{"id":9184,"date":"2020-11-13T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:46:58","slug":"premier-refuses-to-support-independent-funding-of-icac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/premier-refuses-to-support-independent-funding-of-icac\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier refuses to support independent funding of ICAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Labor has condemned the Premier for refusing to support independent funding of the State&#8217;s anti-corruption body during Question Time at NSW Parliament.<br \/>\nA week after Gladys Berejiklian gave evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) about her former partner Daryl Maguire, the Auditor-General raised serious concerns about the financial independence of integrity agencies, including ICAC.<br \/>\nThe review found the existing funding arrangements, including the Premier\u2019s ability to restrict access to money, threatens the fairness, impartiality and transparency of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Independent Commission Against Corruption<\/li>\n<li>The NSW Electoral Commission<\/li>\n<li>The NSW Ombudsman<\/li>\n<li>The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also emerged Ms Berejiklian has rejected three funding requests from ICAC in five years, including during the investigation into Mr Maguire.<br \/>\nThe NSW Labor Leader Jodi McKay said independence is more important than ever, given the recent revelations.<br \/>\n\u201cHow can ICAC be expected to investigate the Premier, who they rely on for funding?\u201d Ms McKay said.<br \/>\n\u201cLabor has always supported strong integrity agencies that need independent funding. If the Premier fails to act, the Parliament will.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are three recommendations. We accept them without hesitation. If the Premier is genuine about fighting corruption, she needs to do the same today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Labor has condemned the Premier for refusing to support independent funding of the State&#8217;s anti-corruption body during Question Time at NSW Parliament. A week after Gladys Berejiklian gave evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) about her former partner Daryl Maguire, the Auditor-General raised serious concerns about the financial independence of integrity agencies, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/premier-refuses-to-support-independent-funding-of-icac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Premier refuses to support independent funding of ICAC&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","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=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}