Which is worse, that Labor stored secret a report essential of its personal — and its predecessors’ — predilection for appointing mates to public workplace for 2 years? Or that when it launched it, its response was a risible set of “ideas” that may do nothing to finish authorities cronyism?
Labor hadn’t been in energy lengthy when it commissioned former senior public servant Lynelle Briggs to evaluation the appointment course of for presidency boards. Perhaps there was some dedication to integrity lingering from Labor’s three phrases in opposition, when it had talked a giant recreation on opposing cronyism and the politicisation of presidency appointments — the relentless stacking of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal with Coalition hacks and failed MPs, the appointment of Liberal apparatchik Phil Gaetjens to go the general public service and failed Liberal MP and WorkSelections advocate Sophie Mirabella to the Fair Work Commission — amongst many, many others.
