The Greens echo the Australian Federal Police Association\u2019s description of the Morrison Government\u2019s sham integrity commission as nothing more than a \u201cprotection racket\u201d for government MPs.
\nGreens Leader in the Senate and Spokesperson on Democracy, Senator Larissa Waters, said:
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government has designed its sham integrity commission to shield their mates from proper scrutiny. It wants one rule for its politicians, and another for everyone else.
\n\u201cThe Government\u2019s CIC bill has no friends. Earlier this week, the Senate made clear it thought the bill is too weak by supporting a Greens motion demanding an independent corruption watchdog with teeth.
\n\u201cMy bill for a federal corruption watchdog passed the Senate a year ago. If Morrison brought on my bill for debate in the House, we could have an effective ICAC by Christmas.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens echo the Australian Federal Police Association\u2019s description of the Morrison Government\u2019s sham integrity commission as nothing more than a \u201cprotection racket\u201d for government MPs. Greens Leader in the Senate and Spokesperson on Democracy, Senator Larissa Waters, said: \u201cThe Morrison Government has designed its sham integrity commission to shield their mates from proper scrutiny. … Continue reading “Government's Sham ICAC Has No Friends”<\/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-9131","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\/9131","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=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}