{"id":700,"date":"2018-11-20T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=700"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:35:23","slug":"time-for-action-on-a-national-integrity-commission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/20\/time-for-action-on-a-national-integrity-commission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME FOR ACTION ON A NATIONAL INTEGRITY COMMISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Leader of the Opposition has written to the Prime Minister urging him to agree to a bipartisan taskforce, led by the Attorney-General and Shadow Attorney-General, to create a National Integrity Commission.<br \/>\nAt the beginning of 2018, Labor announced our plan to legislate for a federal anti-corruption body. All year, the Government has ignored our requests for cooperation.<br \/>\nThis issue should be above politics. The time has come for the Liberal and National parties to support a federal anti-corruption body.<br \/>\nA bipartisan process would help ensure the complex consultation and design work can be completed swiftly, and a body established as a priority.<br \/>\nIn recent years there has been a loss of public faith in government and Commonwealth institutions. The Liberal Party\u2019s chaos and division have further eroded Australians\u2019 trust in politics.<br \/>\nLabor welcomes the support of members of the cross-bench for a federal anti-corruption body. This provides an opportunity to secure broad parliamentary support to establish a National Integrity Commission before the next election, if Scott Morrison and the Liberals finally come on board.<br \/>\nMr Morrison delayed the Banking Royal Commission by voting against it 26 times. He should not let his arrogance and stubbornness get in the way of a National Integrity Commission.<br \/>\nMr Morrison should learn from his mistakes, and join with Labor now so we can work on this issue together.<br \/>\nWe are prepared to work with the Liberals, but we will not wait for them.<br \/>\nIf Mr Morrison continues to block a National Integrity Commission, a Shorten Labor Government will deliver it.<br \/>\nA copy of the letter can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alp.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=942ebc4c1cf8fc522a4f4c50e&amp;id=123b9186f2&amp;e=1c2a63faa7\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Leader of the Opposition has written to the Prime Minister urging him to agree to a bipartisan taskforce, led by the Attorney-General and Shadow Attorney-General, to create a National Integrity Commission. At the beginning of 2018, Labor announced our plan to legislate for a federal anti-corruption body. All year, the Government has ignored &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/20\/time-for-action-on-a-national-integrity-commission-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TIME FOR ACTION ON A NATIONAL INTEGRITY COMMISSION&#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-700","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\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}