Data shows more Australians are concerned about political corruption and doubt the Government\u2019s ability to clean up our democracy, Greens Leader in the Senate, Senator Larissa Waters said.
\nToday\u2019s report from Griffith University and Transparency International Australia found the number of Australians who view corruption as a \u201cvery big\u201d or \u201cquite big\u201d problem, rising from 61% in 2018 to 66% in 2020. The number of those who think the federal government is handling corruption issues \u201cvery badly\u201d has also risen from 15% to 19.4% over the same period.
\nSenator Larissa Waters, the Greens spokesperson for Democracy, said:
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government needs to wake up and realise they aren\u2019t fooling anyone: two thirds of Australians now think political corruption in Australia is a serious problem, and they are right.
\n\u201cThe influence of big donors on policy-making is institutionalised, the public interest is constantly being traded for political interest, and the Prime Minister continues to throw integrity overboard by failing to act on the ongoing, multiple scandals involving his ministers.
\n\u201cThe Government is trying to muzzle effective accountability body, the ANAO, by starving it of funding so that audit capacity will be reduced by 20% over three years, while dragging its heels on a weak and utterly belated corruption watchdog almost a year my bill for one passed the Senate.
\n\u201cPorter\u2019s sham integrity commission has been designed to shield his mates from proper scrutiny. It wants one rule for its politicians, and another for everyone else.
\n\u201cWe are still waiting for the Prime Minister to call my federal corruption watchdog with teeth on for a vote in the House of Representatives, almost a year after the Senate passed it. Instead, the Government is conducting a\u00a0 sham consultation on a model the public and the experts all say isn\u2019t good enough.
\n“It\u2019s starving the ANAO of the funds needed to do its job, it\u2019s threatening journalists and whistle blowers, and it has rejected the Greens calls for a parliamentary code of conduct to prevent exactly the sort of behaviour Australians have grown sick of.
\n\u201cTo Morrison, I say: tick tock. I\u2019m not the only one getting fed up with your government\u2019s bad behaviour and delaying tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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