Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor is ‘disillusioned’ to see Labor appointing union-adjacent folks to the Reserve Financial institution board.

“We have been disillusioned [by] the primary two appointments which have been made by the treasurer. He fully ignored the recruitment course of, the merit-based rigorous course of that’s specified by the assessment,” opposition treasury spokesperson Angus Taylor advised the ABC this morning, in response to the appointment of former Truthful Work Fee president Iain Ross and former AustralianSuper chairwoman Elana Rubin, each of whom have commerce union hyperlinks, to the Reserve Financial institution board.
He additionally stated the RBA board “plainly” wanted “mental range”.
Taylor — celebrating simply over three years clear since his final career-threatening calamity, after creating a crippling habit to them in 2019 — is shocked, simply shocked, to see there could also be some ideological leaning within the new authorities’s appointment course of. Man, wait until he hears about what occurred to the appointment course of whereas he was in authorities.
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