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Opinion
State planning minister Nick Champion outlines the principles and challenges that will govern an upcoming review of the state’s contentious planning system, including protecting the tree canopy and preparing for climate change.
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News
EXCLUSIVE | The state’s Planning agency says it’s investigating claims aired in an explosive all-staff email from a senior employee that a poor workplace culture had fostered a “toxic, hostile and unsafe” work environment, as the department embarks on a new round of staff cuts.
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There is no clear timeframe for the Marshall Government’s long-awaited planning overhaul, after the new minister responsible for the ambitious rollout pushed pause on the scheme – and pledged to go back to the drawing board on several areas of contention.
The ‘fly in-fly out’ bureaucrat overseeing the state’s e-Planning overhaul sacked a departmental contractor who questioned an order to work from the office instead of home, and told other staff “we would need to have a serious conversation” if they did not attend work in person, according to an internal email purporting to contain his own account of a torrid staff meeting.
The Marshall Government has conceded a senior ‘fly in-fly out’ bureaucrat has continued to work in the office of the Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Department instead of self-isolating, despite calls from the Premier that working from home will “reduce the risk and the spread” of coronavirus.
EXCLUSIVE | Almost the entire leadership of the State Government’s delayed e-Planning rollout has resigned in recent days as bureaucrats stage a mass walkout from a project the responsible agency insists remains on track.
The Marshall Government’s new statewide planning overhaul will be delayed by at least three months after stakeholders raised concerns about the pace of the rollout, InDaily can reveal.
