Now that the board of Infrastructure Australia is being purged, the federal government should do the identical with the Australian Rail Observe Company.
Barnaby Joyce (Picture: AAP/Lukas Coch)
Labor has made a superb begin in purging the rancid affect of Barnaby Joyce from the infrastructure portfolio, however there is a lengthy strategy to go to detoxify it.
Again in July, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Growth and Native Authorities Catherine King appointed long-serving former division secretary Mike Mrdak and NBN director Nicole Lockwood to evaluate Infrastructure Australia (IA), a creation of Anthony Albanese within the Rudd years supposed to supply unbiased recommendation about funding.
Underneath the Coalition, IA was routinely ignored, after which demeaned in probably the most egregious examples of board-stacking and jobs for mates in a authorities famend for it. Final November, Joyce appointed Colin Murray, a self-described Joyce supporter, to chair it and appointed former LNP vice-president Amanda Cooper, failed LNP candidate Elizabeth Schmidt and former Liberal workplace holder Vicki Meyer to the board.
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Originally published at Gold Coast News HQ
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