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Victoria’s ex-COVID boss the latest high-profile exit under Ben Carroll
Jeroen Weimar will leave his role as secretary of the Department of Transport and Planning, the latest high-profile exit under new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll.
Carroll announced in a statement on Thursday that Weimar would leave the role he was appointed to in January 2025, to be replaced by Fiona Adamson.
Weimar was once the state’s COVID Commander and was in charge of the authority tasked with delivering the Commonwealth Games before the government decided to cancel the event.
In the statement, Carroll said he wanted to acknowledge Weimar’s contribution to the department and across the public service, including during the pandemic.
Victorian transport boss ousted amid secret tax scandal
Premier Ben Carroll has forced the resignation of the head of Victoria’s Transport Department, just hours after announcing he had scrapped a secret tax on the state’s public transport users that initially had been intended to help fund the Suburban Rail Loop project.
Jeroen Weimar, who was a key bureaucratic ally of former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan, was on Thursday preparing to immediately finish up in his role as the secretary of the Department of Transport and Planning.
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Secret transport fare hike to fund Suburban Rail Loop will be abolished
Ben Carroll this week announced "bells and whistles" would be cut from the Suburban Rail Loop project. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
The Victorian government will abolish a levy on public transport fares to fund the Suburban Rail Loop project, which was revealed by the auditor-general's office this week.
The levy was hidden in annual fare hikes to account for inflation.
Abolishing the levy, a decision that will need to go to cabinet, will leave a hole in Victoria's state budget.
Premier Ben Carroll has declared he will abolish the secret tax on Victorian public transport fares that was only revealed 18 months after the fact by the state's auditor-general.
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