Opinion
ICAC reform a headache of its own making
The state anti-corruption body’s own history prompted parliament’s move on it, argues Kym Davey.
Opinion
The state anti-corruption body’s own history prompted parliament’s move on it, argues Kym Davey.
News
The architect of South Australia’s contentious ICAC reforms says he was motivated to act after Commissioner Ann Vanstone told a widow that she couldn’t speak to MPs about the circumstances that led to her husband taking his own life following a drawn-out investigation.
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Former Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander has clashed with the MP who drafted a law to restrict the office’s powers and called for him to step aside from a committee set up to investigate harm caused by past ICAC investigations, during an acrimonious exchange at parliament this morning.
The end came quickly for the grand ICAC experiment in South Australia.
Former Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander is gearing up for a stoush over new legislation set to dramatically scale back the operations of his former office, declaring the changes “will set back the anti-corruption cause in South Australia”.
A former high-flying bureaucrat says she feels like “damaged goods” and has been “let down by the system” after a three-year legal battle defending a failed charge of falsely claiming just $1032.
ICAC investigators were given the cold shoulder and threatened with legal action by a potential witness who they travelled to Germany to interview as part of their 2019 investigation into ex-Renewal SA CEO John Hanlon, explosive documents tabled in parliament have revealed.
