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Josh Frydenberg appoints Liberal party staffer Peter Crone to ACCC – The Guardian
Former adviser to the treasurer and John Howard will be paid more than $500,000 a year at the competition regulator
Josh Frydenberg has appointed a longtime Liberal party staffer to a senior position at the competition regulator that pays a salary of more than half a million dollars a year.
The treasurer on Friday announced he had appointed Peter Crone to a five-year term as a commissioner at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alongside the economist Anna Brakey.
ACCC commissioners are second only to the chair, currently Rod Sims, at the powerful regulator, which is in charge of everything from…
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