Senior public servant tells inquiry she destroyed sports grants meeting notes

Labor writes to public service commissioner over health department secretary’s revelation she destroyed all personal notebooks

Labor will write to the public service commissioner for advice over revelations a senior public servant destroyed notebooks which included notes taken during a hastily convened sports grant teleconference, called after the then Sport Australia chief learned of the colour-coded spreadsheets being used by Bridget McKenzie’s office to award the grants.

Outgoing health department secretary, Glenys Beauchamp, who retires from the department at the close of business on Friday, told the Senate inquiry examining the administration of the government’s $100m sports grant program that she had destroyed all her personal notebooks while cleaning out her office at the end of January.

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