Last modified on Wed 14 Apr 2021 03.47 EDT
Part-time administrative appeals tribunal members appointed by the Coalition are being overpaid by claiming âpretty questionableâ hours for their work, a Labor senator has claimed.
During a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday, Murray Watt used data on the payment to four part-time members to grill the AAT about the plausibility of their work claims, which he described as âfishyâ.
Watt raised the pay of part-time members Vanessa Plain and Jason Harkess â who have both acted pro bono in Liberal party-supported court proceedings against Victoriaâs lockdowns â as well as Tony Barry, a long-time Liberal staffer, and Louise Bygrave, a former senior adviser to Liberal MP Tim Wilson when he was the human rights commissioner.