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Quango directors need to speak out - an interview with Andrew Wilkie

I co-authored this article (feat. @WilkieMP) with @StuartKells published today @TheMandarinAU

#sportsrorts #auspol @AICDirectors #governance #integrity #YesMinister

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@WilkieMP @StuartKells @TheMandarinAU @AICDirectors For those watching: Senate Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants will hear from @sportaustralia on 27 Feb #sportrorts #auspol

@CorpGovResearch @lynlinking @Jodie3735 @jommy_tee @RonniSalt @paulwkennedy

“Kate Palmer [former CEO @sportaustralia] is a respected sports administrator who left Sport Australia in January after the *board* indicated it wanted to test the market for her role.“
#sportsrorts #auspol
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@sportaustralia For those watching: Senate Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants will hear from *fmr* Dept Sec & @sportaustralia board member Glenys Beauchamp on 28 Feb #sportsrorts #auspol

@CorpGovResearch @lynlinking @Jodie3735 @jommy_tee @RonniSalt @shannjenkins7

@sportaustralia @CorpGovResearch @lynlinking @Jodie3735 @jommy_tee @RonniSalt @shannjenkins7 Constitutional law expert @Sydney_Uni Anne Twomey sub14 to Senate Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants:

“The Minister had no power to approve the grants and her action in this regard was unlawful.”

#sportsrorts #auspol @CorpGovResearch @Jodie3735
@jommy_tee

@sportaustralia @CorpGovResearch @lynlinking @Jodie3735 @jommy_tee @RonniSalt @shannjenkins7 @Sydney_Uni Thread: Anne Twomey #sportsrorts Senate hearing 12 Mar
1/6 “When the Constitution was written in the 1890s, the powers were distributed to the Commonwealth. They concerned things that needed to be done at the national level, such as external affairs, immigration & defence...”

@sportaustralia @CorpGovResearch @lynlinking @Jodie3735 @jommy_tee @RonniSalt @shannjenkins7 @Sydney_Uni 2/6 “Unsurprisingly, section 51 of the Constitution does not include a head of legislative power to make laws with respect to: resurfacing sporting fields or building car parks and repairing surf clubs.” – Twomey #sportsrorts

3/6 “Today the principal is described as *subsidiarity*: that the functions should be performed by the level of government closest to the people that can efficiently do so and this is how Federal systems are supposed to work.” – Twomey #sportsrorts

4/6 “Who amongst you could seriously argue that those who wrote the Constitution. Samuel Griffith, Edmund Barton, John Downer, Alfred Deakin…all experienced politicians and lawyers, intended the Commonwealth government to fund local sporting grounds. – Twomey #sportrorts

5/6 “In fact, Downer said in 1898 convention [Melbourne], that the guarantee against extravagant Commonwealth spending was that it was limited to expending upon the subjects of jurisdiction distributed to it by the Constitution." – Twomey #sportsrorts

6/6 “Hence those who seek to respect and uphold the Constitution, especially those who are concerned with the original intent of the Constitution could not in good faith support Commonwealth spending on local sporting matters” – Twomey #sportsrorts