Integrity in government and public confidence in the decisions of government are of the utmost importance.
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Following the Independent Commission Against Corruption\u2019s decision to terminate its investigation into Mr Crakanthorp, unanswered questions about his conduct as a Minister remain.
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It is overwhelmingly in the public interest for Premier Chris Minns to release the ICAC report.
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Since the Premier\u2019s decision to remove Mr Crackanthorp from the Ministry over his alleged failure to declare conflicts of interest, the NSW Opposition has sought information regarding the decisions that he may have taken. The Premier has to date refused to release this information citing the ICAC investigation \u2013 this is no longer a valid reason to withhold this information.\u00a0
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It is clear from that the ICAC has prepared a detailed written report in relation to its investigation concerning Mr Crakanthorp which contains the ICAC\u2019s \u201cfactual and other findings concerning Mr Crakanthorp\u2019s conduct\u201d (in relation to his obligations under the Ministerial Code of Conduct).
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The NSW Opposition calls upon the Premier, who has received the report, and the ICAC to take all reasonable steps to release the report to the public as soon as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Integrity in government and public confidence in the decisions of government are of the utmost importance.\u00a0Following the Independent Commission Against Corruption\u2019s decision to terminate its investigation into Mr Crakanthorp, unanswered questions about his conduct as a Minister remain.\u00a0It is overwhelmingly in the public interest for Premier Chris Minns to release the ICAC report.\u00a0Since the Premier\u2019s … Continue reading “ICAC investigation into Mr Tim Crakanthorp MP”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094","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=26094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26095,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094\/revisions\/26095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}