The Canberra Institute of Technology began seeking a deputy chief executive weeks before misconduct findings against the current chief executive were publicly revealed.
The ACT's vocational education and training provider published an advertisement for a deputy chief executive in late February 2026, weeks before a court judgement revealed the organisation's chief executive Margot McNeill had breached her former employer's code of conduct.
On Tuesday, May 26, in the Legislative Assembly, independent member Thomas Emerson asked the ACT Skills Minister why CIT had sought to recruit a highly paid deputy chief executive despite a swathe of financial challenges.
