Motion · 19 March 2026
Public accounts and administration: Standing committee: Reference: CIT ceo recruitment process
In short
- Proposed
- Mark Parton brought this motion on 19 March 2026.
- Changed
- 1 change proposed by Andrew Braddock; 1 agreed.
- Decided
- Agreed as changed. No individual votes were recorded, so this doesn't show who supported it.
- What was proposedMark PartonLiberal · Opposition
Read the original wording (250 words)
That this Assembly: (1) notes: (a) on 4 June 2025, Chair of the Board of the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) announced the appointment of Dr Margot McNeill as the new CEO of CIT; (b) on 18 June 2025, Dr Margot McNeill commenced in her role as CEO of CIT; (c) media reported on 17 March 2026 that: (i) Dr McNeill had been under investigation for allegations of “serious misconduct” arising out of complaints made against her in her previous employment at TAFE NSW in May 2024; (ii) Dr McNeill had been placed on “special leave” from November 2024 and did not perform any duties at all; (iii) between May 2025 and December 2025, Dr McNeill participated in the investigation by TAFE NSW; (iv) Dr McNeill was informed on 16 September 2025 that TAFE NSW had made a finding that her conduct was in breach of the TAFE NSW Code of Conduct; (v) on 11 December 2025, Dr McNeill was notified that TAFE NSW determined her employment was terminated “due to substantiated findings of misconduct”; (vi) on 14 January 2026, Dr McNeill filed an application in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission for unfair dismissal; and (vii) on 13 March 2026, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission made a finding in favour of TAFE NSW including awarding costs against Dr McNeill for TAFE NSW; (d) in Question Time on 18 March 2026, the Minister for Skills, Training and Industrial Relations, Michael Pettersson MLA, confirmed that: (i) he
Grouped by key words as: added a new call or point, changed a date or deadline, added reporting or consultation.
The exact wording of this change
together: 1. In paragraph (3), omit
“calls”, substitute: “requests”. 2. Add: “(4) requests the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Administration to report back to the Assembly by 4 May 2026.”. Debate continued.Agreed on the voices. No individual votes were recorded. Agreed. The Minutes don't print the final text, so we can't check the wording.
- What the Assembly decidedAgreed
Decided on the voices: no individual votes were recorded, so this doesn’t show that every MLA agreed.
The Minutes don’t print the final text for this one, so we can’t show the agreed wording.
Check the official record
- Minutes of Proceedings No 52, 19 March 2026, item 10
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