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Anyone heard of this before ?
The daughter of migrants from Slovenia, she married Michael Coutts-Trotter, who had previously been sentenced to nine years jail for selling heroin. He served two years and nine months.
Tanya’s Labour mates appointed this man ‘Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training’, overseeing almost 100,000 people!
His only formal qualification was a journalism degree! How’s that for jobs for the boys?
A simple Google would have found the correct spelling: Tanya PlibersekAnyone heard of this before ?
In 1986, at the age of 21, he was imprisoned for less than three years of a nine-year sentence for conspiracy to import narcotics. At the time he was a heroin user. He recovered from his addiction through a Salvation Army program. He told the media in April 2007 that his criminal past made him more determined to do a good job.
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He was director-general of the NSW Department of Commerce from 2004 to 2007, and chief of staff to the New South Wales Treasurer from 1998 to 2004.
A simple Google would have found the correct spelling: Tanya Plibersek
A little more objective research would also have found this:
I was copied from an email I didn't check it at all.
Still who else would have got that job with a criminal record.
Are you the pot or kettle!
Could somebody notify the moderators to change the spelling of this MHR's name in this thread.
http://tanyaplibersek.com/
gg
TP for PM ??Could somebody notify the moderators to change the spelling of this MHR's name in this thread.
http://tanyaplibersek.com/
gg
TP for PM ??
It's a better option than a third crack from Kevin Rudd.
Could somebody notify the moderators to change the spelling of this MHR's name in this thread.
http://tanyaplibersek.com/
gg
Burns is both.
Starts off a thread (big shot), about the deputy leader of the opposition, can't even show her the respect to spell her name correctly and the only comment is to attack her spouse.
Pathetic, Burns.
Yes it's wonderful that he recovered from an addiction and served his time in the slammer but I don't think that qualifies him for a highly paid position at our expense, though I agree with gg that the media would have been all over it if that was all there was to it.
If/when Tanya proves to be a significant Labour asset we can be certain that the appropriate media will be trashing Michael Coutts-Trotter for all he is worth.
Mr Coutts-Trotter, despite the obvious Labor connections, has managed to survive, and arguably even prosper, under the change of government in NSW.
He went from being a staffer with former Labor treasurer Michael Egan to running the $14 billion-a-year Education Department, attracting criticism as a Labor political appointee.
He survived the change of government in 2011, running the Department of Finance and Services before being shifted across to Family and Community Services to help the embattled minister. At the time of his appointment, Mr O'Farrell held a special press conference to shower praise on Mr Coutts-Trotter and make it clear it was not a demotion.
Coutts-Trotter matriculated from Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and the University of Technology, Sydney, with a degree in journalism.[1]
Coutts-Trotter was appointed Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training in April 2007. He was director-general of the NSW Department of Commerce from 2004 to 2007, and chief of staff to the New South Wales Treasurer from 1998 to 2004. His appointment to lead the Department of Education and Training was criticised by opposition members of Parliament, the NSW Teachers Federation and the Public Principals Forum for his lack of experience in teaching and education.[2] The Teachers Federation also questioned his criminal background;[1] with the Federation's president, Maree O'Halloran, saying that a teacher with his background would be unable to continue teaching.
Appointing him as Director-General of the Department of Finance and Services in April 2011, the NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell said that Coutts-Trotter's skills would allow this new department to deliver on its results.[3] It was reported in July 2013, upon his appointment to lead the Department of Family and Community Services, that Coutts-Trotter's new role was a demotion.[4] Following the report the NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell held a media conference to reject the suggestion.
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