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Thursday, 13 August 2020

Treasurer must resign over stinky icare mess and NSW Liberal Party links


Revelations about links between the Treasurer’s office, NSW’s failed workers’ compensation scheme, icare, and NSW Liberal Party donors have made Dominic Perrottet’s position untenable, says the Public Service Association.
“The Treasurer’s meddling in icare stinks to high heaven,” said Stewart Little, general secretary of the PSA.

“From multimillion dollar contracts being awarded to Liberal Party donors and curious secondment arrangements, to ignoring his own department’s warnings about icare – it is clear the Treasurer is up to his eyeballs in this.

“News reports today show warnings from the Treasurer’s own department were ignored – so how can we have any faith Mr Perrotet’s root and branch review will have the independence and power to truly get to the bottom of this mess?

“We need ICAC to come in and examine exactly what was going on. The people of NSW deserve a forensic and fearless examination of how contracts were being awarded, what seconded staff in the Treasurer’s office were doing, and why the board was trying to push people off compensation they deserved.

“Every day the Treasurer and the icare board stay on is another day where the hardworking women and men of NSW are left exposed to a failing workers’ compensation system.

“Workers’ compensation isn’t a slush fund for party donors and political allies. It is there to look after the people who have been hurt while delivering services to NSW.

“The Treasurer has got to go.”

Suze Metherell 0412 867 084
Stewart Little 0434 062 079