As is obvious custom, the Coalition has rammed via Liberal appointees to the AAT simply earlier than saying the federal election.
In certainly one of its last acts earlier than calling an election and getting into caretaker mode, the Morrison authorities has made a flurry of appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), a number of of whom have hyperlinks to the Liberal Party.
Michael Mischin, an attorney-general in Colin Barnett’s Western Australian Liberal authorities, has been appointed deputy president of the AAT by Attorney-General Michaelia Cash.
He’s joined by Pru Goward as a senior member, a former minister for household and neighborhood companies within the Berejiklian authorities, and a NSW Liberal member of the legislative meeting (MLA) for greater than a decade. More just lately, Goward achieved on-line notoriety for a column within the Australian Financial Review in regards to the “underclass” whom she described as “proles” who’re “damaged and lacking in discipline”.
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