Anyone who seeks to influence a public official or politician will be covered by the government’s anti-corruption commission.
Union officials, developers, donors, lobbyists and all other third parties who seek to influence a public official or politician will be covered by the Albanese government’s new
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus effectively dismissed any suggestion the government had yielded to pressure from the teal independents and Greens, who wanted a robust body, saying the features of the body were consistent with the design principles Labor released three years ago when in Opposition. “In order for an anti-corruption commission such as we are proposing to be fully effective, it must [have] the possibility of public hearings and that’s what the parliament will see in the legislation that we bring to the parliament later this week.
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