The Victorian Greens have secured a significant integrity reform today, legislating a non-government chair and majority for one of Parliament\u2019s most powerful committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Parliament today passed the Greens amendment to the Parliamentary Standards and Workplace Integrity Bill 2024 which legislates that the chair and majority of the powerful Integrity and Oversight Committee must be independent from government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, the Greens secured commitments from the government to have a non-government chair and majority of the Integrity and Oversight Committee during this term, but by securing this change in legislation, it means the Chair of this committee will stay in non-government hands into the future, and ensure that after the next election governments can\u2019t go back to marking their own homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately both Labor and the Liberals voted against further Greens amendments to remove government control of the important Budget estimates process, which is designed to scrutinise Government Budgets and spending, but is deeply ineffective in Victoria due to being government-controlled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen it comes to scandals, corruption and integrity measures, Governments should not be allowed to investigate themselves. That\u2019s why the Greens\u2019 win today is so significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen scandal after scandal here in Victoria. Clearly Victoria\u2019s integrity and anti-corruption measures are not up to scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens\u2019 win today is an important first step in fixing Victoria\u2019s broken anti-corruption system, and we\u2019ll continue to push for even more reform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens spokesperson for integrity, Tim Read:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe need non-government chairs and majorities on these powerful parliamentary committees in order to properly hold the government to account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGovernment control of the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee greatly limits the extent to which non-government MPs can question ministers about their spending, so it\u2019s deeply disappointing to see Labor and the Liberal party joining together to vote against fixing this. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens have secured a significant integrity reform today, legislating a non-government chair and majority for one of Parliament\u2019s most powerful committees. The Parliament today passed the Greens amendment to the Parliamentary Standards and Workplace Integrity Bill 2024 which legislates that the chair and majority of the powerful Integrity and Oversight Committee must be … Continue reading “Greens secure key integrity and anti-corruption change in Victoria”<\/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-28231","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\/28231","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=28231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28232,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions\/28232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}