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Opposition Leader Steven Marshall has formally called on the Auditor-General to release legal advice he received about a possible “overlap” of his powers with the state’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption in relation to the new Festival Plaza build.
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A NSW corruption watchdog report has made no findings against federal Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos.
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The State Government is maintaining its opposition to public ICAC hearings in SA despite calling for an open inquiry into allegations public officials from another government colluded with industry to undermine the Murray Darling Basin Plan.
Government-aligned crossbenchers have again helped shoot down a bid to allow Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander to hold public hearings into matters of maladministration – including a looming inquiry into the Oakden facility scandal – with former Liberal Martin Hamilton-Smith insisting the move would turn the inquiry into a “circus”.
Controversial independent Martin Hamilton-Smith says a vote for Nick Xenophon’s fledgling SA Best party is a vote for a Liberal Government, after the influential senator vowed to run candidates against MPs who voted down a bill to allow for public ICAC hearings into the Oakden scandal.
Jay Weatherill has slapped down his deputy John Rau, after the Attorney-General publicly contradicted the embattled Premier in parliament yesterday over his refusal to release cabinet documents to the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption’s Oakden investigation.
Nine years ago Martin Hamilton-Smith proposed an Independent Commission Against Corruption - a move rejected by then Premier Mike Rann but later embraced by his successor Jay Weatherill. Here Hamilton-Smith argues that he always tempered the concept with a protection of privacy.
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