His employer cleared him and kept him on - then the regulator reached a very different verdict
A regulator declared a school principal unfit for the job over his social media posts. A court has set that decision aside.
On July 24, 2026, the Supreme Court of New South Wales quashed a determination by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) that a registered non-government school's principal was not a "fit and proper person" to hold the role. The court found the regulator's committee had denied him a fair process before making its call.
For anyone who runs a workplace under a licensing or accreditation regime, the case is a clean lesson in what goes wrong when a decision-maker adopts an investigator's adverse findings without letting the affected person answer them.
The sequence matters. In December 2025, after the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, NESA received media enquiries about opinions the principal had posted on Facebook and Instagram. The court noted he was "lawfully entitled to have and express his political opinions" but "did err, given the way in which he expressed those opinions."
His employer ran its own process. The school issued a show-cause notice, weighed his response, and concluded he remained a fit and proper person, with no reason to end his employment. It placed him on six months' probation instead. The employer made a considered call and stood by it.
NESA's Registration and Accreditation Committee saw it differently. On February 17, 2026, it...
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