More IR lies ... more taxpayers money

The public face of the Federal Government's new "fairness test" for workers, Barbara Bennett, changed her evidence to a Senate committee about meeting a former public servant retired on compensation payments.

Ms Bennett, who has controversially appeared in television advertisements in her new role as director of the Workplace Authority, told a committee in January that she had met the man - only to say a week later she had only "generically" met him.

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