On Friday the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, announced the tribunal will be abolished and replaced by a new merits-review body because it had been “irreversibly damaged” by political appointments.
However, Dreyfus sidestepped a question about whether members who are not reappointed will have their contracts paid out, telling reporters that “the logistics of that, that’s a matter that we will deal with in the design of the new tribunal”.
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