News
A bureaucrat who helped establish South Australia’s Office for Public Integrity has been appointed the new acting director of the now standalone agency following the passing of contentious laws, while a former Supreme Court Justice will temporarily replace Ann Vanstone following her resignation as Judicial Conduct Commissioner.
Opinion
Anti-corruption bodies with enormous powers are required but there is a need to separate issues of corruption from other integrity breaches when scoping a federal body, writes the architect of the NSW ICAC, Gary Sturgess.
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The Morrison government’s proposed commonwealth integrity commission has been blasted as worse than nothing by a former NSW Supreme Court judge.
Scott Morrison has pointed to the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian as a reason not to introduce a NSW-style federal anti-corruption commission.
A former High Court judge and other eminent jurists have lashed the SA Parliament for its changes to the ICAC Act, saying they “emasculate” the anti-corruption body and “feed the perception … the changes were in truth designed to protect politicians”.
The state anti-corruption body’s own history prompted parliament’s move on it, argues Kym Davey.
