An ASX-listed marketing group with extensive links to the NSW Liberal Party was awarded millions of dollars in contracts by state-run workers' compensation insurer icare without all being put to an open tender | adele_ferguson
can also reveal that the IVE Group shares a common director with icare. Gavin Bell is deputy chairman of icare, earning $100,000 a year in director fees, and $105,000 as a director of IVE.
Icare lists two contracts with IVE Group on the NSW e-tender site, one for $9.5 million and another for $915,000 for work for the nominal insurer. Daniel Mookhey, NSW Labor shadow minister for finance, slammed the lack of tendering and described the web of connections between it, IVE Group and the Liberal Party as mind-boggling."No one can have any confidence in icare when it is so entwined with senior Liberal Party figures and donors."
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Who else needs to scream before real change happens at icare?Analysis | The scandal-ridden icare was in turmoil this week as it scrambled to announce the sudden departure of its second most senior executive
Read more »
Who else needs to scream before real change happens at icare?The scandal-ridden icare was in turmoil on Friday as it scrambled to announce the sudden departure of its second most senior executive
Read more »
Who else needs to scream before real change happens at icare?The scandal-ridden icare was in turmoil on Friday as it scrambled to announce the sudden departure of its second most senior executive
Read more »
Who else needs to scream before real change happens at icare?Analysis | The scandal-ridden icare was in turmoil this week as it scrambled to announce the sudden departure of its second most senior executive
Read more »
NSW records 10 new COVID-19 cases, two infected children linked to CBD clusterKincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart is closed tomorrow for contract tracing and cleaning is after two year 7 students test positive for COVID-19.
Read more »
Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary AwardsQueenslanders are serious about rugby league. Now a book exploring how it permeates the state's society, culture, and identity as an underdog takes out a top literary award.
Read more »