Greg Combet attempts to justify Department of Innovation financial mismanagement in the same way he justifies Juanita Philip's travels.
As Minister For Climate Change,and Industry and Innovation Combet continues to display the same disregard for financial management that he did at Defense (see story below). Combet was recently queried about a three year contract his Department of Industry and Innovation awarded late last year for the cleaning of the National Measurement Institute and Australian Astronomical Organisation's new offices and laboratories in Ryde. The NMI's labs are highly secure given its responsibility for legal metrology. As well, it provides testing services to the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA). Regardless of the highly technical nature of the work involved, the contract was awarded a company with no prior experience in the cleaning of laboratories. Within a month of the contract commencing Combet's Department requested a variation of that contract which resulted in a reduct...