{"id":2829,"date":"2021-09-14T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/drugs-allegedly-offered-to-managers-of-nbn-delivery-partners-as-kickbacks-for-work-inquiry-told\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:42:34","slug":"drugs-allegedly-offered-to-managers-of-nbn-delivery-partners-as-kickbacks-for-work-inquiry-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/drugs-allegedly-offered-to-managers-of-nbn-delivery-partners-as-kickbacks-for-work-inquiry-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs allegedly offered to managers of NBN delivery partners as kickbacks for work, inquiry told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications union national secretary Shane Murphy tells of grave concerns about the allocation of contracts for the project<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The managers of companies contracted to build Australia\u2019s national broadband network were allegedly offered illicit drugs and other kickbacks in exchange for jobs, a committee reviewing job security has heard.<\/p>\n<p>The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union national secretary, Shane Murphy, told the committee he had been told tobacco and cocaine were offered as incentives to award NBN work to particular subcontractors, who he did not identify.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/14\/drugs-allegedly-offered-to-managers-of-nbn-delivery-partners-as-kickbacks-for-work-inquiry-told\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/082018d5f58ee662b9b3f15ac91a73a67905deb2\/0_92_4744_2847\/master\/4744.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=827d186acffd368dde8d3bfd9097f1c3\" title=\"Drugs allegedly offered to managers of NBN delivery partners as kickbacks for work, inquiry told\" \/>Communications union national secretary Shane Murphy tells of grave concerns about the allocation of contracts for the project<br \/>\nGet our free news app; get our morning email briefing<br \/>\nThe managers of companies contracted to build Australia\u2019s national broadband network were allegedly offered illicit drugs and other kickbacks in exchange for jobs, a committee reviewing job security has heard.<br \/>\nThe Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union national secretary, Shane Murphy, told the committee he had been told tobacco and cocaine were offered as incentives to award NBN work to particular subcontractors, who he did not identify. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications union national secretary Shane Murphy tells of grave concerns about the allocation of contracts for the project Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The managers of companies contracted to build Australia\u2019s national broadband network were allegedly offered illicit drugs and other kickbacks in exchange for jobs, a committee reviewing job &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/drugs-allegedly-offered-to-managers-of-nbn-delivery-partners-as-kickbacks-for-work-inquiry-told\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drugs allegedly offered to managers of NBN delivery partners as kickbacks for work, inquiry told<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}