The government is committing $63.4m over two years to appoint 75 extra members to deal with a case backlog and another $11.7m for a new case management system. The government will consult on how the new body could work before the legislation is introduced on 2023.“All members of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, who are currently there, are invited to apply for a position as a member of the new tribunal,” Dreyfus said.
The shadow attorney general, Julian Leeser, criticised the government for making the decision close to the end of the year, accusing Labor of avoiding scrutiny and wanting to “stack” the new body themselves. “The government’s decision to purge it is about making the Labor government less accountable,” he said. “This government is all about settling political scores. This announcement undermines the work of the tribunal in holding this Labor government to account.”The CPSU said reform of the AAT was long overdue. The union claimed staff had been distressed by how the tribunal was managed.
“The AAT has become a workplace increasingly plagued with poor culture, unreasonable workloads and significant bullying and harassment complaints,” the union said in a statement. The CPSU’s national secretary, Melissa Donnelly, said staff needed to work without “political interference”. “The AAT has lost the confidence of the public and many of its employees after years of partisan appointments and significant increases in workplace bullying and harassment,” she said.
Not all AAT Members are LNP cronies. Many AAT Members were there before Abbott govt 2013 win. Non-LNP Members got their jobs on merit, came up through the ranks, former Legal Officers etc. Unfairly, non-LNP Members have to re-apply for their jobs too, dragged down by LNP cronies
It's a bit of win-win in my mind. If the ALP is correct (very long odds) we'll all live happily every after. If they're not, it'll manifest pretty quickly & this will bury them into the next century.
He abolished it to create jobs for Labor hacks. He’s going to appoint Kristina Keneally
MarkDreyfusKCMP Now do the AFP. Fire them all and make them reapply.
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