Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member asked me a question about this project control group. What I was seeking to do was to provide the honourable member with the context within which this group operated. Can I say, in response further to the honourable member’s question, that I am advised the project control group was established in April 2009 to enhance cross-departmental coordination of the project design implementation. I am further advised that this is the normal practice within government—to establish a project control group or interdepartmental committee to develop and implement major projects. Furthermore, the chair of the project control group was the deputy secretary of the department of the environment—

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