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Taxpayers face potential $10m payout bill as administrative appeals tribunal scrapped

Taxpayers could be on the hook for up to $10m in payouts to members of the administrative appeals tribunal as the Albanese government moves to scrap the existing body.

by | 19 Dec, 2022

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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.

The move was widely applauded by advocates for those seeking merits review of government decisions, including on welfare, disability insurance and migration.

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”.

Read more at The Guardian

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