It seems awfully hard to have a robust and meaningful anti-corruption body when its head is scared to 'offend' people trying to cover up what looks awfully like corruption 🤷♂️
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/19715/2UG7wfFa
The Labor government has cocked this up - I would argue because their heart wasn't in having a body overseeing them - but the RW Opposition will be worse.
Yet another example of the flaws in a two party political system.
@DyDave i don't get it. how is someone not going to be offended by being investigated? there would be no investigations, ever, if we were afraid of offending anyone.
it's about doing what's right. not preserving the feelings of peeps who may have done something bad. or many somethings.
am i missing something here? 🤔
This has been a looming problem from the start.
This whole commission only exists because we managed to elect enough Independent MPs to pressure the Labor Party to promise to set it up before the last election. They won, and the promise was a non-zero factor.
However, as soon as they got into government, they colluded with the 'conservative' Opposition - who REALLY didn't want to be scrutinised after 9 years in govt. - to water it down to the bare minimum.