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"Senior staff in Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews's government interfered and pressured public servants to ensure lucrative contracts were awarded to a key Labor Party ally without competitive tender, the state's anti-corruption watchdog has found.
The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) has slammed the premier, health ministers and the public service for the awarding of a contract in 2018 to the Health Workers Union (HWU) to deliver specialist training to deal with occupational violence.
"The union was given privileged access and favourable treatment,'' IBAC's Operation Daintree found.
"The combined effect of these failings and unethical conduct resulted in a contract that should not have been entered into with the union and an outcome which was not in the public interest."
During her interview with investigators, former health minister Jenny Mikakos told IBAC "it appeared the contract had only been entered into to placate [HWU secretary Diana] Asmar during the election period and looked like a 'way … of injecting funds into the HWU'".