PRIME Minister Tony Abbott's office is vetting applications for all 420 new government staff appointments.
Some of his ministers are understood to be frustrated about their staff being knocked back by a committee deciding every new government appointment down to the electorate staff of new MPs.
Mr Abbott's chief of staff, Peta Credlin, reportedly sits on the internal committee with her husband, Liberal party director Brian Loughnane, and ministers Michael Ronaldson and Kevin Andrews.
Senator Penny Wong grilled Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service Eric Abetz about the staffing process during a Senate estimates hearing on Monday.
He confirmed the committee was vetting applications for all 420 jobs.
"At the end of the end of the day, all they do is recommend, they do not decide," Senator Abetz told the committee in Canberra.
"At the end of the day, it is the prime minister's decision."
Senator Abetz was referred to a newspaper article describing the committee as a "star chamber" and saying it was knocking back experienced coalition staffers, including the senator's long-time chief of staff, Chris Fryar.
Senator Abetz said Mr Fryar was now employed as a senior adviser.
"All you need to know is that at the end of the day it was decided by the prime minister as to who would be appointed to my ministerial staff and to the staff of my ministerial colleagues," he said when asked who told him about appointment decisions.
Senator Wong appeared angered by the response.
"All I need to know? That's the standard of transparency under this government, is it? All I need to know," she said.
When asked who signed the letter about his staff appointments, Senator Abetz thought it might have been Ms Credlin.
"I think. I think, and I stand corrected, but I think all of the correspondence was signed off by the chief of staff for the prime minister," he said.
"That is the best of my recollection, but I am happy to come back to you if I am not correct."
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