changes to be in writing, agreed to and signed by a duly authorised representative of Beacon Boat Sales, before they can take effect. 7. That you did not consult with Wimmera Queen Boat Sales to discuss and seek approval for your proposed changes to the agreement, makes your changes null and void. 8. That you did not consult with me the Director of Smart Buoy Co, to discuss and seek approval for your proposed changes to the agreement, means I must caution you to not undertake any further Updated 10 October 2025 Page 27 of 77 Wednesday 15 May 2024
Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director such unauthorised contract amendment actions, as you place Smart Buoy Co and me as Director, at risk of legal action, for Breach of Contract. 9. In the unlikely event that you had successfully sought approval from our contractor to move said independent contractor to our payroll, for the work completed by the independent contractor, you would then have placed Smart Buoy at risk of failing to have made salary payments for approximately 9 months, failed to have issued payslips and failed to have paid superannuation. 10.You dabbling in contract management with no training or experience is not something I support and I want you to not do so in future. I am happy to guide and instruct you on these practices until you reach a level of competence that will allow you to undertake some contracts duties which does not place our company at legal and financial risk, but until that time, you are not authorised to make contract amendments and per your request for a Director's instruction, you are duly instructed to not do so again. Regards, Brian From: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> To: " Brian Merritt " < Brian.Merritt @buoys.com.au> Sent: 16/07/2019 10:34:43 AM Subject: Re: Independent Contractors, Employees and Smart Buoy's legal responsibilities Please provide the original Contractor Agreement drawn up by yourself Maggie Marriott National Sales Manager 0408 516 235 Smart Buoy Co 21 Bosworth Rd Bairnsdale Victoria 3875 www.buoys.com.au maggie@buoys.com.au
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Maggie Marriott Smart Buoy Co Managing Director From: " Brian Merritt " < Brian.Merritt @buoys.com.au> To: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> Sent: 16/07/2019 2:12:17 PM Subject: Re[2]: Independent Contractors, Employees and Smart Buoy's legal responsibilities Attached. BJM From: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> To: " Brian Merritt " < Brian.Merritt @buoys.com.au> Sent: 16/07/2019 2:53:14 PM Subject: Re[3]: Independent Contractors, Employees and Smart Buoy's legal responsibilities Brian I asked for the original document (created in LibreOffice).
in addition I would i request the email where you have supplied the document to myself. Thanking you in advance for your co operation Sincerely Maggie Maggie Marriott Company Secretary Company Manager/Financial Manager National Sales Manager 0408 516 235 Smart Buoy Co 21 Bosworth Rd Bairnsdale Victoria 3875 www.buoys.com.au maggie@buoys.com.au
Wimmera Queen
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