THE Australian has an astonishing story on multiple confirmations that the Prime Minister’s Office is insisting all Government board appointees from the six years of the last Labor Government cannot and will not be re-appointed.
THERE is one barnacle that the Abbott government needs to get rid of immediately: the rule that any director on a government board who was appointed by the previous Labor government will not be reappointed.
The decree, apparently issued by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and/or his chief of staff Peta Credlin and binding on all cabinet ministers, was publicly confirmed yesterday by the chairman of CSIRO, Simon McKeon.
Even when board chairs desperately want to see strong directors retained Ministers are apparently unable to help.
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