Just a day after shutting down a bill to give anti-corruption watchdog more powers, it has been revealed that Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor Government failed to alert the Big Build police taskforce that a Swiss corporation was found to be stealing $6 million dollars from the Metro Tunnel project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say this latest scandal is more evidence that the anti-corruption watchdog, IBAC, needs more powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last night the Greens secured support from the opposition and crossbenchers to support the laws to strengthen IBAC – Labor promptly shut down any debate on the bill to avoid the Greens amendments even going to a vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This latest revelation proves that Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor government can\u2019t be trusted to ensure corruption is properly investigated and stamped out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victorian Greens integrity spokesperson, Tim Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is seriously dodgy, Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor government did everything they could to block laws to give our independent anti- corruption watchdog more powers, and the very next day we find out they have concealed corruption on their Metro Tunnel project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter this week, Victorians will rightly be asking themselves – what else has Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor government got to hide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVictoria has some of the weakest anti-corruption laws in the country and Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor government wants to keep it this way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a day after shutting down a bill to give anti-corruption watchdog more powers, it has been revealed that Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor Government failed to alert the Big Build police taskforce that a Swiss corporation was found to be stealing $6 million dollars from the Metro Tunnel project. The Greens say this latest scandal is … Continue reading “STRONGER IBAC MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER, GREENS SAY AFTER $6 MILLION METRO TUNNEL LIFT SCAM”<\/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-37571","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\/37571","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=37571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37572,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571\/revisions\/37572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}