{"id":4599,"date":"2019-12-13T04:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2019-12-13T04:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T04:07:27","slug":"12-months-and-still-no-integrity-for-morrison-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/12-months-and-still-no-integrity-for-morrison-government\/","title":{"rendered":"12 MONTHS AND STILL NO INTEGRITY FOR MORRISON GOVERNMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government has failed its own deadline on integrity with the first anniversary of its commitment to a national integrity commission passing with no action.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/alp.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=942ebc4c1cf8fc522a4f4c50e&amp;id=80d8db9f91&amp;e=76c65649df\">A year ago today<\/a>\u00a0the Prime Minister and Attorney-General announced they would establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission.<br \/>\nAt that time, Mr Morrison insisted work had already been underway on the proposal \u201csince January\u201d \u2013 meaning it\u2019s now been almost two years since the Government claims to have started working on a Commonwealth Integrity Commission.<br \/>\nIn September, Mr Porter promised that draft legislation would be produced \u201cwell within\u201d 12 months of the December 2018 announcement.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Mr ALBANESE\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>(Grayndler\u2014Leader of the Opposition) (14:55): My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. When will the Prime Minister introduce legislation into this parliament to establish the Commonwealth Integrity Commission that he promised last year?<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Mr PORTER<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0(Pearce\u2014Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Leader of the House) (14:56): We have been through this a number of times and the reality is that we have taken time and care.\u00a0<\/em><strong><em><u>A draft is well advanced.\u00a0<\/u><\/em><\/strong><em>That will go out to public consultation. Of course, it was the case that\u00a0<\/em><strong><em><u>members opposite said that when they came into government they would take 12 full months of consultation before presenting a draft.<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em><u>We\u2019ll do it well within that time<\/u><\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>House of Representatives, 11 September 2019<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nGiven the scandals which continue to rock this tired third-term Government, it\u2019s clear why the Prime Minister and Attorney-General are not in the least bit interested in integrity.<br \/>\nDespite overwhelming public support for a national integrity commission the Government had to be dragged to supporting one, kicking and screaming all the way.<br \/>\nUnlike the Morrison Government, Labor believes tackling corruption and promoting integrity is essential to restoring public trust in government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government has failed its own deadline on integrity with the first anniversary of its commitment to a national integrity commission passing with no action. A year ago today\u00a0the Prime Minister and Attorney-General announced they would establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. At that time, Mr Morrison insisted work had already been underway on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/12-months-and-still-no-integrity-for-morrison-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;12 MONTHS AND STILL NO INTEGRITY FOR MORRISON GOVERNMENT&#8221;<\/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-4599","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\/4599","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=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}