From test cheat to One Nation state president
One Nation’s SA state president, who won a seat in the upper house at the recent SA election, gave evidence in court about his involvement in a cheating scheme.
Newly elected One Nation legislative councillor and state president Carlos Quaremba was involved in a cheating arrangement with another student while completing an employer-funded training program in the 1990s, InDaily can reveal.
The scheme was outlined in the Broughill v Henkel Australia Pty Ltd case in 1996 in the Victorian Industrial Relations Court.
It related to a rejected unfair dismissal claim of Michael Colin Broughill, who was found to be cheating and terminated as a plant operator at manufacturer Henkel Australia.
According to court documents, Quaremba gave evidence that he sold his work to Broughill, who was struggling with the training program, but ceased the arrangement when given an explicit warning in a meeting with his employer.
Quaremba told the court that “at the beginning of 1995 he and the applicant, who was having difficulty with the course, agreed that the applicant would pay Quaremba if Quaremba rewrote his answers for the applicant to copy and submit them as his own work”.
“The payment agreed on was $50.00 for each module and $20.00 for each assessment, Quaremba claims to have received the sum of $170.00 from the applicant prior to September 1995; this allegation being denied by the applicant,” the court found.
“The significance of the receipt of this money prior to September 1995 is that Quaremba alleges that after the September 1995 meeting he gave no further work to the applicant, nor did he give permission for the applicant to copy his work.”
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A spokesperson for One Nation declined to comment when asked if the party was aware of the case and would be taking any action.
InDaily was unable to get in contact with Quaremba, who is currently overseas, to ask if it was appropriate for him to hold public office given the revelations.
Quaremba was elected to the upper house after One Nation received 269,834 votes in the Legislative Council, according to the South Australian Electoral Commission.
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