Former top public servant Kathryn Campbell has been suspended without pay from her $900,000-a-year job with the Defence Department less than a fortnight after the robo-debt royal commission made damning findings against her.
Campbell went on leave shortly before the royal commission made a range of scathing findings, includingFormer top public servant Kathryn Campbell is the first senior scalp to be claimed following the robo-debt royal commission.Senior government sources who cannot be named because they are not authorised to speak publicly said Campbell had been suspended without pay on July 10, three days after the royal commission delivered its findings.
It also found Campbell deliberately instructed her own legal team to discontinue a request for legal advice on the scheme and that she shelved a damningjust as it was about to finish because she feared its contents would be damaging. The Albanese government technically demoted Campbell last year from the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to a senior role within Defence advising onCut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis from Jacqueline Maley. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter
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