Opinion
A parliamentary committee has recommended significant changes to the focus of South Australia’s anti-corruption body and moved to settle a demarcation dispute between it and the Ombudsman’s office, as Kym Davey explains.
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The Marshall Government is yet to release documents relating to the proposed cost of the planned new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, despite being instructed to do so by the state Ombudsman – who says the Government has ignored his advice on how to strengthen Freedom of Information laws.
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Controversial Adelaide City councillor Anne Moran has refused to publicly apologise for committing misconduct, despite being ordered to do so by her fellow councillors – who are also appealing to the State Government to beef up the Ombudsman’s powers when members “flout the law with impunity”.
Adelaide City Councillor Anne Moran says she will run for Lord Mayor at the next council election, hours after it was revealed she was found to have committed misconduct by the state’s Ombudsman.
A major state department committed maladministration and its former CEO misconduct in public administration, a scathing Ombudsman’s investigation into taxpayer-funded spending on meals, alcohol and entertainment has found.
The state’s child protection agency has again been savaged for systemic failures, with a long-awaited Ombudsman’s report into the case of two siblings murdered with their mother at Hillier in 2016 laying bare departmental “inertia, complacency and misplaced priorities” that saw authorities “do nothing” to protect the children despite serious warnings about their welfare.
