News about Jill Hennessy

Victorian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews (left) has downplayed an anti-corruption probe, which found that his government used coercion to force health service officials to offer a $1.2 million contract to a health union. After reviewing the contract awarding in the run-up to the November 2018 election, the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) released its Operation Daintree report on Wednesday. Jenny Mikakos, right, and Jill Hennessy, inset.

Following an inquiry into the awarding of the job in the run-up to the 2018 Victorian state election, the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission published its Operation Daintree report on Wednesday. The probe found that a ministerial advisor in Jill Hennessy's office put pressure on Department of Health and Human Services workers to give the job to a Health Workers Union agency. It also discovered that an advisor in the office of a new health minister Jenny Mikakos (right) and an advisor in the office of Premier Daniel Andrews (left) interfered with the department's administration of the public interest.

Following a study by a Melbourne newspaper involving him Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, he said he'd be subjected to legislation punishing journalists for reporting misconduct under private review by the state's anti-corruption watchdog IBAC. Mr Andrews and former health minister Jill Hennessy were secretly interrogated about a $3.4 million grant given to a health services union in the run-up to the last state election, according to The Age. Mr Andrews accused people of peddling smear and innuendo against him, though denying any wrongdoing.