John Dewar

So the University of Wollongong had a situation where a vice chancellor essentially was asked to resign by a chancellor and resigned.

And then that chancellor sort of handpicked Via the very small world of university executives was recommended a gentleman called John Dewar to become an interim vice-chancellor.

John Dewar was working at a consultancy called Cortimenta.

I guess the controversy and the questioning from us and from ICAC was around whether John Dewar, when he took the role as interim vice-chancellor, was sufficiently separate from his consultancy that he worked for, Cortimenta, and the answers to those questions, unfortunately for Mr Dewar, differed.

The answer he gave me at our inquiry and the answer he gave ICAC were not the same.

Oh, dear.