Former senior education department bureaucrat Jeff Hunt, who engaged in misconduct over a school principal appointment saga, was paid $630,000 while suspended.
A former senior education department bureaucrat who engaged in misconduct over a school principal appointment saga was paid more than $600,000 while suspended on full pay for more than two years.
It was revealed in budget estimates at state Parliament that former education department deputy director-general Jeff Hunt – who was stood aside in May 2020 and resigned earlier this month – had received $630,000 in salary payments.Mr Hunt was suspended after the Crime and Corruption Commission launched an investigation into the recruitment process of a principal for a new school at Dutton Park in inner Brisbane.
The probe also caused former deputy premier Jackie Trad to quit cabinet, but she was later cleared of any criminal conduct or wrongdoing. At the time, then CCC chair Alan MacSporran said Mr Hunt's actions in relation to the recruitment process where he set up a meeting with Ms Trad to "test" a candidateThe Inner City South State Secondary College in Dutton Park, Brisbane, was due to open last year, but began operating this year.
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