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  • 1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Dan Holmes |Daniel Holmes

    Caroline McElnay will be Victoria’s next chief health officer. Dr McElnay is a public health expert with a strong background in communicable diseases, environmental health, and epidemiology. She was New Zealand’s director of public health from 2017 to 2022, guiding the country through the COVID-19 pandemic. She currently serves as NZ Health’s clinical lead and as a member of the public health advisory committee.

  • 1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Dan Holmes |Daniel Holmes

    The national auditor has published a scathing report into the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s management of a “strategic business transformation” of Meals on Wheels Australia (MoWA). Health approached consultancy Miles Morgan Australia (MMA) to deliver the $5 million modernisation after a meeting attended by then-minister Richard Colbeck, MoWA, and lobbying firm Australian Public Affairs in 2021.

  • 1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Dan Holmes |Daniel Holmes

    Former NT ICAC commissioner gave Michael Riches “inappropriate attention” to female staff, according to a workplace investigation released this week. A heavily redacted report recently published substantiated five of eight claims against Riches, finding four were breaches of the code of conduct. Only three of the 18 employees interviewed had positive things to say about Riches’ leadership, but even they broadly substantiated the claims against him.

  • 1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Dan Holmes |Daniel Holmes

    Chair of the Creative Australia board Robert Morgan has announced his retirement. Morgan began as chair of the Australia Council for the Arts in July 2021, guiding the organisation through its transition to Creative Australia in 2023. He is an experienced board member, having held positions with Opera Australia, the Sydney Swans, and Clemenger Group. Arts Minister Tony Burke said Morgan previously flagged his intent to retire once Creative Australia and its sub-agencies were fully established.

  • 1 week ago | themandarin.com.au | Dan Holmes |Daniel Holmes

    Greg McCann has been appointed chair of the TasPorts board, along with three new non-executive directors. McCann spent 24 years as a financial consultant with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and has extensive experience with boards and senior executives at the CEO level, including as chair of NBN Tasmania and as a director on the Tasmanian Development board. The appointments complete a turnover of the TasPorts board that started last year.

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