{"id":13373,"date":"2021-10-14T04:41:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2021-10-14T04:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:41:15","slug":"another-day-another-rort-greens-to-push-for-vote-on-their-national-integrity-commission-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/14\/another-day-another-rort-greens-to-push-for-vote-on-their-national-integrity-commission-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another rort: Greens to push for vote on their National Integrity Commission bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green says revelations that community grants from the Building Better Regions Fund were disproportionately awarded to Coalition seats once again shows the urgent need for a federal corruption watchdog.
\nOn Monday the Greens will lodge a concurrence motion in the Senate, which could ultimately force the House to vote on the Greens\u2019 National Integrity Commission Bill, which passed the Senate more than two years ago.
\nGreens deputy leader and spokesperson on democracy Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cSportsrorts 1 & 2, carporks, now \u2018building better rorts\u2019 – another day, another rort. And still no federal corruption watchdog! Are there any buckets of public money this government hasn\u2019t used for its own electoral gain?
\n\u201cThe Australian people are sick of waiting for this government to deliver on their 1000-day-old promise for a corruption watchdog – so I will move a motion to seek to force the government\u2019s hand.
\n\u201cNext week in parliament I will move a concurrence motion which, if passed in the Senate, would force the House to vote on whether to debate my National Integrity Commission Bill, which passed the Senate two years ago.
\n\u201cThe Government has already twice blocked the bill from even being debated and voted on in the House but the Greens have been pushing for a federal corruption watchdog for 11 years now and we won\u2019t stop despite this government using every excuse in the book to block and delay.
\n\u201cThis is the dodgiest government in Australian history. If we had an effective federal anti-corruption body more than half of the Morrison Cabinet would be facing serious questions about their integrity.
\n\u201cMorrison\u2019s ICAC proposal is a fraud. Many of the misconduct scandals involving current and former Government MPs would not be caught by his toothless model. It wouldn\u2019t hold public hearings nor be able to initiate investigations without a referral from the government.
\n\u201cBut parliament doesn\u2019t need to keep waiting for the long-delayed and pathetically weak Morrison model – because the Senate has already passed the Greens\u2019 National Integrity Bill, which got top marks last week from the Centre for Public Integrity in a comparison of the various models.
\n\u201cOur bill would establish a strong, independent, effective body that allows for public hearings, retrospectivity and the ability to investigate anonymous tip-offs, balanced with appropriate safeguards and privacy provisions.
\n\u201cIt passed the Senate more than two years ago – the PM just needs to bring it on for debate in the House and the Australian people could have a federal anti-corruption body in place by Christmas. There\u2019s no more time to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Green says revelations that community grants from the Building Better Regions Fund were disproportionately awarded to Coalition seats once again shows the urgent need for a federal corruption watchdog. On Monday the Greens will lodge a concurrence motion in the Senate, which could ultimately force the House to vote on the Greens\u2019 National Integrity … Continue reading “Another day, another rort: Greens to push for vote on their National Integrity Commission bill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}