The Commonwealth's newly appointed Auditor-General gave allegedly corrupt Victorian education official Jeff Rosewarne a job in 2013, at the request of Denis Napthine's government.

And Fairfax Media can also reveal that Napthine government Education Minister Martin Dixon praised as world class the school funding system that has been exposed recently as corrupt and abysmally managed.

Jeff Rosewarne leaves the Independent Broad Based Anti Corruption Commission. Credit:Vince Caligiuri

The funding system was developed by the now-sacked senior official Nino Napoli, who admitted last week in the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission that he had accepted corrupt payments.

In 2013 Mr Rosewarne was given a specially created and highly paid advisory role in Victoria's Treasury Department by its then secretary Grant Hehir after the merger to create the Environment and Primary Industries Department left Mr Rosewarne jobless.