Diversity Over Efficiency
The Victorian Government have now opened applications for boards positions for the new Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority.
The new authority will be established to manage public land along the Great Ocean Road following the passing of the Great Ocean Road and Environs Protection Bill 2019 on 4 June 2020, but will reduce none of the existing bureaucracy – including 14 bodies – that oversee the area.
The Government has announced that the new authority will have three offices, headquartered in Torquay with district offices in Apollo Bay and Port Campbell.
Mrs McArthur said, “If this Government had any consideration for Victorian taxpayers or awareness of the dire position of the state’s finances, they’d ditch some of the existing authorities before creating any new ones and providing them with an office on every street corner.”
The Government expressly encouraged “applications from young people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, Aboriginal people and LGBTIQ community members.”
Mrs McArthur said, “What this authority really needs, is not to tick every box of the Labor Party’s diversity quotas, but to be comprised of genuine local people who have expert knowledge of the area and managing public land.”
"We need one authority for a better GOR experience for both visitors and rate and taxpayers, with its own sustainable revenue stream, not multiple new QANGOs while retaining virtually all other oversight bodies."
"This new authority is the worst of all outcomes."
7 July 2020
