Jonathan Phillips

Phillips is the former president of the ANZ College of Psychiatrists and was a friend of Tobin's.

The has been in private practice since I was a medical student and had a thriving Macquarie St practice in Sydney regularly unable to take new patients.

Yet he replaced Tobin as Director of Mental Health SA but returned to Sydney once a month to maintain his private practice.

Psychiatrists have no ability to predict violence long-term. Statistically my risk of reoffending is low. However in a statement provided to the court, Phillips described me as 'extremely dangerous to those he perceives as having done him harm.' The thrust of his evidence was that I would keep adding those who 'aggrieved' me to a 'list' and remain a danger indefinitely. This was wild speculation on an assumption of guilt and not based on anything I said to him in interview in 1994. As Director of Mental Health SA he used the above argument to persuade relevant medical practitioners, such as neurologists, to let nature take its course without interviewing in my case. Why leave a thriving Macquarie St practice to take up a public health position interstate at such a late stage in his career? To bury evidence of medical attempts to kill me?

Most psychiatric diagnoses are made after a 50-min (or less) interview. Phillips examined me over four 50-min sessions in 1994. He found that I 'did not have paranoid thoughts or ideas' and that I was 'not suffering delusions or hallucinations': T2616 L 33-5. He had all the information he needed to make a correct diagnosis, and that's when he was best positioned to do so.

15 years later in court he claims he must have made a mistake without having re-examined me!

At the Medical Tribunal in 1997 he falsely claimed I had not paid him for the last consultation. He was forced to withdraw the allegation when his account card showed I had paid for all the consultations. Incredibly he repeated this wild accusation at my trial in 2004 even though it was bound to backfire.

In his 1994 report, he expressed the view that I had 'recovered from depression' and that I was 'fit to resume practice'; V 173 L 15-37. At the Medical Tribunal in 1997 he claimed he now thought I was not fit to practise, supposedly based new information from Woodforde. In fact cross-examination established that there had been no new information from Woodforde.

In congrats to Phillips, the gaol's own Senior Forensic Psychologist examined me in 2024 re suitability for a violence-prevention program and concluded that I did not need to participate as I was of 'lower risk of reoffending actuarially' and 'mentally stable'.

Phillips is not a witness of truth and is of questionable integrity.

When considering consulting another 'Board-approved' psychiatrist to comply with conditions on my registration, everyone I asked said Phillips' opinion would carry the most weight. Law enforcement would have been given the same recommendation. Phillips is probably the forensic psychiatrist who gave bad advice to the police during the Lindt Cafe hostage fiasco in Sydney.