The damning report on Victoria’s Labor factional warlords is another reminder the public is well over the political class living by its own rule book.
The report found the former ministers’ conduct had been “egregious”, but because the law around the employment of parliamentary staff was weak, it would be difficult to prove criminality.
Despite revelations of the widespread unethical culture in Victoria’s Parliament House and some ministers’ officers, the report made no adverse findings against Premier Dan Andrews or any of the other MPs and staffers it named. The ban against electoral and ministerial staff engaging in party-political and factional activity goes to the heart of the integrity issue of taxpayers funding political or factional campaigns. It is a headline complaint across all jurisdictions, and Victoria’s decision to make it an offence for an MP or minister to direct their staff to do party-specific work will be keenly watched across all parliaments.
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