Review by Graeme Head finds hiring process may not have been ‘fully in keeping’ with public servants’ code of ethics
, former senior public servant Jenny West, raised a series of issues with the first and second recruitment processes for the job.
As part of his report, Head recommended the secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Michael Coutts-Trotter, “considers what, if any, action to take” in relation to the findings about Brown. During his press conference prior to the report’s release, Perrottet said he had agreed to 12 of the 13 recommendations made in the Head report, including changes to the ministerial code of conduct to create an 18-month buffer before former ministers can take jobs in a public sector agency that reported to them.
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