“Kristin Tilley is Australia’s Ambassador for Climate Change and plays a leading role in Australia’s international climate diplomacy, with a focus on engaging with the Pacific and Southeast Asia.”
“The Ambassador for Gender Equality is a lead advocate for Australia’s work on gender equality and the human rights of women and girls.
The Ambassador for Gender Equality engages in international advocacy, public diplomacy, and outreach in support of Australian Government”
“Mr Justin Mohamed is Australia’s inaugural Ambassador for First Nations People. He is a Gooreng Gooreng man from Bundaberg in Queensland.
Mr Mohamed was most recently Deputy Secretary of Aboriginal Justice in the Victorian Government. He has also held the positions of Chief Executive Officer for Reconciliation Australia and Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and he has represented Indigenous organisations internationally including at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Mr Mohamed is married to Narrunga Kaurna woman Dr Janine Mohamed, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, First Nations at the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). He has five children.”
“The Board of Guardians and the Agency are established by the Future Fund Act 2006 (“the Act”). In accordance with the Act members of the Board are appointed by the responsible Ministers. The Act prescribes that fees payable to Board members are determined by the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal (“the Tribunal”).
The Tribunal’s Determination 2015-20, taking effect from 1 January 2016, set the annual fee payable to the Chair at A$202,280 and the fee for other members at A$101,170.
The official travel entitlement for Board members was set at Tier 1. Board members are not
eligible for performance-related payments.”
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The amount of waste occurring in the bureaucracy is out of control.
Ambassadors for Gender Equality, Climate Change and First Nations. Hundreds of billions put aside behalf for dishonest bureaucrats and crooked judges.
Why is People First the only party talking about this?
The rorts need to end and we are the only party who is willing to stop them.
Quote from:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/gender-equality-ambassador-stephanie-copuscampbell-has-spent-335k-on-airfares-hotels/news-story/8acb860f58da096ddacfc5aac2c6dad9?amp=
Senate on 25/11/2024
STATEMENTS BY SENATORS
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Future Fund
Senator RENNICK (Queensland) (13:43): It’s time to stop the rorts. Yesterday it was revealed that the Ambassador for Gender Equality had spent $335,000 in the last two years flying around the world. On top of that, we’d just seen the week before the Ambassador for Climate Change fly to Baku to give a presentation where there were about five people in the room. She did a welcome to country in another country. Why you do a welcome to country when you’re in another country is beyond me. How many more ambassadors do we have out there wasting taxpayer dollars, flying around the world and virtue signalling instead of spending that money here to provide essential services to the Australian people, who are struggling under a cost-of-living crisis?
I note last week that the Treasurer has come out and said that he’s going to extend the time in which they’re going to continue to grow the Future Fund or not draw down on that Future Fund. The Future Fund is actually misnamed. It’s an Orwellian term. It’s not a future fund; it’s a slush fund for retired bureaucrats in Canberra. The idea that this is some sort of sovereign wealth fund needs to stop because the funds from that fund or the proceeds from that fund go to retired bureaucrats. They’re not going to all Australians. Yes, all Australians are contributing through their hard-earned taxes to this particular fund, but the fund is only going to be applied to about 130,000 retired bureaucrats. Originally, that was going to start being drawn down in the 2020s—that is, now—but it is continually being pushed out at a massive cost in administration fees to maintain this. Why don’t we pay down the future fund by paying out the defined benefits, provided those defined benefits are means-tested, and get on with the business of delivering services to the Australian people?
