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Rex Patrick came back in to the committee after the adjournment and defended the whistleblowers or, at least, noted there were “different perspectives” on the claims made by ATO commissioner Chris Jordan.



On Richard Boyle, Patrick said there “are some questions about the way the ATO handled the public interest disclosure”, including the fact it “self-investigated” Boyle, and noted that the inspector general of tax and small business ombudsman had concluded there were “anomalies in the Adelaide office at the time Boyle was there”.



In relation to Ron Shamir, Patrick said that the ATO had conceded in the Fair Work Commission that Shamir had an “impeccable record until 2012 when he made a disclosure, after that certainly there were some workplace issues”.

