Today, I'm trying to find out what happened to my 49,000 Wood Guy bags and whether they were disposed of in an environmentally responsible way. 🤓
After asking politely, a few State MPs have even lifted their bans on some of my comments. 🤠
Those bags cost our small family business $1.20 each. That's $58,800 invested through hard work, risk, and determination.
They were meant to be filled with kindling 🔥 and generate more than $400,000 in value for both our business and South Australia.
Instead, they may have been shredded, pulverised, incinerated into happy little Wood Guy plastic pellets, or simply pushed to the back of a warehouse and forgotten.
Either way, South Australians have paid the price. We certainly have.
When Prison Industries approached us in 2018, there was no government grant, no Industry Advocate involvement, and no public tender process. We were invited into what was presented as a business venture built from the remnants of a failed program, which failed once-more upon our arrival through no fault of our own.
We designed and paid for the bags. We built the supply chain. We found the customers. We developed and own the intellectual property.
Prison Industries did none of those things.
In fact, they didn't even supply the wrap or tape until stock kept disappearing and being used elsewhere, forcing the State to take over supply management.
We were invited in because they needed a solution after their previous business relationship failed.
So my question is simple:
What happened to our 49,000 bags?
The Department for Correctional Services should be able to answer a straightforward environmental question. If they can't, then perhaps broader questions about contract management, governance, oversight, the handling of commercially sensitive information, and the overall administration of the program deserve renewed attention. 🧐
I'm not asking how much it has cost taxpayers to deal with the fallout from Prison Industries.
I'm not asking how these issues remained unresolved for so long.
Right now, I simply want to know whether our brand and our Australian intellectual property were at least disposed of responsibly—and at what cost.
The South Australian Government has no right to continue using our intellectual property without permission. In my view, it is offensive and predatory.
If you value your business, think very carefully before investing in Prison Industries.
Jacksons Supplies deserves to be restored to the position we were in before this occurred. We deserve answers, and we have every right to seek those answers publicly.
I will continue pursuing fair and reasonable settlements until a genuinely fair outcome is reached. For me, this isn't about the money. 🥰
And to David Brown, CEO and all of DCS:
If there is any truth to the reports that our business and family name are still being discussed internally and publicly in Murray Bridge in 2026, then I hope that is addressed immediately. If officers are still speaking about the Wood Guy brand or my family, that will be stopped. If I have to stop it; it will be some important people's last day working in Government.
Another way of saying "not in the public interest" is simply: "We don't want the public to know what happened."
What happened to my bags?
🌲 Happy World Environment Day! 🌲
Sincerely,
Bill Jackson Office Admin Jacksons Supplies ... See MoreSee Less
Council has air quality monitoring sensors located in Mount Barker and Hahndorf which rate air quality in real-time and indicate if pollution poses a health risk.
Haven't heard a blip for weeks then suddenly Journalists and Politicians 'getting involved' in the same week?
Where have they been between 2018 and now? I know some of ya'll are following because you accidentally liked the page as your MP pages and then unliked us immediately. You are not fast enough, you are not smart enough. Including 1000+ views to Wood Guy in a month when it hadn't posted and wasn't tagged.
1. Why was Prison Industries a scam? 2. Why hasn't anything been done about the Prison Industries scam? 3. Why were Jacksons Supplies and many others made to pay for the alleged misconduct at Mobilong Prison Industries?
I was born at the Lyell McEwin Hospital during the day, it wasn't yesterday.
It's far more important to find out how our bags were disposed of then for spam about Possum Park to be left up and available to the public. We paid for them with our honest hard-earned, pay-taxes, work-hard-every-day money. Over $50,000.
The tax-payers paid to dispose of them. They also have a right to know.
Emily Bourke - Labor MLC
Wear Orange Wednesday (WOW Day) is a national day of recognition to say ‘thank you’ to all SES volunteers across Australia. The hard-work and dedication by the staff of SA State Emergency Service is worth far more than a single day of recognition! IF you can; you can donate to the SES. www.ses.sa.gov.au/home/donate/ Gifts or contributions for the purposes of supporting the coordination of volunteer of State Emergency Services are tax deductible. ... See MoreSee Less
Jacksons Supplies and Wood Guy — with Matt Burnell MP and 3 others in South Australia.
3 weeks ago
It is time for the truth to come out about the Department for Correctional Services and Mobilong Prison Industries. For more than two years, I have attempted in good faith to negotiate with the South Australian Government, yet at every turn there has been no accountability, no attempt at understanding, and no meaningful solutions. Instead, we have been passed from department to department in what appears to be an effort to delay, deflect, and ultimately wear us down until we simply go away.
In 2018, Jacksons Supplies was cold-called by a uniformed officer from the Department for Correctional Services, representing the Government of South Australia on behalf of the Prison Industries.
What was presented as a golden opportunity was, in reality, built on a series of false representations, including misleading claims about the previous contract holders and the actual capacity of the program.
What we believed would be a straightforward and sustainable arrangement instead became a situation where we were dragged down alongside a sinking ship. We immediately lost of over $50,000 to an unauthorized release of goods. The SA Government gave us a new contract under better conditions and spoke of (supposedly) better oversight going forwards.
We now find ourselves once again significantly financially harmed by the Department for Correctional Services, with @Farm Fresh Markets - Murray Bridge, receiving the new contract and being told all sorts of things about Jacksons Supplies that are completely untrue. As well as DCS staff blaming things on FFM which I now suspect to have been the Department for Correctional Services covering for themselves.
A supplier has also contacted us and told us that a DCS staff member told them that Jacksons Supplies had 'entered insolvency' in 2024, also untrue. This was an action taken by the Prison after they overproduced truck-loads of goods after we clearly paused production for the summer, and they continued; filled the sheds and then continued production until goods were spilling into the car-park, allegedly left in the rain, which I ordered them to unpack and destroy any rain-damaged (moldy) timber at their own cost. They sent us the bill for the overproduced goods and then held it over us, forcing us to be further financially trapped by them during a negotiation process about their own alleged misconduct. When I reported this to the GM of the Mobilong Prison I will allege he said something like "That's just the boys having some fun." Their idea of fun is staff destroying the livelihoods of small family businesses to cover up for incompetence, a lack of governance and oversight.
The Department investigated itself and found no wrong-doings. After 'a bit' of a push, that's not what happened, is it? Why does a department need a push to do the basic right thing?
The longstanding treatment by DCS staff and omissions by uniformed Department for Correctional Services staff created limitations that prevented our small family business from; a. exiting while having the original agreement met. b. exiting without significant financial harm. c. understanding that our role was sacrificial 'fall-guy'/'middle-man'.
I went through the correct pathways of calling the Office for Public Integrity and Ombudsman SA, which resulted in a call from an anonymous number stating that I would be "made an example of" if I continued to do so. That is really unusual. Is that "the boys having some fun"? (it was a woman).
This is not a fair situation to be placed in; accordingly; I have generously spent my time gathering evidence and have sent a number of internal emails to the relevant CE and Minister and a few extras so everyone knows what has really been going on in Murray Bridge, Mobilong Prison.
The names above are why there's no Wood Guy kindling or firewood this year and they cannot pretend they don't know. It's not our fault that there's no more; 1. free bags with every order. 2. % to a childhood cancer charity. 3. local donations. (not zero but extremely limited) 4. giveaways this year. We have no control over the Governments internal conduct.
We are extremely grateful for the support/assistance of the Small Business Commission SA who facilitated and provided an avenue for DCS to right their wrongs. and the office of Matt Burnell MP, who advocated for and assisted us by directing us to the Minister for Small and Family Business.
The SA Government exploited our circumstances, including the hardship caused by being sidelined through government misconduct, and our ongoing frustration with the alleged and evident misconduct throughout this matter; to pressure us into signing an agreement that is profoundly unfavorable to Jacksons Supplies under a time limited 'take it or get nothing' arrangement.
This occurred despite the fact that I had offered to withhold certain emails relating to G4S, Woolworths, Coles, OTR, and their alleged involvement in a program that was supposedly designed to support and benefit small local businesses. I'm now thinking these groups don't know anything about it and will need to know that DCS was making representations about them to further themselves.
Their program? Wack. Their department? Wack. Their governance? Wack. Their Ministers? Wack. The SA Government? Wack.
"was willing to honour as a good will gesture to enhance the partnership which works both ways and not I just one way." - DCS
Except for when its time for it to go our way, then it does go one way, the SA Government way.
That's where Wood Guy went. It wasn't Jacksons Supplies fault. Ever since we raised concerns, I’ve been treated like the one who did something wrong. All this on our shoulders and the SA Government have nothing for us except for excuses. Stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a small business is bad. It's not complicated Peter Malinauskas.
Sincerely, Bill Jackson Administrator Jacksons Supplies / Wood Guy brand. ... See MoreSee Less
James Agness MP whilst they are based in Angle Vale and thus the Taylor electorate Jacksons Supplies services the residents of the Light Electorate.
I'd be keen to hear your position on this matter as it would be very disappointing if they could no longer service the Light Electorate due to the flow on effects of this situation.
People fall for fake claims & these pages! AI has made them easier to make and more believable but after a quick look it's easy to see. A 2 day old account shouldn't have 1000 likes!
🌲 Happy World Environment Day!🌲
Today, I'm trying to find out what happened to my 49,000 Wood Guy bags and whether they were disposed of in an environmentally responsible way. 🤓
After asking politely, a few State MPs have even lifted their bans on some of my comments. 🤠
Those bags cost our small family business $1.20 each. That's $58,800 invested through hard work, risk, and determination.
They were meant to be filled with kindling 🔥 and generate more than $400,000 in value for both our business and South Australia.
Instead, they may have been shredded, pulverised, incinerated into happy little Wood Guy plastic pellets, or simply pushed to the back of a warehouse and forgotten.
Either way, South Australians have paid the price. We certainly have.
When Prison Industries approached us in 2018, there was no government grant, no Industry Advocate involvement, and no public tender process. We were invited into what was presented as a business venture built from the remnants of a failed program, which failed once-more upon our arrival through no fault of our own.
We designed and paid for the bags.
We built the supply chain.
We found the customers.
We developed and own the intellectual property.
Prison Industries did none of those things.
In fact, they didn't even supply the wrap or tape until stock kept disappearing and being used elsewhere, forcing the State to take over supply management.
We were invited in because they needed a solution after their previous business relationship failed.
So my question is simple:
What happened to our 49,000 bags?
The Department for Correctional Services should be able to answer a straightforward environmental question. If they can't, then perhaps broader questions about contract management, governance, oversight, the handling of commercially sensitive information, and the overall administration of the program deserve renewed attention. 🧐
I'm not asking how much it has cost taxpayers to deal with the fallout from Prison Industries.
I'm not asking how these issues remained unresolved for so long.
Right now, I simply want to know whether our brand and our Australian intellectual property were at least disposed of responsibly—and at what cost.
The South Australian Government has no right to continue using our intellectual property without permission. In my view, it is offensive and predatory.
If you value your business, think very carefully before investing in Prison Industries.
Jacksons Supplies deserves to be restored to the position we were in before this occurred. We deserve answers, and we have every right to seek those answers publicly.
I will continue pursuing fair and reasonable settlements until a genuinely fair outcome is reached.
For me, this isn't about the money. 🥰
And to David Brown, CEO and all of DCS:
If there is any truth to the reports that our business and family name are still being discussed internally and publicly in Murray Bridge in 2026, then I hope that is addressed immediately. If officers are still speaking about the Wood Guy brand or my family, that will be stopped. If I have to stop it; it will be some important people's last day working in Government.
Another way of saying "not in the public interest" is simply:
"We don't want the public to know what happened."
What happened to my bags?
🌲 Happy World Environment Day! 🌲
Sincerely,
Bill Jackson
Office Admin
Jacksons Supplies ... See MoreSee Less
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🚪 A back-door look at Facebook analytics. 🚪
The last 28 days.
- 11 Unfollows. ❌
- 54 (NET) Follows. (65 new followers) ✅
- 99.1% Australia. ✅
- 74.5% Adelaide, SA. ✅
- Views up 283% ✅
- 3-second views up 20,238% ✅
And the phones are getting hot 🔥 because the customers are getting cold. ❄️
Contact:
Bill - 0429116127
Guy - 0400083852
Email -
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Wouldn't that be nice? 🔥
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Just hit 1.9K followers.
How will we celebrate 2K? ... See MoreSee Less
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Sawdust give away 😅
🔥 Something to seriously think about! 🔥ARE YOU USING THE RIGHT FIRE WOOD?
Let's be clear from the get go - this is not a post about us wanting to ban wood fires.
What we want to do is remind you about the importance of burning wood responsibly.
Wood smoke impacts air quality and can cause problems for people with respiratory or cardiovascular conditions.
It becomes a health issue when the wrong wood is used and smoke contaminates the air with harmful chemicals.
✔️ ONLY burn dry, seasoned wood.
❌ NEVER burn rubbish, driftwood, painted or treated wood.
Learn more about reducing wood smoke pollution on the Environment Protection Authority South Australia's website:
www.epa.sa.gov.au/environmental_info/air_quality/assistance_and_advice/smoke_from_domestic_heating
Council has air quality monitoring sensors located in Mount Barker and Hahndorf which rate air quality in real-time and indicate if pollution poses a health risk.
View the air quality map here:
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Haven't heard a blip for weeks then suddenly Journalists and Politicians 'getting involved' in the same week?
Where have they been between 2018 and now? I know some of ya'll are following because you accidentally liked the page as your MP pages and then unliked us immediately. You are not fast enough, you are not smart enough. Including 1000+ views to Wood Guy in a month when it hadn't posted and wasn't tagged.
1. Why was Prison Industries a scam?
2. Why hasn't anything been done about the Prison Industries scam?
3. Why were Jacksons Supplies and many others made to pay for the alleged misconduct at Mobilong Prison Industries?
I was born at the Lyell McEwin Hospital during the day, it wasn't yesterday.
I'm looking for governance, not cold hearted cover-ups and having my comments hidden. www.facebook.com/reel/985759650926901/
Give us what we are owed and take 150 steps back, and never come near our family again.
c.org/GZGBBLNG4P
Sincerely,
Bill Jackson
Office Admin
Jacksons Supplies
#prisonindustries #southaustralia #mobilongprison ... See MoreSee Less
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Peter Malinauskas what happened?
Thank you James Agness MP.
It's far more important to find out how our bags were disposed of then for spam about Possum Park to be left up and available to the public. We paid for them with our honest hard-earned, pay-taxes, work-hard-every-day money. Over $50,000. The tax-payers paid to dispose of them. They also have a right to know. Emily Bourke - Labor MLC
We're sorry. 😢😢 ... See MoreSee Less
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What the F they do not care
😂
Wear Orange Wednesday (WOW Day) is a national day of recognition to say ‘thank you’ to all SES volunteers across Australia.
The hard-work and dedication by the staff of SA State Emergency Service is worth far more than a single day of recognition!
IF you can; you can donate to the SES.
www.ses.sa.gov.au/home/donate/
Gifts or contributions for the purposes of supporting the coordination of volunteer of State Emergency Services are tax deductible. ... See MoreSee Less
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It is time for the truth to come out about the Department for Correctional Services and Mobilong Prison Industries.
For more than two years, I have attempted in good faith to negotiate with the South Australian Government, yet at every turn there has been no accountability, no attempt at understanding, and no meaningful solutions. Instead, we have been passed from department to department in what appears to be an effort to delay, deflect, and ultimately wear us down until we simply go away.
In 2018, Jacksons Supplies was cold-called by a uniformed officer from the Department for Correctional Services, representing the Government of South Australia on behalf of the Prison Industries.
What was presented as a golden opportunity was, in reality, built on a series of false representations, including misleading claims about the previous contract holders and the actual capacity of the program.
What we believed would be a straightforward and sustainable arrangement instead became a situation where we were dragged down alongside a sinking ship.
We immediately lost of over $50,000 to an unauthorized release of goods. The SA Government gave us a new contract under better conditions and spoke of (supposedly) better oversight going forwards.
We now find ourselves once again significantly financially harmed by the Department for Correctional Services, with @Farm Fresh Markets - Murray Bridge, receiving the new contract and being told all sorts of things about Jacksons Supplies that are completely untrue. As well as DCS staff blaming things on FFM which I now suspect to have been the Department for Correctional Services covering for themselves.
A supplier has also contacted us and told us that a DCS staff member told them that Jacksons Supplies had 'entered insolvency' in 2024, also untrue.
This was an action taken by the Prison after they overproduced truck-loads of goods after we clearly paused production for the summer, and they continued; filled the sheds and then continued production until goods were spilling into the car-park, allegedly left in the rain, which I ordered them to unpack and destroy any rain-damaged (moldy) timber at their own cost. They sent us the bill for the overproduced goods and then held it over us, forcing us to be further financially trapped by them during a negotiation process about their own alleged misconduct.
When I reported this to the GM of the Mobilong Prison I will allege he said something like "That's just the boys having some fun."
Their idea of fun is staff destroying the livelihoods of small family businesses to cover up for incompetence, a lack of governance and oversight.
The Department investigated itself and found no wrong-doings. After 'a bit' of a push, that's not what happened, is it? Why does a department need a push to do the basic right thing?
The longstanding treatment by DCS staff and omissions by uniformed Department for Correctional Services staff created limitations that prevented our small family business from;
a. exiting while having the original agreement met.
b. exiting without significant financial harm.
c. understanding that our role was sacrificial 'fall-guy'/'middle-man'.
I went through the correct pathways of calling the Office for Public Integrity and Ombudsman SA, which resulted in a call from an anonymous number stating that I would be "made an example of" if I continued to do so.
That is really unusual. Is that "the boys having some fun"? (it was a woman).
This is not a fair situation to be placed in; accordingly; I have generously spent my time gathering evidence and have sent a number of internal emails to the relevant CE and Minister and a few extras so everyone knows what has really been going on in Murray Bridge, Mobilong Prison.
Nick Champion MP
Emily Bourke - Labor MLC
Rhiannon Pearce MP
Michael Brown MP, Member for Florey
Office of the Industry Advocate South Australia
The names above are why there's no Wood Guy kindling or firewood this year and they cannot pretend they don't know.
It's not our fault that there's no more;
1. free bags with every order.
2. % to a childhood cancer charity.
3. local donations. (not zero but extremely limited)
4. giveaways this year.
We have no control over the Governments internal conduct.
We are extremely grateful for the support/assistance of the Small Business Commission SA who facilitated and provided an avenue for DCS to right their wrongs.
and the office of Matt Burnell MP, who advocated for and assisted us by directing us to the Minister for Small and Family Business.
The SA Government exploited our circumstances, including the hardship caused by being sidelined through government misconduct, and our ongoing frustration with the alleged and evident misconduct throughout this matter; to pressure us into signing an agreement that is profoundly unfavorable to Jacksons Supplies under a time limited 'take it or get nothing' arrangement.
This occurred despite the fact that I had offered to withhold certain emails relating to G4S, Woolworths, Coles, OTR, and their alleged involvement in a program that was supposedly designed to support and benefit small local businesses. I'm now thinking these groups don't know anything about it and will need to know that DCS was making representations about them to further themselves.
Their program? Wack.
Their department? Wack.
Their governance? Wack.
Their Ministers? Wack.
The SA Government? Wack.
"was willing to honour as a good will gesture to enhance the partnership which works both ways and not I just one way." - DCS
Except for when its time for it to go our way, then it does go one way, the SA Government way.
That's where Wood Guy went. It wasn't Jacksons Supplies fault. Ever since we raised concerns, I’ve been treated like the one who did something wrong.
All this on our shoulders and the SA Government have nothing for us except for excuses.
Stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a small business is bad. It's not complicated Peter Malinauskas.
Sincerely,
Bill Jackson
Administrator
Jacksons Supplies / Wood Guy brand. ... See MoreSee Less
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David Wilkins MP
G4S , Woolworths, we have done so much for you.
James Agness MP whilst they are based in Angle Vale and thus the Taylor electorate Jacksons Supplies services the residents of the Light Electorate. I'd be keen to hear your position on this matter as it would be very disappointing if they could no longer service the Light Electorate due to the flow on effects of this situation.
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