LNP man was preferred pick for Australia Post before advice
Haaaaa Haaaaaaaa Haaaaaaaaa - Malcolm "Money Bags" Turnbull, the Cayman Islands Financier, and the rest of the Liberal Party Stooges, do some "jobs for the boys" scamming behind the scenes to give one of their own a job as an Australia Post executive.......
The Crawly Incrowd and their stinking nepotism.
What a fucking con job.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/lnp-man-was-preferred-pick-for-australia-post-before-advice/
Senior bureaucrats had already signed off on possible candidates for the Australia Post board when advisers to Communications Minister Mitch Fifield suggested the list include conservative powerbroker Bruce McIver, government documents reveal.
Mr McIver — the recently retired president of the Liberal National Party in Queensland — was appointed on December 10 to the three-year, non-executive director position, paying $90,000 a year.
Announced three days before Christmas, the appointment did not follow the selection process required for other directors but was endorsed by the Australia Post chairman, John Stanhope, cabinet and executive council.
The Australian revealed in December that Malcolm Turnbull had raised the Australia Post position with Mr McIver in August, when the now Prime Minister was still communications minister and Mr McIver still LNP president. That came as the LNP was raising concerns about regional services and before the instability caused by Tony Abbott’s downfall and the subsequent cabinet reshuffles.
Documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws suggest senior bureaucrats in the Department of Communications, which helps oversee Australia Post, were unaware Mr McIver was already the preferred candidate when the vacancies came to be discussed a month before the appointment.
Early on Monday, November 9, an adviser to Senator Fifield, the minister who took over Mr Turnbull’s former portfolio, asked the department to provide “a brief on transport and logistics businessman Bruce McIver as a candidate” for the Australia Post board.
A public servant then emailed first assistant secretary Simon Pelling to advise him of the request, noting that a ministerial submission that Mr Pelling signed the previous Friday had already been dispatched.
The minister’s office had been told on the Friday afternoon that the submission on board vacancies was being sent, and Mr Pelling said the minister’s office would need to be told “that we will send a supplementary advice on Mr McIver”.
While the adviser in the minister’s office had not referred to Mr McIver’s political ties, they provided a link to Mr McIver’s LinkedIn profile which listed, among other things, his seven years as LNP president and former role with one of Clive Palmer’s companies.
Mr McIver, who retired as LNP president in September, wrote on LinkedIn that he was “in the market looking for the next fresh challenge”.
The Department of Finance also has oversight of Australia Post and was subsequently advised of Mr McIver’s candidature. Assistant secretary Neil Richardson told a colleague on November 11 that “the name put forward from the Comms Office for Post is Bruce McIver”.
The FOI documents are heavily redacted, however, they indicate that bureaucrats suggested Mr McIver be allocated the second non-executive director vacancy, described as a “non-risk position”.
That followed the appointment of Holly Kramer and Peter Byrne in November, and the 2014 appointment of Dominique Fisher, the wife of former Liberal Party federal president Alan Stockdale.
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