Page 32 - Robert Redlich News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Health CEO’s bogus $300,000 in expenses A former health executive illegally claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on things like travel and hospitality, a corruption probe found. Crime by Rhiannon Tuffield 30th Apr 2021 3:14 PM A former regional health executive awarded dodgy contracts and illegally claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, an investigation by Victoria's watchdog has found. The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) investigation found the former CEO...

Labor fund-raising arm to be reborn under new name amid IBAC scrutiny We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Victorian Labor’s lucrative fund-raising vehicle Progressive Business is closing down, with the Andrews government’s tough donation laws and probing by the state’s anti-corruption commission making its cash-for-access model unworkable. But documents filed with the state government reveal the controversial entity is to be reborn as Energise Victoria, a money spinner still associated with Labor and other ...

Advertisement Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg headlined an exclusive fundraising dinner at the upmarket Flower Drum restaurant last year attended by a key figure in the Casey land scandal who had been raided by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog just 18 days earlier. The Age can reveal that former Liberal MP turned lobbyist Lorraine Wreford attended the fundraising dinner in October last year as the representative of allegedly corrupt property developer John Woodman shortly after her home had been raided by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission. Treasurer and senior Vict...

The Ombudsman and IBAC are jointly investigating alleged branch-stacking by Victorian Labor MPs and former minister Adem Somyurek. The Ombudsman is also probing the Flemington public housing tower lockdown and investigating whether the administration of state government pandemic relief payments was systemically flawed. Ms Glass said the need to lobby the government every year for funds to operate to a basic standard expected by Parliament, let alone to take on new, complex operations, was corroding its appearance of independence. "I believe it is in the public interest, and supported by your ...

The results of the People Matter survey completed by about 85% of staff were released internally in April last year and have been obtained by Guardian Australia. More than half the survey respondents did not feel psychosocially safe at work, with 14% of staff experiencing bullying, 11% discrimination, 13% sexual harassment, and 7% occupational violence in the past year. The survey showed 55% of respondents intended to leave the organisation in the next two years. In relation to senior leadership, 48% of staff said there was a clear strategy and direction, 66% agreed leaders demonstrated hones...