The Big Stack

The federal government has stacked the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, one of its biggest independent quasi-judicial bodies, with 65 former Liberal staffers, ministers, candidates and donors over the past six years.

In this series Inq reveals that the Coalition has replaced 70% of the 333 AAT members with its own appointments — a turnover that has decimated the ranks of the members and senior members who deal with the bulk of the tribunal’s daily caseload.