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  • (Australia's Defence Minister) Fitzgibbon quits Defence (corruption allegations)

    06/03/2009 9:55:21 PM PDT · by naturalman1975 · 5 replies · 728+ views
    news.com.au ^ | 4th June 2009
    DEFENCE Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has resigned from his portfolio. Mr Fitzgibbon resigned after it was revealed that he had instructed an Army general to meet with a US Insurance company, of which his brother Mark is an employee, Sky News reports. Major-General Paul Alexander, who is in charge of defence health services, told a parliamentary committee that staff of a junior minister and defence staff told him to attend the meetings with Mark Fitzgibbon, the chief executive of insurer NIB Health. The resignation comes after revelations of the meeting was made during a Senate Estimates hearing last night. “Having read...