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Jim Grayson knows a thing or two about taking a close look at complex issues that have a big impact on people’s lives.
This is thanks to his time spent working on some of the biggest financial investigations in Australian history, including into Crown Casino Ltd and HIH Insurance.
Now the former ASIC assistant director is stepping into a new role as Gympie Regional Council’s Director for Infrastructure and Engineering Services.
He was brought back to Queensland following a stretch with ASIC in Victoria by his wife, but continued working across borders.
“Even though I was supposed to be in Sydney two days a week, it was five days a week,” he said,
Accusations of unlawful processes, claims green groups were being held to ransom and a councillor voting against a motion she seconded dominated a heated debate as Gympie Region councillors tried to unravel the mess around their environmental funding grants yesterday. Only one of nine applications for funding drawn from the council s Environmental Levy was deemed valid by staff, and only 40 per cent of the $196,000 up for grabs was recommended to be awarded across four projects proposed by the Koala Action Group, Cooloola Coastcare, Mary River Catchment Co-ordinating Committee, and Gympie and District Landcare. The groups had already waited months for the grants to be awarded, a delay they criticised and called unprecedented .