Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, , 1:20:00 to 1:24:01
The committee concludes questions on corporate services, including staff counselling and media monitoring effectiveness, before suspending to transition to workplace relations.
Topics: Workplace culture, Government spending
Speakers: Senator Paul Scarr, Catherine Rule, Senator Marielle Smith, Senator Jess Walsh
I've worked with Ms. Tuckwell and her team to make sure that we've taken the remedial action that's necessary. That includes working with all of the staff in that branch to lift their capability and understanding of these issues. In terms of the individual staff member, you know, I think we've already reflected that this is a failure of systems and processes. And so we've worked with that person as well as all of the other staff in that area to make sure we've got a consistent understanding of the processes and protocols.
And last question, it wasn't picked up, as I understand it, you have media monitoring at a cost of 231,000 figure I have here for the last nine months. It wasn't obviously that wasn't effective in terms of picking up the issue. So for example, uh you didn't pick up the content of the media release had been reported in the media and then tracked it back to the department?
Not that I recall, no.
Can you take that on notice on that's all I have for uh corporate?
So that concludes our questions for corporate and neighbouring services, trust portfolio and general matters. Um thank you, officials. We'll now call to the table officers in relation to outcome three workplace relations. Thank you very much. They're just coming from downstairs, uh so we'll just suspend for a moment while they make their way. The committee will now resume, and Senator Scay have the call.