Attorney-General Christian Porter continues to avoid a clear answer on whether his long overdue proposal for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission would have enough teeth to cover the rorts scandals.
\n\u201cBased on the Attorney\u2019s comments to date, it seems like sports rorts would not have been covered, which shows how weak and ineffective it is likely to be – if it\u2019s ever in fact established\u201d, said Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on democracy, Senator Larissa Waters.
\nMr Porter also misled listeners this morning on Radio National about whether other states\u2019 anti-corruption bodies had broad powers to investigate corruption that was not a criminal offence.
\n\u201cThe Attorney-General is designing an integrity commission with no teeth and trying to pass that off as normal.\u00a0 But in Senate Estimates today, I pointed out that six of the eight State or Territory integrity bodies have much broader powers to investigate the type of conduct we\u2019ve seen with sport rorts.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s misleading for Minister Porter to make out that his toothless version is the norm.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve asked the Department to advise the Minister that his comments were incorrect and will pursue that this afternoon.
\n“The Attorney-General needs to come clean and admit his Integrity Commission is too weak to address the key corruption scandals currently facing the government, or he has to admit\u00a0that the conduct of the Prime Minister and former Minister Bridget McKenzie amount to an offence that warrants investigation.
\n\u201cWe could have a strong corruption watchdog legislated by Easter if the government brought on a vote in the House for the Greens\u2019 National Integrity Commission.
\n\u201cThe Greens will keep this firmly on our agenda until we have an independent body established with the strength and resources to stop the scandals and restore the public\u2019s trust,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Attorney-General Christian Porter continues to avoid a clear answer on whether his long overdue proposal for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission would have enough teeth to cover the rorts scandals. \u201cBased on the Attorney\u2019s comments to date, it seems like sports rorts would not have been covered, which shows how weak and ineffective it is likely … Continue reading “Attorney-General should come clean on whether Commonwealth Integrity Commission would cover Sports Rorts”<\/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-5355","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\/5355","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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}