The Albanese Labor Government has continued its record of hypocrisy in appointing Labor mates to Government Boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s announcement that failed former Labor Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk would be appointed to the board of Australia Post is treating Australians like mugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Palaszczuk might be famous for willing to attend the opening of an envelope, but she has now been appointed to oversee a service millions of Australians rely on to deliver their packages and letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having her own colleagues disown her in Queensland, the Albanese Labor Government has rewarded Ms Palaszczuk\u2019s terrible performance with a board role at the taxpayers\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given Ms Palaszczuk led a government that was more focused on itself than it was focused on dealing with the cost of the living crisis, the housing crisis, and the crime crisis that are facing Queenslanders, can Australians expect the same level of service at Australia Post?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Opposition, Michelle Rowland said \u2018Australia Post is a respected national service that should not be dragged into the mud by political appointments.\u2019 Her actions speak louder than her words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is just rank hypocrisy, writ-large, made worse by the fact that the Albanese Government has appointed a failed and unpopular former Queensland Premier,\u201d Shadow Minister for Communications David Coleman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAustralia Post is going through a significant reform process in an era of change and the last thing the board needs is for the Government to appoint one of its Labor mates whose poor record in public administration speaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Government has waited until Friday to slip this announcement out to avoid the scrutiny of a parliamentary sitting week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Minister for Finance, Senator the Hon Jane Hume said that this is yet another example of Labor\u2019s jobs for mates hypocrisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen Minister Gallagher announced her review into public sector board appointments back in February 2023, she said it was \u201call about putting an end to the jobs for mates culture\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYet this review was provided to the Government over a year ago, and it still has not been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf the Albanese Government was really committed to transparency, Minister Gallagher would release the review and explain why she has sat on it for over a year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Albanese Labor Government has continued its record of hypocrisy in appointing Labor mates to Government Boards. Today\u2019s announcement that failed former Labor Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk would be appointed to the board of Australia Post is treating Australians like mugs. Ms Palaszczuk might be famous for willing to attend the opening of an envelope, but … Continue reading “Labor sending jobs for mates through post”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28527,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions\/28527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}