We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

That's huge. After years of IT doesn't matter, IT doesn't matter, it must matter because people who are trying to grow are investing in it.

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

If we're lucky. People don't come, but it is a place where you can have a voice. But people just don't want to seem to exercise that right.

I'm really disappointed. I know what his problem is: He's gone back to his old friends.

The ABC board regrets that Russell Balding has decided to leave the corporation a year ahead of the conclusion of his current five year contract, but understands that after ten years with the ABC he wishes to take up an attractive opportunity which has been offered to him.